Chapter 1016 – European Rebalancing
It was no secret at all that Britain’s colonial system was centered on British India, and the United States knew all about it.
As the core of the colonial empire, British India finally became independent, which naturally made the United States happy, which meant that this long-time imaginary enemy finally admitted the reality and stepped down from the throne of the world’s hegemony.
This was followed by the independence of Sudan, and later Nigeria, where Britain’s power became weaker and weaker.
The United States is naturally happy with this, after all, the Soviet Union is a great enemy, across the Eurasian continent of the country, so that no one dare not pay attention to, the British contraction of their own is no better.
But this time the test, but let the United States stunned to find that the post-war, together with India, Sudan, independent of more than six million square kilometers of the father, as if it is not dead through, to the present still have considerable strength.
Pro-daddy’s old bottom is still very rich, listening to this time the defense of the pound will be able to see, the Nigerian oil company packaged in London listing, a detonation of capital, driving the London stock market climbing.
“The British are peddling one colony at a time, and there are at least three or four other valuable colonies that can replicate this realization.” Eisenhower had to marvel, “It seems that weakening Britain really requires a decade or two of dedicated planning.”
Since financial means could not force Britain’s hand, the attack on the pound was unnecessary. There are no long years of financial wars, financial wars are usually short, and once defended against, heaps of time are useless.
Eisenhower wanted to stop sniping at the pound, if there is an opportunity later in the hands.
Nixon also did not think of a good way, just want to say something, Secretary of State Dulles came directly to the President’s office, is to see the President and Vice President are in, “the President, Vice President, heard about the London securities market fire, right.”
“Well, the British pound is still very strong, in the case of increased investment in sniping, it may make things to the point of unmanageable.” Nixon nodded and said, “We still can’t tear ourselves apart with Britain, it would only cheapen the Soviets.”
“The President and Vice President’s comments make sense.” Dulles didn’t ignore Nixon just because he was the Vice President, although the Vice President was a known mascot, ever since the assassination of William McKinley and the rise to power of the old Roosevelt, all Americans knew how terrible the consequences of ignoring the Vice President could be.
Nixon was already certain to be the next Republican presidential candidate, and Dulles knew all about it, so he said, “Now balancing Britain has become something we have to do, or else our influence on European affairs will be greatly reduced by Britain’s presence.”
Eisenhower and Nixon both nodded deeply, although Dulles was subjected to some criticism because of the Cuban revolution, but the two men still have considerable trust in him, especially in terms of strategic vision.
The fact that this sniping action against the pound was fruitless in itself said a lot, and European rebalancing was imminent.
“But the key is, choose who to balance?” Nixon thought for half a day and laughed bitterly, “in fact, from the ability, France is naturally the most suitable candidate, but France is also a colonial country, many issues and the difference between Britain and the United Kingdom is limited to, the means of a little more direct, or the means of a little more covert, de Gaulle is also a bad person to deal with, is it possible to use …… Jesus.”
“Yes, Vice President, the only reliable alternative is Germany.” Dulles followed Nixon’s words and continued, “As stated before, there is little difference between Britain and France, just the means. De Gaulle isn’t trustworthy either, and the only people in Europe who can be economically and demographically equal to Britain and France are Germany and Italy, but Italy’s capabilities? Obviously not as good as Germany.”
Germany’s industrial level is on par with France’s, and its population size is still slightly larger than France’s, and it’s at the same level as Britain’s population. It was in the right target, and the United States also had a reason to do so, there was a huge American army stationed in Germany, although there were also British and French troops, but at least the United States had enough ability to support on the grounds of strengthening Germany’s national strength in defense of Europe.
“It doesn’t seem quite justifiable.” Eisenhower was a bit hesitant, although he was of German descent, but also precisely because he was of German descent, he was not in a good position to take a stand on this matter.
“No problem, the World War is a thing of the past, what we need is the unity of the free world.” Dulles opened his mouth in a crowning voice and persuaded, “Germany has an important role to play in resisting the Soviet Union in defense of the free world. No one can deny that.”
What’s wrong with supporting Germany, it’s not the first time, otherwise how would Germany have the capital to start a world war?
In order to help Germany recover economically after WWI, the U.S. provided huge loans and made massive investments in Germany. Just a “Dawes program”, Germany has obtained thirty-three billion marks of loans, seventy percent of which is provided by the United States, it can be said that the U.S. capital in the post-war rise of Germany played an important role in the process.
At the technical level, various technologies from ceramics and lubricants to automobiles, airplanes and tanks were provided to Germany, which provided great help to Germany’s industrial and technological development.
