After reading the telegram carefully, Hawkins said with a smile: "I didn't expect the president to respond so quickly. It seems that our previous efforts were not in vain."
"Yes, we can temporarily relax on the Pacific side, but what I'm worried about now is things on the European side." Roosevelt's thoughts quickly turned to Europe, "Although the Nazi Party led by the mustache is in the English Channel
It hit a nail, but the gathering of more than five million German troops in Europe is a hidden danger after all. It is like a volcano that can erupt at any time, which will bring huge disasters to our human society. The only solution for now is to let Germany
This power found a breakthrough to slowly consume their amazing destructive power."
"Dear President, don't you think that the breakthrough has been found?" Hawkins smiled softly, "And if the Germans can't squander their energy on their eastern front, then there are still more in North Africa.
A place can help them consume their excess energy, and that place is "
"Ethiopia" Roosevelt and Hawkins looked at each other and then laughed at the same time.
"Hawkins, it seems that some of our views are very similar." Roosevelt said happily: "Last year, the Italian army led by Mussolini suffered defeats after attacking Ethiopia. If the situation continues like this, I guess the Germans
They will take action. Only by consuming all the vitality of the Germans can we, the United States, continue to maintain our leading position."
“Then shouldn’t our support for the UK continue?”
"Yes, Hawkins, this is our responsibility." Having said this, Roosevelt pushed his wheelchair to the desk, opened the drawer, took out a piece of manuscript paper and handed it over, "This is a bill I drafted.
In view of the increasingly serious threats from Germany, Japan and Italy to the Ming Dynasty, I think we can first provide military supplies to our allies free of charge."
"But Mr. President, our allies don't have that much money to buy our supplies right now." After taking the manuscript, Hawkins did not rush to open it, but first raised his own questions.
"Well, Hawkins, let's say our lovely neighbor has a fire at his house. We can only lend him the garden hose to put out the fire, instead of asking him to pay for the hose in advance and wait for them to put out the fire.
After that, our neighbors can just return the original hose." Roosevelt made a humorous metaphor and said firmly: "So I think the United States must become the arsenal of the country."
"Sounds like a good note." Hawkins shrugged his shoulders before opening the manuscript paper in his hand and reading it carefully. Then the more Hawkins read, the more frightened he was by Roosevelt's boldness. In this bill
Roosevelt proposed that the bill authorize the president to provide weapons, military supplies, food and other munitions in the form of sale, exchange, transfer and lease to countries whose defense is considered to be of great significance to the security of the United States. It can be said that if
If this bill is passed, the people who will benefit most will not be the countries receiving aid, but the man in front of him who is sitting in a wheelchair and has been re-elected as the president of the United States for the second consecutive time.
If this bill is passed by Congress, Roosevelt can exert his influence on any country in the name of the president, and the United States can spread its influence throughout the world without entering the war.
Slowly closing the bill in his hand, Hawkins took a long breath and said: "Mr. President, I am certain that if this concession bill is passed, the tentacles of our United States will spread all over the world."
In early December 1940, Roosevelt submitted the concession bill to Congress and loudly appealed to members of Congress, for the sake of the United States' own security and defense, to expand its sphere of influence, and to establish the status quo of the United States in the post-war world.
leadership, it is necessary to strengthen assistance to the difficult and financially strapped United Kingdom and to countries in need of aid. To this end, he hopes that Congress can authorize the President of the United States to "sell, transfer, exchange, lease, loan, or deliver any defense supplies to
The President of the United States believed that "the national policy is crucial to the national defense of the United States", and also used the metaphor of the neighbor's house on fire to win the approval of many members of Congress. Among them, Roosevelt's statement that most impressed the members was that the United States could survive without being involved in the war.
While entering the war, it also used the means of providing war supplies to its allies to expand the United States' influence. This suited the appetite of U.S. lawmakers where isolationism was prevalent. In this way, the bill quickly entered the normal process, and nothing happened.
Otherwise, the bill will officially take effect after March next year.
While Roosevelt was vigorously promoting the concession bill in Congress, Bai Chongxi and his party finally flew to Germany on December 8 after a day and two nights of flight. Due to the limited range of the aircraft,
The plane of Bai Chongxi and his team could only fly to Germany in a straight line as much as possible, so it would inevitably fly through the airspace of Soviet Russia. At that time, all the pilots were nervous. When the plane was over Soviet Russia,
, all flying at a maximum altitude of more than 8,500 meters, for fear of alerting the Soviet Russians and attracting their fighter planes. When the plane entered the sky over Germany, the pilots on the plane who had been tensing up were relieved.
Back in the stomach.
As soon as the plane entered German airspace, the pilot immediately opened the predetermined communication channel and kept calling in German: "This is the visiting delegation of General Bai Chongxi, Chief of General Staff of the Republic of China. This is General Bai Chongxi, Chief of General Staff of the Republic of China."
This is the German Air Force. This is the German Air Force. We have arrived in your country’s airspace. Please answer if you hear me. Please answer if you hear me.”
There was a rustling sound from the communicator, and then a slightly excited German reply came out: "This is the German Air Force Command, this is the German Air Force Command, our radar has discovered your position. Please."
Please lower your altitude to 3,000 meters and continue flying north. Please lower your altitude to 3,000 meters and continue flying north."
After more than ten minutes, the aircraft fleet that had lowered their altitude soon discovered dozens of small black dots flying from the north. Soon a group of BF109 fighter jets with iron cross marks painted on their wings appeared around them.
At the same time, a harsh Chinese message came from the pilots' headsets: "We are the 13th Squadron of the 5th Group of the German Air Force. Friends who have come from afar, on behalf of the German Air Force, I welcome you."