Chapter 1143: The Death of Roosevelt IV
"Mussolini, executioner! Mussolini, executioner! Mussolini, the executioner......"
On September 10, 1944, John Jr. As Rockefeller was traveling through New York's Broadway to Wall Street, he was again confronted by a crowd of protesters. The www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion was the third procession he encountered on his way from his residence at 740 Park Avenue in New York to Wall Street today.
"Father, are they all Bolsheviks?" Nelson. Rockefeller was sitting in a big car with his father today, and when he saw the red flag waved by the parade, he frowned and asked. He came to New York from Washington to organize the visit of Mussolini, the European dove of peace who loves the United States, but he did not expect to encounter a protest on an astonishing scale in New York -- before Mussolini arrived, the wave of protests in New York was about to boil.
Nelson. Rockefeller said in his heart: These troublemakers really don't know the hearts of good people.
"Not exactly," said John Jr. Rockefeller smiled, "The protests were indeed organized by the Bolshevik Party, but most of the protesters took our allowance to the streets. ”
Of course, the protests have to be subsidized, otherwise where would they be so loud? It's not the Great Depression, and the working people of the United States are hungry at home, so it doesn't take much to come out and protest. Now is an unprecedented period of prosperity, where people are not hired, and overtime is required everywhere. How could the working people of the United States not want dollars to get along with Mussolini, who was bent on helping them get rid of the threat of atomic bombs, without a stipend?
And an allowance or something, where can the Bolshevik Party afford it? There is no Third International to sponsor them now.
"We give them a stipend?" Nelson. Rockefeller was the assistant secretary of state in the Roosevelt administration and was always busy with official business. Little is known about what his father, other Wall Street tycoons, and other billionaires elsewhere in the United States are doing now.
"Why?" Nelson. Rockefeller was surprised, "They are Bolsheviks!" And...... Mussolini was our friend! ”
Nelson. Rockefeller turned his head to look at his son, lowered his voice and said, "Of course, it was to pull Roosevelt's Democratic Party out of office!" Otherwise, why would we give so much money to the Bolshevik Party and that scoundrel Foster (the presidential candidate of the Bolshevik Party in the United States)? ”
"Pull Roosevelt's Democrats out of power?"
Little John. Rockefeller nodded heavily, "And his damn New Deal!" It is all his fault that the United States has fallen to the point where it is now, and it is all the fault of the New Deal. To save America, the New Deal must end! ”
"End...... New? ”
"That's right! End the New Deal and Take Back America! ”
Nelson. Rockefeller, of course, understood his father's thoughts. Roosevelt's New Deal, while it "saved" the American economy, also took the country away from billionaire families such as the Rockefellers, Morgan, and Mellons.
Before Roosevelt's New Deal, the power of the US government was very small, the power of the trade unions was very small, and the power of the American plutocrats was so great that the capitalists could even hire armed security guards to deal with the striking workers. However, after the introduction of the New Deal, the plutocracy suffered a great blow, the business tax rate rose sharply, the government power "expanded indefinitely", and the most intolerable thing for the capitalists was the alliance between the Democratic Party and the trade unions led by Roosevelt, so that the trade unions in the United States were protected by the supreme power for the first time in history. With the trade unions and union leaders under the care of the supreme power, they are no longer the objects of bullying by thugs hired by the capitalists.
"Now is your chance!" Little John. Rockefeller gritted his teeth and said, "Roosevelt's navy had just suffered a humiliating defeat in Bermuda, and it seemed that it had to bend the knee to Europe." And in early November, there will be elections for the president and members of Congress...... If Roosevelt's Democrats could be portrayed as sinners who had failed and betrayed American interests, Roosevelt's New Deal coalition would have collapsed in the election. Then the United States will be back in our hands! ”
Nelson. Rockefeller took a breath, he knew that the "we" in his father's mouth did not refer to the Rockefeller family, but to a large number of well-known chaebol families in the United States. Before the Great Depression, the United States actually belonged to these plutocrats, and the government had very little power, and it was an agent of the plutocracy. Sometimes the chaebol bosses even come to power in person, such as the head of the Mellon family, Andrew. Mellon served as Treasury Secretary for 12 years and has gone through three Republican presidents: Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. And the 12 years from President Harding to President Hoover can be said to be the era of Wall Street giants, and if it were not for the Great Depression and the ensuing Roosevelt New Deal, the good times would have continued.
