Seven Hundred and Ninetieth IX The Arrow Is on the String

Time flies.

In August, the negotiations among the three countries reached an impasse.

The Soviet Union is no longer willing to waste precious time, wasting time with two insignificant people and microphones.

Whenever negotiations start, they always avoid substantive issues.

For example, in what way, what kind of force and equipment to use to deal with NC aggression, the troops sent by each in the event of a war, and the resources that can be invested, etc.

They avoided talking about these issues, and only discussed some abstract and irrelevant issues, discussing the so-called "principles, national structure, system" and so on.

As the representative of the Soviet Union, Voroshilov began to ask some very specific questions: In response to the NC's pressing, is there any regulation that Poland should take?

Once war breaks out, how many troops can Britain use to assist France, and how many troops can France itself use?

What is the attitude and movement of Belgium, what is their position and opinion?

French representative Dumanck said: He knew nothing about Poland's plans.

The British representative, Drax, said hesitantly: "Currently, the UK has five shopkeepers and one mechanized division." The implication is that these are the forces that the UK can use externally.

In order to force the two countries to show their sincerity, Marshal Voroshilov said impassionedly: "If the war starts, the Soviet Union will immediately send 150 infantry divisions, 6,000 cannons, 10,000 to 13,000 tanks and 4,500 aircraft to deal with the war in the west. aggressor."

Such an answer not only shocked the representatives of the two countries, but also brought inexplicable relief.

The Soviet Union really wanted to reach valuable cooperation with sincerity, but they did not have any authorization and could not respond. They only looked at each other with their eyes facing each other.

At an important meeting on the 14th, Marshal Voroshilov once again pointed out that the fundamental problem at present is whether Poland is willing to allow Soviet troops to enter its territory.

Whether it is the issue of confronting the German invasion, or the possible aggression with the help of the British and French defenses, Poland's attitude is extremely important.

He then asked the British and French representatives the same question: "Do the British and French General Staff think that the Soviet Army can cross Poland, especially the Vilna Valley and Galicia, to contact Germany?"

This is the real core of the problem, and the premise of all cooperation is based on this.

If the Soviet Union didn't even have a way to meet the enemy, after the war broke out, even if they wanted to help, they could only sit by the border and watch coldly.

At the same time, the Soviet Union declared in newspapers on many occasions that Britain and France were not sincere about cooperation, and that the negotiations had not made any substantive progress.

However, the Western world's habitual ignorance of the Soviet Union prevented these reports from appearing on important sections of mainstream media in Europe and the United States.

People optimistically believed that the three parties of Britain, France and the Soviet Union were about to reach a military cooperation.

At the same time, Dumank and Drax, as representatives of both parties, also called their own country, asking their government for instructions on how to answer the Soviet Union's questions about Poland.

The two waited anxiously in Moscow for 5 days, but no reply came.

Dumank asked the government to find a way to get the Warsaw government to accept the conditions of the Soviet Union, but the answer he got was a rude refusal.

At the same time, the British and French leaders are still secretly contacting the little man to encourage the NC to oppose the Soviet Union and the Communist Party.

Just when the negotiations between the two sides had not progressed and reached an impasse, Moscow suddenly received a piece of news.

The British government is negotiating a military loan of 500 to 1 billion pounds with Germany, which shows that Western countries are trying to push the war to the Far East.

The top leaders of the Soviet Union are very worried that if the Western countries succeed in their conspiracy, they will not only face the NCD of the little dwarf.

But Germany with the support of Britain and the entire Western capitalist world, this kind of war would be extremely terrible.

In fact, as early as May, Stalin used the resignation of Foreign Minister Litvinov to hint to the outside world that the tripartite negotiations between Britain, France and the Soviet Union were not going well.

It is also Stalin's mockery of the appeasement policy, which ended in failure after 8 years.

However, Western newspapers are used to ignoring the affairs of the Soviet Union, and instead believe that Litvinov's resignation was "liquidated" because of trumped-up charges. '

When Stalin actively wanted to reach an agreement with the Western countries but failed, the little man extended an olive branch to him.

In mid-August, the German ambassador to Moscow was ordered to meet with Molotov, and according to Berlin's instructions, he read to him an urgent message from the German foreign minister that he was going to Moscow to resolve Soviet-German relations.

The Soviet foreign minister listened to the German ambassador's statement with "great" interest and expressed a "warm welcome" to Germany's desire to improve Soviet-German relations.

In order to further test the other party's intentions, Molotov asked whether the German government was interested in signing a non-aggression agreement between the two countries.

This agreement specifically involves, is Germany prepared to use its influence on Japan to improve Soviet-Japanese relations and eliminate border conflicts?

Is Germany willing to jointly guarantee the security of the Baltic states with the Soviet Union?

These questions from Molotov were exactly what the little man was looking forward to. At this time, he was more eager than anyone else to reach a "peace" agreement with the Soviet Union.

Once the two sides reach a consensus, the Soviet Union will completely stay out of the war, so that he can safely and boldly attack Poland without fear of Soviet interference.

Because the little man firmly believed that as long as the Soviet Union stayed out of the matter, Britain and France would also shudder.

Regarding the opinions put forward by the Soviet side, the little dwarf happily and generously chose to accept them.

In accordance with the order of Berlin, the ambassador to Moscow met Molotov again and informed him: "Germany is ready to conclude a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union. If the Soviet government agrees, the duration of this pact will be 25 days. Year,

In addition, Germany is willing to provide guarantees to the Baltic countries together with the Soviet Union. Finally, Germany is also willing to exert its influence to improve the relationship between the Soviet Union and Japan. "

At this time, the dwarf was in his residence on the top of the Bavarian Alps, anxiously waiting for an answer from Moscow.

For him and his NCD, the attack on Poland is imminent and has to be launched.

The atmosphere in Berlin, especially over Salzburg, was suffocating.

But the result of this meeting, after all, let the little dwarf feel disappointed.

Moscow's reply note, with sharp accusations from the beginning, recalled the NC government's previous hostility towards the Soviet Union.

And pointed out: "Before the recent period, the Soviet government believed that the German government was looking for an opportunity to conflict with the Soviet Union and exacerbate this phenomenon...

Not to mention the fact that the German government used the so-called anti-communist pact to try to build an anti-Soviet united front that included some countries,

It is for the above reasons that the Soviet Union will participate in and organize a joint defense front against aggression. "

But later on, the Soviet side changed their tone and mentioned that if the German government is willing to change its past policy from now on and decide to seriously improve its political relations with the Soviet Union, the Soviet government will welcome this change and will make changes on its own side.

Stalin and Moscow clearly understood why the little man was so desperate, and they were happy to see the little man become nervous for his own sake.