What gave Arthur a headache was that even though he had personally come to London, he still could not find any high-ranking British official with whom he could discuss matters and formulate a definite plan.
By convention, Arthur should have gone to see the current King of Britain.
But after George V died, Crown Prince Edward smoothly succeeded to the throne as Edward VIII. Was he supposed to discuss joining forces with France against Germany with Edward VIII? That was simply too unrealistic.
Why? Shortly after ascending the throne as King of Britain, Edward VIII immediately arranged for the Simpsons to divorce and proposed to the Cabinet Government that he marry Mrs. Simpson.
Obviously, the British Government could never agree to such an absurd proposal.
This also caused the relationship between Edward VIII and the Cabinet Government to plunge to freezing point, even triggering a constitutional crisis in the United Kingdom.
If George V's funeral had not temporarily eased the tension between the two sides, news of the discord between the British king and his ministers would probably have spread to every corner of the world long ago.
On March 9, 1936, after George V's funeral had ended.
Arthur met the current Prime Minister of Britain, Baldwin, and had a lengthy exchange with Prime Minister Baldwin about the good relations between the United Kingdom and Australasia.
During the meeting, Arthur also brought up the Germans' current conduct. The Germans' performance in the German-Polish War had been far too frightening; their war potential was vastly greater than France's.
In both sentiment and reason, the United Kingdom and France ought to join forces to stop the Germans from expanding further in Europe.
If the Germans continued expanding their army and made no attempt to conceal their ambitions, Arthur even stated that the