The day after the meeting with Albert Einstein and Chaplin, a Rover car belonging to the British War Office picked up Hersmann and his adjutant Paulus from the Langham Hotel.

"Colonel Alexander, do you remember me?" Hersman said to a British colonel about his age in the passenger seat, "The last time we met was in Ambea, Tallinn. ”

Coming to the Langham Hotel to pick up Hersman was Harold. Colonel Alexander, head of the military delegation sent to Tallinn by the Allies. More than a decade later, Hersman had risen from lieutenant colonel to lieutenant general, while Alexander remained a colonel—a result of Britain's policy of small armies. Unless a large-scale war breaks out, it is difficult for officers in the British Army to be promoted. In contrast, there are many more opportunities for naval officers.

"Lieutenant General, we were not able to reach a consensus last time, and I hope that this time we can achieve some results."

Hersmann was in London on official business - meeting with Albert Einstein was only incidental, and his real mission was to meet with British Foreign Secretary Arthur Murphy. Henderson met to discuss the convening of an "international conference on disarmament."

"yes, I'm hoping to get some results out of that, too." Hersman nodded, smiled and said, "Our country has just reverted to compulsory military service, and there are some misunderstandings in the international community, and I hope that we can take the opportunity of convening an international disarmament conference to clarify them." ”

"That couldn't be better." Colonel Alexander's attitude was a little cold, and he seemed to be a little hostile, but he just coped with talking to Hersman.

Perhaps in the eyes of the British colonel, Lieutenant General Hersmann was now the axis of evil in the German military.

After more than a decade of working as a spy chief, Hersman gradually surfaced. He is now the third man in the German Army after the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the General Staff. Such a position was too unusual for a German officer who had never commanded a company and was not yet 40 years old.

So the British intelligence agencies and experts in German affairs immediately investigated and analyzed Hersmann, and then came to the conclusion that Lieutenant General Hersmann was the central figure of the German fascist bloc. Is it the confidant of the fascist leader General Schleicher, or one of the main culprits who tore up the Treaty of Versailles and promoted Germany's arms expansion!

Moreover, Lieutenant General Hersmann was also a thinker and theoretician of the German fascist warlord clique, and put forward the "currency war theory" as a pretext for expanding arms warfare and confronting the international community. Most of the people behind the recent anti-Jewish incidents in Germany are also behind this.

In conclusion, Lieutenant General Hersman was a figure of extreme danger to both the British Empire and the world order.

After a detailed and in-depth analysis of Lieutenant General Hersmann, the British studied the current German Chancellor Adolf. Hitler. According to Hitler, he visited Switzerland after being elected chancellor. Words and deeds and assurances during the meeting with French Foreign Minister Briand in Geneva. They believed that Hitler was in fact a pacifist and that his radical rhetoric during the election campaign could not be taken seriously.

At the meeting in Geneva, Hitler assured Briand that Germany would abide by the spirit of the Treaty of the Rhine Security and the Locarno Pact and recognize the existing western borders of Germany. At the same time, he also pledged to abide by the "non-war principle" of the Paris Convention and would not seek to change the status quo by German force.

At the same time, Hitler also privately promised Briand to reduce the scale of "Soviet-German cooperation" as much as possible and prevent a large flow of German advanced technology to the Soviet Union.

Considering the consistently bad relations between Hitler's Nazi Party and the German Bolshevik Party. The British considered Hitler to be an "anti-Bolshevik" whose persistence in Germany had a positive effect on the containment of Bolshevism.

But there are signs that Germany's democracy is currently under threat from the military. Moreover, the fascists in the German military were all pro-Soviet. They tried to use their alliance with the Soviet Union to undermine the Treaty of Versailles, and most likely to collude with the Soviet Union to eliminate Poland.

So Hitler and his Nazi Party were clearly the guarantor of democracy and peace in Europe......

……

In the meeting room of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Whitehall Street, England, as Hersman departed from the Langham Hotel, an unusually dull cabinet meeting had come to an end.

Now ruling in Britain is another ancestor of the European Virgin in history, the British Labour Party.

Unlike the Labour Party, which gradually rose to the next level, the current British Labour Party is still a party that really comes from the working class. The premiership was Ramsey, who came from the grassroots. Mcdonald. His father was a farm worker and his mother was a maid, and he was their illegitimate son, and later worked as a maid and biller. I went to night school at the university, but I didn't get a degree.

Foreign Secretary Arthur Murphy, who was about to meet with Hersman to discuss the "Conference on Disarmament." Henderson is the chairman of the British Labour Party, a caster-turned-foundry. Authentic worker politician.

