"John, when exactly will the tone be given above?" Taking advantage of the lunch recess, Jairo quietly grabbed John, "I knew it was such a boring meeting, I might as well go to Louisiana to watch the drill." ”

The Atlantic Conference is now on its third day, and the military roundtable in which Jero and his team have participated has so far yielded no important results. This was because the officers of the two countries who attended the meeting had not prepared their agendas in advance, nor had they exchanged views in advance via submarine telegrams.

The British staff officers of the three services sat down on one side of the conference table, hoping to discuss some major strategic issues. But U.S. military personnel were not authorized by President Roosevelt to discuss any military cooperation beyond the original agreement between the two countries. They were interested in the impact of the Soviet-German war on Lend-Lease priority projects and the progress of production and transportation.

Therefore, until Roosevelt and Churchill had not agreed on some key issues, Jero's staff officers could only spend their time arguing with each other every day.

"The question against Japan has basically been concluded. Wells and Cadogan drafted a parallel email to the Japanese government, which was approved by both the president and the prime minister. John glanced around and whispered to Jairo.

"But Churchill was only the prime minister, not the head of state, and their letter needed the approval of Parliament and the king. Moreover, I heard that they were also going to ask the Queen of the Netherlands to send the same ...... to the Japanese: "As an army adviser to President Roosevelt, John attended the military roundtable during the day and the internal situation analysis convened by Hopkins with other White House aides at night, and knew much more about the progress of the meeting than Jairo."

"Has the attitude of this letter changed from before?" Jairo was not interested in the problems of diplomatic procedure, he only wanted to know where the new red line that Roosevelt had drawn for the Japanese was.

"First, any further Japanese aggression in the Southwest Pacific would create a situation that would force the U.S. government to take measures, even if those countermeasures could lead to war between the U.S. and Japan."

"Second, if any third country becomes the object of Japanese aggression as a result of or by its support for these countermeasures, the President of the United States intends to request Congress to grant the right to assist that third country."

John told Jairo the contents of the cables that the U.S., British, and Dutch governments were about to send to Tokyo, and the awkward diplomatic rhetoric made him feel a little laborious in relaying them.

"And the third?" Jairo asked.

"There's no third." John shrugged, "That's all there are two. ”

"That's it?" Jairo was taken aback, "The Englishman took such a big risk to come over and only get a warning letter that is not even connected?" ”

"I was also surprised that Churchill agreed. I wonder how he will convince the Parliament and the rest of the Cabinet. John was also curious as to what Roosevelt had used to force Churchill to make such a huge concession.

You know, the Japanese Navy is not a German Navy that relies only on submarines to prop up the façade. In the event of war, their fleet would be enough to sink and capture all British merchant ships in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, cutting off the lifeline between the British mainland and the vast colonies. If the United States could not help them deter Japan, it would be very fatal to Britain.

As far as John knew, even Roosevelt himself had considered whether to take a tougher stance. But on such an important issue, Churchill simply gave in, what kind of medicine did he sell in his gourd?

John couldn't guess the minds of those big guys, and Jairo didn't want to bother with this at all, he was more concerned about, "That is to say, the British proposed at the meeting to formulate a joint defense plan for the southwest and the Pacific is no fun." ”

At this morning's meeting, a British Army lieutenant general put forward a proposal: A military conference attended by Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, and Australia should be convened in Singapore to jointly draw up a joint defense plan for the southwest and Pacific Oceans. Many American officers, including Jairo, were interested.

"It's definitely not going to work." John was pretty sure that there had never been such a conference and joint defense plan in history. "However, General Morgan's thinking is correct, and multinational cooperation in formulating joint combat plans is an inevitable trend."

Unlike Jairo and other colleagues, John had little interest in the so-called Joint Defense Plan for the Southwest Pacific, and was more interested in the initiator of the proposal, British Army Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan. The reason is simple, it was this guy who historically designed the "Overlord" plan to land in Normandy.

In his previous life, John had seen descriptions of the British Army lieutenant general in more than one memoir. At the time of the Casablanc Conference, Morgan was appointed to the formation of the Allied Supreme Command and was seen as the best candidate for the Chief of Staff (COSSAC) of the Command.

But after Eisenhower took office, he insisted that Smith be the chief of staff, and Morgan should be Smith's deputy. Many people were upset about Morgan's appointment, believing that he would not accept the position. But Morgan happily accepted it, and said that he did not care about the rank of office, but only wanted to do his best to defeat the fascists.

These accounts made John feel good about Morgan. After two days of contact, he also found that Morgan was not only very strategic (Morgan is now working on the "encirclement and annihilation" plan for counterattacking the European continent, which can be said to be one of the blueprints of the "Overlord" plan), but also very humble and very easy to get along with. John thought that maybe he and Morgan would become good friends in the future.

"It was a pointless meeting." Jairo couldn't help but complain to John, "Are we here to discuss when we can deliver 150,000 rifles, or how many escorts we can put in to liberate 30 or 50 British destroyers from the Atlantic route?" ”

"No, Leonard. The fact that the leaders of the British and American governments and the military sat together to discuss the issue of dealing with fascism was a victory in itself. Are you right, General Morgan? The latter words of John were addressed to Lieutenant General Morgan, who had just walked out of the conference room with his briefcase.

"That's right, General Jairo, Colonel Vanderbilt, it's a great victory." Morgan responded politely, "But we still need to keep working hard and strive for more, bigger wins." ”

"You're right, General." John pointed to the ceiling, "And, I'm sure some of the fruits of victory will soon ripen." ”

From this moment on, in the conference room of the cabin on the upper floor of them, the negotiations between Roosevelt and Churchill on the eight principles of the Atlantic Charter had reached the final moment. John believes that this programmatic document that has rewritten the history of mankind will surprise the whole world when it is unveiled.