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Chapter 572 Ruthless and affectionate

The exchange between Roosevelt and Eisenhower was far from over. Judging from the facial expressions of the two, both of them enjoyed the seemingly nagging conversation, but it was this nagging chatty conversation that determined most of the war actions in the United States.

Eisenhower has a quiet temperament, and this is Roosevelt’s favorite.

"Aike, have you noticed? Stante is very interested in the Anti-Japanese United General named Ma. No matter what report he has, Qian Anma's name can be found. I have never discovered that Stante has such a respect for someone, oh..." Roosevelt paused, "Especially, this general is only 26 years old, and Stante is already 40 years old. Logically, he doesn't need to admire this young man so much, right?"

"To admire a person is nothing more than being impressed by the advantages of that person, just like I am impressed by your wisdom." Eisenhower took the opportunity to flatter. After seeing Roosevelt smiled slightly, he continued: "The advantages that human beings have are nothing more than wisdom, courage, cheerfulness, handsomeness, stability, confidence, strength, rationality, kindness, compassion, not fearing power and compassion for the weak, etc. I think Stanter does not need to praise the qualities of vulgarity and vulgarity. In this way, this General Ma must have many advantages, and it may be more than one, three or five items, so..."

"Well, I think so too, and I also think that this horse has a high level of wisdom in justice. Do you remember that he once persuaded Stante to clearly explain the situation in East Asia, believing that except for the Soviet-German battlefield, the most important second battlefield is actually East Asia and the Pacific Ocean rather than Britain and France. In fact, from the perspective of the world anti-fascist situation, it is okay to open a second battlefield in Western Europe or East Asia. I think in private that what he said is not unreasonable, but Europe is our roots, the source of our country and the birthplace of our country. All of our things are inherited from Europe, including culture and ideology. We cannot lose our roots. If we do not place our main power in Europe, we will lose Europe. In the future, whether it is Germany or Russia, whether it is fascism or **, this is an irreparable pain for our country's national feelings.

If a second battlefield is opened in Western Europe and East Asia at the same time, it will lead to insufficient distribution of aid materials to Western Europe, and Western Europe will be beaten even worse. If we invest too little in East Asia, which leads to the complete occupation of East Asia by the Japanese, it will be impossible. I must take care of my Western European relatives first, and then the colonies. For me, the significance of East Asia to the United States is no different from that of colonies."

Listening to Roosevelt's voice, Eisenhower echoed: "Yes, I think so too. If we only have one strength, of course we will give priority to Europe. The Chinese can only ask for blessings on their own. Don't be defeated by Japan before we make a free move. I believe that General Ma will be so upset that he will be in a state of trouble when he knows our true thoughts."

"The Chinese will be more or less disappointed, but I will not let them be completely disappointed with us. That will be unfavorable for our return to Asia after the war, and the Chinese will hold a grudge against us, so I decided to give some supplies to the Chinese. Of course, the amount of supplies cannot be compared with those given to the British. I plan to give the Chinese supplies to support them not to collapse as the minimum."

Support the principle of not collapse of the Chinese government? With Eisenhower's seemingly calm face, his heart has already risen. The president is worthy of being a cold and experienced politician. His only warmth is left to his relatives in Western Europe. The Chinese can only pick up some residue and leftover rice. This decision is cruel. The Chinese can only struggle with limited material support and fight against the Japanese who are much stronger than them. It can be expected that they must fight to the death under poor material conditions to resist the Japanese. Death will inevitably increase greatly, and all this may be avoided. In fact, as long as Roosevelt gives more support, they can die fewer people. In order to avoid the danger of destruction of the country, the Chinese can only use their last strength to fight the invaders with all their might. Even if they win in the end, their national strength will be weak and they can only bow down to listen to the Americans.

Moreover, if the Chinese resist with hope and forcefully, they will definitely cause major casualties to Japan and will also consume Japan's national strength. In the future, the US Army will have fewer obstacles to joining the war and kill many American young men. Roosevelt made a good plan.

"So should Stante reduce the materials that the Chinese Anti-Japanese United Nations have to pay some reductions?" Eisenhower thought that he had figured out Roosevelt's ideas and raised this question cleverly.

"Ah, dear Ike, what I just talked about is the overall situation. As for the materials that have promised others, there is no need to be reduced. These are the materials they have used their lives to make. Besides, they rescued more than a thousand Americans and my sons. I am not so despicable that I broke my promise and became fat. However, we can cut down a little of the supplies for Stilwell accordingly. If there are more here, there will be less. This time the person who scolded me should be Chairman Jiang." Thinking of the arrogant bald head, Roosevelt showed a prank smile. After seeing Chiang's speech on the War of Resistance Against Japan, he stubbornly thought that the bald head was very arrogant.

Roosevelt did not forget to play his tricks, and it should not be too much aid to China. This has been decided long ago. If the limited supplies are taken in northern China, the southern China will have to take in less.

Chairman Chiang did not want to provide supplies to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces but wanted to provide them to the orthodox government forces of Ma Zhanshan. Then I can't control it. Whoever you gets it at that time will be his own. There are not many supplies and will not cause earth-shaking changes. As for the ideological differences between us and **, we will not distribute materials to the ** armed forces with materials, that's nonsense! It's not a problem now. The aid we give Russia dozens of times more than this, and Russia is still an orthodox **.

Thinking of Franklin, Roosevelt felt a sense of licking his calf in his heart and sighed: "To be honest, Ike, I am a ruthless person in national affairs, but in private, I am not without feelings. I am very grateful to General Ma who risked his life to capture the Japanese general and exchanged his son for my son. If I had the chance, I think I would meet him, express my gratitude in person and commend him for his merits, and give him a medal, would you say okay?"

Eisenhower did not answer immediately, and thought for a while before he thought about it, saying, "Mr. President, judging from the description of Stanter's telegram, General Ma's courage, strategy and grand strategy thinking are not inferior to me at all. Do you think such a person will be interested in your medals? These medals are nothing more than something empty. Maybe he will take the opportunity to make it difficult for you to complete. If you want to meet him, you should consider it carefully before talking about it."

"Oh? Will he be such a person?" Roosevelt raised his eyebrows excitedly, "When you say this, I'm more interested in meeting him." Seeing Eisenhower's disapproval, Roosevelt continued to tease and sarcastically: "Then Ike, since you think General Ma, who is like you, is not interested in the medal, then I think you must be not interested in the Congress Medal of Honor, right?"

How could it be? Eisenhower blurted out that the Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest-level medal in the United States. How could I not be interested? But when he saw Roosevelt's mocking face, he suddenly opened his mouth in embarrassment and couldn't speak. Eisenhower silently lowered his head and thought, the Bible is right, the earthen jar should be far away from the iron jar, Roosevelt is the iron jar, with a harsh character hidden under his seemingly gentle skin.
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