Chapter 590 Middle East
On the battlefield in the Middle East, the Jewish Army swept across the entire Saudi Arabia. The original population of more than three million Saudi Arabia dropped sharply to more than one million. Many people took refuge in the United States on the other side of the Atlantic on refugee ships provided by Greece.
What's interesting is that some of the Saudi leaders were killed and some were arrested. Occasionally, some fish escaped the net and fled to the United States by boat, but they encountered shipwrecks on the way and disappeared. All the powerful families in Saudi Arabia were purged, and the remaining more than one million people were driven to a barren land.
The continuous flow of refugees has naturally aroused dissatisfaction among the American people. Their life is not easy, but suddenly there are so many freeloaders competing with them for resources. No one will be happy.
The U.S. government is also having a headache about this. No matter how it threatens and intimidates, Greece still keeps sending refugees over, saying that if you don't want to accept them, you can sink the ship. This really makes the U.S. government hate it. But they can't declare war with Greece. After all, even if they declare war, they won't be able to hit Greece. On the contrary, they will have an extra enemy.
These refugees were penniless (in order to board the refugee ship, these people handed over everything of value). When they got off the ship, they were empty-handed and had only a piece of clothing on them. They were almost like beggars. All their food, clothing, housing and transportation had to be provided by the US government. .
Even if one person eats one kilogram of grain a day, these refugees consume hundreds of thousands of kilograms of grain every day. The most irritating thing is that they don't stay still even after eating. They clamor for better accommodation and clothing, and ask the government to build a mosque. This has caused a lot of social conflicts and even had several conflicts with the police.
The scenes of these refugees being pushed to the ground and beaten with batons by the police were filmed and spread to Germany; the European news media immediately reported on it, satirizing the U.S. government, which claims to be the embodiment of democracy, freedom, and justice, for mistreating these unarmed refugees. Refugees, this is what you call justice?
Yannick asked Pope Pius XII of the Vatican to publish a "Fill the World with Love" broadcast, calling on the American people to accept these poor people with love and give them a piece of bread, a glass of water, and a place to sleep.
This pope named Eugenio Pacelli was a quite controversial figure in later generations. He was portrayed by many Western historians or authors as a heartless, greedy, and contentious villain.
In 1963, the play "The Advocate of God" was staged in Berlin, Germany, causing a sensation. The Pope in the play was obsessed with how to use the sale of some of his investments to influence the Americans, thereby preventing the Allied bombing of Rome and the bombing of Judah. Turning a deaf ear when people are being slaughtered.
This play was quickly translated into more than 20 languages and became the basis for the disgraceful behavior of the Pope. It spread rapidly on the streets. In fact, people had long ago been concerned about the agreement signed by the Pope and the German and Italian Fascists, and the Fascist The silence during the atrocities in Sri Lanka has been questioned.
At that time, governed by the Pope’s creed of “infallibility,” the Holy See and the Pope had always kept the matter secret, leading to much controversy. Perhaps the script is unconvincing as an artistic creation and inevitably contains fictional elements.
Then in 1964, France published a very important historical work "Pius XII and the Third Reich". The author was a historian who studied Nazis. Both his parents died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He himself He survived in a Catholic monastery in France.
He clearly stated in the book that "the Pope has a preference for Germany, and this preference is not diminished by the nature of the Naz system."
As soon as this book was published, it aroused great public opinion. Under pressure, in 1964, Pope Paul VI ordered the compilation and editing of the Vatican documents from the World War II period. Although 11 volumes of files were compiled, some people still questioned the authenticity and completeness of the book. ask a question.
While the Vatican continued to publish its collection of documents, the debate continued to develop and expand, and a series of works were published.
For example, in works such as "The Sinking of Pius XII", "The Catholic Church and the German Nazis", and "Black Sabbath", a large amount of evidence shows that Pius XII was in cahoots with the German Nazis, and that the Nazis reciprocated the favor as a reward for their silence. In order to protect his position from threats, he did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of half of the Jewish people.
There are always two sides to things, and there are those who oppose it and those who support it. It was pointed out in "Britain and the Vatican during World War II" and "We Remember: Reflections on the Holocaust": Pius XII was not ruthless, he was a man of determination. A warm, humane and compassionate person, he also had a lot of helplessness about the war, and pointed out that he saved more than 800,000 Jews during World War II.
The debate continues to this day, and there is still no clear conclusion about the Pope's behavior during World War II.
In any case, the speech of Pius XII has achieved considerable response. Most Americans are religious, and Catholics account for a large proportion. Since the Pope has said so, devout believers can only suppress their dissatisfaction in their hearts and follow the Pope's instructions to provide as much relief to these refugees as possible. help. But in the near future, they will have a profound understanding of what it means to be a white-eyed wolf who cannot get enough to eat.
Pius XII also called on the world to put aside its disputes and live in peaceful coexistence.
The German Foreign Ministry later issued a statement saying that Germany loves peace very much. Everything it has done before is for long-term peace in the future. You see how peaceful Europe is now. He also said that if the United States wants to stop the war, Germany will be happy to negotiate with the United States.
The Americans dubiously asked the ambassador to Switzerland to contact the Germans. The first request of the United States was to exchange the European foreign exchange in the treasury. The German ambassador said that was all in the past, and they would not recycle a pile of waste paper. Yes, if I really want them to recycle it, I can only give them a few dollars in foreign exchange per ton based on the price of waste paper.
The U.S. ambassador resisted the urge to overturn the table and made a second request, which was to return the seized U.S. companies and frozen funds in Europe; the German ambassador said that those had already been divided up and he had to get them back. After some tedious procedures, this process may take thirty to fifty years.
The American ambassador slammed the door angrily and left. Only then did the Americans realize that the Germans did not want to negotiate sincerely, but were just a means of propaganda war.
Just when Germany and the United States were quarreling fiercely, in accordance with the previous agreement, King Abdullah Ibn Hassan of Transjordan led his people to move the country and happily moved to Mecca in Hijaz.
Naturally, the oil-producing areas in Saudi Arabia have all fallen into German hands, so there is no need to talk about a 30/70 or 28/20 split. Now 100% of them belong to the Germans.