ABSTRACT
After the Munich Conference Chamberlain attempted to consolidate his rapprochement with Hitler and maintain his policy of protecting France from attack. In November 1938 Britain and France agreed that the proposed guarantee of Czechoslovakia should specify that no assistance could be rendered unless three out of the four guarantors participated. This formulation would prevent Britain and France from going to war because of joint action by Germany and Italy, the other two guarantors. The following January, amid rumors of a German attack in the west, Britain and France agreed that an invasion of Holland or Switzerland would be a casus belli. During the same month Chamberlain and Halifax visited Mussolini, who assured them that the Anglo-Italian agreement concerning the Mediterranean still held. 1
