Flyers fluttered like snowflakes over Mumbai. There has been hail in Mumbai, but the closest snow season to 1940 is the New Fairy Wood Ice Age. Although Indian myths and legends often refer to tens of thousands of years and hundreds of thousands of years, it is clear that the detailed climate conditions of the Neo-Fairy Wood period were not recorded at that time.

So the pilots in northern China, who were in charge of handing out leaflets in the air, had an association of snow, but the association apparently did not resonate with the residents of Mumbai on the ground. This was the first time Mumbai was attacked by leaflets from the air. In India, where there is no large-scale chemical industry, paper is still not cheap. Paper rain began to fall, and the people on the streets in India were at a loss. After a brief moment of fear, the Indians immediately began to rush into a frenzy.

Dropping leaflets is actually quite inefficient, and each state in India has its own local language. Sanskrit is a language in India that only educated people can understand, standard Hindi does not exist for the time being, English, this is the embodiment of India's upper-class identity. Theoretically, if there were satellites, it would be possible to put radios at any cost. Unfortunately, the current technological capabilities are insufficient, and China's artificial satellite program is still making various observations and calculations on paper. The development of space technology is still similar to that of the German V2 liquid rocket, and the launch of satellites into earth orbit is a future plan for the time being. There can only be use for what is there at the moment.

English, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi, all four languages filled the leaflet with a lot of writing. The content is very simple.

"Indian people, are you willing to achieve India's self-emancipation? Would you like to be liberated from British colonial rule? The time is now! ”

"It is believed that it will not be long before the British will make India's full-scale entry into the war a condition and promise to allow India to become independent after the war. But if you think about it, why is it possible for Britain to make such a promise now? ”

"In the past, the British were desperately trying to suppress the progressive forces in India that were trying to fight for India's independence, so why did the British think of allowing India to become independent in the face of war with China? They just want the Indians to work for the British! ”

"China has no intention of invading India, competing with Britain for India. China hopes to help India achieve freedom and liberation, and let the Indian people achieve freedom and peace. When the British give weapons to the people of India, use your weapons to fight the British invaders! Those are the enemies of the Indian people! ”

Ordinary people in India may not be able to read what is written on the leaflets, but the British colonial authorities in India know very well. China is openly agitating Indians to revolt, and it has "predicted" that Britain will "allow India to become independent" in order to bring India to war.

The biggest headache for the British colonial authorities was that they really had this intention. If the British themselves had done this first, the British would still be able to claim that this was a sign of their own goodwill. After someone makes it clear first, it will definitely be regarded by many people as a malicious approach.

As colonists, the British had little experience in waging public opinion warfare in the colonies, and they did a stupid thing and began to confiscate these leaflets. As a result of this order, many skeptical native Indians began to think that what the leaflets said was probably true. It is likely that the British will allow India to become independent.

After the hole cards were first exposed, the British were very passive. Many people who hope for Indian independence have more thoughts, since the British will accept Indian independence, then accepting independence is no longer the bottom line of Indians. Rather, it became one of the many conditions of the Indians.

When the news reached the British government, the British government was dumbfounded. Because the news that Britain would allow India to become independent also began to circulate in the United States. Not only this news, but also the "Churchill traitor theory" that has been rampant in Britain has also been disseminated by many tabloids in the United States as lace news.

The tabloids want to attract attention, and they often rely on stories that are logically and theoretically completely unreliable as gimmicks. The "Churchill traitor" is such a sophisticated conspiracy thing, although it seems to have a grand vision and involves big people with names and surnames, but it is logically impeccable. Facts speak louder than words, and a logical chain that seems strange but reasonable is deduced from facts. It also made the tabloid editors use their brains and do their best to dig deep into this story.

There have been many tabloid announcements about this, and the big newspapers in the United States have watched the sales of the tabloids skyrocket. In the end, I had to participate in this discussion. The Americans were psychologically inferior to the British, and the performance was a "legendary story", but in fact it was able to greatly satisfy the psychological desire of the Americans to try to overpower the British.

The big newspapers were a few streets better than the tabloids, and the Washington Post's half-veiled participation in the discussion immediately led to a skyrocketing sales of the Post. Other big newspapers look at it, this can't be let go. As a result, other major newspapers followed suit, which caught Churchill, who was visiting the United States, off guard.

Roosevelt was such a clever man that he realized that something was wrong and immediately began to order the impeachment of such reports. The hard-liners of the Republican Party had long been dissatisfied with Roosevelt, who ran for the third time and was elected president of the United States, breaking the unwritten rule of a maximum of two terms for a president of the United States. At the time of Roosevelt's New Deal, the Supreme Court tried to rule that the New Deal was unconstitutional, but in the critical situation at that time, the Supreme Court was forced to give in.

