Roque did say hello, and Philip knew it.

It has nothing to do with who is the prime minister, and my father-in-law can't do whatever he wants when he is the prime minister.

"Philip must be angry—" The work was over, and Xiao Si, who had returned to southern Africa on vacation, looked lively, and the Relief and Rehabilitation Committee did not play its due role, but it had little to do with Xiao Si.

Europe is the same ghost now, and the gods can't save it.

If at the end of the world war, Winston and Clemenceau had given up their intervention in Russia's new government and focused on reviving the economy, perhaps Europe would still have a chance to survive.

Now that Europe is on the verge of collapse, the Allies who were defeated in the world war have been devastated and weakened, Britain and France have not been able to get compensation from Germany, but because of their interference in the new Russian government, the economic situation has deteriorated further, production has plummeted, factories have closed down in large numbers, workers have lost their jobs in large numbers, credit relations have been seriously damaged, and the entire social economy has fallen into extreme chaos and paralysis.

In such cases, the little help provided by the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission is a drop in the bucket and will not solve the problem.

"No, it's not Philip's proposal, he has nothing to lose." Roque was dual-minded, chatting with Xiao Si while watching "Winston".

Yes, Winston's autobiographical film is finally completed, this guy shamelessly portrays himself as a savior who has died with all his might, and his own shots account for more than half of the movie, if you only watch the movie, you will think that the world war was won by Winston alone, he is carrying the pressure of Congress, while appeasing the panicked king, and urging the front-line troops to fight bravely, and at three o'clock in the morning is still worried about the winter clothes of the front-line troops.

Fortunately, Winston still has a bit of a conscience and doesn't portray Roque too badly, but Roque in the movie doesn't play much of a role, all the battles are completed under Winston's wise leadership, Roque is as diligent as an old scalper, and his lines are no more than ten lines.

At this time, there is a scene in the movie where Winston faces a congressional questioning, and the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force loses the initial battle in the Dardanelles, and Congress asks Winston, who was still the secretary of the Navy at the time, to give a reasonable explanation.

Winston made an impassioned statement: "-It's not the end, the end hasn't even begun, but it may be the end of the prologue-"

In the movie, Winston is emotional, accompanied by an exciting speech, a large wave of arms, and the famous "V" gesture.

Oops, the old heroic!

Roque smiled dumbly, the next thing should be Winston's appointment of Roque as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Roque remembered that Winston was anxious at that time, his eyes were red, as if he hadn't slept for days and nights, and he didn't have the style of the movie at all.

Roque turned his head to look at Winston's expression.

found that Winston was not even a little embarrassed, and there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Uh-huh, the city (bǐ) house (zhi) extreme (lian) deep (chi)!

The film has not yet been officially released, and Roque, Xiao Si, and Winston are watching it in the cinema at Eagle Castle.

Winston was very satisfied with "Winston" and claimed that he would invite Roque to watch it after its release.

"Do you think anyone would pay to go into a movie theater and listen to you brag about it?" Xiao Si is welcome, except for Roque, Xiao Si rarely gives face, not even Winston.

"Cecil, why don't you make a movie and tell people what Mr. Cecil Rhodes has done?" Winston didn't care about Xiao Si's attitude, it seemed that he was addicted to making movies.

Xiao Si's eyes lit up immediately, and it sounded like a pretty good idea.

It's really a large-scale real fragrance scene, Roque still remembers what Winston looked like when he watched "Tiger's Mouth", and Winston at that time was exactly the same as Xiao Si now.

"Is the situation in Europe really that bad?" Roque was very worried about the investment of the RAND Bank, although the RAND Bank did not lend money to Russia, but it lent a lot to Britain, France and Italy, and even to Germany.

Of course, the part that was lent to Germany was only lent to Germany after the establishment of the Weimar government.

In addition, RAND Bank and Nyasaland have invested in a lot of public infrastructure in Europe, such as roads, hospitals, and airports, which will be difficult to recoup if the European economy is in a long-term downturn.

Basically, if you can't pay for yourself in twenty years, don't count on it.

"It's very bad, factories are shut down, workers are unemployed, people can't find jobs, they have to queue up for handouts, crime is soaring in the cities, there is a shortage of labor in the countryside, officials are busy fighting for power, and the powerful are singing all night long—" Xiao Si looked indifferent, the current situation in Europe is not the problem of one group, it is the joint cause of everyone.

Roque didn't want to judge, it was indeed a bit bad.

