Harry, who returned to China to report on his work. Hopkins sees Franklin. Roosevelt leaned back in his wheelchair, his eyes closed and motionless, and he was taken aback. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoHe also thought that the strong American president could not stand the blows that followed and fainted.

For Roosevelt, it's been a really hard time lately. The originally planned line of "compromise with Japan, resistance to Europe, and currency war" was shattered by the successful test of the atomic bomb by Germany.

Just a few days ago, Germany's foreign minister in Switzerland made a "handicap" on behalf of the entire European Community: demand war reparations of 500 billion euromarks; unilateral return of all property of the European Community States in the United States; renunciation of all investments and debts to the countries of the European Community; and demanded that the US military withdraw from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Bermuda, the British Bahamas, British Honduras, British Trinidad and other places.

Such conditions are simply unacceptable! But the Germans now dare to bring it up, I am afraid that it means that they really want to drop the atomic bomb on the heads of the American people!

At the same time that the Germans were asking for a sky-high price, Japan, which had already agreed to the terms of the United States' request for peace, also jumped the price and put forward the impudent demand of the United States to cede the Hawaiian Islands and the Aleutian Islands!

Obviously, these hateful Japanese devils are also ready to use the German atomic bomb to slaughter the United States.

And the demands made by the Japanese are equally unacceptable...... It's not that Roosevelt couldn't accept it, but Truman and Dewey, who were running for president, couldn't accept it.

Because if a presidential candidate agrees to cede the Hawaiian and Aleutian Islands to the Japanese, who used bacteriological weapons against the West Coast of the United States, then the midwestern states of the United States will not have a single vote.

Therefore, once Roosevelt announced that he would accept Japan's terms of peace, the two presidential candidates would certainly express their resolute opposition at the first time. And the two parties in Congress, for electoral reasons (1944 was also a congressional election year), would certainly have taken the same position.

As a result, the Roosevelt administration could now only wage war on two fronts, and the slightest mistake would have the atomic bomb fall on the American people.

At that time, Roosevelt will not only be the worst president in the history of the United States, but may well be the culprit of America's demise!

This was a huge blow to Roosevelt, who had been president for more than a decade and had been praised for most of his tenure. Roosevelt's already poor health became even more fragile in the face of this blow, and after a telephone conversation with Mrs. Roosevelt (with whom Hopkins had a very close relationship with the Roosevelt family), Hopkins learned that the president had fainted several times in mid-June, and the situation was very worrying......

"Harry," Roosevelt suddenly opened his eyes at this time, beckoning to Hopkins, who was very thin and seemed to have some serious problem, "and the Roman Empire is settled, is it?" ”

"Yes, it's not for nothing." Hopkins sat in a chair across from Roosevelt and reported with a wry smile on his achievements in Europe. "I met Mussolini himself at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, and he told me personally that Rome would make peace with us alone......"

Speaking of this, Hopkins sighed softly again: "But...... Mussolini, however, said that Rome had to lease six of its most powerful battleships to Germany in order to have a chance at peace, and that it had agreed that Germany would recruit volunteers on Roman soil. He hopes we can understand. ”

"Alas...... We certainly understand. Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "What else else can I do?" Is there any more enemy of the Roman Empire? There are enough enemies of the United States that they cannot be increased. ”

"The President," Hopkins said, "the Roman Empire is our true friend...... Mussolini personally handed me this bag of documents. ”

He placed a vellum-pasted, unmarked document bag in front of Roosevelt.

"What is this?" Roosevelt asked, somewhat curiously, that he had not received any reports of this.

"It's all the information that the Roman Empire has about nuclear fission bombs." Hopkins lowered his voice, "Some peace-loving scientist in the Roman Empire wants us to make this bomb as soon as possible!" ”

There were no permanent friends in the world, and now the relationship between the Roman Empire, as the second largest country in Europe, and the European Community is conceivable - if the ultimate goal of the European Community is to unify the whole of Europe, then it is only a matter of time before Rome is annexed!

And the Roman Empire was powerless to stop this process unless they could break the German nuclear monopoly. However, the nuclear physicists of the Roman Empire knew very well that Rome had neither electricity, nor uranium, nor even enough copper (for electromagnets), and it was impossible to build an atomic bomb within ten years.

So some of the nuclear physicists responsible for the atomic bomb project in Rome (or possibly Mussolini himself) pinned their hopes on the Americans to break the German nuclear monopoly.

