The news that Romania built the world's first jet aircraft did not attract much attention. This is not the world's first successful aircraft test flight. Unless Romania flies out of the atmosphere, this will cause a sensation in the world.
However, people in other countries who are also studying jet engines are extremely concerned about this, but their attention cannot affect their governments. The reason is very simple. At present, jet engines are not practical yet. At most, the next round of funding will not allow the Romanians to be too far ahead.
More is better.
When this report was placed on Edel's desk, the King of Bulgaria looked at it carefully for a while with his tired body, and then gave instructions to keep up the good work.
There is no way that the current use of jet aircraft will not be possible until the end of World War II. Now this report just shows that Romania has made progress in developing jets.
Moreover, Edel is too busy these days. Not only does he have to meet with people from all walks of life in Bulgaria, but he also has to conduct on-the-spot inspections of the actual situation in various parts of Bulgaria. He is busy all day long and does not even touch the ground. Even Hinden
For such a big event as Fort's death, Edel only sent people to attend.
In fact, after Hitler became Chancellor, Edel knew that no one could stop Germany from rearming. And Hindenburg's death left him with no restrictions and more power to monopolize.
Moreover, his actual ally Italy is becoming more and more restless. The ambassador to Italy reported to him that more and more news about Ethiopia is being reported in Italy. This makes Edel feel that the leader's restless heart is very likely to turn his attention to
Turn to this East African country.
This may be a chain reaction brought about by Edel becoming the king of Bulgaria. Although the Italian government currently receiving Libyan oil resources is in a much better life than in history, the impact of the economic crisis on its citizens has not subsided. Mainly due to Italian oil interests
The upper class is divided, and the benefits left to the lower class are not satisfactory. Moreover, Italy's economic recovery is far away due to the lack of a sufficient market.
Therefore, in the face of rising voices of dissatisfaction in the country, the communist regime headed by Mussolini thought of ways to divert national attention. In fact, within the Italian government, there is considerable controversy over which target to choose. Some people think that the Balkans
The Kingdom of Albania should be the first choice. Because this small country is across the sea from Italy, annexing this country will help Italy expand its influence in the Balkans.
However, opponents believe that because Albania is located in the Balkan Peninsula, if it is annexed, it is likely to arouse strong opposition from Britain, France, Yugoslavia and Greece. Moreover, with Romania taking the lead in taking over Bulgaria, if Italy joins again, it will
Yugoslavia and Greece, which had already been wary of the anomaly, overreacted.
Those who hold these views mainly come from the conservative faction within the Italian government. They believe that once Albaria, a mountainous country, encounters resistance during its entry, it will gain widespread sympathy from European countries, which is very detrimental to Italy.
Moreover, Italy does not have enough legal basis to support it to convince other countries. Therefore, it is impossible for the Bulgarian people to elect the king like Edel to the Albanians.
It is different for Ethiopia, because it is located in eastern Africa, and European countries will not contribute too much to it. Moreover, it is not within the sphere of influence of Britain and France, and it is unlikely to touch the nerves of the two countries.
That's right, Europe generally has no sense of the African continent at present. It also has no idea of world unity when it comes to dark skin.
The Italian government, after careful consideration, finally chose Ethiopia as the target to divert people's attention.
It is located in Africa, and it has a lot to do with the fact that it can connect Eritrea, the current Italian colony in East Africa, and Italian Somalia.
At present, Italy's colonies in East Africa are mainly Eritrea and Somalia. However, among them, Britain and France are divided into two non-connected parts from the north. General E. Debono, who currently serves as the governor of East Africa, also promoted Italy's invasion of Ethelby.
One of Asia's promoters.
Under his leadership, the Italian army repeatedly provoked and created friction in the border areas between the two sides, and took the opportunity to spread the news that Ethiopia was dissatisfied with Italy.
Therefore, under the promotion of the Italian upper class, its domestic newspapers and radio stations have given it a platform, as if Ethiopia is eyeing Italy's East African territory. This naturally aroused the Italian people's dissatisfaction with it, and even pushed the Kingdom of Italy to step up military preparations.
However, the Italian government knew that if it wanted to win Ethiopia, it would need diplomatic relations with Britain and France, so Mussolini signed the "Italo-French Treaty" with French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. The treaty stipulated that France would give Italy access to Ethiopia.
"freedom of movement".
The reason why France did this was because France wanted to focus Italy's attention on Africa. As Hitler came to power in Germany and Romania started trouble in the Balkans, France believed that Italy would also be interested. So instead of waiting for Italy to cause unrest in Europe,
It is better to vent its energy to the mountainous country of East Africa. Moreover, Ethiopia is full of high mountains and mountains, which will help increase Italy's consumption.
The Italian government was overjoyed after receiving France's guarantee, believing that this had removed a major obstacle.
However, Britain was opposed to Italy's move because it was worried that it might shake its rule in East Africa, Egypt and Sudan. For this reason, the Italian government continued to negotiate with it.
During the subsequent negotiations, Britain considered that the risk of war with Italy was too great. Moreover, it was able to win it over. It believed that sacrificing Ethiopia would prevent Mussolini from allying with Germany, and finally gave Italy a hint that it would not intervene in the invasion.
action.
After Britain and France gave it the green light, the anti-Ethiopian rhetoric in Italy reached a climax. For this reason, there was a telegram sent by the ambassador to Italy.
As for Italy's decision to invade Ethiopia, Edel cannot say that he is not optimistic. However, Italian invasions in history were quite unsuccessful. 300,000 Italian modern troops defeated Ethiopia's 450,000-500,000 backward tribes.
It is also amazing that the army needs heavy casualties to win. Moreover, the Ethiopian army's tactics are backward and they only know how to play positional warfare and attrition.
Although they are not the troops with javelins in the previous life online, they even have rifles with muzzle-loading guns. The Italian army, which has aircraft, tanks, poison gas and other equipment, also made a lot of jokes about this.
However, Edel did not intend to get involved. Firstly, Italy would not like to see others intervene, and secondly, it would be nice to let the leader see the Italian troops fighting bravely, lest the leader misestimate his own strength.
