Reinhardt's private German-Italian confrontation with Mussolini has just ended.

Churchill's open-face showdown against Reinhardt has risen to another level.

On 18 June, the restless Churchill again reaffirmed Britain's "unshakable determination to continue fighting" in the House of Commons.

He spoke again, saying:

"Let's lift our spirits and take up our responsibilities. Let us ask ourselves this: if the British Empire and the Commonwealth last for a millennium, people will say, 'Now is their best hour.' ’”

Reinhardt also gave a-for-tat speech the next day, mocking Churchill's speech as nothing more than an egotistical orator's encouragement.

Reinhardt recounted Churchill's invasion in the Norwegian port of Narvik and his betrayal in the French port of Oran, denouncing Churchill as a colonialist leader and a cancer in the face of the world's justice and justice.

Shortly after the escalating war between the German Führer and the British Chancellor, Reinhardt received a secret telegram from the Vatican Pope.

And Mussolini and Churchill received similar telegrams.

The telegram said the pope was willing to mediate for a "fair and dignified peace" and announced that he would like to know privately how the proposal would be treated before proceeding with such a step.

On the other hand, the King of Sweden, the leader of the largest country in Northern Europe, also actively proposed to both London and Berlin to support the holding of peace talks.

In the United States, the German Embassy, under the leadership of Chargé d'Affaires Hans Tomsen, was spending every dollar they received in support of the isolationists, so that the United States could continue not to participate in the war, thus making Britain lose the confidence to continue fighting.

Because if the United States entered the war, there would definitely be a turning of the tide of the war, as both Reinhardt and Churchill knew.

Reinhardt, who is well aware of the war potential of the United States, is doing his best to contain this situation through diplomatic means.

In fact, Tomson and others had been working at the German embassy in the United States, and they were committed to manipulating American public opinion to favor Reinhardt.

When the political parties in the United States held their conventions this summer, Tomson concentrated all his efforts on influencing the foreign policy programs of the parties, especially the Republican Party.

On June 12, Tomson sent an "urgent, top-secret" coded telegram to Berlin, saying that there was a "prominent Republican Congressman" who worked "closely" with the German embassy and was willing to invite 50 isolationist members to the Republican convention "so that they could work with the delegates and get them to approve of the isolationist foreign policy."

And the price of the American congressman was a full $3,000.

The man also asked for $3,000 to pay for advertisements in American newspapers, which would run full-page pages with the headline "Don't Let America Go to War!" ”

Of course, the last thing Reinhardt lacks now is money.

Without saying a word, he remitted $60,000 to Tomson, ten times the amount needed for Tomson's report!

Don't underestimate these seemingly insignificant efforts.

In fact, these seemingly small efforts can be combined to have an endless effect, and these small factors can even determine the outcome of the entire war.

Go to war!

With a precedent, Tomson found five famous American writers through an American literary manager to write several books that were "praised for isolationism."

This time, he needed $20,000 for the plan.

A day later, Ribbentrop agreed to allocate the money on Reinhardt's behalf, and the money was disbursed extremely quickly.

Unlike Mussolini, who blatantly looked down on US President Roosevelt and ridiculed Roosevelt's polio sequelae, Reinhardt was very respectful to Mr. President of the United States.

Reinhardt even called Roosevelt in his own name: "You, Mr. Roosevelt, have repeatedly appealed to me, and have often expressed your desire to avoid bloody wars.

For your sake of the United States, I did not declare war on Britain.

On the contrary, I often stress that I do not want to destroy the British Empire!

I have repeatedly asked Churchill to be sensible and to make a decent peace.

But this request was stubbornly rejected by Churchill!

But I also realized that if I gave the order for an all-out war on the British Isles, Britain would suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, I ask you to contact Churchill and persuade him to abandon his senseless stubbornness. ”

But would Roosevelt call for peace?

No, he won't!

Not only did he not call for peace, but he also incited Britain and Germany to expand the scale of the war, and it was better not to die endlessly, and both sides would lose!

In this way, it is in the interests of the United States.

What the United States wants is not a peaceful and stable Europe. On the contrary, the more chaotic and tragic the fight in Europe, the more the United States will be able to take over the rights and interests of European countries and lead the world after the war!

So, of course, Roosevelt made an impudent and malicious reply; "Mr. Reinhardt, the kind of appeal you are asking for is bound to have a profound impact on the people of North America, and in the United States in particular. So I can't possibly say yes! ”

These influences will subtly influence the mood of the American people, and when their government calls for war, it will inevitably cause a huge reaction from the people, and these reactions, whether good or bad, will determine the decisions made by the US government.

In fact, even Churchill himself said privately that he was quite embarrassed by the peace temptations made by Sweden and the Vatican, and if it were not for Roosevelt's hint that he was willing to support Britain in fighting, perhaps he Churchill himself would have thought about giving up resistance.

At the same time, Churchill, convinced that Reinhardt was trying to make peace with the neutrals, took a harsh approach.

After receiving news that the German chargé d'affaires Tomson was attempting to meet the British ambassador in Washington, he sent a telegram saying that "Lord Lotien should be informed that he must never give any reply to the German chargé d'affaires".

The Swedish king had persuaded Britain to accept a peaceful settlement, so the resolute prime minister wrote a strongly worded reply, along the lines of telling the other side to stay away.

Even before any consideration can be given to such claims or proposals, Germany must use the facts.... Rather than making sure assurances with empty words. It must guarantee the restoration of free and independent life in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and, above all, France.

This is the main position of Churchill. Apparently no one in London would dream of entering into a contract contrary to this position.