Chapter 358: Churchill and McCarthy's "Relationship"
President Wilkie's heart has been uncomfortable lately.
After becoming president, during a medical check-up, the health care doctor regretfully told him that there was something wrong with his heart and that he should pay attention to rest and not overwork.
As the president of the United States of America, it is very important to have a good health, but the problem is that since President Wilkie was diagnosed with heart problems, his health problems can almost be equated with Roosevelt, who was twisted by Lin Han - the man who died of a heart attack in 1944.
On January 30, 1942, President Wilkie welcomed the "favorite" guest of the United States of America in Washington, D.C., former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, nicknamed "American Spy".
Today's Churchill has long been notorious in the British Isles, and together with the "traitor Chamberlain", he is called the "two sinners" who guided the weakening of the empire. Although the fall of Britain is a historical inevitability and the inevitable result of Britain's congenital deficiencies, it is always easy to put the blame on a few people and make them bear the burden. As a result, Churchill, who signed the "Anglo-American Washington Agreement" that "lost power and humiliated the country", became a major sinner at home after the war.
The sinner of another country, the hero of my country. Although Churchill has become a bad street in Britain, the US government still welcomed Churchill, an "old friend of the American people," and warmly received him, the former British prime minister. And then the new self-accompaniment of US President Wilkie? He was arranged to give a lecture at a local university in Washington.
On January 30, the sun was shining in Washington, D.C., and it was a great winter day.
Churchill began his speech at the university, in front of thousands of American college students.
"From Szczecin on the Baltic Sea near Calais in the English Channel, a red iron curtain across the European continent has descended. Behind this line. It is located in the capital of the ancient countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels, Belgrade, Paris, all these vicissitudes of life and their inhabitants are all within the sphere of influence of evil Bolshevism. These places can only gasp weakly under the increasing oppression of evil Germany and the equally evil Soviet Union. On the European continent, only Athens and England still radiate its immortal glory, and the common people here are free to decide their future. ”
"In many countries far from the borders of Russia, all over the world. The fifth column of the Communist Party has been established. It absolutely obeyed the instructions of the communist center and worked in perfect harmony. Except in the Commonwealth and in the United States, where the communist movement was still in its infancy, the Communist Party, the fifth column, everywhere posed an increasingly serious provocation and danger to Christian civilization. These are some bleak truths that anyone should remember the day after their victory. This victory was achieved by the deep comrade-in-arms that Tong Guò forged in the battle and in the cause of freedom and democracy. It would be unwise for us not to face up to these facts while we still have time. ”
"The last time I saw a big war coming, I spoke out to my own people and the world, but people didn't listen. As recently as 1933, or even 1935, Germany may be able to save itself from the terrible fate that befell it later. To save us all from the suffering imposed on humanity by Hitler and Stalin. I saw this very early on, but at that time, people were blinded by the suffering of the First World War, and the desire for a peaceful transition led to the emergence of appeasement. Also because of a transitional desire for peace, England, disillusioned with peace, did not hold out in the 1940 war, and prematurely succumbed to the two evil empires of Europe. ”
"The red Iron Curtain has been lowered. The European continent is in the middle of a long night. In the long night, there was only the United States of America, which was an independent New World. Like a lighthouse in a storm, it radiates light and hope in this long night. ”
"The United States is at the pinnacle of world power at this moment. This is a solemn moment for American democracy. To have the greatest power is to have an awesome responsibility for the future. Looking around, you not only feel that you have done your duty, but you also feel worried. I am afraid that future achievements may not be able to reach such a high level. For both of you and us, there is now an opportunity to be here, a clear, shining opportunity. If we refuse, ignore, or squander this opportunity, we will be condemned for a long time to come. ”
Churchill, who was already famous in England, came to Washington, the capital of the United States. Finally, he was given the opportunity to make his voice heard to the world, and then, an "Iron Curtain speech" carefully prepared by Churchill advocating the "Red Threat Theory" was publicly preached in the United States five years earlier than in history.
In his speech, Churchill talked about the old rhetoric of the threat of a red Europe to the liberal capitalist world, and at the same time he lawdly praised the United States and its responsibility to the world.
Less than two months after Britain had carved up the Dutch Indonesian colonies with Japan, Churchill, the "former British prime minister," went to the United States to talk about the red threat and encourage the United States to confront the Soviet-German European Social Union.
