Chapter 3: Head-on (4)
However, what shocked the British was still behind. Just when Emory was intending to refute the People's Party's propositions, Chen Zhiyuan waved his hand again and signaled the British to listen to him finish his words. Out of the reserve of "gentleman", Emory temporarily suppressed the shock in his heart and wanted to hear what the People's Party had to say.
"As far as the current situation is concerned, our party does not have much hope for reaching an agreement with the UK on territorial issues. At least, personally, I hope that there will be no agreement between us. In this way, after the Japanese army occupy India and Myanmar, our army will ignore the opinions of the British side. With the assistance of the Muslim Alliance, the Progress Party, and the Deqin Party, our army can completely eliminate the invading Japanese troops, and thus achieve the victory of India and Myanmar. And our party's party's claims to the Shannan controlled area, the Sanhe Plain, and the territorial claims originally belonging to southern Yunnan will also be recognized by the newly established India, Myanmar and other countries after defeating the Japanese army! There is no need to talk more with the British 'gents'!"
Although Chen Zhiyuan had a smile on his lips and eyes, his words made Emory and others frightened! If the People's Party's idea of stalking the cicada and oriole behind him, wait for the Japanese army to defeat the British army and occupy the Indian-Myanmar region, and then defeat the Japanese army with the local forces, and then openly voted through public votes. If the British do not want to go against the world trend and resolve the problem by force, they can only watch the two colonies of India and Myanmar break away from the Commonwealth!
The United Kingdom is one of the drafters of the Atlantic Charter and a founding member state signed on the United Nations Declaration. The third principle of the Atlantic Charter is "...respect the right of all nations to choose the form of government they are willing to live under; hope to see the nations that have been deprived of their sovereignty and autonomy by force and regain sovereignty and autonomy." At the same time, this principle is also reiterated in the United Nations Declaration. If Britain blatantly violates its commitment to seeking India and Burma to use force, it will inevitably have far-reaching negative impact on it internationally.
Moreover, even if Britain really chose to suppress India with force, Myanmar's ** movement, with the support of the People's Party, the possibility of the British army coming from afar will be unusually low!
Emory looked at the smiles on Chen Zhiyuan's face, and felt extremely disgusted no matter how he looked. He could no longer sit still and stood up angrily and said glaringly: "The Kingdom of Great Britain will file a solemn protest against your attempt to seize Commonwealth territory in this way! I personally and the jazz involved in the negotiations expressed great indignation at this! Your behavior will set an extremely bad precedent in the international arena! If you do not have the sincerity to resolve the issue peacefully, then there is no need for us to continue talking!"
Seeing that Chen Zhiyuan's "black face" successfully shocked the British, Lin Chenglou was happy and knew that his "black face" should appear, so he smiled and advised: "Since we are sitting here, it means that our party has the sincerity to resolve the problem peacefully. However, the British side also needs to show sincerity to solve the problem!
As for what Mr. Emory just accused Commander Chen of saying that he had set an extremely bad precedent in the international world, I don’t think so. In fact, Commander Chen learned this idea from Britain and several other countries. If you really want to blame him, then Mr. Emory should also blame the previous British government first!”
After Emory sat down, he thought about the history of British diplomacy he knew carefully. He did not think of any precedent similar to what Chen Zhiyuan said, so he said flatly: "This is absolutely impossible! British gentlemen would not do such despicable behavior!"
"Mr. Emory is a noble man and forgets things!" Chen Zhiyuan smiled sarcastically and said, "Don't forget that China was also the victorious country of World War I, but at the Paris Peace Conference after the war, China's claim to take back Shandong's rights was opposed by Japan. At that time, the British and French governments supported Japan's claims for their own interests and became accomplices of the Japanese! Since the British government could support the unreasonable claims of the Japanese at the time, we should agree to our party's proposal. After all, our party really wants to help India and the Burmese people achieve real **!"
Qingdao, Jiaozhou Bay and Jiaoji Line were the spheres of influence occupied by Germany in China before World War I. Although it was not a complete colony, it was also a semi-colonial area. This is very similar to the status of India and Myanmar as British colonies.
