Chapter 1353 May Storm

If the idea is to reach Algeria, this financial attack will take a turn for the worse. On a larger scale, it may lead to a rift between France and the United Kingdom. If the Free European Council cannot put an end to this risky idea, Alan Wilson can contact the CIA. Chief, calm down Dennis.

"Ask that loser, do the Americans want to fill the gap in ground weapons left by France's military power when it turns hostile?" Alan Wilson said seriously to Richard White.

Compared with the U.S. Army, Alan Wilson said without any lies that he still believed in the combat effectiveness of the French army. Although the French army was killed once by the Germans in World War II, it was nothing and it was just too late to react.

As for the U.S. Army, it is difficult for him to remember the time when he shouldered the expectations of the public, the Ardennes Counterattack? The Korean War, or the ongoing Vietnam War? This also counted on facing Soviet troops.

In the ground battle, when NATO faced the Warsaw Pact, it was nothing more than dropping nuclear bombs when you came. Otherwise, how could we expect Patton to change?

Not to mention now, we can’t expect it in a few decades. In NATO military exercises, one Ukrainian company will defeat an American battalion, and in a Sino-Russian military exercise, one PLA battalion will defeat a Russian regiment. However, when the Russian army encounters the Ukrainian army, Ukraine will not dare to do so. When you leave the city, you can explode as you please, but I won’t go out anyway.

It's easy to say that it's an attack limited to the financial sector. It's not a big deal to incite workers' protests in France. But it's another thing to reach out to Algeria, which the French army has fought hard to pacify for many years. If France doesn't respond, Didn’t so many French soldiers die in vain?

At this time, we cannot allow a peripheral organization of the CIA to run amok. Alan Wilson was not polite and directly moved out CIA Director Richard Helms and asked the Secretary-General to calm down and replace him if he no longer wanted to do the job. people.

"Report in a timely manner if there are any actions. Who asked you to make your own decisions?" Richard Helms made a direct call to Dennis from across the ocean. He educated the Secretary-General and asked him to cooperate with the British actions. The United States was Europe did not have the energy to fully respond to the Vietnam War.

There are now more than 500,000 US troops stationed in Vietnam, and even the US troops stationed in Germany have been transferred. The current size of the US troops stationed in Germany is four divisions of the Seventh Army, which is the same as the British Army Group. As for the French garrison, since France withdrew from NATO, it withdrew two armies from Germany and now only retains one army in Baden.

The United Kingdom is willing to teach France a lesson for running on gold. At this juncture, the United States is naturally happy to see this happen, but the United States is not willing to fall out with the French. At present, the great enemy cannot target the French. As the British say, financial attacks will not cause a falling out with the French, and it is not necessarily possible to really manipulate the Algeria issue.

De Gaulle's Fifth Republic was not a completely democratically elected government. Algeria's military control has never been relaxed, and it is not a place that can be flirted with casually.

After educating his subordinates, Richard Helms got in touch with Alan Wilson and thanked Britain for its help at this time. The United Kingdom and the United States will properly educate France's thorn in the side this time, but will control it within appropriate limits. scale.

The Federal Reserve was also preparing for a counterattack against France's run on gold, and also approved the plan to mess up France first. Soon the CIA received intelligence analysis from London.

For the student population, this is a restless generation who no longer want to endure the rigid, disciplined and crowded university life, not to mention the prospect of being expelled after just one year of university or losing their job immediately after graduation. When the University of Nanterre was closed and students from the Sorbonne University occupied the campus to show solidarity, the de Gaulle authorities began to send police to clear the place.

The appreciation pressure on the franc caused by the run on the golden point has weakened the export competition of French goods. For France, someone always has to pay the price, and the student group who have not yet faced life independently bear the brunt.

Paris, as an old revolutionary area, often plays the role of changing the government for the French, but whether it brings glory or ruin is a matter of opinion.

If France hadn't always been in internal strife,

In the colonial era, the British would not be able to deal with it so easily. Since the citizens of Paris have a tradition of leading revolutions, there is no need to do anything about it.

In essence, Alan Wilson regarded this provocation as a yellow vest movement. You see, the French wore yellow vests to protest because of some nonsense. It really happened that Russia was trying to blame the blame, causing all energy and food prices to rise, but the yellow vest movement took off. It has disappeared. Isn’t it clear who is the supporter behind it?

Hedy Lamarr and Ingrid Bergman had already arrived in London. When Alan Wilson took the time to come over to visit, he looked left and right and asked, "Where is my son?"

Hedy Lamarr asked herself when she heard this, and replied, "Why is the Soviet Union calling? Look at you, he is studying in Vienna."

