Question: Duff Cooper denounced which settlement that allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia?
Context: The Duff Cooper Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography, political science or (very occasionally) poetry, published in English or French.  The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and author.  The prize was first awarded in 1956 to Alan Moorehead for his "Gallipoli".  At present, the winner receives a first edition copy of Duff Cooper's autobiography "Old Men Forget" and a cheque for £5,000. Following World War II, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg formulated plans to annex parts of Germany.  This was considered as a form of reparations in addition to monetary compensation and employment of workers. Viscount Norwich, of Aldwick in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.  It was created in 1952 for the Conservative politician, author and former Ambassador to France, Sir Duff Cooper.  He was the son of Sir Alfred Cooper and the husband of Lady Diana Manners.  s of 2011 the title is held by his son, the second Viscount, who succeeded in 1954.  He is a well-known historian, travel writer and television personality. The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.  The agreement was signed in the early hours of 30 September 1938 (but dated 29 September) after being negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe, excluding the Soviet Union.  Today, it is widely regarded as a failed act of appeasement toward Germany.  The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of ethnic demands made by Adolf Hitler.  The agreement was signed by Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy.  Sudetenland was of immense strategic importance to Czechoslovakia, as most of its border defenses, and banks were situated there, as well as heavy industrial districts.  Part of the borderland was occupied and annexed by Poland. The Saar Offensive was a French ground operation into Saarland, Germany, during the early stages of World War II, from 7 to 16 September 1939.  The plans called for roughly 40 divisions, including one armored division, three mechanised divisions, 78 artillery regiments and 40 tank battalions to assist Poland, which was then under invasion, by attacking Germany's understrength western front.  Although 30 divisions advanced to the border (and in some cases across it), the assault never happened.  When the quick victory in Poland allowed Germany to reinforce its lines with homecoming troops, the offensive was stopped.  The French forces eventually withdrew amid a German counter-offensive on 17 October. Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Cooper, Viscountess Norwich (née Lady Diana Manners; 29 August 1892 – 16 June 1986), was a famously glamorous social figure in London and Paris.  As a young woman, she moved in a celebrated group of intellectuals known as the Coterie, most of whom were killed in the First World War.  She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, later British Ambassador to France.  After his death, she wrote three volumes of memoirs which reveal much about early 20th-century upper-class life. Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and author.  In the intense political debates of the late 1930s over appeasement, he first put his trust in the League of Nations, and realised that war with Germany was inevitable.  He denounced the Munich agreement of 1938 as meaningless, cowardly, and unworkable, as he resigned from the cabinet.  When Winston Churchill became prime minister in May 1940, he named Cooper as Minister of Information.  From 1941, he served in numerous minor diplomatic roles.  His most important role was representative to de Gaulle's Free France (1943–44) and ambassador to France from 1944–48. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (ISBN  ) is a non-fiction memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn, published in September 2006, which has received critical acclaim as a new perspective on Holocaust remembrance.  It was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Prix Médicis in France, and it was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper History Prize in the UK.  An international bestseller, "The Lost" has been translated into several languages, including French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, German, Romanian, Turkish, Norwegian, and Hebrew. The Continent of Circe (1965) is a book of essays written by Indian author Nirad C. Chaudhuri that was winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for 1966.  In this book, Chaudhuri discusses Indian society from a socio-psychological perspective, commenting on Hindu society from Prehistory to modern times.  The author's thesis is that militarism has been a way of life there from time immemorial. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II in 1945, Belgium planned to annex parts of the territory along the Belgian–German border.  In addition to monetary compensations and the lending of labour forces, this was considered a way of reparations.  In mid-April 1949, Belgium surprisingly waived any interest in most of the previously claimed areas.
Answer: Munich Agreement