Chapter 1042 The Minister Who Manages Too Much

The reason for doing this was to give the United States a sense of moral superiority that it was right to force Belgium to give up its repression of the Congo.

Before Lumumba reveals his true nature, which is to say, before he becomes unsympathetic to the West, he puts the United States above the moral fire and roasts it like this.

You can’t come over and overthrow Lumumba with a backhand just as American public opinion is enthusiastically celebrating Congo’s independence and Lumumba’s status as a national hero, can you? Even if they did, they would have to turn public opinion around first, and that would take time, wouldn’t it?

Allen Wilson because he has to go to British Somaliland, can not always from here to keep an eye on the evolution of the situation in the Congo, naturally want to stir up the water, until the water is clear, he should also come back, the end of the trusteeship will not take too long.

Grace, on the other hand, returned to Northern Rhodesia to wait, after all, is a neighboring place, in Northern Rhodesia as able to pay attention to the situation in the Congo.

The two men had agreed to keep in touch, and Alan Wilson took off directly to the Horn of Africa on the Comet airliner.

The Horn of Africa, sometimes called Northeast Africa according to its geographic location. Located in northeastern Africa, the Horn of Africa is a peninsula in East Africa, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Aden, extending hundreds of kilometers eastward into the Arabian Sea.

It is the easternmost region of the African continent, and Cape Hafun, the easternmost point of the continent, is also located in this region.

Theoretically it is a soldier’s land, why do I say theoretically, because Alan Wilson is not too keen on the term, soldier’s land.

Theoretically all lands could be a soldier’s land, but in reality many soldier’s lands were just called under the existing conditions.

For example, the general central dynasty to the northwestern military need to take the Hexi Corridor, the Hexi Corridor is a place of war.

The Qing dynasty dry Junggar did not take the Hexi Corridor, from the Mongolian plateau to kill the past, the Hexi Corridor is not a necessary place for soldiers.

If the Horn of Africa is very important to Britain, then the opposite side of the Red Sea strait should also be as important, Britain is not still to occupy the Arabian Peninsula? The Arabian Peninsula is barren, so in order to secure the basic living conditions, is it not necessary to occupy the Two River Basin?

If this goes on indefinitely, Britain may have to occupy the whole world in order to solve the problem of being a soldier’s land.

British Somalia is only a small part of Somalia, accurately called British Somaliland. And Italian Somalia was let loose on Britain for independence a few years back.

Historically Somalia’s independence was the result of Britain letting the trusteeship of British Somaliland and Italian Somalia go independent in a succession of one month’s time this year, which resulted in the merger of the two colonies to form the complete Somalia.

And the biggest change that Alan Wilson brought to Whitehall was the policy of partitioning colonies rather than merging them.

The partition of India and Pakistan is the proof that it is better for India to make Pakistan hostile than for the whole of British India to be complete and independent and bully the neighboring countries, and killing each other that is India and Pakistan’s own problem and does not affect the security of other countries.

Under this change, the original did not appear in the British East African Federation more even people did not even mention, merged out of the British East African Federation was also prevented from not appearing, the Somali Republic naturally do not want to merge.

Hargeisa, the capital of British Somalia, High Commissioner Evans waited for the Comet airliner to land and Alan Wilson’s figure to appear before jogging forward, “Sir Wilson, welcome to Hargeisa.”

“Of course, we have to celebrate Somalia’s independence warmly.” Alan Wilson had a smile on his face, patting Evans on the shoulder, “Don’t worry about your future work, if Somaliland remains in the Commonwealth, you’ll still be the High Commissioner, if it leaves the Commonwealth, you’ll have to change your designation to Ambassador, it’s just a change in designation, it won’t make any difference.”

“At the same time Somaliland’s overseas assets, will also remain yours to continue to manage, any nasty change is something we are against.”

“Naturally I wish to continue to benefit the community.” Relief washed over Evans and his tone lightened.

“Of course, that is our common wish.” Upon coming up and giving his subordinates a piece of mind, Allen Wilson headed to the apartment Evans had arranged for himself, this happy expression of witnessing independence was not feigned, Somaliland is not a rich colony, independence is independence, it’s a good thing.

Like the Gold Coast kind of fist product is gold and diamonds colonies, he can let the founding fathers of the independence advocate all died in vain, Somaliland is obviously not in the list.

At least it is more than 100,000 square kilometers of land, Somaliland can not have no resources, but at present Evans on the development of Somaliland, limited to the green revolution and the main tourism signboard.

Among the British colonies, Somaliland really doesn’t have any particularly important value, except for the empty words of a soldier’s land.

Covered in the hand for such a long time, just because and has been independent Somalia to make a distinction, maintain a gap so that the two colonies do not merge after independence.

