The Allied camp was caught off guard by the Volga Federation's Samara peace initiative and was extremely embarrassed. However, Germany responded to the initiative immediately and proposed that the western border could be restored to its 1914 position as a starting point for negotiations and an honorable end to the war. However, the eastern border was avoided, as was the issue of war responsibility and reparations. This suddenly forced the US, UK, and France governments into a corner.
Politicians in Paris, London and Washington were quarreling, and the generals on the front lines of the United States, Britain and France were indignantly clamoring to fight to the end. Only by completely defeating the German ambition wolf could the war be ended. The Volga Federation was nothing more than an onion. How dare you speak for the Germans? !
Politicians should be more clear-headed. A flurry of telegrams and special envoys are heading straight to Beijing, Tokyo and Samara. All kinds of diplomatic rhetoric and pressure are heading towards the Sino-Japanese alliance and the governments of the two countries. In the end, like a congress Like a river flowing into the sea, it reached the King of China in Samara. Duan Qirui sent Gu Weijun, who returned to China to coordinate the position of China and the United States, as a special envoy. Japan sent its foreign minister. To be honest, what is the plan of the uncrowned king of Asia? Who really knows There are not many people, but no one dares to make random suspicions. Once the Sino-Japanese alliance is forced from the Allied Powers camp to the Central Powers, no one knows how this war will end!
After intense mediation and testing, on September 12, the China-Japan Alliance announced its support and response to the Volga Federation¡¯s initiative. This battlefield on the European continent has come to an end
Immediately afterwards, the U.S. government announced that it would conditionally accept the Samara Initiative of the Volga Federation, but demanded compensation for the huge costs and losses the United States had paid for this war!
Having lost the support of the United States, the two governments of Britain and France had no choice but to issue a statement agreeing to start negotiations on the armistice, but required that the German troops return to the Hindenburg Line before formal negotiations could begin, otherwise Britain and France would have to fight to the end!
September 15, 1918, Prime Minister's Office, No. 10 Downing Street, London, England
"This is naked betrayal! This is naked blackmail! The Sino-Japanese alliance has betrayed its faith and made peace with Germany and Austria. This negative impact on world peace will not be eliminated for 20 years. The British and French boys on the Western Front are on the battlefield. The bloody battle is not just for the Asian yellow-skinned monkeys to take advantage of the opportunity to pick peaches on the Eastern Front! You can stop the war! The German and Austrian Allies must give up all the territories they have occupied since 1914 and compensate the Allies for their huge military losses!¡±
The emotional one is the current French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, known as the "Tiger of France". The 77-year-old Clemenceau looks nothing like an old man with his beard and eyes wide open. He took over as the French Prime Minister again a year ago. This guy was originally a doctor and later became the leader of the radical republican group. Served as a senator from 1902 to 1920, as interior minister in 1906, and in the same year as prime minister (until 1909).
His steady performance in the war of 1917 and the first half of 1918 earned him the title "Father of Victory". In Wang Geng's previous life, Clemenceau advocated severe punishment for Germany at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, advocating that Germany should "compensate to the last mark", and became one of the three giants at the peace conference (the other two were the United States President Woodrow Wilson and British Prime Minister David Lloyd George).
"George, we have all been fooled by the Americans and the Chinese. If the Germans are allowed to end the war with dignity as victors, then Britain and France will be out-and-out losers, and we will become the world's worst enemy." The laughingstock is that the war loans and debts owed to the Americans alone will make it impossible for Britain and France to turn around in 20 years! Who else can maintain peace on the European continent? Can they rely on Germany to dominate the European continent? The Volga Federation of unknown origin and the out-of-reach yellow race? "
Sitting opposite Clemenceau with a pipe was British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The 55-year-old British Prime Minister had led the British War Cabinet since 1916. He was also the last Freelan Prime Minister and his main support. But he is a Conservative. The British Prime Minister is a solicitor whose first native language is Welsh and his second language is English. The helmsman of the British war cabinet is 22 years younger than the emotional French Prime Minister opposite him. He looks more like an elder.
If it weren't for Lloyd George's hair being a bit gray, and if Earl George's beard was black and his hair was also dyed black, then the British Prime Minister in front of him would be almost a twin copy of the German Head of State 20 years later. The 29-year-old Austrian corporal was still commanding a machine gun for air surveillance in the trenches of the Hindenburg Line young and nervous.
As the founder of the welfare society, Lloyd George later ranked third among all British Prime Ministers. In Wang Geng's previous life, without Lloyd George's mediation, US President Wilson and French Prime Minister Clemenceau would never have peed in the same pot. There is no way to talk about the Versailles Peace Treaty. However, at this moment, the British Prime Minister, like the French Prime Minister, hates the Volga Federation and the Sino-Japanese Alliance who sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and stab Britain and France in the back. Just three days ago, the Allied Eastern Conference ??The Southern Front of the coalition forces has fully occupied the Baku oil fields, and has driven a British desert mountain division, exhausted from a long journey, back to Armenia from the edge of Baku!
"David, the one who really betrayed us was Woodrow Wilson. That King of China was just an agent of the Americans in Asia. According to the news from Washington, the personal relationship between Wang Geng and Wilson was not trivial. Moreover, I heard that Jack Morgan was The future father-in-law of the King of China, it is not difficult to understand why the Yankees were the first to stand up for the crappy Samara truce negotiation initiative! They are standing up for the American son-in-law!"
Although the French Prime Minister is 77 years old, he is a guy who is good at guessing people's hearts. Although there are rumors that the Chinese Duan Qirui is Wang Geng's future father-in-law, it is common for Chinese people to have three wives and four concubines. Who knows how many Chinese kings have never married? There are several aunts with good looks, but the daughter of the Morgan family fell in love with a partner of the Manhattan Industrial Bank. The two jointly established a world-class charity and invested all the penicillin patent fees in charity. It would be difficult to believe that there are no prostitutes. !
"I don't think so. Although the United States has mobilized 4 million troops and has joined 60 divisions and 1.8 million people in the European battlefield, these recruits from militia and boy scouts have never seen anything called modern warfare. In less than a month, the casualties reached 5 divisions, which scared Pershing out of his wits. Americans are originally a country where isolationism prevails. The influence of 9 million German-Jewish Yankees has made a comeback. I think President Wilson really wants to see him. It¡¯s better to stop the war. When the United States entered the war, he stated in his war speech that the purpose of the United States¡¯ entry into the war was to stop the war!¡±
Lloyd George's mood was extremely complicated. Although Britain suffered a lot from being tied to the French chariots in the war, its overseas colonies were expanded, and the huge Ottoman Turkish Empire was now falling apart and basically fell into the hands of the British Major Lawrence. In the ocean of the Arab People's War, if we can get enough benefits from dividing Turkey, there is no need for the British to continue to fight with the French guy!