Reborn as a police officer in South Africa

The New Hampshire conference was still fruitful. All parties involved unanimously agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund with a total fund of 5 billion Unitas. This is a newly issued international currency that is convertible with gold and can be used by members.

Transfer between countries.

The differences mainly lie in the proportion of investment. Countries with a higher proportion of investment may undoubtedly have a greater say in the International Monetary Fund. Southern Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States are all striving for it.

At the New Hampshire Conference, the value of Unita was determined to be ten grams of gold, which is equivalent to ten rands at the current exchange rate. Since both the pound and the US dollar have been decoupled from gold, the rand currently has the upper hand.

Taking into account the strengths of various countries, Ada proposed that Southern Africa's investment proportion in the International Monetary Fund should not be less than 40%. In this way, the shares left for the United Kingdom and the United States would not exceed 50%.

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Even according to this proportion, the combined share of southern Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States has reached more than 95%.

This is not an exaggeration. When investing in the International Monetary Fund, you have to do what you can. You don’t just invest as much as you want. After considering its own strength, the French interim government very conservatively proposed that it only wants to invest 1%, and other countries will watch.

Do it.

At present, Southern Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States have not yet reached an agreement on the proportion of investment. Keynes was very worried that Southern Africa would join forces with the United States to destroy the United Kingdom, so he took the initiative to join forces.

"Your Excellency, Minister, please take me to express my congratulations to President Roosevelt and celebrate his re-election as President of the United States -" Keynes was thoughtful and polite. In the just-concluded U.S. election, Roosevelt won again. This was his fourth re-election in the United States.

president.

However, Roosevelt's health seems to be not very good. He has been hospitalized several times this year and is currently recuperating in a spa in Georgia.

"Thank you, and please take me with you to express my best wishes to Prime Minister Winston, and hope that he can be re-elected successfully." Morgenthau said not sincerely. The pressure faced by Winston was indeed greater than that of Roosevelt.

The pressure on Winston is indeed great. In the past two years, he has been criticized domestically. Not only the Labor Party and the Liberal Party, but also the Conservative Party are tired of Winston's policies.

Winston had always hoped that both Germany and Russia would suffer losses, and then Britain could profit from them.

Unfortunately, not everyone can understand this. Attlee even launched a fierce attack on Winston's policies, including the suspension of operations by the Allied forces on the Western Front after entering winter. In Attlee's view, this was Winston's deliberate decision.

Evidence of prolonging the war.

As long as the war continues, the war cabinet formed by Winston can be maintained, Britain cannot hold general elections, and Winston can monopolize power.

In fact, Winston really didn't think so. His hatred for Russia has exceeded the importance of his political future. The key is that Winston does not think he will fail.

"Mr. Gavin, what do you think of the National Monetary Fund?" Keynes's main target was Gavin.

"This is an excellent plan, part of the new post-war international relations -" Gavin said with a flourish.

"Is there a possibility that Unita can be bound to multiple currencies at the same time, such as the US dollar, the rand, and the pound?" Keynes took the initiative to make concessions and no longer maintained the pound's sole international currency status, as long as he could maintain the status of an "international currency"

Just the qualifications.

With the capabilities of southern Africa and the United States, they can actually establish their own business without the United Kingdom.

The UK is insignificant. The key is that there are a lot of Commonwealth countries behind the UK. This is what southern Africa and the United States value most. No one wants to lose the Commonwealth market.

It is precisely because of this that Keynes dared to speak loudly.

"The rand can guarantee the exchangeability with gold, but the pound can?" Gavin stated the facts and reasoned.

It’s really not that we don’t give the United Kingdom face, but that the United Kingdom has lost its ability to lead the world. If you can’t hold on, don’t hold on.

"As long as necessary, the U.S. dollar can return to the gold standard system at any time." Morgenthau was confident. Although there was competition from southern Africa, the United States completed its transformation through two world wars, especially in the years of World War II, and made a lot of money.

However, the authenticity of this statement has yet to be verified. After the Great Depression, the United States restored the gold standard system for a period of time, and then quickly abandoned it after the outbreak of the World War. In the final analysis, it still showed lack of confidence.

