In London, of course, there were capitulationists, and their centre of activity was Buckingham Palace.
Immediately after the Cairo Declaration, the peace movement, which had been suppressed by Churchill, began to flourish.
The leaders of the Labour Party and the fascist coalition, who were ordered to cease political activities, have gathered at Buckingham Palace in the past few days to plan the collapse of the cabinet with the Duke of Windsor.
Of course, there is still a legal struggle, the White Left Labor Party and the Duke who does not love the country are not ruthless masters, and they can't do anything like bloody Buckingham or Downing Street.
And they also feel that the legal struggle is enough, because Labour itself is the big party in the lower house of Parliament, and if they contact some more Liberal and Conservative MPs, things can be done.
As for the possibility that Churchill might ban parliament, Labour leader Attlee also had a solution, which was to mobilize the masses to march in the streets.
After the Cairo Declaration, the Labour Party was well placed to mobilize hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to take to the streets.
As long as there are enough people marching on the streets, Qiu Fat Man will fall.
Because he had neither parliamentary support nor popular support, it was impossible for an Imperial Defense Act alone and the support of George VI in Canada to continue to control the army.
And the basis of the Imperial Defense Law was not the authority of George VI, but the Bill of Rights.
Article 6 of the Act stipulates that it is an offence to recruit or maintain a standing army in the Kingdom in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament.
That is, the vast majority of the British army, the Royal Guard, with the exception of the "parliamentary army", and not the so-called royal army The thirteen-clause Bill of Rights has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Britain and is the foundation of the country's political life, and even a powerful prime minister like Winston Churchill cannot go against it.
Several capitulators were discussing a time when parliament was voting to repeal the Reich Defence Act and to organize a peaceful petition in the streets.
Crackling gunshots suddenly came from outside Buckingham Palace.
This frightened the people who were in a meeting to discuss a legitimate rebellion "What's going on, where are the guns" The Duke of Windsor, who had been the king, was calmer and hurriedly called the head of the First Guards Regiment of the Royal Guard, who was responsible for guarding Buckingham Palace.
"Duke, there seems to be a rebellion in the city of London, and there are people shooting in the East End" The regimental commander's tone was also a little flustered, "There are still many citizens who have taken to the streets" "What citizens are on the streets," the Duke of Windsor looked at Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, with a look of surprise and inexplicability.
"Not our Labour," Attlee shook his head, "I have not given the order to mobilize the masses. ” "Who's that Conservative and Liberal Party" As soon as the Duke's question came out, the atmosphere in the entire conference room instantly dropped to freezing point.
Now in the city of London are the main battle and the main peace faction, and the main force of the main peace faction is the Labour Party.
At this time, the Labour Party was still following the workers' line, so it controlled most of the trade unions in Britain, and the Labour leader mobilized hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets at the first order.
The main force of the main war faction is the middle and upper classes, but most of them do not really want to fight Germany to the end, they are all propertied and employed, and it is not in their interests to scorch the country to the ground.
They only sought peace with war and wanted better terms, but in the Cairo Declaration only stated the general principles, and there were no negotiations on such issues as war reparations, whether Britain should station German troops on the British mainland, and whether Britain should follow Germany in fighting against the United States and the Soviet Union.
If a victory can be made on the British Island, then Britain will have some bargaining chips in their hands.
Therefore, it is unlikely that these "bourgeois main fighters" will create turmoil in London and start a chaotic position.
"Duke, now you have to defend Buckingham Palace," Moseley, the head of the British Fascist Alliance, is the most "wild" of all the anti-thieves, and thinks a lot.
"They're probably going for you and the princess" "For me and the princess," the Duke of Windsor was stunned, and also felt that it made sense.
It doesn't matter if she is the former king, Princess Elizabeth is a big card, she can marry with the British Empire As long as Churchill held her in his hands, he would have one more bargaining chip.
"I will go to the princess at once, and ask her to give orders to the royal guard," said the Duke of Windsor.
The British Royal Guard is loyal to the royal family, and George VI handed over the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Guard to Princess Elizabeth before he left London.
So Her Royal Highness, who is only 17 years old, theoretically has a royal guard of up to 120,000 people and is quite well-equipped.
While Princess Elizabeth may not have been able to command the Royal Guard in a coup d'état to overthrow the Churchill regime, it is possible for them to defend Buckingham Palace.
