Churchill argued, however, that a cautious "collusion" with some of the leading circles who advocated the surrender of German troops in the West, while unrealistic, would have enabled him to pursue a more assertive policy towards Stalin, especially on the Polish and Greek issues.

So, when the military intelligence reported to Churchill that the Germans were looking for an opportunity to make contact with the Allies, he replied: "One can reproach Britain for being slow, for acting rudely, for analysing problems with humor, but no one can reproach Britain for conspiracy, God willing, never to blame us for that." But," he added. At this time, his eyes became very determined, but a spark of joy shone in the depths of his eyes: "I have always demanded that a strict distinction be made between diplomatic skills aimed at consolidating cooperation among nations and blatant and irrational conspiracy. Only Asians see ingenious and sophisticated diplomacy as a conspiracy"

"But is it likely that in due course political maneuver will not just be a hand, but a more serious action?" The deputy head of the spy agency asked Churchill.

"Do you think that political maneuvering is not serious? The wrist is the most serious in the world. Only wrists and paintings. Everything else is empty and insignificant," Churchill replied. At this time he was lying in bed, and after the habitual nap, he had not yet gotten up, so the mood was good: "The kind of politics we are used to understanding is outdated. General politics has replaced the kind of politics that takes some urbane action in a certain part of the world. This kind of general politics is no longer the arbitrary actions of one person, nor is it the selfish attempt of some people, it is a science as precise as numbers, as terrible as radiation tests in medicine. General politics can bring countless tragedies to some small countries; It is a politics in which intellectuals are persecuted and geniuses are killed. Painters and astronomers, elevator drivers and mathematicians, kings and geniuses are all subject to general politics," Churchill pulled the blanket over his body, and then continued, "It is in no way detrimental to the king that the king and the genius appear at the same time in a period; Some of the confrontations that existed during this period were accidental, not regular. The introduction of general politics would inevitably lead to some completely unexpected alliances, as well as bizarre and unusual shifts in strategy, so my appeal to Stalin on June 22, 1941, was the most logical and consistent. My appeal is indeed logical, but consistency is a secondary question. The interests of cooperation among countries are the most important thing, and other matters will be understood by history."

"Hello, Mrs. Kim," said a man leaning over the bedside.

"Hello," replied the female operator in an extremely weak voice. At this time, she still had difficulty speaking, her head was dizzy, and she was nauseous at the slightest movement. It was only after each meal that she felt better. The child fell asleep, and she fell asleep for a while. But as soon as I opened my eyes, my heart was suffocated and nauseous, and then my head became dizzy again, and the things in front of me began to change color again. Whenever she saw her child, she felt a sense of confusion in her heart. It's a very peculiar emotion, and even she can't tell the truth. She had mixed feelings: a sense of fear, a feeling of flying, an unconscious sense of pride, and a sense of composure that had never been in the water.

"Madame King, I would like to ask you a few questions," the man continued, "do you hear me?" ”

"I hear you.

"I won't bother you for long"

"Where are you from?"

"I'm from the insurance company"

"My husband is dead, huh?"

"I would like to ask you to recall the time when the bomb fell; Where is your husband? ”

"He's in the bathroom"

"Do you still have briquettes at home? It's out of stock, and we're freezing in our company."

"He happened to buy a few"

"Are you tired?"

"Is he gone?"

"Madame Kim, I have unfortunate news for you. He is no longer alive, and we are helping all those who suffered losses in the barbaric air raids. How would you like to be helped during your hospital stay? Probably they will ensure the food, clothes, we will prepare before you are discharged from the hospital, including what you use and what your child wears. How cute is this fat doll, is it a girl? ”

"It's a boy"

"Cry and make trouble, huh?"

"No, I haven't heard him say anything."

Suddenly, she became uneasy because she had never heard her son cry once.

