Chapter 449 – Freedom of Information on the Battlefield

It is a well-known fact that Britain’s leader in the midst of the World War was Churchill, and Churchill was a heavy-handed fighter in front of all the countries except for his obsequiousness in front of the United States.

And so it came to pass that the amount of aid given to Britain by the United States was far less than the amount of aid Britain gave to all anti-German countries, and that Britain gave the Soviet Union more than 1.1 billion pounds, and the exchange rate between the pound and the dollar was one to four.

And the aid given by the United States to Britain, through the operation of the Lend-Lease Act, was actually exchanged for eight billion dollars of British assets in the U.S. Whether the Americans made a profit or not is not known, but they certainly did not lose any money.

In the midst of the World War, how did Britain under Churchill’s leadership aid more than just the Soviet Union?

After the Second World War and up to the time Churchill stepped down, in order to maintain stability in the Middle East, Britain spent a great deal of effort on supporting the Arab League to meet Britain’s own strategic defense requirements.

In this context, a month before the surrender of Germany, representatives of Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan, and Yemen held a signing ceremony in Cairo to form the Arab League.

The Arab League, also established with British support, met in Beirut and decided to send Arab League land forces to Palestine after the withdrawal of British troops.

Britain, at least, had pissed away large sums of money when the Arab League was established, and it certainly had prestige in the Arab world at the moment.

But the Arab League is not immensely united, and there are sharp internal tensions over long-standing discord as well as competition for leadership. The two main political rivals are King Abdullah of Transjordan and the Iraqi royal family.

King Abdullah dreamed of a “Greater Syria” consisting of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine. Another figure in this arena was King Farouk of Egypt. Although he was seen by all as the leader of the Arab world, he was opposed by Iraq. Iraq has always considered itself to be the ally of the Arab world.

It is evident that in this day and age, the Iraqis already felt that only they could lead the Arab world, and it was not a fault that emerged after Saddam came to power.

Originally, the Palestinian-Israeli war has little to do with Britain, according to the historical direction, there will be a series of enemy unknown, for example, Israel has always judged that the three kingdoms, mainly Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, together with the support of the troops of other Arab countries, once the war opens Israel will have to face at least one hundred and fifty thousand Arab troops.

In reality, however, as of the second cease-fire, the Arab coalition army was less than 50,000 people. Originally for Israel and the Arab sides, the first Middle East war, is a little technical, in the black light follow the feeling of the war.

But Allen Wilson see this does not work, this and closed eyes boxing almost, must let the war trend in an open and transparent situation, the Arab does not know how many people in Israel, he leaked the population of Israel.

Subsequently with open and transparent information about Israel’s population, inspired the Arab League to pile on the numbers, thus realizing Israel’s original vision of 150,000 Arab troops, and even exceeded the expectations of the Israelis.

This kind of thing he does not need the Israelis’ thanks, after all, it is a modern society now, to maintain the transparency of the war is extremely important, and Britain did not leave any of the officers, only to complete the work of freedom of information, Israel and the Arab League on both sides of the name card to open the fight, both have a clear understanding of each other in the hands of the cards.

The Newfoundland administrator, though not a military man, did a bit of maneuvering for the information war, so that his father-in-law, Mountbatten, who was right near Egypt, would understand the importance of the information war.

At least his daughter’s fiancé, General Mountbatten is serving in the Mediterranean Sea, told Alan Wilson what he knew, said that the number of people is enough, but the composition of the Arab coalition forces is doubtful, compared to the previous 50,000 Arab coalition forces, the new addition of more than 100,000 troops are mobilized, there is no combat effectiveness are not good to say.

Alan Wilson stifled long sigh, it seems that everything is still not good to say, the only advantage of the Arab League is that the Arab League can afford to die.

If the Great Britain Long Ao Tian’s statement is correct, Allen Wilson heart is actually still a little pessimistic.

However, he did not know, in the Jordanian capital of Amman, the Arab League is still drawing out a joint war plan. This is originally the first Middle East War did not have.

According to this battle plan, the Arab Egyptian, Lebanese and Syrian armies from the south and north respectively to oppress and restrain the Israeli army, the Iraqi army and the Arab Army Corps in coordination with each other across the Jordan River, attack Haifa.

The Egyptian army attacking Israel consisted of two divisions. These included armored units equipped with Cromwell cruiser tanks, and Crusader cruiser tanks, five infantry battalions, one machine gun company, and one artillery regiment. In addition, there were fifteen Spitfire fighters to implement direct air fire support. The deployment and objectives were to advance along the coast road with a reinforced brigade to capture Tel Aviv, and the main force to attack inland and capture Jerusalem.

