DBWI: Chamberlain in the Munich Crisis

Suppose that Neville Chamberlain didn't die in that car accident (or assassination, if you believe the conspiacy theorists) on February 28, 1938, and instead was PM through the Munich Crisis, and perhaps later.

Would he have handled it any better than Sir John Simon, or would he have done worse?
 
I don't know what to tell you.

Any reasonable man would have done what Simon and Halifax were essentially forced to do--refuse Hitler's unreasonable demands.

Do we think so little of Neville Chamberlain that he would sell out the Czechs lock, stock and barrel? NC was naive but he must have known the Czechs were willing to fight.

Sorry, I just don't think the UK is mean/stupid/short-sided enough to sell out the Czechs. That said, when the French-Polish-Czech-UK dogpile quickly topples Hitler and nearly effortlessly subdues the Third Reich, no one can really claim that it wasn't for the best...
 
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