Peace For Our Time - Cultural References

Cultural References

• Peace In Our Time is also the title of a 1947 stage play by Noël Coward. Set in an alternative 1940, the Battle of Britain has been lost, the Germans have supremacy in the air and the British Isles are under Nazi occupation. Inspired to write this play in 1946 after seeing the effects of the occupation of France, the famously patriotic Coward wrote: "I began to suspect the physical effect of four years' intermittent bombing is far less damaging to the intrinsic character of a nation than the spiritual effect of four years of enemy occupation."
• "Peace In Our Time" is a 1984 song by Elvis Costello critical of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. The lyric refers to Neville Chamberlain, imperialism, totalitarianism and social control, commenting on their relation to then-current world politics and social conditions in Europe and the United States.
• "Peace in Our Time" is also the title of Big Country's fourth studio album.
• Freeciv peace treaties are concluded with the quote "Yes, peace in our time."
• In the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Klingon general Chang shouts "no peace in our time!" when discussing the upcoming peace between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.
• In the Babylon 5 episode "The Fall of Night", an Earth Alliance diplomat named Frederick Lantz comes to the station to negotiate a non-aggression pact with the increasingly expansionist Centauri Republic. When confronted by Captain Sheridan, he says, "We will, at last, have peace in our time."
• The Marvel Comics 2006 crossover event, "Planet Hulk", had a 4-part lead-in story called "Peace in our Time".