Chapter 607 Bottom Line

Arthur's decisive refusal caught the American ambassador by surprise, and also froze the American ambassador who originally thought he could achieve his goal.

After desperately thinking about how to deal with it, the US ambassador said with a slightly embarrassed expression: "Your Majesty, do you really want to stop thinking about it? The United States is willing to become allies on both sides of the Pacific with Australasia and jointly manage and rule the entire Pacific.

If your country is willing, we can deepen cooperation in industry and economy, which will be beneficial to the development of both countries. "

Arthur shook his head more decisively this time. It is true that the United States has the largest industrial and economic scale in the world, but it is only a few years away from the Great Depression.

If economic ties with the United States deepen, the United States, which was most severely affected by the Great Depression, will inevitably be implicated in Australasia.

What's more, Arthur knew that there was no room for two tigers in one mountain. Although the Pacific is large, it is not a territory that can share influence with other countries for world powers with rapidly advancing science and technology.

The previous U.S. Pacific policy has also proved that Americans have great ambitions and even want to rule both sides of the Pacific.

Under such circumstances, the strategy proposed by the Americans to carve up and dominate the Pacific is most likely a fiction and will never be fully realized.

Compared with Americans, the current assistance from the British is obviously more reliable. Although the British industrial scale and economic size are not comparable to those of the United States, fortunately the United Kingdom is a European country, and the conflict with Australasia is far less than the conflict with France and the United States.

Even after Britain is weakened in the future, Britain will need Australasia as an ally even more. This kind of relationship is what Arthur needs.

Arthur shook his head again and made a farewell gesture to the guard next to him.

The guard understood the situation and sent the American representative away in a seemingly respectful manner.

The American ambassador's personal visit made Arthur feel that the Americans' reaction at this time should be a little panicked.

They are also afraid of the unity of the entire world alliance, because this not only means fighting against multiple powerful countries, but also means that the United States is becoming the opposite of Europe.

Although the United States is currently the largest industrial country and the strongest economic country, Americans will not be able to exert much international influence if they are spurned by European countries.

Because the center of the world is still in Europe, the influence of European countries is still ahead of the United States to a certain extent.

As the saying goes, take advantage of his illness and kill him.

Arthur also did not hesitate to allow Australasian representatives to present a proposal to further urge the United States to withdraw troops at the following World League meeting.

It has been more than a week since the World Alliance formally requested that the United States withdraw its troops.

Because the U.S. military has not made any moves yet, the World Alliance can make legitimate urgings, which the U.S. government cannot refute.

The pressure from the World Alliance and the pressure from domestic demonstrations are two-pronged. I believe that the U.S. government under President Coolidge will definitely sweat.

Because it was an issue that had already been passed, there was not much opposition from countries when it was urged again, and it was passed normally by the regular meeting of the World Alliance.

1. The World Alliance once again issued a notice to the US government, asking the US government to speed up the pace of troop withdrawal and complete the withdrawal as soon as possible within three months.

If the U.S. military has not completely left Central America and the Philippines after three months, it will be regarded as a violation of world peace and a provocation to the World Alliance, which has the right to hold the United States accountable for its actions.

In order to show their importance and supervisory role in the withdrawal of US troops, Britain and Australasia specifically requested the World Alliance Conference to send fleets to Central America and the Philippines for supervision.

The actual supervisory role is false, but the real role is to show off one's power and provoke Americans.

Because the fleet sent by Australasia was very simple, it didn't even have battleships, just battlecruisers built before World War I.

But the question is, the Australasian and British fleets are parked outside the port openly. Does the US military dare to fight back?

After all, the place where they stopped was not the territorial waters of the United States. It was an act of supervising the withdrawal of U.S. troops with the consent of the World Alliance, and it was completely legal and compliant.

If the United States takes the lead in attacking, wouldn't it be personally sending the casus belli to Australasia and Britain?

By that time, the United States will not only face Australasia and Britain, but also the entire world alliance.

From the time the second warning from the World League was sent to the U.S. government, President Coolidge was no longer in a good mood.

It was originally hoped that Australasia would abandon its support for Britain and turn the conflict into a one-sided competition between the United States and Britain.

