The menacing interrogatories were eventually settled under Churchill's Tai Chi Tui, but he was faced in a different situation than Roosevelt. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe difficulty of the latter lies in the fact that some lawmakers have a sense of distrust of the president due to the defeat at the front, and it needs to be cleared urgently; And Churchill's difficulty was that he could not find a good way out of the situation, and all the way out was pinned on the Americans.

By the time of the defeat, the parliamentarians had become completely numb, and had gradually come to the idea that Britain was destined to be unable to defeat Germany in this war, and that it was up to the Americans to win. The British Empire either defected to Germany and became second-rate, or the United States became second-rate, and to most of the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the Americans were at least cute.

Everyone can understand what Churchill's repeated "persistence" is -- that is, to hold on and not fall, and wait for the United States to regain strength and gain the upper hand.

However, as soon as Churchill finished the meeting, he received bad news: The Eighth Air Force had suffered unprecedented heavy losses, and the Americans could not stand it anymore and wanted to withdraw their personnel, and they also sent an urgent telegram asking Britain to bring the research materials, scientific researchers, and semi-finished products of jet fighters to the United States with the ship to speed up research and manufacturing.

Facing the anxious cabinet crowd, Churchill pondered for a long time, and pondered for a long time before making up his mind:

1. Understand the decision of the main personnel of the Eighth Air Force to retreat, express gratitude to them for their hard fighting for more than a year, the corresponding bases and equipment will be taken over by the Royal Air Force, Britain will independently carry out the mission of bombing the Azores, and welcome the United States to continue to send aviation forces to Britain to fight later;

2. Agree to transfer all personnel, facilities and equipment for jet research and development, but require the United States to promise to transfer complete technical information and provide the first batch of equipment to the United Kingdom after the completion of final research and development.

Attlee opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and finally nodded in agreement – his agreement meant that both the Conservatives and Labour were on the same page.

"We can use this evacuation opportunity to ...... some of the immigrants to the United States," Churchill confessed, "and secretly inform the members of Congress that they should each recommend five shipbuilding-related families, one of which could be engineers or technicians, and the other four should be industrial workers' families, to go to the United States or Canada as the first immigrants." ”

Everyone in the cabinet was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, and secretly applauded the prime minister's old way: It is impossible to keep the matter of immigrating to the United States secret at the top level, and once the implementation begins, there will definitely be big people who come to intercede, and it is not good to refuse any of them. The prime minister's cleverness lies in asking them to recommend five households each -- you can stuff your own relatives, friends, or other people who need to be taken care of in it, so that not only can you silence the parliamentarians, but also quickly form a community of interests, and you can explain to all sides, which is one of the few strategies that can please the majority of parliamentarians in the current domestic and foreign affairs of the cabinet.

While Britain and the United States were struggling to sort out and communicate internally, the Berlin direction was jubilant, and Goebbels solemnly congratulated Hoffmann on the victory of the Berlin air defense battle and the Madagascar landing campaign, but then asked in bewilderment: "Führer, is your idea of advertising it through radio broadcasts true?" Are you really planning to make peace with the enemy now? ”

"Of course! As long as we follow our terms, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union can agree to peace with us. ”

"Britain and Russia are okay, but it seems a little too cheap to make peace with the Americans now." Goebbels said unwillingly, "Now that we have destroyed the Panama Canal, and the strength of the US Navy has been greatly weakened, and their land forces are not worth mentioning, it is a good time to take advantage of the victory." ”

"Cheap?" Hoffman shook his head, "I don't think so, the power of the United States has not yet been fully exerted, what everyone sees is only the tip of the iceberg, taking advantage of the opportunity to have the upper hand and overwhelming advantage now to stop the war is more beneficial to us, and besides, no one stipulates that there can be no war after peace, and then the war will unfold in a way you can't imagine." ”

Goebbels had heard the theory of "two or even three world wars," and although he did not understand why the Führer emphasized the need to settle the Americans through multiple wars rather than once and for all, this did not prevent him from adoring the Führer, and since the Führer said so, it was so good - anyway, after all these years, the Führer was almost always right.

"Broadcasting to the United States is an important matter, and it must be done well, and the signal relay station in Portugal must continue to invest in strength, so that Americans can hear more voices, and the focus of attacks must be clever, and the focus of attacks must be clever, and it must be focused on politicians, capitalists, and Jews, and it is necessary not to attack military personnel, and it is necessary to separate the US government from the American people as much as possible."