But most of these British politicians, who had worked as servants and foundry workers, were regulars, and pursued the most traditional line of fiscal policy - they did not understand it themselves, and they all listened to the bad ideas of economic experts. Even in the Great Depression, it was important to maintain the balance of government payments as much as possible. They did not dare to use deficit spending as a means of stimulating the economy, nor did they want to stimulate exports by depreciating the pound sharply.

Unwilling to brush the pound, not to allow the overvalued pound to depreciate, and to pay out large amounts of unemployment benefits in order to maintain social stability, unemployment in Britain was worse than it was in history at this time and age. By 1931, 3.2 million people were living on welfare!

In this case, the British Labour government can only save money by cutting "unnecessary" government spending, such as cutting military spending and cutting the salaries of civil servants.

It is against this background that the International Conference on Disarmament is convened -- for the sake of world peace, Britain cannot be allowed to disarm alone, but the whole world must be brought together to disarm.

But Germany came to rearmament at this time! The army was expanded by 600,000 at once. It is also necessary to build an air force......

This was really a Labour Cabinet - given the position of the British Labour Party in this era, it would be impossible to think of going to war with Germany. As for the expansion of armaments and warfare like Germany, it is obviously unrealistic, because there is simply no money in the British treasury.

"Gentlemen, the representatives of the Germans are coming, and this is the end of today's meeting," said British Prime Minister MacDonald, with a heavy heart, "and the fiscal balance must be maintained...... The British people did not elect us to power in order to completely collapse the pound! ”

The British people were really unlucky, first met Winston Churchill, the chancellor of the exchequer, and now elected a group of unscrupulous servants and workers' politicians...... Or during the Great Depression!

"Chancellor, Negotiation with the Germans......" Foreign Secretary, who later won the 1934 Dynamite Prize, Arthur Anderson. Henderson frowned, "What if the Germans don't agree to control naval armaments?" ”

"Convince as much as you can," MacDonald shook his head, "they don't have any money right now, and it should be a heavy burden to expand so much at once." On the naval side, there shouldn't be much of a problem...... For us in Britain, as long as the Germans do not have a strong navy, we can basically rest easy. ”

It turned out that the British wanted to discuss naval arms control with Hersman - if Churchill had been in this room, he would have exploded. What kind of naval arms control are you talking about with the Germans now? Where did the Germans have any navy? What kind of control?

Isn't talking to them about naval arms control now recognizing the legitimacy of Germany's expansion of the army?

Moreover, the German Navy has no room for reduction at all, and there will be no further reduction, and negotiating naval arms control with Germany will only increase the strength of the German Navy, and it is impossible to reduce the German Navy, which already has no ships.

“35%。” The British Prime Minister stood up and was about to walk out when the number burst out of his teeth. "Up to 35%, the tonnage of their capital ships and aircraft carriers cannot exceed 35% of the British. That's our bottom line! ”

……

"What? What are you talking about, Mr. Foreign Secretary? ”

"Mr. Lieutenant General, I'm talking about the issue of controlling the armaments of the German Navy!" Arthur. Mr. Henderson met with Hersman in a cramped, small, teas-filled conference room with the smell of cigarettes and coffee.

"In Geneva, or somewhere else?" Hersman had no idea that the other side would suddenly raise this issue, and he had thought that the disarmament conference would be nothing more than a bargaining meeting.

"I hope we can talk in Geneva," said Arthur. Henderson said, "There is also a possibility that the Soviet delegation will be there at that time...... There would be the same negotiations between Britain and the Soviet Union, or the signing of a trilateral naval agreement between England, Germany and the Soviet Union. ”

"So what are the principles?" Hersmann paused, knowing that there was a historical Anglo-German Naval Agreement and an Anglo-Soviet Naval Agreement. Among them, the "Anglo-German Naval Agreement" allowed Germany to develop on a large scale and loosen its naval armaments.

Thinking of this, Hersmann asked again, "How many 10,000-ton capital ships and aircraft carriers can we have in Germany?" ”

"More on the specifics later," said the British Foreign Secretary, smoking a cigar, in thought, "and it will require the involvement of naval professionals, and only the general principles can be determined at present...... Germany's naval strength should not exceed 25% of that of the British. ”

25%？ Isn't it 35%?

Hersmann muttered in his heart, but did not argue with the other party, he just nodded and said: "Your Excellency Foreign Secretary, I will convey this message to Chancellor Hitler, in addition to controlling naval armaments, does the British side have any other requirements?" ”

"There are no other conditions, and specific matters can be discussed at the Conference on Disarmament. It is now just a matter of setting a place and time for the meeting...... I would like to convene this meeting in May of this year, in Geneva. ”

"Okay, no problem." Hersmann nodded and said with a smile, "I think Chancellor Hitler would be more than willing to attend the disarmament conference in person." (To be continued.) )