Dewey was a little angry: "General Turner, do you know what you are saying? Just like the cities you mentioned just now, there are almost millions of people and a large number of industrial facilities. Did you evacuate it in a casual way?"

"Then I can only let civilians avoid air-raid shelters. Anyway, when we bombed Germany in the past, the Germans did the same!" Turner shrugged, "Household air defense is not my responsibility, I really can't think of a better way."

Arnold continued: "In order to deal with the Japanese offensive against Hawaii, we have drawn a lot of crews from the West Coast to Hawaii. The defense power is currently relatively weak. However, in the past two days, I will find a way to deploy 200-300 jets and transfer a batch of other aircraft."

“How much can it be achieved?”

"There are 600-700 skilled fighter pilots, no matter how many there are, there are no more."

Dewey felt sad when he heard this: the coastline of the west coast of the United States is more than 2,000 kilometers long, with only 600-700 aircraft, which means that there are only more than 30 aircraft on the 100 kilometers of coastline. He has seen the information, and the main force of the joint fleet has at least 400 aircraft.

"This is not possible. General Arnold must find a way to strengthen it."

"Strength?" Arnold's voice suddenly increased by several decibels. "How to strengthen it? Draw planes from the East Coast to reinforce? What if the Germans come to fight the East Coast and still do not care? Or draw planes from South America to the West Coast? Then next time people point at the nose and scold me and say they don't cover up the Liqiwei cluster? Or simply give up Hawaii and draw the planes there back?"

"That won't work, then you'll become a traitor." Turner sneered, "As my strategy, big cities should be evacuated as much as possible, and small cities and suburbs don't need to worry about them. If the bombs fall, there will be no hits a few people. When Lu Hang went to bomb Germany every day, he didn't see Germans taking to the streets to protest the government? People will naturally have air defense awareness and the losses will not be huge."

Dewey's face sank: "Germany is Germany, the United States is the United States! The two countries have different national conditions, how can they generalize? We must come up with a solution, otherwise we cannot explain it to the people."

Turner became popular and slapped the table and said, "This is not OK, that is not OK. Just let's just command it. People who have never studied in military academy every day will always point fingers at military deployment. What do you know? You are just a peace talks, why do you have to talk about the discussions of the Joint Conference?"

"You!" Dewey glared at each other.

"Turner, why did you talk to Mr. Dewey? Why don't you apologize quickly? Mr. Dewey will be the next president." Li Hai suddenly remembered that Turner, the thorn in the Wallace incident, was inconsistent with Dewey, so he quickly stood up to smooth things over.

"Next?" Turner sneered, "This shows that he is indeed not the president at the moment. As for the next session, I will stop doing it! He will find whoever he wants to find a way!"

After saying that, he didn't care what others thought, and slammed the door and left, leaving behind other people with shocked faces...

Before everyone could come back to their senses, Arnold also put on his military cap and left. Before leaving, he threw down his sentence: "Everyone will discuss the complete strategy slowly. I will follow your strategy. I will first go to the West Coast to deploy fighter air defense. You don't have to worry too much about Japanese bombing. It's amazing that I just resigned."

Only Truman sat in his seat without saying a word, neither happy nor angry, and the meaning seemed to be telling Dewey: "Do you think it's so easy to be president? You'll know when you sit in this position!"

Dewey turned his head helplessly and said to Truman: "Your Excellency the President, you usually hold meetings and discuss them at the Joint Conference? I have gained some knowledge."

Truman smiled bitterly: "Everyone is full of anger. As a soldier, that's the way he is. Don't take it too seriously."

The new First Deputy Chief of General Staff, Lieutenant General Clark stood up to smooth things out: "His Excellency President, Mr. Dewey, although it is not very beneficial for the Japanese army to attack the west coast, I think there are still two positive factors. First, this shows that the main force of the joint fleet has left the Central Pacific Ocean and is coming to the west coast, which can create opportunities for General Nimitz to lead the fleet to successfully break into Hawaii; Second, in this case, it is better to prioritize negotiating a ceasefire with Germany and approaching peace in peace, and there is also a decent explanation for the people."

Clark's words calmed down Dewey's face and gave him a certain level of progress.

After more than an hour of consultation, the Joint Conference finally reached the following opinions:

1. Since the Japanese army’s notice has been issued, it is simply open and the National Guard will be responsible for evacuating a certain degree of evacuation in key cities on the West Coast;

2. Use the past two days to quickly deploy air defense facilities such as radar, anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, fighter jets, etc., and continue to enhance anti-aircraft attack capabilities;

3. Luhai Navigation continues to strengthen its search. If it can find the Japanese fleet, it will be given priority to destroy it as much as possible;

4. Urge the Nimitz fleet to arrive at Pearl Harbor as soon as possible and complete the ship maintenance and remediation, and consider intercepting the return Japanese fleet as appropriate;

5. Dewey is responsible for contacting the German side through third-country channels.

At the end of the meeting, only Dewey and Truman were left. Dewey said with some displeasure: "It seems that President Roosevelt has spoiled these officers, and they don't respect you very much."

