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Hundreds or thousands of large ships shuttle back and forth in the waterways of the western Pacific, transporting large quantities of people and goods. The crazy actions of the Chinese in the past few months have made the Americans jaw-dropping, and it was unimaginable to carry out such high-intensity and high-efficiency actions at such a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers before the Chinese actually carried them out. Efficient maritime transportation can be seen as a manifestation of China's ability to fight war, and after Roosevelt read the report, the uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.
During the U.S. election, the Democrats and Republicans all played the "peace card", but those who advocated war voted for Roosevelt, giving the two-term president of the United States a chance to win. The first object of the war was Europe in the North Atlantic. In the strategic derivation, the ruling class of the United States recognizes the possibility of waiting. By the time the United States settles its European problems and looks back at Asia, China is likely to become the unshakable true hegemon of the Western Pacific.
Roosevelt was well aware that the reason for war was that "for the sake of the future of the United States, we must destroy China," which was completely impossible at this stage. The American people were opposed to getting involved in the war, and even more so to die for Britain as they did in World War I. In order to find a pretext for war, Roosevelt ordered the Pacific Fleet to provoke China in every possible way, and China adopted the method of turning a blind eye.
The commander of the US Pacific Fleet is not a fool, and the domestic orders are showing more and more obvious "cheating" meanings. The warmongers represented by Roosevelt were left unspoken, asking the Pacific Fleet to find a way to be sunk by China. The commander of the Pacific Fleet ultimately chose a policy of acting in favor of the yin. Even if the commander of the Pacific Fleet doesn't care how the people below die, the people below will definitely not be so stupid to send them to death.
The Republican gang is keeping a close eye on this, the Chinese fleet is not close to the Philippines at all, and the US fleet is fighting with China in the waters controlled by China, and it is difficult to say that it is difficult for China to sneak attack. If such a thing happened, Roosevelt's intention to play the peace card in order to win re-election would be a major setback.
Moreover, the Republicans have been trying their best to collect the telegrams sent by Roosevelt to the Pacific Fleet in order to prove Roosevelt's true colors of "real war and false peace."
Met with invisible resistance from the commander of the Pacific Fleet, Roosevelt had no choice. Although Germany's war with China looked crazy enough, these two countries were very restrained. Chen Ke and Mustache firmly grasped the point, they did not try to make the Americans like their actions, but they also made the United States have no "legitimate reason" to directly intervene in the war.
After Qiu Chubby's envoy arrived in the United States, he made all kinds of promises to the United States, hoping that the United States would send troops. The envoy made two requests for the United States to make it clear that it would not join the German camp and would not invade Canada. These two statements are precisely the guarantees that the United States has no way of making at all. The declaration that the United States would not join Germany meant that the United States was actually going to join the camp of the British. This would give the Republican Party a huge handle.
As for not invading Canada, China is slamming Britain, Germany is challenging Britain, and the United States is now taking action to kill Canada. Could it be that the British had the courage to open four fronts at once? Since Roosevelt decided to be re-elected, it was naturally impossible for him to make such a promise.
The US war machine has not yet started at this time, and neither military mobilization nor military expansion will happen overnight. No matter how clever and capable Roosevelt was, he could not have given direct orders in these areas without being attacked by China and Germany.
The British representative jumped over the wall and mentioned the matter of "The Legend of Maoshan Demon", hoping that the United States could use this film to arouse hostility towards China. Roosevelt glanced at the British envoy, and then replied coldly: "The Chinese Exclusion Act has not been canceled until now." ”
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the United States can stage a deleted version of "The Legend of Maoshan Demon", but the description of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" in this film will definitely be widely circulated in the United States with this film. This is the most explicit exclusion act in the history of the United States that is aimed at a particular nation and a specific country. Completely contrary to the self-proclaimed spirit of immigrants in the United States.
In the more than 20 years of good relations with China, U.S. presidents have wanted to use the law in exchange for greater political benefits. The Chinese side chose to ignore it and not talk about it at all. Now the Chinese Exclusion Act has become an obstacle for the United States itself.
Unilaterally and unconditionally repealing a law in the United States would be considered "flattering to China," and no American president would be able to do so. If the "Chinese Exclusion Act" is not repealed, the United States will discriminate against and even hostile China through legal forms, which will make it difficult for the United States to stand on the commanding heights morally.
As a politician, it's shameless. The same was true of Roosevelt himself. In 1938, the anchors of CBS once made a radio drama called "The Martians Invade Earth", and in order to poach listeners from competing competitors and imitate realistic effects, they made the radio drama a "live news" model.
At 8 p.m. on October 30, 1938, the radio drama was launched. Normally, a piece of music would be played a few minutes after a radio drama aired, but the day's music was interrupted by "breaking news" -- a special announcement: a professor at the Mount Jennings Observatory in Chicago reported an observation of an explosion on Mars. The music started again, then stopped a moment later, and the news was updated with reporter Phillips interviewing an astronomer.
