Actually was on a solo cup Larry.
Ah. All's the better.
In any event, because I'm caffeinated up, here's you history lesson of what you don't know, or forgot; Churchill, a fan of Hitler and Mussolini at the time, wasn't PM for what we know as 'Munich'. He was part of the group behind the scenes that objected to any objection of Hitler consolidating Germany and Austria and Czechoslovakia, seeing it, as many did, as natural that German speaking majorities who WANTED to be part of a greater Germany should want it to be so. Churchill was FINE with German expansionism at the time. He thwarted Chamberlain numerous times when he, Neville, was warning that this was bad, step by step. He did so because Winston Churchill is one of the great political opportunists of history. He said that anyone can turn traitor and switch parties once. He said the real art was to do it twice, referring to himself, turning traitor on his new party and going BACK to where he was. 'Ratting' and "re-ratting' he referred to it as.
In any event, back to our hero. Gaining political advantage, not opposing Hitler, helped Winston make Chamberlain, who warned against Hitler's expansionism, ironically, look like a war monger. The public, wanting NO war, started to favor Churchill, ironically, as a reasonable, peaceful dude.
When Hitler wanted Danzig, the last piece in his Greater Germany puzzle before turning East, thinking the British, very reasonably, had no objections to him doing very reasonable things, putting German people back together again under German rule, he saw ZERO reason for the Brits to change their view and object to the MOST German of German desires; the return of Danzig, a virtually 100% German port. Well, knowing Chamberlain was up against the wall and reeling with the war monger accusations, when Hitler wanted this and Chamberlain was giving no indications, for political reasons, to oppose it, good ol' Winnie switched gears and attacked Chamberlain as a pacifist and that this, this NOW German aggression, the LEAST unreasonable of all Hitlers expansion, was simply TOO much!
Churchill had his man, Neville, boxed in! Churchill had it easy; when England COULD do something, Austria, the Sudetenland, he advocated no action nor any building of arms. Now, when she could do NOTHING, the least possible place for intervention, Danzig, Winston turned hawk. Neville reacted and did the ONLY thing he could; stalled for time. He KNEW England could do not one damn thing to stop Hitler now. That time had passed. He knew that Britain needed time to speed up arms production if war was to come.
A pause here; Dove Winston derided Neville's war mongering for political gain as the public wanted nothing to do with war. Neville, knowing how weak England was, further played into Churchills hands by forcing arms production to begin, knowing, if war came, it was his responsibility to see to it that at least some preparations were going on. Winston hit him for this, too. Winston Churchill made political hay our of the weapons programs Churchill would then use to barely keep England alive. Programs he slammed his opponent over.
So, back to our story. Chamberlain flew to Munich to stall. Hoping the Poles would see reason and abdicate and hand Danzig BACK to Germany, which was long since supposed to have been returned to Germany based on the post war allied agreements dictating that the will of the people should matter. The Poles would NOT back down because they saw Churchill, and others, public opposition to Germany, brand new now for Winston bare in mind, as reason to think they had real support. They were wrong because England, has she wanted to, had NO means to come to her aid.
Chamberlain comes home, waves his paper, the Poles don't back down and off we go. Chamberlain, the warning hawk, was losing to the dove Winston WHEN Hitler could have been stopped. Winston the now hawk, opposed Hitler when he could NOT be stopped and Chamberlain did the ONLY thing he could do; buy time.
Check and mate. Churchill totally outflanked him. And helped, brought on war. Chamberlain was trying to get the Poles to understand England could NOT help them retain a German port town. The Poles pride, and belief in English hawks, even the new ones, lead them to national suicide.