Chapter 1068 Gagarin

Before Nyerere left England, Alan Wilson had contacted the High Commissioner of the West African colonies to discreetly receive the independent leader of the colonies of Tanganyika and Malawi.

Technically the Malawi colony no longer existed, having been merged into Tanganyika, but it was a parallel structure, and once Tanganyika became independent, the two colonies would form a state similar to the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Of course Alan Wilson was thinking this way, it did not mean that the local people of Malawi were also thinking this way, but even if the Malawians did not think this way, he was going to do it. Even if it might lead to Tanganyika and Malawi fighting later.

With only half the area of Malawi left, after merging into Tanganyika, Nyerere’s country in the future would have more than a million square kilometers, and couldn’t be considered a small country in terms of land area.

“Another five years dragged by.” Alan Wilson, who had accomplished a great deal, said to Dixon in a relieved tone, “What does the Minister think of this? Or what does the Prime Minister think?” The Prime Minister was particularly interested in the diplomatic field, and it was right to say so.

“The minister is open to it, though the prime minister also seems to want a more favorable outcome for Britain.” Dixon knew all about it, “Do you think this option is feasible, Permanent Secretary?”

“I don’t know.” Alan Wilson shrugged his shoulders, “Let’s take a step and see what happens, in fact, for the value of Africa, it’s just that, we are more interested in the benefits in the direction of Asia. If it is possible to drive British Africa to see some enhancement through the Malayan colony, that is certainly good. If it cannot be done, we have done our best.”

In the fifteenth year since the end of the war, Alan Wilson was, in all fairness, okay with the current situation.

Britain is not back in Burma, and the loss of armor along the way has been considered to be the end, and can now try to regain the lost territory.

Nominally, of course, the loss of colonies is still the mainstay for some time to come, it is inevitable.

Now that Malawi has been merged with Tanganyika, there is no need to keep the Malawi garrison. With withdrawal already imperative, Allen Wilson had to ask his father-in-law where the Malawi garrison was going to be withdrawn to.

Because of the shortage of native troops, Allen Wilson suggested that Marshal Mountbatten to the colonies conscripts, of course, not any colonial source of soldiers are trustworthy, for the time being Malaya Malayan, a part of the stationed in the Andaman Islands, and there are some troops were arranged to Zanzibar.

The soldiers from the South Island, on the other hand, were placed in the Middle East to supplement the British garrison in the Persian Gulf. And the British units that were replaced were either abolished or added to the British Army in Germany.

This round of adjustments was matched to what Alan Wilson saw as his comfort zone. The so-called comfort zone is to find a higher tier of forces to match a lower tier of forces. But it cannot be a bull’s-eye, or it will result in a waste of military power.

“Malawi’s garrison is just two thousand, so the initial idea is to just cut it down.” Marshal Mountbatten thoughtlessly said, “At the same time we have to leave a certain amount of time for the local immigrants. Let them make their own choices.”

“The Malawi colony is of little value, there’s not really much to choose from.” Alan Wilson said honestly, “Merging into Tanganyika would be good for the people of Malawi, otherwise independence would be survival in the cracks.”

The natural conditions of British Africa are much better than those of French Africa, but it is not as if there are no places of little value, and Malawi’s situation is only a little stronger than that of Niger and Chad in the Sahara Desert, which are fed by Lake Chad, and Malawi is fed by Lake Malawi.

Alan Wilson is completely for the local people of Malawi to consider, otherwise created a country like Niger Chad, that is a real disaster. Basics don’t determine everything, but they do determine most things.

Egypt at least there is the Nile River, Saudi Arabia in how there are oil resources, in addition to the sand what really favorable conditions are not countries, such as Niger, Chad, anyway, Allen Wilson’s shallow knowledge, can not think of ways to develop.

Look at this righteous look! Field Marshal Mountbatten had a mushy look on his face, his son-in-law just really seemed to be, doing everything for justice and convinced of it, “Alan, you’re too good for the Foreign Office.”

“It would have been better fifty years ago.” Alan Wilson didn’t find anything wrong with Field Marshal Mountbatten’s words at all, instead he swore, “It’s a pity that this era has failed me, I wonder if the matter of the aviation industry has been finalized yet?”

“Not much of a problem, Marshal Montgomery’s visit to the East was supposed to be an icebreaker. In fact, we ourselves are not very approving of Mr. Chang, it’s only because we are concerned about what the United States thinks that we haven’t broken off diplomatic relations with him.” Marshal Mountbatten said this with a twist of words, “Actually, China is also interested in trading with us. After all, China is in an awkward position right now as well.”

