Edited sentence: As France failed to effectively invade Germany in 1939 when Poland was attacked, France would likely have acted in a similarly timid manner in 1938.As Kennan said :- “The benefit of the Munich agreement was that it has preserved for the exacting task of the future a magnificent younger generation disciplined, industrious and physically fit that would have undoubtedly been sacrificed if the solution had been the romantic one of hopeless resistance rather than the humiliating but the true heroic one of realism.If war had broken out in 1938, Czechoslovakia would have been devastated like Poland was in 1939.It is doubtful if Beneš was acting in the best interests of the Czechoslovakian people.What eventually happened was probably in Czechoslovakia's best interest