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Admiral Jin was the last to walk into the venue, and when he saw the scene, he "clicked", it was broken! Everyone had gloomy faces, the atmosphere was depressed, and President Roosevelt's brows were even more furrowed, he thought that everyone was worried about the battle situation of the Pacific Fleet, and just wanted to stand up and say a few words of comfort, Marshall had already spoken: "Now that we have a meeting, I will first inform you of an important piece of information." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Four days ago, the Germans occupied Leningrad." Marshall, fearing that they would not be geographically good, explained incidentally, "Leningrad, formerly known as St. Petersburg, was the capital of the Russian Empire, and after the Soviet Union established the Soviet Union, Moscow was the capital, and St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad, which was one of their most important cities." The capture of a city is not the key, the point is that the city has been under siege for 2 years and has been resisting, but it was suddenly occupied not long ago. ”

"Well, the Russians have stabbed another big man! Who is Stalin going to shoot this time? ”

"It's not a big basket, it's a red flag." Marshall took out a few telegrams and said worriedly, "The loss of a city is insignificant, but the conspiracy behind it is great." Our observers in Moscow received secret information - it was part of Stalin's secret deal with Hitler. ”

Hull's tone was both sad and indignant: "Hitler made it a condition of delaying the offensive and absorbing Russian refugees in exchange for Stalin ceding Leningrad and freeing German prisoners of war. We have ample evidence that the Germans watched the Russians retreat in Leningrad without interfering or pursuing them, and then, after the Russians had completely retreated, the Germans took over the city and received more than 20,000 prisoners of war transferred by the Red Army in advance. ”

Stingson was taken aback: "They exchanged prisoners of war? Sood-De wants to make peace in secret? ”

"It is a prisoner of war exchanging refugees, which is called humanitarianism, but there is intelligence that the Soviet Union and Germany are indeed secretly making peace, and we do not know the specific conditions, but there are two signals that are very dangerous: First, the situation on the front line of the Soviet and German armies is very complicated -- from the end of the large-scale offensive campaign of the German army in late July, for a month and a half, except for the mobilization of materials and the settlement of refugees, the German army has been at a standstill on the front line and has not launched a large-scale campaign, which is very suspicious. There was no problem with the German offensive, and the conditions were in place, so if the Soviets and Germany did not have a tacit understanding, why not launch an offensive in the summer? In '41 and '42, Germany launched powerful offensive campaigns, and we all know that Russia is not easy to mess with; Secondly, our observers keenly note that the propaganda of attacks on the Russian Liberation Army and the countries of the East is rapidly decreasing in the Soviet Union, while in another place the attack on the Bolsheviks in Germany has also been much lowered, and it is almost a long time since the propaganda of the complete elimination of the Bolsheviks has been stopped, and we do not consider it a simple coincidence......"

The crowd could not help but ponder: what would make the Germans abandon favorable weather conditions and not attack must have been lured enough to induce them not to think that the German Führer was delirious, even if he was really delirious, and there were many staff officers below. What would have been the interest that would have made Germany voluntarily abandon the offensive? Then there would have been only Stalin's surrender - or rather, an armistice.

Roosevelt's face was very gloomy: "Although we are still trying to ensure that the Russians remain in the Allied camp through diplomatic channels, Stalin and his close comrades-in-arms have also sworn that Russia will never surrender and will hold out to the end." But we must be clear that the level of creditworthiness of the Russians was so low that Stalin, if not sincerely, would have agreed to Hitler's terms of armistice in order to consolidate his power and the rule of the Bolsheviks - and tearing up the treaty would have been a common thing for them anyway. What should we do if the Soviet-German truce? ”

Based on the assumption of a Soviet-German armistice, everyone quickly deduced it and came to the unanimous conclusion that in the event of a real Soviet-German peace or armistice, the Germans would withdraw back their millions of troops currently on the Eastern Front, if not all, and it would be no small matter to withdraw 2 million -- and the plan to land in Britain could be carried out in an orderly manner. Moreover, the voice of peace within Britain is becoming stronger and stronger, and it is likely to fall immediately in the face of a substantial threat of a German landing.

"The worst-case scenario is that with Russia and Britain out of the war, and China and Japan at arm's edge, the United States may be forced to fight alone." Lehi hesitated, "There may still be Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa on our side, but they themselves need our help, so ......"

The terrible prospect of fighting alone is a source of confusion: even if the United States is the world's largest economy and national power, the pressure to fight alone is still too great, and the terrain of the two oceans may not be favorable.

Admiral Kim suddenly figured out why the president turned a blind eye to his own quiet impact on the "Europe first, then Asia" policy last night, and he must have been thinking about this crucial question as well.

"Are we forced to make peace proposals to the Axis?" After a moment's hesitation, Hull said, "As Hitler repeatedly propagated on the radio, there is no essential conflict between Europe and the United States, and each side can be respected by the interests of the other...... The people may be able to understand Germany, but they will obviously not forgive Japan for attacking us. ”

Although Hull's suggestion was very subtle and tactful, the big man here who was not a human spirit immediately understood the subtext behind it: Germany and the United States can obtain a balance of interests and a confrontation of terror, but the Secretary of State seems to have a different idea about Japan.

Is this what it means to change the policy of Europe before Asia?

Admiral Kim was stunned, of course he understood the significance of President Roosevelt's strategy, "Europe first and then Asia" is the United States' strategy to seize global hegemony, although "Asia first and then Europe" is also a strategy, but it is more like a helpless concession to Germany, at most it can only obtain regional hegemony in the Americas and the Pacific. The retreat from global hegemony to regional hegemony is obviously an unspeakable pain for politicians.

"I don't think that, based on the current realities, we will not be able to defeat both the Japanese and German enemies at the same time, and at the same time support and Lend-Lease to the allies, both Russia and Britain have exhausted our small strength. And they did not make their due contribution to the cause of the opposition to the Axis at all, so that these precious forces were wasted. Admiral King said, "It is completely reasonable for us to choose a breakthrough, and I think that we should first adjust our focus to the Asian direction, on the one hand, to contain the Japanese offensive, on the other hand, to make Australia and New Zealand a bridgehead for the Allied forces in the Pacific, and then ......."

He had only time to say half of what he had said, when suddenly someone stumbled in and reported a message, and the whole venue was like a bombshell, and all of them were dumb:

UK News: ...... Early this morning, the defenders of the Falkland Islands reported that they had been attacked by superior German and Italian fleets and air forces, and that they were in danger and were about to be lost...... (To be continued.) )