A Halifax premiership would not automatically have produced negotiation and surrender. Halifax is judged less effective than Churchill, yet still a serious opponent of German expansion. He understood that leaving Germany unchecked in 1940 would mean fighting a larger and more troublesome power later. The two men even shared the belief that Germany should have been confronted earlier, making the imagined choice between Churchillian resistance and Halifaxian capitulation too simple.
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Halifax was not a simple route to negotiated surrender
The familiar counterfactual that Halifax would have replaced Churchill and made peace is rejected as inconsistent with Halifax's own view of the German threat.