Gavin no longer emphasizes the strength of southern Africa. Anyway, the current gold reserves of all countries combined are not as large as those of southern Africa.

Although Keynes and Morgenthau had their own thoughts, they behaved decently at the dinner and did not completely break up.

At the meeting on the second day, Keynes and Morgenthau stopped being coy and conciliatory, and sparks flew from the moment they started.

"The United Kingdom wants 30%, okay, first come up with 15,000 tons of gold -" Morgenthau smashed the gold as soon as he came up. The United Kingdom, let alone 15,000 tons, probably won't even be able to get 1,500 tons now.

There must be 1,500 tons. Before the fall of Paris, France shipped more than 2,000 tons of gold out of France. The United Kingdom only had a lot more.

However, Britain's gold was all pledged as collateral in southern Africa and the United States, and the British treasury had long been depleted.

"Oh, the U.S. dollar has also been decoupled from gold, so who has the right to make irresponsible remarks about the British pound?" Keynes was equally sharp, and the U.S. dollar was not much better than the British pound.

Ada, who was sitting at the other end of the round table, was not participating in the quarrel and was passing notes to the assistants around her.

This is an oval conference room with an oversized round table placed in the middle of the conference room. There are only three people qualified to sit on the round table, namely Ada, Keynes and Morgenthau.

Behind the three of them are members of their respective negotiating teams. The negotiating teams in Southern Africa are from the Ministry of Finance and Rand Bank, and are financial experts per capita.

"Keynes is not in good condition. He can cooperate with the Americans and kill the British first -" Ada's first think tank, Blomfield, comes from the Ministry of Finance. He previously served as Aida's assistant and is a popular candidate to be the next finance minister.

Aida served as finance minister for as long as Roque served as prime minister.

Ada has publicly stated her position on various occasions a long time ago that as long as Roque leaves office, Ada will retire and work together with Roque.

This is not irresponsible, but Ada has completed her mission. As long as the successor follows the steps, the financial situation of the Southern African federal government will remain in good condition.

"The French are in Pretoria and the French should be allowed to attend the meeting." John Connor, chief analyst at Rand Bank, hopes to muddy the waters even more. The French and the British are the real bitter enemies.

The relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom does not need to be repeated. Regardless of the tension between Keynes and Morgenthau, if the situation requires it, the Americans and the British may join forces at any time to deal with southern Africa. These are the two brothers.

Although France has withdrawn from the first camp, as a disruptor, it still has strength. As long as southern Africa agrees to return part of its gold to France, France also has the ability to influence the situation.

So the key is gold.

De Gaulle also knew that southern Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States were holding a conference in Johannesburg. Miraculously, de Gaulle was not very angry about the fact that France was not invited.

This is also deserved.

France and the United Kingdom have held closed-door meetings many times in history to decide the fate of a third party without the third party's participation.

This is definitely unfair to the third party, but when Britain and France are at the height of their power, even if they are angry, they can only dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

Now it's finally France's turn to experience this feeling.

To be honest, it feels terrible.

De Gaulle asked Roque for gold, part of which was for the International Monetary Fund.

To de Gaulle's regret, Roque never relented. At least in a short period of time, de Gaulle would not be able to bring the gold back to France.

"The situation is very bad. Since the beginning of winter, heavy snow has fallen in the north, and the areas in the south that have been seriously damaged by the war have also been severely affected. The Communist International has obtained a large amount of support from Russia and distributed it to the victims in the disaster areas. Taking the opportunity to win people's hearts, our Prime Minister united

A section of the radical group, the Alliance for the Reconstruction of the Left—Mr. Pidour is in Washington, is trying to win over Americans—" said Rene Ca, who served as an adviser to the French delegation to the League of Nations and is now the Commissioner for Justice and Public Education of the Council of Nationalities.

Sen was a staunch supporter of de Gaulle.

"Southern Africa and the British and Americans are holding a meeting in Johannesburg. Why are we not invited?" Randy Felton, de Gaulle's personal assistant, was very dissatisfied. This was an obvious insult to France.

De Gaulle shook his head slowly, his expression slightly indifferent.

The current situation in France is that it is difficult to protect itself, so there is nothing to be dissatisfied with. If you want to gain the respect of others, you must first have strength worthy of respect.

