As soon as An Yi's special plane arrived at the Naval Airport on the right bank of the Potomac River, it was greeted by a motorcade and sent into the White House conference room.
Roosevelt, who was sitting in a wheelchair, was still smiling and seemed to be full of confidence in everything. However, the Churchill that An Yi met for the first time was a fat man with a big belly and a fat face.
Seeing An Yi walk into the room, Churchill held a cigar in his mouth and sat arrogantly on the sofa without moving. He looked at An Yi with extreme contempt. When he saw An Yi and Roosevelt greeting each other, Churchill couldn't help but use a mean word.
He said in a mocking tone:
"Hey, is this the head of the warlord country that thrived on sucking the blood of the British Empire? He's still young, and he's really not as famous as he is in person!"
An Yi immediately responded tit for tat: "Ah, some people didn't speak. I thought it was a big fat pig that ran out of the zoo! Alas, a fat-headed guy leads a declining country. No wonder the sun never sets.
The Empire will lose miserably...
Seeing Churchill's red and chubby face, An Yi was filled with joy and continued to sarcastically say: "Some people with pig heads eat their corpses and were killed by the German, Soviet and Japanese troops one after another. They dare not go there."
Looking for the perpetrator, I can only vent my long-term accumulated anger on unrelated people, and ridicule the heroes who rescued the occupied areas from the perpetrators. Today I finally saw what it means to be a gentleman!"
"You -" Churchill glared angrily: "What a hero, I only see a robber, a thief who is complacent after stealing other people's territory!"
"It is simply distorting the facts and calling a deer a horse!"
Under Roosevelt's complicated gaze, An Yi walked straight to the opposite side of Churchill, sat down with a straight face, and said in a contemptuous tone:
"I hope a certain gentleman can understand that not a single bit of the territory we now own in South China was taken from the British... The Persian Gulf we currently occupy was taken from the Soviet and Japanese forces.
Afghanistan and West Indies were captured from the local warlord Sheng Shicai supported by the Soviet Union. Even if East India, Burma and Malaya were occupied in the future, they would have nothing to do with the British Empire."
"Huh! Absolutely ridiculous! Those places you mentioned are all colonies and dominions of the British Empire. We will never let it go! We have well-deserved sovereignty over those areas!" Churchill said forcefully.
"Sovereignty!? Well deserved?"
An Yi smiled coldly: "If we really want to talk about sovereignty, all the countries in Southeast Asia were once vassal states of China. Morally speaking, maybe the Chinese are the real masters of these areas! A hundred years ago, some rogue countries relied on their
The strong ships and powerful guns knocked on China's door and usurped China's ownership of the above countries and regions!
"I don't know how this behavior is different from today's Germany and Japan. I only know that these places are now under the control of the Communists. If the Communists have one more day, the world will fight against fascism."
The forces will bear the pressure for one more day! Our South China Army resisted more than three million Japanese troops in Asia, and suppressed the Japanese troops in the Far East and East India, unable to move!
"It is precisely because of the brave performance of our troops that the conspiracy of the Japanese and German troops to join forces in India and West Asia was not allowed to succeed. From this point of view, Nanhua, which was responsible for the main combat mission against Japan, was responsible for occupying and recovering Japan.
There is absolutely no dispute that the land has complete disposal rights!”
"History and reality are two completely different things! If we talk about the ownership of history, all the land in the United States is owned by Indians, but will President Roosevelt invite those people back to be the masters of the country? For the same reason, since the Qing government has taken over Southeast Asia
We gave up our power, why should we give up?”
When Churchill said this, he glanced at An Yi coldly: "Finally, I ask some people not to be alarmist. I have been dealing with Germany for so long. How come I don't know that Japan and Germany have plans to join forces in India and West Asia?"
“Just because you don’t know something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!”
An Yi glared back at Churchill disdainfully, turned to Roosevelt and said: "Mr. President, I will not explain the specific source of the intelligence I obtained. I will only analyze a simple fact - if it were not for our South China presence in Eastern Siberia and West Indies,
Block the Japanese army's westward advance and allow the Japanese to smoothly occupy Central Asia, India and Iran. Then, the Japanese can continuously mobilize troops to cooperate with Germany in fighting, and the situation in the entire Middle East and Africa will be changed.
