WI: Eden not Chamberlain?

For whatever reason, Anthony Eden succeeds Stanley Baldwin in 1937 and becomes Prime Minister rather than Neville Chamberlain. How does he treat the Axis Powers, and does this have an effect on the coming war, if indeed the war still happens at all?
 
In 1937 (28 May) when Chamberlain becomes PM, he has only been in the Cabinet since June 1935 (1 3/4 years) and he is also only 40 (?) years old (Mr Cameron 43 is the youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years ?).

Somebody cant do maths :-(
 
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In 1937 (28 May) when Chamberlain becomes PM, he has only been in the Cabinet since June 1935 (1 3/4 years) and he is also only 34 (?) years old (Mr Cameron 43 is the youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years ?).

Eden was forty in 1937.
 
In 1937 (28 May) when Chamberlain becomes PM, he has only been in the Cabinet since June 1935 (1 3/4 years) and he is also only 40 (?) years old (Mr Cameron 43 is the youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years ?).

Somebody cant do maths :-(

Irrelevant. I wasn't asking if it could happen, I was asking what if. I'll never understand the inability of so many people on this site to tell the difference.

Nice job with the shooting yourself in the foot with the maths by the way. It was cute.
 
Irrelevant. I wasn't asking if it could happen, I was asking what if. I'll never understand the inability of so many people on this site to tell the difference.

I was just thinking that it makes a huge difference why he comes to power ?

Somebody so young (even 40 makes him youngest for over 100 years) probably means that backbench MPs want a huge change, something totally different and that probably means a hard line v Germany.

So a large build-up in concert with France to support the League of Nations after the remilitarization of the Rhineland to prevent more expansion such as the Anschluss of Austria ?

What does that mean no war due to German concessions or internal collapse, that or an earlier war with the French army wining easily ?
 
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