Chapter 1196 Broken Window Effect
"Maybe the Indians are not as relaxed as you are at this time." Rab Butler said with a dumb smile.
"Minister, it's not necessarily true. From India's perspective, isn't it the time when it has the most autonomy in thousands of years? Is it true that, as Nehru said, India has been a political entity since ancient times?"
Alan Wilson smiled and said, "Although Indians may not believe it, now is the most glorious time for India. This may be a bit loose. Before this war, India was at its most glorious."
As long as we use a grand narrative to summarize it, if we are in different countries, we will look at other countries completely differently.
Britain in the eyes of others is the place where the Industrial Revolution originated, and the empire on which the sun never sets across the world. World hegemon for two hundred years.
In the eyes of Alan Wilson, the United Kingdom, the independence of British India, the independence of British Sudan, and the independence of British Nigeria are all a thing of the past in rapid decline...
A few decades later, in the eyes of a certain big country, I saw myself defeated in the Opium War, a century of humiliation, ceded territory and indemnity, defeated in the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1895, and decades of civil war.
In the eyes of others, the last dynasty of a certain big country expanded all the way to Zhungeer, with a population of 400 million and an expanded territory of 13 million. The victors of World War I and World War II went to war with the United States, India, and the Soviet Union. They had the second largest economy in the world, and then they said that they wanted to avenge this century-old humiliation.
Both situations are true, it just depends on how you look at them. What Britain did in the colonial era was no more excessive than those in the agricultural era, but this era recorded all the bad things Britain had done.
But now, at least here in India, Britain can finally use this war to take a break from the list of number one enemies in India's eyes. Even if Nehru was still wary of the British, he could not change the simple minds of the Indian people. How could they forget immediately after being beaten?
The news of the arrival of the British delegation in New Delhi spread quickly in this independent country, and Rab Butler received a huge welcome. India, which had fallen from the top to the bottom, remembered the goodness of Britain.
On the way to the Windsor Castle Hotel in New Delhi, countless Indians, regardless of gender, old or young, saluted the British delegation's motorcade. At this time, they were helpless and could only pin their hopes on Britain, thousands of miles away.
After entering the hotel, Alan Wilson went directly to the door of the reserved room and knocked on the door. The door was opened. Hedy Lamarr opened the door and directly dragged the man in.
"Aren't you wearing the classic robe?" Alan Wilson chuckled, "This is New Delhi, the place where our fate began, and it is very memorable.
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"You are the only one who talks a lot." Hedy Lamarr rolled her eyes at Alan Wilson and murmured in a low voice, "That means I am obedient to you and will accompany you without any complaints no matter where you go."
"Yes, you worked hard." As he spoke, Alan Wilson already held Hedy Lamarr in his arms and admitted his mistake. "I was wrong. Any complaint in front of you is a blasphemy against your hard work."
"That's pretty much it!" Hedy Lamarr seemed relieved, feeling that her hard work was not in vain.
After a long journey, the two decided to take a bath and relax before getting back to their intense work.
"It's really surprising to come to New Delhi this time. Didn't you say you would never come again?" Hedy Lamarr lay weakly in the man's arms. The redness on her face had not subsided, and she obviously had not recovered yet.
"Today is different from the past. I couldn't come here because I had some grudges here. It's different now. Other countries have taken over Britain's position." Lighting a cigarette, Alan Wilson said with an intoxicated look on his face, "So now that things have changed, I don't have to avoid the opportunity to come to India."
Today, Alan Wilson can restore his true colors as an old friend of the Indian people, standing confidently on India's side and seeking interests for Britain.
"But what about the large fleet assembled by the British?" Hedy Lamar suddenly seemed to remember something and asked.
"They have something to be busy with." Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows, and the broken window effect was about to appear. It’s no wonder that the UK is not doing well. It’s the Indians themselves who are not doing what they want, which will naturally affect Indians in other places.
Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, is the core of British Africa once planned by the British. Like other British colonies, it has a large Indian community. The entire Indian population in Kenya is 400,000.
The news of India's defeat spread across the ocean and immediately shocked the Indian community here. Countless Indians took to the streets of Nairobi to express solidarity with their mother country. These people were very excited and wanted to leave and return home to join the war.
Gu Zi/span> This caused the British troops stationed in Kenya to stay on guard and not dare to board the ship as planned. Instead, they adopted a vigilant attitude to protect the white community. What would happen to a foreign ethnic group in a strange place who did not regard themselves as locals?
