While the French government merged into one, the British government continued to separate inexplicably. There was the Belfast government in Ireland with Gott as prime minister, the London government in England with Mosley as prime minister, and the Scottish government with Chamberlain as prime minister.
Outside Edinburgh, the newly born fourth British government!
This government, similar to the previous Free French government-in-exile, was also a so-called "independent regime" established on foreign soil. This was the new British government formed by Churchill's son, Randolph Churchill, with the help of the U.S. government after he fled to the United States.
However, compared to de Gaulle, Randolph's methods seemed too immature.
First of all, his so-called British government has no independence at all. It is just a puppet government of the Americans, a card in their hand.
For the wealthy US government, it is actually a very easy thing to spend some money to equip Randolph with a government building and arrange for Americans to serve as officials of the British government.
Under the leadership of Army Chief of Staff General Marshall, who was personally appointed by Roosevelt, the U.S. government easily drafted an agreement that was completely beneficial to itself, and was recognized by Randolph's British government.
According to this agreement, the British Army of the Randolph government is a foreign corps among the U.S. Army. It does not have its own country or independence. It only retains the name of the British government and gives the United States an excuse to send troops to Europe in the future.
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Such an agreement, which completely turned the Randolph government into a puppet, was signed with ease. It must be said that Randolph was simply the most controllable British agent the U.S. government had ever encountered.
Of course, Marshall, who made such an agreement, can be regarded as a very evil being. With his own hands, he fully utilized the role of Randolph Churchill across the ocean, which can be said to have completely transformed Randolph's body.
Value has been squeezed to the extreme.
Being able to make such an agreement is enough to prove Marshall's talent and cunning.
Speaking of which, Marshall can be considered a legend in the US military.
He entered the U.S. Virginia Military Academy when he was less than 17 years old. Unlike the famous U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduates of the Virginia Military Academy are not guaranteed to become U.S. Army officers after graduation.
In other words, Marshall did not actually come from a so-called elite school.
But through his own efforts, Marshall managed to graduate with the eighth best score in the school. Even the dean of his school said with emotion, "If Marshall can be appointed as an Army officer, he will definitely rise to the top, far surpassing the beauty of West Point Military Academy."
An average graduate from a super-prestigious school among **schools.”
In fact, what Marshall experienced in the first half of his life was completely a standard genius plot.
After graduation, he successfully obtained the rank of second lieutenant. When he was selected to attend the advanced training class at Fort Leavenworth in 1906, the other trainee students were all officers above the captain level, but he was the only second lieutenant. In later generations, this was enough.
Experienced as the protagonist of a standard fantasy novel.
A year later, Marshall ranked first and was qualified to continue his studies.
Unfortunately, at that time, there were very few promotion opportunities in the U.S. Army, so Marshall was only promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant, and he held this rank until he was 36 years old.
During this period, he served as an officer for 14 years, served in 14 different units in the United States, went to the Philippines twice, and joined the National Guard twice, but he just couldn't take it any further.
Contrary to his promotion path, no matter which army he served in, Marshall was praised by his superiors.
Therefore, his superiors praised Marshall as a genius who was willing to endure hardships, proficient in the art of war, and resourceful, but in the end he was still a lieutenant.
If this doesn't look like the life experience that the protagonist of a fantasy novel should have, then the following plot is simply the best template for the experiences of the protagonists of all novels.
Marshall's boss, General Hagood, wrote in a 1916 report on the officer's ability: "Marshall should be appointed brigadier general in the regular army. If the appointment is delayed for one day, the army and the country will suffer losses!"
That's right, he was gifted with talent since he was a child, studied and tempered in a college that was not the most famous, and then graduated with excellent results. He was competing with competitors who were higher than him, but he was perfect. He defeated these opponents. After that, he was praised by his superiors wherever he went. He also received strong praise from the general and gave him a very high evaluation.
But the actual development direction is that the U.S. Commission for the Promotion of Officers only appointed Marshall to the rank of captain after seeing Hagood's high evaluation.
If God is a writer and Marshall is a protagonist in his writing, then this is a very clever writing technique.
Let everyone say that this person is very powerful, with all kinds of reputations and all kinds of praise, but Marshall's level is that he does not rise to the top in one step, but is slowly promoted, and then after each promotion level, he is shocked by various surprises in the new position. For genius.
This is not over yet. During World War I, Marshall was appointed as a temporary staff officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He participated in a big plot and performed very well. Because of his outstanding performance in the forward position, he was promoted to temporary staff officer. Colonel.
But then, for the development of the plot, God canceled his temporary lieutenant colonel and replaced him with the position of captain.
But it seems that in order to satisfy the officer, God gave Marshall a small promotion and made him a major, which was regarded as a kind of compensation for canceling the temporary rank of colonel.
Then, Marshall was assigned to serve as a military academy instructor in China, where he showed off his skills in front of a group of trainees, and was gradually promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Marshall's career as an instructor was not a simple plot transition, but laid a big foreshadowing for the future. During this period, Marshall established a cadet file and wrote down the names of young officers he thought were talented. on top.
Later, after Marshall became the Chief of Staff of the Army, this file became an important weapon, allowing him to select outstanding commanders based on it.
However, it may be that the novelist who described Marshall promoted Marshall to lieutenant colonel and kept him developing at this level for the sake of plot. This plot lasted fifteen years!
Maybe it was because there were too many plots about water, or maybe it was too unfair to Marshall. When Marshall was 55 years old, he was finally promoted from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general by God, which was the first rapid promotion in his life. addiction.
In contrast, during the period when Marshall was promoted, a German staff sergeant named Reinhard had been promoted from noncommissioned officer to general.
When Marshall was finally promoted, Reinhardt had already transformed from general to head of state.
This is really comparing people to each other, which is really annoying.
Just now, after President Roosevelt appointed Marshall as Army Chief of Staff, he was officially awarded the rank of major general.
As for his current rank of general, he still holds it temporarily.
However, the bumpy promotion process and mismatched talents and gifts did not obscure Marshall's brilliance. To a certain extent, his life experience was richer and more meaningful than that of Reinhardt, the German head of state.
Even as the prototype of a novel's protagonist, Marshall's life experience is more suitable for being written into a book.
Marshall, a late bloomer, finally had enough plans to show himself after the beginning of World War II.
As the Chief of Staff of the Army who was favored by Roosevelt, he very wisely first proposed, "Whether it wants to or not, the United States will inevitably be involved in the war. Therefore, the United States must actively prepare for war before it encounters the flames of war."
And he was also one of the few savvy people in the United States who strongly supported Roosevelt's strategy of aiding Britain in the early days of isolationism.
Marshall argued from the beginning that the British were fighting to buy the United States time to prepare.
And now, even though the British war was over, Marshall still used Randolph as his spokesperson to follow the trend of British governments emerging one after another and create a fourth British government.