Whether Compton's suggestion works or not is difficult to say.
Hoover had served as Secretary of Commerce of the United States since 1921. His official position was appointed by former President Harding when he began his first and only presidential term.
In 1923, the most disgraceful and worst president in American history died of illness while on a speaking tour. Vice President Coolidge was ordered to take the oath of office late at night in a small farmhouse in Vermont.
Coolidge is probably the most unknown president. His policy measures, to use an ancient Chinese saying, are to rule by doing nothing.
He retained the appointment of most officials from the previous Harding administration, although he personally disliked some of them, such as Hoover.
Because the latter loved to be pushy, Coolidge gave Hoover a somewhat eccentric nickname, "Wonder Boy."
Although he did not like Hoover, when he refused to participate in the next presidential election and the Republican presidential candidate was Hoover, Coolidge readily accepted the decision without any complaints.
Some people also say that Coolidge foresaw in advance that the U.S. economy behind the prosperity was about to collapse, so he said that he would not participate in the next presidential election and did not refuse the Republican nomination of Hoover as the presidential candidate. This was a serious trap for him. I like the Minister of Commerce once.
Perhaps Hoover, who had conflicts with Coolidge, could use his influence within the Republican Party and within the United States to urge Congress to repeal those unfair immigration bills and consider inviting Chen Muwu to teach in the United States as a merit, for the sake of his future presidential campaign to increase leverage.
Maybe Compton's starting point was good, but the idea he put forward was somewhat the opposite.
It is true that Hoover had been to China, and he was the only president in the history of the United States who could speak Chinese.
Even the place where he worked during his time in China was in the same city as where Chen Muwu went to university in China.
It is a pity that what he did in China was really disgraceful. Taking advantage of the timidity of Qing officials during the Boxer Rebellion, he cooperated with foreigners inside and outside to turn the Kaili Mining Bureau, a legacy of the Westernization Movement, into the Qing Dynasty. State-owned assets were sold to the British at extremely low prices through coaxing and deception.
As the representative and manager of the buyer's British company, Hoover also made a lot of money from this transaction.
As the perfect candidate in Compton's imagination, if Hoover really came forward to invite Chen Muwu to visit the United States, then the invited Chen would probably sneer at his fake goodwill.
Hate it, hate it, but if Hoover can really repeal those unreasonable and discriminatory immigration laws, then Chen Muwu would not mind going to the United States to build momentum for the most unlucky presidential campaign in American history.
He has long wanted to go to that vast and ignorant continent and make a fortune like Conan Doyle.
Like Compton, Michelson didn't know the grudges behind this. He just felt that the physics professor had proposed a more feasible method.
Regardless of whether Hoover would listen to the opinions of those in the educational academic community, or whether the repeal bill he proposed would be passed by Congress, in the final analysis, they had tried it and had released Dr. Chen of Cambridge. Goodwill.
Maybe if Dr. Chen wants to change places in the future, he will first consider the beautiful and fertile land of the United States?
Michelson began to write letters to presidents and well-known professors of prestigious American schools, not just Harvard and the University of California, hoping that everyone could join forces so that the voices of those from the education and scientific research fields could be heard in American political circles.
In addition to the United States, continental Europe is also turbulent.
But everyone's attention was not only on Chen Muwu, but also on Rutherford.
From 1919 to 1926, during the seven years he took charge of the Cavendish Laboratory, Rutherford was full of talents.
Many people on the European continent were his students. Among them, the most famous and the one with the highest academic status should be Geiger of Kiel University.
But Geiger felt that a remote place like Keele University was not worthy of his teacher.
So he wrote to Max Planck in Berlin, hoping to recommend Rutherford to the Humboldt University of Berlin.
It happened that Planck was retiring this year, and his position as chairman of the physics department was more suitable for the highly respected Rutherford than for Pauli, a newcomer with little achievements.
However, Geiger was not so straightforward in his letter. He chose a way of expression that he thought was very obscure.