"Shouldn't babies cry and scream?" "Don't you know?" she asked. ”

"My three children were so noisy when they were born," the man said, "that my eardrums were bursting." However, my children were born thin and small, and yours was big and fat. Big fat boy always doesn't like to make a noise I'm sorry, Mrs. Kim, if you are not too tired, I would like to ask you, what is the amount of your property insurance? ”

"I didn't know that my husband handled this"

"Do you remember where you went through the insurance procedure?"

"Looks like it's on Spicy Field"

"Oh, that's the twenty-seventh branch. This way, it is much easier to query"

The man wrote them all down in a shabby notebook; He coughed a few times, leaned over the face of the female operator, and said in a very soft voice:

"Young mothers must not cry and should not be anxious. Please take my word for it, a father of three. This will affect your child's stomach immediately, and you will be able to hear his deep voice crying. You don't have the right to think only about yourself, and the time when you think about yourself is gone. Now you should think about your fat son first."

"Well, I'm not crying, I'm not in a hurry," the operator whispered. Then he gently touched the man's warm, wet arm with his cold fingers and said, "Thank you."

"Where are your loved ones? Our company can help them come and see you. We pay for the journey and provide accommodation. Of course, you also know that some hotels were blown up, others were rented to military personnel. However, we also have a private house. Your loved ones won't be mad at you. Where should I write a letter? ”

"My relatives live in Ningbo," the operator replied, "and I don't know what happened to them now."

"What about your husband's relatives? Who should be informed of this misfortune? ”

His relatives are hiding in Chongqing. However, it is not appropriate to write to them, because my husband's uncle is a good friend of Japan, and he does not allow us to write to him directly, so we have to ask someone to bring the letter to him, or through the embassy."

"Do you remember the address?"

At this time the child began to cry.

"I'm sorry" the operator said, "I'll feed him first, and I'll tell you the address after feeding"

"Alright, I'll avoid it for a while," the man said and walked out of the room.

The operator glanced at his shadow and slowly swallowed the lump that was clenched in his throat. Her head still hurt, but she no longer felt sick, and she did not have time to ponder the question that the man had just asked, for the little one had begun to eat, and with it all the things that had made her uneasy, but very distant, and unfamiliar, had disappeared. There was only the child beside her, who was waving his little hands greedily and flexibly. She changed the child's diaper, and looked at her fat son for a long time, his skin was red and tender, as if he had a layer of red silk thread.

After a while, she suddenly remembered: yesterday she was still lying in a large hospital room. There are many pregnant women in the ward, and the nurses regularly bring their babies to them to breastfeed; The children in the hospital room were crying, but now they heard voices as if they were coming from far away.

"Why am I here alone?" She suddenly thought, "Where am I?" ”

Half an hour later, the man came again. He looked at the child who had been asleep for a long time, then took out a few photos from his briefcase and asked:

"While I write down your uncle's address, please see if there is anything of you on the photo. After the bombing, some of your home's belongings were found; You know, in the event of a disaster, even a suitcase can help you a little bit. You can sell something and buy the most essential items for your child. Of course, we will try to get everything ready before you leave the hospital, but still"

"Lusi South Road, No. 25"

"Thank you. Are you tired? ”

"I'm a little tired," replied the operator, for she recognized a large suitcase at a glance among the neatly laid out boxes and boxes along the road not far from the ruins of her house, and she would never mistake it for another. Usually their radio station is hidden in this box.

"Take a closer look, and I'll say goodbye to you at once," the man said, handing her the picture.

"No," replied the operator, "there are no of our boxes here."

"Well, thanks. Well, this problem is solved," he carefully took the pieces into his purse, nodded, and stood up, "I'll come back to you in a day or two and tell you the results of my run." I still have to take the handling fee, this year, there is no way, but the fee is very small"

The investigators of District 76 immediately sent the operator's fingerprints for identification, and it turned out that the photograph that the operator had seen had been coated with a special agent in the laboratory beforehand. Fingerprints have also been removed from the radio station installed in the suitcase. The result is; On the suitcase containing the radio were the fingerprints of three people. The investigators then sent a letter to the Sixth Division of the Security Bureau requesting full information about her uncle's life experience and activities.