Now Roosevelt is trying to interfere with "free speech," which is a trick for die-hard Republicans. In order to defend freedom of speech in the United States, the Republican newspapers opened fire violently, openly propagating the "Churchill traitor theory" on the one hand, and questioning whether Roosevelt wanted to be a dictator and emperor of the United States. If it wasn't, why would Roosevelt interfere with free speech?

Some newspapers questioned Roosevelt's intention to drag the United States into the war, and then undermine American freedom of speech through press control during the war, and then undermine American democracy, so as to achieve Roosevelt's true intention of becoming the dictator of the United States.

Under this overwhelming scolding, Roosevelt also had to retreat temporarily. Even if those who supported the United States to join the war voted for Roosevelt, the public opinion in the United States was against the war. Worse still, the "Churchill traitor theory" allowed Americans to get emotional relief and at the same time increase their own appetite. Many US congressmen who were not aware of this at first have now begun to care about this matter. In the U.S. Congress, the role that this kind of "well-intentioned person" can play is very large.

If Churchill's colossal concessions would have allowed Roosevelt to take credit for himself, the number of people who are now eyeing the hope of reaping their political capital from that credit has doubled. This was very disturbing to Roosevelt. The real success of diplomacy needs to be a win-win situation, but the people's perception of diplomacy is that they want "zero-sum". In particular, the American tradition of belief in God and hatred of the British. One of the reasons Roosevelt was able to gain enormous influence was that he brought benefits to the American people and made them receptive to Roosevelt's views. But the American people are, after all, the people, and their attitude towards diplomacy is completely different from that of the social elites. If it is a condition that the people can accept, it will cost the British dearly.

As a politician, Qiu Fatpang can certainly understand this. What he hopes most now is to find the person who planned this operation, so that he can divide the body of this person into five horses, and then chop the corpse into pieces of meat sauce. This rumor is not only a blow to Qiu Fatpang's policy, but also a blow to Qiu Fatpang's future as a politician. What will happen to a politician who is characterized as a "traitor", Qiu Fatpang knows very well.

But at the moment, Qiu Panpang really has no way to sign any agreement, and Qiu Panpang can't help but recall the lamentations of the old diplomatic old-timers about "secret room diplomacy" and "newspaper diplomacy". During the Franco-Prussian War, German Prime Minister Bismarck used newspaper propaganda to influence France's foreign policy very powerfully, causing the French to fall into a completely irrational mood, and Germany defeated France. At the moment, if it were just Qiu and Roosevelt, it would definitely be possible to reach a good diplomatic agreement, but the irrational emotions between Britain and the United States are also beginning to affect and even dominate the relationship between Britain and the United States.

Roosevelt had no choice but to try his best to encourage Americans to look directly at the war and participate in the war step by step in the "fireside chat". But Roosevelt had no way to directly say what he felt to the American people, "We want to participate in the world war, millions of people will die, first take over the British family business by saving Britain, and then strive for world domination." ”

And the Republicans did not seem to have any intention of letting Roosevelt go, and they began to attack Roosevelt for ignoring India. After all, Wilson had made a fourteen-point proposal that was somewhat akin to anticolonialism, and the Republicans violently attacked Roosevelt as a colonialist. At least an American who supported British colonialism.

Chen Ke is well aware of the US propaganda campaign, and in fact many of these controversies are instigated by Chen Ke behind his back. The Communist Party of America was brutally suppressed in the United States in the 30s. Many people who support communism and the socialist system have chosen to hide their views. And most of this part of the population had relatively secret contacts with the Soviet Union. There are also a small number of people who have chosen to work with China.

Unlike the traditional intelligence warfare of the Soviet Union, Chen Ke was friendly to these foreign collaborators. China's intelligence community has never engaged in classified espionage work, but has cooperated with these people in terms of public opinion and intelligence warfare. Intelligence warfare is important, for example, in the aspect of inciting internal interest groups on the part of the United States. Intelligence officers are able to do things that dozens of divisions can't.

And China's friendship is also very satisfying to the American collaborators, and even if someone finds out that these people have a very unusual relationship with China, there is no way to find any possibility that these people are Chinese spies. These people do something completely different from traditional spies, and what these people do is normal for Americans in the same industry. What was done also did not betray the national interests of the United States. At least absolutely not contrary to the national interests of the United States, as these people themselves perceive.

If these people are arrested for doing these things, it will only prove that these people are right to choose to cooperate with China.

For the Chinese intelligence agencies, it may seem that the contributions of these American collaborators may not be significant in terms of political performance. But Chen's opinion is "very satisfied". He doesn't need these people to play any role in the war that the United States is likely to have with China, but he wants them to delay a war between China and the United States. Time is clearly on China's side. With each day the war is pushed back, China will become stronger, and Chen hopes that this precious time will be extended until the United States does not dare to make a move against China in the western Pacific.