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The Bob Cesca Podcast: The Good News Show

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Jay C8/07/2020 8:22:38 am PDT

re: #134 Targetpractice

Chamberlain was not naive for believing he’d negotiated “peace in our time,” as Churchill and his allies would later accuse the man. He was naive for believing that the Reich’s ambitions would stop with a few colonial concessions and an agreement not to interfere in Germany’s continental expansion.

True: but among Chamberlain’s other failures at Munich, the main one was letting himself be convinced by Hitler that “Germany’s continental expansion” was going to be limited only to “German” regions (like the Sudetenland) which had been “unjustly” detached from the Reich after WWI - rather than the entire continent of Europe (the Fuhrer’s actual plan).

Personally, I think Edouard Daladier (French PM) was every bit as derelict at Munich as Chamberlain: probably worse, since he was only too willing to let the Brits do the “negotiating” in selling out the Czechs, and then simply signing on to the deal with - basically - a Gallic shrug - French commitments to Czechoslovakia (and Britain) notwithstanding.