Chapter Ninety-Four: Article 1 Consensus
As for what Alan Wilson did, if you think about it carefully, there are quite a few things he did, in addition to the problem of the war against Japan and the Soviet Union's covert operations, it seems that the complementarity of the Soviet Union and Britain at the present stage is sympathetic.
Specific topics include, but are not limited to, if Britain, including France, is weakened too much, Western Europe will inevitably follow the lead of the United States in the future, and if Britain is threatened by Soviet armed forces in an area of interests that overlaps with the Soviet Union, it will inevitably attract assistance from the United States, and the Soviet Union will not only fail to achieve its goal, but will also allow Britain's power to be replaced by the United States.
This is mainly about Iran, which is currently home to British troops in the south and Soviet troops in the north. This is also a historical tradition, as early as the period of confrontation between the British Empire and Imperial Russia, a sphere of influence was already demarcated in Iran.
The topic of economics was also discussed, although the Soviet Union was a large country, but in the final analysis it was a high-latitude country. Many cash crops and resources are either not available or are expensive to develop. This is not a problem that can be solved by letting people go to Siberia to grow potatoes!
For example, rubber, and other tropical crops, the Soviet Union was unable to use the spirit of hard work to close the gap. Britain had tropical colonies, and as long as the Soviet Union was willing to pay for trade, Britain was willing to provide this raw material. This is good for both countries, and they can recover quickly from the war.
As for the other coffee, mango, even the United States has no reason to interfere with Britain and export tropical fruits for trade.
There seems to be an idea of post-war recovery, because Germany surrendered in May, the sowing season has passed, and the Soviet Union has been on the offensive and has no time to resume agriculture, as long as the Soviet Union is willing to take out a certain amount of foreign exchange to buy, the British Empire can completely raise a certain amount of grain to help Eastern Europe survive the food shortage.
Alan Wilson had already decided to sacrifice British India, and perhaps Nehru would be more honest when there was a food shortage. As for the trivial matter that Hokkaido only has two divisions, if he doesn't recall it carefully, he forgets that he said that there is no more.
This was a good opportunity after all, because what he said would surely reach Stalin's ears, and no one in the Soviet Union dared to hide anything from Stalin at this time.
As the overlord of the world, the current British Empire is seeking stability, stability is greater than everything, and the fewer things the better, so that there will be time to adjust the policy and finally land safely.
It's just that Alan Wilson has no way to share these words with Ivor, who has just been in the limelight, so he can only smile and sincerely wish the other party to find a sense of existence at such an important international conference.
After touching a glass, Ai Fu said a few words with great interest and asked, "Actually, you should also join the ranks of formal negotiators, otherwise you will not have no sense of existence." ”
"We just follow the instructions and follow the arrangement." Alan Wilson shook his head modestly, he had something to do tomorrow, he had to contact the Viceroy of India and send a fleet to the Far East.
The British fleet in Asia is sufficient, and at present, the British Royal Navy, if it is considered to be an escort aircraft carrier, has a total of 95 aircraft carriers, and after the Normandy landing, the sea control of the Atlantic line has been recaptured, and part of the force has been sent to Asia.
In fact, in the eyes of military blindness, nearly 100 of the hundreds of aircraft carriers of the United States in World War II were also escort aircraft carriers.
It is not a major operation of the Normandy landings, it still needs to be prepared, the current British Royal Navy in Asia is completely sufficient, plus the Soviet Union's own preparations, it is easy to transport more than 100,000 Soviet troops.
As for the timing, it is difficult to predict, but Alan Wilson is not pessimistic, because the commander-in-chief of the British forces in Southeast Asia is Mountbatten, and Mountbatten is the speed keeper of British warships.
At the beginning of World War II, Mountbatten served as the captain of the destroyer USS Kelly of the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet.
There is such a commander-in-chief of the British Royal Navy's speed keeper, who believes that the British fleet in Southeast Asia will be infected by something, in fact, he will prepare a telegram later, and the time is tight and the task is heavy. This is a critical moment to test a civil servant!
On the first day of July, the first consensus reached by Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union at the Potsdam Conference was the question of war against Japan. Although the fly in the ointment was that the Soviet Union removed the clause of unconditional surrender from its share, it did not detract from a good start at the Potsdam Conference.
Soon the war against Japan and the urging of Japan's surrender were reported in the pages of major newspapers. The members of the U.S. delegation were very happy, and from the faces of these negotiators, Alan Wilson estimated that the current President Truman was also happy in his heart.
Now that it has been reported in the newspapers, it can almost be ascertained as a fact, but I don't know if Truman will regret the successful explosion of the nuclear bomb and urgently ask the Soviet Union to fight against Japan.
Considering that Truman, as the president of a world power, wanted to blatantly break his word and tear up the consensus on the Soviet Union under the witness of the British Empire, it is estimated that it will take some political determination.
The consensus reached on the war against Japan spread throughout the world in a short period of time, and also reached the ears of the Japanese government.
Fumiro Konoe, who served as Japan's prime minister three times, expounded his personal opinion to the Japanese emperor, "Since the defeat is the result, the obstacle to ending the war comes from the military department, and the goal of Britain, the United States and China is to defeat the Japanese military department, and if the military department falls, the nature of the war will also change." ”
Shigetoku Togo, who had served as ambassador to the Soviet Union, told the emperor that the Potsdam Proclamation was only a reproduction of the Cairo Declaration, and that although it should be accepted, it should be ignored in order to wait for the outcome of the request for Soviet mediation.
"There is no note on unconditional surrender in the Soviet announcement, which shows that the Soviet Union still has doubts about attacking the Japanese mainland, and if the Soviet Union can intervene and make a conditional surrender, this goal is the direction that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should work towards now. Even if you give up part of the Kuril Islands, it's okay. ”
In the Indian Governor's Palace, Sir Barron held a telegram that had just been delivered, in addition to Alan Wilson's thoughts of British India, the rest was the attitude reached at the Potsdam Conference on the war against Japan, in which the British could avoid the losses caused by the attack on the Japanese mainland, and let the Soviet Union bear the burden was a victory in itself.
The Royal Navy fleet in Asia should immediately rush to the Far East to help the Soviet troops attack and land, and they should not delay even one day to create a fait accompli, and the Soviet Union will regret it too late.
At the same time that British India received the telegram from Europe, Marshal Vasilevsky, who had already arrived in the Far East, also received a telegram from Moscow.