Chapter 1341 One and a Half Years in a Hurry

For more than a year, Whitehall has been battling wits with the cabinet. The relationship between the two parties has been by no means smooth sailing. More than a year has been spent around the two cores of various nationalization movements and ensuring military spending.

Alan Wilson supported the nationalization movement but opposed funding cuts on the grounds that there were many overseas interests that required British military protection.

In more than a year, several major events have occurred. Tanganyika and the United Republic of Malawi have become independent. After independence, Nyerere has a tendency to move closer to the Soviet bloc.

The direct consequence is that the power of a certain big country has appeared in Africa. However, Alan Wilson had already planned for this outcome, leaving Zanzibar as an offshore balance. After independence, the relationship between the United Republic and the United Kingdom did not take a turn for the worse. .

Now I heard that railway experts from a certain big country are inspecting the route to build a railway to the sea between Northern Rhodesia and the United Republic. The Slavs in Northern Rhodesia are still very concerned about this matter. Northern Rhodesia is not small in area and has good resource reserves. The only drawback is that it is landlocked.

Although minerals can be exported to the south, the situation in Southern Rhodesia is indeed not optimistic. Although with the support of Northern Rhodesia and South Africa, the resistance of local blacks has been reduced to a level that poses little threat, it still has some influence.

Asia is still calm. Indira Gandhi has been in power for a year and a half and has now secured her position as Prime Minister of India. However, the Congress Party's rule over the country has loosened. This can be seen from the latest national election. Because Shastri died of illness while in office, and Indira Gandhi was a successor, India will still have to hold general elections after Shastri's term ends.

At the beginning of the Indian parliamentary elections, the Congress Party suffered a major setback, with its total number of seats falling to 55%. The central government still retains its dominant position, but among local states, the monopoly has been broken.

This is the worst record of the Congress Party since India’s independence. It can be seen that India’s opposition parties have begun to challenge the dominance of the Congress Party. They may not be able to break the dominance of the Congress Party for a while, but the seeds have begun. germination.

After the election, the Congress Party formed a new federal government, with Gandhiji as Prime Minister and Said as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Syndicate members were defeated in the election, and its leader Kamaraj did not enter the parliament. Gandhi further strengthened his position within the Congress party and the government.

After becoming Prime Minister, the cooperation between the UK and India continued as usual. The UK was extremely supportive of India's agricultural modernization project and understood Indira Gandhi's move to devalue the rupee after she came to power. However, the remaining aspects were not I appreciate it very much. This iron lady was still greatly influenced by her father Nehru, and she expressed the idea of ​​nationalizing some industries.

This is why Alan Wilson focused mainly on protecting military spending rather than stopping Harold Wilson's nationalization movement, because the current British Prime Minister used the nationalization movement of the female Prime Minister of India as a basis for his own nationalization movement. One reason, as if trying to cross the river in India, who dares to stop this?

Over the past year, Britain has expanded trade with India, mainly from two aspects, the British mainland and the Malayan colonies. The main reason is that the Indian rupee devalued by 36% after Indira Gandhi came to power. Point five, which eases UK imports considerably.

Taking advantage of India's surge in exports, the UK used this to increase the closeness of the Commonwealth countries. As for exports to India, for a long time, oil was exported from British Kenya through South Sudan. This helped India survive. A tough time.

It must be said that the oil embargo that lasted for a year because of the India-Pakistan war had a great impact on India. Because of this, India also began to establish a national oil reserve. For India, which has almost no local oil resources, this is not an option but a necessity.

However, India is still wary of British economic influence. For India, the experience learned from colonial history is to be wary of foreign investment.

Colonization was all due to mutual trade, and its economic colonization preceded political colonization. Political colonization was the result of economic colonization. Therefore, India's historical experience in colonial issues is exactly the opposite of that of a certain big country. A certain big country believed that isolation was the cause of failure.

In the eyes of Indians, seclusion is an advanced experience, and mutual trade is a bad rule of national subjugation. Because the Qing Dynasty was defeated by the sailing battleship of the Royal Navy, some major countries believe that they should open up to trade with each other and actively learn from foreigners' methods of training troops and forging cannons. India was defeated by British factories. They thought that as long as they closed the door so that foreign goods could not come in, they would be fine.

Gandhi’s behavior when he led the Indians in the non-violent and non-cooperative independence movement gave a glimpse of the situation. He called on the Indians to produce and sell homespun cloth, use seawater to dry salt themselves, boycott foreign goods, and attempted to resist the British through the economicization of small farmers in a market environment. Modern industrial products for people.

