1097 The President Falls Off the Train, You Can Believe It
The United States is in such a mess now, and the mutual attacks of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are indispensable.
It was not the responsibility of the Democrats to achieve nothing in the world war, and almost all the participating countries suffered heavy losses except for southern Africa, and the Entente originally intended to pass on the losses to the Allies through post-war liquidation.
What the Entente never expected was that the Allies were simply unable to compensate for the losses of the Entente, the three major empires all collapsed, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire were directly destroyed, and there was no money left in Germany's land reparations.
Woodrow Wilson originally wanted to use the League of Nations to expand American influence.
As a result, Congress refused to cooperate, and the United States did not even join the League of Nations, and Woodrow Wilson's plan was also a waste of water.
Against this backdrop, the Republicans insist that it is precisely because of the incompetence of the Democratic Party that the United States has nothing to gain in the world war.
The Democrats retorted that it was because of the Republican Party's constraints that the United States did not play its due role.
If only the United States had been better prepared before the war.
If only the United States had entered the war earlier.
If the United States joins the League of Nations -
It's a pity that there aren't so many ifs.
Hoover's assassination coincided with the ongoing ceremony of French and Belgian gifts to southern Africa.
In appreciation of Southern Africa's contribution during the World Wars, France and Belgium donated part of their coastal lands to Southern Africa.
It's not appropriate to use "part" here, it feels like it's quite big, but in fact, the total area adds up to less than 20 square kilometers, right next to Dunkirk, less than 10 kilometers from Dunkirk.
During the World War, the Southern African Expeditionary Force fought a repeated tug-of-war with Germany near Flanders, and in Ypres alone, the larger battles broke out three times, and more than 20 percent of the soldiers killed in the World War in Southern Africa were killed in Flanders, and most of them were buried on a hill not far from Dunkirk, and the French and Belgian governments decided to donate the mountain to Southern Africa after consultation.
This is not the only territory that France has given away, as just last month, France gifted Canada a piece of territory of about one square kilometer near Ridge Vimy as a thank you for the help of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, making it Canada's only overseas enclave.
One square kilometer is too small, small enough to erect a monument, and the square must be built on French soil.
France and Belgium have given this piece of land to southern Africa is still quite large, and the key is that this land is by the sea, there is still a lot of room for development in the future, think about how the Dutch reclaimed the land, if southern Africa is willing, it can fill in more land.
The gift of land is a big deal, Ade as the prime minister can't leave, to stand the last shift, Roque, as the former commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, on behalf of Ade came to Dunkirk to attend the donation ceremony.
The French and Belgian governments prepared a grand welcoming ceremony for Roque, which was attended by the newly elected French President Paul de Shanel and Prime Minister Alexander Millerand.
After the end of the World War, there was also a change in the French government, and the term of office of President Raymond Poincaré, who had made great contributions during the World War, expired, and Raymond Poincaré did not continue to run for election.
"Tiger" Clemenceau wants to use his enormous popularity to storm the presidency.
It was a delusion that Clemenceau's popularity was not as great as he thought, and the French thanked Clemenceau for leading France to victory in the war, but were also very dissatisfied with France's post-war gains, so they voted for a congenital neuroticism to become president.
On the day of the ceremony, an accident occurred that stunned everyone.
President Paul de Shanel, who was preparing to attend the ceremony, did not appear in time for the ceremony because Paul de Shanel fell off the train on his way to Dunkirk.
Roque couldn't believe it when he found out, and the president fell off the train—
I don't know what to say.
"It seems that this is the case, yesterday Mr. President had a little cold, and his valet gave the president a sleeping pill, and then the president fell asleep - at five o'clock in the morning, the presidential train received a telegram saying that a person had fallen from the president's special train, and the president's chief of guard counted the number of people, and there were 44 people on the presidential train at that time, including the president, and no one was absent except for the president, who was still sleeping, so the chief guard didn't care—at seven o'clock in the morning, the president's personal valet wanted to wake up the president, I found that the president's clothes and socks were all there, and the glass window was open, only to find out that it was actually the president who fell off the train-" Xiao Si's expression also collapsed, not to mention France, one of the largest countries in the world, even if it is a small country like Belgium, this kind of thing should not happen.
King Albert I of Belgium lay down the gun, and there is a phrase MMP does not know when to say.
