After the League of Nations was founded, it focused on the relief of refugees, especially those of the Ottoman Empire, for which the League of Nations issued a total of 150,000 Nansen passports within two years, and southern Africa also received some of them.

Of the 1,200 refugees in southern Africa, nearly half have higher education, mainly in the fields of doctors, teachers, engineers and artists.

Not long ago, the League of Nations successfully mediated a dispute between Sweden and Finland over the ownership of the Åland Islands, which gave the League of Nations a great wave of existence, and Joseph probably thought that the League of Nations should play a greater role, so he pointed the finger at southern Africa.

Located at the southern tip of the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland, the Åland archipelago consists of 6,554 small islands with an area of 590 square miles, most of which are inhabited by Swedish-speaking native speakers.

Until 1809, the Åland Islands and Finland belonged to Sweden before being ceded to the Russian Empire due to defeat in the war.

After the World War, Finland became independent, and the Åland Islands wanted to return to Sweden, but the Finnish government refused, and the conflict ensued.

After the League of Nations took over, the Åland Islands Self-Government Act of Finland was formed, which stipulated that Finland had sovereignty over the Åland Islands and guaranteed the autonomy of the Åland Islands, but changed it to an autonomous province and guaranteed the right of residents to use the Swedish language and preserve their own unique cultural practices, which laid the groundwork for future disputes.

If Joseph thinks that since the Nationality Union can regulate the dispute between Sweden and Finland, then it can impose sanctions on southern Africa, then Joseph is wrong.

"The French government has decided to stop the supply of water and electricity to Saint-Roch as a sanction against us." Christian laughed, the port facilities of Saint-Roque are now basically completed, and supporting facilities such as waterworks and power plants are under construction, which is also one of the few sanctions packages that France can come up with.

It cannot be said that this sanction is useless, Saint-Roque used to be a sand dune, water resources are extremely scarce, all water supplies depend on France, and the same is true for electricity.

After the end of the World War, there was a honeymoon period in Southern Africa and France, when Dunkirk, France, was severely short of electricity, and still tried to provide electricity to Saint-Roque.

"What does the French government say?" Roque did not expect that relations between France and southern Africa would deteriorate so quickly.

After King George V conferred Cyprus on Arthur, there was no serious conflict of interest between southern Africa and France in the Mediterranean, and the core interests of southern Africa were in the Indian Ocean, at most plus the Persian Gulf, and the garrison of troops in Cyprus could be regarded as the second line of insurance for Britain in order to ensure the Suez Canal, and would not affect the hegemony of the French in the Mediterranean.

France also has no hegemony in the Mediterranean, France does want to dominate the Mediterranean, but it is resolutely counterattacked by Britain and Italy, don't think that Britain and France fought side by side during the world war, how deep the friendship is, when Roque took over as commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, Britain was ready to abandon France at any time.

"The news from Renard, the French government does not seem to know—" Christian's answer was unexpected.

According to Roque's understanding of the country, Joseph's identity, words and deeds can basically be regarded as the collective will of the French government.

However, Roque ignored a problem, after all, it was 1921, the level of perfection of the government organization could not be compared with that of the 21st century, and the League of Nations was also a newly established organization, so it was normal to make some jokes.

The Capettian family's influence in France rose dramatically during the World Wars, reaching its peak after the end of the World Wars.

The current Capet family has absolute influence in the two fields of medical care and education in France, and by virtue of the agent of southern African goods, Renard Capet has amassed a lot of wealth in just a few years.

The Capets did not want to repeat the mistakes of the past, and while accumulating wealth, they did not forget to expand the influence of the Capet family, Renard Capet, who is now a member of the French parliament and has a close relationship with the current president of France, Alexandre Millerand, who played an important role in the process of Alexandre Millerand becoming president.

Like the French Prime Minister, the profession of French President is also dangerous.

The president who had fallen off the train had resigned shortly after, dying two months earlier, and Alexandre Millerand had dealt with Roque, who had served as French Minister of War during the World War.

It is no wonder that, after the League of Nations decided to impose sanctions on southern Africa, France's sanctions package was only to stop the supply of water and electricity to St. Roque.

After the League of Nations decided to impose sanctions on southern Africa, Japan immediately announced a reduction in the supply of raw silk to southern Africa.

This decision also has little impact on southern Africa, where nylon has been developed and the demand for raw silk is decreasing, and Japan's decision is a double-edged sword, causing no less harm to Japan than in southern Africa.

