Chapter 403: Dewey's visit to China

President Dewey's visit to France was to lease the battleship Richelieu, which was nearing completion, from Vichy France, and to buy the unfinished battleship Jeanbar.

After the end of the war in Europe, Germany succeeded in dividing France into two parts, "Northern France" (even the Second French People's Democratic Republic) and "Southern France" (i.e., Vichy France) with the help of the French Communist Party. The main industrial areas of France were in the northern French region, and although Vichy France merged with the North African colonial military government in Darlan, the entire industrial system was also broken, and it was no longer able to complete the remaining works of these two battleships.

However, Dewey still found nothing in Vichy France, but suffered a series of depressions. The reason for this was that the Germans had not long ago raised the topic of the German foreign debt to the United States that Vichy France should bear on the United States. After Dewey's arrival, Vichy France tentatively asked the Americans if they could accept the idea of the Germans passing on part of the debt clause and offsetting part of the debt with the two warships.

Now Vichy France, life is also not easy. After France was divided into two, Vichy France, although it relied on the remnants of its navy and controlled a large number of overseas colonies, itself lost a large number of industrial bases. Although it has a colony, the local output cannot meet the demand for industrial goods in the colony, so it can only negotiate with the "northern French" to act as a second-hand dealer. And the huge war reparations imposed on southern France overwhelmed the Petain regime of Vichy France. According to the clever and cunning ideas of the French, the Americans wanted these two warships, and they took the opportunity to offer a sky-high price to slaughter the Americans.

But Dewey was not stupid, he resisted the illusions of the French, left France depressed, and then left for Germany.

Dewey came to Germany to discuss with Germany the topic of reducing Germany's foreign debt to the United States in exchange for Germany no longer supporting Japan.

The ongoing battle of Hawaii, the plane flying over the head of the United States. Most of them were German goods, and in response to the examination of the wreckage of the Japanese planes that had been knocked down and dropped on Oahu, the Americans were even more angry to find that the instruments on these so-called Japanese planes even had "traces of German" left -- only Japanese characters were glued to them. Obviously, in order to gain time, the Germans were able to get Japan to use German arms to enter the war as soon as possible. Directly from the active equipment to support Japan.

As for the HE177, which made the Americans hate yesterday and gnash their teeth, it is needless to say that everyone knows that the horrific weapons that smashed open the roof of the fortress on Oahu were all supplied to Japan by the Germans.

Although the Americans were angry at the shameless behavior of the Germans in taking advantage of the danger of others to take advantage of the situation to repay their debts, they could still clearly distinguish what was the primary contradiction and what was the secondary contradiction, and Dewey's visit was to persuade Hitler to stop supporting Japan at the cost of the United States reducing part of Germany's foreign debts.

Here in Germany. Vice President Dewey said that this topic was negotiable -- the reason why it was so easy to talk about was because at this time, the Battle of Oahu was nearing its end, and Japan did not need to import German planes for the time being. In addition, after several months of squeezing, the Japanese, who had purchased a large number of new weapons from Germany, had almost stored up their scarce gold and silver hard currency, and there was not much oil and water to squeeze.

President Dewey unexpectedly made some progress on the side of the Germans. The Germans promised to stop exporting military products to Japan after 1943 - only unbeknownst to President Dewey, with the help of German technicians. Japan has basically solved the problem of self-production of 2,000-horsepower aero engines, and after 1943 it has been able to produce its own new Hurricane and Purple electric fighters, and there is no need to import German aircraft.

In addition, if Germany really wants to export military supplies to Japan, it can also conduct "entrepot trade" through Guò China or Lanfang.

Dewey visited Italy only to use the Italians to add some blockage to the British in the Mediterranean. But spaghetti couldn't even get a Greek, and Dewey didn't expect them to do anything.

Prior to President Dewey's visit to Europe, in order to improve relations with China and the Soviet Union, President Wilkie first announced the legalization of the political activities of the Communist Party of the United States at home, and at the same time began to liquidate McCarthyism.

At the covert instigation of the U.S. government. The US media began to speak out, and some people first stood up and fired a cannon, accusing McCarthy and Churchill of colluding and advocating the theory of the communist threat in the United States, so as to drive a wedge between the United States and China and the Soviet Union, thus leading to the emergence of a situation in which the United States was isolated and helpless in the Pacific War.

In the past, with the help of McCarthyism, it was necessary for politics to liquidate the forces of the left in the United States.

Accusing McCarthy and Churchill of colluding to trap the United States in unprecedented isolation is also politically necessary.

As a tentative balloon to "show goodwill" to China and the Soviet Union, McCarthy, a political opportunist, soon became a stinky street in the United States, and even became infamous as a "British spy."

After that, both the Chung Hwa Building and the Soviet offices in the United States were quickly reopened. In the past year, the United States has been persecuted, censored, and imprisoned for the spread of McCarthyism, and all kinds of people have been quickly rehabilitated and released.

In the process, Winston. Churchill, the former prime minister of this countryman, was called a "British traitor" by his own people, and his reputation in the United States also fell from "an old friend of the American people" overnight to a "British spy who was isolated in the United States."

Vice President Dewey's last trip to Europe was in Moscow. At the cost of forgiving the Soviet Union for part of its debt to the United States, President Dewey succeeded in achieving the Soviet Union's goal of imposing an oil embargo on Japan.

The consequence of his actions was that after 1943, when Japanese oil tankers went to Soviet ports to transport oil, they all hoisted a Chinese five-star red flag at the request of the Soviet people. And when these Japanese tankers flying the Chinese flag will change back to the Japanese plaster flag after leaving the borders of the USSR, no one knows.

In the last week of January 1943, Vice President Dewey arrived in Beijing on January 25 to lobby for a visit to New China.

When US Vice President John Dewey's special plane landed at Beiping Airport, the Japanese ambassador to China mingled with the welcoming crowd and saw the scene of Dewey boarding a special car and being sent to Zhongnanhai.

Dewey's visit to China was the most important goal of Dewey's trip, because in the current new China, there is also an island of Taiwan that has been forcibly occupied by Japan, and in the eyes of the Americans, whether it is Britain, the Soviet Union, or Germany, the three European powers now have evil intentions towards the Americans. Only China, a country whose land has been forcibly seized by Japan, is the most likely to cooperate with the United States in attacking Japan.

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