Chapter 1052 – Insidious Britain (USA)

“Wow!” Alan Wilson’s face emerges with a peculiar expression, this is the benefit of raising an enemy, look at what the honorable American ally said, willing to participate in the six-party talks?

You know that all along the U.S. has been evasive about this negotiation and has not taken a position, but now it is willing to talk.

“This kind of mature thinking based on absolute rationality is what Britain has been waiting for.” Although Smith was right next to him, Alan Wilson didn’t care if there were bystanders, and once again performed a face changing stunt.

“The friction between the two countries has to be controlled, and that’s why I’m here this time.” McCarthy was very satisfied with his old friend’s response and went further, “Alan, I think you should convince Mr. Macmillan to respond positively to the American proposal.”

“Of course!” Alan Wilson patted his chest and added, “Righteously! Joseph, I for one have been expecting this round of friction to pass for a long time now, and the free world should be united in dealing with a great enemy like the Soviet Union. We have long ago recognized that America’s leadership of the world is pursued only for economic gain, and now that Britain no longer poses a leadership challenge to the United States, the two countries are perfectly capable of facing the threat together while remaining at peace with each other.”

Alan Wilson has always hoped that the United States will be able to know the difficulties of the retreat, do not fear that their own father will not die to come up to make up for the knife.

In fairness to him this idea is not greedy, but obviously the United States does not think so.

This time even if it is McCarthy personally, still did not dispel the suspicion in Alan Wilson’s mind. Who knows, is this another delaying tactic that Washington has come up with?

First let Britain step in to confront the Soviet Union in the Congo, cover the United States hiding behind it, and maintain the persona of the United States to support the independence of the colonies, it is very much like a borrowed knife to kill. Once the reprieve is over, will the US revert to its old ways?

As Allen Wilson could tell from history, it was almost certain that the US would make a comeback once it got over this particular period of anxiety, and he would not believe that the US was really sincere just because McCarthy made a personal trip and acted in good faith.

This is exactly what happened, McCarthy himself came in person to be sincere, but Washington did want Britain and France, especially Britain, to settle down for now and not give the US any more trouble during the election period.

If it had been the Soviet Union that had done so, what the candidates of the two parties should have been competing for right now at the critical moment of the election would have been who was tougher. Unless the USSR makes it more than the US is going to show toughness.

But it is Britain that has been making trouble in the last year, and while Britain doesn’t look as scary as the USSR, it is doomed by its relationship with the US, and the US can’t afford to tear itself apart and flip out with Britain the way it did.

The relationship between the UK and the US is both good and bad for the UK, and the same is true for the US, there are constraints and benefits.

Good and bad are two-way, just in normal times, the United States because of the power of the country can take more advantage.

But at critical moments like the election, America’s national power can’t be utilized. Really take it out on the USSR, the UK-US relationship is a mess and the next government will have to spend time repairing it.

In the final analysis now the old father has not been completely laid down it, from time to time can still stir the legs, can not rush to inherit the family fortune.

Alan Wilson guessed the idea of the United States, but this time if the United Kingdom got a good result. Then later face the United States woolgathering move, will only be more confident to deal with.

Although it is each of them, Allen Wilson and McCarthy two people than before or more familiar, as if from the Iranian oil crisis after the trough of the Anglo-American special relationship full of blood back, at least on the surface.

The news of America’s willingness to sit down and talk things over, and to join the Six-Party Talks, traveled from Lusaka, by telegraph, to London.

Finally, the aggressiveness that the Eisenhower administration had embodied at the end of the period, aided by Democratic fireworks at a critical time in the American election, returned to what little isolationism the Republican Party had left.

The tail of isolationism, sort of, was caught this time, and there will be no such good thing in the future, and once the dust settles in this election, the last vestiges of isolationism left in Eisenhower will be gone from the Republican Party.

Even the Republicans and Democrats are already preparing to change homes, and there will be no such thing as isolationism in American politics in the future.

The news reached London and made Prime Minister Aidan and Foreign Secretary Macmillan very happy, after holding out for so long, they still got the answer they wanted, which was congratulatory for both of them.

“Finally an outcome we can live with.” Aiden breathed a sigh of relief, for a year Britain had endured no small amount of pressure from the United States, fortunately now it was finally over.

“Yes!” Macmillan was equally relieved, “It’s good that it turned out well and that the US is finally willing to talk.”

It was really quite difficult to get the United States to sit down peacefully, this later-adopted own son was really not very good-tempered. Compared to the US now, back in the day Britain was considered amiable.

Now the question is only, when to give the United States a positive response, is immediately or wait a few days to wait and see. It’s already a matter of detail and doesn’t get in the way of the bigger picture.

