You know how greatly I desired to halt this tragic sequence by peaceful means. Munich was, I believe, the last chance of a peaceful solution and the final test of German sincerity, but Hitler deliberately rejected that chance and demonstrated his insincerity. When, with abundant warning of the results that must follow, Germany invaded Poland, the last opportunity had come of halting the sequence even by war, and I have no shadow of doubt that when we entered the war in September we did so not merely in defence of Poland but of France and the British Empire.
