Chapter 127: The French Resigned

The Weimar Conference, originally scheduled, was postponed.

Because in just one week before the meeting, two major events happened.

One, the beloved President Roosevelt of the American people, died of a cerebral hemorrhage because he was too emotional while visiting a military facility the day before he left for Europe.

Josie's fort headquarters also flew the flag at half-staff as a sign of condolences.

Of course, the fact that he happily ate a sumptuous dinner with his followers in private is not enough for outsiders.

It's normal to eat dinner at a funeral anyway.

And another major event is the general election in the United Kingdom. Mr. Churchill, who was so arrogant and thought he had saved the United Kingdom, lost the election.

This has little to do with Josie, and Josie doesn't care who is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

But the two things together forced the Weimar Conference 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 delay Josie coming here to seek opportunities and ask for debts.

"Your Excellency Charles de Gaulle, you have been procrastinating things in the French occupation area. This is not in line with what we discussed before. Can I understand that you are planning to default on your debt?" In a local tavern in Weimar, Josie saw De Gaulle, who came to Weimar early, asked in a very bad tone.

Just as Josie had expected at the beginning, with the loan from the French side, Charles de Gaulle, the interim leader, could not be the master at all.

Not long after the new parliament was elected, de Gaulle had already begun to be excluded.

What Josie did not expect was that de Gaulle was able to cook to such an extent that he was so powerless in controlling the French-occupied area that he was obstructed by domestic forces in France, and it was delayed again and again.

"Mr. Kahn, it's not that we're reneging on our debt, but our domestic situation is really complicated, and the international situation is not very good, so we can't repay the debt temporarily, and the price of the materials you provided at that time was indeed a little higher!" When de Gaulle spoke, a middle-aged man with glasses standing behind him spoke first.

"What are you? I'm talking to His Excellency de Gaulle, do you have the right to interrupt?" Josie glanced 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 just insult you, what the hell, it was occupied by the Germans in a month, the Allied forces can recover the country, and a country that can't even have a formal seat in an international conference, I'll insult it, you bite me! I don't have any ability to fight, but I trembled when I defaulted on the debt, what the hell!" Josie tilted her head and looked at the self-proclaimed French diplomat for a few seconds, then scolded directly.

He didn't give any face to the other party and De Gaulle, who was sitting opposite.

Because for the current Josie, there is no need at all.

It's true that France was liberated, and the famine was over, but that didn't mean it had a better life.

Although all countries have recognized France's status as a victorious country, it is nothing more than that, and they still have nothing to say about 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 share of speaking, and only the three British and American hairy bears have official seats.

France and the other countries that came to the conference were just a foil, going through the motions.

In addition, the vitality of France was greatly damaged by the war, and blood transfusions from the United States were indispensable for recovery.

Although the matter of blood transfusion is decided by the White House and Congress, the actual operation is carried out by the consortium. The article here is really good.

And Josie, as the representative of the American consortium, do you French dare to touch a single hair of him? You'll be stripped of your scalp.

"Cough cough, Mr. Kahn, let's talk about things, please don't go to the national level." De Gaulle finally couldn't help but speak. He didn't speak at first, and it wasn't that he deliberately hung up on Josie, but he was caught before he spoke. The diplomat took the lead, and the diplomat was not his, so he happily made this guy a bad guy.

But what de Gaulle didn't expect was that Josie was so disrespectful that he could not accept the scolding, even the country.

In fact, there have been a lot of remarks that insult the law these days. De Gaulle actually knew it, but usually he said it in private, and Josie was the first to scold directly in front of the leader of the other country. .

If it were an ordinary person, de Gaulle might have started to draw a gun by now.

But facing Josh, he really couldn't say anything tough.

Because it was indeed his own fault, last year, he begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother and borrowed $200 million worth of food from Josie, and signed a contract to use the resources of the French-occupied area as compensation.

It's just that he didn't think that those guys in the country were more difficult to deal with than he thought, so that he couldn't even fully grasp the resources of the French occupation area.

"Mr. de Gaulle, I don't want to make everyone's faces look bad, but it's not a solution for you to keep dragging on the debt, or is it that France doesn't want follow-up support at all?" Josie shook her head and asked. .

"Hmph, with your country's support to our country, is it possible that a representative of your consortium can still decide whether it's okay?"

De Gaulle wanted to have a good talk with Josie, giving him some time.

What I didn't expect was that 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 keep the mouth of a diplomat accompanying him.

"If that's the case, then there's nothing to talk about!" Josie glanced at the diplomat, suddenly smiled, and immediately got up and left the tavern with her people.

"Boss, do you want to give that idiot some color?" Vito, who got into the car and sat in the co-pilot, asked Josie.

"No need for now, Weimar's situation is special, we can't cause trouble at this moment." Josie shook his head and said, "And someone who can become a diplomat can't be really stupid. The reason why the other party is so provocative to me, It shows that they are really ready to default on their debts, and I don't know where they come from!"

Speaking of default, it has become a traditional art of the French government.

It can be traced back to the time of Louis XVI.

And closer, it's a war.

When the First World War just ended, France owed nearly 10 billion to the United States, with national debts and private debts like Josie.

But from 1920 to 1930, the French government only repaid a total of 500 million.

This is really not enough to even count the interest.

And with the advent of the Great Depression, yes, France was simply rotten and not repaid.

This is also one of the reasons why the United States and its reluctance to support France during World War II.

And Josie also knew early on that in the early days of World War II, the new French government actually wanted to default.

It was only later that it was discovered that the economy could not recover. In order to obtain the pillars of the later Marshall Plan, it had to renegotiate with the United States. After formulating a complete repayment plan, it began to slowly repay the money, and finally it was barely repaid until the 21st century. .

Since the French want to default on their debts now, that's alright, don't let the French spit it out twice, Josie's name is reversed.

At the same time that Josie failed to collect debts from the French, Ophelia was also meeting people in another hotel not far away, and the other party, like Ophelia, was also a great beauty.

"First meeting, my name is Claire, Claire Wayan!" The woman introduced herself to Ophelia.

"Ophelia Salkistan, it's nice to meet you, Claire~" Ophelia also smiled and stretched out her hand, and held it together.

It's just that although the two women smiled gently, the waiter on the side always felt that the temperature seemed to be several degrees lower when they approached the table.