This is tedious, get back to your Martlets. A declaration of war is a statement that compromise is now off the table.OK, for those that can't read a calendar, July comes after May and June. Churchill first told the cabinet he didn't want to negotiate peace in May. He then spurned Hitler's advances in June. If the World needed any proof of Churchill's determination, the Royal Navy's attack on the French Fleet at Mer el-Kebir on 3rd July wrote it large - Britain was not going to compromise.