Battle of the Third Reich

Vol 6 Chapter 313: Parade (3)

Laval is a appeasementist with some self-contradictory personality, but he is indeed a good friend of Germany today, and there is no second person in the French government who can replace this prime minister.

During this time, he has been preaching the view that "Germany, France and France prosper together, and Europe as a whole" is a French version of Wang Zhaoming. What is more interesting is that his arguments have won a large number of supporters in the French government and the public, and even won the approval of many French ordinary people.

This time, as the representative of the French Republic, he received the highest level of hospitality from Germany. Even if Petain arrived, it was nothing more than that, which made Raval really flattered.

Germany’s respect for him personally satisfies the French man’s vanity. In recent days, Raval’s favor for Germany has increased day by day. If he originally said that he chose to lean towards Germany for political purposes, then now he is more interested in Germany. The intimacy of is completely from the heart.

Unlike Peitang's pretense, Prime Minister Chamberlain is really not good. Although antibiotics let him get rid of the complications of postoperative complications, he is a 70-year-old man after all. The gastric cancer surgery a few months ago was seriously damaged. His vitality suddenly fell ill again a week ago, and his body could not stand the bumps of a long journey.

Xu Jun also needs the prime minister to persist in his post for a year or two, so he voluntarily asked the prime minister to calm down and recuperate. Instead of coming in person this time, he only needs to send a plenipotentiary envoy to replace it. Anyway, the meaning is almost there.

Chamberlain is a veteran British politician, he knows how to vote for Lee, so he sent the new British Foreign Secretary Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, as himself and as a representative of the British Empire Cabinet, to participate in this New Year in Berlin The military parade.

To say that Mr. Wood may not be familiar to everyone, it seems that his title is more famous. Viscount Halifax, a famous British appeasement, was known as the first officer of Chamberlain Appeasement before the war, a true legend character.

This life experience can indeed be called the word legend. Edward Lindley Wood is the fourth son of Charles Lidley Wood, the second generation Viscount Halifax. Charles Wood is the leader of the British Church Union. Wood’s grandfather is the eleventh generation Earl of Devonshire. His great-grandfather was Earl Charles Gray who served as the British prime minister. It is also a prominent branch in the British aristocracy.

But Edward's childhood was not very happy. Perhaps it was a problem that occurred during embryonic development. He was born with no left hand, only a stretched left arm. I don’t know if I should say luck or misfortune. In the five-year period between Edward Wood’s four and nine years old, his three elder brothers died in succession. In the end, only one boy remained in the family to inherit the title of Charles Wood. And the seat of the British House of Lords.

So the nine-year-old boy began to be trained as a true heir to the nobility. Although he didn't have a left arm, he still tried to learn horse riding and hunting.

At the age of thirteen, he was sent to Eaton College like the heirs of other nobles, and then went to study at Oxford University, where he became a school bully, and even became a researcher at Oxford All Souls College. This was quite an academic achievement at the time.

After the outbreak of World War I, he served as a commander in the famous Queen's Dragon Cavalry Regiment directly under the Queen, and spent almost a year on the Western Front. After the war, he served as Churchill's colonial secretary for a period of time. This was his first time dealing with Churchill, and he was almost mad by the latter's rude behavior.

Mr. Wood has always been a stubborn member of the Conservative Party. When the Conservative Party regained power, the fully qualified Edward Wood Member was appointed Governor of India and was named Lord Irving by George V.

That is, during his term as governor, the "non-violent non-cooperative movement" broke out in India. As a result, the Lord was forced to sign the famous "Gandhi-Owen Convention" with Gandhi, and the "non-violent non-cooperative movement" also ended.

In fact, the second month after signing the contract, the governor returned to his country, and the next Indian governor was not prepared to continue to implement the convention, so the convention quickly became waste paper, and Mr. Gandhi was arrested and imprisoned again. Continue to nibble his curry rice.

After returning to the United Kingdom, Edward Wood served as the principal of Oxford University and the Secretary of State for a while. After the death of his father, the old Viscount Halifax, he inherited his father’s Viscount and the seat of the British House of Lords. Became a glorious member of the House of Lords.

He is still a stubborn Conservative Party, firmly convinced that the United Kingdom is not ready to participate in a war, but at the same time opposed to any proposal to reorganize armaments.

He then became the foreign minister of Chamberlain's cabinet and fully supported Chamberlain's appeasement policy. It seems that his experience in India had a great influence on his thinking.

After Churchill came to power, the Viscount Halifax still served as a foreign minister for a few months. During that time, he and the Fatty Chu did not get along well. He had been developing for Chamberlain’s policies, and both sides felt that the other side was quite abominable. of. It happened that the British ambassador to the United States suddenly died in December, giving Churchill an excellent opportunity. He kicked the Viscount out of the British Isles and dispatched him to the United States as an ambassador.

Today, because of the chaotic wings of a certain God's apostle, Viscount Halifax is still in the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The Viscount really didn’t know if he was happy or regretful. His previous predictions all turned into reality. The Germans swept through most of Europe like a storm. The British Empire led by Churchill suffered a defeat in the war. As a result, Fatty Chu was shut down. Entering the Tower of London, Chamberlain returned to the post of prime minister.

But the most important thing for him is that the Conservative Party still holds the cabinet authority. The Liberal Party and the Labor Party, which had jumped before, are now being suppressed by the United Kingdom and Germany. At least for a few years, the decision cannot be overturned. .

The friendship he established with Washington in the history of the United States as an ambassador has made him wash away the mark of appeasement. It is not enough from the perspective of current historical progress. I am afraid that the identity of this German collaborator may not be cleared in his life.

However, Mr. Edward Wood, who has experienced vicissitudes, no longer cares what other people will think. He only knows that Britain must now gain the trust of Germany, because only by cooperating with Germany can Britain continue to maintain the colonial system of the British Empire. Restore the vitality damaged by the war.

To put it bluntly, if Britain does not want to be eliminated as a third-rate country, it can only hug the thigh in front of it.

This time it was not him who came to observe the ceremony alone. The Foreign Secretary brought a large delegation, and there were even two royal members among the entourages, but they used their personal identities and did not belong to the state’s official duties, so they needed temporarily Low-key treatment to avoid excessive interpretation between the British government and opposition.

As for the Kingdom of Italy, Marshal Badoglio’s body is so delicious that he can’t find any reason for not being present. In fact, he is quite happy to take his team to Germany for a lap, and by the way, on the international stage Brush up on his sense of presence. Anyway, as long as there are enough reserves of olive oil and wheat in Italy, the situation will be a mess.

PS: The second chapter is sent, I feel that the blood pressure is a little high, and some can't hold on, so I went to rest.

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