Chapter 279： Churchill's Plan (Part 1)

Facing the Prime Minister's inquiry, Churchill replied earnestly. "Yes, Prime Minister, I know what I am doing."

Of course Winston Churchill knew what he was talking about. As the cabinet minister at the age of 34 and the most important post of the navy minister in the British Empire at the age of 37, it can be seen that his official career is prosperous.

But everything can be said if he comes from the Churchill family. His father Randolph Churchill was famous for his unwillingness in politics, but his unwillingness was relatively speaking. Served as the Minister of Indian Affairs and the Minister of Finance at the age of 37, but this made Randolph Churchill, who was determined to take the post of prime minister, depressed, and eventually passed away at the age of 46.

Look at this experience that made Churchill's father unwilling. This fully illustrates the status of the Churchill family in the UK. This is also the main help for Winston Churchill to stay in the cabinet after his fiasco in the Battle of the Dardanelles.

But as the Minister of Foreign Affairs Balfour, who has served as prime minister and is almost 70 years old, the old man is not at all suppressed by the illustrious Churchill family, even if he is only the nephew of the Marquis, I saw him slowly wipe his reading glasses to preach. .

"Mr. Churchill, please note that this is a meeting to determine the empire's policy and strategy, not your quarters office. Please state the reason you think is appropriate."

In the face of Balfour's questioning, would Churchill be polite when he changed his post as Secretary of the Navy. You must know that Marshal Fisher, who pioneered the era of dreadnoughts, resigned because he was run on the offensive direction at one station. But Churchill did not end well, because the defeat in the Dardanelles was pushed out of the decision-making circle. Fortunately, relying on family connections, he quickly revived and assumed the post of Minister of Military Supplies.

During his tenure as Minister of Military Supplies, he promoted a number of new inventions that had a profound impact, including tanks, airplanes, and chemical gases. Under Churchill's proposal, Britain rapidly expanded the production scale of tanks and promoted the application of aircraft in warfare. If he had not performed well in the position of Minister of Military Supplies, his speech at this meeting would not have received so much attention.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Churchill told his reasons. "Everyone, don't know how much you know about Romania?"

Seeing everyone looking at themselves blankly, Churchill took out a bunch of Romanian materials from his briefcase and distributed them to everyone. "This is the information I found about Romania over the years from the government. Some of it was compiled by myself. Everyone will take a look."

Everyone picked up the information that Churchill had prepared and looked at it. From this information, we can see the heart of Churchill. He analyzed various aspects of Romania's industry, population, resources, geography, and diplomatic changes. Among them, he commented on several major senior officials in Romania.

Among them, the Chief of Staff Prieshan was evaluated by Churchill as a rare military genius, because he completely changed the Romanian army, which can be seen from the Balkan War. Moreover, in the field of new military technology, Preshan is also taking precautions to develop new weapons, so that the Romanian army will not lag behind any other powers in equipment.

And the Romanian Prime Minister Bretianu was also evaluated by him as an excellent internal affairs genius. During his tenure as prime minister, Romania's economic development has been rapid development.

And the King Edel of Romania, of course, was also evaluated by him. In evaluating Edel, Churchill praised his performance in Romania with a shrewd mind, excellent vision, and genius vision. Whether it was to quickly move closer to Germany and Austria for the development of Romania in the early days, or to switch to neutrality before the outbreak of World War I, the situation has gradually become clear. I chose an excellent time so that London and Paris had to rely on him and meet his requirements. It is the performance of its ability.

Churchill’s information gave everyone a deeper understanding of Romania, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Andrew Law couldn’t help talking about it after reading it. "Unexpectedly, a little Romania has an income of 60 million pounds, which is really unexpected."

The chancellor of the Exchequer made the other cabinet members present also very emotional. Before the war, the British Empire was the world's number one power and it was only close to 300 million pounds. I did not expect that a small Balkan country can now reach one-fifth of its own. Although it is unfair to compare the pre-war with the present, the cabinet ministers present here sighed, mainly because Romania's income was only 20 million pounds before the war, and now it has doubled directly. Why is it not so embarrassing?

Churchill saw that everyone had seen it almost, so he spoke. "The opportunity for Romania to expand its territory is also obtained through these information."

Churchill pointed to the map that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had asked to hang up and told them. "Look at you, this is Romania."

He clicked on the Romanian location, then pointed to the Hungarian part east of the Tisza River and said This is the territory required by Romania. I think this is not the time to struggle with these Hungarian territories. "

He drew a stroke in Ukraine, and said that he drew in all the east of the South Bug River. "We can also give him the territory of Ukraine. If it is not enough, we can also give them all the east of the Dnieper."

All senior politicians present immediately understood Churchill's intentions. "You want to make Russia and Romania immortal in the future."

Hearing someone say what he meant, Churchill nodded and admitted. "Yes, I think now that we are going to coerce a country with potential, it will consume our precious national power, which is not worth it. So finding him an opponent is what we need to prepare."

It is obvious that Russia is the opponent that Churchill is looking for for Romania.

Churchill paused here so that the other members of the cabinet could digest what he said, and then continue to express his thoughts on making such a decision. "We have been fighting this battle for three years, and currently we have an absolute advantage. I believe that Germany and Austria will not be able to fight it soon, so we need to prepare in advance. If Germany and Austria surrender, then the biggest gain will be us. Allies, the French, they will dominate the European continent. This is a very bad thing."

Hearing that Churchill was worried about his ally France, no one was surprised. Don't look at Britain and France now fighting in a trench, but on other occasions when the two do not deal with each other.

Churchill was not the only one who was worried about France's dominance in the European continent after the war. They believe in the words of Prime Minister Palmerston: There are no permanent friends, only permanent interests.