Chapter 1011: America Wants to Talk

The fact that Farouk I was as purely a boozehound as he was was in a sense good for Britain. At least there was no resistance to Britain’s supportive policies, a good-for-nothing monarch, just don’t interfere with Britain’s plans.

When it was time to reap the fruits, naturally Alan Wilson would not forget the thieving king, all that was needed was for Farouk I to live deep in his house, and he would naturally present the rewards of what had been accomplished to His Majesty, the honorable King.

What kind of image the king is, doesn’t it still depend on how the media portrays it? As long as he doesn’t come out bad, in time an image of great wisdom will naturally fall from the sky.

In fact, under Britain’s constant hegemony of public opinion in recent years, Farouk I’s popularity ratings have already been reversed.

As soon as the Aswan Dam is completed, when control of the deteriorating Suez cloud is nominally recovered, who says that this mediocre monarch will not be able to rival Ali Pasha? Ali Pasha failed, Farouk I succeeded.

From the beginning of this Anglo-Egyptian joint naval maneuvers, the full range of Farouk I multi-faceted touting also began.

The Giant-class aircraft carriers commissioned into the Egyptian Navy, although they are obsolete products sold by Britain everywhere, but the tonnage does not lie.

This is also the first time in a hundred years that the Egyptian Navy has received 10,000 tons of warships, which is a milestone.

And naturally, this one aircraft carrier received by the Egyptian Navy was named after Farouk I’s ancestor Ali Pasha, the aircraft carrier Muhammad Ali, which became the symbol of the Egyptian Navy.

The HMS Mohammed Ali, accompanied by a detachment of the Mediterranean Fleet, opened this military exercise, which was actually quite extensive, destined for the Sultanate of Zanzibar, an island nation chosen by the British as a counterbalance to the offshore of East Africa.

“It’s actually not that hard to be an Arab leader.” Alan Wilson, receiving news back from Cairo that there was now a strong Egyptian reaction to this military exercise, then informed Foreign Secretary Macmillan about it.

“The importance of the Suez Canal is, naturally, needless to say.” Macmillan also replied with considerable satisfaction, “The Prime Minister will be very pleased as long as there are no problems with the British route.”

“I can’t think of anything that could possibly threaten the Suez Canal other than Israel declaring war on Egypt.” Alan Wilson replied after half a minute’s thought, “It seems we need a plan to attack Israel for the record.”

Macmillan was stunned and said in disbelief, “Alan, are you serious? An attack on Israel?”

“Just for the record, Honorable Minister, battle plans need to take into account the worst possible outcome.” Alan Wilson responded flatly, “In order to safeguard Britain’s national interests, a red line must be and is drawn. If Israel makes a move that jeopardizes the Suez Canal, it should be met with a British counterattack, and of course we don’t want that possibility.”

What surprised Macmillan was that the Mountbattens and the Jews were connected.

In a sense, Allen Wilson was also the son-in-law of also Jews.

But Alan Wilson didn’t see it that way; if Britain lived a second life of extreme sublimity and existed on Earth at the top of its game.

Then Israel will be useful, Britain should replace the United States to Israel full support.

But now the British Empire are self-cutting a knife fell off the peak, now thinking about should be incarnated in the forbidden zone self-protection.

Suez Canal in Egyptian territory this is unchangeable, to ensure that this extremely important to the United Kingdom lifeline does not go wrong, the United Kingdom must stand behind Egypt, even if it is not firm, but also partially in favor of Egypt.

“But the Israeli side has challenged it.” Macmillan let out a bitter laugh, “Alan you know, the Jews suffered greatly in World War II and are now universally sympathized with by the rest of the world.”

“I didn’t see that the Soviet Union and Syria had such good relations.” Alan Wilson said with a look like you’re not fooling me, “Honorable Minister, in this matter, the interests of Britain and our close allies are not overlapping. With the current situation, once Britain offends the Arab countries, the Soviet Union will try to replace Britain. The Middle East cannot afford a large-scale war, and a state of war is the perfect soil for the spread of Soviet ideas. I hope that the United States also understands this.”

Can Britain give up its influence in Arab countries? History is that it eventually gave up, but the consequences of the Suez Cloud Canal War, if the Suez Canal Britain is not finally choose war to solve, Britain is expected to rely on the Middle East for a long time.

The first Middle East war, in fact, only the United Kingdom itself to support the Arab countries, the other major powers are in favor of Israel.

Even now, the whole of the Arab countries, only Saudi Arabia, the weakling is on the side of the United States. And when it comes to Israel, Saudi Arabia has no say at all.

Whether it’s pro-Soviet Syria, or Egypt and Iraq, which are currently on good terms with the UK, all have more prestige in the Arab world than the Saudis, and the UK should use the republican system of Syria’s fall to the USSR to convince the US that the monarchies in the Arab countries should be protected.

