Originally Posted by
Sue Vêtements
I don't think it was that simple
I think that Chamberlain knew exactly what he was doing when he held up the "piece of paper" - he knew we weren't ready and was prepared to sacrifice his reputation in an attempt to buy us enough time to make ourselves ready. And fortunately it worked ... just
If the UK wasn't ready, that was directly as a result of the likes of Chamberlain and the appeasement brigade. The UK should have been ready.
No it didn't work as was proven by six years of war and 40,000,000 deaths