James Holland
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And actually, all sorts of other things have been going on.
While they might not have been creating a huge army or producing enough Spitfires that they might want to up until this point, what they have also been doing is stockpiling bauxite and copper and tungsten and and huge reserves. And because Britain has this huge global reach, and because it has its empire and its extra imperial assets, it can strike bargains that no one else can strike.
While they might not have been creating a huge army or producing enough Spitfires that they might want to up until this point, what they have also been doing is stockpiling bauxite and copper and tungsten and and huge reserves. And because Britain has this huge global reach, and because it has its empire and its extra imperial assets, it can strike bargains that no one else can strike.
While they might not have been creating a huge army or producing enough Spitfires that they might want to up until this point, what they have also been doing is stockpiling bauxite and copper and tungsten and and huge reserves. And because Britain has this huge global reach, and because it has its empire and its extra imperial assets, it can strike bargains that no one else can strike.
While they might not have been creating a huge army or producing enough Spitfires that they might want to up until this point, what they have also been doing is stockpiling bauxite and copper and tungsten and
and huge reserves.
And because Britain has this huge global reach, and because it has its empire and its extra imperial assets, it can strike bargains that no one else can strike.
So it can go into various countries around the world and can go, okay, I want you to guarantee me for the next five years, every bit of your rubber supply. I will pay over the asking price to secure that. And it's doing that in the 1930s. So when war comes, it's got everything it possibly needs.
So it can go into various countries around the world and can go, okay, I want you to guarantee me for the next five years, every bit of your rubber supply. I will pay over the asking price to secure that. And it's doing that in the 1930s. So when war comes, it's got everything it possibly needs.
So it can go into various countries around the world and can go, okay, I want you to guarantee me for the next five years, every bit of your rubber supply. I will pay over the asking price to secure that. And it's doing that in the 1930s. So when war comes, it's got everything it possibly needs.
So it can go into various countries around the world and can go, okay, I want you to guarantee me for the next five years, every bit of your rubber supply.
I will pay over the asking price to secure that.
And it's doing that in the 1930s.
So when war comes, it's got everything it possibly needs.
Now, you always need more because it's suddenly turning into a kind of, you know, a proper global long drawn out war. But that is a huge advantage. So it is with that mindset that Chamberlain is going into those talks and thinking, OK, well, I'm not going to get a war over the Czechoslovakian. Who cares about them? But... But I am going to show Hitler that I mean business.
Now, you always need more because it's suddenly turning into a kind of, you know, a proper global long drawn out war. But that is a huge advantage. So it is with that mindset that Chamberlain is going into those talks and thinking, OK, well, I'm not going to get a war over the Czechoslovakian. Who cares about them? But... But I am going to show Hitler that I mean business.
Now, you always need more because it's suddenly turning into a kind of, you know, a proper global long drawn out war. But that is a huge advantage. So it is with that mindset that Chamberlain is going into those talks and thinking, OK, well, I'm not going to get a war over the Czechoslovakian. Who cares about them? But... But I am going to show Hitler that I mean business.
Now, you always need more because it's suddenly turning into a kind of, you know, a proper global long drawn out war.
But that is a huge advantage.
So it is with that mindset that Chamberlain is going into those talks and thinking, OK, well, I'm not going to get a war over the Czechoslovakian.