Well, yes, but of course it's easy to put down the German Nazis now, with the benefit of 60+ years of hindsight. At the time, though, it seems that in the mid to late 1930's, Churchill had a much harder job of convincing parliament of the growing dangers that lay ahead. If that thing on BBC1 last week was true, he was scoffed at and derided at first, for denouncing Hitler.
There's a lesson to be learned there, somewhere. Just try saying of a certain country today, "They won't be happy until they've wiped Israel off the face of the map; we need to take urgent military action against these fanatics NOW" and see how many people applaud you.....

I wasn't really expecting a serious response to that post. Since you've started it, though....

Churchill had a hard job persuading Parliament, yes, but not the public. The British, by and large, seemed to be instinctively opposed to totalitarianism, but their leaders weren't. No surprise there: leaders liking systems which give leaders more power? Who'd've thunk it?

That being said, a lot of the opposition within Parliament, whatever may have been said publicly, was to do with the fact that Britain wasn't militarily ready for a war. It is always worth remembering that, on the same day that Chamberlain made the "Peace in our time" speech, he ordered the construction of the underground war rooms at Whitehall. There is no doubt that he knew the war was coming. Whether he really did think he could avert it through appeasement or was just (successfully) playing for time may never be known.

All the world is waiting for youuuuu!
And the powers you possessssss!
Fighting for our rights
In your satin tights
You're so pretty when you dance!
Wonder Woman! Duhduhduhduh duh duh duh!

Chamberlain hey? What a shrewd operator....

No, no, it's:

In your satin tights,
Fighting for your rights
And the old red, white, and blue.

Although "our rights" would make more sense.

Why is an Amazonian princess fighting for the old red, white and blue?
(I appreciate there are other, more pressing breaches of reality but still...)

Because Nazis are evil, you see. That's why.

It all makes sense now.

Isn't Wonder Woman an illegal alien? Then she would be fighting for "your rights" since she wouldn't be eligible for all of the rights that an American citizen enjoys.

James

Good point.

Presumably then there's an episode where she's at the visa centre, filling out an application and making waves as she fights for her rights? Maybe they left that off the DVDs.