Many of the FAW's members have also always been affiliated to the FA thus creating an uncertainty over the association's responsibilities and powers. Its unwillingness and inability to assert its independence was illustrated by it following the FA out of FIFA in 1919 and 1928, only to rejoin when its English counterparts did in 1946. Before World War II, like Wales as a whole, the FAW's ambitions for recognition were firmly within a British context. Her first international against opponents from beyond Britain was not until a match against France in 1933.