"Father," Nelson. Rockefeller still could not fully understand the thoughts of his father and some other plutocratic tycoons, and he asked, "If we mess up the peace talks, even if Mr. Dewey becomes president, the United States will not be able to turn the tide of the war...... When the time comes, the price of peace will be even greater. ”
Nelson. Rockefeller is an assistant secretary of state, an insider in Washington, and he knows the current situation very well.
Now there is a technological generation gap between the United States and Germany in terms of military power! This is not something that can be compensated for by relying on numerical superiority, and besides, how much can the United States have a numerical advantage in the face of the production capacity of most of Europe?
"The price of peace?" Little John. Rockefeller smiled coldly, "The price of peace is that we become the true masters of the United States of America again...... If there is such an outcome, this world war will not be a real defeat for us. ”
In fact, the big business groups in the United States are not really anti-war, otherwise Roosevelt would not have brought the United States into the war (the Rockefellers are more pro-German, with the exception). However, the conglomerates must be shrewd in their calculations, and they all have ways to profit from winning the world war or not.
If the world war is won, then the American consortium will be able to use the national power and dollar hegemony of the United States to expand globally.
If the war is lost, then take the opportunity to knock down the New Deal coalition of war criminals and the Democratic Party, put the obedient Republican conservatives on the throne, and then introduce a bunch of laws restricting trade unions, so that the United States will become the world of capital again!
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White House, Washington, USA.
In a bedroom furnished into a hospital room, President Roosevelt lay on his bed, and next to him sat his wife, Anna. Elinor. Roosevelt.
Truman and Dewey, who were running for president, also showed up in the hospital room, visiting Roosevelt, who had suffered a stroke and was bedridden, with flowers and cordial greetings. Both men genuinely hoped that Roosevelt would recover and then devote himself to cleaning up the mess of the war.
To be honest, the war stall that the United States is facing now is really a bit too rotten. America's enemies have weapons that can "destroy the world" and have superiority on land, at sea and in the air. So the option before the president of the United States is not at all a victorious end to the war. Now the question is, just how much will the United States lose?
Neither Truman nor Dewey wanted to take responsibility for the defeat, they both wanted to be American presidents who could lead the United States out of the predicament of defeat and become great again.
But when they saw Roosevelt lying on the hospital bed dying, the clouds in their hearts became a little thicker.
"It's a pity," Roosevelt smiled bitterly at the two of them, "the Battle of Bermuda has been lost again, and it has been lost very completely. And this defeat also reveals to us a cruel reality, relative to Europe, we in the United States are backward in many respects, backward...... I'm going to be beaten! Historically, there has never been a country that is comprehensively backward in military technology that can defeat a country that is comprehensively leading by its own strength and military means. We're going to lose the war, militarily! So one of you is going to lead a failed America for the next 4-8 years, and that's very, very difficult! ”
After listening to Roosevelt's depressing remarks, Dewey and Truman, who were aspiring to lead a failed United States to success, breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts at the same time.
"Mr. President," asked Truman, the Democratic presidential candidate close to Roosevelt, "what do you mean...... Does the United States need to reach a peace agreement with Europe as soon as possible? ”
...... as soon as possible It would be better to end this damn war before the transfer of power between the old and new presidents in early 1945. Then let Roosevelt, the old president, bear the responsibility for the defeat.
Instead of answering Truman's question, Roosevelt turned to another presidential candidate, John Dewey.
"Mr. President," Dewey said, "I think that if the United States is certainly not able to win, the sooner peace is made, the less America has to lose." ”
Dewey's remarks cannot be made in public, otherwise the American masses who do not know the truth will definitely punish him with their votes. But it's one thing to fool voters on the oratory of an election, it's another thing to actually become president and take power.
If the United States really can't defeat Europe, then it will definitely lose a little less by suing for peace as soon as it still has some capital in hand. If the Germans were really allowed to launch the atomic bomb into the United States with some kind of missile, then 500 billion European marks would definitely not be able to buy peace.
And Roosevelt now made it clear that he wanted to betray the infamy of the American traitor and the American thief. Dewey, of course, was happy to see it happen.
Roosevelt nodded and said, "The compensation of up to 500 billion European marks will give us a long and painful period in the future." It is likely that the United States will decline to pre-World War levels, no longer have huge gold reserves, no large overseas assets, and the world's financial center will shift from New York back to London and Paris......
It's quite a painful process, and there will be a lot of people who are not satisfied, and there will be a lot of people who have illusions about a more decent peace. And...... I'm an outgoing president! Do you know what I mean? ”