Chapter 121: Throwing Yourself into Your Arms

The American-style welcoming ceremony was very solemn, with a uniform guard of honor of the three armed services standing with guns and a military band playing a loud and beautiful national anthem, making this diplomatic reception sacred and solemn. Wilson personally received and welcomed him, which made Herman? Miller was flattered, and the complaints that had been going on for days disappeared at once. After the elaborate welcoming ceremony, the substantive state talks followed, and after a few days of searching and embellishment, Miller had a thousand words in his heart, hoping that this trip to the United States would bring back an unparalleled gospel to the German Confederation.

After attending President Wilson's welcome dinner, it was past nine o'clock in the evening. Miller returned to his hotel in a dejected state.

As president of the United States, Wilson said that he could only do his best to facilitate Germany's current energy needs, but he could not guarantee it, because the president in the United States was not as good as people think. According to the U.S. Constitution, the president must be subject to congressional oversight in the exercise of his powers. Natural resources are also very important to the United States itself, and the local regulations of some autonomous states are also restrictive and have different procedures, so it can only play a role of facilitating and guiding, and to solve real problems, it is necessary to try to get a vote in the hands of the state's legislators.

The news of the German Foreign Minister's visit to the United States has already been covered in the media in Germany in advance, and such a large delegation can be called the first time in Germany's history and is also a grand event that has never been heard of in the international exchange circles. The reason why Germany has made a big deal about this diplomatic activity is to announce to the outside world that the new German Confederation is a peace-loving country and that the federal government is willing to become friends and partners of mutual benefit and win-win results with all countries in the world.

Miller's visit to the United States plays a role in promoting a new pattern of world diplomacy, compared with the United States for the export of resources, South American countries are completely different, one after another to Germany, and willing to give Germany the most favored nation status, but the premise is that Germany establishes reciprocal international relations with it. Some countries even fervently hope that Germany will send ambassadors to exchange visits immediately, even if only one representative.

Although the visit to the United States was not significant, but the German Embassy in the United States ushered in the most beautiful period since the establishment of the embassy, the enthusiasm of the South American countries is much better than imagined, under the arrangement of the embassy, Müller received many Asian and South American countries in the United States ambassadors to visit, and had very extensive exchanges with them, and some even reached an understanding and mutually beneficial cooperative relations.

Many countries have expressed their desire to introduce advanced German industrial products, and they are full of praise for Germany's various large-scale machine tools, mining equipment, automobiles and ships and other high-tech industries, after all, it is still rare to find suppliers with excellent quality and good service in the world.

The size of the German CIA pales in comparison to the intelligence networks of the Americans, which spread to all corners of the world. In Washington, where Miller's diplomatic activities were so far-reaching that it was impossible for the top of the United States to be ignorant, President Wilson was very angry with those in Congress, accusing them of short-sightedness, dull dogma, and metaphysics!

The White House still attaches great importance to Mr. Miller's visit, but the US state system has too many constraints on the decision-making level, which greatly restricts the country's diplomatic and political trends, Wilson slapped the table and began to lose his temper: "Germany is very important to the global policy of the United States, it is the stabilizer of the European continent, without Germany, the United States' global hegemony cannot be perfect, gentlemen, we need a strong Germany that develops within a controllable range." But what have you done? Oh! Shut the country and watch the sky! Do you think that this will tie up the German man's aggressive hands and make them obedient? Wrong! What a mistake, gentlemen! Germany can still develop without the support of the United States, and can still obtain the strategic resources they need in other parts of the world, but the Germans are very smart, they cater to the pride of the Americans, and obey the needs of the hegemony of the Americans! My gentlemen, it's time to wake up, and not to sleep while others are making great strides while the Americans are sleeping with their heads covered. ”

President Wilson's reprimand had a certain effect, and the United States' foreign affairs, energy, and industrial departments, including New York, Arizona, and Colorado, took the initiative to carry out multi-field and all-round cooperation with Miller, and signed some contracts in the form of energy for equipment.

It was finally a Sunday, but Secretary Miller had no time to rest, and he had to take advantage of the holidays when officials in various U.S. ministries and agencies were free to enjoy daylight to sort out the diplomatic gains of the past few days. Herman? Miller was so quiet, he locked himself in his hotel room and fought hard.

The verbal agreement with Colorado that has just been reached for equipment-for-energy still has a number of issues that need to be resolved further and could be resolved one day, if not on Sunday. Miller knew very well in his heart that if this business was lost, the actual significance of this trip to the United States would be greatly reduced, so he had to make careful arrangements and carry out it safely. Of course, he will prepare several plans for the US side to choose at the same time.

The visit to the United States is far from achieving the purpose of the visit, and it is also necessary to integrate the diplomatic means of all the staff of the embassy in the United States, constantly build momentum in the major states of the United States, and penetrate President Wilson's policy toward Germany into Congress and Congress in due course, so as to win the sympathy and support of all sectors of American society for Germany. Miller knows exactly how many cards he has in his hand, although Adrian is in Germany, his influence has always affected the itinerary of this visit to the United States.

While Miller was alone in the sea of papers, the staff reported that the representative of the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States, Elias? Concalves? Silva asks to be seen.

Everyone knows that Venezuela has always been the backyard of the United States and a forbidden area for the diplomacy of various countries, and because the Venezuelan government does not listen to the United States, relations between the United States and Venezuela have begun to cool.

The documents submitted by the Venezuelan representatives are not politically inclined, mainly some desire to reach trade exchanges, which must be seen, and Miller wants the staff to arrange it as soon as possible, and he wants to communicate with the Venezuelan representative Elias? Concalves? Mr. Silva found the possibility of cooperation on energy issues.

Just Herman? Did Miller really decide on this meeting on a whim?