Chapter 827 Can’t wait for Italy

The civil war that broke out in Spain shrouded all European countries in the fog of war.

Although it seems to be just Spain's internal affairs, the top leaders of most countries know that behind Spain are two major military groups headed by the Franco-Austrian Alliance and the German-Italian Concordat.

Just like the sensational Sarajevo incident at the time, once the two major military groups excessively intervene in Spain's internal affairs, it is likely to lead to a series of incidents and even ignite a war between the two major military groups.

War is something that no one wants to see. Because of this, a large number of French people took to the streets and asked the government not to participate in the Spanish Civil War, and not to let the Spanish Civil War become the next one like the Sarajevo incident. The lead up to the super war.

In fact, the French have shot stones at their own government in this way not once or twice. For the French, using parades to intimidate the government is simply an event that must be held every once in a while.

As for whether their demonstrations and demands will have a certain impact on the country's diplomatic strategy, all this seems so insignificant in the face of war.

For the French, as long as they can avoid the outbreak of a war like the super war 20 years ago, they can do it even if they directly remove the current government.

A large number of French people took to the streets and held up various banners, all of which read the slogan "We need peace, we do not want war!"

These marching French people took to the streets of Paris in great numbers and successfully attracted the attention of the French government.

For French President Albert Le Brun, this could not be better news. The demands of the French people are completely consistent with his opinions, which also symbolizes the current mainstream thinking in France, which is the peace faction.

For French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier, everything was not so happy. Edouard Daladier's attempt to evade his responsibility in this incident was, in the eyes of the French people, evidence of Edouard Daladier's support for the war.

Facing this man who was trying to drag France back into a super war, the French shouted angrily, demanding that President Albert immediately remove Prime Minister Edward.

Such an ending was not expected by Prime Minister Edward, nor was it expected by President Albert.

But it is somewhat unclear whether Germany and Italy were behind this.

Anyway, for the current French people, they really do not want to see war, and they really hate those politicians who try to push France and all French people into the abyss of war.

After learning about the public opinion, President Albert laughed, and laughed very loudly.

In this power struggle between the president and the prime minister, he successfully gained the upper hand. Even if his rival, Prime Minister Edward, could retain his position as prime minister with the help of Congress, he would no longer be able to compete with President Albert for the rights of the government.

Because the public opinion has been decided, it is impossible for France to become a militant faction at this time. The militant faction is bound to be suppressed in France.

1. More than half a month after the Spanish Civil War broke out.

French President Albert held a public meeting and promised all domestic and foreign media and the French people at the meeting that France would never take the initiative to lead itself to war. What the French government yearns for is peace and stability.

I don’t know what the French people’s reaction was when they heard President Albert’s speech, but at this time, the rulers of Germany and Italy looked very satisfied with their facial expressions.

Different from the domestic environment in France, Germany and Italy, which are suffering from economic crises, have domestic ideologies that yearn for war.

In other words, under the influence of two relatively extreme rulers, their governments' opinions are moving in the direction of external expansion and diversion of domestic conflicts.

It is unrealistic that there are no shadows of the major powers behind the Spanish Civil War.

In other words, the reason why the Spanish Republic has developed to the point where a war is necessary to resolve domestic conflicts is due to the extreme countries led by Germany and Italy.

Long before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the extremist Spanish Falange Party had long been in contact with Germany and Italy, and even received strong support from Germany and Italy.

The reason why they were able to launch a civil war, quickly take over Spanish colonies, and cross the Strait of Gibraltar to conquer the Spanish mainland was because of the support from Italy.

Italy provided a large amount of weapons and equipment to the Falangist Party. These weapons and equipment also allowed the Spanish Falangist Party to arm a large number of troops, so that they had the strength to compete with the Spanish government.

But now, it is obviously time to reap the fruits. Will Germany and Italy give up Spain, a relatively qualified ally, for the benefit of the French?

What's more, Spain's geographical location is also very important to Germany and Italy. As a country on the Mediterranean coast, whichever of the two major military groups controls Spain will have a higher say in the Mediterranean.

