The Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, this building complex covering an area of 326,000 square meters is the headquarters of the League of Nations.
In the League of Nations in 1925, there were still five permanent members, namely the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Italy, and Japan. However, because the United States did not join the League of Nations, the position of the United States as a permanent member has been vacant. In fact, the permanent members of the League of Nations were only
Four.
In addition to the five permanent members, the League of Nations also elects four non-permanent members every year, who, together with the five permanent members, are responsible for the operation of the League of Nations.
This idea is originally a good one. There are five permanent members plus four non-permanent members, a total of nine votes. In most cases, it can run normally.
However, when the United States did not join the League of Nations and abstained from voting all year round, sometimes embarrassing situations such as four votes in favor, four votes against, and one abstention would occur.
In order to solve this problem, the League of Nations decided last year to increase the number of non-permanent members to five, so that the League of Nations can still operate normally even in the absence of the United States.
Two months ago, the League of Nations had just held an election for its non-permanent members. Since the status of the British Empire's dominions in the Imperial Conference had been greatly improved, southern Africa was finally qualified to stand for election and was successfully elected as a non-permanent member.
The other four countries are Canada, Australia, Spain, and Germany, which has just joined the League of Nations.
Japan is a permanent member of the League of Nations. After the Indian Ocean Fleet seized the "Fuki Maru", Japan submitted an arbitration request to the League of Nations, and the League convened an Executive Yuan meeting.
When Kijuro Shitahara came to the door of the Executive Yuan conference room, Andy Oston, the Plenipotentiary Representative of Southern Africa to the League of Nations, was chatting with the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, Sir Eric Drummond, by the window in the corridor, surrounded by other people.
Several people are representatives from Canada, Australia, France, and Spain.
Sir Eric Drummond is a British man who has served as the Secretary-General of the League of Nations since its establishment. It was through control of the League of Nations that Britain managed to maintain its increasingly dangerous international status after the World War.
Of course, it will take a long time for the majestic "Empire on which the Sun Never Sets" to lose its global hegemony. Although the GDP of the United States has surpassed that of the United Kingdom at the end of the last century, the United Kingdom's international trade volume is still the first in the world. At least
Before World War II, Britain's position was relatively stable.
"Sir Drummond, please enforce the law impartially, please -" Kijuro Shitahara was worried that Eric Drummond would favor southern Africa.
Looking at the current League of Nations, it is no wonder that Kijuro Shitahara is worried. There are nine permanent and non-permanent countries in total, and the Commonwealth countries account for four. If it comes to voting, Japan really has no advantage at all.
After submitting the case to the League of Nations for arbitration, Kijuro Shitahara did some work, but unfortunately the results were not good.
There is no need to look for the four Commonwealth countries. As long as they vote, they will definitely side with southern Africa.
Of the remaining four countries, France has the greatest chance of voting for Japan because of its differences with Britain on the issue of Germany. However, except for France, all other countries have ambiguous attitudes.
Let's not talk about Italy. This is a famous wallflower. It can't do anything and is the first in line.
Germany has just joined the League of Nations and still needs assistance from the United Kingdom to survive. It goes without saying that they will vote for Southern Africa. After all, Southern Africa is also a major donor to Germany, and Japan now also needs borrowings to survive, and has no spare capacity to help Germany.
Spain's situation is a bit special. Although on the surface it does not have much interest entanglement with southern Africa, Spain's relationship with southern Africa has always been very good.
If it weren't for southern Africa's heroic speaking out, the American flu would have become the "Spanish flu."
Therefore, after some operations by Kijuro Shitahara, he sadly discovered that no other country supported Japan except France.
Moreover, France's votes are not stable. Don't forget that Southern Africa is still a creditor of France. If you dare to vote for Japan - great, pay it back!
"Don't worry, the purpose of the League of Nations is fairness and justice, and it is committed to using peaceful means to resolve international disputes. We must safeguard the interests of all League members and will never favor any party." Sir Eric Drummond said.
Rhetoric, I carefully said nothing.
Protect the interests of all League of Nations members!
Southern Africa is also a member of the League of Nations.
"Mr. Alston, we have just signed the "Abandoned Pact" in Washington. Southern Africa is still a signatory of the "Abandoned Pact." But now you are blatantly tearing up the "Abandoned Pact. Is this appropriate?" Kijuro Shitahara.
Direct attack on Andy Allston.
"When was the Non-War Pact torn up?" Andy Allston pretended to be crazy. Southern Africa only demanded an answer from the Japanese government, not a threat of war.
Andy Allston was a soldier and participated in the World War. After the establishment of the League of Nations, he served in the League of Nations peacekeeping force. After Mangin became the commander-in-chief of the peacekeeping force, Andy Allston moved to the Executive Council of the League of Nations.
"Gentlemen, let's all calm down. Our world can no longer withstand the destruction of a world war -" French representative Jules Josselin persuaded him. Today's French people are all peace-loving.
