Chapter 1204 Minister Thatcher
"Just to keep Northern Rhodesia and Newfoundland is close to 1.5 million square kilometers of land. If we include the mainland, we will not suffer as much as the French. The available land in Algeria is not as good as ours."
At the Whitehall gathering, Markins shook his glass and talked about the major breakthrough that had just been announced. That is to say, the influence of the Rhodesian royal territory is of course not completely without doubts. "It is just isolated overseas, and control is also a problem."
"Control is not about shouting slogans. First of all, we must ensure that the local economy is much better than that of surrounding areas. Then there are issues with the political structure. Just like Newfoundland has no army and Northern Rhodesia has no parliament."
Alan Wilson took a sip of whiskey and said calmly, "As far as the population of Northern Rhodesia is concerned, there is no need to worry about independence in twenty or thirty years. Hundreds of thousands of people are independent. What's more, independence is also a landlocked country... The surrounding areas are It’s black country.”
"Speaking of which, are there no ideas from Southern Rhodesia?" Markins asked. If there were, Alan Wilson must know. His guess was correct, but even if he knew, there was nothing he could do.
"The most important thing is that Newfoundland and Rhodesia can't help much in the Malayan colony." Alan Wilson was also a little distressed. "Newfoundland has no industrial support except fishing. Northern Rhodesia is inland. , except for mining and farming, the help to the British is also limited. Whether the British can maintain a relatively aloof status still depends on whether Malaya is safe."
Britain had lost British India as a market, but as long as Malaya existed, it was still close to the two most populous countries. What's more, Southeast Asia itself has a large population, and the foundation supporting Britain's international status is still there.
Now is the time to think about it, get rid of the colonies that are of little value, and go all out to maintain a few key areas. Alan Wilson can promote the multi-monarchy model in the United Arab Emirates after independence in Uganda, and merge the currently scattered emirates.
The Middle East is still important, and British military forces still cannot withdraw from the area. This also prevents oil crises from happening.
After all, Britain still stands on the Arab side, which is different from the United States' strategy on Israel and Iran.
The situation in the Middle East cannot be avoided by Saudi Arabia. Everyone knows that Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil producer and has a good relationship with the United States.
Saudi Arabia's pro-American attitude can be traced back decades. Because BP's oil exploration in the Middle East started in Iran and it invested heavily at that time, it ignored Saudi Arabia's request for oil exploration.
At that time, Britain was an empire on which the sun never set, and the Middle East was ruled by Britain. Concentrating exploration and covering up the remaining oil production base without exploration was conducive to controlling oil output. But it was picked up by the United States and established a good relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia has the lowest oil extraction cost in the Middle East, and the second lowest is the United Arab Emirates, which was formed by a group of emirates. The United Arab Emirates is still in the hands of the United Kingdom at this time, and the British troops staying in the Persian Gulf also have the purpose of preventing Saudi Arabia from becoming bigger.
Alan Wilson helped his wife search for oil everywhere in Libya, Algeria, the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, Malaya, and the British North Sea. It is not because the Mountbatten Group is untenable in the Middle East, but to prove that oil is not a scarce resource.
After preventing the collapse of the Braston Woods system, the United States used its relationship with Saudi Arabia to hold European countries hostage. By dispersing the share of oil-producing countries in the Middle East, it will not be easy for the United States to tie up oil.
It is easy for the United States to persuade the sheikhs in the Middle East, but it is not so easy to suppress the British, French, German and Italian forces in Europe, and the oil-producing areas that Britain, France, German and Italian have controlled. These oil areas are all being exploited. Even if the oil crisis breaks out, Europe can also use the resources that are not in the Middle East. Oil put an end to the oil crisis.
"By the way, are you participating in the Anglo-American summit?" Makins suddenly asked, "It seems that you have a very good relationship with the Americans, and you are about to be the cabinet secretary, so you should establish good relations with the United States. "
"I only have good relations with some people in the United States." Alan Wilson sighed, "I have no connections with the American Democratic Party. I am also preparing materials for the UK-US summit meeting."
As for the information, it is nothing more than how many massacres the United States carried out in the Korean War and how many women were raped in Japan over the years. It is not just Japan and South Korea, but also South Vietnam, Iran, and the British and American cooperation in the past to kill Mossadegh and Lumumba. Records of attempts, etc.
If Kennedy wanted to proceed from a position of strength, Alan Wilson would settle scores with the Americans. Britain is a colonial empire. The United States just does not have the name of a colonial empire, and everything it does is a colonial empire.
"I don't know what the purpose of the United States is, but it seems to hope that the nuclear weapons of Britain and France will be under unified command."