"I really can't do anything to you." Alan Wilson smiled but didn't smile. There was a Queen of Sweden who wouldn't let him see her son. What's wrong with this? "Well, it's not a big deal. As long as it's not in Paris."

"What happened to Paris?" Ingrid Bergman asked her two daughters to sit aside and asked the man what happened in Paris.

"I heard that students in Paris are going to protest on May 6th? Is that possible?" Seeing the two women nodding, Alan Wilson continued, "Paris has always been the center of the revolution. You are protesting. It’s better not to be in Paris, but to stay in England for a while. Vivian has a place to live.”

Needless to say, the words are too clear. The two movie queens are temporarily living in London. He is the supreme authority. In London, he can speak more effectively than God.

"Will the protest expand?" Hedy Lamarr looked frightened. "But having said that, if you want to run away but also take a woman with you, if the Soviets really start fighting, it may delay your escape. efficiency."

"When the Soviets come, I will resist to the end." Alan Wilson said decisively, "This is the basic conduct of a patriot."

He must have been very busy recently, and he didn't even have time to talk about manned spaceflight with his two wives of equal status, because his wife, Ms. Pamela Mountbatten, was quickly raising funds to prepare for emergencies.

"Twenty-five billion pounds!" Pamela Mountbatten reported her victory results to her husband. Pamela Mountbatten herself actually had very little cash in her hands due to a run on gold. Most of this money was liquid funds from major British banks. , "Where is the foreign aid you are looking for?"

"You will know by then that they are not British." Alan Wilson replied lamely. The Dragoon Sisters should be his greatest achievement besides Pamela Mountbatten.

The Deutsche Mark is a strong currency in Europe. It has been known to everyone since 1958, not to mention that it is now ten years later.

I wonder how much capital the Dragoon sisters, who have continued to accumulate wealth after so many years, can mobilize now? Maybe no less than Pamela Mountbatten.

Attacking the franc was less troublesome because there was a European Payments Union, and intra-European trade recovered more quickly after the war because the European Payments Union allowed participating countries to settle bonds and counterclaims with each other. Each country maintains a balance in the EPU in a "European Unit of Account", defined as 0.888671 grams of gold, the assumed gold content of one dollar.

Each month EMU clears claims and counterclaims, and each country must settle its net claims with EMU. Monthly liquidations ensure that the EPU does not evolve into the liquidity machine dreamed of by Keynesians, although modest amounts can be borrowed to offset short-term fluctuations in the balance of payments.

The irony is that this was established under the initiative of the French. This time, the French franc can be attacked through this payment institution established by the French. It can be said to be a Trojan horse.

"When will the attack on the franc begin?" Pamela Mountbatten asked her husband. When was the so-called timing?

"On May 6th, the French Student Union will hold a nationwide demonstration. This is determined by the National Federation of French Students. On that day you will know that a single spark can start a prairie fire." Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow to signal his wife to calm down. "It takes time for saplings to grow into towering trees, doesn't it?"

As long as the parade starts, you can take advantage of troubled waters. Once you fall into unconscious chaos, there are many places you can maneuver.

The time soon came to May 6, and the massive demonstration was held as scheduled. Soon, students and police clashed. Tear gas was fired for the first time in the Latin Quarter, and barricades were first erected on Boulevard Saint-Germain.

The students tore down barricades and threw rocks at the police to force them to retreat, while the police used high-pressure water hoses and sticks to deal with them. Inside the police station, they beat the arrested students and threw them into the police station.

The spark in the old revolutionary quarter was finally ignited, and almost immediately, the British Embassy in Paris was able to report on current affairs to London, informing Whitehall of every move in Paris.

"Now is the perfect time to fan the students." Alan Wilson held the microphone and discussed with Richard White on the other side of the microphone. "Use the leader you are optimistic about and fire at the strongman who is stubborn and unable to listen to the voice of the public."

In the setting sun, the barricades of Saint-Germain Boulevard still stand, as if telling people what happened here during the day, and that things will not end so simply. Young students are preparing for a new round of protests.

"Those cannon fodder." In front of several movie queens, Alan Wilson mocked unscrupulously, "I remember that one of the reasons for the establishment of the student organization in March was because they were not allowed to enter the girls' dormitory? A bunch of stinky hooligans pretending to beg for help for the people. , Paris is a city where anything can happen.”

But it doesn’t matter what one of the sources is. Every group is pursuing it. Auto workers want to change their lives of working eight to ten hours a day and being supervised by their superiors employed by the company.

Train and bus drivers want to be able to control their shifts, have enough time to rest, read and discuss... and even participate in the management of their own industry and society.

Farmers discuss with workers and urban residents how best to produce and distribute their products, and the government helps farmers purchase seeds and farm equipment.

And this all requires an opportunity. The reason for the opportunity itself is not important, as long as it appears.