In London, of course, there were capitulationists, and their centre of activity was Buckingham Palace. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter the Cairo Declaration was issued, the peace movement, which had been suppressed by Churchill, immediately began to be active. The leaders of the Labour Party and the fascist coalition, who were ordered to cease political activities, have gathered at Buckingham Palace in the past few days to plan the collapse of the cabinet with the Duke of Windsor.

Of course, it is still a legitimate struggle - neither the White Left Labour Party nor the Duke who does not love the country are ruthless masters, and they cannot do anything like bloody Buckingham or Downing Street.

And they also feel that the legal struggle is enough, because Labour itself is the big party in the lower house of Parliament, and if they contact some more Liberal and Conservative MPs, things can be done.

As for the possibility that Churchill might ban parliament, Labour leader Attlee also had a solution, which was to mobilize the masses to march in the streets. After the Cairo Declaration, the Labour Party was well placed to mobilize hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to take to the streets.

As long as there are enough people marching on the streets, Qiu Fat Man will fall. Because he had neither parliamentary support nor popular support, it was impossible for an Imperial Defence Act and the support of George VI in Canada alone to continue to control the army. And the basis of the Reich Defense Act was not the authority of George VI, but the Bill of Rights. Article 6 of the Act stipulates that it is an offence to recruit or maintain a standing army in the Kingdom in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament.

That is, the vast majority of the British army (with the exception of the Royal Guard) was the "parliamentary army", and not the so-called royal army!

The Bill of Rights, which has only 13 articles, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Britain and is the foundation of the country's political life, and even a strong prime minister like Churchill cannot go against the Bill of Rights.

Several capitulationists were discussing a vote in parliament to repeal the Reich Defence Act and organize a peaceful petition in the streets. Crackling gunshots suddenly came from outside Buckingham Palace.

This will frighten the people who are in a meeting to discuss a legitimate rebellion!

"What's going on? Where's the gun? The Duke of Windsor, who was still the king, was calmer and hurriedly called the head of the First Guard Regiment of the Royal Guard, who was responsible for defending Buckingham Palace.

"Duke, there seems to be a rebellion in the city of London, and there are people shooting in the East End!" The regimental leader's tone was also a little flustered, "There are still many citizens who have taken to the streets......

"What? Citizens took to the streets? The Duke of Windsor looked at Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, with a look of astonishment.

"Not our Labour," Attlee shook his head, "I have not given the order to mobilize the masses. ”

"Who's that? Conservatives and Liberals? ”

As soon as the Duke's question came out, the atmosphere in the entire conference room instantly dropped to freezing point.

Now in the city of London are the main battle and the main peace faction, and the main force of the main peace faction is the Labour Party. At this time, the Labour Party was still following the workers' line, so it controlled most of the trade unions in Britain, and the Labour leader mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets at the first order.

The main force of the main war faction is the middle and upper classes, but most of them do not really want to fight Germany to the end, they are all propertied and employed, and it is not in their interests to scorch the country to the ground.

They only sought peace with war and wanted better terms -- the "Cairo Declaration" only stated major principles, and there were no negotiations on such issues as war reparations, whether or not Britain would station German troops on the British mainland, and whether Britain would follow Germany in the war against the United States and the Soviet Union.

If a victory can be made on the British Island, then Britain will have some bargaining chips in their hands.

Therefore, it is unlikely that these "bourgeois main fighters" will create turmoil in London and start a chaotic position.

"Duke, now you have to defend Buckingham Palace," Moseley, the head of the British Fascist Alliance, is the most "wild" of all the anti-thieves, and thinks a lot. "They're probably coming down for you and the princess!"

"Against me and the princess?" The Duke of Windsor was stunned, but also felt that it made sense. It doesn't matter if she is a former king, but Princess Elizabeth is a big card - she can marry with the British Empire!

As long as Churchill held her in his hands, he would have one more bargaining chip.

"I'll go see the princess right away and ask her to give orders to the royal guard!" Said the Duke of Windsor.

The British Royal Guard is loyal to the royal family, and George VI handed over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Guard to Princess Elizabeth before he left London. So Her Royal Highness, who is only 17 years old, theoretically has a royal guard of up to 12,000 people and is quite well-equipped.

While Princess Elizabeth may not have been able to command the Royal Guard in a coup d'état to overthrow the Churchill regime, it is possible for them to defend Buckingham Palace.

"Wait," Moseley of the Fascist Alliance saw that the Duke of Windsor was about to leave, and hurriedly stopped the Duke, "Duke, our people must also be mobilized, and we can't let the people of the main battle faction occupy the streets." ”

Although the British fascists were moderate, they also knew that the key to street politics was to occupy the streets - people have a herd mentality! Therefore, once political opponents are allowed to occupy the streets and create a popular voice, then the masses who were originally neutral or inclined to their side may be transformed.