But why bother telling "Liao Zhai" to a thousand-year-old fox?
Planck completely saw through the implication of Geiger's words. He felt that Professor Geiger's idea was a bit taken for granted.
Not to mention, it is impossible for the Humboldt University of Berlin to hire someone who cannot even speak German to be the head of the physics department.
Even if a letter of appointment was really given to Rutherford, he would definitely not come.
He has such a great reputation, so many research results, and a Nobel Prize, uh, even though it is a chemistry prize.
This kind of qualifications is simply a step forward in universities in English-speaking countries, let alone holding a teaching position and being a department chair. Even if Rutherford wanted to be the president, there would be a lot of schools that would give up this position.
Although he was not too fond of Rutherford, like Göttingen, Planck at Humboldt University in Berlin also wanted to recruit Chen Muwu.
If we were to say that the school in the world was the first to learn of the news that a physics genius had emerged from the Far East, then Humboldt University was definitely the first, earlier than Cambridge University and much earlier than Cornell University.
It was just that Planck would be defeated if he hesitated at that time. If he could not make up his mind, Eddington, who worked hard for Einstein, would take the lead.
Later, Chen Muwu made so many achievements in physics. Although many of them were published in the "Yearbook of Physics" edited by him, after all, the mailing address was not in Germany, which made Planck very heartbroken.
Now that we have such an opportunity, we naturally cannot miss it again.
He and Chen Muwu had developed a good relationship due to frequent correspondence and phone calls due to academic issues.
However, Planck, who was getting older, had become cautious in his dealings with others. He was afraid that the relationship between them would not be enough to impress Chen Muwu, so he went to find Einstein again, hoping that he could work with him to help Dr. Chen. Jointly write an invitation letter.
Einstein, who currently has a love-hate relationship with Chen Muwu, readily agreed to Planck's request.
His only thought was to hope that Dr. Chen, who was becoming more and more "rebellious", could come to him.
Einstein believed that with day-to-day persuasion and education, he would soon be able to get Chen Muwu to give up his illusions and get back on track, thus quelling the growing academic dispute between the two.
There is such a big commotion in the outside world, and there is no peace in Cambridge University either.
Belfort, who thought he had finally caught Chen Muwu and wanted to expel him from school, did not expect that his plan would create such a big trap.
So in the next few days at the Cambridge University Senate, his proposal was not mentioned at all.
Whether to punish the students who supported the strike was put on hold indefinitely, but the proposal jointly proposed by Old Thomson and Rutherford to give Chen Muwu a professorship was also rejected by the Senate.
Belfort was already dissatisfied with Chen Muwu, but the name of Rutherford, a newcomer who troubled him, appeared on this proposal.
It would be nice if I didn’t drive you out of Cambridge, but how could I still fulfill your wish?
In the UK, due to the emergence of this incident, the discussion on the strike that had just been temporarily subsided has resurfaced.
Some people support Balfour and believe that Chen Muwu, a Chinese who is living in the UK with British money, should not point fingers at the UK.
The representative figure who held this attitude was Churchill. He believed that the Cambridge Chancellor had done nothing wrong.
Speaking of which, Churchill and Balfour have a close relationship. Balfour's political teacher was Churchill's father, and he himself was Churchill's Conservative predecessor. The two worked together for many years.
In addition to Churchill, Balfour's supporter also included Romer, who has almost disappeared from the British popular circles.
Ever since a series of Detective George Chen came out, the positive and glorious image of the Chinese in them made his Fu Manchu series, which relied on imagination to smear the Chinese, unable to fight back, and he has been living on royalties. Romer, life has been difficult.
He always wants to write a book that can surpass George Chen, but he always feels ashamed of the latest work in the George Chen series.
I don’t know who this mysterious writer named Chandler York is.
I don’t know what the background is behind this sudden appearance of Penguin Publishing.
Why could they ask Conan Doyle, the grandfather of British detectives, to write a special article about the collaboration between Sherlock Holmes and George Chen to endorse this series?
