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Chapter 798 Churchill's Death Part 5

Of course, there were surrenderists in London, and their activity center was Buckingham Palace. After the release of the Cairo Declaration, the peace movement, which was once suppressed by Churchill, immediately showed signs of activeness. The leaders of the Labor Party and the Fascist alliance, who were ordered to stop political activities, gathered at Buckingham Palace in the past few days and planned the downfall with the Duke of Windsor day and night.

Of course, it is still a legal struggle between the White Left Labor Party and the Duke who do not love the country are not cruel and ruthless. They cannot do anything like bloody Buckingham and bloody Downing Street.

And they also think that the legitimate struggle is enough, because the Labor Party itself is a major party in the lower house of parliament. As long as we contact some members of the Liberal and Conservative Party, things will be successful.

As for the issue that Churchill may prohibit parliament from meetings, Labour leader Attley also has a way, which is to mobilize the masses to march on the streets. After the Cairo Declaration was published, the Labour Party was fully capable of mobilizing hundreds of thousands or millions of people to the streets.

As long as there are enough people marching on the streets, Fatty Qiu will fall. Because he has neither the support of the parliament nor the support of the people, it is impossible to continue to control the army with the support of the Empire State Defense Act and George VI far away in Canada. Moreover, the basis of the Empire State Defense Act is not the authority of George VI, but the Bill of Rights. Article 6 of the bill stipulates that unless the consent of the parliament, it is illegal to recruit or maintain a standing army in the kingdom.

In other words, the vast majority of the British army (the Royal Guard is the exception) are "Parliamentary Army", rather than the so-called Royal Army!

The Bill of Rights, with only thirteen articles, has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the UK and is the basis of national political life. Even a strong prime minister like Churchill cannot confront the Bill of Rights.

Several surrendered factions were discussing the repeal of the Imperial National Defense Act when Parliament voted to abolish the Imperial National Defense Act and organized the masses to take to the streets to petition peacefully. Crackling gunshots suddenly came from outside Buckingham Palace.

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

"What's going on? Where are you shooting?" Duke Windsor, who had been king, was calm and quickly called the commander of the First Guard Regiment of the Royal Guard who was responsible for defending Buckingham Palace.

"Duke, it seems that someone is rebelling in London, and there are people shooting in the East District!" The commander's tone was a little panicked, "There are still many citizens who have taken to the streets..."

"What? Are the citizens going to the streets?" The Duke of Windsor looked at the inexplicable Labour leader Attley.

"Not us Labor Party," Attlee shook his head, "I have never given an order to mobilize the masses."

"Who is 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 London, there are two factions of war and peace, and the main force of the peace is the Labor Party. In this era, the Labor Party was still taking the worker's route, 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 a walk on the streets with the order.

The main force of the pro-war faction is the middle and upper class, but most of them are not really trying to fight Germany to the end. They are all people with property and industry, and it is not in their interests to turn the country into scorched earth.

They just made peace with war and wanted better conditions. They only talked about major principles in the Cairo Declaration, including issues such as war compensation, whether the British mainland was stationed in German troops, and whether the United Kingdom wanted to follow Germany's war against the United States and the Soviet Union.

If a victory can be achieved on the British Isle, then Britain will have some bargaining chips in its hands.

Therefore, these "bourgeois pro-war factions" are unlikely to create turmoil in London, which is caused by chaos.

"Duke, you must defend Buckingham Palace now," Mosley, the leader of the British fascist league, is the most "wild" of all the rebels, and he thinks a lot. "They are probably coming down for you and the Princess' Palace!"

"For me and the princess?" Duke Windsor was stunned, and felt that it made sense. It was nothing important to him, the former king. Princess Elizabeth, is Zhang Dabiao, who can bring her to the British Empire to marry!

As long as Churchill held her in his hand, he would have another big bargaining chip for negotiation.

"I'll go see the princess right away and ask her to order the Royal Guard!" said the Duke of Windsor.

The British Royal Guard was loyal to the royal family. Before leaving London, George VI handed over the position of commander-in-chief of the Royal Guard to Princess Elizabeth. Therefore, the princess, who was only 17 years old, theoretically mastered the Royal Guard, which had a population of up to 12,000 and was well-equipped.

Although Princess Elizabeth may not be able to command the Royal Guard to launch a coup to overthrow the Churchill authorities, it is still possible to let them defend Buckingham Palace.