Churchill's speech at Seattle University in Washington did not create the sensation he had expected. The British regarded Churchill as a "traitor", while in the eyes of the Americans, he was nothing more than a politician jumping up and down. In the eyes of most Americans, they believe that the reason why the current expansion of the United States in the Western Pacific has been thwarted and ended up in this situation is simply because in 1940 the cactus Ghana fell for Churchill and signed a "waste paper" treaty, only to be almost pulled into the water by the British.
As for the Anglo-American Washington Accord, the British regarded it as a traitorous treaty that humiliated the country. In the eyes of the Americans, however, this agreement is like a "liar agreement", and it is precisely because of this agreement that the great United States of America missed the good opportunity to cut the flesh and bleed the British when they were at their most vulnerable, and as a result, it is now so passive in Southeast Asia. Under the "hatred of the house and the black", Churchill, who signed this agreement with the president of Ghana back then, the Americans did not have much good opinion of him.
Churchill's speech did not have the effect he expected. Whether it is a student at Seattle University in Washington or an ordinary American listener in front of the radio, to them, this is just two years of "cliché", and this British fat man is just frying cold rice overnight, which is a little more exaggerated.
However, there are still people from Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. I heard a little mystery.
Joseph. McCarthy was born in northern Wisconsin to a family of small Irish farmers. In 1939, he ran for the Wisconsin Seventh District Circuit Court by falsely reporting his age, and succeeded in becoming the "youngest judge" in the district's history.
After becoming a judge, McCarthy himself has not had a good reputation in the local area because of his misconduct, as well as some "gray" futures speculation, gambling and alcoholism.
But. Poor personal character has always been the "strength" rather than "weakness" of party stick politicians, and although McCarthy himself has poor moral character, he is a person who is extremely good at drilling.
On January 31, after hearing the recording of Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech" from the local radio station, McCarthy's mind was like "opening a door", and countless inspirations rolled out.
That night, he immediately threw himself into the pile of information. After a busy night's work collecting news materials everywhere. McCarthy flew to Washington on February 1. wanted to meet and talk to Churchill, but Churchill had already flown to New York at this time, and the two passed by.
So McCarthy followed Churchill closely behind him to New York, and that night, McCarthy, with red eyes, knocked on Churchill's door.
February 2. Churchill announced that he was "unwell and has not been seen for the time being", but he and McCarthy nestled in the room and began to talk secretly.
After several days of preparation, on February 6, Churchill held a press conference under the Statue of Liberty in New York. Another round of presentations began.
Before the speech, the reporters and listeners gathered around originally thought that this time it was another old topic of "repeating the same old tune and trying to draw the United States into war with Europe", but who knew that the first person to speak on stage was not Churchill, but a stranger named McCarthy.
Before the start of the speech, the reporters attending the meeting received a copy of the speech distributed by the on-site staff in advance. When these reporters saw the title of the speech, their eyes lit up, because the title of the manuscript was: "The Communist Party in the State Council."
In his speech, McCarthy claimed that he had in his possession "a list of 200 people," "all of whom were members of the Communist Party and spy networks," and that "the Secretary of State knew that the list of people were all Communists, but these people are still drafting and formulating State Department policy." ”
McCarthy's speech was like a thunderbolt from the blue, causing an uproar in the United States, and McCarthy, who had been silent, became a political star overnight that shocked the whole country, and the whole United States was also stimulated by McCarthy's speech.
Over the next few days, McCarthy flew to Salt Lake City, Utah, and Renault, Nevada, to repeat his speech in New York.
The uproar caused by McCarthy's speech in New York reached Berlin and Pontianak a day later. Hannah got the news through the German intelligence network in the United States, and in Lan Fang, where the information was relatively closed, Lin Han used Guò Hannah's telegram, only to know that because of the influence of the traverser, McCarthyism had been born in the United States in advance.
At this time, Lin Han was already the supreme head of the newly established "Lanfang Socialist People's Democratic Republic", and his specific identity was the state president of Lanfangguo, the party chairman of the Lanfang People's Party, and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Lanfang Navy, Army and Air Force.
Fortunately, Lanfang is just a "small country", and there are not many things to manage, and with the help of New China, such as specific affairs in military and grassroots construction, he has all pushed it to his advisers in New China. Lin Han, the supreme head of state, is often just a man with a pen and a signature.
For the bunch of titles on his head, Lin Han was also forced to wear them, his organization was too young, coupled with his own habit of using young and not old, and looking at those "public knowledge" and "old guys" in the Republic of China era were extremely unpleasant, and the last few key positions could only sit on it alone.
After becoming the head of Lanfang, Lin Han's real attention in the past month has been in the two areas of propaganda and education.