"The situation in Europe is different from that in southern Africa, where the population is now dominated by farmers who own farms, and even if the industry is sluggish, the lives of the farmers will not be seriously affected – Europe has already completed industrialization and has a large industrial population, and if these people lose their jobs, their lives will be seriously problematic, which will lead to serious social disasters." Winston knows a lot about the situation in Europe, but the more he learns, the less optimistic he becomes.

Winston's office appears in the movie at this time, which is not much different from what Roque remembers.

This is normal, Winston himself is a director, and he must be very familiar with the Prime Minister's Office, not to mention the movie "Winston", it should be no problem to serve Taoism, after all, the world war has just ended, and many scenes have physical objects to refer to.

"When I was in Munich, I met a professor in Munich who was living on the streets, and the situation in Germany is very bad now, they can't afford to pay reparations, and Europe loses the engine to recover its economy." Xiao Si's attention was not on the movie, and the expression on his face was embarrassed, with a little happiness and fear.

It is estimated that seeing Germany so miserable now, I can't help but think that if the Entente is defeated-

Then what is now Germany is Britain at that time.

If the Entente were defeated, southern Africa would be no better.

"Aren't you talking with the Germans, what is the result, is there any result?" Winston is also concerned about this, Southern Africa and Germany are talking about borrowing, and the Americans are also intervening.

Germany wanted to borrow money from southern Africa and the United States as reparations to the Entente countries, so that the money would reach Germany, go around from Germany to Britain and France, and Britain and France would return it to southern Africa to repay the loans borrowed during the world war.

Perfect loop!

"The asking price of the Americans is too high, and it is still being discussed." Roque really hates Americans who fan the flames everywhere.

During the World War, the United States received nothing, did not receive reparations, did not join the League of Nations, did not open up the colonial system dominated by Britain and France, and did not find enough markets for the goods produced by American enterprises.

Then the United States put its main efforts on Asia, hoping to find a breakthrough from Asia.

The United States did not completely abandon Europe, and after learning that negotiations were taking place with Germany in southern Africa, the Americans took the initiative to join in, hoping to get a piece of the pie.

However, the conditions in the United States are more stringent, requiring Germany to open its domestic market and allow American goods to enter.

Coincidentally, southern Africa also has this requirement, although Germany suffered heavy losses during the world war, after all, it still has a good foundation and a large population, and the demand for goods is naturally also very high.

"Washington Naval Conference, do you want to send people from southern Africa to attend?" Winston was not worried about the Germans, and asked this question mainly to test the ambitions of southern Africa.

In November of the previous year, the United States proposed the convening of a Pacific Conference to re-divide the colonies and spheres of influence in the Far East and the Pacific, with the main participants of the conference being the United States, Britain, and Japan.

Last year, US Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced that he would build 137 warships within five years to "build the strongest and best navy in the world."

Since the United States surpassed Britain in gross domestic product to become the world's first, its ambitions have been expanding, trying to challenge Britain's maritime supremacy in the world, before the outbreak of world war, the United States formed the "Great White Fleet", but also carried out a round-the-world voyage, this time the US Secretary of the Navy Daniels's plan, can be regarded as an upgraded version of the "Great White Fleet".

Not to be outdone, Britain was not to be outdone, and Andrew Bonner Law, the Keeper of the Seals who replaced Winston as acting Prime Minister, claimed that Great Britain would rather spend every last penny than maintain its naval superiority over the United States or any other country.

Also eager to try is Japan, which turned from a debtor to a creditor during the World War, with ambitions that swelled to the point of challenging British naval supremacy.

Just after Daniels announced that it would build 137 warships in five years, Japan decided to form the "88th Fleet," that is, to have two powerful fleets, each with eight capital ships, which would be renewed every eight years.

In this case, France and Italy, which were already suffering from problems of their own, joined in and enthusiastically participated in this larger arms race.

"On a larger scale" here refers to the arms race between Britain and Germany before the World War.

Before the world war, the arms race was confined to Europe, but this time the arms race has spread to the whole world, and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Mediterranean countries are all mired in an arms race.

It was against this background that the United States proposed a naval conference in Washington to relieve the pressure caused by the arms race in a completely new way.

This proposal of the United States was immediately approved by Britain, France, Italy, and Japan, and the naval supremacy of the British Empire was not so easy to challenge, and France and Italy were too busy to take care of themselves, and they were not capable of challenging it at all, so they were passively responding to the war.

The same is true for Japan, don't look at the Japanese jumping high, in fact, the little money that Japan accumulated during the world war is still not enough, in order to implement the 88th Fleet plan, the Japanese navy has allocated one-third of the entire national budget.

What crazy Japanese.