Seeing that a border crisis was about to break out between Germany and Poland, the French could no longer sit still.

On August 3, 1935, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs personally went to Berlin and made a request to the German government to hold a peace conference.

At the same time, the French ambassador to Italy also contacted the Italian government, suggesting that the two sides of the incident should sit down at the conference table and negotiate peacefully, instead of using force that people do not want to see, and exchange the price of bloodshed for the final result.

Since the agreed time for the attack had not yet arrived, Germany and Italy also wanted to see what the French would decide, so they agreed to the French's request for peace talks.

As for Poland, in the face of French and Austrian demands, the Poles simply could not ignore them.

If it had lost the support of the European powers by ignoring the demands of France and Austria, Poland would have little chance of winning against Germany alone.

No matter how ambitious the Polish government may be, it cannot lose its mind because of its own ambitions. After careful consideration, the Poles also agreed to sit down at the negotiating table and resolve the issue peacefully.

However, there were disagreements on the location of the negotiations.

As the initiators of the peace talks, the French wanted to hold the peace talks in Paris. Paris is not only the stronghold of the French, but it is also far away from the disputed place, which is one of the more suitable locations.

But Germany and Poland all rejected the demands of the French. The Poles demanded that the venue for the peace talks be placed in Poland and that Polish sovereignty over the existing territory be respected.

Germany, on the other hand, did not demand that the venue of the peace talks be placed in German cities, but that the venue of the peace talks be placed in the capital of their allies, Rome, Italy.

On the site of the peace talks, the French were also reluctant to engage in too much stalemate. Eventually, the venue for the peace talks was determined in Rome, Italy, with the participation of Germany, Italy, France, the Austrian Empire, and Poland.

At a time when the British had no time to take care of anything else, the four countries of France, Germany, Italy and Austria were the most powerful and influential powers in Europe at present.

Therefore, this Rome Peace Conference also attracted the attention of a large number of Europeans. If the peace conference can properly resolve the contradictions in Europe in the near future, it will be a good thing for all Europeans.

On August 17, 1935, the Rome Peace Conference was officially held in Rome, the capital of Italy.

The meeting was of a relatively high standard, and the participants of both sides were key leaders of various countries.

The meeting was attended by the new Prime Minister of France, Pierre Reival. Since the last conflict between the French president and the prime minister, President Albert removed Prime Minister Edward from office and replaced Pierre Reival as French prime minister.

Pierre Reival is no stranger to the French cabinet either. Pierre Reival served in the French parliament back in World War I and has served as a member of the French cabinet on several occasions in recent years.

In the French cabinet, Pierre Reival is an official who is close to President Albert's ideology. In real history, Pierre Reival not only supported Marshal Petain to power, but also attended the premiership of Vichy France.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that Pierre Reival is a staunch Lord-Peace, and even does not have much recognition of the sense of national honor and national interests.

The fact that France sent such a staunch peacemaker to the meeting also proves the attitude of the French in this meeting, which is to pay a certain price for a long period of peace.

In addition to France, the members of the conference sent by several other countries are also well-known figures.

On the German side, the presence of the Prime Minister in person has already demonstrated Germany's attitude. The Italian side also attended the meeting with Mussolini, and there was still a high tacit understanding with the German side.

On the side of the Austrian Empire, the meeting was attended by the Imperial Crown Prince Otto.

After all, other countries have sent major leaders to participate, and the Austrian Empire, without sending a prime minister, is the only one left who can match these people's identities.

As for the Republic of Poland, who is sent is not so important.

The other participants in this conference were the Great Powers, and Poland, although it was a party to the country, was no longer so important.

Like Czechoslovakia at the Munich Conference, the Poles' greatest role at this conference was to prove to the outside world why the conference was held.

In this respect, Poland is still stronger than several other countries.

So far, at least, Poland has been one of the few that has been able to bring the four powers together for a peace conference. Looking at Europe as a whole, there are not many countries that can do this.

