Chapter 402: The United States in Action
The current vice president of the United States, Republican Thomas, was governor of New York from 1943 to 1955, and ran for president of the United States twice as a Republican candidate between 1944 and 1948, but lost both times - the first time to Roosevelt and the second time to Truman.
In the American public consciousness, Dewey was a true hero, the only magistrate who was prepared to take maximum responsibility for mob incidents. He is so famous that there are many movies about him and a very popular radio show called "Gang Crackers". He is short and strong, and he has a tough character. His trademark toothbrush beard, which appears in countless front-page photographs, has become the most imitated decoration of the era.
The only serious contender in the fight against his crimes, Edgar. Unlike Hoover, Dewey did not limit himself to weak targets, he aimed directly at strong enemies. The staggering 94 percent of organized criminals prosecuted by Dewey or his office were acquitted, and there are plenty of reasons for this man from Ovoso, Michigan, to be regarded as the preeminent prosecutor of the 20th century.
And this plane, with Edgar. Hoover was torn off his neck by Lin Han, and Dewey relied on fighting crime, and his status in the hearts of the American people rose even more sharply.
When the time came to 1943, Thomas. Dewey, after spending a not-so-happy Christmas in the United States, hurried his trip to Asia.
The year 1942 that has just passed has been heavy and painful for all Americans. The U.S. Navy, once the world's No. 1, was wiped out overnight. The great United States of America, in a matter of months, lost all its territory in the western Pacific, and Hawaii, the most important stronghold in the Central Pacific. It is also in the process of being lost. Theodore. The fruits of the Roosevelt era of American expansion in Asia were lost overnight.
Under a series of fiascos, the Americans, who had woken up from the excessive arrogance of the past, found themselves an unprecedented lonely enemy in the world, the United States of America, the world's largest industrial power. There are only enemies, no friends.
It was discovered that the war in the Pacific was ostensibly fought by the Japanese family and the United States, but in fact there were still Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and even Japan's feud China.
President Wilkie could not understand how the Japanese had brought China, the Soviet Union, and Germany, three countries with whom they had fought to the death not long ago, to become allies, and both Wilkie and Vice President Dewey understood at this time that the current situation of Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany plus a Japanese dwarf joining hands to trap the United States must be changed.
The last month of 1942. Dewey was assigned by President Wilkie to fly to England on the 10th of that month.
In the month or so he went to Vichy France in the south, in addition to England, visited Berlin, and then spent Christmas in Rome, Italy, after the New Year. Dewey secretly visited the Soviet Union again, and then transferred to New China through the Soviet Union.
The purpose of Dewey's trip. It is nothing more than an attempt to find allies in various countries and change the current situation of "the hidden pit of the United States in the world".
But Dewey's trip to the Eurasian countries hit a wall at every turn from the very beginning.
As soon as I got off the plane in London, the Times in London made a front-page headline. The journalists, who had received money from the Japanese and German countries, began to rummage through the newspapers, again to the British nationals of the United States of America for the robbery of the British Empire during the 1940 war. Then a reporter openly said to the people in the newspaper: "The way of the other." When he returned the other body, he said. It's time to negotiate with the Americans to take back the topic of the small islands in the Atlantic Ocean that were recently "leased" to the United States by the "British traitor" Churchill.
Secretly fueled by people with intentions, this topic is also getting hotter and hotter in the UK.
At this time, the British Empire, after two years of lying on its back, had recovered most of its naval strength in tonnage. By December 1942, when the Germans were propagating that they would no longer expand their navy and the U.S. Pacific Fleet was completely wiped out, by December 1942, with a number of aircraft carriers and George V-class battleships entering service one after another, the British were pleased to find that the Royal Navy, on paper, had surpassed the German Navy in terms of total tonnage of capital ships and returned to the second place in the world. Although the Japanese navy still occupies the first position in the world for the time being, Japan, which is in an all-out war with the United States and consumes a lot of military spending, does not allow for optimism about its future naval development.
The German Navy, on the other hand, also took the initiative to stop the pace of military expansion after the commissioning of the two main god-class aircraft carriers, and the British were pleased to see that their return to the glory of the world's number one seemed to be just around the corner.