Propaganda is nothing more than propagating one's ruling ideas and essentials to the local Chinese. to consider making some political movies that hide their own private goods. The latter has the help of a bunch of editorial teams from Germany, and as long as he says an idea, his subordinates will naturally understand.
As for education, it is a major matter, and the Chinese in Southeast Asia are deeply influenced by the old ideas of the times, and how to smash the old ideological system and establish a new ideological system that meets the needs of the new era is an extremely important matter.
At the time of receiving Hannah's telegram. Lin Han was sitting in the middle of a bunch of "historians" from China, holding the history textbooks and political textbooks that had just been promulgated by the People's Republic of China, flipping through them, and his mind was thinking about how to revise these history textbooks and political textbooks in order to bring in the private goods he wanted and pass them on to the next generation.
This is a large amount of work, and the room where Lin Han and the "experts" discussed and discussed matters was filled with all kinds of history books. The history books from New China are already very "leftist", but in Lin Han's opinion. Those truths that are very clear are still not thorough enough. When the telegram was received, the old scholars who had borrowed it from New China were now looking at Lin Han with fearful expressions, and they saw that the textbooks that had been revised, evaluated, and qualitated by Lin Han had flowed into the classroom, and that the Chinese cultural tradition of 2,000 years had been destroyed.
These days, in this room. What happened the most was that Lin Han and these old pedants kept arguing. quarreled, and some people were even so angry that they fainted and were carried out for first aid.
After receiving Hannah's telegram, Lin Han put down his history textbook and suspended another round of arguments with these old scholars. He spent one night sorting out his thoughts and first contacting the New China side. A long telegram of several thousand words was sent to discuss with the Chinese counterparts the impact of the McCarthyism and the Iron Curtain speech on the world pattern.
Both Lin Han and his comrades in China believed that the emergence of McCarthyism was inevitable as the red tide of socialism swept across Eurasia, and that he was nothing more than an instinctive "defensive" reaction of the capitalist world in the face of the red wave. Without McCarthy, there would have been King Carthy and Lee Carthy who would have stepped up to fulfill this historic mission
After exchanging views with the Chinese side, Lin Han's advice to Hannah was to push again on this matter, and made McCarthyism intensify in the United States.
From the information sent by Hannah, Lin Han learned that Churchill, the anti-communist die-hard, and McCarthy, the political opportunist, are singing and drinking these days, and they are stirring up the whole country in the United States. And the big capitalists in the United States, seeing that the world is getting more and more popular, out of fear of the tide of the proletarian revolution, are now also pushing behind the scenes, hyping up this topic through various media channels.
Historically, the United States, with the help of the "east wind" of McCarthyism, has completely turned the United States into a police state, and the CIA's power has been greatly expanded in the process. Since then, Americans have only spoken "freely" on the premise that "politics are correct." Matthicism still has a "progressive" meaning for centralizing power and increasing the state's control over the lower classes, although according to the left, it is a symbol of dictatorship, reaction, and fascism.
Lin Han and Hannah regard the United States as their number one enemy, and both dream of leading the United States down the wrong path. Although McCarthyism has strengthened the control of the upper strata over the lower strata in the United States, the biggest negative factor is the capital power of the country, which can further influence the national policy through the banner of "anti-socialism" and political correctness.
Capital, is a gluttonous snake, without the strong suppression of chains, whips, and bayonets, he will frantically devour a qiē or even himself. Lin Han wanted to see the American capitalists gnaw on the tree and finally gnaw the tree down, of course, he wished that this greedy snake was getting more and more crazy.
Lin Han could already foresee that when McCarthyism began to gain popularity in the United States, the United States would become more conservative, self-contained, and persecutive. In this case, many scientific and technological talents in the United States will be lost in the process. In addition to the huge dividends obtained in the war, another factor in the fact that the United States was able to wear the crown of the king of the world after World War II was that after the two wars, it absorbed a large number of talents who fled from the warring countries. It was precisely because of the continuous absorption of these elites from all over the world that the foundation for the later rise of the United States was laid.
Lin Han sent a telegram to Hannah, giving him another push on the matter, and the media hyped it up, claiming that many immigrants from Europe were spies who had come to the "communist world" and provoking Americans to censor and persecute them. A conservative, closed, and hysterical America is what Lin Han wants to see the most.
At the same time, Lin Han also proposed to the new China side, reminding the other side to take advantage of the fact that McCarthyism was just showing signs and transfer professional talents such as Chinese students in the United States back to China as soon as possible.
After briefly dealing with the issue of McCarthyism, Lin Han returned to the textbooks.
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