Ding Mocun walked back and forth in the office for a long time. He walked with his hands behind his back and walked very quickly, always feeling that something that was very accustomed and important was missing. This feeling made him unable to concentrate, and his thoughts were always deserted, so he finally didn't bother to analyze why Li Guangyuan was suspicious, which made him nerve-wracking.

Suddenly, the tiresome air raid siren whistle sounded, and it was only then that Ding Momura finally understood that what he felt was missing was the bombing of enemy planes. For war has become commonplace, and silence is dangerous, and can cause greater fear and uneasiness.

"Thank you, Bodhisattva," Ding Mocun thought to himself when the whistle called for a while, and silence returned, "Now I can sit down and work." Soon everybody is leaving, and I can sit here and think about things, and no one will come to me with stupid questions and strange speculations."

Ding Mocun sat down at the table and began to flip through the case files of Xu Jiabao, who had been arrested in the summer of 1938 on suspicion of treason. Before the decision to arrest him, there were two informants, one named Ding Guangen and the other named Luo Caigu. These two men were former agents of the military command, and they said in their whistle-blowing letters that when Xu Jiabao held a meeting, he called on everyone to be in harmony and unity with all nationalities, and he also condemned the barbarism of war and the irrationality of murder and bloodshed. After an objective examination, it was found that the trade union leader had met several times with a communist party now living in Japan, and that relations between them had been very good as early as the 20s, but despite careful investigations in both Japan and Nanjing, there was nothing in his case file to prove that he had any connection with the communist party living in another country.

Ding Mocun was puzzled: Why was Xu Jiawei brought to the intelligence department? Why didn't you send him to No. 76? Why are Wu Sibao's people so interested in him? In the end, he found the answers to these questions for himself in a brief annex to the case file, which reads: In 1933, Xu Jiawei went abroad twice to attend the pacifist conference, once to Great Britain and the other to Switzerland.

"It turned out that they were interested in his relationship," Ding Momura finally understood, "and they wanted to know who he had been in contact with abroad." So the talent of the intelligence department got him and handed him over to Li Guangyuan. But what does Li Guangyuan have to do with this matter? The case was handed over to him and his task was completed"

Ding Mocun finished reading the case file. The interrogation transcript is short and to the point. He wanted to make some excerpts to make his conclusions well-founded and demonstrated, but in reality there was nothing to excerpt. The method of interrogation is not like what Li Guangyuan usually uses, there is no excitement, it is completely old-fashioned, and it is straightforward.

Ding Mocun made a phone call to the special information card library and asked for a recording of the interrogation of Xu Jiawei by wing commander Li Guangyuan on September 29, 1939.

"I would like to remind you that you are a person who has been arrested, and it is practically impossible for a person who has fallen under the national legal network to get out of here and live a normal life again, to engage in the activities of the past, because the mission of the national legal network is to punish criminals and protect people from atrocities. And it will not be possible for your relatives to live a normal life anymore. I would like to note in pass, if you agree: first, you plead guilty yourself, and you will also expose other members of the union who are disloyal to our country; second, to serve us in the future; Then the impossible things mentioned above are all possible. Do you accept these conditions or not? ”

"I'm going to think about it"

"How long do you need to think about it?"

"How long does it take for a person to be ready to die? I will never accept your conditions."