Moreover, Spain is France's southern neighbor, and the Spanish army can also threaten France's homeland. Once Spain becomes an ally of Germany and Italy, France will also face the situation of Germany during World War I, that is, it will have to fight on two or even three fronts.

In this way, no matter how large the French army is, no matter how large France has colonies to supplement its resources, it will still be destined to consume its national power in the three-front battle, and will eventually have to swallow the bitter fruit of defeat.

1. Rome, Italy.

"Everyone, we cannot give up on our ally Spain. They are facing a civil war. Our allies must defeat the corrupt government and bring new life to the Spanish people.

As a commitment to our allies, Italy will support our allies at all costs. I announce that Italy will form a Spanish volunteer army and recruit Italian people who also love peace to help Spain fight.

Secondly, our aircraft will transport supplies to Spain to ensure that our allies can win this civil war. Everyone, take action! For the sake of Italy, we may have to fight against the French, or even break out a war with the French.

But it's all worth it for the country. If I can die on the battlefield for Italy, then I will die without regrets! "

Following Mussolini's order, the Italian government and army quickly took action, collecting batch after batch of military supplies, and then transported them to Spain by various types of aircraft.

It is worth mentioning that because the previous Australasian transport aircraft were publicly sold, various countries have also made good progress in the research and development of transport aircraft.

Although the scale of Italian aircraft is not comparable to that of Australasia, it is possible to continuously transport supplies to the Falangists in the Spanish Civil War.

As for the volunteers that Mussolini said were sent to Spain, they were just the Italian army with a different name.

On the surface, it was a volunteer army formed voluntarily by the Italian people to help Spain win the civil war. In fact, all members of the volunteer army were elite Italian soldiers.

Let’s not talk about the combat effectiveness of the Italian army. Under Mussolini’s rule, the Italian army’s action efficiency was still very fast.

On the third day after the order was issued, that is, October 12, an army of approximately 14,000 people, or an army the size of a division, flew to Spain on various transport aircraft.

In order to ensure efficiency, all transportation of this army relies on aircraft. If warships were used, even just traveling from Italy to Spain would still take several days.

After all, the east coast of Spain is controlled by the Republic. If you want to send it to the west coast controlled by the Falangists, the journey will take a while.

But if you use a plane, there won't be so much trouble. Italian planes only need to cross a small half of the Mediterranean and then pass through the areas controlled by the Spanish Republic to easily reach the area where the Falangists are located.

As for whether there will be any danger when passing through the areas of the Spanish Republic, it depends on whether the Spanish Republic has the courage to go to war with Italy.

In fact, just because Italy did this does not mean that they did not consider that Spain would take action against Italian aircraft.

But this is exactly the conspiracy of the Italian government. Knowing that all the Italian planes were carrying supplies destined for the rebels, would the government of the Italian Republic have the guts to shoot down these planes?

You know, these planes are all official Italian planes. If these planes were shot down, it would be equivalent to declaring war on Italy.

In this way, Italy would have enough reason to directly intervene in Spain's civil war, which would be a devastating blow to Spain.

Unless Spain can also win over another great power to join the civil war, this is basically impossible. Because of domestic public opinion, France almost dismissed the prime minister of the war faction.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally impossible for France to directly ignite a war with Italy or even Germany for the sake of Spain.

France's ally, the Austrian Empire, was itself being attacked from the north and south by Germany and Italy. Naturally, it was impossible for France to join the war alone when France did not take action.

As a result, the only country in Europe that can help the Spanish Republic is the British Empire, which looks powerful but has a foreign policy far away from Europe.

Precisely because of the British Empire's foreign policy, it was difficult for them to directly help Spain against Italy.

This also represents the fact that even though it knew that Italian planes in the sky were transporting its enemies and enemy supplies, the government of the Spanish Republic still did not have the guts to shoot down these Italian planes.

As long as they don't break their skin, they will only have to deal with rebels with Italian help. But if they break up with Italy, what they will face will be a double attack by the rebels and Italy.

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