Although the third brother has problems of one kind or another, his loyalty to the British Empire is unquestionable.
India is so weird that its way of fighting for independence is different from other countries. "Non-violence and non-cooperation" means not resisting British colonization, but also not cooperating and not actively creating value, so that Britain cannot obtain any benefits from colonization. Sooner or later, Britain will
Will give up India voluntarily.
Indians really don't have long memories.
During the last World War, in order to obtain support from India, Britain made many promises to India, which the Indians believed to be true.
After the war, when the Indians asked Britain to fulfill its promise, the British said it was just a British joke, which completely fooled the Indians.
After the outbreak of the world war this time, Britain repeated its old tricks and gave India countless promises.
The Indians were still convinced that they not only sent millions of troops to participate in the war, but also provided unreserved material support to the British Empire when they faced a Japanese invasion.
This can no longer be explained by "loyalty", it is simply stupid.
Look at what Australia has done. As a Commonwealth country, Australia has almost openly turned its back on the British Empire, leaving no face for its mother country.
After Winston left Australia, the Australian federal government and the Southern African federal government signed a security cooperation agreement, requesting the Southern African military to help Australia train its troops and allowing Southern Africa to station troops in Australia.
Southern Africa has made a public commitment to keeping Australia safe.
Australia is responsible for the costs of stationing troops in Australia in Southern Africa, and will gradually replace the British-style equipment of the Australian army with Southern African standard equipment.
There was a strong reaction in the UK to this agreement. Some members of Congress publicly declared that the UK should use force to protect its rights and interests and take back Australian iron ore from the hands of southern Africans.
This proposal will certainly be welcomed by British Steel, but the British government would not dare to do so.
After the agreement between Australia and Southern Africa was signed, the British government only issued a bland statement stating that it would not accept the agreement, and made no other statements.
The British Empire now had to rely on the support of southern Africa to win the war.
Members of Congress can make wild claims to win votes.
Officials will not go crazy like MPs. At least at this stage, turning against southern Africa and Australia will do no harm to the UK.
Don't let the small lose the big.
Halifax has now completely become a civilian port. As Canada's most important port on the Atlantic coast, Halifax is extremely busy, with countless merchant ships traveling between the British mainland and southern Africa every day.
What Winston learned was that the commercial exchanges between Halifax and southern Africa were far more frequent than the commercial exchanges with Britain.
This made Winston very angry. Even if Australia wanted to rebel, would Canada also want to betray the United Kingdom?
Then the Commonwealth is really in name only.
"There is strong economic complementarity between us and Southern Africa. Southern Africa needs industrial raw materials from Canada, and we need goods from Southern Africa. The key is that goods from Southern Africa are cheaper, with reliable quality and advanced performance -"
William King's words almost choked Winston to death.
The goods Canada needs can also be provided by the UK.
So William King said: The key is that southern African goods are of high quality and low price.
This goes back to the most basic principles of trading.
As the first country to start the industrial revolution, British industry is certainly very developed.
It is a pity that Britain's development could not be maintained for too long. It was surpassed by the United States and southern Africa, and even Germany caught up from behind. This does not include Russia, which does not make various industrial data public.
Britain's gradual abandonment of overseas colonies had a lot to do with the decline of British industry.
The greatest value of the colonies lies in the cheap industrial raw materials and the dumping ground for goods that can be obtained and demanded.
The reasons for the decline of British industry are complex. A large part of the reason is that rising costs and declining competitiveness have caused British businessmen to focus more on trade rather than industrial manufacturing.
The question then arises. They are also selling raw materials. Why don't the colonies sell them themselves? Instead, they have to let British businessmen cut them in the middle.
Another more important reason is that the important raw materials of Britain's overseas colonies, such as oil on the Persian Gulf coast and iron ore in Australia, are not controlled by British businessmen, but by southern African capital.
This is very embarrassing.