A hundred times more dangerous than now!
"Take the current war situation in the Middle East as an example. Only a small number of Japanese and German troops joined forces and have driven the Allied forces out of the Mediterranean coast. According to the latest intelligence I have obtained, under the rapid attack of the mountain troops of the German Wehrmacht,
, the Allied forces held Naye
The Geb Ashter Pass has been lost. The Axis Army followed the valley of Mount Muhaimi and attacked southward. Yesterday evening, they captured the ports of Aqaba and Eilat, located on the east coast of the Sinai Peninsula.
The gateway to the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea has opened its door to Germany.
"Now, the Axis Army is driving the Allied forces southward. Magna, Sheikh Humed, Shermai and other places in the Hejaz area of the Arabian Peninsula are about to be lost. Mr. Prime Minister, you know what this means.
What? Once the Germans build a military airport on the east coast of the Red Sea, the entire Gulf of Suez and the central and southern regions of the Red Sea will be at risk.
Under the control of German land-based bombers, German fighter planes can conduct round-the-clock surveillance of the Middle East, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Even Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and other places where the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden meet are under the threat of German fighter planes.
The situation in the entire Middle East and North Africa has inevitably deteriorated and corrupted!
"Please note! This is still a situation where a small number of Japanese troops have merged with the German troops. It is really hard for me to imagine how amazing the performance would be if millions of Japanese troops were fighting in coordination with German troops in Europe and Asia...
.... Therefore, in a sense, our occupation of Persia and India is actually in the interests of the entire Allies. Even if we occupy Burma and Malaya in the future, it will strengthen the Allies, not us.
opponent!"
"It's full of nonsense. We have urgently mobilized reinforcements from Central Africa to attack North Africa and the Middle East. The heroic royal army will definitely be able to regain the lost ground and drive the Germans out of the areas around the Red Sea!"
Churchill said angrily: "We, the British Empire, do not want you to send troops to recover East India, Burma and Malaya. Even if we do not rely on you, we are confident of recovering the above territories."
An Yi looked at Roosevelt: "Mr. President, do you think Prime Minister Churchill's words were spoken by a rational person? Do you really want me and my troops to stand by and watch on the war against Japan?"
Roosevelt glanced at Churchill with some complaints, lost his usual smile, and said solemnly: "Your country launched an attack on the Japanese army on land. This is a correct decision that all the American people heartily support. I personally express my absolute support."
! Prime Minister, I have a suggestion. The differences between us can be resolved slowly in the future after the fascist countries are eliminated, not now.
"Since the year before last, the people of our country have used all our strength, resources and organizational capabilities to make the world free from the threat of communist rule, so that the world can barely maintain precious freedoms, namely freedom of speech and freedom of belief.
Freedom from scarcity, and freedom from terror. In the post-war world, we prefer that the people of each country and region decide their own destiny and future, that is, each nation has the full right to national self-determination.
Instead of big countries imposing their will on others..."
When Churchill saw Roosevelt standing up for An Yi, he couldn't help but feel depressed. Then he thought that most of the territory in South China was recently included in the territory. If it was really national self-determination, then his family would not suffer, so he made up his mind to first
Don't rush to express your position, and wait until An Yi violates the rules that he personally participated in formulating in the future, and then choose the opportunity to attack.
That evening, the first formal meeting of the heads of state of the United States, Britain, and China was held at the White House. During this meeting, Roosevelt suggested to Churchill and Anyi that the three countries jointly issue a joint declaration against the Axis Powers. The next day,
Churchill proposed a draft, which he and Hopkins discussed on the battleship en route to the United States.
Hopkins was the author of Roosevelt's main manuscripts. In May last year, he was invited by Roosevelt to live in the White House. Since then, he has served as chairman of the Arms Distribution Committee, a member of the War Production Committee and other minor but extremely important positions.
He actually held a role similar to that of "Special Assistant to the President" in later generations.
The manuscript proposed by Churchill said that the heads of the three countries "believed that certain principles should be clarified and agreed to use them as a guide to formulate policies, and based on them, hope that the world can have a better future", and then listed these principles.