Half an hour later, Evans left, rushed to Hargeisa to shift to ensure the logistics of Ms. Heidi Rama, has sat in the man’s arms, “Do you consider yourself as the emperor, the emperor is not as good as you will enjoy. Such a desolate place, and you want people to come over to accompany you.”

“With a lady like you accompanying me, I wouldn’t even let me be an emperor.” Alan Wilson laughed out loud, his beautiful fantasies about the emperor, all disappeared without a trace after seeing the Qing dynasty emperor’s living schedule, worthy of being the pinnacle of centralized power, I don’t know if the emperor of an earlier dynasty would be like a human being, anyway, the emperor of the Qing dynasty is not quite a human being anymore.

“So happy?” Hedy Lamarr was a bit surprised, wasn’t this man a strong advocate of colonialism?

“Colonies with little resources hurry to become independent. If they don’t become independent they will rely on Britain later.” Alan Wilson couldn’t let what happened to Suriname relying on Holland not to leave happen to Britain.

“I thought you were finally a good man.” Hedy Lamarr gave the man a blank look, “So it’s Somaliland that has no value.”

“There is some value, but it’s not worth looking at.” Alan Wilson was not too keen on the strategic position, otherwise Evans would not have chosen to develop agriculture and tourism, the strategic position could be replaced by Djibouti, Somaliland independence used to plug the mouth of the Americans in the right place.

Just such a place, all let Duncan special trip, visible minister is really idle, must run to Africa to brush a sense of presence.

A day later, the former Secretary of State for Defense, now Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs Duncan finally arrived in Hargeisa. Alan Wilson, like yesterday’s Evans, went to the airport to meet him.

Although only one day, twenty-four hours time, the world still appeared some changes, the United States public opinion on the independence of the Congo reports hot, but also published a batch of Belgian colonial period of chopping hands photos, as well as two years ago the Belgian Universal Exposition, the Belgian people treat the Congolese as animals in the human zoo photos published.

To show that the United States strongly supports the independence of the Belgian Congo is a very good thing for the whole of humanity.

Such a report inspired a sense of moral superiority in Americans, and the United States of America took the name of the human lighthouse.

This was done by Allen Wilson through the medium of Newfoundland, and it was very effective, but not without side effects.

For example, since it was right to support the independence of the Congo, now the same British move to bully Iran, the United States should also stand on the side of the weak.

It is conceivable that with this kind of public opinion, the U.S. might be even more energized to support Iran in forcing Britain’s hand.

Things have two sides, this Alan Wilson can not help, in order to muddy the water, have to bear the consequences. In different places Britain’s position may be diametrically opposed, but as long as enough shameless, who can not take Britain.

Those in politics shouldn’t have to be cheeky, like the Secretary of State for the Commonwealth who was stepping off the airliner in front of him.

“Alan, it’s delightful that Dickie has such a son-in-law.” Duncan greeted him familiarly, though it wasn’t as if he knew the young permanent undersecretary.

“My talents don’t compare to the Marshal’s.” Alan Wilson squeezed out a smile and pretended to be modest in front of the minister.

In his heart, he said that his father-in-law hated you in his heart and couldn’t wait for you to die a violent death right away, and he found a bunch of trouble with the military after being the Minister of Defense.

Now well, and ran to the Commonwealth Office to find the trouble of overseas commissioners, Churchill’s relatives are so confident?

Duncan did not see that by many movie queen words and teach the Whitehall pillar of talent, latent antipathy to their own, turned to ask, “I heard that this year’s Overseas Commissioner’s Conference will be held soon? It just so happens that I have the time, so it should be logical for me to attend, right?”

“Of course there is no problem, honorable minister! As long as the Foreign Minister doesn’t object, we all have an open mind.” Alan Wilson stated mildly, while pinching his fingers that the minister should not be attending that meeting from the face of it.

Just arrived in Somaliland to interfere in the matter of overseas commissioners, although Allen Wilson did not say anything on the surface, but all the scenes in his mind were the scene of the other party’s head blossoming.

In order to meet the honorable minister, Evans has prepared the open car, now waiting for Duncan to meet the colonists warm welcome.

Thinking about the happy scene, for Duncan’s proposition, Allen Wilson all agreed, very enthusiastic that the overseas commissioners meeting, with the minister’s personal care, will certainly take out more results.

“Alan, you can and Dickie has a big difference.” Duncan spoke with great satisfaction, “Because of the matter of disarmament, Dickey is very dissatisfied with me.”

“Honorable Minister, disarmament is a good thing, we all understand that. The Marshal is a soldier and it is understandable that he does not want Britain’s military power to be weakened.” Alan Wilson was of two minds, he had no resentment towards Duncan, he just wanted to simply finish the other off, who would be upset with a corpse?