The Rise of the Third Reich

Of course there were capitulationists in London, and the center of their activities was Buckingham Palace. After the Cairo Declaration was released, the peace movement that had been suppressed by Churchill immediately began to become active. The leaders of the Labor Party and the Fascist Alliance, who were ordered to cease political activities, have gathered at Buckingham Palace in the past few days, planning the overthrow of the cabinet with the Duke of Windsor day and night.

Of course, it is still a legal struggle - neither the White Left Labor Party nor the Duke who loves the country are ruthless masters. They cannot do such things as bloody Buckingham and bloody Downing Street.

And they also feel that legal struggle is enough, because the Labor Party itself is the major party in the House of Commons, and as long as they contact some Liberal and Conservative MPs, the matter can be successful.

As for Churchill's possibility of banning parliament from sitting, Labor leader Attlee also had a solution, which was to mobilize the masses to march on the streets. After the Cairo Declaration was announced, the Labor Party was fully capable of mobilizing hundreds of thousands or millions of people to take to the streets.

As long as enough people take to the streets to march, Fatty Qiu will fall. Because he had neither parliamentary support nor people's support, it was impossible to continue to control the army solely by relying on the Imperial Defense Act and the support of King George VI in Canada. Moreover, the basis of the Defense of the Empire Act was not the authority of George VI, but the Bill of Rights. Section 6 of the Act stipulates that it is unlawful to raise or maintain a standing army in the Kingdom during peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament.

In other words, the vast majority of the British army (the Royal Guard is an exception) is the "Parliamentary Army", not the so-called Royal Army!

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

Several surrender factions were discussing how to vote to repeal the "Imperial Defense Act" in Parliament and at the same time organize people to take to the streets to peacefully petition. The crackle of gunfire suddenly came from outside Buckingham Palace.

This scared the people who were meeting to discuss legal rebellion!

"What's going on? Where are the guns being fired?" The Duke of Windsor, who had been the king, was relatively calm and quickly called the head of the First Guards Regiment of the Royal Guards responsible for guarding Buckingham Palace.

"Duke, there seems to be a rebellion in London. Someone is shooting in the East End!" The leader's tone was also a little panicked. "There are still many citizens taking to the streets..."

"What? Citizens took to the streets?" The Duke of Windsor looked at Labor leader Attlee, who looked surprised.

"It's not our Labor Party," Attlee shook his head. "I never gave an 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.

There are currently two factions in London: the war faction and the peace faction. The main force of the peace faction is the Labor Party. The Labor Party in this era still followed the workers' line, so it controlled most of the trade union organizations in the UK. The leader of the Labor Party mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets with a single order.

The main force of the war faction is the middle and upper class, but most of them do not really want to fight Germany to the end. They are all wealthy people, and it is not in their interests to reduce the country to a scorched earth.

They just wanted peace through war and wanted better conditions - the "Cairo Declaration" only mentioned the big principles, and also included war compensation, whether German troops were stationed in the UK, whether the UK would follow Germany in fighting the United States and the Soviet Union, etc. The issue is not negotiable yet.

If a victory can be won on the British Isles, Britain will have some bargaining chips for peace talks.

Therefore, it is unlikely that these "bourgeois militants" will create turmoil in London to disrupt the situation.

"Duke, you must defend Buckingham Palace now," Mosley, the leader of the British Fascist Alliance, was the most "wild" of all the rebels and had more thoughts. "They are probably coming for you and the princess!"

"Aiming at me and the princess?" The Duke of Windsor was startled and thought it made sense. As a former king, it doesn't matter. Princess Elizabeth is a big deal - she can marry with the British Empire!

As long as Churchill holds her in his hand, he will have another big bargaining chip.

"I will go to see the princess immediately and ask her to give orders to the Royal Guards!" said the Duke of Windsor.

The British Royal Guards are loyal to the royal family. Before George VI left London, he handed over the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Guards to Princess Elizabeth. Therefore, Her Royal Highness, who is only 17 years old, theoretically controls a Royal Guard with a number of 12,000 and quite well-equipped troops.

Although Princess Elizabeth may not necessarily be able to command the Royal Guards to launch a coup to overthrow the Churchill administration, it is still possible for them to defend Buckingham Palace.