The Duke of Windsor immediately set his sights on Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party.

"I understand!" Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, knows that now is the time to raise eyebrows, and if the Labour Party cannot mobilize enough people to take to the streets, then after this political upheaval, the Labour Party will have no place in British politics - the Labour Party has relied on the strength of the crowd to mix in the political arena, if it loses the street protests, how will it mix in the future? To play gentlemanly politics, they can play the Conservatives and the Liberals?

"I'm going to mobilize a million people to take to the streets!" Attlee gritted his teeth, "The streets of London will never be controlled by those who oppose us!" ”

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The demonstrations and armed riots that took place on the streets of London on the morning of January 10 were actually initiated by the British Bolshevik Party.

Churchill's unsuccessful attempt to storm the Soviet embassy led to the escape of the Soviet ambassador Maisky and the leader of the British Bolshevik Party, Pollitt, through the tunnels that Maisky had secretly excavated in order to allow the revolutionary leadership to be safely removed from the embassy when the proletarian revolution broke out in England.

On January 9th, this secretly excavated tunnel really came in handy. The tunnel exit was a secret stronghold of the Third International disguised as a trading company, where Maisky and Pollitt and others left disguised as merchants and went to a stronghold in the workers' ghetto of East London specially prepared to lead an armed uprising.

The armed uprising, which was of course also British, began with an armed march of the workers (those who supported the Bolshevik Party).

Because London was under martial law, and the Bolshevik Party acted in a bit of haste, the masses were not very mobilized. Fewer than 10,000 people took to the streets in the workers' quarters of East London, of whom about 2,000 belonged to the London Volunteers and were armed.

But before they could get out of London's East End, Churchill's army arrived. But the bloody crackdown did not begin immediately, and in the end the government troops simply set up roadblocks and fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.

All the people in Buckingham Palace heard was the gunfire of the army's warning.

However, the army's warnings did not work, and instead of dispersing, the gathered masses began to sing the Internationale, shouting slogans such as "Bread, Milk" and "Down with the Churchill dictatorship."

It turned out that through the internationalist fighters who were ambushed in the wartime cabinet command, Maisky and Pollitt already knew that Churchill had not been overthrown, and that he had sent the troops to storm the Soviet embassy.

This seems to indicate that Churchill has raised the butcher's knife against the masses of the people, and should be ready to surrender to the Axis powers.

So they immediately adjusted their tactics, using bread and milk and the downfall of the Churchill dictatorship as slogans, and at the same time having the "Red Guards" who were armed and ready to rebel hide their weapons under their coats.

And the slogan "Bread, milk and down with Churchill" confuses many Labour supporters, which is exactly what they want!

As a result, the number of marchers increased rapidly, soon reaching as many as 100,000, and the entire East End seemed to be boiling.

At this time, the soldiers who were sent by Qiu Fatzi to suppress were dumbfounded, and no one dared to shoot indiscriminately - Viscount Brooke was not good to blame for this, it was the soldiers of the London County Division who were sent by him to suppress it, and many of them originally lived in the East End!

And these capital city soldiers are very good at inquiring about news, they now know that most of the American reinforcements are rice bucket riflemen, and they also know that the Germans have landed in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough in the middle of England!

Now the morale of the army is really shaken, the British Isles have been landed by the enemy, can this war continue? And the war is like this, and the dignified British Empire has fallen to this, who is responsible?

Is it not the fault of Churchill's old stubbornness?

If peace had been negotiated with Germany after the fall of France, there would have been bread and milk and the British Empire, and the German Nazis would not have come!

So the officers and men of the London County Division were actually sympathetic to the marching masses.

And street politics is characterized by sparks! Once it cannot be suppressed by thunderous means in the early stage, then the matter will get bigger and bigger. Towards noon, the trade unions controlled by the Labour Party began to mobilize the masses, which was a great deal because the Labour Party was originally the party of the British working people, and the mass base was not at all comparable to that of the Bolshevik Party. Attlee said that inciting millions of people to the streets was not Haikou at all.

But the Labour Party also has something that cannot be compared with the Bolshevik Party, that is, it is loosely organised, more like a political club than a cohesive party.

To put it bluntly, the Labour Party is a party that plays with elections, not a party that makes a revolution in the streets. They can stir the masses into the streets, but they do not have the ability to effectively control them, at least with the interference of the Bolshevik Party, they have no means of controlling the masses.

So London is sliding into the abyss of getting out of control! (To be continued.) )