At the sa ti, the global expansion of the Coca-Cola Company owes a lot to Jas Farley.
After Jas Farley cos George Marshall, the Chief of Staff of the Army, not much needs to be introduced about him.
Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison is sitting right next to George Marshall.
He currently seems indifferent, like it’s none of his business, and hasn’t expressed any opinions during this eting.
After all, he has already submitted his resignation, and once Congress approves it, he will leave the Navy.
Following him is Harold Ikes, the United States Secretary of the Interior, who, besides holding that position, also serves as the Director of the Public Works Administration.
Kafe Jackson has recently been dealing a lot with Harold Ikes.
"He’s a typical miser!"
This is Kafe Jackson’s evaluation of him.
The 3 billion US dollars previously allocated by Franklin Roosevelt for public construction in the United States requires the support of the Public Works Administration.
Harold Ikes has been extrely cautious in approving each project.
Because of this, Kafe Jackson and Harold Ikes have had nurous disputes.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Venus Bank was confird to be in charge of this matter, Harold Ikes would probably have allocated most of it elsewhere.
For this issue, Harold Ikes has held multiple etings with Franklin Roosevelt.
But since the profit law experience, Franklin Roosevelt has realized that opposing Donnie is less effective than cooperating with him!
Although in certain matters he can’t fully exhibit the authority of the President, at least he is a successful President.
If he loses the support of the Venus Bank, Franklin Roosevelt might not even be a stable President.
Harold Ikes is also one of Franklin Roosevelt’s most loyal subordinates, so with Roosevelt’s approval, Harold Ikes can only grit his teeth and continue to negotiate the new project with Kafe Jackson!
Henry Wallace, the Secretary of Agriculture, sits next to Harold Ikes.
Henry Wallace has no political cooperation with Donnie, but they have considerable comrcial cooperation.
Before serving as Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace was an agricultural expert who, through experints, developed high-yield corn varieties, achieving major breakthroughs in plant genetics.
Later, Henry Wallace applied these achievents comrcially, founding a hybrid corn company and obtaining significant profits.
The ADM under the Venus Bank has multiple collaborations with the Henry Wallace family’s company.
Incidentally, Henry Wallace’s father, Canterville Wallace, served as the Secretary of Agriculture during Harding’s presidency.
Donnie has interacted with both father and son.
anwhile, after John Garner resigned as Vice President in 1941, Henry Wallace beca the Vice President of the United States.
However, later on, the Democratic Party bypassed Henry Wallace and nominated Harry Truman as Vice President, after which Henry Wallace was appointed Secretary of Comrce.
The current Secretary of Comrce, known as the White House’s number two, Harry Hopkins, is sitting next to Henry Wallace.
Next year, Harry Hopkins will resign from his position as Secretary of Comrce to beco Franklin Roosevelt’s personal representative.
He has successively represented Franklin Roosevelt in visits to the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and held etings with Churchill and Stalin on the matters of the United States providing military supplies, laying the foundation for the U.S.-U.K.-Soviet alliance against German Fascism.
By August 1941, he accompanied Roosevelt to attend the U.S.-U.K. Atlantic Summit and participated in drafting the "Atlantic Charter."
During the war, he frequently attended the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S.-U.K. Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee, participating in major military strategic decisions.
However, after Franklin Roosevelt passed away, he faced backlash.
During the McCarthy era, Harry Hopkins was suspected of being a Soviet agent in the United States; however, this matter ended inconclusively due to a lack of evidence.
But it also led to Harry Hopkins’s complete departure from Arican politics.
The last person is Francis Parsons, the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
At this ti, Franklin Roosevelt directed a question at Donnie, and everyone also turned their attention to Donnie.
"My view is simple; at any ti, the United States should stand on the moral high ground, so we certainly cannot agree with the conduct of countries like Germany, Italy, and Japan."
Donnie’s tone is lofty, but everyone present strongly agrees with Donnie’s words.
Now, the United States has already beco one of the world’s most powerful countries.
But only one of them, it cannot yet make its own rules as the moral high ground like it could in later tis.
The United States still needs to adhere to the so-called public order and morality.
"But, the Federal United States is a democratic country; we cannot let dostic citizens be influenced by foreign affairs.
So externally, we can denounce these countries’ acts of aggression, but internally, we should still conduct business and trade as usual.
Unless the other party infringes on our interests, like Japan now, which has severely infringed on our interests in the Far East.
Therefore, I suggest we first stop all trade with Japan.
Otherwise, the flas of war will eventually reach us!"
Donnie spoke his mind in a deep voice.
However, after expressing this view, everyone’s expressions beca sowhat complex.
They didn’t think Donnie ntioned Japan for the sake of Arican interests.
After all, everyone present understands that Donnie’s Venus Bank doesn’t do business with Japan.
So when Donnie suggests cutting off trade with Japan, it isn’t out of concern for Arica, but rather because it doesn’t involve the business of Venus Bank.
This allows Donnie to speak on the matter without hesitation.
So even thought of a deeper aspect.
That is the animosity between Donnie and the Rothschild family!
Donnie shifted Venus Bank’s business to Europe, engaging actively in trading with Germany and Italy.
The Rothschild family represented Arica in doing business with Japan.
Cutting off U.S. trade with Japan is essentially choking the Rothschild family’s attempts to continue doing business with Arican elites through this trade, as well as supporting more Arican businesses.
However, these people only contemplated this in their hearts, not really speaking it out, even those not on good terms with Venus Bank kept silent.
Because Donnie currently stands on the moral high ground.
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and said: "Block, I agree with your suggestion, but I think we don’t need to outright cut off trade with Japan. We can engage in talks first.
If Japan is willing to relinquish their interests in the East, we can continue to trade with them!"
Donnie nodded, in such a setting, he would respect Franklin Roosevelt’s standpoint.
"Mr. President has a point; this kind of diplomatic incident is not my area of expertise, so I’ll let everyone else handle it."
Franklin Roosevelt felt a quiet relief seeing Donnie not push the matter further in this setting.
He was genuinely worried Donnie would not give him face on such an occasion.
"So Donnie, what do you think the situation in Europe will be?"
This White House Cabinet eting invited Donnie mainly to hear his analysis of the European situation.
"I believe Germany will certainly be defeated; of course, Germany will achieve phased victories initially, but its size and population cannot support them in taking over all of Europe.
More importantly, I believe people are blinded by temporary victories when they are victorious.
So regarding Europe, we can support, but there’s no imdiate need to send troops.
After all, this is Europe’s own issue, and we can just watch and wait, plus importantly, after the last war, the resistance of the public towards war hasn’t faded.
Also, young people may be hesitant to join the military due to the previous war experiences.
Therefore, the most important thing now is to strengthen patriotic propaganda among the people!"
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