Chapter 1066: Nirelle on Tour

“Still hoping we’ll behave and maintain our colonial form.” Nyerere grunted and smiled as if he had seen through Alan Wilson, “Britain is just trying to colonize Africa in every way possible.”

“That’s not bad, but we have our reasons. In fairness to the reasons for not letting you become independent, I can find a hundred of them, and every one of them makes perfect sense when taken out. From education, ethnicity, military and even geography. But I want to say just one right now, let’s explain this with a businessman’s mindset.”

Alan Wilson said to Nyerere with seeming sincerity, “Do you think that just because there is a Soviet Union in the world, any country can learn from the Soviet Union? It has 22 million square kilometers of land, do you? Even if you merged Malawi, you would have only a million square kilometers of land that you could use for a state. But it’s better than a lot of countries in French Africa, at least you still have no problem living on your land, unlike Chad, which is more than a million square kilometers on the surface, but the whole country is fed by Lake Chad.”

“If there is a little problem with Lake Chad, the whole of Chad will wait to eat sand, there is no shortage of sand in the Sahara.”

“You can use Tanganyika’s resources in exchange for money to develop the country, but whose hands is this market in? One is the United States and one is Europe, you wouldn’t sell resources to the Soviet Union, would you? The Soviet Union is not short of resources, any of them.”

“So it’s a fact that even if Tanganyika became independent, British influence would still be there.”

The exchange between Alan Wilson and Nyerere was a fact-based conversation, Tanganyika faced few options even if it were to become independent, and of course if Nyerere recognized the RMB, it would be assumed that he hadn’t said anything.

But what’s the point of Tanganyika recognizing itself? In addition to the dollar in the world is the pound, hoarding a bunch of yuan can not buy anything.

Nyerere first time to see such a diplomat, in his eyes Alan Wilson attitude sincere, said all the facts. But these facts greatly hurt his feelings, “I can ask the Soviet Union for help.”

“The last country that asked the Soviet Union for help was in the middle of a civil war, and even if Britain could tolerate it, the United States would have done it. So from a factual point of view, I hope Mr. Nyerere won’t do it, and even if he wants to do it, he won’t say so.”

“Actually, in terms of the deal, I’d like to trade Malawi’s land for some time out, and it would be a bit disrespectful of British dignity for Tanganyika to come after Britain in the stall of French Africa’s independence.”

“How long is that? Five years? Ten years?” Nyerere sneered, “The people of Tanganyika can’t wait that long.”

“I hope it’s five years, and after the end of the year you can activate an independence agenda modeled after Nigeria’s, and you can direct the local British civil servants in Tanganyika to run the government, and after five years Tanganyika can have a general election and formalize its independence.”

Alan Wilson was not embarrassed at all, that was his aim, “We in Britain must prove stronger than France. So rushing independence is not an option for Britain. If Mr. Nyerere is willing to cooperate, he will receive a lot of help from Britain, including but not limited to economic, military and even a series of support.”

Nyerere did not reply and fell into thought, Allen Wilson directly went further, “Your Excellency’s trip in the UK has already been arranged, of course I also hope that I can go to Nigeria and also the Gold Coast to have a look around, the West African colonies entered the independence agenda much earlier, and the construction now may provide you with some ideas for building Tanganyika, in fact we really do have an encapsulated economic plan for all of East Africa, and I can give you a copy if Mr. Nyerere wants it.”

Nyerere was of course very interested, so Allen Wilson took the railroad construction and development plan for the Great Lakes region of Africa and gave Nyerere not much more than a four hundred and fifty page, very detailed economic development plan for East Africa. But with Tanganyika itself, one hundred percent can not get it done.

Now Britain can not do, the nineteenth century, the kind of, “the poorest patriots in the East End of London, as long as the thought of Britain’s industry and wealth, will not be able to lift up their chests” industrial power.

But in front of Nyerere, still can act as an old industrial powerhouse, Alan Wilson almost the current British companies and industries that can be taken, are included in Nyerere’s visit itinerary, he said nothing is useless, or let Nyerere feel the gap himself, and then in the judgment.

“Executive Undersecretary, will this be some?” Chief Private Secretary Wick was a little hesitant, feeling that the scale of openness was too large.

“Some of what? On the level of the blacks, can they still look at it and copy it?” Alan Wilson grimaced, “It would be surprising for blacks to be at that level. Can anyone study the Soviet Union?”

Reverse engineering was a field in which only one country during the Cold War had the capability, and that was the Soviet Union, the leader of the opposing camps. If there were half a dozen more, then add in a major power that was slamming the Soviet Social Empire.