Immediately after, another press release announced that a huge, red-hot object had fallen to a farm near Grover Ridge, New Jersey. Phillips then followed up on the "scene" and described the scene of the "Martian" crawling out of the spaceship: "This is the most terrible thing I have ever seen...... It's some kind of creature...... They move like gray snakes...... Their bodies are the size of bears, their eyes are like pythons, and their mouths are V-shaped. "What's that?" The flames slammed into the marching crowd...... The whole farm was on fire...... They're only 20 yards on my right! ”
As soon as the words ended, the radio fell silent, and a few minutes later the announcer solemnly announced, "40 people, including state police officers, died on the farm, their bodies badly deformed." Immediately afterward, the announcer said in a panic: all 7,000 people of the State National Guard sent out were wiped out by the Martians. One voice (deliberately imitating President Roosevelt) addressed the nation over the radio, calling on everyone to stand up to a brutal enemy. During this time, explosions, police shouts, and bizarre screams of Martians came and went. The announcer choked up and continued to report: "The cylinders from Mars have landed all over the country, one in the suburbs of Buffalo, one in Chicago, one in St. Louis ......"
The show only lasted for more than 30 minutes, but the "effect" was already obvious. Most of New York's radio stations are already busy "putting out fires," reassuring listeners that this is fiction. The CBS building was surrounded by police. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of people are shouting and running into the streets, and thousands of people are calling radio stations and police stations. Many Americans living in New England even packed their valuable belongings into cars and fled the area, as the "Martians" are currently assembled in New England, according to radio broadcasts. Elsewhere, people rushed to churches to pray to God, and factories rushed to produce gas masks.
Quite a few people became hysterical, and in some places there were even reports of suicides. Some adventurers loaded their bullets and headed to Grove Ridge, where they used the local farmers' water towers as "Martian tripods" and went on a shooting spree. Several geologists from Princeton University went to investigate the so-called "meteorite...... To add insult to injury, the first call that night a police headquarters received was: "The Martians are bombing New Jersey." This has even spilled over into Canada, where some Canadians have called for the government to take urgent steps to combat the Martian invasion.
A set of historical research data shows that about 6 million Americans listened to the "Martian invasion" broadcast, of which 1.7 million believed it was real, and 1.2 million of them were "terrified." The Princeton University investigation said, "It's sad to have a few hours. All over the country, from Maine in the east to California in the west, there are people who think that those terrible Martian monsters armed with hot wire guns have killed all the American forces that resisted, and that the end of the world is coming. ”
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt said when he met with Wells afterwards: "You know, Orsson, the best actors in America are you and me. It can be said that this is the true expression of Roosevelt's heart.
Although Roosevelt's own realm was already so high that he was shameless, Roosevelt had an IQ, and if the United States announced the repeal of the "Chinese Exclusion Act" one day, it would stand on the so-called moral high ground and point fingers at China the next day. He did not believe that this would convince the American people that they were more moral than the Chinese and that it would inspire the American people to hate China. As for the British, Americans may think that the British are powerful, but they will never think that the British have any morals to speak of.
The British envoy found nothing, and finally left Washington in a huff. Roosevelt was also very unhappy in his heart, and he was also more than capable at this time.
The sluggishness of the United States has given China an excellent opportunity. After emptying New Zealand of local whites, Chinese immigrants took over the whole of New Zealand at breakneck speed. Since its birth, the People's Party has attached great importance to infrastructure projects, and by 1939, China's infrastructure construction had not only shown no signs of stopping, but was even more vigorous. Many of the young Chinese who have arrived in New Zealand have participated in infrastructure projects.
With the imitation of our predecessors, with the belief that we have a great mission. The more than one million young people with an extremely reasonable composition are working in full swing. Needless to say, during the day, the Chinese go deep into every land in New Zealand, even at night, the Big Dipper cannot be seen in the sky, and under the light of the Southern Cross, New Zealand is still brightly lit.
Translating local documents seized from surveys, reactivating New Zealand's factories and mines, conducting geological surveys, and building a war defense system. And, of course, there are operations, including hunting.
Australia is infested with rabbits, and New Zealand isn't getting much better. Chinese have a tradition of eating rabbits, and rabbit skins can also be good wool after processing. These stupid rabbits were slaughtered in the face of China's special rabbit hunting team.
Instead of using traditional shotgun rifles, the rabbit hunting team used small-caliber rifles with scopes. That's literally every bullet that kills a rabbit. In addition to bullets, various traps, rings, etc. are also used. Within a week, a team of 10,000 professional rabbit hunters in New Zealand, where hares are infested, supplied more than 3 million rabbits to the logistics department.
The same specialized processing department skins these rabbits, and the rabbit skins are used to make the fur material. Peel and wash the rabbit, smear it with coarse salt and spices and dry it in a cool place. This can not only prolong the preservation time of rabbit meat, but also let the thick grass smell in rabbit meat come out, and the taste will be better. Within two weeks, rabbit meat was becoming one of the main meat supplies for Chinese in New Zealand.
After the first month, a large number of processed rabbit furs began to be exported to China. These hares are huge in size, and although the coat color is not good, it is good that they are large and cheap. These furs are perfect for a warm lining for jackets. Not only the Chinese garment industry was satisfied, because it was cheap, but the Soviet comrades were also satisfied.
Within two months, the economic trade in "commodities" was completed, and in New Zealand comrades were commended.