The Cromwell cruiser tank was one of the major British tanks produced during World War II.

It had played an important role in the Normandy landing campaign. It was a tank that used an aero engine and turned down the power, most notably for its maneuverability.

At least in this field of engine, Britain is still not worse than any country, the engine of the Cromwell cruiser tank, its engine picking good efficiency meteor engine bearing system sports performance is very good, and the meteor engine is reliable and durable, maintenance is not difficult, so this type of chariot by the chariot soldiers love.

Crusader cruiser tanks, although inferior to some, but also the British army has been equipped with a large number of tanks. Although there were less than forty tanks of both types combined, they could be called well-trained.

In the north, the Syrian army carried out an attack with two mechanized brigades, with the main attack directed towards the southern end of Lake Tiberias, and the Lebanese forces were also under Syrian command.

To the east were the allied Iraqi and Jordanian armies, the Iraqi army accompanied by the Kingdom Guard, composed of Christians, and due east the two feuding relative royal families, but forming the largest group, which, together with the native Palestinian armies, amounted to nearly 100,000 men.

While the Iraqi and Jordanian royal families are one family, it is also true that the two relatives are vying for the leadership of the Arab League, and then the two armies and assembled to form the largest group in Eretz Israel.

As for the Persian Gulf countries that do not seem to be not involved in the war, is also also also involved in this war, only to send a more coping force, take Saudi Arabia, sent two battalions of troops at the behest of the Egyptian army.

From this joint war plan can easily be seen, now the Arab world, Saudi Arabia in fact has no say, think they have the strength to say the country is Egypt, Jordan and Iraq, even Syria has almost mean.

Alan Wilson, even if he knew the plan, will not feel comforted, because this battle plan is so clear, because Israel has been given the battle plan, and made targeted deployment.

Now Israel is still in the United Nations warmly welcome the United States to send peacekeeping troops, only because the Arab coalition forces are more and more troops, even if they have been given the deployment of the Arab coalition forces, the heart is still a little bit unsettled.

Ben-Gurion’s envoy met Truman in Washington instead of interviewing Marshall, who was opposed to Israeli independence and was considered by Jews to be an anti-Israeli representative.

Truman has been quite busy lately, and at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, Truman took advantage of the split in the party to adopt a strategy of breaking each one down, giving his own cronies control of the Democratic Party ****** and dividing and pulling together supporters of his party rival-Wallace.

After difficult mediation, Truman barely won the presidential nomination, but almost all Democrats believe that he simply can not win the general election.

Now Truman was preparing to launch a national speaking tour to battle Dewey, whose Republican Party had been lauded by a swath of the national media.

Truman actually railed a bit against the Jews in his early years, but times are different now, and the U.S., like the USSR, is trying to use Israel to pry out the perennial British and French operations in the Middle East.

The emergence of Israel is precisely the result of Truman’s vigorous efforts to facilitate, heard Ben-Gurion envoys express the difficulties, Truman spoke, “In principle, the United States and the Soviet Union, are in favor of the Jews, a suffering people, have a homeland of their own. And are prepared to take advantage of the proposal made by the British to set up a peacekeeping force to terminate the war in Kashmir.”

“That’s very much appreciated, Honorable President.” Ben-Gurion’s envoy was overjoyed, with the support of the United States, and the Soviet Union, Israel had the resolve to fight the war.

“Of course it would be best if this were not necessary, if you only prevailed on the battlefield yourselves. A lot of trouble can be avoided, but of course the resolution still needs to be made, and the United States will be ready to stop the war from continuing in the name of the United Nations if Israel gets into difficulties.”

“Of course, the Republican Party has always taken an isolationist stance and may drop its support for Israel once Dewey becomes president.” Truman, anxious to run for office, was still busy, and merely spoke to Ben-Gurion’s envoy to make clear the U.S. attitude before terminating the subject.

The second ceasefire period ended on October 15, and the various countries involved in the war, and the backers behind them, were constantly combining their efforts. During the second discussion of the proposal to set up a peacekeeping force, the Indian representative reiterated India’s position, stating that Prime Minister Nehru was adamant in his refusal to allow a peacekeeping force into Kashmir.

This group of newly independent Indian leaders knew the British style all too well. Once the peacekeeping force entered Kashmir, there was absolutely no way that Kashmir would remain within the Indian territory.