Chapter 98 Former Prime Minister Churchill

If nothing else, the Labor Party will give Churchill a surprise at the Potsdam Conference. Alan Wilson has no doubts about this, and this does not mean that if the Labor Party comes to power, the British Empire will be sold without even underwear left.

The relationship between the Labor Party and the Conservative Party is very similar to the relationship between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party in the United States. One is implicit and the other is direct, and they all do the same thing. Especially on the colonial issue, Attlee and Churchill only differ in details.

The changes in the attitudes of the two parties towards the extensive colonies of the British Empire are actually the same, a line of resolute maintenance, key support, limited persistence, partial abandonment, and full retreat.

In fact, except for British India, Attlee did not give up any colonies when he was in power. In the case of British India, it is really necessary to force the country beyond the national power of the United Kingdom, so it has no choice but to give up.

Moreover, the great disarmament in Britain in the 1950s actually took place after the Conservative Party regained power.

In the streets of London, Labor supporters chanted their support for Attlee's claims, "a high and rising standard of living, lifting all out of poverty, and an educational system that makes it possible for every boy and girl to develop their talents "

"Voting for the Labor Party is the beginning of the fall of the British Empire. Only Churchill can make Britain great again."

If Alan Wilson hears it in China, as a die-hard fan of the king, he will definitely punch the other party, plagiarizing blatantly, where is the gentleman's face?

It's a pity that he is not in the country, but accompanied Fultseva to count the remaining German fleets in major ports in Germany. He has adjusted his mentality and tried his best to complete his task.

"I thought you would be reluctant, after all, the German fleet is in the hands of you British." Fultseva was in a good mood, but coughing from time to time was a bit unpleasant.

"A skinny camel is bigger than a horse. A fleet of this size is still not in the eyes of the British Empire." Alan Wilson swollen his face and pretended to be fat, and said stubbornly, "As a continental country, the Soviet Union doesn't know anything yet. It’s called a century-old navy. Without twenty years, the Soviet Union would not be able to compete with Britain at sea.”

"That's right, it's hard to see." Fultseva covered her mouth with a chuckle and teased, "Then why did you listen to the Americans and give us the German fleet?"

The Americans will pay the price for this, Alan Wilson thought silently in his heart, took a deep look at Fultseva and walked away.

Although the Breston Forest system is a good help to stabilize hegemony, it also has certain limitations. Under this system, although the United States is the leader of capitalist countries, Britain and France are also capable of keeping the United States from going too far. He remembered that in the ten years from the 1960s to the 1970s, Britain, France and Germany took advantage of the fact that the United States was mired in the Vietnam War, and successively launched financial attacks on the United States.

The U.S. really insisted on the same thing in the West. After the dollar was tied to oil, it kidnapped the whole of Europe at the same time.

"This is the British-occupied area!" Alan Wilson, who had walked two steps, suddenly turned around and muttered, "What are you Soviet people looking like?"

Although Germany's commercial fleet has grown from 5 million before the war to 800,000 tons today, it is still a huge gain for the Soviet Union, a purely continental country. Who made the Soviet Union's shipping really stretched Woolen cloth.

It is only slightly stronger than the three defeated Germany and Italy, less than a fraction of Britain and the United States, and even worse than France, which threw its rifle away.

From Fultseva's cautious actions, Alan Wilson can also judge that the Soviet Union should attach great importance to this batch of German fleets to be handed over.

At the same time as the handover was taking place here, at the Potsdam Conference, the three countries of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union were still engaged in a series of confrontations. Questions about the border between Germany and Poland, as well as a part of East Prussia and the former Danzig Free Area that were not under the jurisdiction of the Soviet Union, were under the jurisdiction of the Polish government. Britain and the United States agree to establish diplomatic relations with the Provisional Government of Polish National Unity.

Britain and the United States also agreed to cede Königsberg and the surrounding area to the Soviet Union as punishment for Germany starting the war. In this way, through the Potsdam Conference, Germany's borders were officially changed to what people in later generations are familiar with.

Poland lost the original West Belarus and West Ukraine, which were incorporated into the territory of the Soviet Union.

With regard to the issue of German compensation, it was determined that "the Soviet Union's claim for compensation will be satisfied by confiscating assets in the Soviet-occupied areas of Germany and corresponding German foreign investment." In addition, the Soviet Union can also get 10% free of charge and 15% paid in goods from the industrial facilities demolished in the Western occupied areas as compensation.

In other words, the British-occupied area could not escape the treatment of being drawn blood by the Soviet Union. The British delegation stated that although the Soviet Union had agreed to Poland's proposal, the Polish government-in-exile must return to Poland and fairly participate in Poland's post-war reconstruction on the basis of democracy.

This is a black-box operation. Alan Wilson and Fultseva have already made a proposal. Britain uses reasonable and legal excuses to allow the Polish government-in-exile and its supporters to return to Poland. As for how the Soviet Union is willing to deal with it, what will be used? How to deal with it is the business of the Soviets themselves.

Stalin has even figured out a solution, and is going to send Marshal Rokossovsky to wait in Poland for the return of the Polish government-in-exile. Marshal Rokossovsky is a Polish.

During the process of handing over the fleet, Alan Wilson suddenly said, "In fact, the Soviet Union can use the Yugoslavia issue to put pressure on the Americans to see if they can exchange the four-nation occupation of Berlin."

After the refugee incident in Yugoslavia, in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, the Soviet Red Army had blocked the Austrian border and spoke for Yugoslavia at the Potsdam Conference, which made Truman very embarrassed.

This kind of move is very reasonable. More than 200,000 people from Yugoslavia did go to the US-occupied area. The Soviet Union took over the reason, and turned the already nominal occupation of the four countries into the Soviet occupation of Austria.

The Potsdam Conference reached a stalemate again on the Austrian issue. Stalin said that Austria's current status quo should not be changed for the time being, which made Prime Minister Churchill very dissatisfied. What made Churchill even more uncomfortable was that he seemed to be becoming a former prime minister.

Churchill, who is in Potsdam on the heels of his victory over Germany, is trailing Labor in the elections that have now been counted. If this trend continues, the Conservative Party will lose the general election, and the regional form of some delayed counting of votes is not optimistic.

Two days later, the results of the general election came out, and Churchill became the former Prime Minister of the British Empire gloriously.

"Which side are you civil servants on?" Fultseva heard the results of the general election discussed by the British, and asked in a provocative tone after seeing Alan Wilson.

"Winner." Alan Wilson straightened his back and replied with a quote from Stalin, "The victor is not to be blamed."