"Leon, have you ever thought about a problem? Southern Africa is no longer a country dominated by Anglo-Saxons. In the words of southern Africans: people who are not my race must have different hearts." Winston said to Southern Africa
The culture is very understanding.
It is precisely for this reason that Winston's worries about southern Africa have become more and more serious. Since the outbreak of this world war, they have even risen to the level of fear.
The development speed of southern Africa is too fast for Europeans.
The "American speed" that Americans are proud of pales in comparison to the "southern African speed".
"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, isn't this problem your own fault?" William King once again shocked Winston until he wanted to vomit blood.
You really can't blame anyone else.
Southern Africa's autonomy was approved by the United Kingdom. When Southern Africa became independent, Winston personally went to Southern Africa to congratulate it.
The proportion of Chinese in southern Africa is indeed high, but the original immigration policy was formulated by the British colonial government.
During the two world wars, countless Chinese enthusiastically joined the army and fought bloody battles for the continuation of human civilization.
Now that the war is not over, I am thinking of killing the donkey. It would be too ugly to eat.
"Now is not the time for us to hold ourselves accountable, but for us to wait until the war is over. Will the southern Africans or us Anglo-Saxons rule the world?" Winston forced the value and raised the issue to a racial level. William
·Mr. Jin is speechless.
"Even if southern Africans rule the world, it won't be worse than it is now -" William King's words surprised Winston. They were a perfect Anglo-Saxon traitor.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, you and Locke are old friends. You should know Locke better than I do. At least Locke is not the next Adolf." William King's attitude towards southern Africa has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with ten years ago.
When William King first became Prime Minister of Canada ten years ago, his attitude towards southern Africa was not friendly.
As time went by, it turned out that the arrival of the Atlantic Fleet did not turn Halifax into a colony in southern Africa. Instead, it brought prosperity to the entire province of Nova Scotia, which is now the largest economy in Canada.
The most dynamic province, Halifax under the management of southern Africans not only has a prosperous economy, but also has good public security and complete infrastructure. The residents live and work in peace and contentment. The key is to stay away from the threat of war.
For William King, the last point was particularly profound.
Southern Africa gave Canada a sense of security that even the British Empire could not guarantee.
If you look at it this way, who leads the world has nothing to do with Canada.
No matter how you calculate it, it's not Canada's turn to lead the world.
Although white people in southern Africa have lost their privileges, they have not been squeezed out by the majority of the population.
This is the ideal country described in "Utopia".
"Maybe not Locke, but what about the future leaders of southern Africa?" Winston had too many things to worry about, and wanted to take care of things a hundred years from now.
William King was helpless. This was completely unreasonable.
"Winston, I just want to ask you one question. If it were Americans, would our world be a better place?" William King did not follow Winston's thinking. If Americans led the entire world, Britain would be a better place.
It’s hard to say what will happen, Canada will definitely become a colony of the United States.
Winston was finally speechless.
Winston knew what Americans were doing.
Don't listen to what the Americans say. Winston himself has been a reporter, and the American routine is very clear.
There was a war between Britain and the United States. During the American Revolutionary War, the British and Canada teamed up to burn down Washington. How could Americans not hold grudges?
Going a step further, in the past hundred years, almost every economic crisis in the world has erupted from the U.S. stock market. Investors in European countries have been treated like leeks by Americans one after another. Winston himself has also been deceived.
It’s always painful to lose all your money.
There was a dinner as usual in the evening. Garfield, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, was in Whale Bay. Attending the banquet was Jackson Marshall Jr., Chief of Staff of the Atlantic Fleet.
The father of Jackson Marshall Jr. is Jackson Marshall Sr., who served as commander-in-chief of the Indian Ocean Fleet. He is now the only naval marshal in southern Africa and is highly respected.
Jackson Marshall Sr. had experience in serving in the Royal Navy, and Jackson Marshall Jr. studied at the Royal Naval Academy after graduating from Edward Naval Academy. This made Winston feel more naturally affectionate towards Jackson Marshall Jr.
