Chapter 356: Morocco Returns

With Eric's hard-line political decision, it is difficult for the United States to secretly help and instigate those opposition parties in Germany to form an anti-government climate, thus maintaining the country's long-term peace and stability and social stability, and also condensing the centripetal force of the whole nation, and ensuring the continuity and execution of national policies, so that the German federal economy and national defense and military are thriving and changing with each passing day.

The stability and prosperity of the German Confederation is the last thing Americans want to see, and after being hit back by German politics in many areas, a new round of friction between Britain and the United States and other countries against Germany is brewing.

At this time, Germany was not yet a member of the League of Nations, but the United States suddenly used the standards of the League of Nations to evaluate Germany, which made Eric feel very ridiculous, and it was incomprehensible that the United States was not even a member of the League of Nations, so the argument that the use of international practice to seek compensation from German victims could not be established.

However, the United States did not give up, but pretended to be a face for heaven, kept bringing up the old matter, and began to make trouble on the basis of another reason, saying that at that time, the "Berlin Peace Treaty" stipulated that Germany should pay 226 billion marks in compensation to the Entente countries, because the leaders of the countries participating in the peace treaty withdrew one after another, resulting in a lack of in-depth investigation, and later it was determined that only 132 billion marks of compensation should be paid, which was far from enough, and most of the compensation money had not been honored, and so on.

Answering questions from reporters from various countries in Berlin, Eric stressed that the United States is not at ease and is deliberately confusing the international public and taking the opportunity to fish in troubled waters. and forcefully declared that the war had been waged in the Age of the Reich, that the Federal Government had received nothing more than that of others, which could be recognized or not, and that although it had been forced to sign the peace treaty, Germany had reason to refuse to continue to fulfill it.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and world public opinion was in an uproar.

As a strategic point in southern Europe, the Balkan Peninsula has always been a competition ground for European powers alternately, and is known as the "powder keg of Europe". In June 1914, the Sarajevo incident here opened the curtain of the First World War, and it also became the spoils of plunder and partition after the war.

The end of World War I did not bring good news to the peninsula, because of its important geographical location and fragile political foundation, there were successive Yugoslav civil wars, secession, German-Italian wars, Turkish-Greek wars, Hungarian-Romanian wars, and the German-dominated multinational war against Greece.

Recently, the smell of gunsmoke has once again emanated from here, as the Kosovo side bypassed the German government and arrested a senior Serbian government official because of British intervention behind the scenes. The incident sparked a backlash from Kosovo Serb politicians, who protested and demanded the official's release. Immediately after receiving no corresponding answer to their appeals, Serb politicians announced their resignation from the current Government and declared that they would form new Serb administrations throughout Kosovo.

Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia have once again increased unprecedentedly.

On March 22, according to information obtained by the Joint Intelligence Agency and the Military Intelligence Agency, the Serbian diaspora political circles intended to ask the Soviet Union to intervene in the region in order to retaliate against Kosovo's "atrocities and violations" against the Serbian system.

Because Germany is its suzerain, the Soviet side did not send government officials to intervene to mediate, but "resolutely condemned" the Kosovo authorities for violating the spirit of international humanitarianism and supporting the legitimate demands of the Serbs from the perspective of friendly neighbors and normal exchanges.

Serbia is still part of the former Yugoslavia, but it never seems to have been peaceful. After its annexation to Germany in 1921, the German government had to intervene in Serbia's affairs, including quelling ethnic Albanian unrest in Kosovo.

At present, many countries, including Britain, the Soviet Union and France, have begun to openly and covertly provoke Germany's subordination to Kosovo, especially the Soviet Union's indirect support for Serbs, which has gradually caused Germany to lose confidence in the region.

The simultaneous pressure on Germany from both the east and west directions has aroused a high degree of vigilance on the part of the German Federal Government, but fortunately the parties can barely maintain the status quo, and the conflict remains only rhetorical. However, as the situation escalates, there is a risk of a major crisis if the parties are not properly controlled, which is a fact that none of the parties wants to see now, after all, Britain, the United States and other countries, including the Soviet Union in the east, only want to weaken Germany in terms of economic and military strength, and not usher in a war for which no one is prepared.

The United States is happy to see political turmoil in Europe, and at a critical time when it is secretly vying with Britain for world hegemony, it is in fact very much in need of an ally like Germany, although the United States has always been doing something sorry for Germany. Just after the New Year, Peres, the special envoy of US President Calvin Coolidge, traveled across the ocean to launch an all-out lobbying campaign against Germany.

Germany, in the heart of Europe, was also in dire need of a strong external environment to help it break through British and French influence, so Pérez was warmly welcomed by the Hansafelt Palace, and then, accompanied by Minister Constantin von Nwright of the Foreign Office, Peres visited the German North Sea Fleet and the Junkers aircraft manufacturing company.

Soon, in order to cater to the wishes of US President Calvin and to no longer be excluded from the traditional European forces, Chancellor Hans Luther took the helm and launched the arduous multilateral negotiations before entering the League of Nations.

1926 also seemed to be a year of calm and tranquility in Europe, as Germany absorbed the Balkan states, and local separatist forces were facing regional integration and annexation. As early as 1912, France began to control Morocco as a protectorate, a move that was recognized by the rest of Europe, and the French and Spanish armies carried out a series of security measures in the area, as well as the establishment of police stations and government offices.

However, France's actions did not mean that everyone supported and embraced them, and the rising army of Abd El Kerim soon became a hero of the Rif tribe and a thorn in the side of the European powers in Morocco.

After the purge of the First World War, France was already impoverished and weakened, and the authorities planned to initiate a so-called policy of pacification and accommodation in response to the anti-judgment forces of Abboud. However, after defeating the Spanish forces left behind in the north, the greedy Abboud began to build on his own strength, and began to covet French Morocco.

Abboud's forces swaggered through the city, finally angering the French authorities, and soon the French and Spanish quickly formed a coalition of equalizers and launched a heavy encirclement and suppression of the Reeve counter-judgment army.

There was a major reversal of strength, and although Aboud's troops were arrogant, they were unable to resist the advanced weaponry and powerful attacks of the French and Spanish, and soon after the two sides clashed, the French artillery exploded Aboud's soldiers to the ground, and had to begin to shrink towards Taqvist.

The outnumbered rebels were soon surrounded by the French and Western legions in the small town of Talquist. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Aboud Al Kerim continued to boast that the city of Taqvist was impregnable. However, his men, numbering just over 30,000 soldiers at best, were besieged by France's famous Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, and especially by 160,000 West French soldiers backed by powerful artillery.

The rebels were besieged, with no food and grass inside, and no rescuers outside, and they were in a very difficult situation. On 26 May, the rebel leader Abd al-Kerim had to announce his surrender to the Franco-Spanish coalition, and the war in Reif was finally over.