On Friday, July 10, 1931, on this drizzling morning, the US Presidential Residence on Pennsylvania Avenue looked no different from usual, except that there were a little more journalists squatting outside the fence than usual. Just after 8 o'clock, cars with British, Japanese, and Soviet flags entered through the main entrance of the White House. The reporters waiting at the scene immediately became excited.

If the news circulated through abnormal channels is true, it is destined to be a day that will be recorded in history!

At around 10 a.m., reporters waiting outside the White House noticed a group of people wearing dresses and top hats taking photos in front of the porch on the south side of the White House. US President Herbert Hoover and Secretary of State Henry **** were among them. Among them were British Foreign Secretary Neville Chamberlain, Navy Secretary Frederick Field, Japanese Foreign Minister Kitto Kishiro, Navy Secretary Tomosaburo Kato, and Soviet Foreign Minister Livinov, who rarely appears in international occasions.

Usually, the group photo of the whole group means that the successful meeting is at least a phased success. Up to this point, the U.S. government's press release department still refused to disclose to the media any specific situation of the meeting, but such multi-party talks are difficult to keep absolutely confidential. Insider news about the United States, Britain, Japan and the Soviet Union reaching an agreement on jointly curbing the expansion of the allied camp and clarifying the obligations of various countries in the form of a secret treaty have long been circulated. Several newspapers and magazines that use traits and gossip news have also published the content of the treaty in a decent manner. Some of them are purely imagined or even contradictory at first glance. But no matter what, the high-level meetings of the four countries have been widely concerned and hotly discussed in recent times, attracting diplomatic officials, journalists and spies from all over the country stationed in Washington.

It was midsummer and hot summer in Europe, like in previous years, German princes and nobles and dignitaries went to the countryside lakes or the castle villas on the northern seashore for a vacation and cool off, and the national administrative machine was adjusted to a slow speed. The 70-year-old German Emperor William II did not travel to the North Sea for a long time in a yacht like he did in his early years, but instead rested in the Worry-free Palace in Brandenburg. The energetic Crown Prince William took a warship to inspect colonial ports and visited friendly countries, as if the secret meetings between the United States, Britain, Japan and the Soviet Union in Washington had nothing to do with Germany, but this was obviously just an illusion seen by outsiders. Just after the foreign ministers of the four countries signed the secret treaty, the German military and political leaders quickly received first-hand information:

The provisions of the secret treaty are basically consistent with what was discovered before. The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and Japan have basically formed a defensive military alliance, but the closeness is less than that of the British, French and Russian agreement before 1915. Even if Germany goes to war with the United States, Britain, Japan and Russia can still remain neutral. The United States, Britain and Japan decide to bypass the Limerick Navy Treaty, secretly build new main ships and new aircraft carriers according to the standard displacement of 50,000 tons and the main gun caliber of 16 inches, and strengthen exchanges and sharing in the field of naval technical equipment, as well as provide naval and air force technical assistance to the Soviet Union; the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union will also jointly assist the French Soviet regime, using the French civil war to consume the energy of the allies.

To many international observers' expectations, Germany and its allies did not immediately take a strong counterattack against the secret agreements of the United States, Britain, Japan and the Soviet Union, nor did they further expand their arms. Instead, they warned the heads and people of these countries through mainstream European newspapers: Germany could defeat the old Allies that had the advantage in 1914, and defeat the new Allies that were in a balanced position in 1931. The best lessons were learned!

On the complex international political stage, unofficial warnings issued by the media are often the most powerless, but some shrewd international observers also pointed out that the pragmatic Germans have long taken a series of countermeasures. They have seized the initiative of intercontinental strategy by occupying the Azores, which has left the British mainland isolated during the war, and the Soviet Union's efficiency in obtaining external aid will also drop by more than 80%. In addition, the Germans are stepping up the extermination of French mainland

Revolutionary forces and carried out large-scale military construction in South Pacific colonies such as the Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands, and Bismarck Islands, fortified multiple islands of strategic significance. They also forcibly leased the French Port of France and the Port of Suvarez in Madagascar, thus establishing a maritime supply line from Southeast Africa to the South Pacific, enhancing the connection between the local and Eastern colonies. These are all strategic layouts.

No matter how international observers think, say, and how the international situation develops, it will eventually be revealed by time. On July 26, 161 German paratroopers descended from the sky and raided a farm in the southern Algerian town of Wadima. They gave the members of the French Soviet Supreme Committee who were gathering here and captured liaison officers from the United States, Britain and Russia on the spot. They used their identities and confessions to create public opinion, which made the US and British governments passive and gave the newly signed agreement a warning.