“It’s a good thing you’re not Prime Minister.” Leaving the Foreign Secretary’s office, Alan Wilson was finally discovering the benefits of having Aidan as Prime Minister, at least it was more reliable than this Foreign Secretary whose mother was American.

His chief private secretary, Wick, had by now arrived in Egypt to meet Farouk I, to set out Britain’s views on maintaining Egypt’s Arab hegemony and to congratulate the Egyptian navy on spreading its influence into southeast Africa.

“Britain has always expressed firm support for the stabilization of the Egyptian crown and the containment of the growing wave of revolution.” When Wake met Prince Munam, an important figure in the Egyptian royal family, “Britain is bound to leave Egypt sooner or later, and is willing to maintain special and friendly relations with Egypt as long as the Suez Canal is unobstructed to Britain and does not jeopardize Britain’s national security. Perhaps many affairs in Africa will still require Egypt’s support.”

Wick is still very much a British gentleman, if Alan Wilson came over in person, he even rushed to say in front of Prince Munam that Britain would support Egypt’s annexation of Libya, it’s all just talk anyway, so why not brag about it.

Anyway, after the death of Daisuke Ka, the situation in Libya became a bloodbath between the Egyptian-backed forces and the Turkish-backed forces. Libya’s proximity to Egyptian lands has increased Egyptian influence so much that there is even anecdotal talk circulating that Egypt is going to annex Libya.

Libya is indeed a good object of annexation, the population is only a few million level, rich in oil resources, the book territory is large. North Africa’s famous soft persimmon, only the presence of Card Dazo is too high, so that some countries mistakenly think that Libya’s strength is still good.

Alan Wilson then bet the British influence in the Arab countries, on the monarchy.

This was judged from the course of the Cold War; once converted to a republic, given the presence of Israel, the Soviet Union, even if it couldn’t transplant its own institutions there, the republican states would show some degree of pro-Sovietism.

The pro-Soviet Arab states of the Cold War were, Egypt, where the Free Officers Organization, headed by Nasser, staged a coup, seized state power, and then oriented to the Soviet Union.

Iraqi military officer Qassem staged a coup to overthrow the pro-British government of the Kingdom of Iraq, and Iraq fell back to the Soviet Union on all diplomatic fronts.

With a democratically-elected government coming to power in Syria, the Arab Baath Party gradually took control of the state power in Syria, which was diplomatically oriented towards the USSR.

After Algeria won the War of National Liberation, diplomatic relations were established between the Soviet Union and the Algerian government, and most of the weapons and equipment of the Algerian army were made by the Soviet Union.

The Free Officers Organization led by Gaddafi staged a military coup, overthrew the Libyan Royal Government and established the Libyan Republic. Libya fell fully to the Soviet Union diplomatically.

This is not even counting the purely Soviet system countries like South Yemen, where the overthrow of every monarchy has resulted in the loss of British influence and the expansion of Soviet influence in the Middle East.

The U.S. also fought tooth and nail to keep Saudi Arabia, during which it also lost Iran, nearly causing the collapse of the U.S. layout in the Middle East.

Now that the industrial base of Malaya has been successfully operated, increasing the resistance of the pro-British monarchies in the Middle East should be the Middle East foreign policy that Britain should consider at this stage. He even wanted to pull in France.

It is just as well that this time, taking advantage of the Antarctic Conference, to have a good chat with the French, and the reason for the chat also has the factor of the United States. Because the United States has already expressed, through diplomatic channels, its hope that Britain will not be tough on the Iranian issue any longer.

Washington is willing to mediate on the Iranian oil crisis and come up with a fair program to preserve Britain’s interests.

Now that Prime Minister Aidan is considering whether to answer to the US proposal, Alan Wilson has submitted his report on the Iranian issue, listing the possible solutions given by the US.

After becoming prime minister, Prime Minister Aidan inherited his predecessor’s government’s hard-line approach to the Iranian oil crisis and has said publicly that “Iran is bound to drown in a sea of its own oil, and that the international crude oil market is now fine with Iran, and not much different without the same, and that Iran is simply inconsequential.”

But the British sanctions have made Washington feel that the situation in Iran seems to be becoming delicate.

Washington’s chosen proxy countries in the Middle East are Iran, which is predominantly Persian, and Israel. Saudi Arabia, the underdog, is Arab, and not trustworthy in terms of fighting prowess.

If the British blockade of Iran continues, we must know that Iran is a three-part pattern, and the northern part of the Soviet Union’s influence exists, if the Soviet Union takes the opportunity to expand its influence, not only will the United Kingdom not be able to get the benefit of the doubt, the United States will also be equally affected.

With the British and Iranian blockade and counter-blockade in the intensification of the United States has been more and more unable to sit down, want to find an opportunity to talk to Britain, continue to let the Soviet Union can only get the benefits of the United Kingdom and the United States are unfavorable.

Prime Minister Aidan, now also under no small pressure from Washington, just the beginning of the resolute sanctions attitude, but also become loose.