After the radio interview, Hoover's popularity rose dramatically.

Warren Harding was a mediocre man, and during his six years in the Senate, his work was unremarkable and unremarkable, and he did not push any major bills or record anything to be looked back on.

Still, Warren Harding's gregarious optimism, eloquent eloquence, devout attitude towards the Republican Party, and the fact that he represented an important state strengthened his position in the Republican Party, which unexpectedly won the support of both factions of the Republican Party that split in 1912.

Hoover was a very good official, capable, prestigious, and financially based, and the only stain was locked in a safe by Roque, which could not be used as evidence to attack Hoover.

But after a president like Woodrow Wilson, who is actually very capable, the United States is tired of the very capable, and if the president is too good, then Congress is just a rubber stamp.

That's why the members of Congress thought of Warren Harding, the most mediocre American and the most reassuring person, and they chose him.

Now the balance in the hearts of the Republican top brass is finally tilting in Hoover's favor.

Warren Harding is really good, mediocre in ability and easy to control.

But to have such a person with a huge moral stain as president would also be a devastating blow to the image of the Republican Party.

When Roque saw the media reports, he had an inexplicable sense of absurdity in his heart.

Does this count as interference in the U.S. presidential election?

Probably yes, but no one is sure to blame Roque at this time.

Roque's reason for choosing Hoover is simple: if Hoover is elected president, then Hoover will push Congress to relax restrictions on southern African companies and gradually open up the US market to southern African companies, which are not limited to physical companies, but also include financial companies, which means that financial companies in southern Africa will be able to acquire American companies.

Think of the world's top 100 companies, which are still weak now, but have a thunderous future, and Southern African capital can easily complete the acquisition at a small price.

In August, delegations from France, Italy and other European countries arrived in New York one after another, Roque was busier, France and Italy also had their own demands, they all hoped to gain an advantage in the Mediterranean, both countries have huge colonies in North Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea is the lifeline of these two countries.

Coincidentally, southern Africa also has interests in the Mediterranean, Cyprus has become Arthur's fiefdom, the Ottoman Empire's territory in the eastern Mediterranean, which became a trusteeship area of southern Africa after the World War, and Roque is ready to establish a Mediterranean fleet on the basis of the Edward fleet and the Walvis Bay fleet to safeguard the interests of southern Africa in the Mediterranean region.

France and Italy are ambiguous about this decision.

If Roque had formed a Mediterranean Fleet, it would have nominally become part of the British Mediterranean Fleet, and France and Italy would not be in a position to oppose it.

The issue was complicated, as George V gave Cyprus to Arthur, partly to use southern Africa to contain France and Italy, and partly to relieve pressure on the Royal Navy.

Britain's current naval superiority before the World War is no longer capable of maintaining its pre-world war naval superiority, and since Britain's strategy has changed from external expansion to internal contraction, Britain's decline has been obvious.

One of the factors behind the ambiguity of France and Italy is the attempt to divide Britain and southern Africa.

Britain's traditional advantage was the navy, and the army was relatively weak.

And the strength of the Southern African Army was vividly demonstrated in the world war.

If Southern Africa and Britain remain close, then Britain's supremacy will remain unshakable despite their complementary strengths.

But if southern Africa also begins to develop a navy, then the relationship between the British government and southern Africa is no longer unbreakable, at least France and Italy think so, so don't think that other countries support the development of navies in southern Africa is a good thing, most of them are harboring evil intentions.

Roque, of course, understands this, so he spoke to Balfour very thoroughly.

"Southern Africa may build two or three aircraft carriers of about 25,000 tons in the future, our positioning for the navy is defense and escort, without any offensiveness, the southern African Navy and the Royal Navy can completely complement each other's advantages, and our core interests are in the Indian Ocean." The naval conference was the second spoils sharing conference after the Paris Peace Conference, and the United States was very clear that it would not only ensure US interests in the Americas, but also expand abroad, and the main direction was the Pacific Ocean.

Britain's strategy is still to shrink, the Americas have become the Americas of the United States, the Pacific Ocean is the main battlefield for future Anglo-American hegemony, and the Indian Ocean is Britain's backyard.

If you look at the map, around the Indian Ocean, India and Ceylon, Sudan, Aden, and Malaya are British colonies, southern Africa and Australia are British overseas dominions, and the entire Indian Ocean has almost become the British inland sea except for Madagascar and Italian Somalia, as well as Portugal's Goa.

