Chapter 127 The French reneged
The planned Weimar meeting was postponed.
Because in the short period of one week before the meeting, two major events happened.
One, President Roosevelt, beloved by the American people, died of a cerebral hemorrhage due to over-excited emotions while visiting a certain military facility the day before he left for Europe.
For this reason, Josie's fort headquarters also lowered the flag at half-mast as a sign of condolences.
Of course, the fact that he happily had a rich dinner with a group of his subordinates in private is not humane.
Anyway, it's normal to have banquets at funerals.
Another big event is the general election in the United Kingdom. Mr. Churchill, who is awesome and thinks he saved the United Kingdom, lost the election.
This matter has little to do with Josie, and Josie doesn't care who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
But the combination of two things made the Weimar meeting had to be postponed for a week.
However, the postponement of the meeting did not prevent Weimar from becoming a gathering place in advance, nor did it prevent Josie from coming here to look for opportunities and ask for debts.
"Your Excellency de Gaulle, you have been procrastinating on the matter of the French occupation area. This is inconsistent with what we discussed before. Can I understand that you are planning to renege on your debt?" Josie saw in a local tavern in Weimar De Gaulle, who came to Weimar ahead of schedule, asked in a very bad tone.
Just as Josie had expected, de Gaulle, the temporary leader, could not decide the French borrowing.
Not long after the new parliament was elected, de Gaulle had already started to be excluded.
But what Josie didn't expect was that Charles de Gaulle was able to grow to such an extent that he was so weak even in controlling the French-occupied area, and was obstructed by the French domestic forces and delayed again and again.
"Mr. Kahn, it's not that we are reckless. It's just that our domestic situation is really complicated now, and the international situation is not very good, so we are temporarily unable to repay the debt. Moreover, the price of the materials you provided at that time was indeed a little higher!" No When de Gaulle spoke, a middle-aged man wearing glasses standing behind him spoke first.
"What are you? I'm talking to His Excellency de Gaulle, can you interrupt me?" Josie glanced at him and said contemptuously.
"Mr. Kahn, please pay attention to your words. I am a French diplomat. Your insult to me is also an insult to my country!" Facing Josie's disdain, the man blushed.
"Cut, I'll insult you, what's the matter? It was occupied by the Germans in a month, and the recovery depends on the Allies. A country that can't even have an official seat in the international conference, I insulted you, you bite me I'm not good at fighting, but I trembled when I reneged, what the hell!" Josie tilted his head and looked at the man who claimed to be a French diplomat playfully for a few seconds, before cursing directly.
Didn't save any face for the other party and De Gaulle who was sitting opposite.
Because for Josie now, it is not necessary at all.
France is liberated, yes, the famine is over, but it doesn't mean that its life is easy.
Although all countries have recognized France's status as a victorious country, that's all. They still don't have a say in various major international affairs.
Just like the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences that were not eligible to occupy seats in history, the Weimar Conference in this world also does not have their say. Only the British and American Bears have official seats.
France and other countries that came to the meeting were just a foil and a formality.
In addition, the war has seriously injured France's vitality, and American blood transfusion is indispensable for recovery.
Although the blood transfusion is decided by the White House and Congress, the actual operation is carried out by the consortium. The articles here are really easy to do.
And Josie, as the representative of the American consortium, you French dare to touch him? I'll strip you off all the time.
"Ahem, Mr. Kahn, let's discuss the matter as it stands, and please don't go up to the national level." De Gaulle finally couldn't help but speak, and he didn't speak at first. That diplomat took the lead, and the other diplomat was not actually his, so he was happy to let this guy be a bad guy.
In fact, there have been a lot of insults to the law these days. De Gaulle actually knew about it, but usually he said it in private. Josie was the first to scold directly in front of the leader of the other country. .
If it was an ordinary person, de Gaulle might have started to draw a gun right now.
But facing Josie, he really couldn't say anything tough.
Because it was indeed my own fault, last year I begged my grandpa to sue my grandma and borrowed 200 million dollars worth of food from Josie, and signed a contract with resources from the French-occupied area as compensation.
It's just that he didn't expect that those guys in the country were more difficult to deal with than he imagined, so that he couldn't even fully control the resources of the French-occupied area.
"Mr. de Gaulle, I don't want to make everyone look ugly, but it's not an option for you to keep procrastinating on the debt matter, or is it that France doesn't want follow-up support at all?" Josie shook his head and asked .
"Hmph, is it possible that your country's support to our country can still be decided by a representative of your consortium?"
De Gaulle wanted to have a good talk with Josie, and was giving him some time.
Unexpectedly, the diplomat said this again.
It can be seen that de Gaulle's control over his own country has become so weak that he can't even stop the mouth of an accompanying diplomat.
"In this case, there is nothing to talk about!" Josie glanced at the diplomat, suddenly smiled, got up and left the tavern with his people.
"Boss, do you want to show that idiot some color?" Vito, who got in the car and sat in the co-pilot, asked Josie.
"No need for now, the situation in Weimar is special, we can't cause trouble at this moment." Josie shook his head and said, "And those who can become diplomats can't be really stupid. The reason why the other party provokes me so much is because It means that they are really going to renege on their debts, and I don't know where they are coming from!"
Speaking of which, repudiation has become a traditional art of the French government.
It can be traced back to the Louis XVI period.
And the closer one is World War I.
When the First World War just ended, France owed the United States nearly tens of billions. There were national debts and private debts like Josie.
But from 1920 to 1930, the French government only repaid 500 million in total.
This is really not enough to calculate the interest.
And with the advent of the Great Depression, yes, France just put it badly and didn't pay it back.
This is also one of the reasons why the United States was unwilling to support France free of charge during World War II.
And Josie also knew early on that at the end of World War II, the new French government actually wanted to renege on its debts.
It was later discovered that the economy could not recover. In order to obtain the pillar of the Marshall Plan, it had to renegotiate with the United States and formulate a complete repayment plan before starting to pay back the money slowly. Finally, it was not until the 21st century that it barely paid off. .
Since the French want to renege on their debts, that’s fine. Turn around to prevent the French from vomiting twice as much. Josie wrote his name upside down.
While Josie failed to collect debts from the Frenchman, Ophelia was also meeting someone in another hotel not far away, and the other party was as beautiful as Ophelia.
"Nice to meet, my name is Claire, Claire Wayan!" The woman introduced herself to Ophelia.
"Ophelia Sarkistan, nice to meet you, Claire~" Ophelia also smiled and stretched out her hand, holding each other together.
It's just that although the two women smiled very gently, the waiter at the side always felt that the temperature seemed to drop several degrees when he approached this table.
(end of this chapter)