Chapter 253： : Self-inflicted

Hardy had just returned to Los Angeles, and the secretary sent a portfolio: "Boss, this is the information submitted by the Global Times Hong Kong branch."

Hardy is very concerned about the East, so he ordered the Hong Kong Global Times to send in recent newspapers and information they deem important to them every once in a while.

Today's communications are not as developed as later generations. The content reported by newspapers varies from place to place. Of course, some of the information is shared, mostly local content.

Hardy opened the portfolio and looked.

"The Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party are fighting, and the power gap between the two sides is narrowing. It seems that a big war is brewing."

Hardy thought a little, as if the three major battles were about to begin.

"In the Far East, MacArthur signed the No. 4 Order of the Allied Command in 1948 to release 19 Japanese war criminals. This is already the fifth wave of war criminals released by MacArthur since 1946. These war criminals include the notorious Class A war criminals. , The soldiers who participated in the war, there were also family chaebols and munitions manufacturers who made a fortune in the war."

"According to the agreement reached by the Moscow Foreign Ministers' Conference in 1945, the Allied Commander only has the right to enforce the conditions of Japan's surrender, and the'Potsdam Declaration' never gives the Allied Commander the right to pardon war criminals."

Seeing this report, Hardy's face became gloomy a lot.

This MacArthur is constantly accumulating money in Japan, and he has reached the point of madness. If he gives enough money, he dares to let him go.

When I go to Japan in the future, those **** people must be sent to hell.

Turned a few more pages.

Hardy suddenly saw a big headline in the newspaper, "The National Government is in Beijing, holding a parade for Dewey's presidential campaign."

There are still a few photos in the newspaper. A group of people are carrying elephants with paper bundles, and there are people holding pictures of Dewey, and someone behind them is holding a slogan, ‘Good luck Dewey! It’s still bilingual in both Chinese and English. Behind is a group of guys in costumes, and there are people playing gongs and drums with musical instruments in their hands.

The reason for holding an elephant is because the U.S. election is also called the "Donkey-Elephant Controversy." The "elephant" is the emblem of the Republican Party.

After reading these photos, Hardy just thought it was funny.

What the **** is like a parade, more like a funeral.

The newspaper wrote: "Dewey's support rate in the United States is very high. This year's presidential election is very likely to win. With the support of the Republic of China government Jiang, a grand parade was held in Beijing to cheer for Dewey and the team bypassed Beijing. A few blocks of the city attracted a large crowd of spectators."

Seeing this report, Hardy smiled, that Mr. Jiang really has a political mind.

Or maybe,

This is to go to the doctor in a hurry.

In the end it became self-inflicted.

Hardy feels that this report is necessary to show President Johnson, perhaps he will be very happy.

Calling the editor-in-chief of the Global Times, Hardy personally instructed everyone: "For this news about China's support for Dewey, send it out on the front page of the deputy."

The editor-in-chief looked at it, "Mr. Hardy thinks this report is important?"

"I think it's very interesting." Hardy said.

"I understand." The editor-in-chief said quickly.

Originally, Hardy wanted to even publish the report about MacArthur, but later I thought that this would have no effect at all. American talents would not care about what happened in the Far East and would not have any impact on MacArthur at all.

After the editor-in-chief of the Global Times left, Hardy picked up the phone and called Mike. Now Mike has joined the Johnson campaign and is now following Johnson on a national speech tour. Johnson also gave him a position as Assistant to the President and Director of the Liaison Office. .

Although Mike is young, he still has the status of a New York congressman, so he is more than enough for this position.

Mike was very happy to receive a call from Hardy, and chatted with Hardy for a while. The two chatted about the recent lecture tour. Two more stops will be in San Francisco. After San Francisco is Los Angeles, which is also the most important two on the West Coast. City.

Hardy smiled and said: "You tell President Johnson that I have made arrangements in San Francisco. When I arrive in Los Angeles, I will let him feel the enthusiasm of the people of Los Angeles. There will be many guests to help out. At the same time, a live broadcast will be held."

"I think President Johnson will be very happy to hear this news." Mike smiled.

"Mike, there is one thing. Tomorrow's Global Times, no matter how busy President Johnson is, we must let him see it, especially the report about the East." Hardy said.

Mike knew that this was Hardy's purpose for making this call, and he immediately agreed, that he is a personal assistant, and this is not difficult for him.

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The next day.

Salt Lake City, Utah.

President Johnson’s speech is here. When he gets up in the morning, members of his campaign team have come over. Everyone has breakfast together. Johnson thinks this is a good time for communication.

The others were eating and chatting about today's itinerary. Johnson inserted a fried tomato into his mouth and said something to the others. Mike walked in with a copy of today's Global Times in his hand.

He has read the content. Today’s Global Times’ sub-news is about China. It is reported that China’s current Chiang has publicly supported Dewey and held a parade for Dewey in Beijing.

After reading this news, Mike didn’t feel anything. He knew the country in the East and knew that they were still at war, but it didn’t deserve Hardy’s attention, but he knew Hardy very well. He thought this thing was absolutely perfect. It's not that simple.

