Chapter 114: France also sings "The Internationale".
"Arise, hungry slaves!
Arise, all the suffering people of the world!
The blood is already boiling.
Fight for the truth!
The old world is in the dark.
Slaves get up, get up!
Don't say we have nothing,
We want to be the masters of the world......"
Amid the loud "Internationale" of the college entrance examination, a closed-door meeting of the Paris Peace Conference was about to begin. Of course, it was not the delegates of the countries attending the peace conference who sang, but the crowd gathered outside the Palace of Versailles, a considerable number of them Chinese, who had come to protest and the transfer of German rights in Shandong to Japan. But more protesters were French, who had come for the Russian Civil War and the Hungarian War.
Of course, these French working people did not come to support the French government's intervention in Russia and the oppression of Hungary, otherwise they would not have sung the Internationale. They were all party members of the anti-war French Unified Socialist Party, and they were led by a French parliamentarian named Marcel. Spice up.
Don't look at Clemenceau and Bixun shouting and shouting at the peace meeting to be extremely tough, in fact, France has also reached the point of being a foreign power. France is not the United States, which only joined the world war in April 1917, and the French people have endured the world war for four years and three months, and they have long been tired of it to the extreme. Before the United States entered the war, the anti-war movement in France was even stronger than in Germany. If it weren't for the peace-loving Woodrow. Wilson led the United States into the war, and the peace of "no land and no reparations" had long been achieved in Western Europe.
And now, although the German land is ceded, the French are happy to accept the German reparations. But the overwhelming majority of the French people were unwilling to undertake the obligation to dominate the European continent, to extinguish the Bolsheviks in Russia and Hungary, and to restore the order of the old world.
Because both Soviet Russia and Soviet Hungary look very difficult to deal with!
Needless to say, the former is that Soviet Russia has at least more than half of the inheritance of the Russian Empire, claiming to have 3 million Red Army! And Russia is also the place where Napoleon's empire suffered nightmares in history. Any Frenchman with a brain would not want to go back to Moscow. Therefore, the French troops sent to Russia are now making all kinds of trouble, and they just refuse to fight well.
Just a few days ago, the fighting enthusiasm of the Hungarian Red Army had inspired the French sailors stationed in Odessa - they had launched an uprising against the war! In the end, although it was suppressed, it still lost the face of the French.
As for Hungary, I thought it was a soft persimmon. But when I pinched it, I realized that this persimmon is not soft at all! More than 200,000 troops of the four-nation alliance of Romania, the Czech Republic, Serbia and France fought in a fierce manner, fought for several months without taking Budapest, and also fought countless guerrillas.
And that's not all, a week ago, a Hungarian Red Army unit of about 100,000 people (not that many) raided the Chalduk Pass and entered Romania in one fell swoop!
Then the Red Army shot outside Bucharest, the capital of Romania, and shocked the Romanian king and the high command into a cold sweat. They thought that the Hungarian Red Army was coming to liberate Bucharest and establish the Romanian Soviet Republic!
The Romanians desperately mobilized their troops back to the capital, only to leak an even bigger loophole, allowing the Hungarian Red Army to cross the Carpathians again along the Oort River (west of Bucharest) and counterattack back to Romanian-occupied Transylvania.
With the cooperation of the guerrillas, they swept away the Romanian forces that were scattered (all retreating towards Bucharest) and recovered Sibiu and Cluj, cutting off the retreat of the Romanian army that had invaded Hungary. The railway and road from Bucharest to Budapest were also the main supply routes for the Four-Nation Coalition that invaded Hungary. At the same time, the main forces of the Hungarian Red Army, concentrated in Budapest, also began a counteroffensive, defeating the exhausted and panicked coalition forces.
When the news reached Paris, everyone knew that the invasion of Hungary had already suffered a heavy blow, and that half of the coalition troops of more than 200,000 people could escape, which would be considered lucky.
In order to completely subdue Hungary, I am afraid that more French troops will have to be mobilized to go on an expedition, and the situation will not be uneven in the Hungarian Bolshevik Party for a year or two. And most of the French are reluctant to give their lives to Hungary, which has nothing to do with them.
So after a few months of silence, the anti-war movement in France suddenly swelled.
"Yes, some of the weapons and equipment used by the Hungarian Red Army were supplied by us, but that was before the Compiègne Forest Agreement, when we were allies with the Hungarians. And Hungary was not a Soviet republic at that time......"
"Yes, your intelligence is correct, it is true that some German veterans were hired by the Hungarian Bolsheviks. We recognize this and are willing to take responsibility for it, but you don't want us to take responsibility now......"
In the faint sound of "The Internationale", the military representative of the German delegation, von Murray. Seckert was explaining to the leaders of Britain, France, and the United States the role of Germany in the Hungarian war in a rather sincere tone.
"Nonsense!" French Prime Minister Clemenceau was furious and interrupted Seckert, "When did we stop you from taking responsibility?" β
"You are asking us to cut the army to 100,000, so that there will be more unemployed officers and non-commissioned officers, who will not do anything else but fight. They had no job, they couldn't afford bread, they couldn't afford to support their families, so they had to go to Hungary to help the Bolsheviks fight......"
"And what we're going to do to keep them in the army is that you're going to make them unemployed," Seckert said. β
"Hmph, keep 300,000 troops, do you want to make a comeback?" Marshal Fuxi didn't smile at it. "It's impossible!"
Seckert shook his head, looked at the French Prime Minister and French Marshal Fosse, who was about to jump to his feet, and replied in standard French: "We have lost Alsace and Lorraine, which are rich in iron and coal mines, we have lost West Prussia, we have lost Posen, and we have lost all our main fleet...... How else is it possible to make a comeback? If you French people are not at ease, we will disarm as planned. However, those retrenched officers and non-commissioned officers have to go abroad to work, but there is no way. β
"You can't help it, we French have it!" Marshal Fuxi shouted, "We will catch every German who goes to Hungary and hang them all!" β
"Arise, hungry slave ......"
As if he was playing for Marshal Fuxi, when he spoke, the international anthem outside suddenly became a little louder and transmitted to the conference hall, which was really shocking.
Feng. Seckert whispered: "The singing outside reminds me of Germany in November 1918 and Russia in March 1917!" β
"What did you say?" Clemenceau looked at Von viciously. Seckert.
However, the British and Americans present were not the same as von . Seckert felt the same way. France now is really a bit like Russia in 1917 and Germany in 1918!
Feng. Seckert said, "Mr. Prime Minister, why don't you do it...... Until the heroic French army wiped out the Bolsheviks in Hungary, the German Army remained at 300,000 men for the time being, and the General Staff was also temporarily retained. At the same time, we will strictly control the flow of goods and personnel to Hungary. β
"George, I think we can consider reducing it by 100,000 again? How about keeping 200,000 people for the time being? "British Prime Minister Lloyd's. George hastened to persuade Clemenceau, "In addition, the Germans must recall all retired servicemen from Hungary, and within a month...... So that at most, by the end of the year, the heroic French army would have wiped out the Bolsheviks in Hungary. β
What does this mean that the British are not going to Hungary anymore? Clemenceau was stunned and did not speak.
U.S. President Woodrow. Wilson chimed in: "Yes, yes, so be it." It's just 100,000 more iron rice bowls...... In addition, the Entente could send military monitoring missions to monitor the border between Germany and Austrians. In this way, the valiant French army would be able to win a quick victory in Hungary, and then the Germans would be disarmed. β
In other words, the Americans who are not very heroic will not go to Hungary to suffer, and the Americans are not the hegemon of Europe anyway.
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