Chapter 827 Can’t Wait for Italy

The civil war that broke out in Spain has shrouded all European countries in a fog of war.

Although it seems to be only Spain's internal affairs, the top leaders of most countries know that there are two major military groups behind Spain, led by the Franco-Austrian Alliance and the German-Italian Alliance.

Just like the sensational Sarajevo incident at the time, once the two major military groups excessively interfere in Spain's internal affairs, it is likely to lead to a series of events and even ignite a war between the two major military groups.

War is something that no one wants to see. For this reason, a large number of French people took to the streets and asked the government not to participate in the Spanish civil war and not to let the Spanish civil war, like the Sarajevo incident, become the fuse of the next super war.

In fact, the French have not lifted stones to hit their own government once or twice. For the French, using marches to deter the government is simply an activity that must be held every once in a while.

As for whether their marches and demands will have a certain impact on the country's diplomatic strategy, all of this seems so insignificant in the face of war.

For the French, as long as they can avoid the outbreak of a war like the super war 20 years ago, they can even directly dismiss the current government.

A large number of French people took to the streets, holding up various banners, all of which read the slogan "We need peace, we don't want war!"

These French marchers took to the streets of Paris in a mighty manner and successfully attracted the attention of the French government.

For French President Albert Lebrun, this is simply good news that cannot be better. The demands of the French people are completely consistent with his opinions, which also symbolizes the current mainstream thinking in France, that is, the peace faction.

For French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, everything is not so perfect. Edouard Daladier's attempt to shirk his responsibility in this incident is, in the eyes of the French people, precisely the evidence of Edouard Daladier's support for war.

Facing this person who attempted to drag France back into the super war, the French shouted angrily and demanded that President Albert immediately dismiss Prime Minister Edouard.

Such an ending was not expected by Prime Minister Edouard, nor by President Albert.

But whether Germany and Italy were behind the scenes is a little unknown.

Anyway, for the French people now, they really don't want to see war, and they really hate those politicians who try to push France and all French people into the abyss of war.

After learning the public opinion, President Albert laughed, and laughed loudly.

In this power struggle between the president and the prime minister, he successfully gained the upper hand. And his rival, Prime Minister Edward, even if he could keep the position of prime minister with the help of Congress, he could no longer compete with President Albert for the power of the government.

Because the public opinion has been determined, France at this time is impossible to become a war party, and the war party is bound to be suppressed in France.

On October 7, 1934, more than half a month after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

French President Albert held a public meeting and promised all domestic and foreign media and the French people at the meeting that France would never take the initiative to let itself go to war, and the French government yearns for peace and stability.

I don't know how the French people reacted to President Albert's speech, but at this time, the expressions on the faces of the rulers of Germany and Italy looked very satisfied.

Unlike the domestic environment in France, Germany and Italy, which are plagued by economic crises, have a domestic ideology that yearns for war.

In other words, under the influence of two more extreme rulers, the opinions of their governments are moving towards external expansion and diverting domestic conflicts.

It is unrealistic that there is no shadow of the major powers behind the Spanish Civil War.

In other words, the extreme countries led by Germany and Italy are a big reason why the Spanish Republic has developed to the point where a war is necessary to resolve domestic conflicts.

Long before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the extremist Spanish Falange Party had already contacted Germany and Italy, and even received strong support from Germany and Italy.

The reason why they were able to launch a civil war, quickly seize Spain's colonies, and cross the Strait of Gibraltar to march north to Spain was because of the support from Italy.

Italy provided a large amount of weapons and equipment to the Falange Party, which also enabled the Spanish Falange Party to arm a large number of troops, so that it had the strength to compete with the Spanish government.

Now, it is obviously time to reap the fruits. Will Germany and Italy give up Spain, a qualified ally, for the benefit of the French?

Moreover, Spain's geographical location is also very important to Germany and Italy. As a country on the Mediterranean coast, whoever controls Spain, the two major military groups, will have a higher voice in the Mediterranean.