"Yesterday at 12 o'clock in the evening, when a patrolman was inspecting the railway, he found a man dressed as a sleeping peasant, barefoot, with a swollen face, lying on the side of the railway, and it looked like he was unconscious, and the patrolman took him to the guard's house at the crossing, and along the way, the man chattered: 'My friend, I will surprise you, you may not believe it - I am the President of the Republic' - the patrolman reported to the station, and after receiving the report, a doctor was sent to treat Mr. President, and it took a long time for the doctor to confirm that this man was the president, It is said that it was because Mr. President felt a little hot shortly after the President's train departed, so he got up and walked to the window and opened the window to get some fresh air - the wind was very strong at night, and Mr. President was sucked out of the train by the wind - "Sidney Milner painted as if he had seen with his own eyes how embarrassed Mr. President was."
Roque was completely speechless, he could only be glad that this was a train, and the speed of the train was not fast at this time, if he felt sullen on the plane-
"Normal, it's very French—" Jan Smoltz didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and the British were always happy to see the French make a fool of themselves.
Just as the French were happy to laugh at the British.
Now France is 1:0 ahead!
Roque joked that the president seemed to be in his own right, and his performance deteriorated during his tenure, until he developed into a nervous breakdown and had to resign.
At this time, the doctor determined that the president of the great France was actually congenitally neurotic!
God knows how he became president of France.
Definitely have a fight with the king of the United States.
"Lord Nyasaland, the ceremony is taking place as normal, but our President is unable to attend due to health reasons, sorry-" Prime Minister Alexandre Millerand took the initiative to apologize to Roque, who was also an acquaintance of Roque during the World War, and served as France's Minister of War during the World War, and fought alongside Roque.
"It's okay, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, please take me to greet Mr. President, and hope he is safe and sound." Roque didn't even know what to say, as if he was laughing at everything.
Sure enough, as soon as Roque's words fell, Alexander Millerand's face was the same as that of a purple eggplant.
Then Roque and Alexander Millerand pretended to attend the transfer ceremony, and the fact that Mr. President fell off the train cast a shadow over the whole ceremony, and the ceremony ended hastily, and Alexander Millerand left Dunkirk at noon that day to return to Paris, not even attending the dinner after the ceremony.
To be exact, there were not a few French officials at the entire dinner.
Presumably, French officials also thought it was too embarrassing to be present at the dinner.
King Albert I of Belgium also left Dunkirk to return to Belgium after the ceremony, and the dinner turned out to be a dinner party for officials and businessmen from southern Africa.
"Don't underestimate these 20 square kilometers, the geographical location determines the huge value of these 20 square kilometers, here is less than 80 kilometers away from Dover, surrounded by mountainous areas that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, the coastal area is flat, it is completely possible to carry out Dutch-style reclamation of the sea, Christian, take a plan." Roque named him directly, and Christian's company has a lot of experience in this area.
France and Belgium are certainly not going to give the really good places to southern Africa.
Roque, Small, and Sidney Milner went to the barren mountain called the Duperokust Dunes the next day, and laid flowers to the southern African officers and soldiers buried there, before discussing how to make the best use of the place.
It is said to be a sand dune, but in fact it is a barren mountain, and there is very little vegetation on the undulating hills, and there are bare rocks everywhere, only about four or five hundred meters of wasteland by the sea, and a few houses are scattered around.
The houses are now empty, and the French and Belgian governments have moved them away, leaving a veritable wasteland in southern Africa.
"Lord, as soon as I heard the news, I asked the firm's architect to prepare a plan—" Christian did a good job of preparation, and immediately someone came over with a rendering.
"We can gather these scattered cemeteries and build a cemetery, and then build a monument, these barren mountains, we can blow them all up, and then reclaim them with stones, at least fifteen to twenty square kilometers more, and in the process we can also build ports and docks, and use this as a distribution center for our southern African goods in Europe—" Christian's plan is good, but the only drawback is that it is very expensive, and it will cost 20 square kilometers of mountains to be flattened, which is not an ordinary big deal.
However, after the bombing, 20 square kilometers will become 40 square kilometers, and the price is still worth it.
The explosives produced in southern Africa during the world war have not yet been sold, and the cost is actually very low.
"Then do it right away, and if you don't have money, go to the RAND Bank." Roque is doing things now, and he no longer thinks about profits, and interests are what Roque has to consider.