Chapter 206: League of Nations

There are so many things worth saying about Huaxia, which also opens a new door for Jessica, who is full of curiosity and interest in Huaxia, but because of the international situation, it is estimated that she will not have the opportunity to go there in a short time.

Ernst and Jessica spent the whole afternoon in the street full of Chinese shops, and by the evening Ernst had returned to the Royal Palace in Prague, where he had changed from Jessica to Maria. Christmas nights in Prague are beautiful, and if you look down from the hills, the rivers that separate Bhular are lit up with colourful stars.

Christmas Eve is the busiest time of life, when children run through the streets after their free time. In order to ensure the safety of children, the Prague Cabinet issued a temporary notice prohibiting all public vehicles, and it can be said that no vehicles including the royal family can be on the road on this night.

Yachts are naturally not within the limit, many rich children in Prague are the best opportunity to show off at this time, more than a dozen yachts arrogantly paddling through the water to attract the attention of a large number of girls on both sides of the strait.

Everyone is idle, but the Prague police system, including the Prague Police Chief, is busy and must be ready to prevent any possible tragedy. More police officers began to patrol the streets, and only a third of the officers in the office were on leave.

"If I could, I would have chosen the lawyer profession instead of the police ......"

"Man, a lawyer doesn't have a triple salary and no steady income, and if you were just a lawyer, you'd never have the life you have now."

The police in the Principality of the Czech Republic are definitely a high-income group, and the Principality of the Czech Republic is a human rights society, and the salaries of all occupations linked to life are often generally high. A police officer's weekly salary can be more than double that of the rest of the class, which means that if you're looking for a hitman in Prague, his appearance fee will be more than double that of other places.

The Czech principality is also very intact in terms of forest resources, and the surroundings of Prague are almost still in a pristine state, except for the railways and the national highways to the outside world. So occasionally you can even see bears in the suburbs, and the combination of technology and rawness gives Prague its own charm.

Ernst was not clear about the conversation between the two policemen in the police station, standing at the window of the tallest building in the palace, looking at the red roofs of Prague and the green vegetation outside the distant suburbs, a fresh breeze came in the wind.

"There's a nice movie coming out tonight, are you interested?"

Maria, who was reading a book behind Ernst, was obviously a little bored, but her proposal Ernst didn't reply easily, that good movie Ernst naturally knew, but it was released by Jessica's film company, and the content was also related to family, Ernst didn't want to make trouble for himself.

"There are too many people outside tonight, safety is a big issue, and you are pregnant, it is safer to stay in the palace more."

Although Maria found Ernst a little weird, it was true, so Maria no longer insisted on reading her science fiction novels, and from time to time she looked at Ernst standing at the window. The passing of Christmas marks the end of 1919 and the arrival of a new year. Looking back at the whole of 1919, perhaps the biggest event was the Paris peace talks, which took nearly six months before the preliminary outcome of the world war was decided.

Perhaps the world war was really impressive, and at the end of 1919, Britain, the United States, and France proposed it, and the world began to negotiate the reduction of armaments, the pacification of international disputes, the improvement of the living standards of citizens, and the strengthening of trade among countries. It can be said that this is a rudimentary version of the United Nations, except that it was built on the basis of tens of thousands of sorrows.

The world war led to the emergence of the League of Nations, but it may also be an opportunity in the eyes of some well-intentioned people, such as Germany, Japan, and ...... Czech principality. The headquarters of the League of Nations was located in Geneva, and governments were actively involved in it, and the Czech principality was even represented by Prime Minister Masséna.

The main organs of the League of Nations are the General Assembly, the Council, the Secretariat, and the International Tribunal and the International Labour Office. The "Covenant" stipulates that the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan are permanent members, and there are four non-permanent members.

Everything was good, but it didn't work out as expected. Although the United States was one of the initiators, it did not participate because it failed to compete with Britain and France for leadership, so the end result was only four permanent members. The Czech principality has the strength to compete, but after all, he is a defeated country, and even if he has the opportunity, he can only wait a few years.

The League of Nations, which was largely controlled by Britain and France, was tasked with drafting disarmament plans, examining the annual reports submitted by the countries under the mandate, safeguarding the territorial integrity of Member States, submitting proposals to the General Assembly for the settlement of international disputes, and imposing economic and military sanctions against aggressors.

