Chapter 972: Mi Ying in a Stormy Situation
The Prime Minister's Office, the highest place of British administration, Churchill at this time also waited in front of the door with a group of cabinets, but at this time, the surrounding military and police looked solemn, just worried that there would be troops attacking here.
The two sides quickly met, let the government-controlled newspaper and radio station take pictures in front of the prime minister's office, played the national anthem and raised the national flag, and then hurriedly entered the conference room of the prime minister's office.
"Your Excellency, the main content of this meeting is the current war and financial recovery plan, and in light of the current chaotic situation in the entire Western world, as well as the aggressive war to destroy the Japanese army, we must help each other to get out of the predicament;
In order to complete our military plan of action, we have chosen to abandon the continuation of the attack on the German mainland, and tens of millions of troops and countless pieces of equipment are on their way to North Africa;
The jury is still out on whether we will win or lose, and if there is an outcome that we have no control over, then we need to think about how we need to deal with it. When everyone was seated, Truman looked at Churchill impatiently and said.
Although everyone is reluctant to admit the strength of the Japanese army, the successive defeats and the ongoing Soviet and Russian offensive to destroy the Japanese army have told them that the Japanese army is now capable of fighting on multiple fronts and against strong opponents;
Truman, though conceited and hypocritical, would never hide the truth as a politician, especially now in a desperate predicament, where he must pull all his allies to solve the big trouble in front of him.
The war of financial destruction controlled by Xu Fei has been completely won, and the dollar, the pound, the franc, the lira, etc., have all been turned into waste paper, and all governments have abandoned monetary policy not long after a large number of currency issuances. Now all rely on the national ration system to stabilize the society;
However, another strategy controlled by Xu Fei was to buy a large amount of grain and precious metals in advance in these countries, and most factories stopped producing without sufficient food. Only state-controlled enterprises still maintain a small amount of material production;
Hunger and poverty, lack of food and clothing began to spread in the Allies, everywhere farms were abandoned because they went bankrupt, and food shortages were impossible to procure because money became waste paper;
The situation of the British Empire was a little better, and the Canadian farms, which were slightly less affected, had sent a lot of grain here, but the whole country was now in a famine, and the scene of cannibalism was about to appear.
Truman's sense of urgency was the strongest among all the allies, because at this time only the United States was the most militarily powerful of the allies. But the economic and social problems are the most acute.
Churchill, who belonged to the Conservative Party, was originally full of flesh, and during this time he was even more smiling, even when Truman came to the door. He was also entangled in the face that the whole world owed him money, and after Truman finished saying Churchill, he said in a deep voice:
"Your Excellency, with regard to economic recovery, the premise of a qiē is still possible under the premise of defeating and destroying the Japanese army. It seems a bit out of place for us to discuss it now;
By this time, our financial markets had completely collapsed. Money is also completely useless, unless we use the gold in the treasury as collateral to intervene in the market, and maybe improve the market that has collapsed completely, but we can't afford that kind of thing, right? ”
Churchill did not dare to say that the gold of the British Empire had disappeared, so they would have completely lost the initiative in talking to the United States, although they were all allies, but everyone understood that the Soviet Russia's World War II ally was betrayed without saying that it was betrayed.
Churchill didn't know. Truman was also extremely aggrieved in his heart, if there was enough gold and silver to interfere with the market. Then he would have done this a long time ago, but after dozens of failed banks were liquidated, less than 500 tons of gold and only more than 10,000 tons of silver, which seemed like a lot, and he did not dare to invest in the market to intervene;
The large amount of gold in Fort Knox was untimely and sunk in a huge sinkhole, and it is reported that there was no place to clean it up for most of the year, and without hard currency to stabilize the market, Truman's government of the United States was as precarious as Churchill's cabinet.
Churchill did not want to talk about economic recovery now, because he could not think of any other way than to defeat the Japanese army and regain colonies in the Middle East and Southeast Asia to restore the turbulent Britain, and then destroy Little Japan and take back southern Africa and Australia, so that the British Empire would be reinvigorated.
One of the main reasons why Truman came to Britain was that the British Empire had a lot of gold, which was something that the colonists knew very well, and the British Empire had colonized other countries for countless years, and the gold and silver that had been plundered and squeezed could be piled up;
He originally hoped that Britain would intervene in the market for precious metals, but he didn't expect Churchill to directly deny this plan, and Truman rubbed his hands.
Although the military capabilities of the United States are far superior to those of the current Britain, they are still slightly inferior in terms of cultural politics, so they do not speak like yelling at the British Empire like later generations;
Truman saw that Churchill did not want to talk about this time for the time being, and he did not want to ask too much, he motioned to Marshall, and waited for Marshall to hand him a copy of the number before saying:
"We can put aside the issue of economic recovery for a while, but I don't know what Your Excellency the Prime Minister thinks about the upcoming decisive battle in Egypt. Marshal Verrick, Marshal Charles, Marshal Andrew all take a look;
These figures are the results we have drawn from the Japanese army and the Soviet army on all fronts of our Allied forces, and they are now destroying the Japanese army and Soviet Russia to launch a full-scale attack, and they are also actively preparing for war against Japan, and they are fighting a decisive battle with us in Egypt;
We must analyze how the next war should be completed, and regardless of victory or defeat, we hope that everyone will give a reasonable proposal and analysis. ”
Churchill and the others slowly looked at the number of jù on the text, and their faces became more and more gloomy, and the number of jù records that were less than a page was studied by them over and over again;
As Chief of the General Staff of the British Empire, Allen . Brooke put down this situation of destroying the Japanese army, he looked at the senior military of Mi Ying, who also had a solemn expression, and was silent, and finally couldn't help but speak:
"There are so many troops in the army to destroy the Japanese army, and the arrangement is so strong, it is impossible for us to defeat them lightly;
The only possibility is to take the Middle East after winning the Egyptian campaign, and then we will have to be forced to withdraw our troops, otherwise the vortex of war will directly drag us down, and the destruction of the Japanese army will have little to lose. (To be continued......)