Chapter 1075 Increase in Military Expenditures

In terms of a country, the foundation of industry, coal and iron is a must, Britain certainly has this condition, as for Japan? Alan Wilson seems to remember that there is a warship island in Japan that has coal mines on it.

After the loss of Hokkaido, Japan was not much of a mineral gap is even greater, in its own resources is certainly not as good as Malaya, and in the geographic environment, before the independence of British India, Britain ultimately chose Malaya as the next jewel, geographic conditions need to be said?

The same is the import of iron ore, Japan’s cost is how much, Malaya’s cost and how much, the difference calculated, according to this difference and Japan against, I can not make money, but you certainly want to lose money.

Just returned to London, Alan Wilson put into the rescue of the British shipbuilding industry, the reason why the United Kingdom in World War II than the United States shipbuilding costs are low, a strong shipbuilding industry is not to blame.

Britain’s basic disk is not as good as the United States, the United States can ignore the weak civilian shipbuilding industry so that the military shipbuilding costs directly to the sky, the United Kingdom to do the same, the price will be greater than the United States.

Back in the office of the permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office, Alan Wilson was thinking about how many departments would need to work together, while Principal Private Secretary Wick reported on the meager, not at all important diplomatic results achieved regarding Foreign Secretary Macmillan’s visit to Washington to meet with Kennedy.

“The Kennedy administration is willing to talk a good game about the six-party talks.” Wicker continued to read from the book, ignoring his top boss’s soul-searching; being a subordinate who questioned his boss in any way was itself a sign of unreliability.

“Our minister is probably gloating about it, making a big deal out of that insignificant bit of merit.” Alan Wilson spoke lazily, “It’s normal, American mothers and British fathers.”

“That’s basically it.” Wick didn’t answer, stopping in place to wait for Allen Wilson’s command.

“In the name of the British Foreign Office, express a protest against Japanese Prime Minister Isato Ikeda, protesting against Japan’s manipulation of the exchange rate to dump on the UK as well as the EEC market.” Alan Wilson said as he thought, “On the Australian Commissioner’s side, make it clear in Australia that the possibility of Japan waging an economic war is a bloodless war, that the war is not over, it’s just coming back on another level.”

“By the way, isn’t northern Japan occupied by the Soviet Union? We should have a sorting out session on the security of Southeast Asia, and it cannot be denied that there is a possibility that Soviet-trained Japanese, using a Japanese face as a cover, are infiltrating Southeast Asia. Inform the government communications headquarters of this possibility and work on it.”

“I want a characterization of the Japanese shipbuilding industry, focusing on what types of ships.”

Allen Wilson just blurted it out, not even considering the possibility, and at this point it didn’t even occur to him that this was exactly what the Soviet Union was currently doing, and that he had a good son who was about to graduate.

Clueless Allen Wilson asked Wick to hand over the development of the situation in Northern Rhodesia tomorrow, “There’s also the close attention to the situation in Algeria, Nyerere finished his inspection of British West Africa, right, and sometime this year Tanganyika should be turned into a self-governing territory, as well as the fact that according to the agreement between us and the Nigerian side, after a few years next year Nigeria will be formally independent. Don’t have any problems with the final time, I got a countdown sign updated daily when I was in British India, it still works and gives Nigerians something to look forward to ……”

Alan Wilson had just asked his secretary to get the Northern Rhodesia paperwork ready, but as soon as he opened his mouth Bibi chatted endlessly, he was taken aback himself, there was so much more to it?

“That’s all for now!” Alan Wilson thought for half a day and realized that there is nothing to add for the time being, it’s the same to think about it and wait until tomorrow to talk about it.

“Understood!” Wick, who took out his notes and wrote them all down, spoke again, “The minister seems to be having a headache because of the South African problem.”

“South Africa problem?” Alan Wilson leaned back in a tactical manner and muttered to himself, “It’s the aftermath of French African independence.”

South Africa has always had apartheid, dividing the people of South Africa into four classes, I do not know if any of them were inspired by the big powers that have a voice, Alan Wilson felt that some Hindu elites should be needed to try out the missionary effect in South Africa.

Historically this year should be the time for South Africa to withdraw from the Commonwealth, Britain and the Boers after all have a grudge, after two world wars, the Boer political party defeated the political party of the British immigrants to form a cabinet to rule the country, becoming the first cabinet in the history of South Africa to be composed entirely of white South Africans, marking the beginning of the white South Africans to take sole control of South Africa’s power from that time onwards, and in the same year, South Africa began to implement the policy of racial segregation.

With the emergence of numerous countries in French Africa within a year, Britain gradually abandoned colonial rule. Prime Minister Aidan made a speech of change in Cape Town, marking the formal abandonment of the British colony in South Africa.