"Tell Renard that if a person is not suitable for a certain position, then move him to a position that suits him." Roque was in a bad mood, although the sanctions will not have much impact on southern Africa, but the sanctions themselves have already caused harm to southern Africa.

Replacing southern Africa with Britain and France, the League of Nations would most likely not dare to impose sanctions.

To put it bluntly, it's still not strong enough-

Looking back, of course, Roque will not let go of some clowns who jump off the beam, it is very simple to fight back against France, let Ida collect debts, it is enough for the French to drink a pot.

It would be a detour to deal with Japan, which does not owe money to southern Africa.

It's not impossible, Japan's steel mainly relies on buying scrap ships from the United States that are about to be dismantled, towing them back to Japan and recasting them.

Southern Africa doesn't need the scrap steel, but it can do it by causing some trouble to Japan.

About a week later, Mike Carlisle was in Hoover's office.

After Hoover was elected president of the United States, he intended to appoint Mike Carlyle as undersecretary of commerce as a token of gratitude.

Mike Carlyle politely declined Hoover's invitation, and if he did not join the cabinet, he would not be responsible for some bad things, and Hoover's evaluation of the presidency was not very good.

"Buying scrap steel? Have you consulted Lord Favart? Would you like me to introduce you to Mr. Andrew Carnegie? Hoover's expression was broken, behind the Washington car stood Favalt Steel Group, and there was Carnegie in the United States, and Hoover really didn't understand why Mike Carlisle wanted to buy scrap steel.

Scrap steel is recast and recast, the cost is higher than that of blast furnace ironmaking, and the Japanese can't buy ore, so they have to buy scrap steel, and Nyasaland Automobile Group will be short of steel?

Funny right!

If Hoover knew that the three largest iron mines in the world and Roque had two in his hands, Hoover would have collapsed even more.

The last one hasn't been found yet.

"Of course not, the Nyasaland Motor Group will never be short of steel, and we don't need to go back to the furnace to recast, the League of Nations absolutely imposed sanctions on Southern Africa the other day, Japan voted in favor, the Lord was angry, and the consequences were serious-" Mike Carlisle was also helpless, Wilson proposed the great "Fourteen Points", but the United States did not join the League of Nations.

A lot of things are just that ridiculous.

"Oh oh, you want to raise the price—" Hoover was also very good at crooked ways, otherwise he wouldn't have been a slave owner to make money, and he immediately understood what Mike Carlisle meant.

"Yes, with our Neyassaland Automotive Group involved, the U.S. shipping company should be grateful to us." Mike Carlyle smiled, the Americans had a lot of money, built half of the battleships, said that when the target ship was sunk, they would be sunk, and they would not even leave a chance for the Japanese to collect the rags, and the bosses of the shipping companies were even more extravagant, and those ships that were about to be dismantled were sold to the Japanese as rags, and many of these ships would not be dismantled at all after being towed to Japan, and they could barely be used for another ten or twenty years if they were repaired.

"Hahahaha, yes, why don't I set up a game another day?" Hoover was not talking about playing mahjong, but Texas Hold'em.

This Texas Hold'em is not the Texas Hold'em that is dealt online, but a real sport, the kind that competes with the brain.

"No problem, my card skills have risen sharply recently, and I will definitely kill the Quartet!" Mike Carlisle happily agreed.

A week later, Ito Steel received a notice from the American Shipping Association that the price of scrap ships sold by the association's subsidiaries would increase by 20 percent.

"Why?" Ito Matsu, the general manager of Ito Steel Corporation, arrived at the American Shipping Association's office in San Francisco as quickly as possible.

"Because Augustus gave a higher price, I'm sorry, but that's the price now." Dalton Howard, director of the Shipping Association, was triumphant, in the past, no one wanted it, and scrap ships could only be sold at the price of scrap iron, but now it is different, there is competition, there is gain.

"Augustus—" Itomatsu racked his brain, not remembering the company.

Of course, I didn't expect that Mike Carlisle's driver's surname was Augustus, and this company was just established a few days ago.

"Yes, Augustus – Mr. Augustus is the driver of Mr. Michael Carlyle, and he has set up a company to work with our shipping association at a higher price." Howard laughed, since it is disgusting Japanese, then it must be made disgusting to the Japanese.

"Who is Mike Carlisle?" I can't blame Itomatsu for being uninformed, there are too many people in the United States who call names like Mike, Tom, and Jackson.

Howard doesn't explain, wants to know?

Go back and think slowly.