Chapter 1070 – The Suspicious Frenchman
“A new mission?” Bokina inquired just as the man put the microphone down, “Responding to the Soviet space threat?”
“The Cabinet is going to regret making this call if they know I have two spies next to me right now.” Alan Wilson reached out and cupped Porgina’s cheek, “I’m the one who lost a West Berlin on you.”
“Remember that?” Next to her, Anna’s little face fell and she said with an aggrieved tone, “It’s just a West Berlin, isn’t it? It’s not like it’s one of your English places.”
“This kind of glib tone is really something of the world’s number one territorial power.” Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows and said easily that it was a half international city with a population of over two million people.
And now? A ghost city with more than ten thousand garrison troops, Allen Wilson wondered if the British, American and French garrisons would have nightmares, anyway, if he had a choice, he certainly wouldn’t go to West Berlin even once again.
But nowadays, he was not afraid of the Dragon Rider sisters betraying him again, unless this pair of sisters’ faith in communism had reached the point where they were willing to give their lives, Allen Wilson did not deny that there were such people, but it was also true that there were not many of them, and the women were still especially few.
“I don’t deny that the Soviet Union is indeed a step ahead in space, but the United States is not easy to deal with either. With Britain’s current economic situation and remaining power, it’s actually not impossible to follow suit. But there are so many areas of competition that if the United States and the Soviet Union fought against each and every one of them, the United Kingdom would have to follow, and we don’t have that much power, so we must consolidate Europe’s power.”
In terms of industrial base, Europe is still strong now, and its traditional industrial capacity is still above that of the United States. But this so-called industrial capacity is spread across countries, not concentrated in the UK.
Today space competition Britain follows, should the air force follow? Should the navy follow? How can Britain have the national strength to follow up all of them? If the United States builds a strategic bomber that is more expensive than the equivalent in gold, will the United Kingdom do the same?
This kind of thing the UK proves it has on the line, the current triple V bomber is enough, there is no need to continue to follow up.
“Integrating the European countries, will the US agree?” Anna was a little worried, “America’s New Frontier policy is to operate Europe as a defense that listens to America, even we can see that.”
“I can naturally see that too, but we can only take one step at a time.” Allen Wilson didn’t say much on this topic.
The fact is that he really does not have much of a way, even if the British citizens now have the same income as the United States, but the national strength is still only one-third of the United States, the national strength and per capita has little to do with the total amount of money that is never spelled out.
Britain has Malaya as a production base, and the US still has Japan in its hands? Without a good opportunity to make the United States weak, the United States is now still invincible to Britain.
At the end of 1960, Allen Wilson left London again and went to Paris for negotiations, nominally to persuade France to reacquaint itself with NATO, since at the present time France did divest itself of the use of many NATO military installations in France.
But secretly, he is coming over to talk to the French about what the French think about the establishment of the European Space Agency.
France did build a space center, in the middle of the Algerian desert, called the Hamakir Launch Center. But Algeria is not safe at the moment, and this space center has not been used much.
At this point in time, Britain’s space technology is still better than France’s, and is firmly in third place in the world. The space center in Australia had also been established early and was already in operation.
But Allen Wilson didn’t think the thing was a sure success, and de Gaulle didn’t trust either Britain or the United States.
It just showed more distrust of the U.S. He would not cede the dominance of European spaceflight to the U.K. After all, competition in the space field was now a matter of a country’s face, and it was hard to trust a dubious ally in such matters.
But even so, the plan he took out on behalf of the UK was still full of sincerity, and the development of European spaceflight was on a path of cooperative development. It is a pluralistic and integrated path that demonstrates the synergy of complementary strengths and solidarity among European countries.
The European space industry as a whole is a multifaceted structure: the scientific, technological and industrial strength of spaceflight is evenly distributed among the three levels of States, intergovernmental international organizations and the European Community. Among them, the comprehensive strength of British spaceflight is in the leading position, representing the frontier level of European countries’ spaceflight technology; the European Space Agency (ESA) as an intergovernmental international organization, however, European spaceflight is one and the same: the ESA is just like the leader of the song, organizing the different melodies into a harmonious music movement.
In order to reflect the strengths of the different European countries and to take into account the interests of all, the Agency’s main bodies are spread evenly over several European countries. Separately, they have the roles of different countries in different considerations, with Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and Italy among them, with a look of European unity and independence.
This one plan in fact, the French take out more close to reality, but was Allen Wilson took out? As if taking the wrong script.