Mike sat at the table, took food for himself, and waited for President Johnson to finish talking with the others. Mike smiled and said: "I just read a very interesting news, far away in China on the other side of the ocean, and their leaders held a meeting. Support Dewey’s parade and cheer activities."

After listening to Mike's words, Johnson's face sank slightly, and his brows frowned slightly: "Mike, which newspaper did you read it from."

"Global Times."

Mike passed the newspaper over as he spoke.

Johnson put down his knife and fork, and the newspaper looked like he found the report soon. In the photo, a group of Chinese people were walking on the streets of Oriental buildings holding elephants and slogans.

The text report said that the Global Times reporter was in Beijing and saw an interesting scene. The United States is undergoing a general election. Even the Eastern countries are also very concerned. Their leaders have expressed their views and clearly supported Dewey's victory.

After reading the newspaper, Johnson's face became very ugly.

Here are his most caring team. Without any cover, he scolded extremely angrily: "This Jiang and his group are just a bunch of moths, a bunch of corrupt elements through and through."

"We used to aid them with billions of dollars. You know what he did. He embezzled 750 million dollars of it. We have already found out this. They stole the money, invested in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and even bought it in New York. Real estate."

"They are even more of a group of incompetent guys, all rotten from top to bottom. I once asked Marshall to mediate, but he refused. Stilwell once said to Marshall that those people are doomed to fail."

"After I became president, they still kept reaching out for money, equipment and assistance, and even asked me to send millions of people to China to help him eliminate his so-called enemies. I feel that they are simply hopeless."

Johnson glanced at the newspaper again, and the words'Dewey's good luck' in the photo gave him an atmosphere, "From now on, he will never want to get a bullet of aid from the United States, nor will he want to get political help. I will not send millions of troops to help him, and I will never waste the lives of Americans to save him.

... As for Jiang and his army, these **** should be thrown into prison. "

After finishing talking, Johnson threw the newspaper aside, continued to eat, and chatted with his assistants about the next campaign.

In the face of humiliation, all he has to do is let the enemy down.

Yes,

Johnson believes that Jiang's move is a humiliation to him.

He also helped Jiang, and he is now the president of the United States. As a qualified politician and leader of a country, he thinks that man's behavior is ridiculous and stupid.

Only when such a person can win can there be ghosts.

He had thought about supporting Jiang before, but now he has no such idea at all. Jiang does not know yet, because of his move, Johnson has completely given up on him.

Salt Lake City speech event.

There were about five or six thousand people here.

Johnson took the stage to give a speech without a manuscript in his hand. He now likes more and more off-script speeches, and after so many speeches, he has become more and more free.

The people who supported him in the square cheered from time to time.

Mike called Hardy, "He has read the newspaper, at breakfast."

"Did you say something?"

"His face is very ugly. I yelled at that person, saying that they were corrupt, saying that they had embezzled the aid money, saying that they were incompetent, and that failure was doomed. He also said that he would never give him any assistance from now on. Will help him politically." Mike said.

A smile appeared on Hardy's face.

He felt that Johnson had made the right choice.

Not long after Hardy hung up the phone, Henry came over and said, "Boss, you let us monitor Dewey before, and we get some intelligence."

"What information?"

"A group of Chinese people visited Dewey. The leader was called'Song Ziwen'. Song Ziwen and Dewey talked for an afternoon. We don't know what they said. They talked at the golf course, but we secretly took some photos of their meeting. ."

Henry used the transliteration to pronounce the three words in Song Ziwen, but Hardy still understood. He flashed through his mind the information of Song Ziwen, the four major families of Jiang, Song Kong, and Chen. Will someone's eldest brother.

Once served as the Minister of Finance of the Nationalist Government, controlling the financial power, and later stationed in the United States for a long time to seek aid from the United States.

"However, shortly after that'Song Ziwen' left, there was an extra $5 million in Dewey's secret campaign fund account."

"We used a lot of energy and finally found out that the money came from an account in Brazil. We analyzed that the money should have been given by the Chinese."

Campaign funds are divided into open and secret campaigns, which are also legal, but the United States also has a clear stipulation that it cannot accept political donations from foreigners.

And it's still such a large amount.

If no one checks it, maybe it will be the case. After all, it is a secret fund account, and it will be over after spending, but now that Hardy knows, then this thing is different.

It is not a small amount of money to call someone poor every day for assistance. 5 million dollars is not a small amount of money. In order to support Dewey after winning, it also counts the blood.

As for where the money comes from.

Ha ha,

It is the part of the US aid money that was secretly embezzled by them.

This really complies with the old saying,

Take it from the rice, and use it for the rice.

Next Hardy considers how to use this matter.

The media reported this incident?

This can indeed cause a certain blow to Dewey. After all, the law expressly prohibits receiving funds from other countries. For example, if the old special elects to collect money from the Goose boss, it is not as simple as not being allowed to participate in the election.

However, Henry and the others did not have sufficient information on this matter. They could only say that it was inferred from the existing clues that the money was given to someone, but there is no evidence.

This leaves a gap for Dewey.

Hardy thinks,

This matter can actually be used, and if it is done well, it can give Dewey a heavy blow.

Ha ha.

Find someone to start my casino business.

Don't blame me for your person.

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