"Wait," Mosley of the fascist league saw that the Duke of Windsor was about to leave, and quickly called the Duke, "Duke, our people must also be mobilized, and we cannot let the pro-war faction occupy the streets."

Although the British fascism is moderate, he also knows that the key to street politics is that people who occupy the streets have a herd mentality! Therefore, once political enemies occupy the streets and create a momentum that people want, then the masses who are originally neutral or tend toward oneself may change.

The Duke of Windsor immediately turned his attention to Labour leader Attley.

"I understand!" Labour leader Attley knew that it was a time to be in trouble. If the Labour Party could not mobilize enough people to take to the streets, then after this political change, the Labour Party would have no position in British politics. Labour originally relied on a large number of people and was involved in the political arena. If he lost in the street protests, how could he do it in the future? To play gentlemanly politics, can they play Conservatives and Liberals?

"I'll go and mobilize 1 million people to the streets right away!" Attley gritted his teeth, "The streets of London will never be controlled by those who oppose us!"

...

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

Churchill's operation to send troops to attack the Soviet embassy was not successful. Soviet ambassador Mesky and British Bolshevik leader Politt escaped from the tunnel. This tunnel was secretly mined by Mesky, with the purpose of which was to allow the revolutionary leadership to be safely transferred from the embassy when the British proletarian revolution broke out.

On January 9, the secret tunnel was really useful. The tunnel exit was a secret stronghold of Third International that was disguised as a trading company. There, where Mesky and Politt left as merchants, and went to a stronghold located in the East London workers' settlement area, specially prepared to lead the armed uprising.

The armed uprising was of course also distinctive to the British, and began with the armed march of workers (workers who supported the Bolshevik Party).

Because London is under martial law and the Bolsheviks' actions are a bit hasty, not many people are mobilized. In the workers' district in East London, less than 10,000 people went on the street, of which about 2,000 belonged to the London Volunteer Corps and possessed weapons.

However, before they could leave the East End of London, the troops sent by Churchill arrived. However, the bloody suppression did not begin immediately. Finally, the government's army only set up roadblocks and fired guns to warn, trying to disperse the masses.

What people in Buckingham Palace heard was the gunshots of the army warning.

However, the military's warning did not work. Instead, the gathered masses began to sing the Internationale, shouting the slogans of "I want bread, milk" and "Down with Churchill's ruling regime."

It turned out that through the internationalist fighters who were ambushing the cabinet command during the war, Mesky and Politt already knew that Churchill was not overthrown, and that he sent the troops that attacked the Soviet embassy.

This seemed to indicate that Churchill had raised his butcher knife to the people and should be ready to surrender to the Axis powers.

So they made a quick decision to adjust their strategies, using bread, milk and the downfall of Churchill's ruling regime as slogans, and also asked the "Red Guards" who were holding weapons to rebel to hide their weapons under their coats.

And the slogan of "Bread, Milk and Beating Churchill" confused many Labour supporters, which is exactly what they want!

Therefore, the number of people marching increased rapidly, quickly reaching as many as 100,000, and the entire East End of London seemed to be boiling.

The soldiers who were sent by Fatty Qiu to suppress were stunned. No one dared to blame Viscount Brook for being bad at shooting. The soldiers sent by him were from the London County Division. Many of them originally lived in the East District!

Moreover, these capital city soldiers are very good at inquiring about information. They now know that most of the American reinforcements are Mianburi rifles, and they also know that the Germans have landed in Hartelpur and Middlesbrough in central England!

Now the morale of the army has been shaken. The British Isle has been landed by the enemy. Can this war be fought? Who is responsible for the battle to be like this?

Isn’t it the old stubborn fault of Churchill?

If there was peace with Germany after France fell, there were bread, milk, and the British Empire, and the German Nazi would not come!

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

The characteristic of street politics is that it is a spear of fire! Once it cannot be suppressed in the early stages, things will become more and more trouble. By the time it was approaching noon, the labor union controlled by the Labor Party also began to mobilize the masses. This is amazing. The Labor Party was originally the party of the working people in the UK, and its mass base was not from the Bolshevik Party. Attlee said that if he incited millions of people to take to the streets, it was not Haikou at all.

But there are also places where the Labor Party cannot compare with the Bolshevik Party, which is that 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 causes street revolution. They can incite the masses to go to the streets, but they have no ability to effectively control them. At least under the interference of the Bolshevik Party, they have no way to control the masses.
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