Chapter 94 Lenin will need us
"Hello, I am Lieutenant Colonel Harold Alexander of the Allied delegation to Poland."
In the conference room of Thombe's Palace, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander, who looked very gentle, greeted Hesman in German in a very gentle tone. He also took the initiative to shake hands with Hesman, looking very friendly.
Hessman said fluently in English: "I am Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Hessman, the representative of the German People's Committee."
"People's Committee?" Lieutenant Colonel Alexander raised his eyebrows, "I think this is a government that temporarily represents Germany, right?"
"The government representing Germany?" Hessman shook his head and looked at Lieutenant Colonel Alexander, "There is no such government, and it will be gone after November 9!"
"There will be, I know you are going to hold the National Assembly elections on January 19," said Lieutenant Colonel Alexander. "There will be a government that can truly represent Germany."
"This reminds me of the election of the Russian Constitutional Assembly!" Hessman's tone was gloomy.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander frowned. The German official was quite pessimistic about the situation in Germany.
Alexander asked again: "You are soldiers of the country, shouldn't you obey the legal government?"
"We are the emperor's army! We swear allegiance to the emperor, not the People's Committee or any other committee!"
Hessman's answer surprised Alexander, "But there is no emperor in Germany now..."
"Yes, no more!"
"Who do you have allegiance to?"
"No one!" Hessman paused, "or anything could exist."
"Any possible?" Lieutenant Colonel Alexander was stunned. "Can it also include allegiance to the Bolsheviks?"
"Yes!" said Hessman, "I actually knew Lenin, and before the August Revolution... If I wanted to serve him, he would give me a very good treatment."
"What?" Lieutenant Colonel Alexander was stunned and stunned, "I don't think you are not an officer Junker, right?"
"I'm actually Officer Juncker, and I've been Grossley Hitchfeld since I was nine."
Hessman sighed softly and said, "But I want to live too... I know you will not allow Germany to maintain a strong army after the war. Where can an officer like me go? I can only lead troops to fight, and I have no other skills. So now there are many people in the German team looking for a way out. Some retired officers have been hired by His Majesty the female grandfather and found jobs in the Kurland Defense Army, and some retired to Hungary..."
"But this is a violation of the Compiène Armistice Agreement!" Lieutenant Colonel Alexander pointed out in a rather stern tone. "All Germans must leave Polo...whether he is active or reserve!"
Hessman said in a sad tone: "But there are many such people, as far as I know, more than 30,000. The backbone of the Kurlan Defense Forces is the retired Germans. They are all elites who have participated in many bloody battles and are the best soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel, where can you let them go? They want to have a meal!"
"It's fine wherever you go, but you can't violate the agreement!" said Lieutenant Colonel Alexander. "I will inform the Allies of this!"
"It's fine wherever you go?" Hessman asked with a sneer, "just like General Brusilov?"
Hearing this name, the female grandfather Oliga and the Belarusian general Yudenic's faces changed drastically. General Brusilov was the Russian general who commanded the Kerensky offensive. Although Kerensky's offensive was defeated, no one in Russia would doubt Brusilov's military talent. Russia's several commendable victories in the world war were all fought under his command.
Now, this outstanding Russian sect and nearly 30,000 other former Tsarist Russian officers are fighting for the Bolsheviks! Even the generals of His Majesty, such as General Brusilov, can surrender to the Bolsheviks, why can't the Kurish Defense Army?
"I will soon become the Queen of Russia. Do you need to hire someone as a military adviser to look at the faces of the British?" The eldest prince, who was still wearing military uniform, had a gloomy face, interrupted the conversation between Hessman and Alexander. "And the Compigione Armistice Agreement is useless to the Russian Empire."
"Your Highness," reminded Lieutenant Colonel Alexander. "Your status has not been recognized by the Allies..."
"What? What does it mean to obtain recognition from the Allies?" The female grand duke's tone was cold, "Are our Russian Empire not a member of the Allies? You Britain no longer regard the Russian Empire as a member of the Allies?"
This is indeed a problem! Lieutenant Colonel Alexander thought to himself: If the Russian Empire is recognized as a member of the Allies, then the peace meeting to be held in Paris would be invited to invite Russian representatives... There is one more country that divides the fruits of victory, not counting. The Polish issue, the Balkan issue, and the Turkey issue will all become a big problem - if the Russian Empire is recognized as a victorious country, can Russian Poland still be independent?
Moreover, before the World War, in order to win over Russia, Britain and France had promises to Russia on the Balkans and Constantinople issues! Can you refuse to admit it now? Even if you want to pay a debt, you have to give some compensation to the Russian Empire? For example, pay more compensation...
What worries Britain and France even more is that in order to gain German support, the Russian Empire government is likely to adopt a policy of covering up Germany at the meeting!
"Your Highness, I think you should know the "Principle of Peace in Fourteen Points" (now the principle), which is the basis for holding a peace meeting." Lieutenant Colonel Alexander could not respond positively, but could only talk about him. But as soon as he said this, he knew that he had made up his words.
Sure enough, the female grandfather suddenly stood up and looked at Lieutenant Colonel Alexander with cold eyes: "I have seen President Wilson's fourteen fallacies! The sixth of them says: The foreign team withdraws from Russia and guarantees Russia's independence to decide its political development and national policies. It welcomes it to enter the society of a free country under the system of its choice! Since the foreign teams are all withdrawing, when will the British, American, French and Japanese troops withdraw from Russia?"
The foreign team refers solely to Germany! Lieutenant Colonel Alexander wants to answer this way.
"Your Highness, our army is to help the legal government of Russia." Lieutenant Colonel Alexander said a lie he didn't believe.
"Okay," Admiral Yudenic, who participated in the meeting, immediately took over the topic. "We have gathered 200,000 people in Polo (it's not really that much). You will send tens of thousands of troops carrying cannons to provide enough arms. So that we can retake Petrograd next spring!"
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander sighed in his heart. He knew that he would not get anything in Tallinn! The eldest daughter was very annoyed that Britain, France and the United States were unwilling to admit her status so far, and Yudenic and other Belarus wanted to regain Petrograd as soon as possible. If we count the defense forces of the 100,000 Germans and the assistance provided by Britain, France and the United States, they would probably have such power!
But Britain and France would not support them in doing so... because before the signing of the Treaty against Germany, they could not recognize Oliga as the Russian Empress, so there would be no strong military aid.
"Your Highness," Lieutenant Colonel Alexander quickly stood up, "I want to remind you at the end that the Allies will consider recognizing your status only when the Germans of Polo were expelled first."
"I don't need you to admit it!" said Oliga. "After the funeral, I will be crowned as the queen of the Russian Empire in Olevest Cathedral!"
The conversation ended here unhappily. Hessmann could not have expected this result - he originally thought that Britain, France and the United States would at least recognize Oliga's status. After all, she had received unanimous support from the major Belarusian generals. If anyone else could fight against Lenin in Russia, then she would be the only legal heir to the Romanov dynasty.
But Britain, France and the United States were stuck on this initial issue... and after Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenic, Semenov and others all expressed their objections to Origa's status.
Chapter completed!