After Goebbels presided over the Voice of Europe radio became more and more famous, after the broadcast of the first list of the dead, at least 100,000 American families listened to the radio in just a few days, and it spread at a frantic speed, especially at 12 o'clock in the evening Washington time, when the whole family gathered in front of the radio to listen to the German announcer's broadcast list.

A few days later, the Germans released the total number of more than 400 dead and nearly 5,000 prisoners, and even inserted a number of audio recordings.

A 19-year-old B-17 machine gunner from Virginia cried over the radio: "Mom...... I'm Sean...... I'm alive! Our plane was shot down by the Germans, I parachuted and became a prisoner, and the Germans said that we blew up the Berlin Cathedral and demanded that everyone participate in forced labor to repair the church...... I do 10 hours a day of physical work...... Mom...... Come and save me! ”

There was also a 29-year-old B-17 captain from Wisconsin, with the rank of second lieutenant, and although he didn't cry, his speech was equally heartbreaking: "Lily...... I'm Joe...... I was captured by the Germans...... It's a bad situation right now, but it's going to endure. Sadly, I found out that we had been fooled - we had been tricked into fighting the Germans! In charge of us was a retired German elementary school teacher who spoke English, and he said, 'We fought for the dignity of Germany, we fought for the defense of Berlin and the Führer, why did you Americans fight?' Germany has never offended you...... 'I can't answer!' ”

Although a handful of bad-brained Junckers were critical of Goebbels' propaganda and methods of prisoner management, arguing that there were not enough knights—those who were willing to cooperate in the recording, and who were willing to denounce Roosevelt, politicians, and Jews—would be given preferential treatment, and those who were German, could speak German, and offered to cooperate, they would be treated more leniently.

The onlookers in Berlin were very happy to see and point fingers at this forced labor of building roads and bridges, and this time they shot down so many planes and captured so many prisoners were a bad breath at Berlin's experience of being bombed over the past few years. In this respect, Hoffman had learned completely badly - he had learned all the mass line of the National Socialist Workers' Party to win votes and win the hearts and minds of the people to come to power.

On May 9, at a meeting of the High Command, the Chief of the General Staff, Keitel, reported the news of the victorious end of the battle for Madagascar, but also expressed unease: "The reconnaissance situation shows that the American forces seem to be retreating from the front line, and the reconnaissance planes have found that their transport planes and bombers are transporting intact troops on their return journey, in addition to the wounded; The only good news is because the American planes are busy retreating, and they finally can't spare their hands to bomb us. ”

Hoffman nodded: "This is to be expected, after the loss of Madagascar, our flank in Kenya will be fully covered, and the Americans will be cornered, as long as a second landing can completely surround them." ”

"So what now?" The director of the war bureau, Jodel, was anxious, "Heinz reported that the enemy's defense line is very tight, the terrain is also favorable to them, and there are at least 100,000 or so troops now, the equipment and firepower are not bad, and the losses of the forced attack are very large, and the landing force in Madagascar may be completely reduced and then landed, although the end of the battle has been greatly earlier than originally planned, we still cannot let this force join the pincer offensive before May 25, the Americans are shrinking too quickly." ”

"Do they have a retreat on land?"

"I don't think so." Yodel pointed to the map and explained, "Nairobi is mountainous to the north, the huge Lake Victoria is to the west, and the retreat on the road can only go south******** the coastline north of South Africa is all controlled by our army, even if they do nothing and let the Americans withdraw their troops from the land, they still have nearly 4,000 kilometers to South Africa, farther than Paris to Moscow, there are no railways in between, only low-grade roads, dirt roads, and most of the areas can't even be passed by cars, so they can only walk - not to mention the pampered American army, We can't do it even if we change it. ”

"Then you can only retreat from the air." Hoffman nodded, "Do you have the ability to cut them off?" ”

"It's very difficult, 300 planes have been put into the African direction as a whole, and most of them are fighter planes, but the number of US planes, especially escort planes, is also very large, and the interception effect is not remarkable, and because of logistical problems, it is very difficult to maintain these 300 planes for operation."

Hoffman looked at the map, thought about it repeatedly, and said: "Let the landing force land in Dar es Salaam, ********, and establish an airfield, and transfer 300 of the latest FW-190A8 from the mainland to Africa - after the Berlin air raid, the enemy should be greatly restricted, and let the aircraft carrier divert aviation fuel and ammunition to the FW-190, as for the accessories...... If you can't do it, you can disassemble it from other planes. ”

"On May 15th, the Japanese Combined Fleet will depart for China, so what about the campaign to attack South Africa?"

Hoffman shook his head: "Don't fight South Africa, let's fight here!" ”

Looking at the place he pointed, everyone was stunned......

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