[SoCal Pubbie]

The time for Britain and France to act was 1936 when Hitler militarized the Rhineland in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler did not have the force to deal with what the French Army alone could have thrown at him. Instead, weary of conflict after WWI, they did nothing and waited until the Nazis had built up their forces, and then it was too late

[Churchillspirit]

Even in 1938 -39 the farsighted leaders in Britain had trouble convincing the appeasers that the country had better prepare for war.