Chapter 799: The Death of Churchill VI
On the afternoon of January 10, the area around King Charles Street, Whitehall Street and Downing Street seemed to have become a battlefield of street fighting!
Troops loyal to the British wartime cabinet set up barricades and barricades at the entrances to several important streets, and also erected machine guns and snipers on tall buildings. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Stopped by these defenses and gunmen were not the legendary murderous Nazis armed to the teeth, but the citizens of London who came to protest, countless of them, who filled all the surrounding streets, as if there were millions!
The marchers seemed to be dominated by the Bolshevik Party, who sang the majestic "Internationale" near the center of power in Britain, and occasionally chanted slogans such as "Bread, milk" and "Down with Churchill's dictatorship."
The sound of songs and slogans shook the earth, pierced through the thick reinforced concrete, and reached the fort where Churchill was.
In the conference room, an emergency meeting was being held at this time, and there were not only some cabinet members, but also some military generals, and even the commander of the US forces in London, General Eisenhower.
All with one expression - dumbfounded!
How can a revolution start a revolution if you are good? And this revolution seems to be manipulated by the Soviet Union behind the scenes, what does this Stalin want to do? Do you want to take advantage of the fact that the British Empire is standing on the edge of the cliff to push it again, so that Britain can be completely finished?
What good did this do for the USSR? Could it be that Stalin still fantasized about the establishment of a Soviet republic in Britain? He thought that the German Nazis who had landed were all muddy and papery?
There was a rush of footsteps, and then a dejected Foreign Secretary Aiden walked in.
As soon as he entered, he said to Churchill: "Mr. Prime Minister, President Roosevelt said that the affairs of London are most likely irrelevant to the Soviet Union......
"Nothing to do with the USSR? Who's singing "The Internationale" outside, is it the German Nazis? Churchill asked in a hoarse voice.
"This ......," Aiden said, shaking his head, "the President of the United States is saying that he will put pressure on the Soviet Union, but the United States cannot unreservedly support our wartime cabinet." ”
The British ambassador to the United States, Viscount Halifax, had just visited the White House, hoping that Roosevelt would put pressure on Stalin to instruct the British Bolshevik Party to stop the confrontation.
At the same time, Viscount Halifax also hoped that the US government could "unreservedly" support the British wartime cabinet -- this "unreserved" meaning was actually to use the "rice bucket riflemen" stationed in London to help the British wartime cabinet suppress!
Because the British wartime cabinet is now losing control of the army! The London Volunteers have dug in, many have sided with the protesters, the London County Division has also gotten out of control, and the soldiers refuse to shoot in suppression!
The Royal Guards had an ambiguous attitude, just deployed at Buckingham Palace, and refused to help Qiu Fatzi quell the chaos.
As for the other units stationed in London, with the exception of a small part, they were also shaken. Commanders of many units have indicated that a parliamentary resolution is needed before they can carry out the order of repression.
But in such a situation, how is it possible for the parliament to pass a resolution on repression? It's almost as good as passing a motion of no confidence in the wartime cabinet!
Therefore, Churchill wanted to mobilize the American troops in London to help maintain order, but Roosevelt did not dare to give such an order - the American troops went to Europe to fight the Nazis, not to suppress the British people!
There is now a great deal of controversy in the United States about the Roosevelt administration's policy of intervening in the war in Europe, and many people believe that this is a great mistake that has put the United States, which could have stayed out of it, facing a great crisis. And with Britain on the verge of defeat, many politicians who support intervention in Europe are busy shirking responsibility. They could not admit that the policy of intervention was wrong, because the United States needed to continue to assist the Soviet Union, and they had to put all the blame on the British Churchill government.
What kind of Churchill government is a cut, the Churchill government is corrupt, the Churchill government is incompetent, the Churchill government has lost the hearts and minds, and the Churchill government stubbornly adheres to the colonialist policy and so on.
In short, from the end of 1942, Churchill's image in the United States plummeted, and he was no longer an anti-fascist, anti-Nazi hero, nor a staunch guardian of European democracy, but began to become a reactionary, stubborn, greedy, incompetent and undesirable political figure!
Under these circumstances, Roosevelt certainly did not dare to give instructions to the British troops stationed in the United States to suppress the British people, which would turn Roosevelt into an accomplice of Churchill, a villain who had betrayed the trust and assistance of the United States.
In the face of the crisis facing the Churchill regime, Roosevelt was not only able to stand up, but also to show the right political stance.
