Chapter 308 Between the War (5)
In the presidential ward, looking at Dewey, who was haggard and frustrated, Dulles could not use any useful method except shaking his head and sighing.
Before visiting, he had already learned about the condition with the doctors in detail. One conclusion he came to was: Dewey's overall body was not seriously damaged, and there were no organ lesions. The key was mental blows, which caused serious neurasthenia. Dewey showed a series of symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, and fainting. It is also very easy to solve these problems, or do not let the patient come into contact with great joy and sorrow, and stay in the hospital for a few days to relax the nerves; or the patient's own nerves quickly become tough and can adapt to more news stimulation.
The former is definitely the most common choice for doctors, but this patient is currently the leader of a country. He cannot simply consider medical issues, but must also consider political issues that can be sent to see the president. Which one is not a long-standing test?
However, Arnold's problem is much more serious than Dewey. The doctor believes that his heart attack is no longer suitable for him to stay on the front line of intense trouble. If there is another incident, the first commander of the Air Force will have to die on his post. Dulles nodded to show his understanding, but he also knew that Arnold's position could not be shaken in a short period of time, because Spatz could barely match Arnold's top leader, who could barely be on par with the head of the Army and Navy. Spatz was completely a slut and was the target of the Army and Navy's venting.
But he would not dare to let Arnold return to the front line for a while. Arnold was not very clear about the heavy losses of the Air Force. Spatz lied in kindness, on the one hand, exaggerated his achievements and said that he had basically wiped out the main German fleet, and on the other hand, he reduced his own losses. If he told the former that the Air Force's experienced crew currently has less than 2,000 groups, he was afraid that Arnold would be able to kick his legs directly.
After several days of fierce debate, the Joint Conference, which was held in the "Friendships as weddings", finally confirmed that the report on the Caribbean Battle was to sink 18 German aircraft carriers of various types (actually 12), 9 German heavy cruisers or above (actually 4), and nearly 60 other light warships of various types. In fact, the S boats were counted as just over 30, and more than 1,100 German aircraft of various types (actually only more than 400), and more than 10 warships of various types (this is quite suitable).
The commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Fleet and Lieutenant General Mitchell led the fleet to charge bravely and fought with the enemy in a row. He was unfortunately killed in the battle. He chased the Admiral of Jin and awarded the Congressional Medal and the Presidential Medal. He prepared to rename a road near Capitol Hill in Washington to Mitchell Road. The country lowered the flag to mourn for three days. The remaining officers who died were basically chasing Jin and level one.
The Joint Conference partially reduced its own losses: for example, the aircraft carrier said that it sank 6 regular aircraft carriers (German calculated the Rhine-class, but it was not Casablanca-class), and the warships above heavy cruisers sank 4 (the United States sank a large number of light cruisers, but after the standard was set at heavy cruisers, it was suppressed), and nearly 40 other ships of various types were lost (light cruisers were cleverly placed into other ships, as if tens of thousands of tons of light cruisers and more than 1,000 tons of destroyers are equivalent), and the Navy lost more than 600 aircraft (only speaking of the Navy, it gives people the feeling that the US Air Force did not participate in the war and did not lose).
It seems that the United States is playing well, and it seems natural to give Mitchell a super-spec courtesy of 1:2 losses. Then the media recalled with affectionately the feat of Mitchell leading the fleet to launch a counterattack against Japan and attacking Tokyo, believing that he is a rare general in the navy and has a victory against both Japan and Germany.
Of course, this is the record announced to the outside world. At the internal briefing meeting, after Ingram and the party Hewitt compressed, the results shrank a lot and the losses were all restored. It was basically determined that the losses of both parties were 1:1 (actually this is also exaggerated), but this is a situation that the outside world cannot see, otherwise it will cause more suspicion.
As for the results of the battle, the description is to use the shameless summary of the spokesperson of the Joint Conference, which is "effectively curbing the German army's invasion of the allies in northern Central America and the Caribbean, greatly weakening the Axial Navy's strength, forcing them to give up their offensive attempts and turn to defense."
This sounds good, Germany is indeed unable to attack, and its naval power has indeed suffered great losses. However, Germany directly skipped the terrifying missiles when attacking Oak Ridge. The commandos that infiltrated the infiltration of incoming were not mentioned in a word, as if Oak Ridge was really a place that did not exist.
At the same time, the spokesperson also underestimated the so-called "Mexican refugee" crisis, saying that "this is purely an unconscious blind action, which will strengthen the border management of the three National Guard divisions." Obviously, this is the joint-venture action taken by the Joint Conference to prevent more similar incidents from happening. Although more than 20,000 troops were used to search, some information was learned from the captain of the Emperor, and he had some understanding of the infiltration methods of the commando, but he still failed to capture the fleeing Scolzne and Alfred, but he took the opportunity to capture the previous wanted criminals and Mexican stranded people, which made Washington laugh and cry.
Dulles reported to Dewey the decision of the Joint Conference, who sighed and fell into an embarrassing silence: he himself found it difficult to speak of this report that obviously whitewashed peace, but if he didn't say that, he would directly face a collapse. Dewey had only one way to go to the darkness between maintaining lying and breaking confession.
Regarding the other decisions of the Joint Conference, Dewey asked hesitantly: "Do you think it can be maintained in the military at present?"
"The German army will not be able to attack in the short term, which is undoubtedly true, but we are now worried about the new German weapon. Judging from the current situation, it is not only powerful but also unable to defend against even the things like a plane hitting a rocket. It can be seen that the problem is huge. The expert team led by Professor Carmen has determined that the range of the rocket landed in Oak Ridge is at least 1,200 kilometers, and the cruise rocket similar to an aircraft has at least 600 kilometers."
The range of the cruise rocket is easy to understand, because the radar room tracks the entire process and can be clearly analyzed after analyzing the ins and outs. However, the range of the ballistic rocket made him very puzzled: "It is more than 2,000 kilometers from Bermuda to Oak Ridge? How did the 1,200 kilometers of rockets hit?"
"Judged the reconnaissance situation and combined with previous battle examples, experts believe that this is caused by using ships to approach the launch, and they can basically determine the scope of the launch location of the German army."
"This is a very dangerous signal, which means that the East Coast urban belt is under the threat of German rockets. Not only is the door wide open, but it is also undefensive. This is the sword of Damocles hanging above our heads!"
Dewey understood Dulles' meaning. Until now, the east and west coasts of the United States are no longer safe, and the West Coast will face major threats after the fall of Pearl Harbor. For the US government, the real crisis has begun now: Although the US military retreated on other fronts, it has basically not been affected by the country, except for bombs that have been dropped in New York and Seattle.
"We are in an extremely unfavorable situation to continue fighting, and the American people are not ready for such a cruel war." Dewey could understand Dulles's implication: this is a euphemism for demanding peace as soon as possible.
In fact, Dewey also demanded peace as soon as he came to power. The problem is that the peace he demanded and willing to bear was quite different from the current situation, and it became deeper and deeper. Just like a gambler, I kept thinking about the original, but I didn’t expect that the further I fell, the less money he had, let alone the principal, it was impossible to reduce the loss.
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