Arthur's resolute refusal surprised the U.S. ambassador and froze the U.S. ambassador, who had thought he could achieve his goal.

After desperately thinking about how to deal with it, the American ambassador said with a slightly embarrassed face: "Your Majesty, do you really stop thinking about it?" The United States is willing to become allies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean with Australasia and jointly govern and rule the entire Pacific Ocean.

If your country wishes, we can deepen cooperation in industry and economy, which will be beneficial for the development of both countries. ”

Now Arthur's head shook his head more decisively. It is true that the United States has the largest industry and economy in the world, but it is only a few years away from the Great Depression.

If economic ties with the United States deepen, the United States, which was most affected by the Great Depression, will inevitably implicate Australasia as well.

What's more, the truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers is still clear to Arthur. Although the Pacific Ocean is large, it is not a territory where the world powers can share influence with other countries with the rapid development of science and technology.

The previous Pacific policy of the United States has also proved that the Americans have great ambitions, even wanting to dominate both sides of the Pacific.

Under such circumstances, the strategy proposed by the Americans to jointly divide and dominate the Pacific Ocean is in all probability a fiction and cannot be completely realized.

Compared with the Americans, the aid of the British is significantly more reliable at present. Although the British are not as large as the United States in terms of industrial size and economic size, the good thing is that the United Kingdom is a European country, and the conflict with Australasia is far less than the conflict with France and the United States.

Even after Britain is weakened in the future, Britain will need Australasia as an ally even more, and this kind of relationship is what Arthur needs.

Arthur shook his head again, gesturing to the guards next to him to see off the guest.

The guards understood and sent off the American representative respectfully on the surface.

The American ambassador personally came to the door to make Arthur feel that the reaction of the Americans at this time should be a little panicked.

They are also afraid of the union of the entire world alliance, because it represents not only a confrontation with many powers, but also a sign that the United States is moving towards the opposite side of Europe.

Although the United States is currently the largest industrial country and the strongest economic country, if it is spurned by European countries, the Americans will not be able to exert much international influence.

Because the center of the world is still in Europe, the influence of European countries is still ahead of that of the United States to a certain extent.

As the saying goes, take advantage of his illness and ask for his life.

Arthur would not hesitate to let Australasian delegates make a proposal at the next World League meeting to further urge the United States to withdraw.

It has now been more than a week since the World Alliance officially demanded that the United States withdraw its troops.

Because there is no movement in the US military, the world alliance can make a legitimate urging, which the US government cannot refute.

The pressure from the world coalition and the pressure of the domestic march went hand in hand, and it is believed that the US government under President Coolidge will definitely sweat.

Because it was an agenda item that had already been adopted, there was no opposition from too many countries when it was urged again, and it was normally adopted by the regular meeting of the World League.

On September 11, 1924, the World League again issued a circular to the United States Government, demanding that the United States Government accelerate the pace of withdrawal and complete the withdrawal within three months as soon as possible.

If the U.S. military does not completely leave Central America and the Philippines after three months, it will be seen as a breach of world peace and a provocation to the World Alliance, which has the right to hold the United States accountable for its actions.

In order to show the importance and monitoring role of the United States in withdrawing troops, Britain and Australasia specifically requested the World Alliance meeting to send fleets to Central America and the Philippines to supervise.

The actual role of supervision is false, but the role of flaunting military power and provoking the Americans is real.

Because the size of the fleet sent by Australasia was very simple, there were not even battleships, just battlecruisers built before the First World War.

But the question is, the Australasian and British fleets are parked outside the port in the open, and will the American troops dare to counterattack?

After all, the place where it stopped was not the territorial waters of the United States, and it was still the act of supervising the withdrawal of US troops with the consent of the World Alliance, which was completely legal and compliant.

If the United States were to be the first to attack, would it not be a personal casus belli to Australasia and Britain?

By that time, the United States would face not only Australasia and Great Britain, but the entire world coalition.

From the time the second warning from the World League was sent to the U.S. government, President Coolidge was no longer in a good mood.

It was hoped that Australasia would abandon its support for Britain and turn the conflict into a unilateral rivalry between the United States and Britain.

But unexpectedly, Australasia would not give up supporting Britain at all, which also turned the conflict directly into a disagreement between the World League and the United States.