There was nothing new under the sun, and after World War II the United States took a similarly supportive stance toward Germany, this time to fend off the Soviet Union. Germany was more trustworthy than Britain and France, who still had some strength, and whose chances of turning the tide were gone.
Britain and France are not the same, first of all, they have nuclear bombs, and can also vigorously develop offensive weapons; although the three countries are the same political system, but between countries are no eternal friends, only eternal interests, Britain and France also absolutely can not get the United States of America’s unconditional trust, at least now the strength of Britain and France can not.
If one day Britain and France and Germany are at a level, the United States can truly believe that the colonial era of the two hegemony.
Tested out the degree of firmness of the pound of the United States, not from the financial field of entanglement, so that even if the collapse of the pound, the United States will lose a large number of gold reserves, at least the current United States is not willing to do so, this will shake the foundation of the Breston Woods system.
This time lasted half a month of the pound crisis, directly on the ground, and even for most people, there is no such thing as a pound crisis. But the United States is actually just a different battlefield for the layout.
In Bonn, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer secretly received the U.S. ambassador and listened to the other side to convey Washington’s support for the idea that Germany should play a greater role, and Konrad Adenauer of course warmly welcomed the U.S. proposition.
At the Heilmann Estate in Bonn, Anna looked with a big smile at the pile of brothers in the middle of the yard and called out, “Hans, Koch, come to mommy, it’s time for supper.”
Compared to Anna’s loving care, Bokina was a little unsmiling and said as she ate, “The American ambassador met with Adenauer.”
“Have a good workout after you eat, and get some rest afterward.” Anna waited for the two brothers to finish their dinner and left them to rest before saying, “He’s absolutely right, the industrial labor shortage in Germany has been rather severe. If there’s really no other way, the Persians are more trustworthy than the Turks anyhow, like he said, the Persians are very keen on the Aryan argument, the filter is still very thick.”
“I’ll inquire about the government’s attitude.” Dragging her chin with one hand, her short blonde hair peeking tenaciously through her fingers, Bokina spoke languidly, “Since he’s on record about the situation, he must still have a solution.”
“Then who knows, it’s not like I sleep with him every day.” Anna rolled her eyes and skimmed her lips, “People can be popular, there are a bunch of old women surrounding them every day.”
The thing about Alan Wilson and some of the MILFs had long since been no secret to the Dragoon sisters.
“I think we’d better talk about this, he’s talked about how things might go in Iran.” Bokina mused, “It just so happens that it is also true that there is a labor shortage in Germany right now, this is a good opportunity to get involved in Iran.”
“First of all I think that he should be given a heads up.” Anna said seriously, she didn’t care where the introduction of the Iranian oil crisis went, the key was to maintain mutual trust, and after the West Berlin incident, mutual trust couldn’t withstand another breach.
Bokina stared at her sister, who was having a love-brain attack, and finally nodded helplessly, “I really don’t have anything more to say to you.”
“Then don’t say anything, I’m going to go see what Hans is doing, it’s always unsettling every day.” Anna got up with a bounce, not at all like the tough German women she was known for at this age, and she wasn’t supposed to be.
A few years earlier, industries in the Federal Republic of Germany had begun to pressure the government to bring in labor from foreign countries and threaten to move their factories out of Germany otherwise. The labor unions, on the other hand, were strongly opposed to the introduction of foreign labor for fear that the jobs of their own citizens would be threatened.
After many negotiations, an agreement was reached between labor and management on the condition that the Federal German government would guarantee equal pay for equal work.
Germany signed labor agreements with Spain, Italy and Greece, except that of the three countries only Italy had enough labor, but Italy’s own economy was doing well, and the Franco government in Spain controlled the size of the labor force, leaving only Greece, but how many people were there in Greece?
Federal Germany’s unemployment rate has dropped to below one percent, the job gap is as high as 300,000, either bring in laborers or transfer the gap that needs laborers, at least the current government is not going to choose to transfer the industry, then we can only bring in laborers to work in Germany.
And at this time the United States hope that Germany share the Iranian oil crisis idea, can be said to coincide with Germany’s labor shortage, Iran has a strong filter on Germany, Allen Wilson a British know, Germany has no reason not to know.
The idea of the United States of America to unite Germany against Britain is in Germany’s mind, Iran is because of the British sanctions unemployment rate remains high, it is the time for Germany to step in, in the Iranian capital of Tehran, the German ambassador met with the Shah of Iran, Pahlavi.