Chapter 1075 Increase Military Expenditures

For a country, coal and iron, the basis of industry, must be available. The United Kingdom definitely has this condition. As for Japan? Alan Wilson seems to remember that there was a battleship island in Japan with coal mines on it.

After losing Hokkaido, Japan's already small mineral gap became even greater. Its own resources were definitely not as good as those of Malaya. In terms of geographical environment, before the independence of British India, the United Kingdom finally chose Malaya as the next pearl. , needless to mention geographical conditions?

The same is the case of imported iron ore. What is the cost in Japan and how much is the cost in Malaya? Calculate the price difference and fight Japan based on this price difference. I may not make any money, but you will definitely lose money.

As soon as he returned to London, Alan Wilson devoted himself to saving the British shipbuilding industry. The reason why Britain's shipbuilding costs were lower than those of the United States during World War II was largely due to its strong shipbuilding industry.

The United Kingdom's fundamentals are not as good as those of the United States. The United States can ignore the weak civilian shipbuilding industry and let the cost of military shipbuilding skyrocket. If the United Kingdom does the same, the price it will pay will be greater than that of the United States.

Back in the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alan Wilson is thinking about how many departments are needed to work together, and Principal Private Secretary Wicke reports on the meager and unimportant diplomatic results of Macmillan's visit to Washington to meet with Kennedy. .

"The Kennedy administration is willing to have a serious discussion on the Six-Party Talks." Wick continued to read the script, pretending not to notice his immediate boss's wandering mind. As a subordinate, any questioning of his boss represented unreliability.

"Perhaps our minister is complacent and publicizes his trivial achievements." Alan Wilson said lazily, "That's normal, for an American mother and a British father."

"That's basically it." Wick did not answer, but stopped where he was and waited for Alan Wilson's instructions.

"In the name of the British Foreign Office, I would like to express my protest to Japanese Prime Minister Yuto Ikeda and Japan's manipulation of exchange rates to dump the British and European Community markets." Alan Wilson thought as he said, "The Australian Commissioner must make it clear in Australia The possibility of Japan launching an economic war is a bloodless war. The war is not over, it just reappears at another level."

"By the way, isn't northern Japan occupied by the Soviet Union? We should sort out the security issues in Southeast Asia. We cannot deny the possibility that the Japanese, who have been trained by the Soviet Union, use the Japanese face as a cover to attack Southeast Asia. Carry out infiltration. Inform the Government Communications Headquarters of this possibility and carry out relevant work."

"I want to analyze the characteristics of Japan's shipbuilding industry and what types of ships it focuses on."

Alan Wilson just said it casually without considering this possibility at all.

At this time, he had no idea that this was exactly what the Soviet Union was currently doing. He also had a good son who was about to graduate.

The ignorant Alan Wilson asked Wick to hand over the development of the situation in Northern Rhodesia tomorrow. "The other thing is to pay close attention to the situation in Algeria. Nyerere has completed his inspection of British West Africa. Tanganyi will go to Tanganyi some time this year." Calgary should be turned into an autonomous territory, and according to our agreement with Nigeria, Nigeria will be officially independent next year in a few years. Don’t worry about the last time. When I was in British India, I made a countdown sign every day The update is still very effective and gives Nigerians something to look forward to..."

Alan Wilson originally just asked his secretary to prepare the documents for Northern Rhodesia, but as soon as Bibi kept talking, he was surprised. There were so many things?

"That's it for now!" Alan Wilson thought for a long time and found that he had nothing to add for the time being. He remembered that it would be the same thing to wait until tomorrow.

"I understand!" Wick took out his notes and wrote them all down before speaking again, "The minister seems to be having a headache because of the South Africa issue."

"The South African problem?" Alan Wilson leaned back tactically and said to himself, "This is the sequelae of the independence of French Africa."

South Africa has always had an apartheid system, which divided South Africans into four classes. I don’t know if any of them were inspired by the powerful powers. Alan Wilson felt that some Hindu elites should be needed to try the missionary effect in South Africa.

Historically, this year should be the time for South Africa to withdraw from the Commonwealth. After all, Britain and the Boers have enmity. After two world wars, the Boer party defeated the British immigrant party to form a government and became the first government in South Africa's history to be composed entirely of white South Africans. The cabinet marked the beginning of white South Africans taking sole control of South Africa's political power. In the same year, South Africa began to implement apartheid policies.

As French Africa emerged with numerous states within a year, Britain gradually gave up colonial rule. Prime Minister Eden delivered a speech of change in Cape Town, marking the official abandonment of the British colony of South Africa.

