Chapter 283 Mortgage

Another voice in Little Japan is that it demands that the military department immediately negotiate peace with the Soviet Union, end the war with Japan and the Soviet Union, and then mobilize all military forces to prepare to go south and prepare to seize the Nanyang colonies of Britain, France, and the United States.

It is just that no one mentions the withdrawal of troops from China, and now Japan occupies several provinces in China, and because China is armed with two million German troops, it wantonly attacks small Japan, and each has its own victory or defeat, so Japan has fallen into 600,000 elite troops in the Chinese battlefield. You must know that there are only 18 standing divisions in Japan, and as a result, 14 of these 18 standing divisions are on the battlefield in China. Since Little Japan didn't want to spit it out when he ate it in his mouth, it was impossible for Li Mo to give Little Japan any good look.

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At the White House, President Roosevelt cordially received Mr. Churchill, the prime minister of the British Empire, and the two sides launched a series of negotiations, but the results were not very obvious, because Britain could not afford too much money to buy American arms, and President Roosevelt could not help.

In order to cope with the economic crisis, the United States introduced a law in 1937, that is, the "Neutrality Act", most Americans did not want to fight, isolationism prevailed in the United States, in November 1939, the United States amended the Neutrality Act, the implementation of cash purchases, transportation of self-care principles, the sale of weapons to belligerents, in favor of Britain and France, which have naval superiority. At present, Germany has entangled with some European countries and formed a coalition of European countries, which has made the United States feel a real threat from the European Union, public opinion has demanded assistance to Britain, and the isolationist forces have weakened.

Churchill was a persistent man, without help. Churchill went to the members of the US Congress, and went to the Congress to give a speech, talking about how Germany would destroy world peace, and after Britain was eliminated by Germany, it should be the turn of the United States, with Churchill's incorruptible tongue, the US Congress finally passed a new bill, the "Lend-Lease Act," authorizing the president to sell, transfer, exchange, or lend weapons and military supplies to countries of great importance to US security, and allocate $7 billion for the implementation of the "Lend-Lease Act."

On May 17, 1940, President Roosevelt delivered a speech. Offered that the United States could lend arms. And use a vivid metaphor to illustrate: Suppose the neighbor has a fire, I can only lend him the hose to extinguish the fire, instead of asking him to pay for the hose in advance, and the neighbor can return the original after the fire is extinguished. He added: "The United States must be the arsenal of democracies. ”

Is the United States really so kind? After all, it is not yet in the world of the future. Establish U.S. world leadership. You Britain is not the world hegemon now, well, I will lend you money to fight a war. Let's return it after the fight......

The tanks and warships I gave you, after you finished the war, I don't want you depreciation, you just give it back to me, if it is destroyed, it can't come out, okay, buy it at the original price, pay for it. The "Lend-Lease Act" in the United States is the current mortgage on the house, and the British are waiting to be the "house slave" of the United States for the rest of their lives. If the "house slave" fails to repay the debt, the "world police" (the United States) will come to the door, and the "house slave" of Britain may be exposed to chrysanthemums.

Consider a 2006 story in which the British government recently announced that it would pay off the last of its massive post-World War II debt to the United States, $346 million, by 2006. Britain will finally pay off its debt to the United States, so that the long-standing shadow on the pound and Britain's economic position is finally about to be dispelled. Britain has been paying off its debt to the United States for 61 years, is there anything more deceitful than this?

According to the Sunday Times, in World War II, when the British government needed a huge new loan, it borrowed and lent $80 billion to the United States. The terms of the loan stipulate that the British pound must be freely convertible. Some British historians and economists say that this led to a long period of weakness in the pound, and Britain began to be the second largest in the United States.

Historically, the United States has provided more than $100 billion in supplies to dozens of countries in Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and China, and Britain was the first to receive the most aid and "mortgage loans." By August 31, 1945, on the eve of Japan's surrender, the British Commonwealth had received $80 billion in Lend-Lease "mortgage loans," or 60 percent of total U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures.

The U.S. "mortgage loan" to the Soviet Union came into effect on October 1, 1941, after excluding opposition from domestic isolationist forces. By September 20, 1945, the total value of supplies actually delivered by the United States to the Soviet Union was $30.2 billion, plus other expenses, totaling $30.9 billion ($29.8 billion in Soviet statistics).

Of course, it is also full of risks for the United States to lend weapons to these countries, once these countries are defeated in the war, the countries are all destroyed by Germany, and the presidents and prime ministers who borrow American money, even if they are not in German prisoner of war camps, are also exiles, and if they do not give a dime to the United States, the United States will lose all their money, and this "Lend-Lease Act" is actually a prelude to the United States entering the war. The United States must also enter the war in order not to let the country that borrowed its money be destroyed by Germany.

In 1940, 1 gram of gold was only 1 US dollar, 100 billion US dollars is a huge amount of wealth, for the sake of this amount of wealth, those capitalists in the United States will also urge the United States to enter the war, do not underestimate the energy of those capitalists, the president is their intended spokesperson, capitalists in order to chase profits, there is nothing that cannot be done. Lenin was quite right when he said that "in order to make money, the capitalists are willing to sell the rope on which they hanged themselves".

When Li Mo received the telegram from the United States, he really pondered for a long time, and he prepared the "Barbarossa" plan in advance, and other related historical events followed one after another, from this "Lend-Lease Act" Li Mo had already smelled the smell of danger, and Li Mo clearly remembered that the "Lend-Lease Act" was a prelude to the United States' entry into the war, and the United States would enter the war in the last little more than a year.

What to do? What to do? Li Mo has been asking himself, since it is necessary for the United States to enter the war, the European Union has basically pressed 70% of its elite troops on the French front, although the United States will not participate in the war for the time being, but they will definitely not sit idly by and watch Britain perish, if Germany wants to continue to implement the "Sea Lion Plan" after the victory of the French battle, it will definitely be difficult.

In response to the latest situation, Li Mo hurriedly asked Catherine to place an order for Messerschmidt to speed up the production of JU89, when Goering was the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, he did not know the benefits of JU89, and now Catherine is not Goering.

For a strategic bomber like the JU89 with a bomb load of ten tons and a range of more than 6,000 kilometers, there is no doubt about the role of the Luftwaffe. What's more, now the Messerschmitt company has appropriately improved some of its performance on the basis of the test flight of the JU89.

It can be said that the JU89 at this time is not much different from the American B29, that is, the range is more than 3,000 kilometers less than the B29, but this can be solved by reducing the bomb load. Of course, there is no way to compare the production volume of Germany with the United States, and it would be against the sky to produce 100 aircraft per year. The annual production of the B29 in the United States is about 300 aircraft.

…… (To be continued......)