“That’s true, being anti-American and also anti-Soviet should be a special case in today’s world.”

Alan Wilson nodded and said, “It looks like our aviation industry is able to knock on the door of the Eastern market. In recent years, the Comet airliner has encountered a bottleneck, although the introduction of the regional airliner has eased some of the pressure, but it is still quite obvious from the sales, countries like Japan and Korea do not consider the Comet airliner at all, and it is completely Boeing’s own territory. On the contrary our colonial Comet airliners all dominate, as for the Commonwealth and European markets, they are in the middle of a scramble, but we have a first-mover advantage, we should look for a new market and solidify the current advantage to do so.”

“I had an exchange with Montgomery after he returned, and it was actually not a bad visit. The Marshal emphasized the differences between the United States and Britain.” Mountbatten signaled his son-in-law to relax, the visit was still quite productive.

“Marshal Montgomery, I guess, must have blamed America for all the bad things while showing that Britain and America are different, but that can’t be called a mistake.” Alan Wilson’s snorted happily, “Looks like we can look forward to one more sale of Comet airliners.”

Without having to personally ask Montgomery what he said, Allen Wilson could completely guess that the words of Montgomery’s visit were nothing more than, all of the problems that have plagued you will essentially disappear completely in a few decades.

People’s living standards will be greatly improved, social education and medical problems will be reformed and solved in all aspects, social welfare and happiness and goodwill will rise sharply, in a certain number of years, China may become a powerful country with a huge population of more than a billion people.

Montgomery was probably just being polite and courteous; after all, he was a military man, and the main exchanges of the visit were on the military side.

The end of the year was a bit choppy for the UK, because of his fierce opposition, Xia Meng did not return to Xiangjiang to be a jury member of the film festival, all the things to wait for the birth of the child to talk about.

This attitude also brought a lot of pressure on Xia Meng, began to ask the husband and the same status of men, in the end is like a boy or a girl.

But this kind of talk how can get into the eyes of senior bureaucrats in Whitehall, Alan Wilson is also honest, “in terms of responsibility and duty, I would like to have a boy, so that some of my ideas to realize more easily. A girl still has limitations in some things, but of course you shouldn’t be pressured, I’m just as happy to have a daughter born.”

If Kazakh’s Na Great Khan had a son, it would not be late, thirty years in power is enough to pave the way for his son’s ascension to power, but it can’t be helped, the Na Great Khan only has three daughters, and paving the way in the political realm wastes a great deal of extra weeks.

Alan Wilson also expects Xia Meng’s son, can be deep bamboo curtain, if the daughter may not be so smooth.

Although he said let Xia Meng do not have psychological pressure, but Xia Meng still hope that the stomach to compete, have a son born, so that maybe this man will be better for himself.

Alan Wilson how to know Xia Meng is still a head of feudal remnants, he finished his words directly forget, directly open the telegram sent by Richard, about Land Rover automobile production line set up, officially put into production this matter.

This is very comforting, the British mainland because of the pound exchange rate problem, the export of automobiles is too much of a loss, need a place to avoid this unfavorable factor. In fact, a similar problem was encountered in Germany, where the use of the Mark appeared to disadvantage German exports because of the strength of the Mark in Europe at the end of the Cold War.

The solution was the emergence of the European Union and the euro, which became a key factor in Germany’s defeat of France and Italy.

Britain could not learn from Germany, and the hurdle of Britain’s insistence on using the pound could not be bypassed.

“Even now, Malaya has enough industry to crush Southeast Asia, comparing Japan has the advantage of geography.” Alan Wilson with his hands behind his back, calculating the layout of sniping Japan and even Korea.

The Chilean tsunami in the middle of the year, did not affect Malaya, after all, the Malayan colony on the Chilean side is the Dutch colony, Japan was affected by the Chilean tsunami.

Unharmed Malaya therefore, continue to start their own development in an orderly manner, do not have to Japan as the first disaster relief.

He had thought that such a year was over, after sending birthday wishes for Hedy Lamarr and Vivien Leigh, and crossing his fingers to figure out who to spend Christmas with, but a message from Moscow shattered his expectations of a smooth New Year’s Eve.

“Gagarin? Six months early!” Holding up the TASS report, Alan Wilson was dumbfounded that Gagarin had set sail from the Baikonur launch site on the Vostok-1 spacecraft, orbited the Earth at a maximum altitude of three hundred kilometers, returned safely in one hour and forty-eight minutes, and landed in the area of the village of Smelovka in the Saratov region, completing the world’s first manned cosmic flight.

Counting the time, more than five months early, the cosmonauts have not changed, and now the whole world is in the middle of the shock caused by this news.