Chapter 786 Is It Legal?

Washington, White House.

Everyone in the Oval Office was stunned.

A radio in the floor-to-ceiling room was playing the speech by Princess Elizabeth that changed British history.

With a click, someone turned off the radio after the speech, but no one came to comment immediately. There was only a dead silence in the huge office.

After an unknown amount of time, Roosevelt's loud and majestic voice finally sounded.

"Haha, what a bloody queen! I didn't expect that in a country like Britain with hundreds of years of constitutional tradition, there would be such a princess who openly trampled on the Bill of Rights and the Act of Succession. Not only did she declare her coronation on her own, but she also ordered the army to be loyal to her instead of Parliament. Such a monarch who is a D-type monarch will definitely not be accepted by the British people. Viscount, am I right?"

Sitting opposite President Roosevelt was Viscount Halifax, the British ambassador to the United States. He didn't know who he represented now? Was it the Socialist Republic of England controlled by the Social Democratic Workers' Party (the Bolshevik Party was renamed), or the bloody Queen Elizabeth who declared her coronation on her own in Buckingham Palace.

"Mr. President," Viscount Halifax sighed, "I don't think this is the princess's intention... She may be controlled by her fiancé, German Prince Friedrich."

"Mr. President, this possibility exists." Roosevelt's confidant Hopkins echoed Halifax's opinion. He paused and said, "The Bloody Queen is illegal, there is no doubt about it... The legitimate monarch of Britain now should be George VI, Viscount, what do you think?"

Although the US government secretly helped the British Bolshevik Party, it was done in secret, just like the United States helped a certain caliph in later generations. The US government could not publicly recognize this "caliphate" and send ambassadors.

So after the Bolshevik Party uprising, President Roosevelt immediately issued a statement opposing the British Bolshevik Party's uprising and the Third International's crude interference in Britain's internal affairs.

At the same time, he also announced the suspension of all supplies to the Soviet Union (the route to Murmansk was cut off after the night battle in the Ice Sea, and Vladivostok on the other side was frozen, so naturally it could not transport supplies, so the aid route to the Soviet Union was originally suspended), until the Third International announced its dissolution!

The legitimate British government and monarch that the US government is now ready to recognize are of course in Canada. For the current United States, controlling the legitimate British government and monarch is very important, because only in this way can the United States command the British overseas empire to abdicate the British Royal Navy fleet in Canada.

"The legitimate monarch... of course, His Majesty King George VI." When Halifax answered this question, he thought in his heart: Legitimate? What law? Is there any law that can be used on the British Isles now?

Roosevelt asked: "Then should King George VI immediately declare Elizabeth's throne illegal and deprive her of the right to inherit the throne?"

"In fact, His Majesty the King cannot do this," Viscount Halifax's answer surprised Roosevelt, "because the "Act of Succession" clearly stipulates that the power to decide the succession to the throne lies with the British Parliament, not the king himself. Therefore, only the British Parliament can declare Princess Elizabeth's throne illegal and deprive her of her status as heir to the throne."

Roosevelt and Hopkins looked at each other, and Hopkins asked: "But there is no parliament in Britain now!"

Yes, the parliament was dissolved by Fatty Qiu!

Viscount Halifax shrugged and spread his hands, "Without Parliament... then according to the Succession Act, no one can declare the princess's throne illegal."

Ah! How can this be! ? How can there be such a big loophole in this Succession Act?

"Is there nothing we can do about this bloody queen?" Roosevelt asked unhappily.

Viscount Halifax thought for a while and said, "Only when the British Parliament is re-elected can the new Parliament pass a bill to rebuke Princess Elizabeth and deprive her of her throne and inheritance rights!"

Roosevelt stared at Viscount Halifax who was speaking seriously, thinking to himself, you dare to say that! The throne of the bloody queen is made of iron and blood, and a broken parliament dares to deprive it? Why don't you let the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union impeach Stalin?

"President, the most urgent task now is to help King George VI establish a legitimate government in Canada." Hopkins knew that there was no solution to the problem of Queen Elizabeth, so he changed the subject and said, "Otherwise, the British mainland army and the British Indian authorities may be loyal to this bloody queen..."

The British mainland army has 2-3 million troops. If all of them are loyal to Elizabeth, then London will immediately return to her hands-the British Civil War will end in less than a week!

And the power of a queen with blood on her hands will far exceed that of any monarch since the British bourgeois revolution! If this bloody queen is dead set on being an accomplice of Germany, it will be very bad news for the United States.