"It is necessary for the Southern African Navy to build three aircraft carriers?" Balfour has doubts, and the Royal Navy is only equipped with two aircraft carriers.

"We don't have any plans to build capital ships." Roque's answer reassured Belfour a little, and while the role of aircraft carriers had been proven during the world wars, it would take time to change the concept that was ingrained in people's minds.

The mainstream thinking of the Navy today is still giant ships and cannons, and the shipbuilding plans of the United States and Japan after the World War are all battleships, and aircraft carriers are still in a secondary position.

"Does the Southern African Navy have the strength to maintain three aircraft carriers? The cost of an aircraft carrier can be higher than that of a battleship - "Balfour is still a little lost in his heart, an aircraft carrier plus carrier-based aircraft, the cost is indeed higher than that of a battleship, and the maintenance costs are also higher.

Roque smiled and said nothing, if Southern Africa can't afford to raise three aircraft carriers, then there is no country in the world that can afford to raise aircraft carriers.

To put it bluntly, even a resource-poor country like Japan is ambitious to build the "88th Fleet", and according to the strength of southern Africa, it is normal to build 10 8 capital ships.

"The pressure we're under right now is enormous—" Balfour worried, not concerned about Roque's attitude.

At the end of the World War, the Royal Navy's superiority had not narrowed, but had further widened the gap with other countries.

Between 1909 and 1914, Britain built 23 Dreadnought-class battleships and Germany built 17 Dreadnought-class battleships.

After the outbreak of the World War, Britain built 11 more battleships, Germany built only two, France built seven Dreadnought-class battleships between 1912 and 1914, Italy built six, and the United States built 12.

These battleships, collectively known as "super dreadnoughts", were used to distinguish them from "former dreadnoughts".

After the end of the World War, Britain did not continue to build "super dreadnoughts", but instead announced huge shipbuilding plans announced by the United States and Japan.

Japan is good to say, limited by its national strength, and poses a limited threat to Britain.

The United States is now the main threat to the Royal Navy, and the existing strength of the US Navy, compared with the Royal Navy, although there is still a gap in quantity, is not bad in quality, because of the advanced technology and large tonnage, it already has the strength to challenge the Royal Navy.

The United States is now ambitious to build 10 "super battleships" of about 40,000 tons, and if these 10 battleships are put into service, then the strength of the US Navy will surpass that of the British Navy in an all-round way.

"There is pressure to be motivated, and we can also continue to build battleships with greater tonnage and greater caliber guns." Roque understated that before the World War, the Royal Navy said: Germany built one battleship, and Britain built two.

Now if the Royal Navy wants to maintain its superiority, it is very simple, the United States wants to build ten battleships, and the United Kingdom will build 20, then the Royal Navy can still maintain its superiority.

The point is that you can't afford it.

The British government has no money, and it has a lot of debts, and it can't afford to pay off the debts, so how can it have the money to build new warships.

Belfort squinted at Roque, his eyes unkind.

"The Royal Navy builds battleships, the Southern African Navy builds aircraft carriers, our biggest advantage is cost sharing, the rise of the United States can no longer be contained, maybe we should support Mexico-" Roque also has a counterattack plan, and he can't let the United States act recklessly, and Britain, or Southern Africa, must also go to the backyard of the United States to do something.

One hundred years ago, then US President James Monroe proposed that "America is the America of the Americans" and that "the countries of the American continent that have gained and maintained their freedom and independence shall not be regarded as future colonization objects by any European powers" and opposed any European country's interference in the affairs of the Americas.

In fact, this sentence should be understood as "America is the America of the United States", or "Latin America is the sphere of influence of the United States".

If you look at the process of the U.S. invasion of Mexico, you can see the U.S. attitude toward the Americas.

Roque's meaning is obvious, to strengthen ties with Mexico, from time to time the foreign minister visits Mexico, or the Royal Navy goes to the Gulf of Mexico, which can immediately stimulate the pain points of the United States.

"It's not that easy, unless we want a war with the United States." Belfour does not want to provoke the United States, not to mention anything else, once Britain and the United States go to war, Canada will definitely not be able to keep it, most of Britain's military bases in the Pacific Ocean will not be able to keep it, and Australia and New Zealand will also be greatly affected.

If one is not done well, most of Britain's global colonial system will collapse.

"We don't want to, and neither does the United States—" Roque is not afraid, if a war really breaks out, Britain will bear the brunt, and southern Africa is far away in southern Africa, and there is a tall man on top of the sky falling.