Alan Wilson did not think that a latter-day Tanganyika, not even powerful in Africa, had this capability.

“Make good use of our commercial power, it’s the one factor that has set us apart since the agricultural days.” Alan Wilson turned to Wake, “You accompany Nyerere around, and remember, keep your respect for him, he may be the leader of a country at some point, and being able to establish a personal relationship will be good for your future as well.”

“We’re really letting go of Africa?” Wick was a little disbelieving, “Five million square kilometers of land.”

“Who let us not have the population advantage, past that chance.” Alan Wilson sighed, the attempts of the European colonial powers to take over the territory were unsuccessful after all.

In fact, the reason why Europe hangs over other civilizations is very simple, the direct consequence of population crushing.

It is true that no country in Europe has the population of the Qing Dynasty, but the population of any country in Europe, in addition to the Qing Dynasty is absolutely dominant.

Take the Ottoman Empire before its overthrow, which had a population of just 20 million, and even Italy in Europe had a larger population than the Ottoman Empire, and that’s still the size of the Near Eastern Hegemony’s population.

The entire population of Black Africa combined is equivalent to one of Britain, France, and Germany, not to mention the division of Africa into Britain, France, and Germany.

As for the reason why the Qing Dynasty was not treated to colonization, the simplest reason is that the population was too large and under the administration of a central government.

India has been divided and it still took Britain over a hundred years to establish British India, the same trick couldn’t be done against the Qing Dynasty.

Even now, the population of Tanganyika was less than ten million, and the population of the African interior was even smaller. But Alan Wilson knew that Africa’s population growth was far beyond that of any other continent.

The Cabinet, as well as Whitehall, were also very concerned about Nyerere’s arrival this time, and Norman Brooke had always asked Alan Wilson to sit down at Seventy Whitehall recently to ask if there had been any progress.

“What do you think about the future of Tanganyika?” Norman Brooke asked, “Can it be stabilized into a pro-British state?”

“Just tying it up economically and politically may be more difficult, unless we intervene as readily as France in the countries of French Africa. But with Sanibar in our hands, it’s not so difficult to make an offshore balance.” Alan Wilson replied as he thought about it, “Sanibar was left for that reason. Its first major city, Dar es Salaam, is directly across the street from Sanibar’s garrison, so I don’t think Tanganyika would fall out with us even if it were independent.”

“If I were Nyerere, I would ask if I could merge with Sanibar.” Norman Brooke spoke with a smirk.

“Even if we agree, Egypt and Iraq won’t agree, although Europe may not have a good reputation because of the colonial era, it doesn’t mean that other countries don’t discriminate against blacks, don’t look at the Soviet Union, or China further afield, who talk a good game, but in exchange for them being able to see blacks wandering around all over the place when they’re fine, they’ll explode just the same. Not to mention the Arabs.”

Alan Wilson said decisively, a lot of things stand on the moral high ground to attack the colonization, only because they did not catch up, Alan Wilson has always believed in one thing, the continental countries once the strategy of expansion, not to say one hundred percent, ninety percent of the probability that the place that was expanded will be turned into a quasi-colonial.

When the two discussed the future of Tanganyika, Nyerere was visiting the production line of the Comet airliner, from which it could be seen how sufficient Allen Wilson’s sincerity was, even in the twenty-first century, large airplanes are industries with high technological content. Boeing and Airbus represent the cutting-edge industries of the United States and the European Union respectively.

Comet Airliner was Pamela Mountbatten’s industry, and the people here naturally knew early on who Nyerere had arranged to come over, and the person in charge had an elegant and easy-going face as he took Nyerere on a tour of the British Empire’s industrial pride.

“Mr. Nyerere, no offense, but I can proudly say that there are only three countries in the world that have this kind of strength.”

Nyerere, who had been silent, spoke up and asked back, “Which three countries!”

“Britain and the United States, and the Soviet Union.” The head of the production line in a work uniform spoke with a confident smile, “It is impossible to have such an industry without decades of industrial accumulation, and this is the cornerstone of the British Empire’s foothold in this world.”

This proud person in charge surely didn’t know that if it wasn’t for his own boss’s husband, the Comet airliner, the so-called pride, would have long been defeated by Boeing, and what pride of the British Empire?

Nyerere visited the aircraft, automobile, biological laboratories Linlin total itinerary arrangement project, from the beginning of the excitement, to become silent afterward, the United Kingdom has no qualms about opening up these cutting-edge industries for him to see, but instead of letting his fiery heart was poured a pot of cold water.

Compared with the United Kingdom that owns these industries, Tanganyika is not like living together on one planet, the gap is too far.