Chapter 88: Selling Poland Again

A gentleman never avoids his mistakes? Alan Wilson had a look of admiration on his face, there was a reason why the other party could be the number two of the Conservative Party, and why he could be the Foreign Secretary at the age of thirty-eight.

“Then on the issue of fighting against Japan, we must understand what the Soviets need and take the approach of extreme pressure.” Allen Wilson said limit pressure, a strange color appeared on his face, how there was a feeling of understanding the King’s possession, “I’ll find Aifor now to explain this matter.”

Robert Aiden and Allen Wilson said Churchill by Truman’s blowback is not false, from the beginning of the meeting between Prime Minister Churchill and President Truman, indeed, constantly heard President Truman, expect Britain to give support to the Soviet Union on the entry into the war against Japan.

Hope that the entire Potsdam Conference can come up with the first consensus, is the Soviet Union formally in the end of the European theater of operations, to join the war against Japan, the mood is simply undisguised urgency.

According to the normal development, the Soviet Union is indeed able to take advantage of this, and the United States to bargain for more favorable conditions, but this is according to the normal development.

Allen Wilson actually knew that things were fleeting because the Manhattan Project was on its last legs. Just one day before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. formalized the top secret plan codenamed Manhattan. President Roosevelt gave the program “special priority over all other operations.”

Because the timing was so coincidental, the Manhattan Project has become evidence to conspiracy theorists that the U.S. was out of line.

Alan Wilson didn’t care what the conspiracy theories were, but he knew that it would be good for the British Empire to reduce the Soviet Union’s formidable land power in the direction of Europe by even one point.

With Europe as the main battleground of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the British Empire also needed a place to decompress to share the pressure in Europe. Japan, which was still resisting, was the best choice, and as for the final fate of the Japanese, Alan Wilson, as a citizen of the British Empire, could not consider it for the time being.

Just as it was the Germans who chose Hitler up to lead Germany to start the war, the Japanese could shout out the slogan of 100 million jade, they should pay a certain price.

Once the United States and the Soviet Union respectively occupy a part of Japan, it will certainly share the pressure of Europe now, and unlike so many countries in Europe are forced to choose sides, the United States and the Soviet Union can be completely in Japan, completely with their own national strength of the real confrontation.

Prime Minister Churchill also returned to his room a little later in the evening, talking to Foreign Secretary Robert Aidan, and also mentioned Truman’s desire for the Soviet Union to enter the war, not forgetting to emphasize, “I still feel that we should talk Europe through first.”

“Winston, in fact, it’s the same problem as facing Germany in the first place.” Robert Aiden, after all, had been Churchill’s comrade-in-arms for many years, and knew the prime minister’s temperament well; Churchill, though short-tempered, was not a man incapable of communication,

“We distract the attention of the Soviets, it is better than chattering here, the Americans through the battle of Okinawa already know that Japan is not to be messed with, the Soviets do not know yet, the war is not able to control the direction, as long as the first war between the Soviet Union and Japan began, want to end it will not be so easy, the huge army that is now laid out in Eastern Europe, it will be a steady stream of troops to the Far East, our biggest problem would be solved.”

“If the Soviet Union doesn’t join the war against Japan, maybe Truman will focus on us in Britain, don’t look at me like that, it’s all possible. So are we going to travel thousands of miles and accompany American troops to the Far East to fight or not? The situation at home is clear to you.”

Robert Aiden in front of Churchill, that is called an affectionate, already vaguely have later Conservative Prime Minister’s style. Taking the words he had honed during his tenure as Foreign Secretary, he used them all on Churchill.

“But Stalin says the Soviet Union doesn’t have enough sea power to get the land forces to Japan.” Churchill spread his hands and said, “It is also true to say that the Soviet Union’s sea power is really worthless.”

“But as I recall, the Soviet island of Sakhalin is only thirty kilometers from Japan.” Robert Aiden raised an eyebrow, even WWI German heavy artillery had that range. The ones on Hokkaido and Honshu Island were even shorter than that distance.

What a concept, the Dunkirk retreat was joined by countless British citizens sailing fishing boats out to sea. Robert Aiden made his judgment, “The Soviet Union is blackmailing us, in fact, with the British Empire’s sea power in Asia, it is entirely possible to transport Soviet soldiers to Japan.”

The British Empire certainly has the power, and the tonnage of the commercial transport fleet currently maintained at home is seventeen million tons. It is two-thirds of the U.S. commercial fleet of thirty million tons, and although the naval power in Asia is not comparable to that of the great fleets of Europe, it is easy to clean up the Japanese navy, which is already lying on its back.

In the matter of transferring the pressure, so that the British Empire to win a respite, Churchill and Robert Aydin have a common language. Now hear Robert Aiden, want to replicate the plan of woe to the east, the heart has been vaguely some intention.

Robert Aiden has explained, if the Soviets do not board the island, boarding the island to accompany the Americans to play with the British. Because of this most pristine reason, the Soviets must board the island.

“But we don’t hold many cards.” Churchill thought back to the circumstances in which Britain now found itself and said dryly, “Stalin is not an easy man to deceive.”

“Yes!” Robert Aiden said with a thoughtful look on his face, “With the Polish government-in-exile still in London, and with Stalin so attached to Poland, we’ll use the Polish issue to bargain with the Soviet Union. Didn’t the Soviet Union still want us to endorse the program regarding the treatment of the Polish-German border at the first round of meetings, and this can all be utilized.”

There was no doubt that Robert Aiden had the Polish issue in mind, and anyway, Britain had already betrayed Poland once at the previous Yalta Conference, and since that was the case, it would be better to betray it a little more thoroughly for the sake of the greater good of world peace.

Into the field of his own expertise, Robert Aydin as if all of a sudden hit the odd meridian, the whole of Poland has been sold, but also left a government in exile in London to do what?

The politician’s flip-flopping ruthlessness, before General Patton experienced, Alan Wilson does not know that the British version is about to be staged, he is showing the keyboard warrior nature, and Eiffel to discuss the plan to attack Japan.

He is a pure military illiterate naturally write casually, Eiffel also really dare to join in the discussion in the middle, anyway, professionalism is not important, is to give the Soviets a surprise, is the night, the British delegation lights!