"This must be one of the purposes." Alan Wilson continued after hearing this. "Maybe he also wants to set up a military base in the UK. I hope the US aviation industry will not compete with the US aviation industry."
"The Americans treat us as a colony?" Makins said angrily, "They are crazy."
"I don't know, I'm just guessing." Alan Wilson said nothing. Of course, his guesses have been made into reports and sent to Prime Minister Eden.
Anyway, there are several aspects at present. The first is that Britain has paid off its war-time debts.
The second is that Britain has resisted pressure and established a nuclear triad. If there are no debts held by the Americans, and we still have nuclear weapons, we do not need American technology to hold us hostage, so we should not bow down and surrender our weapons.
Gu Xuan/span> But it also depends on what price the United States offers. Everything in this world has a price. If you are not satisfied, you have to pay more.
Maybe the United States can really offer a price that the UK can't refuse? Although Alan Wilson's ordinary mind could not imagine what price he could offer.
On this day, something surprised Alan Wilson. The Eden government appointed a new Secretary of Education, and the original Secretary of Education, Macmillan, actually became the Honorary Chancellor of Oxford University.
The new education secretary is not a cabinet minister, but it is surprising enough, at least Alan Wilson thinks so, because he knows this minister better than anyone else, Mrs. Thatcher, who is now the minister. .
Although Mrs. Thatcher became a member of Parliament three years ago, there are hundreds of Conservative members, and they are not worthy of attention. But being a minister, even if you are not in the cabinet, is different.
"Appointing a woman as Minister of Education won't bring her one-sided emotions into the education system?"
In the presence of Norman Brooke, Alan Wilson expressed his doubts, or prejudices.
"You are a bit younger, but aren't you also very young? The age of politicians is actually younger than the average age of senior civil servants in Whitehall." Norman Brooke was surprised that his promising successor didn't seem to like the new education. Minister, was there a festival in the past?
"The key is that she is a woman. Our views on women are not mixed with personal prejudice, but if it doesn't work, it won't work. They are too emotional and delay making accurate judgments."
Alan Wilson denied that he had any affair with Mrs. Thatcher. It was just a social relationship when he was young, and it was not a feud at all. He believed that the great female prime minister would not care about such trivial matters.
But when he saw Mrs. Thatcher entering the political center of Britain for the first time, he couldn't help but want to talk about it.
Thinking about how much he has worked hard for Britain over the years, I dare not say how much he has contributed, but it can be said that he has worked hard and did not dare to slack off. Today, he has only become the deputy secretary-general of the cabinet, and has not been promoted to the supreme leader. of authority.
A woman has not seen any contribution to the country, and now she becomes a minister? It makes sense that he would be unbalanced.
But an imbalance is an imbalance. After a brief thought, Alan Wilson decided to give the new minister a chance. After all, he will still have contact with the Secretary of Education before he is about to take over Whitehall.
Norman Brooke is happy to see this kind of scene. He hopes that the future cabinet secretary can have more contact with Conservative or Labor politicians, which will help safeguard the interests of Whitehall.
The supreme authority still doesn't know that the relationship between the future cabinet secretary he selected and the newly appointed education minister is complicated, and cannot be commented on in a few words.
Relying on the training of movie queens who have the same status as his wife, Alan Wilson has nothing to be embarrassed about. To celebrate the new minister, he came to the Minister of Education to express his welcome.
"Your Excellency, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Cabinet, thank you for coming." Mrs. Thatcher was startled, but quickly expressed her welcome, "I have just taken office, and I still need the help of civil servants."
"What did the minister say? We are just humble social instruments, bearing the fruits of your careful consideration."
Alan Wilson said with a smile, "I am not familiar with many things in the Ministry of Education. In fact, like the minister, I am also in the process of learning from scratch. I hope the minister can familiarize himself with the work as soon as possible."
"I will!" Mrs. Thatcher said eagerly, as if she was about to implement her grand plan immediately, "Your Excellency, Deputy Secretary-General, I may need your help in the future."
"There is absolutely no problem. I personally look forward to becoming the support behind the minister." Alan Wilson nodded solemnly, "If you need anything, you can call me at any time."
The atmosphere of the conversation between the two was quite strange. Although they maintained a certain distance, it seemed that this was not the case. Of course, the people in the Ministry of Education who didn’t know the truth didn’t realize this at this time.
As a blessing in disguise, Alan Wilson faced the reality calmly and decided to observe first. Maybe nothing would happen and the two of them could live in peace.
Washington sent back a message hoping that the UK-US summit would be held in Nassau to discuss how to face major multi-level challenges in unity on the basis of the special relationship between the UK and the US.
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