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In his speech, he talked about a third alternative, he said if only British government were able to form alliances among countries against Germany and if they are able to strengthen air force and British Army, only then they could have prevented Germany from taking Sudetenland. He believed that Germany will continue to expand its territories eyeing in Western Europe and British territories are not exempted.
Option b would be correct
The advice given to those affected by the potato blight bordered on the absurd. One scientist advised people to get hold of chloric acid and manganese dioxide. This mixture should have been been added to salt and applied to the diseased area of the potato.
Balance of power is talking about the legislative, judicial, and executive branch which were all made to keep each other "balanced out" where they can check other branches and make sure that decisions being made aren't "unconstitutional" so that there wouldn't be one person with total power that could lead to a dictatorship.