Chapter 775: Death of Churchill VI

On the afternoon of January 10, the area around King Charles Street, Whitehall Street and Downing Street seemed to have become a battlefield of street fighting!

The troops loyal to the British wartime cabinet set up roadblocks and barricades at the entrances of several important streets, and also set up machine guns and arranged snipers on tall buildings.

What was blocked by these defense facilities and gunmen was not the ferocious Nazis who were armed to the teeth as rumored, but the countless London citizens who came to protest, filling all the surrounding streets, as if there were millions of people!

The marching crowd seemed to be controlled by the Bolshevik Party. They sang the majestic "Internationale" near the center of power in Britain, and shouted slogans such as "We want bread, we want milk" and "Down with Churchill's government" from time to time.

The singing and slogans shook the earth, penetrated the thick reinforced concrete, and reached the fortress where Churchill was located.

In the conference room, an emergency meeting was being held at this time. Not only some cabinet members, but also some military generals, and even General Eisenhower, the commander of the US military stationed in London.

Everyone had the same expression - dumbfounded!

How could a revolution break out out of nowhere? And it seemed that the Soviet Union was behind this revolution. What did Stalin want to do? Did he want to give the British Empire another push while it was on the edge of a cliff, so that Britain would be completely finished?

What good would this do for the Soviet Union? Did Stalin still fantasize about establishing a Soviet Republic in Britain? Did he think that the German Nazis who had landed were made of mud and paper?

A burst of hurried footsteps sounded, and then a distraught Foreign Secretary Eden walked in.

As soon as he entered the door, he said to Churchill: "Mr. Prime Minister, President Roosevelt said that what happened in London may have nothing to do with the Soviet Union..."

"Nothing to do with the Soviet Union? Who is singing "The Internationale" outside? Is it the German Nazis?" Churchill asked in a hoarse voice.

"This..." Eden shook his head, and then said, "The US President is saying that he will put pressure on the Soviet Union, but the United States cannot support our war cabinet without reservation."

The British ambassador to the United States, Viscount Halifax, has just visited the White House, hoping that Roosevelt can put pressure on Stalin to let Stalin instruct the British Bolshevik Party to stop the confrontation.

At the same time, Viscount Halifax also hopes that the US government can "unreservedly" support the British War Cabinet-this "unreserved" actually means using the "riflemen" stationed in London to help the British War Cabinet suppress!

Because the British War Cabinet is now losing control of the army! The London Volunteers have been excavated, and many people have stood on the side of the protesters. The London County Division has also lost control, and the soldiers refused to shoot to suppress!

The Royal Guards have an ambiguous attitude, only deploying defenses at Buckingham Palace and refusing to help Fatty Qiu quell the riots.

As for other troops stationed in London, except for a small part, they are also in a state of hesitation. Many commanders of the troops said that they need the parliament to pass a resolution before they can execute the order to suppress.

But the current situation is like this, how can the parliament pass a resolution to suppress? Passing a motion of no confidence in the wartime cabinet is more like it!

So Churchill wanted to mobilize the US troops in London to help maintain order, but Roosevelt did not dare to issue such an order - the US troops went to Europe to fight the Nazis, not to suppress the British people!

Now there is great controversy in the United States about the Roosevelt government's policy of intervening in the European war. Many people think that this is a huge mistake, which has put the United States, which could have stayed out of it, in a great crisis. And seeing that Britain is about to fail, many politicians who support intervening in Europe are busy shirking responsibility. They cannot admit that the policy of intervention is wrong, because the United States still needs to continue to aid the Soviet Union, and can only put all the responsibility on the British Churchill government.

Public opinion such as the Churchill government D, the Churchill government is corrupt, the Churchill government is incompetent, the Churchill government has lost the support of the people, and the Churchill government stubbornly adheres to the colonial policy has been created all of a sudden.

In short, Churchill's image in the United States plummeted from the end of 1942. He was no longer an anti-fascist and anti-Nazi hero, nor a staunch defender of European democracy. Instead, he began to become a reactionary, stubborn, greedy, incompetent, and arbitrary politician who was not popular with the public!

In this case, Roosevelt certainly did not dare to give the British troops stationed in the United States an order to suppress the British people, as that would make Roosevelt an accomplice of Churchill, a villain who betrayed the trust and aid of the United States.

In the face of the crisis now facing the Churchill regime, Roosevelt not only had to support it, but also had to show a correct political stance.

"In addition..." Foreign Minister Eden stammered, "In addition, President Roosevelt hopes that we can negotiate with the opposition to resolve the current crisis through negotiations, while giving the wartime cabinet a broader foundation."

