Another reason that Roosevelt couldn't wait to convene an international summit was that Italy had surrendered, and the European fascists were left with Germany alone.

As the Italian army retreated on the front, the Anglo-American forces landed in Sicily as early as mid-July. Seeing that the situation was not good, the fascist parliament in Italy demanded Mussolini's resignation by a majority vote, while Germany was still sending troops to support Italy.

As the founder of fascism, the dictator of Italy, Mr. Mussolini, was still very reasonable. Instead of sending troops to suppress the opponents, he went to the king of Italy with grief and indignation, and was then caught by the king and thrown into prison to count lice and play.

This was followed by an anti-fascist wave in Italy, which announced its unconditional surrender on September 3. On October 13, the new Italian government officially declared war on Germany, and became a member of the Allied Powers.

To the dismay of Roosevelt and Churchill, Italy did not even surrender, bargaining and procrastinating, allowing Hitler to gain ample time to send more troops to Italy. After the surrender plan was leaked, Italy also asked for a postponement of the surrender until the Allies announced the news, and Italy did not surrender in earnest.

At the time of Italy's surrender, the German army was in a very dangerous situation in Italy, scattered across the narrow Apennine Peninsula. And the southern German army had just retreated from Sicily, running out of ammunition and food, exhausted. At this time, as long as the Allies and the Italian army flanked the German army together, they would inevitably kill the German army to the point of losing their armor, and even be able to completely annihilate the encircled southern German army.

However, the new Italian government was struggling and opening the passage to let the Allies fight the German army, but it stood by and watched the show, as if the war that took place on Italian soil had nothing to do with Italy. The Allies were also struggling, believing that the war in Italy was decided, and as a result, they were beaten by the German army, which had recovered from their senses.

The day after Italy's surrender, the Germans occupied all of Italy's northern borders and quickly took control of the Italian capital with a handful of garrisons, ousting the Italian king and rescuing Mussolini from prison to form a puppet government. With Hitler's order, hundreds of thousands of Italian troops surrendered, and the Germans occupied most of Italy without much effort.

Hitler's puppet government in Italy helped Germany fight until 1945.

It can be said that the new Italian government, which announced its surrender and joined the allies, has never done any, and it is amazing that it still asks for the treatment of a victorious country at the end of World War II.

Of course, the Allied countries were not fools who helped people count money, and although Italy was a victorious country, it was no different from a defeated country. An Italian city was assigned to Yugoslavia, an Italian port was designated as a free zone, and African colonies were forced to be abandoned, with no more than 300,000 troops, and a symbolic indemnity of $36,000 was paid.

Such treatment as a victorious country is not as good as even China after World War I.

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December.

After the Cairo meeting, Chang Kaishen did not return to China immediately, but took Soong Meiling to India to inspect the Chinese garrison. In order to disgust Chang Kaishen, Churchill deliberately instructed to lower the reception specifications for Lao Chiang, and the Indian governor only sent a personal adviser to the airport to greet him, without laying out any red carpet, let alone letting the military band play a welcome song.

The contradiction between Chang Kaishen and Churchill has been completely made public so far, and even basic facial etiquette is ignored.

At the Pacific Conference just six months ago, Churchill abruptly put aside the question of war against Japan, saying: "I have recently heard that the Chinese concentrated attack on Tibet has caused great panic in this independent country. It is hoped that the Chinese government will guarantee that there will be no unfortunate incidents. ”

Song Ziwen retorted on the spot: "I haven't heard of this news, and Tibet is not an independent country as the prime minister said. All the lockdown treaties between China and Britain have recognized Tibet as China's sovereign ownership. ”

After Chang Kaishen learned of this, he was so angry that he scolded Churchill in his diary that night.

And at the Cairo meeting half a month ago, Churchill disgusted Chang Kaishen enough. This dead fat man made a hindrance and was unwilling to return Hong Kong, and no matter how much Roosevelt persuaded him, it was to no avail, so there was the later Hong Kong problem.

Not only that, but Churchill also tried to play with words in the Cairo Declaration, changing the territory seized by Japan from China "of course should be returned to China" to "of course it must be given up by Japan".

What does it mean to be abandoned by Japan?

Do you want to give up and then establish an independent state? Build a northeastern country? Build a North China country? Build another South China country?

Wang Chonghui argued on behalf of China, and Chiang also threw the table at Roosevelt's table, and finally won Roosevelt's support and did not let Britain's amendment proposal succeed.

In return, Lao Chiang went to India to inspect the expeditionary force, which was nothing more than to disgust Churchill.

When Chang Kaishen returned to Chongqing, it was almost New Year's Day in 1944, and domestic newspapers reported the results of the meeting one after another, calling it "a great victory of China's diplomacy since the late Qing Dynasty", and Chang Kaishen also became a "national hero".

Chang Kaishen was very happy, and even took the time to visit the Zhou Mansion in person, he took Zhou Hexuan's hand and said with a smile: "Mingcheng, at this Cairo Conference, China took political gains first, military second, and economy second, but all of them have achieved considerable achievements, which is the greatest success of the country's century-old diplomacy and the initial effect of 30 years of hard work!" ”

"The chairman of the committee has made great contributions." Zhou Hexuan slapped his ass smoothly.

Chang Kaishen said with a smile: "Mingcheng also has merit, so you don't have to be modest." ”

To be honest, Lao Jiang's performance on this trip was very bad. What he wants is the interests that China deserves in the future, and the actual benefits that are urgently needed at this stage have been messed up, which is simply short-sighted.

Roosevelt's focus at the Cairo Conference was the joint Sino-British invasion of Burma. And Lao Chiang was afraid that the expeditionary force would suffer too heavy losses, so he had to pull the United States to send troops. Not only that, but Lao Jiang opened his mouth to borrow $1 billion in aid, which made Roosevelt feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

As long as Chiang cooperated with Roosevelt at the conference, even if the expeditionary force was exhausted, China would have the full support of the United States. At that time, Roosevelt would inevitably force Churchill to promise to return Hong Kong, and the $1 billion loan that Chiang asked for would be easily obtained.

Although this approach is sorry for the officers and men of the expeditionary force, and it is to send those expeditionary forces to death, as the leader of China, he should agree to it.

The Tehran Conference that followed, and Stalin did a good job in this regard. He knew what Roosevelt wanted, knew what Churchill wanted, so he did his best to cooperate with the Soviet Red Army at the cost of his life, thus winning the greatest interests of the Soviet Union, and American military aid was continuously imported into the Soviet Union.

After the two meetings, Roosevelt and Churchill also compared Chang Kaishen with Stalin, and both believed that Stalin had more international strategic vision than Chang Kaishen.

Zhou Hexuan also persuaded Chang Kaishen to cooperate with Roosevelt on the Burma battlefield, but when he arrived at Lao Jiang, the wind blew in his ears.

Chang Kaishen does believe in Zhou Hexuan's international vision, but only in politics and diplomacy. He believed that Zhou Hexuan knew nothing about military affairs, and he did not talk about military affairs with Zhou Hexuan at all, let alone listen to all military-related suggestions.

What is the result of this?

It was Chiang and Stilwell who fell out completely, Roosevelt became disheartened with China, American military aid to China was nearly cut off, and China's already collapsed finances were exacerbated.