Chapter 1119 Roosevelt's Death 4

"Mussolini, the executioner! Mussolini, the executioner! Mussolini, the executioner..."

On September 10, 1944, when John Rockefeller Jr. was riding in a car heading to Wall Street through Broadway Street in New York City, he once again encountered a protesting crowd. This was the third parade he encountered on his way to Wall Street from his residence at 740 Park Avenue in New York City today.

"Father, are they all Bolsheviks?" Nelson Rockefeller was sitting in a big car with his father today. He frowned and asked when he saw the red flags on the parade. He came to New York from Washington to arrange for Mussolini, the European peace dove who loves the United States, to visit again. Unexpectedly, he encountered protests of an alarming scale in New York. Before Mussolini came, the wave of protests in New York began. It's almost boiling. He's really here. I don't know what the fuss will be like!

Nelson Rockefeller said to himself: These troublemaking Americans really don’t know good people.

"Not entirely," John Rockefeller Jr. smiled. "The protests were indeed organized by the Bolshevik Party, but most of the protesters took our subsidies to take to the streets."

Of course you need subsidies for marches and protests, otherwise how could they be so loud and powerful? This is not the time of the Great Depression. Working people in the United States are hungry at home, so it doesn't cost anything to come out to protest. Now is an unprecedented period of prosperity. There is not enough people to recruit people everywhere, and overtime is required everywhere. If no one provides subsidies, how could the working people of the United States not want dollars to get in trouble with Mussolini, who was bent on helping them get rid of the threat of the atomic bomb?

And how could the Bolshevik Party afford subsidies and such? Now there is no Third International that can sponsor them.

"Do we give them subsidies?" Nelson Rockefeller was the assistant secretary of state in the Roosevelt administration and had been busy with official duties. He doesn't know much about what his father and other Wall Street tycoons and billionaires elsewhere in the United States are doing now.

"Why?" Nelson Rockefeller said in surprise, "They are Bolsheviks! And...Mussolini is our friend!"

Nelson Rockefeller turned to look at his son and lowered his voice and said: "Of course it is to bring down Roosevelt's Democratic Party! Otherwise, why would we give so much money to the Bolshevik Party and that villain Foster (the presidential candidate of the American Bolshevik Party) ?”

“To unseat Roosevelt’s Democrats?”

John Rockefeller Jr. nodded heavily, "And his damn New Deal! It's his fault that the United States is in the current situation, and it's all the fault of the New Deal. In order to save the United States, the New Deal must end!"

"End... the New Deal?"

"Yes! End the New Deal and take back America!"

Nelson Rockefeller certainly understood his father's thinking. Although Roosevelt's New Deal "saved" the U.S. economy, it also took the United States away from billionaire families such as the Rockefellers, Morgans, and Mellons.

Before the introduction of Roosevelt's New Deal, the U.S. government had very little power, and the power of labor unions was also very small. However, the power of American chaebols was very strong. Capitalists could even hire armed security guards to deal with striking workers. However, after the introduction of the New Deal, the plutocrats were severely hit. Business tax rates rose sharply and government power "unlimited expansion." What was most intolerable to the capitalists was the alliance between the Democratic Party led by Roosevelt and the labor unions, making the United States the first union in history. Once again, he received the protection of the highest authority. With the unions and union leaders protected by the highest power, they are no longer the targets of thugs hired by the capitalists to bully at will.

"Now is the opportunity!" John Rockefeller Jr. gritted his teeth and said, "Roosevelt's navy had just suffered a humiliating defeat in the Bermuda Islands, and it seemed that they had to kneel down to Europe and sue for peace. And in early November, the president and Congress Congressional elections... If Roosevelt’s Democratic Party can be branded as the sinners of failure and betrayal of American interests, then Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition will fall apart in the election and the United States will be back in our hands!”

Nelson Rockefeller took a breath. He knew that the "we" his father mentioned did not refer to the Rockefeller family, but to a large number of famous plutocratic families in the United States. Before the Great Depression, the United States actually belonged to these plutocrats. The government had very little power, and those in power were all agents of the plutocrats. Sometimes the plutocratic bosses even come to power in person. For example, Andrew Mellon, the head of the Mellon family, served as the Secretary of the Treasury for 12 years, through the three Republican presidents of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The 12 years from President Harding to President Hoover can be said to be an era in which Wall Street giants dominated the world. If it hadn't been for the Great Depression and the subsequent Roosevelt New Deal, the good times would have continued.