There were five articles, almost all of which asked for aid from the United States and demanded that South China declare war on Germany immediately.
An Yi immediately refuted it, believing that these principles were meaningless and simply repeated certain facts that already existed, which ran counter to President Roosevelt's suggestions.
Subsequently, Roosevelt, who was deeply disappointed, negotiated separately with An Yi, drafted another draft, and submitted it to the meeting for discussion on the third day.
However, the draft's clause "the three countries strive to enable the people of all countries to obtain the markets and raw materials needed for their economic prosperity around the world on a non-discriminatory and equal basis" was strongly opposed by the British.
Churchill said that this item affected the "Ottawa Agreement" on preferential tariffs within the Commonwealth, failed to unify the opinions of the various dominions and colonies, and should be abolished.
An Yi remained calm and waited. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Sumner Wells strongly opposed making any concessions to accommodate the British views, but Hopkins, who was pro-British, advocated that Roosevelt accept the British views.
The reason is that the joint declaration of the three countries should obtain the consensus of the heads of the three countries, and should not only consider the interests of the United States. Roosevelt thought about it, communicated with Churchill alone, and finally decided to delete the words "without discrimination" and add "appropriately"
take care of their existing obligations”.
On May 3, the heads of the three countries finally reached agreement on the full text of the declaration. At nine o'clock the next morning, Roosevelt, Churchill and An Yi appeared together and announced to reporters attending the media conference that in addition to discussing wartime material supply issues and in order to deal with the Axis
In addition to the strategies prepared for aggression against other countries, the three countries agreed to issue the following joint declaration:
President Roosevelt of the United States of America, Chairman An Yi of the Republic of South China, and Prime Minister Mr. Churchill representing His Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom held talks. They believed that certain principles accepted by the three parties should be announced as common principles for the three countries to formulate national policies in the future, and based on this, they hope that the world can
There is a better future.
First, the United States, China, and the United Kingdom fully respect the wishes of all countries, regions, and ethnic groups and do not seek unjust territorial expansion;
Second, the three countries oppose territorial changes that are inconsistent with the free expression of the wishes of the relevant nationalities;
Third, the three countries respect the right of the people of each country to choose the form of government under which they live;
Fourth, the three countries, with due regard to their existing obligations, strive to enable all countries, no matter big or small, victor or defeated, to trade and obtain the goods necessary for their economic prosperity around the world under equal conditions.
raw material;
Fifth, the three countries are willing to promote full cooperation among all countries in the economic field, with the aim of enabling all countries to improve labor standards, develop the economy, and enjoy social security;
Sixth, after the fascist revolution is finally destroyed, the three countries hope to see the establishment of such a peace so that the people of all countries can live and work in peace and contentment within their own borders and ensure that all residents everywhere can live their lives without fear.
A life free from scarcity;
Seventh, such a peace should enable all people to navigate the public oceans without hindrance;
Eighth, the three countries believe that all countries in the world must give up the use of force for both spiritual and practical reasons. If some countries continue to use land, sea, and air force weapons to continue to threaten or may carry out aggression outside their own borders,
If we threaten aggression, we cannot maintain future peace.
In view of this, the heads of the three countries unanimously believe that such countries must be disarmed before a more extensive and lasting universal security system is established. The three countries will also sponsor and promote all other practical measures to provide peace-loving peoples of all countries.
Reduce the heavy armament burden.
In the ensuing discussion on war cooperation between the three countries, the content involved the support of the U.S. Navy in the Atlantic, the dispatch of an expeditionary force to fight in Africa on the other side of the ocean, and the cooperation between South China and the United States in the Pacific to jointly fight against Japanese aggression.
Since An Yi insisted that South China not declare war on Germany for the time being, the United States and Britain held separate talks to discuss military coordination issues between the two countries.
As this declaration was quickly exaggerated by the media of various countries as the guiding program of the Allied Powers and shortened to the "Three Kingdoms Charter", the purpose of fighting fascist countries and the goal of progressive democracy and rebuilding post-war peace reflected in the declaration reflected the current situation.
and the general principles of democratic politics after the war, which played a positive role in promoting the formation of the international anti-fascist united front and defeating the German and Japanese invaders.
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