Although the UK supports India's agricultural development, there are still some things that cannot help India. Alan Wilson is well aware of the differences in many aid methods, just like the Soviet Union has aided China and India, but the final effect is completely different. In addition to the difference in nationality, It also has something to do with the fact that the Soviet Union learned from a certain big country and learned from it once.

It can be said that the Soviet Union gave a certain big country a system. It may not be the most advanced, but it can support the development of a country.

The total amount of aid to India may be larger, but it has nothing to do with the system. The United Kingdom is willing to help whether it is for agriculture or animal husbandry, but when it comes to building fertilizer plants, Alan Wilson thinks that the United Kingdom is not an agricultural power. Refused.

Chemical fertilizers are not something you can just produce if you want to. Nitrogen fertilizers and phosphate fertilizers both require synthetic ammonia. The earliest purpose of clicking on the synthetic ammonia technology tree is not to make chemical fertilizers, but to make explosives. The hardware required to make chemical fertilizers is similar to a cannon. They all require alloy steel seamless pipes. After entering the 20th century, nuclear submarines became the iconic dividing line for a country's ability to manufacture fertilizers.

Because when a submarine sails in deep sea water, it has to withstand the static pressure generated by water pressure. The submarine shell is also called a pressure-resistant shell. This shell must withstand high yield, high toughness, high explosion resistance, cyclic fatigue strength and resistance to Corrosive, large-scale production must also have first-class welding capabilities.

The biggest role of the pressure hull manufacturing technology of nuclear submarines in the civilian field is to manufacture high-pressure spherical tanks that can produce synthetic ammonia! With this technology, a country can produce fertilizers freely and increase food production! So how could the UK provide such a fertilizer plant that seems to have nothing to do with the military industry?

This is the current situation for overseas interests. For the United States in 1968, the biggest problem was the still ongoing Vietnam War, and there was already a hint of a domestic anti-war wave.

This is not as good as South Korea. South Korea has a population of more than 20 million and has sent 100,000 troops. There has been no obvious anti-war wave in the country, but there have been protest marches in the United States.

On the one hand, it shows that the United States is not very tolerant of war damage, and on the other hand, it also shows South Korea's professionalism in dealing with the Japanese invaders. When fighting with the imperial army, I worked hard and struck hard. Once the Imperial Army is defeated, the Republic of Korea and Japanese imperialism will be at odds with each other...

Alan Wilson feels that the current problems in the United States should be attributed to de Gaulle. After all, France has been running on gold this year. Although no country in Europe dares to take action with the French, financial institutions and As for private funds, for example, a certain British richest woman is mining gold mines in Australia and New Guinea while following the French in harvesting the gold reserves of the United States.

Speaking of gold, we have to mention the Republic of Yemen. Before independence, Alan Wilson pointed out with great sincerity the fact that there were gold mines in Yemen. This aroused great interest in the Free Officers Organization, and used gold mine endorsement to win assistance from the Soviet Union. Sure enough, the Soviet Union was very generous in aid during the Brezhnev era, not to mention that Yemen also had gold mine endorsement.

The Soviet Union's large-scale assistance to Yemen began immediately, and Soviet mining experts entered Yemen to find the gold mines pointed out by the British for the Yemeni government.

In a short period of time, Yemen's military strength has become extremely expanded. The Soviet Union has the annual production capacity of 3,000 tanks, and the four major tank manufacturers can continue to increase this production capacity.

Arming a medium-sized country is extremely fast, so during the Cold War, the Soviet Union's allies were able to field a decent army no matter where the country was.

During the Cold War, Cuba, as an island country, had thousands of tanks and two thousand armored vehicles. It was the largest military in Latin America except Brazil.

In just a few years since its independence, Yemen's military size has been close to that of Syria, another Arab country supported by the Soviet Union, and it has become another military power in the Arab world.

This has to force the UK to continue its arms sales to pro-British Arab countries in a more conscientious manner.

During this period, the United Kingdom also had diplomatic dialogue with Israel. What about you, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, playing me in the Arab world?

One supports Syria and Yemen, while the other supports Iraq, Egypt and Jordan. A tank transporting thousands of people and an anti-aircraft missile system are given free of charge. The other one focused on the navy and air force, and sold thirty catamaran missile boats to Egypt at one time.

The military strength of various countries in the Arab world has increased, leaving Israel on pins and needles. If it were the history in Alan Wilson's mind, the third Middle East War had ended for a year, but in this world, the battle for the founding of Israel had not built up confidence, and there was no training in the Suez Canal War. He wanted to preemptively strike, but saw The combined military strength of the Arab countries will inevitably be filled with fear. One punch will not be opened, but hundreds of punches will be fired.