Moreover, Spain is France's southern neighbor, and the Spanish army can also threaten France's homeland. Once Spain becomes an ally of Germany and Italy, France will also face the situation of Germany during World War I, that is, it will have to fight on two or even three fronts.

In this way, no matter how large the French army is, no matter how large France has colonies as resource supplements, it is destined to be consumed in the three-front war, and eventually have to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

October 9, 1934, Rome, Italy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot abandon our ally Spain. They are facing a civil war, and our allies must defeat the corrupt government and bring a new life to the Spanish people.

As a commitment to the allies, Italy will support our allies at all costs. I declare that Italy will form a Spanish volunteer army and recruit Italian people who also love peace to help Spain fight.

Secondly, our planes will transport supplies for Spain to ensure that our allies can win this civil war. Ladies and gentlemen, take action! For Italy, we may have to confront the French, or even start a war with the French.

But for the country, it's all worth it. If I can die on the battlefield for Italy, I will die without regrets!"

Accompanied by Mussolini's order, the Italian government and army quickly took action, raising batches of military supplies and then transporting them to Spain with various aircraft.

It is worth mentioning that because the previous Australasian transport aircraft was sold publicly, various countries have also made good progress in the research and development of transport aircraft.

Although Italy's aircraft scale is not as large as that of Australasia, it can continuously transport supplies to the Falange Party in this Spanish Civil War.

As for the volunteers sent to Spain by Mussolini, it is just a name for the Italian army.

On the surface, it is a volunteer army spontaneously formed by the Italian people to help Spain win the civil war. In fact, all the members of the volunteer army are elite soldiers of Italy.

Let alone the combat effectiveness of the Italian army, under Mussolini's rule, the Italian army's efficiency is still very fast.

On the third day after the order was issued, that is, October 12, an army of about 14,000 people, that is, an army of the size of a division, took various transport aircraft to Spain.

In order to ensure efficiency, the transportation of this army depends entirely on aircraft. If warships are used, even if it is only from Italy to Spain, it will still take several days.

After all, the east coast of Spain is controlled by the Republic, and it will take more time to send it to the west coast controlled by the Falange Party.

But if airplanes are used, there won't be so many troubles. Italian airplanes only need to cross half of the Mediterranean Sea and then pass through the area controlled by the Spanish Republic to easily reach the area where the Falange is located.

As for whether there will be danger when passing through the area of ​​the Spanish Republic, it depends on whether the Spanish Republic has the courage to go to war with Italy.

In fact, Italy's doing this does not mean that they have not considered that Spain will take action against Italian airplanes.

But this is precisely the conspiracy of the Italian government. Knowing that all the Italian airplanes are transported to the rebels, does the Italian Republic government have the courage to shoot down these airplanes?

You know, these airplanes are all official airplanes of Italy. If these airplanes are shot down, it is equivalent to declaring war on Italy.

In this way, Italy has enough reasons to directly interfere in the Spanish civil war, which is a devastating blow to Spain.

Unless Spain can also win over another great power to join the civil war, but this is basically impossible. France almost dismissed the prime minister of the war faction because of domestic public opinion.

Under such circumstances, France naturally could not directly ignite a war with Italy or even Germany for the sake of Spain.

And France's ally, the Austrian Empire, was itself being attacked from the north and south by Germany and Italy, so it was naturally impossible for it to join the war alone when France did not take action.

In this way, the only country in Europe that could help the Spanish Republic was the British Empire, which looked powerful but had a foreign policy far away from Europe.

It was also because of the foreign policy of the British Empire that it was difficult for them to directly help Spain fight Italy.

This also represents a fact. Even though it was known that the Italian planes in the sky were transporting their enemies and their supplies, the Spanish Republic government still had no courage to shoot down these Italian planes.

As long as they did not tear their faces, they would only deal with the rebels with the help of Italy. But if they tore their faces with Italy, they would have to deal with a double beating of the rebels and Italy.

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