English subtitles for clip: File:Chamberlain returns from Munich with Anglo-German Agreement.ogg

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Circling around us up above here, in a very dirty and rainy sky,

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is the machine bringing the Prime Minister back to Heston.

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And we're going to wait about a minute and a half or so before it comes down.

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We were waiting all very happily just now about twenty minutes ago

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in a rather threatening sky but not a particularly bad one.

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Suddenly rain began to fall, and it got harder and harder until the

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tarmac of the airport is skiddy and flooded and everybody is looking very wet, bedraggled,

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umbrellas up and all the rest of it.

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In spite of the weather at this end,

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I hear that the Prime Minster's had good weather for his flight,

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which he's made in something like three and a half hours.

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A little less than that in fact—he took off at two-twenty

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and he probably didn't strike this dirty weather that we're getting here

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until he hit the English coast somewhere by Sandwich.

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You'll know that this is the Prime Minister's sixth flight,

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the third of a double, and the end of his last visit to Germany.

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And you'll know already of the momentous news which he brings with him.

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Now right over the other side comes the machine which is bringing him.

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She is just going to land. She's coming straight up to us.

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Those of you who are looking as well as listening to this

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will be able to see her coming down I hope.

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She must be what ten feet off the ground and levelling out.

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And she is down quite safely.

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The number of times we've seen her coming in

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it's becoming quite a habit to stand up here now

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and say that the Prime Minister's coming and going.

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On this occasion it's a much greater

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enjoyment to us and to everybody else

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to say so because of the huge and enthusiastic

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crowd which has gathered here,

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and the crowds which have gathered all the way from here to White Hall.

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The roads two hours ago were beginning to fill and now they're black with people.

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There are houses near the airport

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which have put out the flags they had out at the time of the coronation.

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And there are many more formalities here today than there were last time.

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They put barricades up to keep people back.

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They've even put our friends at the press

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and friends with still cameras inside a sort of pen down there.

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And now they bring her up.

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The police are coming forward,

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and the Lord Chamberlain is to be seen down there waiting to greet Mr. Chamberlain.

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I believe he'll be the first person to meet him as he steps out of the machine.

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Ah they're beginning to wave now.

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We thought they wouldn't be long before they began to wave. Off come the hats.

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The hats were taken off in the first place to give him a cheer.

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[crowd cheers]

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[crowd gives three cheers]

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Now just in the nick of time Lord Halifax has arrived in a small American car,

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not at all the one that was expected.

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He only got here just as the door was opening.

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[crowd cheers and claps]

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Now there was the welcome to Mr. Chamberlain as he stepped down from the machine,

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smiling and beaming even more than he smiled when he came back last time.

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[crowd cheers]

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He greets Lord Halifax. He's been given a letter from the King.

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[hoorays from the crowd]

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Now you'll hear they've just welcomed [garbled]

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But I can hardly speak to you from this point at all.

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Let me say quickly that he's talking to Lord Halifax.

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The French Ambassador has greeted him,

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representatives of the German Embassy in London,

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Mr. [unknown], and other faces that I just can't pick out for the moment.

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And now the crowd has got through the police

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as we knew they would and they're all streaming up around the machine.

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Mr. Chamberlain still holds in his left hand the letter from the King.

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He has not yet had a moment's time in which to open it

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as the greeting is coming thick and fast now.

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[hoorays]

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The police redoubling their cordon.

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Mr. Chamberlain, rather like the figure of the King himself at a royal garden party,

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shaking hands and shaking hands.

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And here he is at the microphone. Before he speaks he opens the letter from the King.

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And here is

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Here is Mr. Chamberlain.

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There's only two things I want to say.

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First of all, I have received an immense number of letters

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during all these anxious times, and so has my wife.

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Letters of support, and approval, and gratitude

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and I can't tell you what an encouragement that has been to me.

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I want to thank the British people for what they have done.

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Next. And next I want to say that the settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem,

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which has now been achieved, is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement

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in which all Europe may find peace.

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[crowd hoorays]

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This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler,

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and here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine.

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[crowd cheers]

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Some of you, perhaps, have already heard what it contains but I would just like to read it to you:

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We, the German Fuhrer and Chancellor, and the British Prime Minister,

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have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing

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that the question of Anglo-German relations

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is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe.

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We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement

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as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again.

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[crowd hoorays]

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We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted

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to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries

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and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference

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and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.

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[crowd cheers]

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[crowd gives three cheers for Chamberlain]

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Now you can hear the cheers and the cries of well done Mr. Chamberlain

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and three cheers for Neville and various things like that.

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The police are having to fight a way for Mr. Chamberlain. It's a real triumph for survival.

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How much more impressive it is than any other one that he's made in the last two weeks.

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Almost as soon as he'd finished. Oh, now listen.

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You know what, that's a very tuneless version of "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow".

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I see a big bunch of red and yellow flowers there which haven't succeeded in reaching him

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although I know they were meant to.

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Now the crowd pushes around the car.

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[crowd cheers]

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Ah, if you wanted to see a British crowd in real enthusiasm, you've heard that one.

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Mr. Chamberlain's car has driven away, around the corner of the Aerodrome control block here.

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The crowds are fighting their way behind it as he goes on his way towards White Hall.

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Before we finish from here, may I say to viewers will you please just stay where you are

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for the moment because [unknown person] is coming back to you again in a moment.

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To sound listeners, to those in America who may have been listening,

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and to anybody else on the air,

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you may expect, I hope, to hear something of Mr. Chamberlain's triumphant arrival

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in the White Hall area in something like three-quarters of an hour's time.