To Winston's regret, the elder Jackson Marshall may still have feelings for the British Empire, while the younger Jackson Marshall has become a complete southern African.
"The Atlantic Fleet has a heavy task. Most of our main warships have been transferred to the Pacific to participate in the war with the Japanese Combined Fleet. The few remaining light cruisers and destroyers are also responsible for heavy escort missions. As you have seen,
Now there are only a few old warships under repair in the military port, and other warships are performing tasks. Our strength is still very weak and cannot support two-front operations." Xiao Ma is as low-key as Lao Ma, even though the strength of southern Africa is
Being low-key is no longer allowed.
The navy of Southern Africa is low-key, and everyone knows this.
As a signatory to the "Washington Naval Treaty" and the "London Naval Treaty", Southern Africa did not pursue battleships and focused all its strength on the construction of aircraft carriers, which once became the laughing stock of the Royal Navy.
As a result, the war broke out and the Southern African Navy completely turned around. The Royal Navy initially laughed at how ruthless the Southern African Navy was, but now its face hurts.
Xiao Ma's meaning is very clear. The Atlantic Fleet has too much time to take care of itself now, and the Royal Navy should better wish for itself.
"All the German warships are blocked by us in the naval port and have no ability to enter the Atlantic Ocean. How onerous can your task be?" Winston was very dissatisfied. Each southern African was more annoying than the last.
"All? Are you sure?" Xiao Ma is not polite, and the British Prime Minister won't pay for the Southern African Navy, so why should he indulge you?
It is definitely impossible. Germany's large surface ships cannot get out. Submarine activities are still rampant. Every month, nearly 100,000 tons of merchant ships of the Allies are sunk by German submarines.
The ubiquitous German submarines posed a huge threat to Allied merchant ships.
Before Britain declared war on Germany, southern Africa had already begun to implement a convoy system to minimize the loss of merchant ships.
The British were slow to respond in this regard and only started to implement the convoy system after the outbreak of the war. The merchant ships suffered heavy losses. Half of the merchant ships lost by the allies were British merchant ships.
This has a lot to do with the geographical location of the UK.
No matter how rampant Germany's submarine activities are, it cannot escape the protection range of the submarine base and can only operate within a certain range. The pressure is mainly on the British side.
Southern Africa is in principle Europe, and Halifax is also outside the operational range of German submarines. Southern African merchant ships from Halifax to Whale Bay try to avoid the operational range of German submarines as much as possible, which minimizes the risk of being attacked.
possible.
"Could sporadic German submarines pose a threat to the Atlantic Fleet?" Winston was exaggerating. No matter how tight the Royal Fleet's blockade network was, there would definitely be fish that slipped through the net.
Southern Africa is not only powerful in terms of aircraft carriers, but also in terms of small surface ships, such as light cruisers and destroyers. The Atlantic Fleet has hundreds of small surface ships, most of which have strong anti-submarine capabilities and must be capable of attacking
Light cruiser with sea-to-shore attack capability.
The cost of building a light cruiser is very low. For the cost of a single battleship, you can easily build a dozen light cruisers.
The role of one battleship is far less than that of a dozen light cruisers.
Taking France as an example, the cost of Richelieu is 1.227 billion francs.
The "Emile Bertin" light cruiser of the same period cost only 72 million francs.
The cost of the "Emile Bertin" light cruiser is much higher than that of the same level of light cruiser in Southern Africa. The standard displacement of this ship is 5,886 metric tons, and the full load displacement is 6,530 metric tons. According to Southern African standards, it can be classified as a heavy cruiser.
The armament system of the "Emile Bertin" is three triple-mounted 152mm main guns. Southern African light cruisers usually only have one main gun. The French have extended the idea of a battleship to a light cruiser, but there are not many anti-aircraft weapons.
, simply putting the cart before the horse.
Now the French Navy is planning to modify the "Emile Bertin" to add more anti-aircraft guns and remove the torpedo launcher.
However, this plan has not been implemented because the French Navy has now reached a critical moment of life and death.