Truman sneered in his heart, but his hands were spreading helplessly: "What can I do? I am not an elected president, isn't it just a transitional role? Now Admiral Jin and Admiral Marshall, two army and naval figures, have left the front line of command due to illness. Nimitz and MacArthur, who succeeded them, are still drifting on the sea. We can only find a way to work together..."

Of course, Dewey knew that Truman had not been trying to give him some advice. He thought that he could accept and tolerate soldiers' tempers with such reactions, but Turner never expected that he would jump like this. When he thought of Li Hai's old face that was smiling but not smiling, he felt very annoyed.

In the entire Joint Conference, except for Nimitz and MacArthur who had not seen anyone, there was only Army Clark, Navy Hewitt was still quite mature and persistent, and Mitchell, the commander of the Atlantic Fleet, was also a slippery person. When he could be prepared, he was still unsure and he just kept trying to escape the difficulties.

After being silent for a long time, Dewey said: "I heard that General Spruins has recovered almost completely. Can he be summoned back to participate in the relevant work? He..."

Truman nodded: "I have this intention, and let him come to work in two days. You should have a better contact with peace. Military intelligence system analysis. The German army will soon take action against South Africa. Once this chip is lost, we may pay more at the negotiating table."

Letting Dewey attend the meeting triggered a conflict between Dewey and the members of the Joint Conference, and making Turner jump up and attack first, etc., was of course Truman expected to think that the military or Truman wanted to give him a warning. Anyway, he didn't care about this and he had planned to clean up a group of people after he came to power. Now he jumped out to make a move just to facilitate him in the future, and he wouldn't even take a slight hesitation.

But Dewey did not understand Truman's true thoughts. It was completely impulsive to act. Mature politicians disdained to adopt it. He had deeper pursuits, and Turner's "performance" exacerbated the drama of this conflict.

In the evening, amazing news spread, and Turner publicly announced his resignation and held a press conference.

A reporter asked: "General Turner, what do you think of the threat of the Japanese fleet's upcoming attack on the West Coast? And what countermeasures have been taken?"

"The response measures have been fully discussed and deployed, and have been fully promoted. I am not convenient to disclose them. But I can talk about the connotation of this threat..." Turner said happily, "In recent years, there is a saying, especially after Hitler gave a radio speech last night, it seems to have become more heavy on this view. The United States can easily achieve peace with Germany and then turn around to deal with Japan. Not to mention that Japan and Germany are closely cooperating with each other, they are allies with close relations and full support for each other, nor do they say that the current commander commanding the German fleet is actually a Japanese naval general. Just think of one question: Why should Germany give up Japan's relations and achieve understanding with the United States?"

The reporters nodded, which was another topic that they were very interested in.

"Borrow! Use the long-term interests of the American people to buy the Germans!" Turner sneered, "I don't know what the conditions for peace in the United States can look like, but there are several conditions that are inevitable. First, the United States is not allowed to interfere in Germany's aggression in Europe, let it be a blessing, and wantonly dismember the Soviet Union, Britain, and the territories of Czechoslovakia, Poland and France; Second, the United States is not allowed to interfere in Germany's occupation of large areas of the Middle East, Africa, American colonies, enslave the Middle East, Africa, and South American people, and support various dictatorial regimes and puppet regimes, such as that

The German American Republic, what nonsense about German-American independence is actually the German overseas territory. From politics to economy, from military to government, all of which are directly controlled by the German government, and even the leading figures are Germans. Third, even after the armistice, Germany will continue to export various aircraft, tanks, artillery, and warships to Japan, allowing Japan to continue to fight with us and use the Japanese to deal with us... How about Mr. Dewey's peace? He is to bow to the Germans, wave his tail to the Germans, and beg for mercy, and promise all the conditions for kneeling and surrender proposed by Germany."

"Do you have evidence?"

"I don't, but I'm very worried. It can be seen from the various behaviors that he has been pursuing peace in Germany, suppressing the president's acceptance of demands, and repeatedly claiming that there is no essential conflict of interest with Germany." Turner sneered, "I hope the press can pay attention to their contact content to see if the conditions and secret agreements are the same. And I will call on all American people to persist again and again. The Chinese people have persisted for seven years and gradually recovered lost land. Two days ago, they also took back a big city like Wuhan, relative to Chicago. Why can't we persist?"

“We will.”

"If Mr. Dewey can bring true fairness and justice to the United States and not harm the fundamental and long-term interests of the American people, I will personally apologize and let it go, if not..." Dewey exclaimed, "I hope he will get out of the White House early in the future! Avoid being nailed to the pillar of shame in history!"
Chapter completed!