"Still, I suggest you think again about the conditions I have proposed. You often say that you are a hopeless person in one situation or another, but are you not a patriot of our China? ”

"I am. However, how should we understand the 'Chinese patriots'? ”

"That is to be true to our minds"

"Thought, this is not yet a country"

"One way or another, our country is based on the ideas of the president. Isn't it the duty of you, the leader of the union, to be with people whose faith depends on our thoughts? ”

"If I am arguing with you as equals, then I know how to answer your question"

"Alright, I'll ask you to argue as an equal"

"It's one thing to be with the people, and it's another thing to feel like you're acting fairly according to your beliefs. These two things may or may not coincide. The way out you have just proposed for me is not in line with my beliefs. In fact, you intend to use me as the focal point of some kind of force, to get me to sign a statement, to ask you what you are talking about, and on the face of it seems to treat me as a human being. If you suggested that I be a lever, why should you treat me as a person? Just say: either we're going to kill you, or you're going to sign this statement. As for where the people of the country are going and what they say, it doesn't matter to me anymore, because, in essence, I am now a dead man."

"Your words are not right. Here's why: I didn't ask you to sign any of the declarations. Suppose that I will not ask the first question now and withdraw the first recommendation; That is to say, you should not speak out in the press and on the radio against your workers who are opposed to our system. I just ask you to first understand the truth about our country. Then, if you think you can accept this truth, please help us according to your degree of belief in our truth."

"If this is the case, then please try to convince me that statism gives people more than any other doctrine can give."

"I'm willing to give it a try. But you must know that nationalism is our country, the country guided by the great ideas of the President, and you workers have nothing to offer but this country. You're just proposing moral perfection."

"Exactly"

However, a person cannot live by moral perfection alone, although he cannot live by rice alone. That is to say, we want our people to be happy, so let us see this as the first step on the road to further moral perfection of our nation."

"Okay, then now I ask you a question: Are those prisons and the kind of interrogations that are similar to those for me, a trade unionist, an inevitable consequence of the system of your country?"

"It is heaven and soul that is so, for we are doing this to protect you from the wrath of the people, and if the people had known that you were against the Führer, against our thoughts, they would have destroyed you physically."

But where is the cause and where is the effect? Because of what people are angry? Is it an essential feature of the system that you preach? If so, then, since when has anger become a stand-alone positive? It's not anger, it's a reaction to evil. If anger is your basis, if anger is your reason, and everything else is a consequence, in a word, if you make evil a reason, then why do you want to make me believe that evil is happiness? ”

"No, you said the word 'evil', I said 'the resentment of the people'. Our people have suffered many humiliations of peace over the years, and it is only after the overthrow of the tyrannical power of the big bankers and small shopkeepers that there is no one to live and work in peace. So when someone, even a trade unionist, tries to doubt the great achievements of the party he leads, the people are angry."

"Very well, but is it the same thing to live and work in peace and contentment and to raise troops to fight?"

"We are fighting only to secure our own living space"

"So, a quarter of the people of Lebanon are in prison, is this happiness, or is this the kind of harmonious life for which I should give my life?"

"You're mistaken. In our prisons, by the way, I tell you, our prisons are not tools for killing, it is clear that you are using information from the enemy, and in our camps there are definitely not a quarter of the country's inhabitants. Secondly, the door of every prison is written: 'Labor will make you a free man'. We are educating those who have strayed in prison, and it is only natural to kill those who are not misguided but who are intended to be our enemies."

"So, you can decide who is guilty and who is not?"

"Of course"

"So, you know in advance what someone wants to do, what is wrong with him, what is right?"

"We know what the people want to do"

"The people? Who is the people made of? ”

"It's made up of a lot of people"

"If you don't know what every specific person wants to do, how do you know what the people want to do? To be precise, you know in advance what the people want to do because you force them to accept your will and give them orders. It's a dream."

"You're not right. The people want to eat and drink well"

"To eat and drink well, and to go to war?"

"Don't worry. The people want to eat well, to live well, to have a car, to have the joy of family, and to go to war for their own happiness Yes, the people want war"

"People still want to put people with different views in prison? If there is a necessary causal relationship between happiness and war, then there is something wrong in your happiness, because the happiness that comes from this way cannot be pure, in my opinion. Most likely, you and I have different views on things. Presumably, from your point of view, the purpose is right, and the method must be right. Workers in the union have also preached this view."