A gentleman never avoids his mistakes? Alan Wilson looked admiring. Why can the other party be the second-in-command of the Conservative Party? Why can he be the Foreign Secretary at the age of thirty-eight? This is the reason.
"Then when it comes to the war against Japan, we must understand what the Soviets need and adopt the method of extreme pressure." When Alan Wilson talked about extreme pressure, a strange look appeared on his face. How could he understand Wang Fu?
Feelings in the body, "I'm going to find Eful to explain this matter now."
It is true that Robert Eden and Alan Wilson said that Churchill was inspired by Truman. From the meeting between Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman, he indeed constantly heard from President Truman that he expected Britain to support the Soviet Union's entry into the war with Japan.
I hope that the first consensus that the entire Potsdam Conference can come up with is that the Soviet Union has officially joined the war against Japan after the end of the European battlefield. It feels unabashedly urgent.
According to normal development, the Soviet Union can indeed take advantage of this and bargain with the United States to obtain more favorable conditions, but this is according to normal development.
Alan Wilson actually knew that things were fleeting, because the Manhattan Project had reached its final moments. Just the day before the Pearl Harbor incident, the United States officially formulated a top-secret project codenamed Manhattan. President Roosevelt gave this plan "above all else"
special priority for action”.
Because the timing was too coincidental, the Manhattan Project also became evidence to conspiracy theorists that the United States was untrue.
No matter what the conspiracy theories were, Alan Wilson knew that for the British Empire, it would be good for the Soviet Union's powerful land power in Europe to be reduced by even one point.
Europe was the main battlefield between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and the British Empire also needed a place to reduce pressure to share the pressure in Europe. Japan, which was still resisting, was the best choice. As for the final fate of the Japanese, Alan Wilson, as a British Empire
Citizens cannot be considered for the time being.
Just like the Germans elected Hitler to lead Germany in launching a war, the Japanese should pay a certain price if they can shout the slogan "One hundred million jade is broken".
Once the United States and the Soviet Union occupy part of Japan respectively, they will definitely share the current pressure in Europe. And unlike so many countries in Europe that are forced to choose sides, the United States and the Soviet Union can completely rely on their own national power to fight in Japan.
confrontation.
Prime Minister Churchill also returned to his room later and talked with Foreign Secretary Robert Eden. He also mentioned Truman's desire for the Soviet Union to participate in the war, and did not forget to emphasize, "I still think the European issue should be discussed clearly first.
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"Winston, in fact, this is the same problem as when we faced Germany." After all, Robert Eden was Churchill's comrade for many years and knew the prime minister's temper well. Although Churchill had a bad temper, he was not a person who could not communicate.
"It is better for us to divert the attention of the Soviets than to chatter here. The Americans already know through the Battle of Okinawa that Japan is not easy to mess with. The Soviets don't know yet. The direction of the war cannot be controlled. As long as the first battle between the Soviet Union and Japan
From the beginning, it will not be so easy to end it. The huge armies now placed in Eastern Europe will continue to head to the Far East, and our biggest problem will be solved."
"If the Soviet Union did not join the war against Japan, maybe Truman would focus on us, Britain. Don't look at me like this. This is possible. Then should we travel thousands of miles to accompany the US military to fight in the Far East?
What? You know the situation in the country well."
Robert Eden acted sincerely in front of Churchill, and he already had the demeanor of a later Conservative Prime Minister. He used all the rhetoric skills he had developed during his tenure as Foreign Secretary on Churchill.
"But Stalin said that the Soviet Union did not have enough sea power to transport the army to Japan." Churchill spread his hands and said, "That is true. The Soviet Union's sea power is indeed not worth mentioning."
"But I remember that the Soviet Union's Sakhalin Island is only thirty kilometers away from Japan." Robert Eden raised his eyebrows. Even the German heavy artillery during World War I had this range. Hokkaido and Honshu Island are even farther than this distance.
Be short.
What is this concept? During the Dunkirk evacuation, countless British citizens sailed fishing boats out to sea and joined the Dunkirk evacuation. Robert Eden made his own judgment, "The Soviet Union is blackmailing us. In fact,
With the maritime power of the British Empire in Asia, it is completely possible to transport Soviet soldiers to Japan."
The British Empire certainly has this power. The current domestic commercial transport fleet has a tonnage of 17 million tons. It is two-thirds of the 30 million-ton commercial fleet of the United States. Although its naval power in Asia is not as large as that of Europe.
The fleet is incomparable, but it is easy to clean up the already lying Japanese navy.
Churchill and Robert Eden had something in common when it came to diverting pressure and allowing the British Empire to gain a breathing space. Now that I heard that Robert Eden wanted to copy the plan to divert disaster to the east, I felt a little moved in my heart.
Robert Eden has already explained that if the Soviets did not land on the island, it would be the British who would go to the island and accompany the Americans to risk their lives. For this simplest reason, the Soviets must land on the island.
"But we don't have many cards in our hand." Churchill recalled the current environment that Britain was in, and said dryly, "Stalin is not an easy person to deceive."
"Yes!" Robert Eden said with a thoughtful look on his face, "The Polish government in exile is still in London, and Stalin attaches so much importance to Poland, so we used the Polish issue to bargain with the Soviet Union. Didn't the Soviet Union still hope in the first round of meetings?
Whether we agree with the solution to the border between Poland and Germany, this can be exploited."
There is no doubt that Robert Eden thought about the Polish issue. Anyway, at the previous Yalta Conference, Britain had betrayed Poland once. If this is the case, for the sake of world peace, it is better to betray it more thoroughly.
Entering the field he was good at, Robert Eden seemed to have opened up eight strange channels at once. The whole of Poland was sold, and what was the government in exile doing in London?
Politicians are ruthless when it comes to turning against each other. General Patton experienced it before. Alan Wilson didn't know that the British version was about to take place. He was showing his true colors as a keyboard warrior and discussing the plan to attack Japan with Eiffel.
As a pure military illiterate, he naturally wrote casually, and Eiffel really dared to join the discussion. Anyway, professionalism was not important. He just wanted to catch the Soviets off guard. It was night, and the British delegation was brightly lit!