In contrast, Japan's current invasion of Myanmar and its possible invasion of India in the future are nothing fundamentally different from the fact that Japan used the excuse of declaring war on Germany to send troops to seize Germany's rights in China. They are all aimed at expanding colonies to plunder various resources, dumping goods, and exporting capital.
If you say something different, it is also that there is an additional People's Party armed forces in Shannan who are waiting for the Japanese to succeed before taking action. If Chen Zhiyuan said that the uniting Indian-Myanmar forces to defeat the Japanese army and the two places' proposals become a reality, then there is no need to wait for the decision of the So-and-Secrets and the Association after the war, and it doesn't matter to the British!
Emory just thought about whether there was any precedent in the actions of the British-led countries like Chen Zhiyuan mentioned. He did not think of the international past that the British bet on the side drums, and the Japanese were now exposed and criticized by Chen Zhiyuan in person. It is not embarrassing at the moment. Especially when the British supported Japan, Japan, has become the biggest enemy of Britain in Asia. China, which was jointly suppressed by Britain and Japan, became the target of British eager to seek help. This made Emory and others even more embarrassed and a little anxious. He was deeply afraid that the People's Party would really be like Chen Zhiyuan said, and then acted aside the British after the Japanese army occupied India and Myanmar.
After a moment of silence, Emory took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, shrugged his shoulders and said calmly: "Okay, I will take back my inappropriate words. However, we sit here in the hope of reaching an agreement to resolve the problem peacefully, not to deepen the opposition between us. For the consideration of long-term friendship between us, we can reconsider the territorial claims put forward by your party. However, it is absolutely impossible to let India and Myanmar ** now!"
Chen Zhiyuan sneered at the friendship that Emory mentioned! The People's Party and the UK do not have official official relationships. Now they are just using the relevant situation to force the British to reach an agreement on exchange of interests. Where can they talk about friendship?! If there is really friendship, the British would not have been more than allowed the Andaman Islands to be occupied by the Japanese than to easily give it to the People's Party! This is a very different story compared to the British transferring many naval bases in the West Indies to the United States in exchange for fifty old destroyers!
"We are also very clear about the situation facing your country. In order to jointly attack the Japanese army, our party agrees to India and Myanmar to suspend **. But you must propose a practical timetable to implement it after a decisive victory in the war against Japan!" Lin Chenglou took the opportunity to put forward a consensus reached with the Muslim alliance, the advance party, and the Deqin party, and said, "The Japanese army has occupied southern Myanmar and is advancing northward. In order to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the Alagan Mountains Dongge Pass to advance the Achabu Port and the Galadan River Basin controlled by our army, our defense line will advance eastward to the Daxi, Delai line, and control the Victoria Mountains to the north. As for the control line of our army in other directions, it will remain unchanged.
In addition, our patience is limited. If you cannot give a substantive answer to the relevant issues before the end of this month, then we will not need to continue talking about it!"
Due to the firm attitude of the People's Party, the negotiations on that day ended here. After seeing off Emory and his party, Lin Chenglou and Chen Zhiyuan, the negotiators of the Muslim alliance, advanced to the party and Deqin party, had in-depth exchanges of opinions.
For Jinnah, Boss, Aung San and others, if India can be achieved, Myanmar's ** will naturally be a good thing in one step. However, after Lin Chenglou and Chen Zhiyuan did the meticulous work before and after the negotiations, they also realized that if the Japanese invaded Myanmar and had attempted to march into India, the ** movement would be hit by a double blow from Britain and Japan. Even if the Japanese could really establish the "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity" as they said, as they drove away the British. It was just a front door to drive the tiger into the back door, which was far worse than the People's Party only providing material assistance and limited guidance without interfering with the internal affairs of the ** movement.
Moreover, the People's Party also promised that its territorial claims were limited to the "decisive territory" of the current People's Army-controlled areas and the Sanhe Plain, as well as the territory occupied by the British in northern Myanmar, as well as the Hong Kong and Andaman Islands, which had nothing to do with India and Myanmar, as for the future areas occupied by the Myanmar region, will be returned to their power after the war ends. At the same time, the People's Party also proposed that during the future war in Myanmar, the Deqin Party can assist the People's Party in establishing a regime in the newly occupied areas so that it can be successfully transferred after the war. This further eliminates the doubts of several forces of the country and lays the foundation for future post-war regional cooperation.