The riot just happened, and smoke billowed throughout Nairobi. Black people regarded Indians as accomplices of white colonists. In the presence of British troops, they did not dare to do anything to white people. But they are not so polite to Indians.
In the urban area of Nairobi, Kenyans with long-standing grievances and shouts of death launched a zero-dollar purchase operation against these foreign Indians. Riots broke out in every neighborhood. No one knew the cause or how it started.
Feeling that the situation was serious, the British military in Kenya scaled back their efforts to defend the white community. At the same time, they contacted the British Royal Navy fleet offshore and requested to suppress the rebellion in Kenya.
At this time, the Indian community is in a raging fire. Kenyans who have succeeded in zero-dollar purchases have tasted the sweetness and are completely immersed in the joy of zero-dollar purchases. There are also some people who want to attack the white community, but the British who are well prepared are The army shot and killed him directly, and soon concentrated on causing trouble for the Indians.
There must be a reason why the British Royal Navy cannot arrive on time. Otherwise, will the Indian nationalists think that the British are not doing enough? Alan Wilson certainly knows that it is a fact that more work is needed than effort is made, but Britain cannot admit this.
If we want to cover the mouths of Indian nationalists so that they cannot think about picking peaches in Britain, what can be done? Then the Indian people can only suffer.
As a British gentleman, Alan Wilson really didn't want to make such a move, so he asked Malaya to keep an eye on it. As for Kennedy, because of the complicated social environment and the British recently rushing to aid India, they relaxed their vigilance and appeared. A little mistake is normal.
The riots in Kenya immediately triggered a response from the Royal Navy, and the plan to rush to India thousands of miles away had to be temporarily terminated.
The top priority now is to restore calm to Kenya. At the same time, London officially informed the causes and consequences of the riots in Kenya, and stated that this may be a broken window effect.
The broken window effect believes that if undesirable phenomena in the environment are allowed to exist, people will be tempted to follow them or even worsen them. Take a building with a few broken windows, for example. If those windows are not repaired, vandals may destroy more windows. Eventually they may even break into a building and, if found uninhabited, perhaps settle there or set fire to it.
If there is some graffiti on a wall that is not cleaned off, the wall will soon be covered with messy and unsightly things.
This effect was, of course, summed up by Sir Wilson, a famous British scholar and current Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its fundamental purpose is to establish a scholar's character. Sir Wilson is currently in New Delhi.
After receiving the news, Alan Wilson informed Foreign Secretary Rab Butler of the facts of the riots in Nairobi, and attributed the root cause of the riots to India's defeat, which aroused the anger of the Indian people, which in turn led to the dissatisfaction of local blacks in Kenya, resulting in caused this riot.
"Is there no problem in the white community?" Rab Butler asked nervously.
"At present, there is no problem!" Alan Wilson gave Labo Butler a reassurance, "But I am afraid that other colonies will follow suit. It seems that from the moment India was defeated, this will have no impact on many things in the world. It’s the same. We must pay special attention to the developments in Aden, Mauritius and even other colonies.”
Alan Wilson showed a responsible attitude and said that the matter was left to him. Rab Butler was still preparing for the diplomatic trip with Nehru. He said it lightly, but he knew very well that the biggest broken window effect had not yet begun. Woolen cloth.
For example, Pakistan, the other protagonist in the partition of India and Pakistan, saw India being beaten to a bloody head, didn't he have any thoughts in his heart? After the partition of India and Pakistan, the two countries became brothers in need.
After this war, India will think that it should find a country with a strong army as foreign aid. Although Britain and the United States are powerful, they are not good at land warfare, and their homeland is indeed too far away from India.
Isn't this a coincidence? Pakistan thinks so too, and it doesn’t have to weigh who to look for like India. Pakistan is bordering a certain big country, so there is no need to think too much. An all-weather ally is ready-made.
Even if the United States exerts pressure, it is useless. The United States is far away, so how can strong assistance that is close at hand be more practical?
Pakistan is emboldened, and that is the real broken window effect, not the current riots in Nairobi, Kenya, where an unknown number of people have died.
When Rab Butler met Nehru for the first time, it was with a heavy heart that he informed Nehru, the former prime minister of a great power, about the tragic events that had occurred in British Kenya, and said that Britain would definitely handle it well and ensure that The safety of these Indians.
"The world is so unpredictable!" Alan Wilson sighed, wondering if he was replicating this in Mauritius? Don’t be too harsh. The second largest ethnic group in Mauritius is of French descent, which is really annoying.