"Wait," Moseley of the Fascist Alliance saw that the Duke of Windsor was about to leave, and hurriedly stopped the Duke, "Duke, our people must also be mobilized, and we can't let the people of the main battle faction occupy the streets." ” Although the British fascists were moderate, they also knew that the key to street politics was to occupy the streets, and people had a herd mentality, so once political opponents were allowed to occupy the streets and create a popular momentum, then the masses who were originally neutral or inclined to their own side could be transformed.
The Duke of Windsor immediately set his sights on Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party.
"I understand" Labour leader Attlee knows that now is the time to burn his eyebrows, if the Labour Party cannot mobilize enough people to take to the streets, then after this political change, the Labour Party will not have a little status in British politics, the Labour Party has relied on the strength of the people to mix in the political arena, if it loses the street protests, how can they play gentlemanly politics in the future, they can play the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party "I'm going to mobilize a million people on the streets," Attlee gritted his teeth, "the streets of London will never be controlled by those who oppose us" 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 storm the Soviet embassy was unsuccessful, and the Soviet ambassador Maisky and the leader of the British Bolshevik Party, Pollitt, escaped from the tunnel, which Maisky had secretly excavated in order to allow the revolutionary leadership to be safely transferred from the embassy when the proletarian revolution broke out in England.
On January 9th, this secretly excavated tunnel really came in handy.
The tunnel exit was a secret stronghold of the Third International disguised as a trading company, where Maisky and Pollitt and others left disguised as merchants and went to a stronghold in the workers' ghetto of East London specially prepared to lead an armed uprising.
The armed uprising, of course, was also British, beginning with the workers' armed march in support of the Bolshevik Party.
Because London was under martial law, and the Bolshevik Party acted in a bit of haste, the masses were not very mobilized.
Fewer than 10,000 people took to the streets in the workers' quarters of East London, of whom about 2,000 belonged to the London Volunteers and were armed.
But before they could get out of London's East End, Churchill's army arrived.
But the bloody crackdown did not begin immediately, and in the end the government troops simply set up roadblocks and fired warning shots to disperse the crowd.
All the people in Buckingham Palace heard was the gunfire of the army's warning.
However, the army's warnings did not work, and instead of dispersing, the gathered masses began to sing the Internationale, shouting slogans such as "Bread, milk" and "Down with the Churchill dictatorship."
It turned out that through the internationalist fighters who were ambushed in the wartime cabinet command, Maisky and Pollitt already knew that Churchill had not been overthrown, and that he had sent the troops to storm the Soviet embassy.
This seems to indicate that Churchill has raised the butcher's knife against the masses of the people, and should be ready to surrender to the Axis powers.
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So they immediately adjusted their tactics, using bread and milk and the downfall of the Churchill dictatorship as slogans, and at the same time having the "Red Guards" who were armed and ready to rebel hide their weapons under their coats.
And the slogan "Bread, Milk and Down with Churchill" confuses many Labour supporters, which is exactly what they want As a result, the number of marchers increased rapidly, soon reaching as many as 100,000, and the entire East End seemed to be boiling.
At this time, the soldiers who were sent by Qiu Fatzi to suppress were dumbfounded, and no one dared to shoot indiscriminately, so it was not good to blame Viscount Brooke, who was sent by him to suppress the soldiers of the London County Division, and many of them originally lived in the East End Moreover, these capital city soldiers were very good at inquiring about information, and they now knew that most of the American reinforcements were rice bucket riflemen, and that the Germans had landed at Hartlepool and Middlesbrough in central England This is really a shaking military spirit, the British Isles have been landed by the enemy, this war can still be fought and the war is like this, the dignified British Empire has fallen to this, who is responsible It's not the fault of Churchill's old stubbornness If peace had been negotiated with Germany after the fall of France, there would have been bread and milk and the British Empire, and the German Nazis would not have come So the officers and men of the London County Division were actually sympathetic to the marching masses.
And the characteristic of street politics is that once the spark cannot be suppressed by thunderous means in the early stage, then things will get bigger and bigger.
Towards noon, the trade unions controlled by the Labour Party began to mobilize the masses, which was a great deal because the Labour Party was originally the party of the British working people, and the mass base was not at all comparable to that of the Bolshevik Party.
Attlee said that inciting millions of people to the streets was not Haikou at all.
But the Labour Party also has something that cannot be compared with the Bolshevik Party, that is, it is loosely organised, more like a political club than a cohesive party.
To put it bluntly, the Labour Party is a party that plays with elections, not a party that makes a revolution in the streets.
They can stir the masses into the streets, but they do not have the ability to effectively control them, at least with the interference of the Bolshevik Party, they have no means of controlling the masses.
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