| fruitbat |
10-22-2012 12:06 PM |
Avro, you've done it again, you really are the master!
Just a few things to add to the pot.
Neville Chamberlain gets far to much bad press, one thing that many people ignore or don't know is that in history books, written after the 30 year rule on official secrets rather than before, is that he was instrumental in the rearming of Britain after Munich, indeed in Oct '38 straight after Munich he told the cabinet, and i quote "It would be madness for the country to stop rearming until we were convinced that other countries would act in the same way. For the time being, therefore, we should relax no particle of effort until our deficiencies had been made good"
It is a fact that by the time war broke out, the RAF in particular was in a much much better position to fight, than in 1938. Munich bought much needed time. In fact it was Chamberlain from as early as 1935 that pushed for the RAF to be strengthened realising that Britain's traditional bulwark, the English Channel, was no defence against air power.
He was also the person who pushed for the treaties with Poland, getting France involved.
As for Churchill, there is no doubt that he was the right man for the job during the war years, but do not forget, that the same British people that loved him, unceremoniously booted him out of office at the wars end in a landslide victory for Clement Attlee.
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