"There is no way out but to fight...... Hmm, I like this Australian Prime Minister! Will Australians listen to him, though? ”

In the White House, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is holding a meeting in his Oval Office to discuss the defense of Australia, the start of Operation Torch and the firing of sugar-coated shells at the heroic Soviet Red Army!

Although Halsey's battle in the Coral Sea delayed the Japanese landing and bought the Allied Southwest Pacific Command more time (so Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy Department did not consider Halsey to have lost the battle), the situation in Australia was still extremely serious. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese invasion was imminent, and the U.S. route to support Australia was at least cut off, if not completely. At present, large-scale ship groups and ordinary freighters have no way to go to Australia, so they can only convert high-speed cruise ships into freighters, and under the escort of aircraft carrier formations, go to Melbourne via the Tasman Sea -- this is still possible under the premise that Germany did not provide Japan with the two killer weapons of the JU288 and the remote-controlled glide bomb.

So it has become very difficult to move troops to Australia on a large scale, and the only viable way is to send weapons and ammunition to Australia and New Zealand, so that Australians and New Zealanders can arm themselves to defend their homeland.

"Mr. President, I don't think we should underestimate the will of Australians and New Zealanders to resist." The Chief of Staff of the Army, Admiral Marshall, replied, "The Anzac Corps in the British Army is known for its tenacity, and Australians and New Zealanders are very similar to us Americans, both have militia traditions, and are a country where everyone is a soldier...... Moreover, those Australians and New Zealanders now have no way out, and if they don't fight hard, they won't have a way to survive after the Japanese conquer Australia. ”

Marshall's opinion was right, white Australians were inherently fierce, and many of their ancestors were villains who committed serious crimes in England, and their nature was more barbaric.

Moreover, at this time, Australia and New Zealand had not yet implemented strict gun control, and the two colonial countries pursued a national policy of "everyone has a gun, God is afraid". So every household has a gun, or the whole people are soldiers (militia).

Therefore, when it is really time to fight hard, it is still possible for Australia to mobilize a million troops. In its original history, Australia mobilized 1 million troops in the face of the Japanese invasion, and more than 2 million others served in other ways!

So Australian Prime Minister John . Curtin's plan of "7.2 million people in total jade crushing" has been realized in history. It was only because the Japanese fought north of both Midway and Guadalcanal and stopped off the coral coast that there was no tragic Australian land war......

Roosevelt listened to Marshall's words, pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, then cancel the plan to send additional ground troops to Australia and send weapons and ammunition instead." We can't let Australians go to war with burning sticks! ”

"Understood, Mr. President."

The U.S. military generals present were all relieved to hear Roosevelt's decision. If the Pacific Theater can rely on the Australians to fight hard, then the United States can concentrate on dealing with Germany -- at least until the United States' "dumpling aircraft carriers" are massively completed, the Pacific Theater can be put on hold.

Of course, President Roosevelt's "small goals" still have to be continued!

"Did the battleships of the Soviets depart from Molotovsk?" Roosevelt turned the conversation to the North Atlantic theater again.

Although the general principles for the formation of a combined Anglo-American-Soviet fleet had long been finalized, the battleships of the Soviet Red Navy were slow to depart from Molotovsk.

"Not yet." Chief of Naval Operations Ernest Murphy. Admiral Kim replied, "Now that our personnel and equipment have just passed, it will take some time for the Soviets to become familiar with our command and communications." In addition, the Red Navy of the USSR was still engaged in ideological and political work. ”

"Ideological and political work?" Roosevelt frowned, "Could it be that there were still pro-German ideas in the Soviet Red Army?" ”

The Soviet Red Army, especially the Red Navy, had good relations with Germany for more than two decades. Many of the ships of the Soviet Red Navy were built with the help of the Germans, and many Red Navy officers studied in the German naval schools. Therefore, the pro-German ideology has always existed, and Roosevelt also knew this.

"No, it's not because of pro-German ideas." Ernest. Admiral Kim smiled wryly, "It's because we...... According to the report of Colonel McCarthy, the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet were mainly engaged in education against the decadent ideas of the American bourgeoisie during this time. ”

Joseph. Colonel McCarthy was not a career soldier, but a lawyer-turned-Republican politician who was a circuit judge before the United States entered the war. After the outbreak of the war, he joined the Marine Corps and obtained the rank of colonel.

After the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on the establishment of a joint fleet, because the joint fleet had to set up a political commissar, the US Atlantic Fleet of course had to have corresponding figures to deal with Comrade Bulganin.