But unexpectedly, Australasia would not give up supporting Britain at all, which also turned the conflict directly into a disagreement between the World Alliance and the United States.

Although it is actually only a confrontation between Britain and Australasia and the United States, in name it has risen to a confrontation between the World Alliance and the United States.

And because the World Alliance is an official alliance formed by dozens of large, medium and small countries around the world, this seems to be the United States alone against the world.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the whole world can't be wrong, right? If you have to choose between the United States and the World Alliance, which seems to be the wrong side, most people's first choice will be the United States.

"Mr. President, at present, our only hope is to keep the Panama Canal." In President Coolidge's office, the US Secretary of State said to President Coolidge with some helplessness.

"How to save the Panama Canal?" President Coolidge asked with a pale face.

"War." The U.S. Secretary of State said firmly: "We can lose the Philippines and Central America, but we must not lose the Panama Canal.

Losing the Philippines and Central America is just a shame. After all, the Philippine War did not start during your term.

But the Panama Canal is different. If the Panama Canal is lost, we and everyone in the government will suffer. "

"I believe that the British are not willing to see a full-scale war with us. War is our last resort, Mr. President." The US Secretary of State said:

"Either we can peacefully take away Central America and the Philippines, or we can start a full-scale war with the United States to get Panama. Let the British choose. We have no way out."

President Coolidge was silent for a long time, and finally nodded helplessly.

"Send a telegram to the British government and I hope to start a negotiation with them if they are unwilling to start a super war." President Coolidge said.

"Yes! Mr. President." The US Secretary of State nodded.

1. A meeting officially started in Sydney, Australasia.

The talks involved three countries, Australasia, the United States and the United Kingdom, which were also the main participants in this incident.

In fact, the original venue for the negotiations was London, but in order to avoid attracting the attention of European countries and to allow the negotiations to proceed smoothly, the final location was chosen in Sydney, Australasia.

Anyway, Australasia is also the main country in this incident, so it is more appropriate to choose Sydney.

After all, the meeting place is usually in the dominant country, and there are only two countries to choose from, namely Australasia and the United Kingdom.

Before the talks began, Australasia had already established contact with the British side and joined forces to pursue their respective interests.

This is natural. The incident has developed to the current point. The cooperation between Australasia and the United Kingdom cannot be broken up by the slightest interest.

At the beginning of the talks, the British attitude was very firm. The United States must completely withdraw from Central America and hand over the management of the Panama Canal to Panama.

It seems that the British will not gain any benefits at all, but if there is a map of the situation near Central America, it can be seen that Britain is the closest power to Central America after the withdrawal of the United States.

As for handing over the management of the Panama Canal to Panama, in fact, you know with your toes that the management of the Panama Canal will not fall into the hands of Panama.

After Britain takes control of Central America, it is bound to also take control of Panama, the southernmost part of Central America. Will the British who control Panama not be tempted by the Panama Canal?

The demands of Australasia are very simple, that is, the United States allows the Philippines to become independent and withdraw all American troops in the Philippines and El Salvador.

As for the United States, let’s not mention Australasia’s request for the time being. The British request will definitely not be agreed to.

If we agree to the British request, we will undoubtedly hand over Central America and the Panama Canal to others.

The Americans also put forward their own conditions. The Philippines, Nicaragua and El Salvador can give up, but they must ensure control of Panama and the Panama Canal.

This is obviously very different from the British request, and the British will never agree.

As negotiations reach a stalemate, whichever party has a nominal advantage actually has an advantage in the negotiations.

After the negotiations reached a stalemate, the British were not angry. After communicating with Australasia, the two countries launched a new round of public opinion bombing, buying more American media to report on the United States' actions in the Central American war.

This is not over yet. The massacre of Indians in the United States has also been widely reported by these media, awakening the memory of history among many Americans.

Although the behavior of the European powers in the colonies was not glorious, the United States' exploitation of Indian land and its cruel massacre policy of Indians since its founding was no less cruel than that of the European powers.

There are also conflicts between whites and blacks in the United States, conflicts between the ruling party and the opposition party, and so on. In short, how can the United States be allowed to report randomly? Anyone who can report such news will make money.

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