Chapter 303: Secret War (4)
"Outside of the nickname, British diplomatic documents once again exposed the earth-shattering conspiracy."
"The follow-up content of Roosevelt's secret agreement with Churchill has been exposed."
"The president hid the truth from Congress."
"To let the despicable liar hold the fate of the United States in his hands."
"Roosevelt's deal with the British government has made new discoveries."
A group of newsboys ran down the street carrying canvas bags full of newspapers, small bells jingling from the bags.
"Hey, kid, get me one." Welbe tugged at the sleeve of a newsboy beside him, and a fifty-cent coin was between the fingers of his other hand.
"Don't look for it." Verbe took the newspaper and patted the child on the cheek.
"Thank you, sir." The newsboy took off his cap and bowed to the generous patron in thanks, then took the coin and ran away excitedly.
"That's enough money to buy half of the newspaper on him, and the wholesale price of a hundred copies is only sixty-five cents."
It was a man in a gray three-piece suit, with a well-defined face, sharp eyes under thick black eyebrows, and two carefully trimmed beards on thin lips.
"Maybe today is the lucky day for that kid." Verbay said with a smile, raising his hand to open the latest New York Herald Tribune.
"You should look at yesterday's [The Sun], that's what it's called wonderful." The man shrugged his shoulders and picked up the coffee on the table.
Not far from Fifth Avenue, many businessmen and company employees would hang out in the open-air café to chat about company gossip or exchange business information.
"That's a good article, Henry. Yesterday's newspaper sales skyrocketed, and they are ready to continue the pursuit, at least until the election is over, and the storm will not subside. Verbet put the newspaper on the table, picked up the coffee in front of him, and put two sugar cubes in it.
"The White House seemed to be caught off guard, and it's hard to imagine that Roosevelt, with his character, would have been unprepared for this."
Henry. Logan's public identity is the commercial representative of the Royal Trading Company of Westminster (Westminster) in New York, and his real identity is a high-ranking agent of MI6, responsible for controlling the British intelligence network in fourteen cities on the east coast of the United States.
"In fact, he was really defenseless, he could not have imagined that the British side would not destroy those diplomatic letters and secret documents, let alone that it would be his dearest Winston who was behind the whole thing." Verbe stirred the coffee with a silver spoon.
"Look at these people, it's an earthquake for the United States. Imagine the impact of these scandals in a country where all of Roosevelt's previous policies would be called into question. ”
"What is the U.S. Navy's expansion plan? Your purpose is obvious, but I'm not very optimistic about it. ”
"I also know it's too late to make another move, but the old men above won't think about this, speaking of which, the expansion of the US Navy is also a huge threat to Germany." Henry lit a cigar and threw the match into the ashtray.
"There's really no need for the Atlantic Fleet to continue to expand, but the U.S. Navy will find a new target for itself."
"You mean the Imperial Japanese Navy? This is indeed an unavoidable question, anyway, we do our best, and whether we can succeed can only be left to God's arrangement. Henry spat out a smoke ring.
"With three weeks to go until Election Day, we must not underestimate Roosevelt's ability to focus on the work at hand, he was a very good hidden Machiavellian, and he did anything to achieve his personal goals."
"Like bribing Jewish gangsters to fight German immigrant groups? Our guys have gathered a lot of evidence about it, and the guys on Wall Street are very interested in it. ”
"It's an ugly struggle between capital, and I have long thought that as long as these greedy guys still exist in the world, the world will never be at peace." Verbe sneered and put down his coffee cup.
"Hey, you're a little radical, aren't you, are you starting to believe in communism? It's something that makes me happy. Henry shook the paper open and glanced up at his rival.
"Yes, tomorrow I'm going to tattoo a sickle and hammer on my back." Verbe raised his hand and snapped his fingers, motioning for the waiter to come over and refill the glass.
These days are a carnival of major media outlets in the United States, and there is no power to stop these reporters from banging on their typewriters and concocting sensational articles to entertain the public.
It all started with a mysterious parcel that was left on the doorstep of the editor-in-chief of the political section of the New York Times, with a note on it that said, "What's in it will save America," signed "An upright American."
At first, the editor thought it was some kind of old-fashioned political demand, but it happened that he was in a good mood at the time, so he didn't send the parcel directly to the trash, which was a small choice that led to the biggest scandal in American history being made public.
Inside the parcel were several printed documents, each with the number of the copy of the document in the corner, and the coat of arms of the British Empire and the words Top Secret prominently printed on the cover of the first page. The document was forwarded by the Prime Minister's Office to a British Foreign Office official, whose name was scrawled in black ink. The contents of the document were appalling to the editor, and the President of the United States, together with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was preparing to drag the United States of America into a war in Europe.
