Chapter 283 Mortgage
Another voice in Japan is to ask the military to immediately negotiate with the Soviet Union, end the war with Japan and the Soviet Union, and then mobilize all military forces to prepare to go south, preparing to seize the South China colonies of Britain, France and the United States.
No one mentioned the withdrawal of troops from China. Now Japan has occupied several Chinese provinces. China has armed two million German-armed troops and has a large-scale attack on Japan, with each winning and losing. For this reason, Japan has fallen into 600,000 elite troops on the Chinese battlefield. You should know that Japan has only 18 standing divisions, but 14 of these 18 standing divisions are on the Chinese battlefield. Since the Japanese are eating and don’t want to spit it out, Li Mo can’t give Japan any good face.
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At the White House of the United States, President Roosevelt cordially met with the Prime Minister of the British Empire, Churchill. The two sides launched a series of negotiations, but the effect was not very obvious, because Britain could not spend too much money to buy American arms, and President Roosevelt was also helpless.
In order to cope with the economic crisis, the United States issued a law in 1937, that is, the Neutral Law. Most Americans did not want to fight. Isolationism was prevalent in the United States. In November 1939, the United States revised the neutral law, implemented the principle of cash purchase and self-service transportation, and sold weapons to belligerent countries, which was conducive to Britain and France, which had naval advantages. Now Germany is entangled in some European countries and formed a European Union alliance, making the United States feel the real threat of the EU, public opinion demanded assistance from Britain, and the isolationist power was weakened.
Churchill was a persistent person. Without help, Churchill went to the US Congress and gave a speech to Congress, talking about how Germany would undermine world peace. After Britain was eliminated by Germany, it should be the United States' turn. With Churchill's words of silence, the US Congress finally passed a new bill, the Lease Act, authorizing the president to provide weapons and military supplies to countries with great significance to the security of the United States, and allocate $7 billion to implement the Lease Act.
On May 17, 1940, President Roosevelt delivered a speech, proposing that the United States could lend arms. He explained it with vivid metaphors: If a neighbor caught fire, I could only lend him the water hose that was poured into the garden to put out the fire, and he should not be asked to pay in advance to buy the water hose, and wait until the fire was put out and the neighbor's original belongings were returned. He also said: "The United States must become an arsenal for a democratic country."
Is the United States really so kind? After all, it has been able to establish the United States' world leadership in the future. You, Britain, is not the world hegemony now, so I will lend you money and weapons to fight you. I will pay it back after the battle...
I'll give you the tanks and warships. After you fight, I don't want your depreciation fee. Just give it back. If it's destroyed, it won't come out yet. Okay, buy it at the original price and pay it. The US "Lease Act" is the current house mortgage, so the British are waiting to be the "house slave" of the United States for the rest of their lives. If the "house slave" refuses to pay back the money, the "world police" (US) comes to the door, and the British "house slave" may be exposed to be an analges.
Please see a 2006 report: The British government recently announced that it would pay off the last $346 million of its huge debts owed to the United States after World War II before 2006. The UK will eventually pay off its debts owed to the United States, which finally dispersed the shadow of the long-standing pound and the British economic status. The UK has paid off its debts for 61 years. Is there anything more scamming than this?
According to the Sunday Times, during World War II, the British government needed new huge loans and borrowed and leased $80 billion from the United States. The loan conditions stipulate that the UK must enable the pound to be exchanged freely. Some British historians and economists said that this led to the long-term weakness of the pound, and Britain began to become the second in the United States since then.
Historically, the United States provided more than 100 billion US dollars in supplies to dozens of middle-sized countries, including Britain, the Soviet Union, France, and dozens of middle-sized countries. The United Kingdom, the most received aid and "mortgage loans". By the eve of Japan's surrender on August 31, 1945, the Commonwealth's "mortgage loans" received a total of 80 billion US dollars, accounting for 60% of the total US lease expenditure.
After excluding opposition from domestic isolationist forces, the United States' "mortgage loan" against the Soviet Union began to be implemented on October 1, 1941. By September 20, 1945, the total value of the actual materials shipped by the United States to the Soviet Union was US$30.2 billion, plus other expenses, totaling US$30.9 billion (the Soviet Union's statistics were US$29.8 billion).
Of course, it is full of risks for the United States to lend weapons to these countries. Once these countries are defeated, they will be destroyed by Germany. The president and prime minister who borrow money from the United States, even if they are not in the German prisoner-of-war camp, are exiles. If they don’t give it to the United States for a penny, the United States will lose all their money. This "Lease Act" is actually a prelude to the United States' participation in the war. In order not to let the country that borrows its own money be destroyed by Germany, the United States must also participate in the war.
In 1940, one gram of gold was only 1 US dollar, and one hundred billion US dollars was a huge amount of wealth. For this huge amount of wealth, the American capitalists would also prompt the United States to join the war. Never underestimate the energy of those capitalists. The president is their intended spokesperson. Capitalists cannot do anything to pursue profits. Lenin once said, "In order to make money, capitalists are willing to sell the rope that hangs themselves." This is right.
When Li Mo received the telegram from the United States, he indeed pondered for a long time. He prepared the "Barbarossa" plan in advance, and other related historical events followed one after another. From this "Lease Act", Li Mo had already smelled the danger. Li Mo clearly remembered that the "Lease Act" was the prelude to the United States' participation in the war. The United States would participate in the war in more than one year.
What to do? What to do? Li Mo has been asking himself, since it is necessary for the United States to participate in the war, the EU basically put 70% of its elite troops on the French front. Although the United States will not participate in the war for the time being, they will never sit idly by and watch the demise of Britain. If Germany wants to continue to implement the "Sea Lion Plan" after the victory of the French Battle, it will definitely be difficult.
In response to the latest situation, Li Mo quickly asked Catherine to place an order for Messerchmitt to help them speed up the production of ju89. In the past, when Goering was the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, he didn't know the benefits of ju89. Now Katherine is not Goering.
For a strategic bomber like Ju89 with a bomb load of ten tons and a range of more than 6,000 kilometers, its role in the Luftwaffe is undoubtedly true. Moreover, Messer-Schmitt has now properly improved some of its performance on the basis of the test flight of Ju89.
It can be said that the ju89 at this time is not much different from the US b29, which is that the range is more than 3,000 kilometers less than the B29, but this can be completely solved by reducing the load capacity. Of course, Germany's production is not comparable to that of the United States. It would be amazing if it could reach 100 aircraft annually. The annual output of the US b29 is about 300 aircraft.
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