Although in reality it was only a confrontation between Great Britain and Australasia and the United States, nominally it had risen to the level of a confrontation between the world alliance and the United States.

And because the World Alliance is an official alliance formed by dozens of large, medium, and small countries around the world, it seems that the United States has turned into a confrontation with the whole world alone.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the whole world can't be wrong, right? If you had to choose between the United States and the world alliance that seemed to be the wrong side, the first choice for most people would be the United States.

"Mr. President, at the moment, our hope may be to save the Panama Canal." In President Coolidge's office, the US Secretary of State said to President Coolidge with a little helplessness.

"How do you keep the Panama Canal?" President Coolidge asked with a pale face.

"War." The U.S. Secretary of State said firmly: "We can lose the Philippines and Central America, but we must not lose the Panama Canal."

The loss of the Philippines and Central America is just a sign of infamy, and the Philippine War did not begin during your term of office.

But the Panama Canal is different, and if the Panama Canal is lost, we, the government, will suffer. ”

"I believe that the British do not want to see an all-out war with us, and war is our last confidence, Mr. President." The U.S. Secretary of State said:

"Either take Central America and the Philippines peacefully, or start a full-scale war with the United States to get Panama, let the British choose, we have no way back."

President Coolidge was silent for a long time, but finally nodded helplessly.

"Send a telegram to the British government, and I want to start a negotiation with them, if they are not willing to start a super-war." President Coolidge said.

"Yes! Mr. President. The U.S. Secretary of State nodded.

On September 17, 1924, a meeting began in Sydney, Australasia.

The participants in this meeting were three countries, and the main participants in the incident were Australasia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

In fact, the original venue for the negotiations was London, but in order to avoid attracting the attention of European countries and at the same time allowing the negotiations to proceed smoothly, the final venue was chosen in Sydney, Australasia.

Anyway, Australasia is also the main country for this incident, and it is more appropriate to choose Sydney.

After all, the venue of the meeting is generally in the dominant country, and there are only two countries to choose from, which are none other than Australasia and the United Kingdom.

Even before the start of the talks, Australasia had already made good contact with the British side to unite for their respective interests.

It is also natural that the incident has developed to the point where the cooperation between Australasia and the United Kingdom cannot be broken up by the slightest interest.

At the beginning of the talks, the British were adamant that the United States should withdraw from all of Central America and hand over the management of the Panama Canal to Panama.

It may seem that the British will not gain the slightest benefit, but if there is a map of the situation near Central America, it can be seen that Britain is the closest power to Central America after the withdrawal of the United States.

As for handing over the management of the Panama Canal to Panama, in fact, you know on your toes that the management of the Panama Canal will not fall into the hands of Panama.

When Britain takes control of Central America, it will inevitably take control of Panama, the southernmost part of Central America. Will the British, who control Panama, not be tempted by the Panama Canal?

The Australasian demand is simple: the United States allows the Philippines to become independent and evacuates all American troops in the Philippines and El Salvador.

On the American side, Australasia's request will not be mentioned for the time being, and the British will categorically not agree to it.

If the British had agreed, they would undoubtedly have surrendered Central America and the Panama Canal.

The Americans also put forward their own conditions, the Philippines, Nicaragua and El Salvador can be accommodated, but control of Panama and the Panama Canal must be guaranteed.

This is obviously very different from what the British wanted, and the British would never agree.

As negotiations reach a stalemate, whichever side can nominally have the upper hand actually has the upper hand in the negotiations.

After the stalemate in the negotiations, the British were not annoyed either. After communicating with Australasia, the two countries started a new round of public opinion bombardment, bribing more American media to report on the behavior of the United States in the Central American war.

This is not the end, the massacre of Indians in the United States has also been widely reported by these media, awakening the memory of history to many Americans.

Although the behavior of the European powers in the colonies was not glorious, the United States did not weaken the cruelty of the European powers in the years of its exploitation of the lands of the Indians and the brutal massacre policy adopted by the Indians after the establishment of the United States.

There are also contradictions between whites and blacks in the United States, contradictions between the ruling party and the opposition parties, and so on. In short, how can the United States report messily, and whoever can report such news will be able to make money.

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