Although Roosevelt tried hard to downplay the influence of France's side selection, the arrival of the French ultimatum was still blew up. It was the peak of summer, and the Downing Street Prime Minister's residence was crowded with sweaty cabinet bureaucrats.

Although Churchill was still shocked, his heart was filled with storms, and his fat face was covered with cold sweat. At the emergency cabinet meeting, he pretended to be calm: "I only have one answer to the French authorities' behavior of taking advantage of the situation! In the future, the Kingdom government will not take the Pedro regime as an opponent! General Charles de Gaulle and his free France led by him are truly legal and legal governments that can represent the interests of the French people!"

"Does he need to make a statement and sentence Betan to death?" someone suggested.

"It doesn't make sense, the key is, what will France declare war bring to us?"

"It won't change anything, it's just that they have a closer relationship with Germany and will try to seize our colonies in Africa." Churchill shrugged, "President Roosevelt promised me that he would defend South Africa at all costs."

"At any cost" has now become Churchill's mantra: maintaining the supply of supplies to the British Isles is at all costs, defending India is at all costs, defending South Africa or at all costs... Careful people can see that the term "turning point" that was spoken some time ago disappeared. Perhaps the result of India's besieged was an extremely bad turning point.

"The threat from Australia and New Zealand has not been lifted yet. Does the United States have this ability?" Marshal Brooke expressed deep doubts. "Their troops in South Africa are only more than 10,000, which is not enough for Guderian to attack an armed army."

"The Joint Conference has made a statement that the 7th Air Force will repel the invading joint fleet at all costs..."

Everyone thought to themselves: Yes, it’s another sentence at all costs, why does it sound like this sentence is cheap?

Someone interrupted: "Are Americans willing to support India at all costs?"

"Is India? Yes, of course, we have to pay some price," Churchill said hesitantly, "for example, to give Indian national independence."

"Is this your true thought or a temporary solution?" Attlee, who had not spoken, suddenly interrupted.

"Of course this is?..." Churchill was about to say it without thinking, but suddenly glanced at the other party, "What do you want to ask about this mean?"

"You can discuss the matters about India. Anyway, I personally agree to the return of Hong Kong to China." Churchill waved his hand, "In this crisis, everyone's will must be unified and all forces that can be united."

"Your Excellency, we think the government should be prepared for both ways." Aiden, who had been watching coldly, suddenly spoke, "Now the US military has established an air transportation line, and when they return to the air, they can take away some of the people. I suggest that we should strengthen this consideration."

"Aren't we always transporting shipyard workers? The figure shows that more than half of them have successfully arrived at North America 6." Churchill knew that today's meeting might not be good, so he said excitedly, "I know what you want to say, but I should not be responsible for the responsibility for some fraud or wrong behavior among 10,000 people. I am responsible for the strategy of the entire United Kingdom, I..."

"Yes, you should not be responsible for this matter, but we want to know who is responsible for the cause of France declaring war on us?" Aiden sighed. "The MPs are ready to question the cabinet for this matter and specify that you are required to participate. They need to know the decisions made in our "Boxgate" campaign, and to further understand the process of our attack on Dakar, capturing Syria, and occupying Madagascar. In other words, they believe that we have some wrong actions and actions in diplomacy."

Churchill bypassed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the time, and even the issue of not deploying the latest fighter jets to France was a topic he talked about, but judging from the current attitude of everyone, it seemed that he wanted to take the charge of "losing France".

He said in a furious and anxious manner: "France declared war on us because we did something to him, but France was simply betrayed by Betten for the fundamental interests of the French people."

"No, there is a saying outside that the manipulation of the Charles de Gaulle elements, influenced and aggravated the destruction of British and French relations."

"Don't support Charles de Gaulle, should I support Betton or Dallang's gang?"

"So, these are two things." Aiden couldn't listen, and stopped Churchill's perplexity. "The most urgent task is to convince the parliament that even if France declares war on us, it is no big deal, rather than simply telling the parliament that the declaration of war was not caused by our actions. This will only arouse the disgust of the majority of parliamentarians, and they are not stupid."

"Okay..." Churchill turned his head to Marshal Brooke, "Tell me, what impact will France declare war have on us?"

"French** is not strong enough, and declaration of war is at best mentally rather than substance, but one thing cannot be ignored. I heard rumors that Germany is trying to gather European countries to jointly seize our only remaining colonies in Africa, such as Rhodesia."

"What do you think I should do? There are now 10,000 troops in China, but I cannot deploy to Africa. Even if people are transferred by plane, this is too slow."

Air transport personnel?

Everyone looked at each other, what does this mean?

"President Roosevelt told me that he could use strategic transport aircraft to transport our troops to the United States, then arm them with the desire of the United States, and send them to Africa to fight..." Churchill pondered, "The United States lacks experienced officers and soldiers, and has a lot of weapons and equipment. Instead of trying hard to transport them to the British Isles, we should transport people out. The Royal Air Force has calculated that according to the 16 people per aircraft, we can directly transport a division to the maximum number of transportation."

Attlee pointed out incisively: "This is the Americans who deliberately asked us to die! Is the United States lacking so many or ten divisions?"

Churchill was speechless.

Aiden sighed and finally said, "Your Excellency, I want to remind you that this inquiry about French policy is a preview. If our situation in India continues to deteriorate, there may be further inquiries, and an even worse scene will occur at that time."

The meeting ended later in an awkward atmosphere, and although Churchill showed as confident as ever, this confidence obviously could not convince more people.

After the meeting, Aiden and Attley met and exchanged their opinions briefly. The opinions reached by both sides were consistent. The policies must be changed and changing horses were imperative. The only difference was only one. Should we fall down? (To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!