At the outset of the meeting, Germany and Italy expressed their extremely firm attitude. Unlike the attitude of Germany and Italy, the attitude of the French was more inclined to retreat, and the attitude of Austria was even more ambiguous, with no concrete idea at all.

The degree to which both sides are determined by their respective needs has largely determined the direction of the meeting.

The only thing at issue at the conference was the extent of the territory claimed by Germany. At the demands of the Germans, Poland was to cede not only the complete Polish corridor, but also to give control of Lithuania to Germany.

Needless to say, the Free City of Danzig would rejoin the arms of the German Empire.

In this way, a medium-sized country in Central Europe, which is not much inferior to Germany, will be reduced to a small country like Hungary.

To make matters worse, Poland would lose all access to the sea and would once again be caught between Germany and Russia.

Such a requirement is fatal for a country that is not strong in the first place. If France had agreed to Germany's demands, it would have been difficult for the Poles to maintain their independence between Germany and Russia, let alone the realization of the idea of Greater Poland.

The French naturally did not want to be given so much territory by Germany. This was far beyond what the French had previously stated to be about taking back the ceded territory of Germany.

The French said that Germany could re-establish ties with East Prussia and regain sovereignty over the Free City of Danzig.

But the rest of the Polish corridor, including Lithuania, should still belong to the Republic of Poland.

The proposal of the French retained a certain strength for the Poles, at least Poland could be considered a medium country, and not a fat meat to be slaughtered.

As a result, the negotiations have reached a stalemate.

But for Germany and Italy, it doesn't matter anymore. Regardless of the outcome of the negotiations, Germany always had only one goal, and that was the total annexation of Poland.

At present, the purpose of peace talks with France is more just to drag the French so that they can prepare for war.

This is why the Germans could have chosen the venue for the peace talks in Germany, but they abandoned it.

For the Germans, George V was critically ill, and the British were not destined to have much energy to manage the affairs of Europe.

Australasia is still being restrained by islanders, and it is impossible to reach out to Europe for a while.

This also means that the only real enemies of Germany and Italy at the moment are the French and Austrian empires. These two countries appear to be powerful, but they are actually restrictive.

Austria was caught between Germany and Italy in the north and south, and the French were also likely to face the risk of fighting on three fronts.

In this way, Germany, which only needs to face France and Austria, does not have as much combat pressure as imagined.

As long as the Spanish National Army can gain the upper hand in the Spanish Civil War, this two-on-two between the European powers will be an easy novice level for Germany to win.

On the other hand, news of the peace talks in Rome reached Arthur's ears.

By now, the situation in the world has changed more than half of history.

Instead of annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia, Germany set its primary expansion target on Poland.

As a result, Britain and France did not have sufficient awareness of Germany's insatiable appetite. In the French plan, they even simply thought that if the Germans were met at the present demands, they would at least buy peace for France for several years.

The question is, can extreme countries like Germany and Italy really be able to maintain peace for years?

If these two countries wanted peace, they would not have expanded their armies in the first place, constantly testing the final bottom line of Britain and France.

Britain and France made the wrong choice at the beginning, and now Britain and France can only bear the consequences of their own wrong choice.

As Arthur had expected, it took less than a month for the Roman peace talks to come to an end.

France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Poland signed the Rome Agreement, which officially ended the peace talks.

In Rome, French President Pierre Reival smiled and confidently said in an interview with Italian and European media: "We have adopted a more peaceful solution to the crisis in Germany and Poland, and now let us cheer and celebrate this hard-won peace!" ”

This sentence even made the front page headlines of the French media that day, and also caused the French people to celebrate and cheer.

President Albert was also complacent, believing that his own administrative philosophy was the most suitable for France at the moment, and the attitude of the masses in Paris proved his point.

All of a sudden, the media around the world reported on the peace brought about by the agreement.

But neither the countries nor the media realized that Germany, which had acquired the Free City of Danzig and the Polish Corridor through the Rome Agreement, had not been satisfied.

A large number of German troops were being mobilized, and their aim did not seem to be to occupy and control the Polish corridor that had just been acquired, but to move east into Warsaw and deep into Poland.

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