Soon after the Munich Pact was signed, Gertrude Stein, a born in Pennsylvania to assimilated Jewish parents, was part of the large American expatriate community living in Paris. A minor radical writer of the time, Gertrude Stein visioned herself being an important literary figure. She was so elated with the Munich Pact that she circulated a petition which she sent to Norway urging that Hitler be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. To no ones surprise most of the signatures were like minded Jews. Upon reflection though, perhaps Gertrude Stein was not so far off the mark. Since Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995, Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain were equally deserving of the Prize in 1939.)