Australasian-British Secret Talks

The powerful British were busy at all times, because affairs across the world needed their attention if the British Empire was to remain strong.

However, the British were in far better spirits now than before World War I. With the Russian and German threats eliminated one after another, only France and the United States now possessed the strength to threaten the British Empire's ruling position.

France's losses during the war had been so horrific they were almost impossible to look at. Without ten or twenty years of recuperation, it would be difficult to recover its former competitiveness.

As for the other theoretically strongest competitor, the United States had also become embroiled in wars in the Philippines and Central America. Its international reputation and status had suffered a severe blow, and it had already been excluded from the World League.

Britain's position in the World League was not one of complete dominance, but it was unquestionably the strongest among the many nations.

As long as its alliance with Australasia remained intact, the Anglo-Australasian alliance far outweighed the Franco-Russian alliance, and the strength of the British-aligned nations far surpassed that of the others.

Only after confirming that the French had shifted their attention to building factories in Germany for the short term did the British finally relax. Their gaze then turned to the Central American war, which had begun a year earlier.

The outbreak of the Nicaraguan Civil War had caught the British off guard, but it had also quickly shown them an opportunity to control the Panama Canal.

Regardless of whether the British had acted in history, the British at this point had indeed devoted extraordinary attention and effort to the matter.

The successive interventions by Britain and Australasia were also why the Americans had been unable to resolve the Central