Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
Our politicians are never up to it (Chamberlain, peace in our time and all that)
I've said it here many times, but it's entirely possible that Chamberlain knew
exactly what he was doing and sacrificed his career and reputation to buy us (just enough) time to rearm. You can make up your own mind about that, but we certainly weren't ready to fight Hitler in September 1938 ... we were barely able to do it a year later
Just think what it must have taken if that was actually the case