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He viewed that Hitler was intend on European, if not world, domination - and the eventual destruction of the Jews. He understood that Hitler had clandestinely been rearming for a number of years, and that war was almost inevitable.

The Munich pact would allow Britain to avoid an escalation of arms spending in a difficult time for the economy, but Churchill saw that if (as he suspected) Hitler had little intention of honouring it, Britain would have no chance of building its military capacity to a point where it could effectively oppose the German might in time to do so.

Chamberlain, like so many others, was disturbed by the prospect of a repetition of the Great War, barely 20yrs previously, and the wasteful loss of human lives that had scarred the nation, that he wanted desperately to find a peaceful way forward through the crisis. He viewed a negotiated settlement that would allow Britain to continue unmolested.

Hence the clash between the two men.

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