"Wait a minute," Mosley from the Fascist Alliance saw the Duke of Windsor preparing to leave, and quickly called out to the Duke. "Duke, our people must also mobilize, and we cannot let the warring 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 occupy the streets and create a momentum of popular support, the people who were originally neutral or inclined to their side may change.

The Duke of Windsor immediately set his sights on Labor leader Attlee.

"I understand!" Labor leader Attlee knows that now is the time to call upon. If the Labor Party cannot mobilize enough people to take to the streets, then after the current political change, the Labor Party will have no place in the British political arena - the Labor Party originally People who rely on the strength of their numbers to stay in the political arena. If they lose in street protests, how will they stay in the political arena in the future? If they want to play gentlemanly politics, have they played it before the Conservatives and Liberals?

"I will immediately mobilize one 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 attempt to send troops to attack the Soviet Embassy was unsuccessful. Soviet Ambassador Maisky and British Bolshevik Party leader Pollitt escaped from the tunnel. This tunnel was secretly dug by Maisky in order to gain access to the British proletariat. When the revolution breaks out, the revolutionary leadership organs can be safely transferred from the embassy.

On January 9, this secretly dug tunnel really came in handy. The exit of the tunnel was a secret stronghold of the Third International disguised as a trading company. There, Maisky, Pollitt and others disguised themselves as businessmen and left, going to a place in a workers' settlement in East London specifically to lead an armed uprising. Prepare a stronghold.

The armed uprising was of course also uniquely British, starting with armed marches by workers (workers who supported the Bolshevik Party).

Because London was under martial law and the Bolsheviks acted a bit hastily, not many people were mobilized. In the working-class areas of East London, less than 10,000 people took to the streets, and about 2,000 of them belonged to the London Volunteers and were armed.

But before they left the East End of London, the troops sent by Churchill arrived. But the bloody crackdown did not begin immediately. In the end, the government troops just set up roadblocks and fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.

What people in Buckingham Palace heard were the military warning shots.

However, the army's warning had no effect. The gathered crowd did not disperse. Instead, they began to sing the "Internationale" and shouted slogans such as "Bread and milk" and "Down with the dictatorship of Churchill D".

It turned out that through the internationalist fighters who ambush the War Cabinet Headquarters, Maisky and Pollitt already knew that Churchill had not been overthrown and that the troops who attacked the Soviet Embassy were sent by him.

This seems to indicate that Churchill has raised his butcher knife against the people and should be ready to surrender to the Axis powers.

So they immediately adjusted their strategy, using bread and milk and overthrowing the Churchill D dictatorship as their slogans, and at the same time, they also asked the "Red Guards" who were armed and ready to rebel to hide their weapons under their coats.

The slogan "Bread, milk and down with Churchill" confused many Labor supporters, and that was exactly what they wanted!

As a result, the number of people marching increased rapidly, quickly reaching 100,000, and the entire East End of London seemed to be boiling.

The soldiers sent by Fatty Qiu to suppress them were all dumbfounded. No one dared to shoot indiscriminately - Viscount Brooke was to blame for this. The soldiers he sent to suppress were soldiers from the London County Division. Many people's I originally lived in the East District!

Moreover, these capital city soldiers are very good at asking for information. They now know that most of the American reinforcements are riflemen, and they also know that the Germans have landed in Hartlepool and Middlesbrough in central England!

The morale of the military is really shaken now. The British Island has been landed by the enemy. Can this war continue? And the war ended like this, and the majestic British Empire fell to this point. Who is responsible?

Isn’t it the fault of Churchill, the stubborn old man?

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

Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the London County Division actually sympathized with the marchers.

The characteristic of street politics is that a spark can start a prairie fire! Once it cannot be suppressed with thunderous means in the early stage, things will get bigger and bigger. As it approached noon, the labor unions controlled by the Labor Party also began to mobilize the masses. This was a big deal. The Labor Party was originally the party of the working people of Britain, and its mass base was not comparable to that of the Bolshevik Party. What Attlee said about inciting millions of people to take to the streets was not Haikou at all.

However, there are also aspects of the Labor Party that cannot be compared with the Bolshevik Party. It is loosely organized and more like a political club than a closely united party.

To put it bluntly, the Labor Party is a party that plays elections, not a party that makes revolution in the streets. They could incite the masses into the streets, but they had no ability to effectively control them, at least not without the interference of the Bolshevik Party.

As a result, London is slipping out of control!