"Father," Nelson Rockefeller still couldn't fully understand the thoughts of his father and other plutocrats. He asked, "If we mess up the peace talks, even if Mr. Dewey becomes president, the United States will not be able to reverse the war... By then , the price of peace will be even greater.”

Nelson Rockefeller is the Assistant Secretary of State and is considered an insider in Washington. He is very familiar with the current war situation.

Now there is a technological generation gap between the United States and Germany in terms of military strength! This cannot be made up for by relying on quantitative advantages. Moreover, facing the production capacity of most of Europe, how much quantitative advantage can the United States have?

"The price of peace?" John Rockefeller Jr. smiled coldly, "The price of peace is that we become the true masters of the United States of America again... If this result can be achieved, for us, this world war will not be considered a real failure."

In fact, the big American financial groups are not really anti-war, otherwise Roosevelt would not have led the United States into the war (the Rockefeller family is more pro-German, which is an exception). However, the financial groups are definitely shrewd. Whether the world war is won or not, they have ways to make a profit.

If the world war is won, then the American financial groups can use the national strength of the United States and the hegemony of the US dollar to expand globally.

If the war is lost, then take the opportunity to drive the war criminals, the Democratic New Deal Coalition, out of power, and push the obedient Republican conservatives to power, and then introduce a bunch of bills to restrict trade unions, so that the United States will become the world of capital again!

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The United States, Washington, the White House.

In a bedroom decorated as a ward, President Roosevelt was lying on the bed, and his wife Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was sitting on the chair next to him.

Truman and Dewey, who were running for president, also appeared in the ward. They came to visit Roosevelt, who was lying in bed after a stroke, and brought flowers and sincere greetings. Both of them sincerely hoped that Roosevelt could recover and then devote themselves to cleaning up the mess of the war.

To be honest, the war mess that the United States is facing now is really too bad. America's enemies have weapons that can "destroy the world" and have advantages on land, sea and air. So the option before the US president does not include winning the war. The question now is how much will the United States lose?

Truman and Dewey did not want to take responsibility for the defeat. They both wanted to be the president of the United States who could lead the United States out of the predicament of defeat and become great again.

But seeing Roosevelt lying on the bed dying, the clouds in their hearts became thicker.

"What a pity," Roosevelt smiled bitterly at the two men, "We lost the Bermuda Islands Campaign again, and lost completely. And this failure also reveals a cruel reality to us. Compared with Europe, we are backward in many aspects of the United States. If we are backward... we will be beaten! In history, there has never been a country that is completely backward in military technology that can defeat a country that is fully ahead by its own strength and military means. We are going to lose the war, and lose militarily! So one of you will lead a failed America in the next 4-8 years, which is very, very difficult!" After listening to Roosevelt's frustrating remarks, Dewey and Truman, who were determined to lead a failed America to success, breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts at the same time. "Mr. President," asked Truman, the Democratic presidential candidate who had a close relationship with Roosevelt, "Do you mean... that the United States needs to reach a peace agreement with Europe as soon as possible?" As soon as possible... it is best to end this damn war before the transfer of power between the old and new presidents in early 1945. Then let Roosevelt, the dying old president, bear the responsibility for the defeat. Roosevelt did not answer Truman's question, but instead turned his attention to another presidential candidate, Dewey.

"Mr. President," Dewey said, "I think if the United States is definitely not going to win, then the sooner peace is achieved, the less the United States will lose."

Dewey's statement could not be made in public, otherwise the American people who did not know the truth would definitely punish him with their votes. However, it is one thing to fool voters on the election platform, and it is another thing to really become president and hold power.

If the United States really cannot defeat Europe, then it will definitely lose less if it seeks peace as soon as possible while it still has some capital in hand. If the Germans really use some missiles to launch atomic bombs to the United States, then 500 billion European marks will definitely not be able to buy peace.

And Roosevelt is now clearly going to bear the infamy of being a traitor to the United States, and Thomas Dewey is of course happy to see it happen.

Roosevelt nodded and said, "The compensation of 500 billion European marks will make us go through a long and painful period in the future. The United States is likely to decline to the level before the last World War, no longer having huge gold reserves and huge overseas assets, and the world's financial center will shift back from New York to London and Paris... This is a very painful process. Many people will be dissatisfied, and many people will have illusions about a more decent peace. And... I am a president who is about to leave office! Do you understand what I mean?"