Chapter 101 The Labor Party Wronged the Country

"Of course it's a good thing. I believe Truman should be happy about it." Prime Minister Attlee replied in a flat tone, with no joy in his tone, "Maybe our former Prime Minister is also very happy, but this has nothing to do with our It doesn't matter anymore."

Then he looked at Alan Wilson and said, "Alan, from your answer just now, we can see that we have sold Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union, isn't that true?"

Forehead! Allen Wilson brainstormed and organized the language, "The so-called betrayal is just an exchange of interests. It can be said to be another way of saying diplomacy. In fact, it doesn't make much sense to be entangled in the word whether to sell or not. Essentially, The British Empire is a global colonial empire, and European affairs are of course very important, but the reality reminds us that Eastern Europe is already under the control of the Soviets, and we recognize this control as a matter of course, but it is not entirely a betrayal.”

"There is no doubt that Europe has now attracted the attention of the Soviet Union and the United States. We must admit the reality. From the perspective of global interests, the most important thing for the British Empire at present is to stabilize its position and preserve other interests, because in Europe Here at least we still have the United States and France standing on the same front, the problem is much more complicated from a global perspective, and the roles of enemy and friend may be reversed."

"In the foreseeable future, the Soviet Union may cause trouble in Eastern Europe. Mr. Churchill also foresaw this. After overall consideration, Poland was exchanged. But from a global perspective, the Soviet Union's sea power is better than nothing. It will not be possible within ten years. An impact on the global interests of the British Empire, but not another country."

The other country mentioned by Allen Wilson is undoubtedly the Americans. Only the Americans now have a greater sea power than the British Empire, infiltrating the colonies of the British Empire scattered all over the world.

The question now is to protect Eastern Europe or protect the colonies? Needless to say, many people hope to protect both, but in fact this is impossible.

"That is to say, in the previous negotiations, did the British Empire really sell out Eastern Europe?" Prime Minister Attlee was not involved in Alan Wilson's rudimentary rhetoric, and still asked without changing his original intention.

"Dear Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The term betrayal is too negative, and diplomacy is like this. In theory, we all need to have it, but once the negotiation starts, there must be someone who has it and someone who doesn't." Alexander Cadogan smoothed things over, " We essentially have no power to stop the Soviet Union from doing anything, but we can try to control the influence of the Soviet Union within a certain range.”

"For example?" Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin asked, "Where else might the Soviet Union threaten?"

"Turkey in the Near East, Iran in the Middle East." When Alexander Cadogan was thinking, Alan Wilson had already given the answer, "The Soviet Union is a continental country, and it has always been pursuing a good port that is not frozen. This is not a secret. But the Soviet Union and its predecessor, Imperial Russia, failed to achieve their goals, so we promised the Americans to help with the previous war against Japan, hoping that the Soviet Union could find a port in the Far East and restrain itself.”

"Turkey revolves around the issue of the right of passage in the Black Sea Strait. If we don't speak up about this matter, the Americans will help. The most important thing is the issue of Iran. In fact, maintaining the status quo is the best that can be done. If Iran causes We cannot stop the greed of the Soviet Union, so in the private transaction between Britain and the Soviet Union, we must obtain guarantees for Iran's security from the Soviet Union."

During the war, Turkey pursued a policy of neutrality and dealt with the three major powers of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany and Italy, trying to safeguard its own interests without offending any major power.

But in the end, due to the growing discord with the Allies over the war against Germany and the Black Sea Strait issue, especially the increasingly tense relationship with the Soviet Union. The deterioration of Soviet-Turkish relations in the later period of the war became an important fuse for the outbreak of the Cold War.

The United Kingdom had wooed Turkey during World War II as part of the Balkan plan of the British Empire. It is hoped that Türkiye will participate in the war and avoid retaliation by the Soviet Union after the war. The initiator of this plan was Churchill who had just stepped down.

But Churchill was eventually taken advantage of by the Turks, took the weapons and equipment and aid from the British Empire, but refused to go to war against Germany. It has to be said that for Churchill alone, Turkey is definitely his political suffering.

As early as the First World War, Churchill, as the Minister of the Navy, pushed the Ottoman Empire into the Allied camp because of two battleships, causing the Allied Empire to be completely surrounded on the Eastern Front. In the end, the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry first!

In the Second World War, Churchill may have learned the lessons of the First World War, and he has always had great enthusiasm for Turkey's participation in the war. For this reason, he sent many delegations and acted as a victim many times. Even Robert Eden, foreign secretary, the No. 2 in the Conservative Party, was appalled by Churchill's wishful thinking.

When Alan Wilson went to the British-occupied area these days, the Soviet Union was chasing after the Turkish issue. The former Prime Minister Churchill took a reserved position, while US President Truman was more vague, because before the Turkey issue, the UK and the Soviet Union had always been renegotiated, and the US played a secondary role.

Truman also did not help Britain, as a way to vent the intrigue between Britain and the United States during World War II.

"Austria's problem must be resolved immediately, and it can be used to exchange with the Soviet Union on the Dardanelles issue." Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin listened to Alan Wilson's report for a long time... Finally he said, "As for the Iran issue, we must try our best to preserve the interests of the British Empire. What do you think, Clement?"

"Written guarantees are not acceptable. The Soviet Union must publicly declare that it will not change the status quo in Iran, and declare to the world that it will not take any means to subvert the Iranian regime." Prime Minister Attlee stood up and took two steps back and forth, emphasizing, "The Soviet Union is in northern Iran. The garrison must be reduced, and the size of the garrison must be negotiated bilaterally between Britain and the Soviet Union."

Can the Turkish Strait issue be discussed? In exchange for Iran's withdrawal negotiations and Austria's Soviet Red Army demarcation? Alan Wilson was shocked. It seems that historically, on the issue of the Dardanelles, the Soviet Union finally failed, and at the same time, Britain's interests in Iran were also accepted by the United States.

really! Civil servants who betray the country just want to have fun, but the real traitor has to be the prime minister himself! He can already think of jokes about the Labor Party harming the country.

"This is definitely not a mix-up, it's the prime minister's own decision." Alan Wilson thought to himself.