The situation in Africa is changing, and British immigrants and Boers must unite under this threat.

This allowed white people to unite to deal with black people. Especially in the regime monopolized by white people, the Boers had an advantage. Their sense of crisis and prevention of black people were far greater than those of the British.

They believe that if we follow the usual production method of Western capitalism that allows land to be transferred freely through buying and selling and encourages labor mobility, then sooner or later the white people who number less than 20% will become disadvantaged.

Alan Wilson, who had not intended to appear before Macmillan, had to turn up to talk to the Foreign Secretary about South Africa.

First of all, it is not okay to support South Africa's apartheid policy. Although South Africa is valuable, it is not as valuable as Africa as a whole.

Compared with the vast Africa, any powerful country will choose to sacrifice South Africa. It is bullshit that blood is thicker than water.

Not supporting South Africa's apartheid policy does not mean that you should openly oppose it. "Because of the Boer War, Britain was very cruel to the Boers. In the current context, my suggestion is to use the Boer War as a reason to express Britain's guilt towards South Africa." , so we don’t openly condemn South Africa. This of course has nothing to do with South Africa’s huge gold reserves. The UK has never been a country that cares about the legitimate wealth of other countries.”

"Alan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs really needs you so much." Macmillan marveled at how he could say two completely different meanings in one sentence. He mentioned the Boer War in the first sentence, but then said he didn't care about the war in other countries. Legal wealth, then the question arises, what was the cause of the Boer War, it was not the local giant gold mine.

"Dear Minister, every era has its own considerations." Alan Wilson replied with a smile, "We in diplomacy never care about what we have said in the past, only what we have to do now."

"If South Africans are smart enough, they should quickly learn from the French's North-South partition plan and solve the black problem. If you want black people to be low-end laborers without giving them power, there will definitely be problems. This is what Northern Rhodesia does. It’s good that South Africa has the basis to do this, but I think they are too greedy and may not give in.”

"And such an idea is not in the current interests of the United Kingdom. The minister has just visited Washington. Some remarks may make the French a little unhappy. If he expresses support for South Africa on the issue of partition, it may increase the French's support for the British." distrust, which is very troublesome.”

Macmillan couldn't have finished connoting France in Washington and then offered the partition proposal to South Africa, right? Although foreign ministers are all chameleons, this is too fast.

What's more, the Boers are not close to the British. Unlike Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, where blood is thicker than water, they are still confident in themselves. How can this help?

"I had very friendly exchanges with the new US President Kennedy. He is a peaceful man." Macmillan suddenly mentioned his insignificant achievements, "I think the Six-Party Talks may have a good result."

"Dear Minister, I may not be as optimistic as you think. Of course, it is okay to remain cautiously optimistic." Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows. He only briefly recalled Kennedy, a problem child who only served for three years, and concluded that Macmillan It's wishful thinking.

This leads to the conclusion that there will be good results? If there is no accident, then there must be an accident.

There is no need to hide anything. Alan Wilson, who came out of Macmillan's office, was thinking about whether the United States' conditions should remain unchanged or whether it was necessary to expel British influence from Iran. How would Macmillan explain his achievements then?

He certainly doesn't have to explain to Whitehall, but can he not explain to Aiden?

Alan Wilson was also busy trying to save the shipbuilding industry, contacting Richard, the High Commissioner for Malaya, to inquire about the reserve of vocational and technical school students he had established during his second term.

I asked Frank from the Ministry of Finance about the current financial situation. In the 1960s, Britain finally re-established its own circular economic system and no longer had to look down upon huge debts.

Although the debt has been paid off long ago, the domestic financial pressure has taken a few more years. It is very simple. Isn’t domestic debt a debt?

In a sense, Japan after the Plaza Accord can be regarded as a financial innovation. It has maintained 200% debt for so many years. Japan took this path first, and other countries will follow.

The fiscally healthy answer came from Frank's mouth, and Alan Wilson nodded, "In other words, increasing fiscal expenditure and stimulating the shipbuilding industry will not cause fiscal pressure?"

"It depends on what areas you plan to increase fiscal expenditure." Frank's heart moved and he asked uncertainly, "Increase military expenditure?"

"Of course this is an old method, otherwise?" Alan Wilson shrugged. "What if the shipbuilding industry does not have strong support? The UK has an economy of 60 billion pounds, and military expenditure has been maintained at 15.6 billion pounds. scale?"

The current economic size of the UK is 60 billion pounds, which is 170 billion pounds in US dollars.

"Maintaining the scale of the shipbuilding industry will help reduce procurement costs, so one of the ways to save the shipbuilding industry is to increase military spending."