Rumor has it that whether he is a Chinese student studying abroad or studying at Cambridge University, the prototype of George Chen is this Chen Muwu.
Romer, who resented being unable to defeat George Chen, also resented falling in love with Chen Muwu, who had dominated the limelight at Cambridge University.
Now, the somewhat arrogant Chen Muwu had committed such a thing on his own, and Romer felt that he had to take advantage of his illness to kill him. This would definitely dampen George Chen's arrogance.
So after not showing up for a long time, he began to jump up and down in newspapers in his hometown, supporting Superintendent Belfort's decision that these students who had eaten too much mashed potatoes must be severely punished.
If there are people who oppose it, there must be people who support it.
Chen Muwu's biggest backer in the UK is the Duke of York. His identity and status make it clear that he will never do such a useless thing as speaking out in newspapers.
Knowing that Chen Muwu might be expelled from Cambridge University, he directly sent his men.
On the one hand, this is to warn Belfort to end this nondescript farce as soon as possible.
On the other hand, I am doing Dr. Chen's work. As the Duke of York's best friend in the scientific community, I hope he can stay in Cambridge. If everything is irreversible, he should at least stay in the UK.
The royal servant, who had met Chen Muwu countless times, also secretly gave him an opinion: As long as he wanted to go to various universities around London, it was just a matter of words!
Chen Muwu, who was meeting guests in the reception room of Trinity College, just wanted to deal with the kindness from the Duke of York as soon as possible, and then return to the laboratory to continue working on the proton source with Cockcroft.
It can only be said that the more you think about something, the less you will get. Before the meeting with the royal servants was over, the staff of Trinity College came in again to report that a guest named de Broglie came to visit Chen Muwu from France. , has arrived at the college.
Not long after, the staff came for the second time and told him that a young man from Denmark who called himself Heisenberg had also arrived.
Compared with Planck who wanted to write a letter inviting Chen Muwu to Berlin, the French and Danes were full of sincerity.
De Broglie regards Chen Muwu as a good friend. If a good friend is in trouble, he will definitely come to help.
Moreover, he has told Chen Muwu more than once that he should come to Paris to do research together. He has friends and a girl he likes. It’s difficult to have two beauties at the same time. Why not?
As for Denmark, Bohr initially wanted to come in person.
As a result, Heisenberg volunteered, and the reasons were quite clear.
He said, teacher, you had already been to the UK once at the beginning of this year, and it makes no sense that you only went again half a year later.
You are such a courteous and virtuous corporal, which is certainly a good story, but you must also pay attention to your identity. Your cousin is the director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen. If you go so far to hire people every day in vain, you will easily be looked down upon.
This time I went to the UK to invite Dr. Chen, and I, Werner, was willing to share the teacher’s worries.
Chen Muwu lived in Trinity College for several years and got along well with everyone in the college.
This staff member really wanted the Duke of York to come forward and keep Chen Muwu.
That's why he played hard to get and told the story about two more groups of guests in front of the royal servants. He hoped that after returning to London, he could convey all the things he saw and heard to the Duke.
Seeing that Chen Muwu still had two groups of guests to meet, the royal servant who had already conveyed the purpose of his trip stood up, said goodbye and left.
He was a subordinate of his big benefactor, and he had gone all the way to Cambridge to convey things that were beneficial to him. Of course, Chen Muwu would not neglect this royal servant, so he got up and sent him outside the gate of Trinity College.
In the parking lot, the two of them were exchanging final greetings before getting in the car.
At this moment, a car with a Swedish flag drove into the parking lot along the road.
A staff member came to ask the driver why he was here.
"Is Dr. Chen at Trinity College? Could you please tell me that the counselor of the Swedish Embassy, entrusted by the Crown Prince of Sweden, has invited Dr. Chen to teach in Stockholm."
The royal servant who was about to get into the car also heard this sentence.
Another new country!
Dr. Chen is so popular, he must truthfully report to His Highness the Duke and make him realize the seriousness of this matter!
(End of chapter)
