Chapter 1209 Suicide Threat

Some criminal acts in Japan and South Korea are, after all, minor issues. If you don’t talk about it, I won’t talk about it. If the two countries with the hegemony of public opinion in the English-speaking world don’t talk about it, it won’t reach other people’s ears.

Although Labor Prime Minister Attlee replaced Churchill after the war, Britain's dominant post-war thinking was still to maintain Britain's status as a global power and an imperialist power in a period of rapidly changing national political challenges.

To be fair, even if the Soviet Union retreated into an inactive international political force immediately after the war, Britain would still make the above policy a top priority.

Maintaining the image and reality of Britain as an international power through leadership words, influence ability, and flattery is the mentality of a considerable number of British national planners, military and political circles.

Imperialist policy has not come to an end. The Middle East and the Far East are still important fortresses of the empire, and Britain still has a large number of troops stationed in many areas, such as the Persian Gulf, Malaya, and Kenya; the scale of the garrison cannot be underestimated.

Under such circumstances, Alan Wilson used the ground-breaking method learned from both China and the West to restore Britain's health as soon as possible.

In fact, Britain had formulated a plan to invade the Soviet Union in 1945, and the person who formulated this plan was Norman Brooke, who immediately left his position of supreme authority.

God knows what Churchill was thinking at the time, but there were many people in the British government at the time who believed that the post-war British economic downturn was only a temporary difficulty...

It happens that Eden is one of these people. The Conservative Party believes that this is the price of victory, and the Americans will definitely help the British pay the bill. Britain's international status declined after victory in the war. For British bureaucrats and politicians, this was an anomaly.

In the end, it was not the United States that paid the bill, but British India, which was dug up, and Canada, which helped the British at the critical moment. But in any case, the anomaly that the Conservative Party believed occurred but not completely. Britain walked out of the intensive care unit after losing too much blood.

Under such circumstances, Eden would not agree with Kennedy's assertion that Britain should not be taken seriously.

Now that Eden and Kennedy are thinking about the same thing, how can they make each other compromise?

"AFP's report on this summit is from TASS. Germany's reaction is generally similar to AFP." Alan Wilson compiled news reports from European countries and submitted them to Prime Minister Eden.

This was all sent via telegraph from London to Nassau. In fact, there were many voices, all of which were called the European Solidarity Club. This is the European-wide deep state including Schumann, which is clamoring about European unity every day. change.

Needless to say, Britain, even de Gaulle was not interested in these people, but at the moment of the Anglo-American summit.

The enemies of enemies can also be friends. Since these people support Britain, they are naturally Britain's bargaining chips.

This is partly the voice of European countries. The voice of British public opinion also focuses on criticizing the bellicosity of the United States. In fact, bellicose criticism of the United States began with the Korean War.

If it hadn't been for Alan Wilson's attitude that no one knows the East better than me, and he was willing to work on the pound, the Attlee government would have been dragged into the Korean War, which would have once again unbalanced Britain's newly balanced finances. Pay off the U.S. debt.

That is to say, starting from the Korean War, Britain became more and more wary of the United States and its Cold War policies. The United States became more and more bellicose and more inclined to preemptively strike. The United Kingdom had to work hard to control both sides' attitudes towards the Cold War fighting methods. Policy differences.

Once the hot war started, the United States would be far away, but Britain would be in Europe, and the Soviet Union would be able to get Britain.

The outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which eventually led to the withdrawal of Turkish missiles, made Britain more determined on this point. It was impossible for Eden to agree that the United States regarded Britain as the front line of offshore balancing Europe.

"The negotiations are indeed quite difficult." Aiden, who had been posing for a day, after listening to the report from Rab Butler...Alan Wilson behind him, nodded heavily and said, "Kennedy, after a day of contact, made me I feel like he has a lot of ideas."

"I don't have many ideas. Will I send Aramco oil to Saudi Arabia? Will the steel industry controlled by Wall Street be adjusted to death?" Alan Wilson looked disgusted. "I don't think he may be re-elected. The oil group and the steel group , are all well-established and powerful industrial groups in the United States. So far, I have not seen any exchange of interests by Kennedy, only constant suppression."

Alan Wilson didn't say in front of Eden that Kennedy would definitely be happy, he just said that Kennedy might step down.

There is no doubt whether Kennedy will be assassinated. Kennedy was killed by execution in public, which shows that there were not just one or two forces who wanted to kill Kennedy. You must know that the power of the President of the United States is extremely rare in Europe and the United States. According to the summary of some insiders, the President of the United States has the power of an emperor.

