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Chapter 151 Fatty Qiu’s anger (fourth update, please subscribe)

Become famous all over the world!

This sentence could not be more appropriate to apply to the task force, no, it should be said to the Borneo Guard.

Half a month ago, no one in the world knew about them, and half a month later, no one knew about them.

Defender of Bastogne Fortress!
  What is the so-called fortress?
  It was a foxhole in the ice and snow. Why were they able to use rifles to fight tanks, and even captured many German tanks.

It’s the iron will of the defenders!

While American newspapers were reporting extensively on the defenders of Bastogne, British and French newspapers were also reprinting their news. Of course, this also intensified people's contempt for the French, and it should be said that the French army.

There is no way. In France in 44, let alone foreigners, even the French themselves looked down on their army.

It is nonsense that General de Gaulle saved the face of the French.

Everyone knows that the French's face was completely lost as soon as the surrender treaty was signed four years ago.

Seeing that the Bastogne garrison blocked tens of thousands of German armored troops with a few thousand people, the French's contempt for the French army intensified even more. Even French women looked down on the French uniformed troops. , there is no way, who makes them poor and timid.

Nothing compares to the pure men of Bastogne.

As for the British, they will say arrogantly, we are not bad either.

However, what is different from other countries is that when the British high-level officials are paying attention to Bastogne, their mentality is extremely complicated! Unlike the common people who believed that the defenders were the US military, the British senior officials still knew the identity of the other party.

North Borneo Guard!

This is the true identity of the Bastogne defenders!
  But it was this person who made them feel unhappy.

nausea!

If anything Churchill felt, it was this feeling.

It's like being stuffed in the mouth.

"North Borneo, that's ours!"

Churchill glanced at Colonial Secretary Oliver Stanley with a look of resentment and said.

"How could that fellow Roosevelt give Borneo to the Chinese without our permission..."

Fatty Qiu is very depressed!
  That guy Luo Laizi is so unreasonable.

How could he do this?

"Is he testing our attitude towards the colonies step by step? A few months ago he included the North Borneo Shipping Company as a recipient of the Lend-Lease Act, and now that guy Eisenhower has actually created a Borneo army... ” ˜ ˜ Churchill paused, took a puff of his cigar, and said in an extremely positive tone.

"All this is definitely that Roosevelt guy is testing our attitude towards the colonies. The first test was on the eve of "Operation Overlord", and now, it is at the moment when he is about to invade the German mainland. Damn it, he is I want to use North Borneo to send a signal that the dismemberment of the British Empire is inevitable!”

It has to be said that the brain circuits of politicians are indeed different from ordinary people, especially for Fatty Qiu, a veteran imperialist. He can guess more than a dozen tricks from a move of others, and he can always figure it out. a lot of.

What a conspiracy, what a trick, nothing too normal, after all, Fatty Qiu himself is such a person.

If we say there is no conspiracy or trick, wouldn't that be an insult to our intelligence?

There are always scumbags trying to harm me!
  In the eyes of Fatty Qiu, the British Empire is the fat in the eyes of many people. From Hitler to Steel to Luo Laizi, they are all staring at this piece of fat!
  Ready to tear the British Empire to pieces at any time!

"Compared to Hitler, Roosevelt's methods are more subtle, but more difficult to fight. Oliver, are we really going to lose the British Empire?"

When he asked this question to the colonial secretary, Fatty Qiu's expression and tone were like that of a young widow visiting a grave. The more she cried, the sadder she became.

"Your Majesty the Prime Minister, legally speaking, the change of shareholding in the North Borneo Company does not affect its connection with the British Empire. His shareholding can belong to anyone, Chinese, Americans, even Germans, Japanese, but His connection with the British Empire is established by various treaties, and he remains a piece of local self-government under the protection of the British Empire..."

After a pause, Oliver frowned and said.

"Dominion...Your Excellency, the North Borneo Company is not legally a colony of ours."

This is the most amazing thing about the North Borneo Company. It is true that it is a colony, but it does not belong to any country. Even Britain only included it in its colonial system based on treaties and charters, but in fact, it does not belong to the UK.

"No, he belongs to England!"

Churchill interrupted Oliver directly.

"North Borneo belongs to Britain, yesterday and tomorrow too!"

It has to be said that as a veteran imperialist, Churchill had his stubbornness. He stubbornly insisted on the so-called "glory of the British Empire", even if it meant destroying the British Empire for the so-called glory, just like this war, He saved Britain in the war, but the war destroyed the British Empire. Whether he was willing to face it or not, this is an ironclad fact.

Regarding the reality that the British Empire was coming to an end, Oliver, as Colonial Secretary, had a clearer understanding than the Prime Minister. He looked at the Prime Minister and reminded:
  "Your Excellency, it will be extremely difficult for us to rebuild the imperial government in the Far East after the war. There is currently a consensus in the House of Commons that as long as it is feasible, all colonies will slowly transform into self-managed dominions, and the Labor Party..."

When Oliver mentioned the Labor Party, his expression became extremely unnatural, because those people were even more determined than Roosevelt and others in their determination to disintegrate the British Empire.

"They have vowed to achieve autonomy and even independence for India and other colonies! In my opinion, the real threat to the colonial system of the British Empire is not the Americans or the Russians, but the Labor Party! In their In my eyes, the existence of colonies has no practical significance unless it nourishes a large number of military stations and the complacency of an empire on which the sun never sets, and places a heavy burden on the people."

The colonial secretary's assertion made Churchill's face change slightly, and he fell into silence while smoking a cigar.

Pacing back and forth in the office, Churchill's expression changed from time to time, as if he was thinking about something. His brows wrinkled more and more tightly, and he smoked a cigar heavily. After a long time, he relaxed and was smoked. He asked with half of his cigar in his mouth, looking at Oliver.

"Is that guy in Paris now?"

(End of this chapter)