The Soviet Union was not a member of the League of Nations, so he had no say in the territorial disputes of the Czech principality. And for the application of the Russian Empire, Britain and France were in a dilemma. The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, in contrast, Britain and France naturally favored the Russian Empire, but behind the Russian Empire was the Czech Principality, and Britain and France resolutely resisted the rise of the Czech Principality.

This is not the only thing that has gone wrong for the League of Nations, but it is also worth mentioning the reduction of the armed forces and the proposal for world peace. Although the League of Nations was the first attempt by States to establish an international body for the prevention of armed conflict and the strengthening of general peace and security, it was too difficult to play a role in maintaining peace in practice.

The "Covenant" stipulated that the German colonies should be ruled by a mandate by the League of Nations, which in fact amounted to the colonial rule of Britain, France, Japan, and other countries, and its role was only to help the imperialists to redivide their spheres of influence and consolidate the post-war imperialist system.

Every country has its own ideas and interests, and now Britain and France want to control their interests in their own hands, which other countries will never allow. In particular, the League of Nations is not dominated by the United States like the United Nations, and perhaps the most important thing the League of Nations does every day is a war of words.

If the Czech Duchy had not had its own purpose, it would have probably withdrawn from such an international organization that did not have much effect. Comparatively speaking, it is not as important as the Red Cross, which has some practical role.

"Austria applied to the League of Nations, in which they stated that the Czech Duchy was an inherent territory of the Republic of Austria and hoped that the League of Nations would help them to recover their territory."

Asseena said this as a joke, and it was indeed a bit funny, Ernst shook his head and said bluntly: "We can also declare Austria our territory, knowing that the Habsburgs have ruled that land for a hundred years, and they want the Czech principality we can give it, but only if we recognize me as the king of Austria-the Czech kingdom." ”

Ernst's request was not to be agreed to by Austria, and that would not be the annexation of the Czech Republic by Austria, but the annexation of Austria by the Czechs, which Masséna found interesting, even made this clear at a Geneva conference. It was a pity that Ernst was not there at the time, otherwise he would have been able to see the face of the Austrian representative as if he had swallowed a fly.

Britain and France naturally wanted Austria to annex the Czech principality, but isn't it a fool's dream for a small toad in Austria to want to swallow a big fish? And now the counterattack of the Czech principality has made the British and French representatives directly shut up, and they have nothing to say and even want to break away from the struggle between the two countries.

I have to say that Burrell is actually a very capable person, and he, who was originally just a buffer, really sat in his position, and even united more than a dozen senior government officials to wait for the opportunity to compete for the position of president of Austria, which was beyond most people's expectations.

What most people expected? That's right, this does not include Ernst, who has long been concerned about Burrell, the former head of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Palace. It is estimated that he has been preparing for this day for a long time, as the saying goes, victory is only given to those who are prepared, and now Austria can be called a very few opponents of Burrell except the current president, once the current president steps down, Burrell has a great chance of taking the throne.

Ernst was not worried about this, because Burrell's flaw was that he did not pay much attention to military affairs, and he did not attach much importance to military affairs. He mistakenly believed that there would be a hundred years of peace after the world war, and he felt that the world had almost stabilized, and that what was needed now was to have more resources and more support in the League of Nations.

If it hadn't been for World War II, things might have really turned out to be what he imagined. The Czech principality, under pressure from Britain and France, did not dare to use force against the Republic of Austria, and could only watch as the Republic of Austria slowly grew, and finally re-established the Austro-Hungarian Republic with the support of Britain and France.

But that was just a fantasy, and no one would have thought that it would take just a dozen years for Germany to recover and become stronger. No one would have thought that a small fascist party would be able to control all the power of the Kingdom of Italy, and no one would have thought that Japan would have such ambition and boldness to challenge the whole of East Asia.

Too many can't think of the outbreak of World War II, and that was only the previous life, and now there is a destabilizing factor, the Czech principality. And the military strength of the Czech principality was no weaker than that of Germany in World War I, at least in the army.

Ernst hadn't figured out how to fight in World War II, and it was a real headache to stand in line, at least he resisted fascism a little, but he couldn't stand on the opposite side of Germany either. Because of the Soviet Union, because of Austria-Hungary, because of Ernst's Germanic Empire conception.