By.
It’s okay if you don’t like it. Since France’s attempt to return to Madagascar failed, France’s nature of being a foreign power but a foreign power has been exposed, and its face has been completely lost internationally. Just not long ago, the French cabinet collapsed again, the prime minister resigned, and the cabinet was dissolved. The new prime minister is——
Forget it, I'm too lazy to check. The new prime minister won't be able to be prime minister for a few days anyway, so Briand, Panlevais, and Helio will take turns, making it almost like playing house.
"The facts are irrefutable. Since it was the Japanese Military Ministry that violated the interests of Nyasaland University, the Japanese Military Ministry should compensate Nyasaland University." Australian representative John Salmen took the initiative. Now Australia
It’s like the younger brother in southern Africa. Since the older brother is inconvenient to speak, the younger brother should be more sensible.
Canadian representative Oakland Benz opened his mouth and found that he had nothing to say. Sal had already finished speaking.
Real orcs.
"If the League of Nations cannot safeguard the interests of the Empire of Japan, then the Empire of Japan will use all means to fight back." Kijuro Shitahara was simply confused. It is obvious that these are the same thing. The Empire of Japan's road to leaving Asia and joining Europe is far away.
"hehe--"
"hey-hey--"
"hmmm——"
Several representatives of the Commonwealth countries were unimpressed. If Kijuro Shitahara was angry again, the Japanese government could do very little. The most it could do was withdraw from the League of Nations.
It doesn't matter if you withdraw from the League of Nations. No matter how Americans have joined the League of Nations, Russia has not joined either, so it doesn't matter if there is one less Japan -
At that time, it would be nice to simply change the League of Nations into the European League. If we all sit down and talk about anything, everything will be fine. Wouldn't it be nice?
At nine o'clock in the morning, the meeting officially began. Kijuro Shitahara was the first to ask to speak, but was ignored by Sir Eric Drummond.
It’s really not a deliberate slap in the face of the Japanese, but the Executive Yuan has more difficult issues to deal with.
A month ago, conflict broke out between Greece and Bulgaria.
The origin is a little ridiculous. A soldier on the Greek border had a dog.
One day a month ago, this dog suddenly disappeared. Naturally, the owner had to look for it, but after searching for it, he accidentally entered Bulgaria.
During the World War, Greece joined the Entente and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers, belonging to two different camps.
The dog owner probably forgot to change his clothes when he went to find the dog, so he broke into Bulgaria wearing a military uniform. As a result, he was directly shot to death by Bulgarian soldiers, and the dog was probably turned into fragrant dog meat soup.
This was so serious that old grudges had not disappeared but new grudges were added. Greece immediately issued an ultimatum to Bulgaria, requiring the Bulgarian government to severely punish those responsible within 24 hours, publicly apologize to the Greek government, and compensate Greece.
At this time, Greece's total losses were one person and one dog, and the dog was not necessarily eaten by the Bulgarians.
For this person and one dog, the amount of compensation offered by the Greek government was 6 million.
6 million pounds!
Now in 1925, I don’t know how much a pound of human meat costs due to lack of data support, but dog meat——
I don’t know about dog meat, but it certainly can’t be that expensive. In the eyes of the Bulgarian government, the price offered by the Greek government is blackmail.
So Greece brazenly launched a war and sent troops to invade Bulgaria.
As the defeated party in the world war, Bulgaria, like Germany, was subject to strict restrictions after the Paris Peace Conference, so naturally it could not defeat Greece, which had no restrictions.
The Bulgarians were also very smart. They knew they couldn't beat them, so they only put up token resistance and then just lay down and let them do whatever they wanted.
With superior equipment, superior troops, and well-known divisions, the Greek army successfully occupied the city of Petrich, an important border town in Bulgaria, and then refused to leave.
Bulgaria had no choice but to fight again and again. It wanted to settle the matter but the Greeks did not agree, so they had no choice but to complain to the League of Nations, hoping that the League of Nations would allow Greece to withdraw its troops.
"It is impossible to withdraw the troops. Unless Bulgaria agrees to all the demands of the Greek government, this matter can end." The Greek representative was unreasonable and killed my people, ate my dogs, and only occupied one Pegasus.
Trichy City is not enough.
"We in Bulgaria have lost hundreds of soldiers from the outbreak of the war to now. You burned, killed, looted and looted in the city of Petrich, took pictures in front of the government building, and committed all kinds of evil -" the Bulgarian representative burst into tears.
Representatives from other countries were very curious. Isn’t the point that Bulgaria only lost a few hundred soldiers? The city of Petrich was an important border defense town, but Bulgaria only lost less than a hundred soldiers and then gave it away. Those who didn’t know thought that Greece had more soldiers.
So powerful.
As for taking photos in front of the government building, for Greek officers and soldiers, it is probably the same as checking in at a tourist attraction.
But for the Bulgarian government, this is Hongguoguo's humiliation.