Compared with Lin Chenglou, Chen Zhiyuan talked and laughed with representatives of the three countries of India and Myanmar, while Emory and others who were returning to New Delhi were worried and angry. However, the territorial claims proposed by the People's Party and India and Myanmar issues were not something they could decide. Emory and others could only telegraph London to the relevant issues as soon as possible, explain in detail the current situation, and urge London to make a decision as soon as possible.
In a long telegram to Churchill, Emory lamented: "The People's Party is a powerful and extremely cunning devil. They understand the current situation and can use this situation to seek the best interests of themselves! What is helpless is that the power of the Kingdom in the Far East is now far from enough to fight against the Japanese army and then go to war with the People's Party while fighting against the People's Party! If the Kingdom does not want to completely lose control of India and Myanmar now, I really can't see any other hope of solving the problem except for the conditions of the People's Party..."
After receiving the telegram, Churchill was also angry and could not tolerate it. The Chinese who had been trampled on his feet in the past have now taken the opportunity to take over the Kingdom of Great Britain! Just as he was furious and planning countermeasures, Sir Clark Kerr, the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, sent a telegram on March 27, claiming that the Soviet Union was preparing to sign a formal agreement with the People's Party, urging the UK to resolve local issues in India as soon as possible, so as to open up new material channels to arrive in the Soviet Central Asia region through Karachi Port, northwest India and Xinjiang, China.
At the same time, the Soviet Union also proposed that in order to increase the original transportation capacity of the material channels from Iran to Central Asia, the United Kingdom should hand over the relevant railways to the United States to operate in order to use the numerous locomotives, car washes and management experience provided by the United States to improve the efficiency of material transportation. Under the operation of the Soviet Union, the US President's Special Envoy Evrier Harriman, who is responsible for the implementation of the lease bill, also called Churchill, expressing his interest in increasing the transportation capacity of Iran's material channels in order to alleviate the shortage of Soviet materials and increase the combat capabilities of allies against the Axis Group.
Churchill proposed to the Soviet Union to open up a material channel through Xinjiang. He originally wanted to put pressure on the People's Party to force it to agree to the British conditions, so as to solve the two major forces in India in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the People's Party was preparing to wait for the Japanese to occupy Myanmar and India, and then put aside the United Kingdom and the ** forces to work together to clean up the situation! In addition, the party took the lead in reaching agreement with the Soviet Union on territorial issues. The Soviet Union and the United States were extremely enthusiastic about increasing the transportation capacity of material channels. Faced with these pressures, Churchill felt like shooting himself in the foot!
When the world comes, the world works together, and heroes are not free. Although Churchill does not know these two ancient poems in China, he thinks what Emory said makes sense. The People's Party is a cunning devil who even God favors him!
After two days of trouble, Churchill sent a long message to Emory and others on the 28th, detailing London's opinions on negotiations with the People's Party and the Indian-Myanmar forces:
"Dear Leo, I understand the pain you and the other gentlemen now. In fact, personally, I would rather die with the devil of the Popular Party than damage the interests of the British Kingdom! But the cruel reality has forced us to admit that for the sake of the entire Kingdom of Great Britain and the entire Federation, we can only sign painful agreements with the devil.
Unfortunately, our allies, including the Soviet Union, which I had hated so much before and the United States, have always been friendly, in order to win a breathing opportunity in the future fight against the Axis Group, urged the gentlemen of the Kingdom to reach an agreement with such bandits as the People's Party as soon as possible! They are simply acting as accomplices! And we really have no other choice except to agree!...
In order to reach an agreement with the People's Party, we can temporarily agree with their request, but on the specific demarcation of borders, the time of India-Myanmar, and especially the division of Muslims and Hindus survival areas in India, we have to think about delaying it for about half a month to see the direction of the situation in Myanmar and whether the war situation will be improved after the Somerville fleet arrives in India. If the situation still does not improve in the future, then we really have no choice but to sign..."
