"Of course it's a good thing, I believe Truman should be happy about it." Prime Minister Attlee replied in a flat tone, with no elation in his tone, "Maybe our former prime minister was also very happy, but this has nothing to do with us. It doesn't matter anymore."

Then he looked at Alan Wilson and said, "Alan, it can be seen from your answer just now that we have sold Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union, isn't that so?"

Forehead! Alan Wilson quickly turned his head and said, "The so-called betrayal is nothing but an exchange of interests. It can be said to be another way of saying diplomacy. In fact, the word entangled in whether to betray does not make much sense. In essence, The British Empire is a global colonial empire, and European affairs are of course very important, but the reality reminds us that Eastern Europe is already under the control of the Soviets, and it is logical for us to admit this control, but it is not completely betrayal.”

"There is no doubt that Europe has now attracted the peeps of the Soviet Union and the United States, and we have to admit the reality. From the perspective of global interests, the most important thing for the British Empire at present is to stabilize its position and protect other interests, because in Europe At least we still have the United States and France on the same front, and the problem is much more complicated from a global perspective, and the roles of enemy and friend may change.”

"In the foreseeable future, the Soviet Union may find trouble in Eastern Europe, and Mr Churchill foresaw this. After all consideration, Poland was exchanged. But from a global perspective, the Soviet Union's sea power is better than nothing, not in ten years. A shock to the global interests of the British Empire, but not another country."

The other country Alan Wilson speaks of is undoubtedly the Americans. Only the Americans now have greater naval power than the British Empire, infiltrating the British Empire's colonies around the world.

The question now is whether to protect Eastern Europe or the colonies? Needless to say, many people want to guarantee both, but in fact this is impossible.

"That is to say, during the previous negotiation, did the British Empire really betray Eastern Europe?" Prime Minister Attlee didn't get distracted by Alan Wilson's elementary words, and still asked without changing his original intention.

"Respected Prime Minister, Foreign Minister. The word betrayal is too negative. That's how diplomacy is. In theory, we all need to have it, but once the negotiation starts, there must be someone who has it and someone who doesn't." Alexander Cadogan opened his mouth and said, " We essentially have no power to stop the Soviet Union from doing anything, but we can try to control the influence of the Soviet Union within a certain range."

"Like what?" asked the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, "where else could the Soviet Union threaten?"

"Turkey in the Near East, Iran in the Middle East." Alan Wilson had already answered when Alexander Cadogan was thinking, "It is no secret that the Soviet Union is a continental country and has always pursued an unfrozen port. However, neither the Soviet Union nor its predecessor, Imperial Russia, achieved their goals, so we agreed to help the Americans in the previous war against Japan, and hoped that the Soviet Union could find a port in the Far East so that it could be restrained.”

"Turkey revolves around the issue of the right of passage in the Black Sea Strait. We will not talk about this matter, and the Americans will also help. The most critical issue is the issue of Iran. In fact, maintaining the status quo is the best we can do. If Iran causes Because of the greed of the Soviet Union, we cannot stop it, so in the private transaction between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, we must obtain the assurance of the security of Iran from the Soviet Union.”

During the war, Turkey pursued a policy of neutrality, dealing with the three major forces of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and Germany and Italy, trying to protect its own interests without blaming any major power.

But in the end, the war against Germany and the issue of the Black Sea Strait gradually became at odds with the Allies, especially the relationship with the Soviet Union became increasingly tense. The deterioration of Soviet-Turkish relations in the later period of the war became an important trigger for the outbreak of the Cold War.

The United Kingdom wooed Turkey during World War II as part of the British Empire's Balkan program. It is hoped that Turkey will join the war and avoid retaliation from the Soviet Union after the war. The proponent of this plan was Churchill who had just stepped down.

But Churchill was finally swayed by the Turks, and he took the weapons and assistance of the British Empire, but refused to go to war against Germany. It has to be said that, for Churchill alone, Turkey is definitely his political suffering.

As early as the First World War, Churchill, as the Minister of the Admiralty, pushed the Ottoman Empire to the Allied camp because of two battleships, resulting in the Entente's imperial Russia being completely surrounded on the eastern front. In the end, when the oil runs out, the lamp goes out first!

During the Second World War, Churchill may have learned the lessons of the First World War, and he has always had great enthusiasm for Turkey's participation in the war~lightnovelpub.net~ For this reason, he sent many delegations and acted as many times to take advantage of . Even Robert Eden, the Conservative Party's No. 2 foreign secretary, was appalled by Churchill's wishful thinking.

When Alan Wilson went to the British-occupied area these days, the Soviet Union was chasing the Turkey issue. The previous Prime Minister Churchill took a reserved stance, while US President Truman was even more ambiguous, because the Turkey issue had always been discussed by the UK and the Soviet Union, and the US played a secondary role.

Truman didn't help Britain either, venting the infighting between Britain and the United States during World War II.

"Austria's problem must be solved immediately, and it can be used to exchange with the Soviet Union on the Dardanelles issue." Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevan listened to Alan Wilson's report, and after a long time... finally said, "As for the Iran issue, we must try our best to resolutely preserve the interests of the British Empire. What do you think, Clement?"

"Written assurances are not acceptable. The Soviet Union must publicly declare that it will not change the status quo in Iran and declare to the world that it will not use any means to subvert the Iranian regime." Prime Minister Attlee stood up and took two steps back and forth and emphasized, "The Soviet Union is in northern Iran. The size of the garrison must be reduced, and the size of the garrison must be negotiated bilaterally between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union."

Can the Turkish Strait issue be discussed? In exchange for Iran's withdrawal talks and the disarmament of the Soviet Red Army in Austria? Alan Wilson was shocked, as if in the history of the Dardanelles issue, the Soviet Union finally failed, and British interests in Iran were also taken over by the United States.

Sure enough! A civil servant who betrays the country is also happy, but the prime minister must personally act to betray the country! He can already think of the joke that the Labour Party has wronged the country.

"This is definitely not a mix-up, it's the Prime Minister's own decision." Alan Wilson thought to himself.