573 The British want to pay their debts
"I have already sent this plan to Mr. Prime Minister, and as for whether it is approved or not, it depends on his cabinet and his own choice." Somerville, as commander of the British Navy, really couldn't do much.
He had to report his plan, and then after a long wait, Attlee's cabinet would approve his plan before he could carry it out.
And if Attlee's cabinet hesitates and engages in a lengthy tussle, things get even more complicated. Perhaps no decision will be made in this area for several months.
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At the same time, it's not just Somerville who is worried, but so is Britain's new Prime Minister, Adrian.
And there were many, many more depressed things for him than for Somerville.
Germany's war reparations, although not a huge amount of money, also made the decadent Britain stretched, and how to deal with it also had some headaches.
At the same time, the British refugees who migrated from the south to the north consumed the last bit of blood and blood of the country. If they don't think of a good solution, they will become a source of trouble.
The test for the new British prime minister will be not only economic problems, but also serious problems in international relations.
In fact, the United States, as a former ally, has never expressed its position on whether or not it recognizes the new Britain, whose position has become ambiguous.
Judging from the fact that the United States has not recognized Vichy France, this matter will not be resolved in a short time.
In other words, the United States will no longer easily maintain trade relations with the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom will no longer be able to easily obtain the resources it wants from the United States as it did before.
Not to mention anything else, when the United States sold things this time, it did not allow Britain to use loans, and it had to settle the bill in cash, which was enough for Britain to live in pain.
Now the United Kingdom, how can it have a large amount of cash to support it to go to the United States to make large-scale purchases? If anything, the Churchill government would have used it up long ago......
Without the support of the United States, Germany's support is not as strong as that of the United States, which makes Attlee's cabinet face a very serious real problem: the collapse of people's livelihoods.
If it is just a problem of the collapse of people's livelihood, it is estimated that you can get some comfort by asking the current boss Germany to cry and make trouble.
But in addition to the United States, Australia and Canada, two members of the Commonwealth of the British Empire, which were already unstable, have chosen to remain silent on the British issue.
In other words, with the exception of Burma and India, which have clearly changed their flag to continue to fight against Germany, and the former British colonies such as the Middle East, none of the other British colonies have expressed their recognition of the current British ......
Under this premise, it was already a beautiful dream for Britain to obtain financial compensation from the colonies.
Britain, which was difficult to ride a tiger, now even half of the capital is in the palm of the hands of the Germans. Every time Attlee thought about it, he felt a dull pain in his crotch.
As if his lifeline was in someone else's hands, Attlee, the British prime minister, felt that he was not a complete man at all.
Every time he saw the bridge over the Thames, the bridgehead with machine guns set up and the barricades across the bridge, Attlee was depressed.
"Oh my God, Somerville sent such a document...... "He clutched the document, not knowing whether to agree or reject.
If he refuses, he will keep the integrity of England, and at least get a good sympathy score in the future trial.
However, if Somerville's request was rejected, Britain would delay the process of reconstruction, countless people would starve to death in the summer, and national unrest would be inevitable.
Of course, if he agreed, it appeared that Britain would be given an immediate chance to resume production, and the pressure on the whole country would be relieved.
The people will have jobs, the government will have precious stability, and the only thing that is a little regrettable is that the arms and weapons of the Germans will become more abundant with the help of the British.
Sometimes that's how things are, and there's no perfect choice. While saving oneself, it will also be accompanied by embarrassing enemy behavior.
"If one day, I am tried and found guilty...... The day I get hanged, someone will always cry for me, right? Attlee muttered a question, then closed his eyes.
His hand involuntarily touched the steel seal on the desk in front of him, and with a strong force, it clasped into the corner of the document.
Because of the force, the steel bar almost smashed through the paper used for the document. Attlee did all this with his eyes closed, and it was obvious that he was reluctant.
The tangled British Prime Minister finally chose to give in, and once an animal like a human chooses a direction, it will go on by inertia.
It seems difficult to compromise one step, but when a compromise is made, it becomes quite easy to compromise step by step.
By the time Attlee opened his eyes, he had already made a difficult choice. So he picked up the pen in front of him and wrote his name.
The British prime minister finally agreed to Somerville's plan and decided to use the method of producing weapons and ammunition for Germany to inject the driving force of recovery into his country.
The good news for Attlee is that his cabinet is a puppet cabinet, and most people are anti-war wall-riders.
When the Germans were strong, they chose cooperation as a means to save their lives or to protect their country. It is basically impossible for them to reject such a resolution.
Because of this, the report was quickly adopted by the cabinet, and in fact it took only one day.
With the Prime Minister and the Minister of the Navy taking the lead, there is absolutely no reason for everyone to refuse. Soon a British envoy arrived in Germany and put forward the idea of the British side.
According to the British side's idea, the scope of cooperation between the two sides was quite huge: Britain was willing to help Germany build its navy, provide repair and maintenance services for warships, produce qualified large-caliber artillery shells, and so on.
This includes the spare barrel of the 381 mm caliber gun, the shells of the 356 and the 381 mm caliber gun, and it is almost everything.
In terms of manufacturing, Britain was even willing to provide Germany with engines, automobiles and small naval vessels. Including torpedo boats and submarines, it was an eye-opener for the Germans.
As long as Germany is willing to provide the corresponding ore, and is willing to buy wheat and other grains. Even the British were willing to use these things to pay their war reparations......
Deputy Minister Speer, who heard the news, even thought that the British were really crazy - even if the British dared to produce these things, he would not dare to hand them over to the British to produce.
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The dragon spirit is sorting out his thoughts and preparing for a new round of outbreaks, and today's update is because the dragon spirit forgot to set the update time, so let's update it together, I'm really sorry.