Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 303: Military parade (3)

Laval is a somewhat self-contradictory appeaser, but he is indeed a good friend of Germany today. There is no second person in the French government who can replace the prime minister.

During this time, he has been promoting the idea of ​​"Germany and France co-prosperity, and Europe as one", which is completely a French version of Wang Zhaoming. What's more interesting is that these arguments of his have won a large number of supporters in the French government and people, and even won the approval of many ordinary French people.

This time, as a 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 Laval really flattered.

The German respect for him personally satisfies the Frenchman’s vanity. In the past few days, Laval’s favor with Germany has increased day by day. If he originally chose to favor Germany for political purposes, now His closeness to Germany comes from the heart.

Unlike Petain’s pretending to be ill, Prime Minister Chamberlain is really out of health. Although antibiotics helped him get rid of the torture of postoperative complications, he is still in his seventies. He had a gastric cancer resection a few months ago. It severely damaged his vitality, and suddenly fell ill again a week ago, and his body can no longer withstand the bumps of a long journey.

Xu Jun still needs the prime minister to stay on the job for a year or two, so he actively asks the prime minister to recover from illness. You don't need to come in person this time. You only need to send a full-power envoy instead. Anyway, the meaning is almost there.

Chamberlain is a veteran British politician. He knows how to retaliate, so he sent the new British Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Frederick Lindley Wood as his personal representative and the representative of the British Empire’s cabinet to participate in this Berlin New year's parade held.

To say that this Mr. Wood may not be familiar to everyone. It seems that his title is more famous. Viscount Halifax, a famous British appeaser, was known as the chief mate on Chamberlain’s appeasement boat before the war. A true legend.

The life experience of this person is indeed legendary. Edward Lindley Wood is the fourth son of Charles Lidley Wood, the second-generation Viscount of Halifax. Charles Wood is the leader of the Union of Churches in England. Wood's maternal grandfather is the 11th Earl of Devonshire, and his great-grandfather is Earl Charles Gray, who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It is also a prominent branch of the British aristocracy.

But little Edward’s childhood was not very happy. Perhaps it was a problem during embryonic development. He was born without a left hand, only a shrunken left arm. I don’t know whether to say luck or misfortune. In the short span of five years from the age of four to nine, Edward Wood’s three older brothers died one after another. In the end, only one boy in the family was left to inherit Charles Wood’s title. And seats in the House of Lords.

So the nine-year-old boy began to be trained as a true heir to the nobility. Although he did not have a left arm, he still worked hard to learn how to ride horses and hunt and shoot.

When he was thirteen years old, he was sent to Eton College like other noble heirs, and then went to Oxford University to study, where he became a schoolmaster and even Oxford All Souls College Researcher, this was quite a remarkable academic achievement at the time.

After the outbreak of World War I, he served as a commander in the famous Queen's direct Yorkshire Dragoon regiment, and spent almost a year on the Western Front. After the war, he served as Churchill’s secretary of colonial issues for a period of time. This was the first time he had dealt with Fatty Qiu. As a result, he was almost mad at the latter's rude behavior.

Mr. Wood has always been a stubborn Conservative Party member, so when the Conservative Party came back to power, the mixed senior member Edward Wood was appointed Governor of India and was named Lord Owen by George V.

That is to say, during his tenure as governor, the "Non-violent and non-cooperative movement" broke out in India. As a result, the Lord was forced to sign the famous "Gandhi-Owen Pact" with Gandhi, and the "Non-violent and non-cooperative movement" followed termination.

In fact, in the second month after signing the contract, the governor returned to China after his term of office ended. The next Governor of India did not intend to continue to implement the convention, so the convention soon became a waste of paper, and Mr. Gandhi was arrested again Go to jail, continue to eat his curry rice.

After returning to the United Kingdom, Edward Wood served as the president of Oxford University for a term, and also served as the secretary of state for a while. After the death of his father, Viscount Halifax, he inherited his father’s viscountry and the United Kingdom. House seat, became a glorious member of the House of Lords.

He is still a stubborn Conservative Party, convinced that Britain is not ready to participate in a war, but at the same time opposes any proposal to re-arm.

He then became the Minister of Foreign Affairs 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.

Since Churchill came to power, Viscount Halifax still served as Minister of Foreign Affairs for a few months. During that time, he and Fatty Qiu didn’t get along well. He has been pioneering Chamberlain’s policies, and both sides felt that each other Quite abominable. It happened that the sudden death of the British ambassador to the United States in December 1940 gave Churchill an excellent opportunity. He kicked the viscount out of the British Isles and sent him to the United States as an ambassador.

Nowadays, Viscount Halifax is still in the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs because of a messy flap of the wings of a certain apostle of God.

At this time, the viscount really didn't know whether he should be happy or regretful. All his previous predictions became reality. The German army swept through most of Europe like a storm. The British Empire led by Churchill was defeated in the war~IndoMTL. com~ As a result, Fatty Yau was imprisoned in the Tower of London, and Chamberlain returned to the post of prime minister.

But the most important thing for him is that the Conservative Party still holds the power of the cabinet. The Liberal Party and the Labor Party, which were very happy before, are now suppressed by both the UK and Germany. At least for a few years, the decision will not be reversed. Physical.

In history, the friendship he established with Washington when he was the ambassador of the United States made him wash away the marks of appeasement. Judging from the current historical development, the identity of this German collaborator may not even want to leave him forever. Cleared.

However, Mr. Edward Wood, who has gone through the vicissitudes of life, no longer cares what others will think. He only knows that Britain must now gain the trust of Germany, because only by cooperating with Germany can Britain be able to maintain the colonization of the British Empire. The system restores the vitality damaged by the war.

To put it bluntly, if the United Kingdom does not want to be eliminated as a third-rate country, it can only cling to this thigh.

This time, he was not here alone. The Minister of Foreign Affairs brought a large delegation. There were even two members of the royal family among the entourage, but they were using personal identities and were not part of national official duties. Therefore, it needs to be handled low-key for the time being to avoid excessive interpretation between the British government and the opposition.

As for the Kingdom of Italy, Marshal Badoglio is so physically strong, he can’t find any reason to be absent. In fact, he is quite happy to take the team to Germany for a round, by the way Brush his presence on the international stage. Anyway, as long as Italy has sufficient reserves of olive oil and wheat, the situation will be stable and messed up.

PS: The second chapter was sent, and I felt my blood pressure was a little high, and some couldn't hold on, so I went to rest.

Thank you for your support, the author will continue to work hard.