In addition, British India, surrounded by German and Japanese forces, is likely to declare allegiance to the bloody queen-after all, in the Cairo Declaration, the Germans have recognized Britain's rights to India, and it is safer for the British Indian authorities to surrender to the bloody queen.

Once India is controlled by the European Community, Europe will be able to obtain a large amount of Indian wheat, chromite, manganese ore and bauxite. In particular, once the food produced in India reaches Europe, it will greatly improve the food supply of European countries led by Germany... Eating is a bigger problem than legitimacy!

"Viscount," Roosevelt looked at Halifax, who was frowning, and said, "I hope you can go to Canada to help King George VI set up a government. The United States will stand with you 100%."

Viscount Halifax nodded slightly. He originally had the idea of ​​going to Canada to help George VI to make a one-British-one-world-wide-view policy - he was a big figure of the British Conservative Party who was shoulder to shoulder with Churchill.

"I am very grateful for the support of the President," said Viscount Halifax, "but there is still a powerful country in the world's anti-Nazi-fascist camp whose attitude is unclear, which will seriously affect the status of the King's government in the minds of the British people."

"The Soviet Union will definitely support the King's government, I can guarantee this 100%! Stalin will soon abandon the British Bolsheviks, and he will also dissolve the Third International... He must do this, otherwise he will lose the support of the United States!" President Roosevelt understood what Viscount Halifax meant, and he immediately made a guarantee.

Because he knew very well that the fate of the British Bolsheviks was doomed because Princess Elizabeth showed unimaginable toughness.

London could not be Petrograd in 1917, it could only be Paris in 1871 (Paris Commune), or even worse than the Paris Commune of that year.

...

When President Roosevelt was heartbroken by the loopholes in the British "Bill of Rights" and "Act of Succession", London had become a battlefield!

After the Royal Guards swore allegiance to the bloody queen, the war between the queen and the Bolsheviks began in the city of London.

The first to be shot were the hundreds of thousands of revolutionary masses who were shouting slogans outside Buckingham Palace. The soldiers of the Royal Guard launched an attack under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles. Of course, they did not use water guns and rubber bullets, but real bullets and shells that could kill the masses in piles!

When the sound of gunfire during the suppression - in fact, it can't be considered suppression, the current situation should be a civil war - reached the Provisional Government Building of the Socialist Republic of England (the former Treasury Building) on ​​London's Uprising Street (the former King Charles Street), the representative of the Third International, Ivan Maisky, knew that something was wrong!

Because the key to whether this kind of "street revolution" in Europe can succeed is whether the country's armed forces can remain neutral or turn against the emperor. The important reason why the November Revolution in Germany and the February Revolution in Russia were successful was that the German and Russian armies at that time did not firmly support the monarch.

In today's Britain, most of the army has remained silent - it is a British tradition that the army does not interfere in domestic politics and obeys the legitimate government and parliament, which is not something that a few senior generals can change immediately.

But the Royal Guard was successfully completely controlled by the reactionary forces led by Elizabeth!

Moreover, after having more than 10,000 elite armed forces, Princess Elizabeth (actually manipulated by Frederick)'s tough attitude also made Maisky feel bad.

Because the situation of the British Bolshevik Party is similar to that of the Russian Bolshevik Party after the August Revolution. It is not strong in itself and has few hardcore followers. If the issue of the Constituent Assembly election was not used to stabilize the Social Revolutionary Party and the Mensheviks, the revolution would definitely fail. The situation of the British Bolshevik Party is even more dangerous. Their strength is not as good as that of the Russian Bolsheviks before the August Revolution. Many of their followers are actually deceived Labour Party supporters. The revolutionary will of these Labour Party supporters is not firm. If the royal family, the nobility and the bourgeoisie are easy to bully, they are certainly willing to follow and make trouble.

But now Princess Elizabeth has taken resolute and bloody repressive measures, these Labour Party supporters will definitely be scared away, so that only a few hardcore supporters will follow the British Bolshevik Party, and at most a few thousand of them can fight (now it is not street politics, but gun politics, and it is useless to have more people marching), which is no match for the Royal Guards.

Just when Maisky felt that things were going badly but was helpless, a cadre of the Third International came close to his ear and whispered, "Comrade representative, our comrades in the Southern Military District have just sent a telegram saying that German planes have dropped leaflets saying that they will carry out a deterrent bombing of the East End of London tomorrow morning!"