By the end of October, the United States had never passed a declaration of war, but China did not want to wait, and expressed its disappointment with the United States at the League of Nations, and then called on the League of Nations to send a delegation to the Philippines to assume the supervision of the Philippine referendum as soon as possible, so that Filipinos can smoothly carry out the referendum and join the big family of the international community as soon as possible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, the representative of the Chinese League of Nations officially conveyed the petition of the Philippine Provisional Government to the League of Nations, announcing that the Speaker of the Provisional Government, Cecio Osimina, had sent this petition in the name of the Interim President.

However, Britain and France vetoed China's proposal, the reason is very simple, the United States is absolutely unwilling to accept, they can give up the Philippines, but must be exchanged for other benefits, that is, to keep Hawaii, but the Chinese do not want to pay any commitments, so directly let the Philippines stand, how can this be accepted by the United States.

But if the United States does not accept it, China will promote it.

"If the League of Nations cannot intervene in Philippine affairs at this time, then it will also make the future Philippines abandon the League of Nations, and the League of Nations will not accept a legitimate Philippine government, and the Philippine government will not be able to accept the League of Nations. This is most detrimental to the League of Nations, to the international order, and to the results of victory after the European war. ”

The Chinese delegation lobbied France in Paris, and the French agreed that they were not a naval power before the war, and that their naval strength today is comparable to that of Italy, and that if the Japanese navy had not been disbanded by China, they would not even be as good as Japan.

Without a navy, it would be impossible to directly demonstrate its international influence, and the significance of the League of Nations to France is quite important, because this is the only stage where they can have a say in the world. The more countries join the League of Nations, the greater the influence of France, and if the Philippines joins the League of Nations, it is obvious that France will also influence the Philippines through the League of Nations.

So France began to hesitate, France is very important, the four permanent members of the League of Nations, Britain, France, Italy and China, Britain will never be at this time with the United States, they also expect China and the United States to go to war to sell arms and materials to China and the United States, and Italy is resolutely against the United States, the reason is very simple, Mussolini this funny guy is a full nationalist politician, the United States immigration bill can not only discriminate against China, but also discriminate against Italy, the quota of Italian immigrants can be far less than that of Northwest European countries, This discrimination was simply unacceptable to Mussolini, an arrogant poisoner who wanted to restore the glory of ancient Rome.

Among the four permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Italy firmly oppose the United States, and Britain firmly supports the United States, so although the French vote will not allow the League of Nations to pass the sanctions, it will bring great pressure to Britain and create an impression to the outside world that the British are blocking international justice.

But France cannot agree to sanction the United States, but it is still possible to agree to intervene in the Philippine referendum to make the Philippine referendum more legitimate, of course, this referendum still needs the consent of the United Kingdom, and the permanent members have a veto, exactly like the United Nations in later generations.

When China's bill was voted on for the second time, it was the only country that vetoed it, and then soon world public opinion began to criticize Britain, and everyone believed that since the vast majority of the Philippine government were Filipino officials, it meant that the Filipinos were capable of managing themselves, so they had the legal right to self-determination, and the League of Nations should protect their right to do so.

The fairer newspapers are also supportive, and they do not agree with China's actions, but they are more determined that the League of Nations should intervene, because only the intervention of the League of Nations can make the Philippines truly a puppet state controlled by China.

Seeing that there was more and more support for the intervention of the League of Nations, Britain, in order to finally take care of the attitude of the United States, proposed to convene a general meeting of the entire member countries to vote on whether to intervene in the Philippine referendum.

At this congress, the overwhelming majority of countries chose to support it, and only a very small number of countries with the closest ties with the United States chose to oppose it, such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Panama controlled by the United States in South America, and Mexico and other countries that dare not offend the United States.

And the British gave up voting this time, they abstained, apparently they just let the Americans see the voice of the world, telling the Americans that "it's not that my brother won't help you, but that the public is angry."

As a result, the League of Nations announced that it would send a monitoring mission to the Philippines to monitor the fair and impartial conduct of the referendum in the Philippines.

The United States announced a strong protest against this, vigorously criticized the League of Nations as just the plaything of a few big countries, ridiculed the incompetence and injustice of this organization, and sang praises to the United States for not joining this organization back then, saying that it is fortunate that the United States did not join such a dirty organization.

But nothing could change, and at the end of December, a delegation finally arrived in Manila.

The Philippine referendum has begun, and public voting will be held in major cities in the Philippines, and every polling place will allow the League of Nations Monitoring Mission to investigate and monitor at any time.

Filipinos are confident because they have been prepared for a long time and they are sure that they will succeed.

In the past few months, they have been prepared for a long time, publicizing the referendum issue all over the country, and even the voter registration has been done, any adult literate Filipino who has a complete tax record and has no illegal behavior has the right to vote, the first of which is very important, because all literate Filipinos are almost all students who have attended the schools established by the Americans, and there are very few ****** people who have always been at odds with the Philippine government, most of them are Christians, And these people, although they attended American schools, have always been staunch supporters.

The League of Nations endorsed the Philippine voter policy, they did not know much about the country, but believed that literacy was indeed the basis for ensuring that a citizen could make a reasonable choice, and that since the Filipinos had made such a decision, it would not hurt, and the League of Nations was only worried about China's interference.

So with the cooperation of China's compromise, the referendum was quickly carried out and completed within a month, and the results of the vote count showed that 80% of the votes were cast for the Philippines to be established, so the League of Nations declared the Philippine Independence valid, and at the same time allowed the Philippines as an independent country to join the League of Nations and become an ordinary member of the League of Nations.

Of course, the United States made a lot of nonsense about this, but it was completely useless, and the British abstained from voting, and they doomed the Americans to defeat on the Philippine issue.

But they still did not take military action, their shipyards increased their capacity to produce warships, and at the same time salvaged the sunken Hawaiian warships for repair, within a few months to repair at least a third of Hawaii's warships, as soon as possible to restore the United States naval strength, obviously until the navy is restored, they do not intend to fight a decisive battle with China.

Therefore, the United States has always maintained a state of no war or peace with China.

But can China accept this stalemate?

Apparently not! (To be continued.) )