“Allen also has his doubts, questioning whether the U.S. is harboring evil intentions by allowing the British leadership to intervene in the Congo situation.” Macmillan inquired at Aiden, “Not that it’s not a possibility, once it creates a financial burden?”

“Even if the U.S. wants to maintain its non-interventionist persona, it must at least come up with the financial support. Otherwise, Britain can only guarantee the stability of British East Africa. It won’t put precious funds into a bottomless pit. It’s not like anyone is the Gold Coast, worthy of Britain’s focus on construction.” Aiden instantly regained his composure, rational thinking reoccupied his brain, “Every bit of money is valuable, the results of developing Africa are very gratifying, but it also requires investment.”

Real estate to build up the country is a bit of hard work, but it is not impossible to do under the colonial system, anyway, the Overseas Assets Management Board is doing quite well, some colonies may not have much in the way of material goods, but after exchanging it for debt, it also helps to maintain Britain’s influence.

What’s more, most of the colonies are still good, Britain is not France, although France occupies a larger area in Africa, but Britain undoubtedly occupies a better territory, after the consumption of the two world wars, has been lying down to make money Britain, and now also began to eat their own hard earned money.

Under the swinging of the colonial commissioners, the inhabitants of the colonies were not incapable of hard work.

Today’s times are different, the British Empire also has no spare food, top cover the United States in the front is not impossible, but this money problem?

Lusaka’s Allen Wilson got the domestic news, ready to talk to McCarthy on this issue, in the end how and split the bill, the squire’s money as much as the return is certain, the rest?

If it is before World War II, Britain is naturally responsible, but now Britain can not continue to do the wrongdoer. The exclusive treatment of the world’s hegemony currently fell to the Americans.

“Britain wouldn’t be clinging to Iran if it had no financial problems.” Alan Wilson’s words earnestly expressed Britain’s difficulties in the current funding, “You see Britain’s annual military spending is less than two billion pounds, but also please the U.S. debt, which is saved from military spending, in the investment in the Congo and the Soviet Union against the Soviet Union, may lead to a deterioration in the financial situation.”

In the aspect of blindness with eyes open, has been a senior bureaucrat Alan Wilson familiar, the United States debt is seven million square kilometers of colonial independence in exchange for, but after the war Britain has indeed been controlling the spending of military expenditures.

Compared to the United States, in recent years the United States has been spending ten times as much on the military as the United Kingdom, and compared to the tinkering United Kingdom, the United States military has been living too comfortably, but Allen Wilson knows that it can be even more comfortable, such as fighting a war in Vietnam.

There are three main categories of where military spending goes: personnel funding, operations and maintenance funding, and equipment procurement funding.

Of these, personnel funding is a relatively fixed percentage, and other minor expenditures are negligible. Therefore, operation and maintenance and equipment procurement become the two most important subjects, which correspond to the cost of “present” threats and the cost of responding to “future” threats, respectively.

For the U.S. military, eat into the mouth of the fat meat is certainly not willing to casually spit out, so people see the U.S. military spending is often overlooked in a situation: equipment procurement funding, it has never been down. Military spending up, it followed up; military spending does not rise, it rose faster.

The Americans are so rich, the United Kingdom for the United States to solve the Congo problem, to some financial help is not excessive. At least the former world hegemony, a little labor still have to give.

Allen Wilson fully displayed the style of the old imperialism, said he could go on NATO’s account, and could even say that Britain could contact Belgium and Portugal and formulate a joint war plan.

This plan was then taken and a request for support was made to McCarthy, who, after communicating to his country, flatly rejected the plan outlined by Allen Wilson, “NATO’s duty is only to protect Europe.”

McCarthy did not understand this, the American think tanks in Washington saw at once that the old man in Britain was worse than France, and that if NATO’s coverage was extended through this intervention in the Congo, all these colonial powers would follow suit and take American money to protect their colonies, under the pretext of the so-called Soviet threat.

Only France, under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle, was openly saying this to the United States, and the United Kingdom was sneaking around with a plan to set the United States up, which, if it was not clear and agreed to, would later be followed by Portugal, the Netherlands, and other countries, which would all say that NATO coverage applied to their own colonies.

This is not the United States to pay money to protect the colonies of these European countries? It is at this point in time that Britain is still using these machinations.

Alan Wilson also knew that swindling the United States did not succeed, directly shifted to the cabinet, indicating that he was only the executor, “six-party talks, London gave me the news in October, in the southern Iraqi town of Basra, we hope that the United States, along with Germany to express sincerity, recognized this location.”

Britain is also not see the rabbit does not spread the eagle’s main, the United States and Germany must immediately announced to join the six-party talks, otherwise this round of Anglo-American diplomatic friction, is not yet the end of the time.