Chapter 137: Currency Wars VII
On February 25, 1922, British Prime Minister Lloyd's Brown was born. George was in the British Consulate in Boulogne and a little more than a month ago he had become the French Prime Minister again with the right Pai Raymond. When Poencaré shook hands, the thought came to his heart: God must have abandoned the French people, their lives are too depraved, their love is too casual, and their ideas are too strange, as if they have been replaced with schizophrenia!
On January 6, when the Supreme Council of the Entente met in Cannes, France, to discuss issues related to the Renaya Conference, the French Prime Minister was still the Virgin Briand of the Left Pai. At that time, it was well said: let the Germans lose less, and at the same time let them surrender control of the Reichsbank, put the finances under the supervision of the Allies, and then issue a new mark pegged to the pound......
In effect, Germany was allowed to surrender once again unconditionally – to surrender their currency, to give Britain full control of their economy, to ensure that Germany would not once again go down the path of militarism.
What a wonderful thing! Give the Germans a bite to eat, let them work hard to pay off their debts, and the economic lifeblood is still in the hands of the British......
But as soon as the Cannes Conference ended, the French government led by Briand fell again. The one who doesn't think about anything and just wants to drive Germany crazy. This time, Poincaré organized a coalition of political parties called the "National Bloc", regained power, and became prime minister of France again.
"Mr. Prime Minister, I'm back!" Ramon. Poincaré was very enthusiastic and Lloyd's. George hugged, "We can work together again to clean up the Germans!" ”
Neuropathy! The British Prime Minister thought weakly: France is a psychopath, one moment he wants to marry Germany, and the next he wants to stab the Germans to death with scissors. It would be difficult for Germans not to be crazy to become a neighbor on land with such a country.
"Then the agreement at Cannes ......" Lloyd's. "That's already a harsh thing," said George, who thought about it by chance, and that Germany would become a country without monetary sovereignty. This is yet another unconditional surrender on the economy! ”
"No, that's not an unconditional surrender!" Ramon. "They should meet their obligation to pay reparations, and if they can't get the gold, they should pay in kind, and they should meet the obligation to pay for the collateral for production." If they fail, then our and Belgian armies will occupy the entire Ruhr area in accordance with the treaty in order to supervise their mission. ”
Finished! God has really abandoned the French!
"However, to do so would be to collapse the forces of peace and democracy within Germany." Lloyd's. George bitterly said, "Ludendorff's party (at this time no one takes Hitler seriously, only Ludendorff) will get more supporters in the next election." ”
"So what? We have already defeated Germany once, can't we defeat Germany a second time? ”
Who are we referring to? Lloyd's. George was curious to know: is it England, France and the United States, or France and Poland?
"If France retracts its position in Cannes, the United States will not send a representative to the Renaya conference." Lloyd's. George said.
France continues to force debt, which means that Germany's monetary reform cannot be started, so why are Americans still coming to Asia? To endorse the Anglo-French policy towards the Soviet Union? The Americans will not go to negotiate with Soviet Russia themselves?
"It is enough to have France, England, Belgium and Poland!"
Enough fart! Lloyd's. George was full of complaints: It was not Germany that had to be dealt with at the Re-N Asian Conference, but also Soviet Russia! If the Americans were to contact Soviet Russia alone, would the Hot N Asian meeting still have a fart? If the Thermal Asia Conference fails, my Prime Minister will also come to an end (Qiu Fatzi and Curzon are already jumping because of the signing of a trade agreement with Soviet Russia, if the Thermal N Asian Conference does not satisfy them, the Conservative Party will fall down), and then it may be the Labor Party that will come to power, and you want the Labour Party to support the war, unless the sun comes out from the west!
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"Alright, now Joseph. Wirther and Val T. Rathenau can't step down! ”
Admiral Seckert kept on his desk a copy of the telegram that Hersman had just sent, which had been sent by Canaris from Renaya. The Stasi Chief of Foreign Intelligence is a man of great powers, and what is happening and about to happen at the Renaya meeting is under his watch.
Although the meeting of Boulogne more than a month ago had already decided the outcome of the meeting. However, Val T. Rathenau tried his best to mediate in the hope of obtaining more favorable terms of surrender for Germany.
But the French did not allow Germany to surrender! Not only was there no relaxation in the amount of the reparations, but Germany was also required to pay the "production collateral" in full - in early 1922, France, Belgium and Italy agreed to a two-year moratorium on the payment of the reparations, but demanded that Germany pay the production collateral on a monthly basis, because of Germany's inability to pay the reparations. More than a million tonnes of coal are to be delivered every month, as well as a large amount of timber.
Originally, Germany was able to complete the delivery task, but the rapid devaluation of the mark began to hit German production seriously. If at the Renaya Conference, there was no agreement on the issuance of a new mark, then Germany would certainly not have been able to complete the delivery tasks of 1922.
And now, Britain and France officially announced at the Renaya Conference: they decided to cancel the issue of discussing German reparations and amending the Treaty of Versailles at the conference.
That is: the new mark is far away, the German economy is about to collapse completely, and it is simply impossible to complete the task of paying for the production collateral......
"Ludwig, if the Re-N Asia conference fails completely, how many Socialist MPs can you co-opt?"
Seckert's question showed that he wanted to push for impeachment!
"Your Excellency, the conditions are not ripe at the moment." Hersman's answer stunned Seckert.
"Aren't there enough people to support it?"
"No, it's not." Hersmann shook his head, "The impeachment will definitely succeed – even if the Social Democrats (the Independent Social Democrats have merged with the SPD) are internally monolithic, we can manage to keep some of these MPs out of attendance for some reason." But...... French and Belgian troops will occupy the Ruhr area in January next year! When the time comes, if Field Marshal Hindenburg becomes president in power, how will we cope? ”
Beat? It's impossible. If you don't fight, that's non-resistance......
"Will the Ruhr area really be occupied?" Schleicher was also in the office.
Now there was a "conspiracy group" within the German Wehrmacht. The leader was Seckert, and the backbone were the head of the Political Department, Schleicher, the head of the Intelligence Department, Hersmann, the chief of staff of the 3rd Military Region in Berlin, Lieutenant Colonel Bock, and the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, Major General Rundstead, and others. Basically, they are officers who can be regarded as confidants by Admiral Seckert.
They wanted to remove President Albert from power and replace him with Hindenburg or Ludendorff. But they do not want to carry out a blatant coup d'état, and want to act within the limits of "what the law allows". It's not because the coup d'état is not sure of success, but because I'm afraid that there will be no way to clean up the mess after the coup succeeds.
"Yes, definitely!" "So we should dissolve parliament again and hold general elections after they occupy the Ruhr area." Then we will be able to gather the seats needed for impeachment...... I think it would be better if the Nazi Party and the People's Party could increase their seats to more than 100 seats. ”
"What about the Ruhr area?" Seckert asked.
"A general strike in the Ruhr and Saarland can be called!" "At the same time, the economy was put into wartime mode, with a strict rationing system in place to ward off inflation," Hersman said. ”
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