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Hoyt's face has not been good lately, especially with a series of mistakes in his policy toward Belgium, which has made President Truman doubt his abilities. The assassination could have saved the president's image, but he was woken up by a phone call two hours earlier and knew it was impossible. The director in charge of the operation at the time told him that the team had lost contact an hour earlier, and Hoyt finally realized that things were not going well.

Hoyt didn't feel sleepy, he immediately got up and rushed to the intelligence bureau, he should have rested at home today, but because of this incident, he had to go to the intelligence bureau to preside over the overall situation.

Then he met Albert, the plague god who had left him helpless, and he was standing by his car with a smile on his face, his hands in his pockets, and said in a casual tone, "If you don't want Belgium to go to war with the United States, I would like to ask you to contact President Truman and let me meet him personally." ”

"What if I refuse? Why did you let the president meet with you, if the United States really wants to go to war with Belgium, what do you think Belgium's chance of winning? "Hoyt still kept his composure, in fact he didn't have a little Belgium in his eyes at all.

"Director Hoyt is a hawk, and of course I believe that Belgium cannot afford the baptism of American artillery, but is it good for the United States to not get along with a Belgium? Perhaps your iron hooves will only deepen the suspicion of the European countries against the United States, and then cheapen the USSR. Albert paused for a moment and continued, "By the way, the two agents you sent over are still alive, and they have confessed, well, how to put it, things that are not conducive to the good image of the United States. So, you get the idea. ”

Hoyt's temples twitched, he now wanted to kill Albert, this was his second failure, and he would fall into the hands of the Americans, and then his position as intelligence chief might be precarious.

"I'm going to call the president, and you know it's not easy to meet with the president." Hoyt turned back to the house, and in fact he wanted to take a gun and shoot Albert in the forehead right now, but reason resisted the thought.

Of course, Hoyt would be glad afterwards that he hadn't done anything stupid, because Albert's sniper had been set up on a roof not far away with an M1903 Springfield rifle with a 2.5x scope aimed at Hoyt's head.

After calling the president, Hoyt's face had never been so ugly, like a patient who knew that his death was imminent, in fact, the president's tone on the phone was also very cold, and Hoyt knew that his career was coming to an end.

"Get in the car, the president will make an exception to meet you once." Hoyt opened the car door and said coldly.

Because of today's incident, Truman almost pushed off half a day's schedule, and held urgent consultations with his adviser, Secretary of State James Burns, which was indeed a major disgrace to American foreign affairs, and if it spread, it would have an immeasurable negative impact on the Allies.

"James, what are we going to do?" For the first time, Truman felt that a Belgian could be such a headache for the United States.

"Try to agree to Belgium's request without harming the interests of the country, and now the death of the Belgian crown prince is unknown, and the fact that Albert is the next crown prince cannot be changed in any way. The best thing is that we can make a deal with Albert to appease Belgium economically and militarily, provided that Belgium remains neutral and does not favor the Soviet Union. The middle strategy is to tear up the skin with the Belgian government and fight each other, which will not benefit anyone. The next step was to have Prince Albert secretly executed in Belgium, and then use Prince Charles to force Leopold III to abdicate. ”

Truman frowned and asked, "Why do I feel that your strategy is much better than the middle strategy?" ”

"But there are too many uncertainties, Your Excellency. Albert has already escaped death twice, are you sure that another assassination will be 100% successful? If it fails, the United States will face overwhelming accusations, and I am afraid that it will not even be able to keep the position of His Excellency the President. And even if the assassination is successful, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no surprises in the event of regime change in Belgium. You must know that there are a lot of ** people in Belgium, in case the royal family does not control the trend of splitting, and as a result, there is a regime that is biased towards the Soviet Union, it will undoubtedly be worse for the poor position of West Germany. ”

James is the president's chief adviser, and the head of analysis is Tao.

"What conditions do you think would satisfy that Albert?" The president has stopped being stubborn and has begun to seek cooperative ways to solve problems, which will not be good for American foreign policy if it ends up getting out of control.

"I've studied Albert's information and found that he has this unusual talent in weapons, and the automatic rifle that is now rapidly gaining popularity in Europe and the United States is a product designed by his company, and of course, our DEA Drug Administration has also purchased a small amount of the submachine gun he developed. Recently, he has also dabbled in artillery, and it is said that there are two kinds of rocket artillery......"

"Wait James." Truman waved his hand to interrupt the chief adviser's talk, "I don't understand what you're trying to say, can you please express yourself accurately?" ”

"This means that the United States can provide assistance in two ways, one is military assistance, and we can sell some of the American fighter jets to the Belgian government at a low price to help them eliminate those old World War II aircraft. Didn't Leopold III ask us for military aid before, so this time he will send some arms to the Belgian army, anyway, they are just that little people, and how much can they eat when they have a big appetite? ”

"Second, it is the products of Albert Company, and our army can also purchase some of them, such as rocket artillery and mines, although they are not equipped with the whole army, but even if they only equip one or two divisions, it is already a big cake for his company. I believe that he will not choose to refuse, whether it is public or private. ”

"Go on." Apparently Truman was drawn to James's conception.

"The current Belgium just wants to blackmail us with a little more military aid and economic aid, to emphasize the existence of the land of the projectile, and we will satisfy him, and the high-level positions that have no say in some major international organizations can be filled by Belgians."

"We've done our best to do this, and if that Albert still doesn't know what to do, then we'll have to tear our faces apart."

"Tear your face and see each other? Directly to war with Belgium? Truman asked.

"Even if there is a war, their army will be able to fight the United States." James scoffed, "Belgium only has a low-strength navy, and the main ships are frigates, can such a military force stop our Atlantic Fleet?" I'm afraid that if there is a real war, the Belgian fleet will be gone in the first round. ”

At its peak, the Atlantic Fleet had 1.5 million troops, nearly 20,000 ships, and more than 10,000 aircraft, and had a total of five numbered combat fleets, the second, fourth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth fleets, of which the Second Fleet was responsible for Atlantic maritime mobile operations and strategic reserves, the Fourth Fleet was responsible for maritime operations in the South Atlantic, the Eighth Fleet was located in Northwest Africa, and the Twelfth Fleet was responsible for operations in Europe. However, the strength is still not something that the Belgian Navy, which uses frigates as the main force, can afford to provoke.

"And then on the economic front, when the time comes, if there is condemnation in Europe, we can launch a plan to help the European economy recover, and in the face of interests and morality, a shattered Europe will still choose bread."

As early as June 1946, US Secretary of State James Burns first proposed the idea of aid in a speech at an opera house in Stuttgart, which was the prototype of the Marshall Plan. However, this proposal was not taken seriously at the time, and James proposed it to the president, apparently in response to the Belgian incident.

"Well, I'll consider your suggestion, but now that guy is almost here." Truman looked at his watch and said to James, "Don't take his age lightly when you see him later, believe me, it's definitely a headache." ”