The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1042

  Roosevelt couldn’t wait to convene an international summit, and another reason was that Italy had surrendered, leaving only Germany alone to fight fascism in Europe.

  As the Italian army retreated on the front line, the British and American allied forces landed in Sicily as early as mid-July. Seeing that the situation was not good, the fascist parliament in Italy demanded Mussolini’s resignation with a majority vote, while Germany was still continuously deploying troops to support Italy.

  As the founder of fascism, the Italian dictator Mussolini is still very reasonable. Instead of sending troops to suppress the opponents, he went to the Italian king full of grief and anger, and was then caught by the king and thrown into prison to count lice.

   Then, Italy set off an anti-fascist wave and announced its unconditional surrender on September 3. On October 13, the new Italian government officially declared war on Germany, and it became a member of the Allies.

   To the frustration of Roosevelt and Churchill, Italy did not even surrender, bargaining, delaying and delaying gave Hitler ample time to send more troops to Italy. After the surrender plan was leaked, Italy also requested a postponement of the surrender time, until the Allied forces announced the news, and Italy did not bite the bullet and surrender.

  When Italy just surrendered, the German army was in a very dangerous situation in Italy, scattered in the long and narrow Apennine Peninsula. The southern German army had just retreated from Sicily, running out of ammunition and food, and exhausted. At this time, as long as the Allies and the Italians attacked the Germans together, they would inevitably kill the Germans to the point of losing their helmets and armor, and even wipe out the encircled southern Germans.

  However, the new government of Italy dawdled and opened the passage to let the Allies fight the German army, but stood by and watched a good show. It seemed that the war that took place on Italian soil had nothing to do with Italy. The Allies were also dawdling, thinking that the battle situation in Italy was set, but the Germans who recovered were beaten up.

   The day after Italy surrendered, the Germans occupied all the northern borders of Italy, and quickly controlled the Italian capital with a few garrison troops, drove away the king of Italy, and rescued the imprisoned Mussolini to form a puppet government. With Hitler’s order, hundreds of thousands of Italian troops surrendered, and the Germans occupied most of Italy without breaking a sweat.

  The puppet government established by Hitler in Italy fought for Germany until 1945.

   It can be said that the new Italian government, which announced its surrender and joined the Allied countries, has never done any shit. After the end of World War II, it still requires the treatment of the victorious countries, which is amazing.

  The Allied countries are certainly not idiots who help people and money. Although Italy is a victorious country, it is no different from a defeated country. An Italian city was placed in Yugoslavia, an Italian port was declared a free zone, and African colonies were forced to give up, with no more than 300,000 troops, and a symbolic reparation of $36,000.

  The treatment of victorious countries is not as good as that of China after World War I.

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December.

  Chang Kaishen did not return to China immediately after the Cairo Conference, but took Soong Meiling to India to inspect the Chinese garrison. In order to disgust Chang Kaishen, Churchill deliberately instructed to lower the reception standard for Lao Jiang. The Governor of India only sent a personal consultant to the airport to greet him. He did not spread any red carpets, and he did not let the military band play a welcome song.

  The conflict between Chang Kaishen and Churchill has been completely publicized so far, and even basic facial etiquette is ignored.

Just six months ago at the Pacific Conference, Churchill suddenly put aside the issue of the war against Japan. He said: “I heard recently that China has concentrated its troops to attack Tibet, which has caused great panic in this independent country. I hope the Chinese government can guarantee that there will be no unfortunate incidents. occur.”

  Song Ziwen retorted on the spot: “I haven’t heard of this news, and Tibet is not an independent country as the Prime Minister said. All the treaties between China and the UK have recognized Tibet as China’s sovereignty.”

   Chang Kaishen was so angry that he scolded Churchill in his diary that night.

   And just two weeks ago at the Cairo Conference, Churchill disgusted Chang Kaishen again. This dead fat man was obstructing it, and he was unwilling to return to Hong Kong. No matter how much Roosevelt persuaded it, it would not help, so there was the later Hong Kong problem.

   Not only that, Churchill also tried to play with words in the “Cairo Declaration”, changing the territory that Japan plundered from China “of course should be returned to China” to “of course must be abandoned by Japan”.

   What is the abandonment by Japan?

   Can you establish an independent country after giving up? Build a Northeast Country? Build a North China? Build another South China country?

  Wang Chonghui fought **** behalf of China, and Lao Jiang also threw the table at Roosevelt, and finally won the support of Roosevelt, and did not let the British amendment proposal succeed.

   In return, Lao Jiang went to India to inspect the expeditionary force, but he wanted to disgust Churchill.

When Chang Kaishen returned to Chongqing, it was almost New Year’s Day in 1944. The domestic newspapers reported the results of the meeting, calling it “the great victory of China’s diplomacy since the late Qing Dynasty”, and Chang Kaishen also became a “national hero”. “.

Chang Kaishen was very happy, and even took the time to visit Zhou’s mansion in person, he took Zhou Hexuan’s hand and said with a smile: “Mingcheng, at this Cairo meeting, China’s political harvest is the first, the military is second, and the economy is second, but all are It has achieved considerable success, and this is the greatest success of the country’s diplomacy in a century, and the first effect of thirty years of hard work!”

   “The chairman of the committee is very important.” Zhou Hexuan flattered.

  Chang Kaishen smiled and said, “Mingcheng also has credit, so you don’t have to be humble.”

  To be honest, Lao Jiang’s performance on this trip was very bad. What he wants is all the interests that China deserves in the future, and the actual interests that are urgently needed at this stage have been screwed up, which is extremely short-sighted.

   Roosevelt’s focus at the Cairo Conference was the joint Sino-British war in Burma. And Lao Jiang was afraid that the expeditionary force would suffer too many losses, so he had to pull the United States to send troops. Not only that, Lao Jiang’s mouth was a $1 billion aid loan, which made Roosevelt feel as uncomfortable as eating flies.

   As long as Lao Jiang cooperates with Roosevelt at the meeting, even if the expeditionary force is wiped out, China will receive the full support of the United States. At that time, Roosevelt must press Churchill to force him to agree to return Hong Kong, and Lao Jiang’s $1 billion loan can be easily obtained.

   Although this approach is sorry for the expeditionary soldiers, it is to let those expeditionary soldiers die, but as a leader of China, they should agree.

  The Tehran Conference that followed, Stalin did a good job in this regard. He knew what Roosevelt wanted and what Churchill wanted, so he did his best to cooperate at the cost of the Soviet Red Army’s life, thus winning the greatest interests of the Soviet Union, and American military aid was continuously imported into the Soviet Union.

   After the two meetings, Roosevelt and Churchill also compared Chang Kaishen with Stalin, and both believed that Stalin had more international strategic vision than Chang Kaishen.

   Zhou Hexuan also persuaded Chang Kaishen to cooperate with Roosevelt in the Burmese battlefield, but when he arrived at Lao Jiang, he became a wind in his ears.

  Chang Kaishen does believe in Zhou Hexuan’s international vision, but it is only political and diplomatic. He thought that Zhou Hexuan knew nothing about the military, and he did not discuss military affairs with Zhou Hexuan at all, let alone listen to all military-related advice.

   What is the result of doing this?

  It was Jiang and Stilwell who had a complete falling out, Roosevelt was disillusioned with China, the US military aid to China was almost interrupted, and China’s already collapsed finances made matters worse.