Roosevelt originally liked Senator Truman, but some people suggested that Truman was a congressman, not a soldier, and was not fit for military office unless he resigned from the Senatorship. And Truman, of course, was reluctant to resign as a senator, so Roosevelt had to find someone else.

At this time, the Republican-born Secretary of the Army, **** Sheng, recommended McCarthy to serve in the Marine Corps. According to the **** student, this McCarthy is a comrade who is very sensitive to political and ideological work, and he will never let the Soviet political cadres wash the brains of American GIs.

So Roosevelt made him the "chief priest of the command" of the Atlantic Fleet.

Some time ago, Director McCarthy went to Molotovsk as a representative of the political cadres of the US Atlantic Fleet Command. His task was to consult with his nominal superior, Bulganin, political commissar of the Allied Combined Atlantic Fleet, on how to cooperate and how to avoid conflict.

However, after spending some time in the icy Molotovsk, Director McCarthy discovered that the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet are now very unfriendly to the United States and are spreading irresponsible anti-American remarks every day!

"Mr. Military Commissar," in the office of the commissar aboard the battleship USS Soviet, Joseph. McCarthy once again lodged a strong protest, "Today my people have found out that someone is carrying out anti-American propaganda again, and I really doubt that this is not the fleet of the Soviet Red Navy, but the high seas fleet of the German Empire!" ”

McCarthy spoke English that Bulganen did not understand, but he could know what he was saying without a translator - nothing more than propaganda protesting against the "rotten and degenerate American bourgeoisie" of the political cadres of the fleet.

In fact, this kind of propaganda is really not anti-American, but to give preventive shots to the people below, so as not to be confused by the glitz and glamour of the United States.

Since the Atlantic Fleet of the Red Navy will use New York as its second home port (New York is the starting point of the North Atlantic route, and there are many docks available there, and Soviet ships will be equipped with American radar and communications equipment there), many ships will stay in New York for a long time, and the commanders and fighters of the Red Navy will definitely have time to go ashore, and there will be many opportunities to contact the Americans.

So the question is, what about the water that is good? Why do Americans all look like big guys, where are the legendary oppressed and breathless American working people?

Why is the productivity of the United States so developed? Doesn't it mean that socialism can greatly emancipate the productive forces? Why is it that in the Soviet Union, where the productive forces were greatly liberated, it was difficult to buy everything in the stores, and everything had to be sold by ticket, while in the American stores, where the productive forces should not be very developed, everything was available?

Therefore, Comrade Bulganin, after serving as the military commissar of the Atlantic Fleet, found that there were so many problems to deal with to death!

Moreover, the political cadres below found it difficult for them to explain the revolutionary truth even if they were full of mouths.

So Bulganin suggested postponing the departure date, and at the same time brought in Andrei, who had served as director of the American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a counselor at the U.S. Embassy for several years. Comrade Gromyko served as Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Atlantic Fleet, specializing in the study of countermeasures.

But instead of solving the problem, the arrival of this Comrade Gromyko revealed more problems!

For example, why doesn't the U.S. have New York and Washington hukous? What about the working people of the United States, who were in dire straits, to move freely to work as workers in prosperous New York, while the peasants in the collective farms of the Soviet Union could not go to Moscow and Leningrad?

Another example, why can working people in the United States buy guns and ammunition!? Is the bourgeoisie that rules the United States not afraid of a rebellion by the people with guns? By the way, why don't the working American people with guns make a revolution? What's going on?

For example, bourgeois America also has sham elections and trade union activities. Although none of these activities truly represent the wishes of the working people of the United States, it is still possible for a simple Soviet Red Navy soldier to be deceived......

Also, will there be Red Navy fighters who will take advantage of their stay in the United States to defect? Will anyone take advantage of their stay in the United States to work and earn money? Will there be a handsome guy from the Red Navy hooking up with an American woman?

In short, there are a lot of problems, and there is no good way to prevent them except for anti-American propaganda. However, the Americans sent a reactionary pastor McCarthy (in fact, McCarthy was not a priest, but only a priest), insisting that he was an "American political commissar" and wanted to coordinate the political work of the United Fleet with Bulganin. As a result, this "American political commissar" did nothing serious and found fault all day long to protest. And Bulganin can't let the people of the special department arrest him as an anti-grate (if he really wants to be arrested, he will not be wronged), and he has to explain with a smile, this thing is ridiculous to think about! (To be continued.) )