What did the four top leaders of the 1938 Munich Conference have in common?

All of them were out to buy time. Hitler knew that he didn't yet have the kind of army in place to win a war if it started now; Mussolini's Italy had suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of a primitive Ethiopian army and knew that it needed much more time and build-up for its "Roman Empire' ambitions; France was still building its defense structures against Germany and England knew it needed time to modernize and expand its Navy and army.