Chapter 727: Churchill the Traitor
For a long time in history, Canada was a British colony.
It all started in 1497, when John Capote landed in Newfoundland and declared Canada to belong to King Henry VIII of England. After that, the French came up again and declared that Canada belonged to King François I of France.
The two countries quarreled for hundreds of years, until 1763, when Britain and France signed a treaty in Paris, in which France recognized Quebec as part of the United Kingdom. Since then, the British Crown has claimed all of Canada.
However, a century later, in 1867, Canada was established as a Dominion. Canada's founding constitution, the British North America Act of 1867, made Canada a constitutional monarchy and part of the British Empire.
Therefore, some historians believe that 1867 should be the birth day of Canada, which broke away from Britain and became an independent constitutional monarchy.
The so-called "monarch" refers to the fact that the nominal leader of Canada is still the Queen of England, Elizabeth II. However, the Queen of England is not permanently resident in Canada, so the Queen's rights in Canada are represented by the Governor General of Canada.
The so-called "constitutional" means that Canada has independent national sovereignty. Canadian citizens choose their own Prime Minister of the country. The Prime Minister of the country exercises national sovereignty.
However, it is obviously a little early. At this time, Canada was not fully independent and was at best a political entity.
Until 1931, the Act of West Stemminster recognized the status of the Dominions of the British Empire as equal to the United Kingdom, and the British Crown had a nominal Governor in each country. Historically, it was not until 1982 that Queen Elizabeth II recognized the 1982 Constitution of Canada.
This constitution also retained all the treaties relating to the crown under the British North America Act of 1867. Since then, Canada has become a completely sovereign state, and can amend its own constitution without the need for legislation by the Canadian Parliament and the approval of the British Legislative Chamber, as was the case before, but only the approval of the 'Queen of Canada'.
Canada's legislative power was finally completely in the hands of the Canadians, and it can also be said that Canada's real independence should be counted from this time.
Therefore, at present, most people who are not clear about the relationship between Canada and Britain still believe that Canada is still subordinate to Britain and belongs to British colonies.
Of course, the people in front of him are the most astute and more familiar with the current situation in Canada, and Churchill's statement is even more important to the United States.
What was the United States just discussing? How to attack Canada, how to annex Canada! And now, Churchill simply sent the results of the war directly, the British royal family, willing to transfer all power in Canada to the US government, that is to say, in the future, the US government will be the master of Canada, for example, the United States can send its own people to be the governor of Canada!
This war, there is no need to fight, Canada will be sent to the United States!
Hearing Churchill's words, everyone present instantly became excited, if it really can, then of course it is great!
Churchill sighed infinitely in his heart, sure enough, it was the Germans who knew the minds of the Americans best, and these people were just businessmen who were stained with copper stench!
It is necessary to give benefits to the United States!
If it were possible, Britain would certainly not give up its power in Canada and give Canada to the United States, which would also become a powerful country. A strong United States is not in the interests of Britain.
After all, Britain would prefer to be the proud empire on which the sun never sets.
This is no longer possible.
The decline of Britain is inevitable, even if it wins this world war, Britain will still decline, Churchill has a hunch, then, Britain can only correct its own mentality, do a good job in the world's second master. It is much better to choose the United States than Germany, at least the United States is still a democratic society, and Germany is a complete dictatorship.
Germany also knew that it was crucial for the United States to enter the war, so Germany used a lot of financial resources to feed the American capitalists, so that the United States did not want to go to war with Germany. I just want to make a fortune in a muffled voice.
If Britain does not give the United States enough benefits, how can the United States get involved? How much did Churchill struggle in his heart to make up his mind?
Of course, what finally brought him to this step, at the expense of infamy, was the news from the intelligence system that the United States was preparing a military operation against Canada!
This is definitely not an accidental act, in recent years, the United States has almost always wanted to annex Canada, and now, with the weakening of Britain's national power, there is no longer time to take care of Canada, it is conceivable that the United States may really attack.
That's the worst-case scenario, once the United States and Canada go to war, then Britain will have no backup.
I was counting on the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union and Finland did it, and then we counted on the United States, and the United States and Canada did it again, what backup could Britain have? This battle really doesn't have to be fought!
Moreover, once the United States annexes Canada, Britain will not be able to do anything to help, and now Britain is still unable to protect itself, how can it help Canada drive the Americans away like the previous times?
After all these considerations, Churchill finally made a bold decision, simply, give Canada to the United States!
The agreement can be signed now, but the implementation of the agreement will not be until the war is over. When the time comes, Britain will definitely fulfill its promise to hand over the power of Canada to the United States, but what will happen to Canada at that time will not be under the jurisdiction of Britain.
Britain is keeping its promises.
With the reputation of being scolded as a traitor, Churchill sold Canada again, and it was worth it to exchange the colonies for the security of his homeland!
At the same time, he also knew Roosevelt's attitude, this is also a warmonger, he wants to go to war, what he needs, is a reason to persuade Congress, this reason, is enough?
Sure enough, these high-level Americans agreed! It is up to them to convince Congress that there are Canadian interests, and the obstacles to Congress should be much smaller.
Moreover, Churchill came this time, of course, there was more than this one suggestion, he had more plans to implement.
Wooing those capitalists is not only the strength of the Germans, but also a group of them! Many of those capitalists are Jews! Even if Germany's attitude towards the Jews is not bad now, Hitler's period made the Jews very uncomfortable, especially Hitler's advocacy that the Aryans were excellent, and the inferiority of other peoples made the Jews angry.
Giving the Jews the benefit and agitating for their restoration was another of Churchill's plans, not only at the top, but also in the lower Parliament, to encourage them to support the British!
As for getting ordinary people to support, Churchill, there is also a way!