In 1938 he played eight games for England, starting with defeat to a Scotland team containing a young Bill Shankly.[95] He then travelled to Berlin for another encounter with Münzenberg, where pre-match he witnessed first hand the foreboding devotion the people showed the Führer when his motorcade drove past a café the England team were dining in.[96] The game became infamous as The FA, themselves under instruction from the British government, informed the England team that they had to perform the Nazi salute as part of the strategy of appeasement.[97][98] England won 6–3 with Matthews himself getting on the scoreboard having got the better of Münzenberg this time.[99] The next game was a shock 2–1 defeat to Switzerland,[100] which in turn was followed by a 4–2 win over France in Paris.[101] Following the conclusion of this summer tour of the continent, Matthews scored in a 4–2 defeat to Wales in Cardiff, and then played in England's 3–0 win over a Europe XI at Highbury, their 4–0 win over Norway in Newcastle, and their 7–0 win over Ireland at Old Trafford.[102]