Did you find the money?
The answer is yes.
The next morning, in the Oval Office of the White House, after listening to Truman's report.
Roosevelt was unconsciously happy, and the corners of his lips rose.
"Harry, I didn't expect you to solve this matter so quickly."
Roosevelt, who was originally stabbed by Dewey, was a pain in the ass, but now he was finally relieved.
The president has a far-sighted vision, using the seized German materials to strengthen China's combat power and plan the victory of the Chinese battlefield thousands of miles away!
Of course, this can also separate him from the bureaucrats in the Pentagon who only care about Europe.
Marshall... let's share the worries of the Lord!
General Marshall suffered a lot and he took the blame.
This news will definitely change public opinion. Americans like this kind of slightly legendary story the most.
If they like it, tell them.
"Mr. President, as I said before, George is a very generous man."
As soon as Truman finished speaking, Harry Hopkins said.
"Harry, he is indeed a generous man, but in return for his generosity, what does he need us to give?"
As a presidential adviser, he is not only the chairman of the Military Supplies Allocation Committee, but also the de facto second-in-command of the White House, and even known as the "Shadow President". He knows very well that there is no generosity in this world for no reason.
"Mr. Hopkins, the most important thing is that his help can help us get through the crisis of our goal."
Truman did not directly answer Hopkins' question, but continued.
"Mr. President, now we need to give everyone a perfect story."
Nodding, Roosevelt motioned Truman to continue.
"Mr. President, the core of this story is that we are doing everything we can to help China, because the Chinese army imported a large number of German weapons before the war, so we will ship North African weapons to China through George, and then the Chinese won on the battlefield, the question is what then?"
Truman looked at the president and said.
"Then?"
Roosevelt thought for a while,
"Harry, are you saying that we should increase our aid to China?"
"Senator, we have planned to provide China with no less than 1.5 billion US dollars in aid this year."
As the chairman of the Military Supplies Allocation Committee, responsible for allocating war supplies to allied forces around the world, Hopkins sounded a little unhappy.
In this turmoil, he was also criticized, and some even called him a "Russian agent" because he allocated a large amount of supplies to "Russia, which did not declare war on Japan and even sold oil and minerals to Japan", instead of China, which was fighting the Japanese.
What made him even more uncomfortable was that in order to respond to outside doubts, he had to allocate the materials originally intended to aid Russia to China. Whenever he thought of this, his heart was... bleeding!
That's right, for Hopkins, nothing was more important than aiding Russia. He even suggested to the president: "We not only need Russia as a powerful fighting ally to defeat Germany, but also ultimately need Russia as an ally to defeat Japan. Finally, we need Russia as our true friend and patron in the post-war world."
It was under his leadership that China obtained extremely limited supplies, and there was even his selfishness in this - he needed Russia as an ally to defeat Japan, rather than fully supporting China and making China an ally to defeat Japan.
In his plan... there was no China at all. Including in General Marshall's plan, there was only one core - to use the least supplies to let China hold back Japan, rather than defeat Japan.
They never thought of aiding China from beginning to end!
"Mr. Hopkins, plans are always just plans. What the outside world needs to see is action."
Truman directly retorted.
"We need to take further actions to tell the outside world that we are sparing no effort to fight Japan."
"Yes, Harry, the senator is right, we need to take some actions."
Compared to other things, the election is the most important, Roosevelt turned his eyes to Truman and said.
"Do you have any suggestions?"
"Continue to hand over the weapons seized from the Germans to the Chinese, just like we did before."
His suggestion surprised Roosevelt and Hopkins, and they both started to think about it in their hearts.
The former understood that this was "the continuation of the plan" and was telling the Americans that we are still vigorously supporting China, but in a different way. As for the latter, he immediately realized that this was a good thing - there was no need to allocate the materials to aid Russia to China.
"It seems that this is also a good choice. Anyway, China needs weapons, not what kind of weapons..."
After nodding in agreement, Roosevelt frowned and said.
"It seems that we didn't seize many German weapons."
"Yes, Mr. President, we only seized some German weapons in North Africa. But this is just the beginning. This is our response to the outside world."
Truman looked at the president and said that although he was Roosevelt's running mate, he didn't know that the "Overlord Plan" to land in France had reached the implementation stage, but Roosevelt knew very well that soon, with the landing of the Allied forces, they would seize a large number of German weapons.
"With this response, the outside world will see our support for China, and we don't even need to pay anything, just a little maintenance and transportation costs."
Truman said in a relaxed tone.
"Of course, this is what he hopes for. He hopes that when the Allies counterattack the European continent in the future, he can help the Allies collect the seized weapons and deliver them to China with his ships."
This is just one link in George's plan.
What he needs is to be able to follow the Allies to collect supplies all the way after the Allies land on the European continent, but the purpose is not just to collect the weapons and ammunition seized by the Allies and transport them to China. Instead, he took this opportunity to reach out to Germany and recruit talents from all walks of life as much as possible.
The so-called "assistance" is just an excuse.
Of course, he can also wait until the end of the war to collect talents from Germany, but by that time, what he needs is to face the competition between the United States and Russia - the United States implemented the "Operation Paperclip" in 1946 to plunder German talents. Russia is more simple and crude, directly arresting people, whether you are willing or not, and taking them directly to Russia. Britain and France are also secretly collecting German talents.
In a word, all countries are trying every means to collect German intellectual resources.
In this case, if you want to recruit talents and use German intellectual resources, you must take the lead and create a time difference before they take action. How can you enter the war zone? How can you take people away?
Collecting captured German weapons and bullets to aid China is the best disguise.
With this disguise, his people could enter the war zone openly, wearing American military uniforms, sitting in jeeps, following the footsteps of the US military all the way to Berlin, and then transport the materials and personnel out of Europe.
This is George's "Operation Paperclip", but in order to implement this operation, he must have the cooperation of the United States. If it succeeds, then he can completely absorb the talents of the entire Germany...