The German airborne troops were extremely domineering, but the Soviet army quickly showed the power of the Red World with victory: In the North Caucasus region, the Soviet army launched a fierce offensive, won consecutive battles, seized Grozny from the Ottoman Turkish army in one fell swoop, and then broke through the entire defense line of the Turkish army and severely damaged the Turkish ace unit, the 1st Army Division, equipped with German-style equipment in the mobile warfare. By late October, the Turkish army had been

The Soviet army was completely expelled from the North Caucasus region, and the Soviet army approached the Baku oil field, and Germany had to mediate. However, the conditions for the armistice proposed by Moscow made it difficult for Germany and Turkey to accept. Istanbul decided to continue to increase troops, and Germany also urgently provided a large number of chariots and artillery to Turkey. However, the Turkish army's counterattack ended in a disastrous defeat a week later. The piles of supplies became the spoils of the Soviet army, which ruined the allies' camp and lost all their faces.

On November 26, 1931, just as the Caucasus war was in full swing, the International Conference on Peace and Disarmament initiated by the Austro-Hungarian Empire was held in Viana. Delegates from 77 countries attended the meeting, and 26 monarchs or heads of government visited Vienna. Among countries with a population of over 10 million, only the Soviet Union refused to attend the meeting because the Caucasus dispute was not properly resolved. Judging from the specifications of the meeting and the responses of countries around the world, the efforts of Oxford Emperor Carl I were not in vain. However, although anti-war disarmament was praised by many internationally renowned people,

The meeting, which lasted for more than ten days, failed to achieve any substantial results in anti-war disarmament. Its greatest significance is that it gave the political leaders of the opposing camp an opportunity for face-to-face negotiations, and mutual compromise and concessions eased the current tension to a certain extent. Shortly after the meeting of disarmament, the heads of South American countries met in the capital of Uruguay, clearly divided the disputed territories in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia, and signed a series of memorandums on strengthening economic and trade cooperation, and the situation in South America stabilized.

Immediately afterwards, Russia and Turkey signed an armistice agreement in Baku, and Germany, Russia and Turkey also resumed talks on the joint development of oil resources in the Transcaucasus region and the distribution of interests. On the basis of the Baku Agreement in 1916, it made a certain adjustment to ensure the development of heavy industry in the Soviet Union. With the ease of the Caucasus war, people were able to usher in the first ray of dawn of 1932 in a positive atmosphere, but this was also the last calm before the storm. In the Far East, the Japanese government, which was deeply in trouble with the economic crisis, launched an imminent war of aggression against China. This time, not only did the United States and Britain stand by and watch the invasion of Japan, but the Soviet government and the allied camps did not take tough intervention like the Japanese embezzlement of Northeast China before.

Sanctions, but this does not mean that Japan can do whatever it wants. With just some false reasons, it has brutalized invasion of a sovereign country and constantly created horrific atrocities. The actions of the Japanese government and the army have aroused the disgust and even hostility of the people of various countries. Japan's diplomatic image plummeted, trade exports were boycotted, hundreds of volunteers went to the East to help the Chinese government resist the aggression. The weapons and ammunition purchased by people from all walks of life in various countries were transported to the Chinese team through Qingdao and Hong Kong, where the Japanese navy could not implement a blockade. Coupled with the tenacious struggle of the Chinese people, Japan's delusion to destroy China for three months was ruthless. The well-trained Japanese army was deeply trapped in the quagmire of invasion. The strong Japanese navy was almost useless.

In April 1932, shortly after April Fool's Day, the British media revealed a shocking news: the Irish government secretly exported bulk military supplies, including 200 new fighter jets, to China, and sent a large number of experienced technical instructors to the China * team. Before this, the Japanese army had captured many foreign volunteers on the battlefield, but they all participated in the war as individuals. Ireland's move was an official act. The Japanese government immediately asked the German government to put pressure on Ireland to try to cancel the contract and recall personnel. Although the German government reached a secret consensus with Japan, it never made it clear in the form of a paper treaty, which made the Japanese army hit a wall in China and had no time to take into account other strategic interests that were completely in line with Germany. The actions of the Irish government were obviously recognized by Germany, and the wishful diplomatic line of the Japanese government once again reflected the cramped and narrow strategic thinking.
Chapter completed!