After sending Randolph and his family away, John didn't have the heart to go back to his room to write a report. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoHe felt that Mrs. Churchill's invitation this time was definitely not as simple as Randolph said. Thinking back to the list of the delegation that the British side took the initiative to get into the delegation, this meeting at the Prime Minister's Mansion is more like the other party has planned it a long time ago.

It is clear that tomorrow night's meeting is more important than the mission report. But before he could do that, he had to find something to fill his stomach with. It was already past nine o'clock, and he was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back.

"Thomas, get me something to eat, I haven't had dinner yet."

"You haven't eaten dinner yet? I thought General Aranbrooke was going to take care of your dinner. Thomas hurriedly called the maid at home: "Diana, is there anything else to eat in the kitchen now?" ”

"And some curry and sausage cabbage soup left over from the evening, sir." As soon as she finished speaking, Diana noticed that Thomas's face was wrong, and hurriedly changed her words: "There is still some cod and bacon in the kitchen, I will do it now." ”

John didn't care about any leftovers: "Don't bother, just help me hot soup and bake two pieces of bread." Forget about the curry, I just ate it at noon. "Now when he thinks about the midday curry, he still has a little sick to his stomach.

"What are you doing in a daze, go." After sending the maid away, Thomas found another box of butter oatmeal biscuits and handed it to John: "Let's make a mat first." I said that you are too dedicated, you can't even take care of eating, what are you doing? ”

"Isn't Adele going to give birth, I'd better go back early if I finish it sooner. Forget it, why am I telling you this? John knew that talking to Thomas, a playboy, about family and responsibilities was purely playing the piano to a cow.

Sure enough, Thomas pouted disapprehantly: "If I hadn't known that you were a year older than me, I would have thought you were an old antique from the Mayflower." (John's style was like a Puritan)"

Speaking of which, John is a pure outlier among their "friends" at the flying club. Hughes, Thomas, Franklin Jr., and even Tom Jr. a few years ago are all masters of flowers, and the women around him change more diligently than clothes.

Hughes won't mention it, he is a Hollywood tycoon, and when is there less beautiful women around. President Roosevelt's fourth son, Franklin Jr., was also a playboy, even if he married the little princess of the Dupont family, he was not less involved in flowers and grass outside. Historically, this kid was even removed from the American Social Register (Blue Book) because of too many marriages and divorces.

As for Thomas, he was even more excessively than his cousin Franklin Jr. After graduating from college, I have been hanging on my son, except for picking up girls, I am collecting Rolls-Royce. As soon as his family forced him to get married, he ran to join the army and joined the army air force, and later simply hid in embassies abroad and did not return.

However, little Tom has been "broken" by him after following John in the saddle in recent years. Hughes complained to John that since Tom Jr. got engaged to his supermodel girlfriend, he has been adopting his heart and no longer comes out to "enjoy life".

After a while, dinner came. While eating, John asked Thomas about the situation: "When did your embassy get the news?" ”

"Anyway, I only found out this afternoon, and as for Ambassador Kennedy, I don't think it's much sooner." Thomas was dismissive of his boss: "The British don't like this Irish cooper. ”

Compared to the John and Thomas family, the Kennedys were a complete nouveau riche. Ambassador Kennedy's ancestors were farmers, and it was not until his generation that he made his fortune through financial speculation. With the money, he began to drill into politics again. first married the daughter of the mayor of Boston, and then hooked up with Roosevelt, donating money and patting horses.

It is said that Kennedy once favored the position of Secretary of the Treasury, but because he was too explicit in his patting of Roosevelt's sycophants, he had a bad reputation among the upper class in the United States. Roosevelt eventually made Morgenthau Secretary of the Treasury and appointed only Kennedy as ambassador to Britain.

Even in Britain, Kennedy was no better off in upper-class circles than he was in the United States. Just think about how embarrassing an Irish-Catholic is to be an ambassador in England.

Moreover, Kennedy was quite clever in business, and he really had no vision to engage in politics. He first advocated appeasement of Germany, and after the outbreak of the war, he was pessimistic about Britain and France against Germany. I heard that not long ago, he also wrote a letter to Roosevelt, asserting that Britain would be defeated, and suggesting that the Roosevelt administration abandon the policy of military aid to Britain.

A politician can't even comprehend the intentions of his own backstage boss, so what kind of energy can he mess with. It's no wonder that Thomas looks down on him. Perhaps the kid already knew that his uncle (Thomas's mother was Theodore Roosevelt's niece, and she was a cousin of First Lady Eleanor, so President Roosevelt was his uncle) was looking for a replacement for Kennedy.

As John drank the soup, he asked Thomas, "Do you know who will be there tomorrow night?" ”

"It's only the Kennedys at the embassy, and the British don't know." Although Thomas has always been in a good position, his brain is very smart: "What, do you think there is a problem with this invitation?" ”

"I can't say it, I always think it's not as simple as Randolph said." John continued: "Who else did Churchill meet alone on this expedition?" ”

"Special Presidential Envoy Donovan." Without thinking, Thomas replied, "He met Donovan early this morning with John Reis, the Secretary of State for Intelligence. ”

An idea popped into John's head that Churchill saw that he could not be related to the presidential election at the end of the year.

Historically, in order to win over Roosevelt, who was "friendly" to Britain, and help him win the election smoothly, the British government and intelligence agencies have spent a lot of effort. Judging from the internal archives of the "British Security Coordination Office" (BSC) that were declassified in the 90s, in order to influence the 1940 US election, the British even used such means as forgery, lure, theft, bribery, spreading rumors, and intercepting diplomatic letters.

Most famously, in order to discredit veteran Republican Congressman Hamilton Fish III, who opposed America's involvement in World War II, the BSC fabricated and spread rumors alleging that Fish was complicit in the Nazis.

They even spent money to "break the news" in the media, publishing a photo of "Fishsmith's meeting with Fritz Kuhn, the leader of the American far right and the number one admirer of Hitler". In fact, this photograph was taken at a public hearing in 1938, and Fish never had a private relationship with the Nazis. However, under the bombardment of all this barrage of negative information, Fish was eventually kicked out of Capitol Hill.

Interestingly, while the British supported Roosevelt and the Democratic Party of the United States, they did not forget to bet on both ends, secretly extending an olive branch to the Republican presidential candidates who supported the Anglo-American alliance.

At the Republican Philadelphia Party Convention in June, the BSC secretly created a momentum for Wilkie, who advocated that "Britain is the first line of defense for the United States". The poll report, in which "sixty percent of Republican delegates are in favor of helping Britain by any means," was written by British intelligence.

The Vanderbilt family is now Wilkie's main supporters, and William is the number three on his campaign committee. Could it be that Churchill's desire to see himself had something to do with it?