Chapter 303: Military Parade (3)
Reival is a somewhat self-contradictory appeaser, but he is indeed a good friend of Germany today, and there is no second person in the French government who can replace the chancellor for the time being.
During this time, he has been preaching the idea of "common prosperity between Germany and France, and European unity", which is completely a French version of Wang Zhaoming. What is even more interesting is that his arguments have won a large number of supporters in the French government and the people, and even won the approval of many ordinary French people.
This time, as a representative of the French Republic, he was entertained at the highest level by the German side, even if Petain arrived, which made Reival feel a little flattered.
The German side's personal respect for him satisfied the vanity of the Frenchman, and Reival's affection for Germany has been growing day by day in recent days, and if he originally chose to lean towards Germany for political purposes, now his intimacy with Germany is entirely from the heart.
Unlike Petain pretending to be sick, Prime Minister Chamberlain was really in poor health, although antibiotics freed him from postoperative complications, but after all, he was seventy years old, and a few months ago the stomach cancer surgery seriously damaged his vitality, and a week ago he suddenly fell ill again, and his body could not withstand the bumps of a long journey.
Xu Jun also needs the prime minister to stick to his post for a year or two, so he took the initiative to ask the prime minister to recuperate with peace of mind, and this time he didn't need to come in person, he only needed to send a plenipotentiary envoy instead, anyway, the meaning was almost there.
Chamberlain, a veteran British politician, knew how to reciprocate, so he sent the new British Foreign Secretary, Edward Edward. Frederick. Lin Deli. Wood, as a personal representative of himself and the British Cabinet of the British Empire, took part in the New Year's parade in Berlin.
If you want to say that this Mr. Wood may not be familiar to everyone, it seems that his title is more famous, Viscount of Halifax, a famous British appeaser, who was known before the war as the first mate of the Chamberlain appeasement boat, a real legend.
This person's life experience is indeed legendary. Lin Deli. Wood is the second Viscount of Halifax Charles. LI Deli. Wood's fourth son. Charles. Wood was the leader of the League of Churches of England, and his maternal grandfather was the 11th Earl of Devonshire, and his great-grandfather was Charles Jr., who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Earl of Grey is also a relatively prominent branch of the British aristocratic circle.
However, little Edward's childhood was not very happy, perhaps due to problems in embryonic development, he was born without a left hand, only a shrunken left arm. I don't know whether to say lucky or unlucky, in Edward. In just five years between the ages of four and nine, Wood's three older brothers died one after another, and he was the only boy left in the family to succeed Charles. Wood's knighthood and a seat in the House of Lords.
The nine-year-old boy was raised as a true heir to the nobility, and despite having no left arm, he managed to learn to ride a horse and hunt and shoot.
At the age of thirteen, he was sent to Eton College, like the other children of the nobility, and then went on to study at Oxford University, where he became a scholar and even a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, which was quite an academic achievement at the time.
After the outbreak of World War I, he served as a commander in the famous Yorkshire Dragoons under the Queen's command and spent almost a year on the Western Front. After the war, he served for a time as Churchill's secretary for colonial issues, and this was his first encounter with Churchill, who was almost mad at his rudeness.
Mr. Wood had always been a die-hard Conservative MP, and when the Conservatives returned to power, the senior Edward Edward. MP Wood was appointed Viceroy of India and was made Lord Owen by George V.
It was during his governorship's tenure that the "Non-Violent Non-Cooperation Movement" broke out in India, as a result of which the Lord was forced to sign the famous "Gandhi-Owen Pact" with Gandhi, and the "Non-Violent Non-Cooperation Movement" was terminated.
In fact, the Governor returned home at the end of his term of office the following month after the signing of the agreement, and the next Viceroy of India was not prepared to continue the implementation of the Convention, so the Convention was soon turned into waste paper, and Mr. Gandhi was again arrested and imprisoned, and continued to eat his curry rice.
After returning to England, Edward. Wood was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University for one term and Secretary of State for a while, and when his father, Viscount Halifax Sr., died, he inherited his father's Viscount and a seat in the House of Lords and became an honorable member of the House of Lords.
He remained a die-hard Tory, convinced that Britain was not ready for a war, while at the same time opposing any proposal to rearmament.
He then became the foreign minister in Chamberlain's cabinet and fully supported Chamberlain's policy of appeasement, and it seems that his experience in India had a great influence on his thinking.
After Churchill came to power, Viscount Halifax still served as foreign secretary for a few months, during which time he did not get along well with Qiu Fatman, he has been pioneering Chamberlain's policies, so that both sides think the other is quite hateful. The sudden death of the British ambassador to the United States in December 401 gave Churchill a golden opportunity to kick the viscount out of the British Isles and send him to the United States as ambassador.
Now, because of the wings of a certain God apostle, the Viscount of Halifax is still in the post of foreign minister.
The viscount really didn't know whether to be happy or sorry at this time, his previous predictions all came true, the German army swept through most of Europe like a storm, the British Empire led by Churchill was defeated in the war, and as a result, Qiu Fat Man was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and Chamberlain returned to the post of prime minister.
But the most important thing for him is that the Conservative Party still holds the power of the cabinet, and the Liberal Party and the Labour Party, which had been very happy before, are now suppressed by both Britain and Germany, and they will not be able to turn around for at least a few years.
Historically, the friendship he established with Washington when he was ambassador to the United States had made him wash away the mark of appeasement, and it was not enough that, judging from the current historical development, he would probably not want to clear up the identity of this German collaborator for the rest of his life.
But Edward, who has gone through vicissitudes. Mr. Wood, who no longer cares what others think, knows only that Britain must now gain the confidence of the Germans, because only by cooperating with Germany can Britain be able to continue to maintain the colonial system of the British Empire and restore the vitality damaged by the war.
To put it bluntly, if Britain doesn't want to be eliminated as a third-rate country, it can only hold on to the thigh in front of it.
This time he did not come alone to watch the ceremony, the foreign secretary with a large delegation, and there were even two members of the royal family among the entourage, but they used personal identities and did not belong to state affairs, so they need to be low-key for the time being, so as to avoid excessive interpretations between the British government and the opposition.
As for the Kingdom of Italy, Marshal Badoglio was in good health, and he couldn't find any reason not to show up, in fact, he was quite happy to lead the team to Germany for a spin, and by the way, brush his presence on the international stage. In any case, as long as Italy's domestic reserves of olive oil and wheat are sufficient, the situation will be stable.
ps: The second chapter was sent, I felt that my blood pressure was a little high, and I couldn't hold on, so I went to rest.
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