Hindsight is always 20/20, the reason they didn’t was because the war 20 years earlier had bled France and England white. Nobody wanted a replay of that.
Keep in mind, over 19,000 British troops were killed in one day, first battle of the Somme, maybe 50,000 wounded. They’d seen this movie before, so to speak.
“he reason they didn’t was because the war 20 years earlier had bled France and England white. Nobody wanted a replay of that.”
All the more reason to nip it in the bud early. Did you know that in 1938 France had the largest standing army in the world?