The balance of strength between Britain and the United States has changed, and the waist board of the British has naturally hardened when they speak. After the outbreak of the Pacific War and the annihilation of the Second White Fleet, the United States, in order to take revenge on Japan and at the same time give an "explanation" to the people, formulated a "naval expansion plan" that was frightening to death -- in addition to the warships on board, in 1943, the United States would build 10 more Essex-class aircraft carriers, and at the same time add two Montana-class battleships. By 1944, ten more Essex and two Montana classes were added. In addition, in the next three years, the Americans will build twelve more Independence-class aircraft carriers.
In 1943, the U.S. Navy would receive five Essex-class aircraft carriers and two Iowa-class battleships, and the remaining two Iowa-class battleships would join the U.S. Navy in 1944.
This is just the construction plan of the main battleship, as for the construction plan of the dumpling-like cruiser and destroyer, the terrifying construction figure directly frightened all countries.
Although the Japanese Navy had won an unprecedented victory in the Pacific, and this victory had made the British vigilant for a time, the US Navy's announcement of "building two fleets in one year" and piling up more than 20 aircraft carriers and eight main battleships in three years really frightened the British.
The British are very well aware of the Japanese Navy's weak foundation and military expansion capability, and the British are equally aware of the strong shipbuilding capability of the United States, a "local tyrant." The Attlee administration is well aware that the Navy revival plan announced by the White House can be achieved within three years.
That is the embarrassment that the United States of America is facing now. On the day Vice President Dewey arrived in London, England, the local "Times" newspaper reported that a man named James Brown. Bond's contributor sharply pointed out in the newspaper the sinister intentions of Dewey's trip.
The cunning and nasty Yankee cowboys from the New World wanted to take advantage of the current situation in which their main naval forces were completely wiped out to pretend to be "small and weak" in the international community, so as to advocate the "Japanese threat" in the Pacific Ocean and take the opportunity to unite the Anglo-Japanese alliance. However, although Vice President Dewey came to England in a beggar's suit to cry and pretend to be grief, he completely forgot that in the many shipyards in the New World, more than 20 capital ships were being built and were about to be built. As long as the Americans are willing, with their huge industrial strength, it will take three to four years at most for the US Navy to return to its peak or even surpass. ”
In the article, he listed the locations, names, and scale of the new and expanded American shipyards that were being built along the American coastline in the past six months, and a series of numbers that clearly told the British people how terrifying the strength of American man-made ships was.
At the end of the article, the author lamented bitterly: "Subjects of the British Empire, keep your eyes open and look at the White House's plan for the expansion of the Navy!" Don't let Dewey's pathetic and pathetic performance blind your intellect and misrepresent kindness. Keep your eyes open, subjects of the British Empire, and look at the expansion of the U.S. Navy for the next three years, and you will understand that Japan in the western Pacific is just a petty dwarf who secretly cut one of Samson's pigtails while he was asleep. And the Americans on the east coast of the Pacific Ocean are a strong man who is growing his hair back! ”
This one is called James. Bond's contributor is naturally Lin Han's "vest pen name". In this article, which made President Dewey grit his teeth with hatred and advocate the "American threat theory," Lin Han finally asked the British: Once the Americans took the opportunity of the war to complete their shipbuilding plan and defeat the Japanese on the Pacific ships, how would the navy of the country with the sun not set deal with itself when the sun never set when it moved westward?
In fact, there is no need for Lin Han to advocate that the insightful people in the British government were also frightened by the Americans' terrifying naval revival plan.
At this time, the relationship between the United States and Britain was still strange. The British, fearing that the Americans would go crazy, sent troops to occupy Canada in North America, and now the millions of troops mobilized in the United States are deploying a large number of troops on the US-Canada border.
The reason why the Americans did this was that they were worried that the British would use Canada as a springboard to cross the ocean and attack the United States, and the relationship between the two sides was actually very tense. The US Navy's huge expansion plan has deepened this tension.
This is exactly the embarrassment of the US government now. If they want revenge, they must give an account to the people, they must rebuild a huge navy, and it must be done in a short time, otherwise they will not be able to give the people an account, and President Wilkie's second re-election will inevitably be a big problem.
The development of such a frighteningly large naval expansion program may boost the confidence of the people, but the greatest evil effect is to completely frighten an old imperialist naval power on the other side of the Atlantic.
In the end, President Dewey received almost nothing in London, England, and did not even achieve the minimum goal of coming to Britain: to demand that Britain impose an oil embargo on Japan. (To be continued......)