Just what Rene Carson said just now is something de Gaulle himself detests, let alone southern Africans.

The French are struggling in the cold winter night, but French politicians are busy fighting for power. De Gaulle himself is not qualified to blame others. Didn't he go to southern Africa from France just to consolidate his position?

"The best way now is to increase taxation on North Africa to meet the local material needs." Leclerc is trying to make up for the western wall. In order to ensure the stability of the homeland, he will not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of North Africa.

This is a no-brainer, and it is also the tradition of colonial countries.

Although France nominally regards North Africa as French territory, in fact there is a difference between overseas colonies and core territories. In the past, every time France encountered a major crisis, France's overseas colonies would become the targets of sacrifice.

Increasing taxation actually means increasing plunder and collecting all supplies in North Africa to meet local needs.

In this way, the crisis in France will certainly be alleviated, but the resistance in North Africa will increase, and perhaps the colonial rule will completely collapse.

"We must not do this, otherwise we will lose the support of North Africa." Rene Carson was shocked. North Africa is the stronghold of Free France.

Much of de Gaulle's support came from North Africa.

If de Gaulle really did this, most of de Gaulle's support would disappear in an instant.

The key is that even if North Africa is sacrificed to protect the homeland, it may not be able to get the support of France.

Leaving aside others, the Communist International shipped a large amount of supplies from Russia at all costs in order to increase the reputation of Felix Guin.

This is also amazing.

Russia is indeed a country that is difficult to understand. Russia is still receiving support from the United States, but it is still capable of exporting to France. The bearded man is really ruthless.

"But if not, what else can we do?" Leclerc is good at fighting, but really not good at politics.

De Gaulle thought about it all night and went to find Roque after dawn.

Rock was also helpless.

The support de Gaulle wanted was not given by Roque.

But Rock couldn't do such a thing as abandoning his allies.

At least it's not thorough enough.

Although gold cannot be given, other daily necessities are still available, and there are plenty of them.

"The first batch of merchant ships have set off from Walvis Bay and arrived in Marseille a week later -" Roque was generous, but of course this was not free.

In the context of the war, it would be good not to hoard goods. Roque did not take the opportunity to raise prices, which was already a great honor to de Gaulle.

"Thank you. I can't express my gratitude in words. Southern Africa has given France a lot of help. France will always be Southern Africa's staunchest friend." De Gaulle is still very grateful. This is just the first batch, and everyone will follow.

Every week there is a fleet of merchant ships bound for France.

"Thank you. I hope you can understand that there's not much I can do -" Roque couldn't say anything like sorry. France actually gave Southern Africa a lot of help.

It can only be said that everyone gets what he needs. Big people also have troubles with big people, and their feelings are kidnapped by interests.

When de Gaulle left Roque's office, he happened to meet Martin, the Minister of Defense of Southern Africa, at the door.

Martin came to report to Rock on the progress of the war.

Not good news.

The Allied offensive against Budapest on the Eastern Front has entered its third month. After the hasty operations in the first phase, the Russians learned from the painful experience and made more complete preparations, mobilizing the second and third front armies with a total strength of more than 1.5 million people.

Cooperate with the southern African army to launch a storm on Budapest.

The effect is not satisfactory.

Facing the Russian army, the German army's will to resist was extremely tenacious. Many German troops fought until the last moment, preferring to die rather than retreat. The weather finally became a problem for the Russian army. In the ice and snow of Budapest, the Russian mechanized troops suffered heavy losses. The Battle of Kursk

The experience gained during the trip was completely useless in Budapest.

The key is that the environment is different.

Kursk is a plain area with smooth terrain, which is very conducive to mechanized troop operations.

Budapest has a complex environment, and the rivers have become natural anti-tank trenches for the German army. After the second phase of the operation began, the Russian army lost more than 1,500 tanks. This loss made Rokodu stunned.

This is already 1944, not 1940.

The tanks in the Russian army are no longer old light tanks, but state-of-the-art heavy tanks.

The Germans have now run out of fuel and ammunition, and intelligence indicates that the German frontline troops have begun to run out of weapons and ammunition.

Just with this, the German army can still destroy 1,500 Russian tanks——

There should be no water in this battle report.