Chapter 151 Fatty Qiu’s anger (fourth update, please subscribe)
Become famous all over the world!
This sentence is most appropriate to apply to the task force, no, it should be said to the Borneo Guard.
Half a month ago, no one in the world knew about them, but half a month later, no one knew about them.
Defender of the Bastogne Fortress!
What is the so-called fortress?
It was a foxhole in the ice and snow. Why were they able to use rifles to fight tanks, and even captured many German tanks.
It is the iron will of the defenders!
While American newspapers were reporting on the defenders of Bastogne, British and French newspapers were also reprinting their news. Of course, this also intensified people's hatred of the French. The contempt of the French army.
There is no way. In France in 1944, let alone foreigners, even the French themselves looked down on their army.
It is nonsense that General de Gaulle saved the face of the French.
Everyone knows that the French lost all face as soon as the surrender treaty was signed four years ago.
Seeing that the Bastogne garrison blocked tens of thousands of German armored troops with a few thousand people, the French's contempt for the French army intensified even more. Even French women looked down on France. The group of uniformed men had no choice but to make them poor and timid.
Nowhere can be compared to the pure men of Bastogne.
As for the British, they will say arrogantly, we are not bad either.
However, what is different from other countries is that when the British senior officials are paying attention to Bastogne, their mentality is extremely complicated! Unlike the common people who believed that the defenders were the US military, the British senior officials still knew the identity of the other party.
North Borneo Guard!
This is the true identity of the Bastogne defenders!
But it was this person who made them feel unhappy.
Disgusting!
If anything Churchill felt, it was this feeling.
It's like being stuffed in the mouth.
"North Borneo, that's ours!"
Churchill glanced at Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley with a look of resentment and said.
“How could that fellow Roosevelt give Borneo to the Chinese without our permission...”
Fatty Qiu is very depressed!
That guy Luo Laizi is too unreasonable.
How could he do this?
"Is he testing our attitude towards the colonies step by step? A few months ago he included the North Borneo Shipping Company as a recipient of the Lend-Lease Act, and now that guy Eisenhower actually came up with another one The army of Borneo..." After a pause, Churchill took a deep puff of his cigar and said in an extremely positive tone.
"All this is definitely that Roosevelt guy is testing our attitude towards the colonies. The first test was on the eve of "Operation Overlord", and now, it is at the moment when he is about to invade the German mainland. Damn it, he is I want to use North Borneo to send a signal that the dismemberment of the British Empire is inevitable!”
I have to say that the brain circuits of politicians are indeed different from ordinary people, especially for an old empire like Fatty Qiu! For an expert, he can guess more than a dozen of other people's actions, and he can always make up a lot of things.
What a conspiracy, what a trick, nothing too normal. After all, Fatty Qiu himself is such a person.
If we say there is no conspiracy or trick, wouldn’t it be an insult to our intelligence?
There are always unscrupulous people trying to harm me!
In the eyes of Fatty Qiu, the British Empire is the fat in the eyes of many people. From Hitler to Steel to Luo Laizi, they are all staring at this piece of fat!
Ready to tear the British Empire to pieces at any time!
"Compared to Hitler, Roosevelt's methods are more subtle, but more difficult to fight. Oliver, are we really going to lose the British Empire?"
When posing this question to the Colonial Secretary, Fatty Qiu's expression and tone were like that of a little widow visiting a grave. The more she cried, the sadder she became.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, legally speaking, the change of shareholding in the North Borneo Company does not affect his connection with the British Empire. His shareholding can belong to anyone, Chinese, Americans, even Germans Japanese, but his connection with the British Empire was stipulated by various treaties, and he is still a piece of local autonomy under the protection of the British Empire..."
After a pause, Oliver frowned and said.
"Dominion...Your Excellency, legally speaking, the North Borneo Company is not our colony."
This is the most amazing thing about the North Borneo Company, it is a The colony is true, but it does not belong to any country. Even the United Kingdom only included it in its colonial system based on treaties and charters, but in fact, it does not belong to the United Kingdom.
"No, he belongs to Britain!"
Churchill interrupted Oliver directly.
"North Borneo belongs to Britain, yesterday and tomorrow too!"
I have to say that as a veteran imperialist, Churchill has his stubbornness and he stubbornly insists on what is called " "Glory of the British Empire", even if it means destroying the British Empire for the so-called glory, just like this war, he saved Britain in the war, but the war destroyed the British Empire, whether he is willing to face it or not, this is iron General facts.
As the colonial secretary, Oliver had a clearer understanding than the Prime Minister of the reality that the British Empire was coming to an end. He looked at the Prime Minister and reminded:
"Your Excellency, after the war we are It is extremely difficult to re-establish imperial government in the Far East. There is currently a consensus in the House of Commons that all colonies will be slowly transformed into self-governing dominions whenever feasible, and the Labor Party..."
When Oliver mentioned the Labor Party , the expression became extremely unnatural, because those people were even more determined than Roosevelt and others in their determination to disintegrate the British Empire.
"They have vowed to achieve autonomy and even independence for India and other colonies! In my opinion, the real threat to the colonial system of the British Empire is not the Americans or the Russians, but the Labor Party! In their In his eyes, the existence of the colonies has no practical significance at all, except to nourish a large number of military garrisons and the complacency of an empire on which the sun never sets, and to put a heavy burden on the people."
The Secretary of State for the Colonies The assertion made Churchill's face change slightly, and he fell into silence while smoking a cigar.
Pacing back and forth in the office, Churchill's expression changed from time to time, as if he was thinking about something. His brows furrowed tighter and tighter, and he smoked a cigar heavily. After a long time, he Then he let go of his half-smoked cigar and looked at Oliver and asked.
"Is that guy in Paris now?"
(End of this chapter)