Then Churchill called Evriel Harriman and discussed the issue of increasing the transportation capacity of material passages passing through Iran.
In the early days of World War II, the Pahlavi regime in Iran was relatively close with Germany, but after the outbreak of the Soviet-German War, Britain and the Soviet Union jointly sent troops to Iran, forcing Pahlavi to step down and let his son Mohammed Reza Pahlavi succeed to the throne. This paved the way for the delivery of materials to the Soviet Union through Iran. In January 1942, Britain and the Soviet Union signed an alliance treaty with Iran, further consolidating their relationship.
In order to introduce cheap oil from Iran, the British company began to build a railway between the Port of Shahpur, the Persian Gulf (the later port of Khomeini) and the Port of Turkman on the northern coast of the Caspian Coast in 1999. After eleven years of hard work, the railway with a total length of nearly 1,400 kilometers was completed in 38 years. However, due to the outbreak of the European War, the British were unable to take into account the operation of the railway. This railway running across the north and south of Iran was also under transportation due to the lack of locomotives, car wands and experienced managers.
In history, it was not until August 1942 that the British side handed over the Iranian railway to the Americans in order to increase the capacity for transportation of materials to the Soviet Union. But now, due to the failure to calculate the People's Party, Churchill has to hand over the railway to the Americans nearly half a year in advance. Of course, when Churchill handed over the railway, he also retained the British priority for the military uses of the railway.
Churchill's negotiations with Harriman were relatively smooth, while Emory, from India and Myanmar, was racking his brains to argue with the People's Party on relevant technical details, in order to achieve Churchill's intention to delay for half a month.
Regarding the territorial issues advocated by the People's Party, the British side has agreed that the People's Army's Shannan Control Area and the Sanhe Plain Land belong to the Chinese People's Party, and has agreed to transfer the territory occupied by northern Myanmar from Yunnan and the Andaman Islands occupied by the Japanese army to the People's Party, but these two places need to be seized by the People's Army.
In exchange, the People's Party promised that the British and Myanmar troops could transfer to India through the Shannan controlled area of the People's Army when the situation in Myanmar was critical, and promised not to promote India before the future war against Japan was over.
As for India and the Myanmar issue, the UK agreed to determine whether to recognize the two countries as ** countries based on the public voting status after the war against Japan ended, but the last countries must be retained within the Commonwealth framework as member states.
The division of Muslim and Hindus in India and the issue of division of India and Pakistan raised by Jinnah must wait for the post-war period to view the public's voting situation before making a decision. After all, even if India and Pakistan still exist together as two autonomous regions after the division of India and Pakistan, it will be a very complicated issue and cannot be completely solved at the negotiating table.
Just as the People's Party and India-Myanmar forces and the British were still negotiating on relevant issues, on April 2, the Shannan People's Army Air Force, under the command of Bao Sheng, used the superior forces of two F-1 aviation regiments and the cooperation of ground air defense forces to engage in a fierce air battle with the Japanese fighter jets attacking in the airspace near Achabu Port, and wiped out sixteen Type 99 bombers and twenty-four Zero fighters!
Although this battle was not large in scale, it marked the official intervention of the People's Party's armed forces in the Pacific War and also kicked off the battle between the People's Party's land, sea and air forces in the South China Sea! At the same time, this battle also made the world once again appreciate the sharpness of the People's Party's air force, which shocked the Japanese and British and American allies.
The commander of the Southern Army of the Japanese Army, Touchi Teraunuchi, who had suffered from the hands of the People's Party armed forces, ordered his troops and reinforcements of the Japanese army. Before the ground and absolute superior forces were formed, you should avoid large-scale conflicts with the People's Party armed forces.
Britain and the United States saw the many benefits that can bring to the People's Party to join the war against Japan, and began to increase their contact with the People's Party. Churchill even called Emory to ask him to re-record the aircraft carrier transaction to the People's Party and try to introduce F-1 fighters to strengthen Britain's naval and air force in the Far East.
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