"I'm not going to declare war, but I'm going to make it, just throw it in the faces of those MPs, and they won't have to be noisy in parliament for another three months." These are the words of Roosevelt's reply to Churchill's letter, on which the British deliberately marked the date of writing in quotation marks.
In addition to this document, there are several copies of diplomatic letters, which are also shocking, some talk about how to bypass Congress and provide arms to Britain, some about lobbying American consortiums to lend money to Britain, and even one about sending American personnel directly to disguise themselves as British troops to fight the war.
The editor was stunned by the contents of the parcel, which, if genuine, could have killed him on the basis of the classified diplomatic documents alone. The potential power in Roosevelt's hands was clear to every media person, and this man was never a good man.
Mr. Editor didn't think his status was high enough to make any decisions on his own, so he took this hot potato to the editor-in-chief's house overnight, wanting to seek some guidance from his boss.
The editor-in-chief at the time, Barn. Connor was a Democrat, but a conservative, and had always had views on Roosevelt's foreign policy. After seeing this pile of things, he was also frightened, the content was so hot that he didn't know whether to make these things public without getting confirmation.
As a journalist, he has a responsibility to disclose this appalling scandal to the public, and not to allow the people to continue to be deceived, but the stakes are high, and if the content is faked, then he, the editor-in-chief, simply cannot bear the responsibility after the fact, and he has to consider not only the political consequences, but also the reputation of the New York Times accumulated over the past 80 years.
What finally convinced the editor-in-chief was that the package included a letter from the whistleblower stating that he had more evidence and that if the New York Times did not report on Roosevelt's power, he would choose another media outlet to send the material.
After weighing the pros and cons, the editor-in-chief gritted his teeth and edited a headline himself, knowing that this would be a great opportunity for [The New York Times], and once the contents of the document were true, the newspaper would be at the pinnacle of the most influential media in the United States, trusted and sought after by the people of the whole country. His judgment was correct, and the next day's [New York Times] was snatched up by a frenzied crowd within three hours, and reporters from major media outlets crowded the newspaper building to get more insider information from him.
Over the next three days, various American newspapers rushed to publish relevant reports, and it seemed that each of them had gotten some inside information, and it was clear that the "upright American citizen" was not prepared to hang on the [New York Times] tree. The Chicago Tribune obtained a copy of Roosevelt's handwritten letter, the Boston Globe published a document signed by Churchill, and the Washington Packet even directly published a large photo of Roosevelt's signed letter, which took up an entire page.
The source of all the material points to Britain itself, and it is clear that someone brought a batch of classified documents to the United States before the defeat of Britain, and for unknown reasons, this person chose to make these things public.
The rumor in the market was that this so-called "upright American citizen" was actually an Englishman who hated Churchill, and Roosevelt, who he believed to be an accomplice with Churchill, was also a member of the "warmongers", and in order to prevent the United States from repeating the mistakes of the British Empire, he sent classified documents brought from Britain to the newspaper.
Many have speculated that this man's status may not be very high, otherwise he would not have thought about the consequences of doing so, but this citizen must have been a member of Churchill's staff, since ordinary public servants would not have access to these documents at all. The rest is that the whistleblower's purpose is completely political, because he has not asked the newspaper for a penny from the beginning to the end.
FBI agents are now scouring the world for this honest citizen, who they believe has clearly violated British law, that the documents are all state secrets, and that this man has committed the most serious crimes of treason worthy of death.
In addition, they don't know how many similar things this person still has in his hands, and if they can't stop him in time, who knows what more dangerous secrets he will come up with.
Roosevelt had already given a strict order, even as strong as Hoover, could not withstand the pressure exerted on him by the king in the wheelchair, and if he could not give Roosevelt an explanation, his FBI director would be considered the end of the day.
Although Roosevelt defended himself at the first time, it was clear that no one believed his words, and the president could not clear his name no matter what. At the same time, his dream of re-election is completely over, and the question now before Democratic politicians is how many people this man will drag down to support him before he steps down.
After the initial shock, the Republican Party immediately mobilized all its means without hesitation, opened all the media in its hands, and began to beat up the water dogs.
This was their long-awaited opportunity, and in their opinion the Roosevelt era was long over, and the Republicans were impatiently prepared to send this "damned warmonger" to hell with his New Deal.
The members of the America First Committee celebrated that their time was coming for the United States to rethink the way forward and that glorious isolation was the cornerstone of the United States' glory. Let the Europeans deal with the affairs of Europe on their own, and the United States will only need to count the money happily on the sidelines.
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