"Also...... Foreign Secretary Eden said in a rambling "addition, President Roosevelt wanted us to negotiate with the opposition to negotiate a negotiated solution to the current crisis, and at the same time to give a broader base to the wartime cabinet." ”
"Negotiations?" Churchill roared angrily, "This damn cripple, is he a third-rate country in Latin America with Britain?" Does he think I'm a third-rate adjudicator who has to rely on the support of the United States to have power? ”
Speaking of this, he suddenly turned his head and glared at Eisenhower, who was at a loss, and said: "General, now you have two choices, either immediately send troops to arrest all the troublesome Bolsheviks, or just take your men and leave!" Get out of here! ”
Hearing Churchill's words, Eisenhower's face changed suddenly. This is how he understood Churchill's remarks -- If the United States did not help Churchill suppress it, then Churchill would have surrendered to the Germans as a traitor!
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"Mr. President, General Eisenhower's urgent telegram!"
In the Oval Office of the White House meeting, an eerie emergency meeting was also being held. Admiral Marshall, who had come to the meeting, took a copy of the telegram from one of his adjutants, and his face changed dramatically when he read it.
"He said that Churchill asked the US military to help him suppress the protests launched by the Bolsheviks, otherwise the Churchill government would surrender to Germany!"
"Damn fat!" Roosevelt's face was gloomy, and after scolding in a low voice, he asked coldly: "Gentlemen, what should we do?" ”
"It can't help the Churchill government to suppress the people," Hopkins said immediately, "and that will meet with widespread opposition!" And Churchill turned to us for help, indicating that he was losing the support of the British army. If our expeditionary force sends troops to suppress it, then it will put the US military in opposition to all the British who oppose the Churchill regime, including part of the British army! We...... There is a good chance of getting involved in the civil war in England! ”
The U.S. military helped the European people resist the Nazi and fascist tyranny, not to help Churchill fight the civil war. Moreover, once Britain fell into a civil war, it was naturally powerless to resist the German invasion, and the Battle of Britain was bound to fail miserably!
So now the U.S. government needs to think about how to get out of the UK, not the other way around.
"Should our troops be withdrawn from London at once?" Roosevelt asked hesitantly.
"We have to get out and retreat to some port in the north of Scotland." "The Battle of Britain has been lost," Hopkins said, "and there is no need for hundreds of thousands of Americans to be buried for the fall of Britain." ”
"Is that just like that, doing nothing, handing over England to the Germans?" President Roosevelt seemed to be reluctant.
"No," Hopkins shook his head, "there are actually things we can do." Like what...... It is possible to leave a part of the weapons of the US troops in London and give them to the British who need them! ”
"The British who need them?" Roosevelt tilted his head, "Who is it?" ”
Hopkins shrugged, "It doesn't matter who it is, what matters is whether the person who gets these weapons can tear Britain apart!" ”
"Falling apart?"
"Yes!" Hopkins nodded heavily, "Mr. President, Britain is a big country, second only to the United States, Germany and the Soviet Union in industrial strength, and in many cutting-edge technology fields, Britain is stronger than us and Germany!" If Germany had received a complete and stable Britain, it would have been possible for it to surpass ours in industrial production and form a considerable technological lead! ”
Hopkins is right that Britain is a world leader in electronics, aviation, shipbuilding and other fields. Among them, the radar technology in the field of electronics is ahead of Germany and the United States, the piston and jet aircraft engines in the aviation industry are different from those of Germany, and the shipbuilding industry, especially in the technology of surface ship construction, is still ahead of Germany.
If Germany gets a complete Britain, it will soon be able to match the United States in industrial output and crush the United States in cutting-edge technology.
Then the United States will be in big trouble!
The American president sighed softly, "Harry, you go to see the Soviet ambassador Livinov, go immediately!" ”
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"Anti-g-life! Maisky and Pollit are anti-gimmick, Nazis, not Bolsheviks! ”
In the Kremlin, when an urgent telegram from the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Litvinov, was delivered to Stalin's office, the great leader of GCISM was gritting his teeth and scolding the leader of the British Bolshevik Party and the Soviet ambassador to Britain.
If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't be caught, Maisky and Pollit would probably have been sentenced to the highest security measures by now!
"I asked them to start an armed uprising when Churchill's wartime cabinet collapsed or surrendered to Germany, how could they start it in advance? The British are still resisting, fighting with the Germans at Hartleshop and Middlesbrough, why did they riot in London? ”
Stalin walked briskly around his office, talking as he went, and the more he talked, the more annoyed he became, and in a fit of anger threw his pipe against the wall. Still, he noticed that Molotov had just received a copy of the telegram from a staff member and was now looking at it carefully.
"Comrade Molotov!" Stalin asked, "Is it the protest of the Americans?" ”
Molotov shook his head and said: "No, not a protest from the Americans, but a proposal ......"
"What advice?"
"The Americans suggested that the British Bolshevik Party should take on the great responsibility of leading the British War against Germany!" (To be continued.) )