"Negotiations?" Churchill roared, "This damn cripple, does he think Britain is a third-rate country in Latin America? Does he think I'm a third-rate dictator who relies on the support of the United States to have power?"

At this point, he turned around and stared at Eisenhower, who was at a loss, and said: "Admiral, you have two choices now, either send troops immediately to arrest all the Bolsheviks who are making trouble, or take your people away! Get out now!"

After hearing Churchill's words, Eisenhower's expression suddenly changed. This is how he understood Churchill's words - if the United States did not help Churchill suppress it, then Churchill would surrender to the Germans and become a traitor to the British!

…

"Mr. President, urgent message from General Eisenhower!"

An emergency meeting with a depressing atmosphere was also being held in the Oval Office of the White House. General Marshall, who came to attend the meeting, took a copy of the telegram from one of his adjutants. After reading it once, his expression changed drastically.

"He said that Churchill asked the US military to help him suppress the protests launched by the Bolsheviks, otherwise Churchill's government would surrender to Germany!"

"Damn fat man!" Roosevelt's face was gloomy. After cursing in a low voice, he asked coldly: "Gentlemen, what should we do?"

"We cannot help Churchill's government suppress the people," Hopkins said immediately. "This will cause widespread opposition! And Churchill's request for help from us shows that he is losing the support of the British army. If our expeditionary force sends troops to suppress, then it will also It is to put the US military on the opposite side of all British people who oppose Churchill's regime, including some British troops! We... are very likely to be involved in the British Civil War!"

The US military was to help the European people resist Nazi and fascist tyranny, not to help Churchill fight the civil war. Moreover, once Britain falls into civil war, it will naturally be unable to resist the German invasion, and the Battle of Britain will inevitably fail miserably!

So what the US government needs to consider now is how to withdraw from the UK, instead of getting deeper and deeper into it.

"Should our troops withdraw from London immediately?" Roosevelt asked hesitantly.

"We must withdraw and retreat to a port in northern Scotland." Hopkins said, "The Battle of Britain has been lost. There is no need for hundreds of thousands of Americans to be buried with the fall of Britain."

"Is it just like this, doing nothing and handing over Britain to the Germans?" President Roosevelt seemed unwilling.

"No," Hopkins shook his head, "Actually, we can still do some things. For example... we can leave some of the weapons of the US military stationed in London and give them to the British who need them!"

"The British who need them?" Roosevelt tilted his head, "Who is it?"

Hopkins shrugged, "It doesn't matter who it is, what matters is whether the people who get these weapons can tear Britain apart!"

"Falling apart?"

"Yes!" Hopkins nodded heavily, "Mr. President, Britain is a big country. Its industrial strength is second only to the United States, Germany and the Soviet Union. In many cutting-edge technological fields, Britain's strength exceeds both ours and Germany! If Germany gets If the UK is a complete and stable one, then its strength in industrial production may exceed ours, and it will have a considerable lead in technology!”

Hopkins is right. Britain is a world leader in electronics, aviation, shipbuilding and other fields. Among them, the radar technology in the electronic field is ahead of Germany and the United States. The piston and jet aircraft engines in the aviation industry are different from Germany. The shipbuilding industry, especially in the technology of surface ship construction, is still ahead of Germany.

If Germany gets a complete Britain, then Germany will soon catch up with the United States in industrial output and crush the United States in cutting-edge technology.

Then the United States will be in big trouble!

The President of the United States sighed softly, "Harry, go see the Soviet Ambassador Litvinov, go immediately!"

…

"Against G-Fate! Maisky and Pollitt are anti-G-Faction, Nazis, not Bolsheviks!"

In the Kremlin, when the urgent telegram from Litvinov, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, was sent to Stalin's office, the great communist leader was gritting his teeth and scolding the leader of the British Bolshevik Party and the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom.

If they hadn't been caught, Maisky and Pollitt would probably have been sentenced to the highest security measures by now!

"I asked them to launch an armed uprising when Churchill's wartime cabinet collapsed or surrendered to Germany. How could they launch it in advance? The British were still resisting and were fighting the Germans in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. It’s hard to explain why they rioted in London?”

Stalin walked quickly around the office, talking as he walked. The more he talked, the more annoyed he became. In anger, he threw his pipe against the wall. However, he still noticed that Molotov had just received a copy of the telegram from a staff member and was now looking at it carefully.

"Comrade Molotov!" Stalin asked, "Is this a protest from the Americans?"

Molotov shook his head and said: "No, it is not an American protest, but a suggestion..."

"What advice?"

"The Americans suggest that the British Bolsheviks assume the great responsibility of leading the British war against Germany!"