De Gaulle’s government was quick to weigh in on the creation of a European Space Agency, in relation to an unsolicited olive branch from a dubious ally.
“The British have indicated that they could open up the Woomera launch site to carry out services for European countries.” Georges Pidoul exchanges views with Jean Monnet on the issue.
Jean Monnet was a big supporter of the European integration process, but of course it was useless for him to support it; de Gaulle was not very supportive. De Gaulle himself meant to turn the EEC into an institution where France would lead Europe.
This was the same as Alan Wilson’s view that the EEC should be led by Britain, and was not really interested in any kind of European integration.
Jean Monnet can be different, originally the original history of Jean Monnet should be the first speaker of the European Parliament, but now there is Britain in the European Community, Britain’s economic strength is still far stronger than France, naturally there will not be any European Parliament.
In this regard, Jean Monnet is not disgruntled with Britain, he feels that Britain is not really leading Europe towards unity, this suspicion is of course true, but now Britain is in the EEC, it is easy to invite the gods to send the gods away, and Jean Monnet can not kick Britain out, he can not do it, and France likewise can not do it.
“Britain’s so-called opening of the Woomera launch site is nothing more than a move to share the cost of running that launch site itself. Who doesn’t know about the relationship between Australia and the UK, and when the time comes to try to ostracize us, it won’t be a matter of London’s word, will Canberra refuse London’s orders? Not at all!”
Jean Monnet expressed pessimism at this, asking Georges Pidoule, “What does Charles think?”
“The President doesn’t think so either, and feels that this seemingly facile plan has an ulterior motive.” Georges Pidoule didn’t hold back, “Any plan proposed by Britain should be met with caution, no one knows the level of cunning of the British better than we do.”
“We don’t know, yet, what Britain thinks of Europe, Britain is now clearly thriving on the Commonwealth and the EEC. It must be said that they are looking further ahead than we are, and perhaps before British India became independent, or even earlier before the war was over, they had already picked out the places that would support Britain, and have been propping up Malaya for many years, and are now by having a revival again.”
Jean Monnet sighed, by now he had to admit that Britain’s strategic vision was indeed above that of France. It seemed to have foreseen the situation after the World War and started laying out directly.
But whether this is good for France or not is not certain, because Britain has an ambiguous attitude towards the Commonwealth and the EEC. It’s hard to say which one is preferred more.
“That’s why we’re doing everything we can to save Algeria.” Georges Pidoule scowled, “Otherwise, France will have to suffer from the presence of Britain for a long time. Only when we are strong ourselves can we counteract British influence within the EEC.”
If Algeria had been an optional option for France before, now that Britain had solidified its decline, retaining Algeria was now a must for France.
It was not a should, but a must to keep Algeria, which was the only way to preserve the roots of France as a great power.
Alan Wilson did not know that the two French bigwigs had such a high regard for Britain’s so-called strategic vision.
Without their own existence Britain has a gross strategic vision, after the end of World War II as lost soul, not their own words, should now be in the embarrassing situation of being shut out of the EEC by France, the economy was almost squeezed out of the European three by Italy, but also strategic vision?
“What are you doing?” Hedy Lamarr pushed her way into the room, angrily scolding the man who had misbehaved.
“What for. I had a hard time coming here.” Alan Wilson looked up from the warmth of Ingrid Bergman’s embrace and looked upset, what was he doing? Kissing Opie wasn’t an option?
“It’s not easy to come here? And you’ve come specifically to do this?” Hedy Lamarr looked askance at the flushed Ingrid Bergman, isn’t it just two more pieces of flesh on her chest? Is it so attractive?
“He wants to relax and relieve mental stress.” Ingrid Bergman was disgruntled, asking Hedy Lamarr to look after the big picture, it was not easy for people to come here, don’t get angry.
This trip to France is not a success, Alan Wilson also had to admit that he not only did not achieve a win-win attempt, simply a double loss, which is his public and private since the first time. Fortunately, the two daughters are very obedient, so that he experienced the warmth of the family.
De Gaulle’s government politely rejected plans for a European Space Agency, saying there were still details to be carefully considered.
Alan Wilson’s job back in London became, once again, to assess why France had refused. and whether there was a possibility of France defecting to communism, “I am sure that President de Gaulle would not have done so, and weren’t the two countries friendly in their previous exchange of visits?”
De Gaulle’s visit to the United Kingdom, Alan Wilson was in Africa, but also heard about the United Kingdom had the United Kingdom’s grand welcome ceremony, the welcome of British citizens crowded Waterloo Bridge.