Judging from Chinese history, there are many cases where princes died without explanation. How many emperors who came to power as adults were killed on the spot?

Alan Wilson thought about it and felt that Li Yuan fit this standard, but it didn't depend on who his son was? Besides, Li Yuan is not dead.

"But now Kennedy's support rate in the United States is still very high." Rab Butler was a little embarrassed.

"So during the meeting, I expressed that I would use the influence of British public opinion to discuss whether the Turkish missiles should be withdrawn." Alan Wilson changed the topic when he said this, "Of course we don't want to do this, we just hope President Kennedy heeded Britain's legitimate appeals."

In the end, Alan Wilson still has to show that he has the overall interests in mind. After all, he is the spokesperson for the special relationship between Britain and the United States. It would be unwise for Britain to fall out with the United States because the United States has a stronger military than Britain.

But on some issues in this meeting, the UK still cannot agree. Just as Alan Wilson said, the United States could not even win the Korean War. Do you really think that the Soviet Army is afraid of the US troops stationed in Germany? That was because they were afraid of nuclear weapons. The Soviet Union was unwilling to trade its own life for the life of Europe.

If the Soviet Union were in Canada's position, would it be the same as the United States being so arrogant in Nassau today? I had already called my father for help. The current situation is that the United States and the United Kingdom are discussing the issue of British troops stationed in the United States, not the other way around.

At the same time, Kennedy was also discussing the deadlock at the summit with Dean Rusk. Regarding the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was stealing the show, Kennedy didn't care much. "Sir Wilson and Robert have a very good relationship. You Think about it, he is one of McCarthy's few friends, so it goes without saying what the reason is."

"The problem is not with a certain negotiator, but with the British Prime Minister and even the British government, who are still stubbornly safeguarding the so-called glory of the United Kingdom."

Kennedy still didn't believe how tough Alan Wilson was, and the other party was not the British Civil Service Minister. How could he represent the British government if he was just the number two figure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? At most, he was just a negotiator who was pushed out.

Maybe it was deliberately pushed out, using this official who has some connections with American politics to gain greater leverage.

If Alan Wilson were in front of Kennedy, he would definitely say, "Hi, the President..."

He is just the No. 2 figure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There is no deep state. This is just a joke. When talking about the deep state, it’s not like Kennedy has never seen it before. Isn’t the deep state in the United States being screwed to death?

From Dean Rusk, Kennedy also heard some of Britain's dissatisfaction with the United States. Britain believed that the United States was deliberately supporting Germany and Japan to compete with Britain's dominant industries. This was true.

Britain believed that the current military policy of the United States was too aggressive. Kennedy believed that this had nothing to do with him. The Korean War was not fought when he was president.

The two days of negotiations cannot be said to have made no progress, but it can basically be said to have made no progress. And this time the negotiations have attracted the attention of the world. Kennedy simply feels that it is more difficult than dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.

On the third day, Kennedy finally couldn't bear to leave the meeting personally. "The value of the pound is unstable. If the United States takes out some gold reserves, it can turn the pound into a waste paper."

Eden took it out unhurriedly. Within a year, De Gaulle said that the US dollar was exploiting Europe. Of course, these remarks were collected by Alan Wilson. Because of the Nassau Conference in history, Kennedy threatened to go short. GBP.

"If Mr. President insists on doing this, I can only say that the cost of turning the pound into waste paper is that the U.S. dollar will not be much more valuable than the waste paper." Aiden said calmly, "This will destroy Bres The order of the Woods system is what Washington should strive to maintain. If it is destroyed, Mr. President’s political path may not last long.”

The Braston Woods system did maintain the hegemony of the United States, but this system was also relatively fair. It was about playing tricks on each other, rather than letting the United States do whatever it wanted.

It was precisely because of relative fairness that the number of countries supporting the US currency proposition at that time exceeded the countries supporting the pound. Are all other countries stupid? Let the United States use dollars to do whatever it wants around the world?

If Kennedy were to make an economic attack on Britain at this time at the expense of the US dollar system supported by gold reserves, there is no doubt that this is poaching the corner of American hegemony. The only way to commit suicide is to shoot himself eight times in the back. ending.

In the British camp, there is a hidden double-faced man who has already strategized and defeated the permanent deputy minister thousands of miles away. He said that the blackmail of the United States may be on the pound, but it does not matter, this is a suicide threat.

Kennedy was actually worried that the U.S. trade deficit would lead to a decline in gold reserves. The result of using gold reserves to suppress the pound was that Kennedy would definitely die before the Breston Woods system collapsed.