Roosevelt raised his eyebrows, but quickly sighed again: "It seems that the Romans were frightened by the nuclear fission bombs of the Germans, and with the strength of Rome, they simply cannot make such a weapon in the short term, right?" ”

"I think so," Hopkins nodded, "that Rome is too close to Germany, and the Romans must now be careful with their northern neighbors." ”

Roosevelt reached out and patted the file bag on his desk and said, "I will have it sent to the experts to study, and I hope that the information provided by the Romans will speed up our process." ”

In fact, Roosevelt did not hold out much hope, because he had intelligence and knew that the Roman Empire had not conducted nuclear weapons research at all in the past. All they can grasp is the clues collected by the intelligence services. The same work was done by the Strategic Intelligence Service of the United States and the military intelligence of the United Kingdom (Canada).

"Any other exciting news?" Roosevelt then asked.

"There is a ...... There is good news. ”

"What's the news?"

"The Soviet Union is going to be finished."

"This ...... Good news? Roosevelt looked at Hopkins, "And I already knew that." ”

"No, now there's a new twist." "The Japanese are about to attack the Soviet Far East," Hopkins said, "and the Germans will acquiesce." ”

Roosevelt then showed a thoughtful look: "Is the news reliable?" ”

"Reliable!" "It was the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland, Mrs. Kollontai, who told me personally," Hopkins said...... Germany and Japan bargained for a long time for the ownership of the Soviet Far East. In the end, on the condition that Japan would continue to fight with us and fight a decisive battle in the Hawaiian Islands, Japan acquiesced in a sneak attack to seize the Soviet Far East. And this matter, both the USSR and the Russian Empire already knew! ”

"The sneak attack captured the Soviet Far East?" Roosevelt thought for a moment and asked, "Or the Russian Far East?" ”

"It's the Soviet Far East!" "Not the Russian Far East," Hopkins said. Now White Russia is Germany's closest ally, and if Japan seizes the Far Eastern lands flying the Russian tricolor, then Germany will inevitably declare war on Japan. Even if Hitler and Hersmann had no interest in the barren lands of the Far East. ”

At this moment, the door of the Oval Office was pushed open. Entering, Colonel Caton, who gave a military salute to the president.

"Mr. President, the generals and the vice president and the secretary of state are waiting in the cabinet room."

Roosevelt beckoned to Hopkins and said, "Harry, let's go along, and tell everyone what you know." ”

In the cabinet room was a military meeting, and when Roosevelt and Hopkins arrived together, William Bush was arriving. Leahy, Ernest. The four generals, King, Marshall, and Arnold, as well as Secretary of State Hull, and Vice President Wallace were already waiting there.

When Hopkins saw Wallace, he immediately remembered Roosevelt's poor health—according to the U.S. Constitution, the vice president was not allowed to exercise executive power, and could only exercise such powers as the president's representative if the president delegated other powers.

And now Vice President Wallace appeared at the most important military meeting of the American Cabinet, apparently familiarizing himself with the situation, in order to take over the presidency of the United States if necessary, when Roosevelt was too ill.

"Gentlemen," Roosevelt said, pointing to Hopkins beside him, "good news...... We have made a peace agreement with the Roman Empire. Now the only enemies are the European Community and Japan, and Japan will soon be defeated by us! ”

Without the intervention of the European Community, Japan would certainly not have survived for long, but a peace agreement between the United States and the European Community would not have been possible.

"We must beat the Japanese out of the war as soon as possible!" Roosevelt glanced at Hopkins, who was already sitting at the conference table, "Harry, tell me what you heard in Rome about the Soviet Far East. ”

"It is reported that Germany has acquiesced in Japan's occupation of the Soviet Far East." "But Japan could only seize the Far East from the USSR, not from the Russian Empire," Hopkins said. ”

Roosevelt's originally godless gaze suddenly showed a bit sharpness, and he looked at the four generals in military uniforms: "Do you understand what this means?" ”

"This means that Japan must immediately make the choice of abandoning the Hawaiian Islands or fighting a decisive battle with us in the Hawaiian Islands." Admiral Marshall immediately answered the president's question, "Because the Soviet Far East is an alpine zone, once it enters late autumn, the Japanese army will not be able to carry out effective offensive operations, and the war will inevitably drag on until next summer." And during this time, it is quite possible that the government of the Russian Empress will achieve a political settlement of the problems of Siberia, Central Asia and the Far East. The political reunification of Russia meant that Germany had to intervene in the Far East conflict, which was a rather fatal blow to Japan. ”

Roosevelt nodded, then looked at Chief of Naval Operations Ernest Murphy. Admiral Kim. "Admiral, I believe that Japan will choose a decisive battle, so please defeat Japan...... They must be defeated, right here in the Hawaiian Islands! This is the last chance to knock Japan out of this war! ”