London
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald was on the verge of collapse. Ever since news of the promises they had made to Germany and Italy leaked out, he knew they were finished.
Sure enough, upon hearing the news, the French public flew into a rage. How dare they sacrifice France's interests? Enraged French citizens directly surrounded the United Kingdom embassy, demanding an explanation.
Under pressure from public opinion, the French government made them choose.
France and Germany and Italy could not coexist. French Prime Minister Daladier publicly declared: "If the Western European Alliance has Germany and Italy, it will not have France. If it has France, it will not have Germany and Italy!"
Anyone with eyes could see that this was not an easy choice. Whether Germany and Italy were excluded or France was excluded, the Western European Alliance would be incomplete.
Nor did everyone within the United Kingdom support creating this alliance. Chamberlain openly opposed it, believing that aside from dragging the British Empire into war, this alliance would serve no purpose whatsoever.
The most headache-inducing part was that the Western European Alliance had not even been established before its internal conflicts erupted, and the clashes of interest among its members were far greater than their conflicts of interest with the Eastern European Alliance!
Judging from the current situation, Germany and Italy were highly likely to go to war with France in the future, while the British Empire would be unable to stay out of it.
This time, they could forget about diverting disaster eastward. The countries in the east had already formed an alliance. As long as Germany and Italy had not gone mad, they would know to squeeze the soft persimmon.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald also knew about Germany and Italy's internal problems. His original plan had been