The most awful war in all of history followed, which would bankruptBritain, bring down her empire and bring Stalin’s Red Army into Prague,Berlin and Vienna.
by Pat Buchanan
On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler’s Panzers smashed into Poland. Two dayslater, an anguished Neville Chamberlain declared war, the most awfulwar in all of history.
Was the war inevitable? No. No war is inevitable until it has begun. Was it a necessary war? Hearken to Churchill:
“Oneday, President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly forsuggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once, ‘TheUnnecessary War.’ There never was a war more easy to stop than thatwhich has just wrecked what was left of the world … .”
But if the war need not have happened, what caused it?
Let us go back to Munich.
On Sept. 30, 1938, at Munich,Chamberlain signed away the Sudetenland rather than fight to keep 3.5million Germans under a Czech rule imposed upon them at the Paris peaceconference in violation of Wilson’s principle of self-determination.
Why did Britain not fight?
BecauseBritain had no alliance with Prague and Chamberlain did not “give twohoots” who ruled the Sudetenland. Also, Britain had no draft, nodivisions to send to France, no Spitfires, no support from America orher dominions, no ally save France, who had been told that, if warcame, the United States would not deliver the planes France hadpurchased.
U.S. neutrality laws forbade it.