The situation in Africa was changing and it was important for the British settlers and the Boers to unite under this threat.

Enabling the whites to unite against the blacks, especially within a regime monopolized by the whites, the Boers had the upper hand, and they were far more crisis-prone and guarded against the blacks than the British.

They believed that if they followed the usual Western capitalist mode of production, which allowed the free flow of land through sale and purchase and encouraged the mobility of labor, the whites, who numbered less than twenty percent of the population, would sooner or later be reduced to a disadvantaged position.

Alan Wilson, who had not wanted to appear before Macmillan, had to appear to talk to the Foreign Secretary about South Africa.

First of all support for the South African apartheid policy is not work, South Africa in valuable, but also not as valuable as the whole of Africa.

Compared with the vast Africa, any powerful country will choose to sacrifice South Africa, what blood is thicker than water is bullshit.

Not supporting South Africa’s apartheid policy doesn’t mean to openly oppose it, “Because of the Boer War, Britain was very cruel to the Boers, in the current context, my suggestion is to use the Boer War as a reason to express that Britain has a guilty conscience towards South Africa, so it doesn’t condemn South Africa in the open, which of course has nothing to do with South Africa’s huge gold reserves, and Britain has never been one of those who misses other countries’ legitimate countries for their wealth.”

“Alan, the Foreign Office really needs you so much.” Macmillan marveled at how to say two very different meanings in the middle of one sentence, in the front there was a reference to the Boer War, and then in the back it was said that they were not thinking about the legitimate wealth of other countries, so the question arises, what was the reason for the Boer War, and it wasn’t the huge gold mines in the area.

“Honorable Minister, an era has its own considerations.” Alan Wilson replied with a smirk, “We in diplomacy never care what was said before, we only look at what is to be done now.”

“If the South Africans are smart enough, hurry up and learn from the French’s North-South partition program and get the black problem solved. Again, they want the blacks to be the low end of the labor force, and they don’t give the power to do so surely something will go wrong. That’s something Northern Rhodesia does very well, and South Africa has the basis to do so, but I think they’re too greedy and probably won’t budge.”

“And it’s not really in current British interests to come up with such ideas. The Chancellor has just visited Washington, and some of his remarks may have upset the French a little, and to express support for South Africa in the matter from Partition? might increase the French distrust of Britain, and that would be troublesome.”

Macmillan couldn’t have finished connoting France in Washington and turned his hand to the suggestion of partitioning South Africa, could he? Foreign ministers, chameleons though they each were, were a little too quick for that.

What’s more, the Boers weren’t close to Britain, unlike Canada which still had bloodthirsty feelings for Australia and New Zealand, and was still honey-confident in itself, so how was this going to help?

“I’ve had friendly exchanges with the new American president, Kennedy, and he’s a peaceful man.” Macmillan suddenly spoke of his own insignificant merits, “I think the six-party talks might have a good outcome.”

“Honorable Minister, perhaps not as optimistic as you think, it is certainly possible to remain cautiously optimistic.” Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, and with just a brief recollection of Kennedy, a problem child who had been in power for only three years, concluded that Macmillan was wishful thinking.

And that led to the conclusion that it would end well? Well, it must have come as no surprise that there must have been an accident.

Not that there was any need to hide anything, Alan Wilson, out of Macmillan’s office, was wondering whether the US conditions would remain unchanged or whether he would have to drain British influence out of Iran, and how Macmillan would explain his merits then?

He certainly didn’t have to explain it like Whitehall, but could he still not explain it like Aidan?

Alan Wilson also had to busy himself with saving the shipbuilding industry, contacting Richard, the Malayan High Commissioner, to ask about the reserve of students at the vocational and technical schools he had established in his second term.

Looking for the Treasury’s Frank to ask about the current financial situation, time into the sixties Britain is finally re-established its own circular economic system, do not have to face the huge debt low brow.

Although the debt has long been paid off, but the pressure on domestic finances took a few more years, it is very simple na, domestic debt is not debt?

In a sense, Japan after the Plaza Accord is also considered a financial innovation, the two hundred percent of the debt maintained for so many years, Japan first walked through this road, other countries will follow.

The answer of fiscal health came out of Frank’s mouth, and Alan Wilson nodded, “That means that increasing fiscal spending and stimulating the shipbuilding industry will not cause fiscal pressure?”

“Depends on what you are prepared to increase fiscal spending to.” Frank’s mind stirred, uncertainly inquired, “Increase military spending?”

“Of course this old way, or what?” Alan Wilson shrugged, “Or what about the shipbuilding industry without strong support? Britain a sixty billion pound economy, military spending has been maintained at a scale of fifteen or sixteen billion pounds?”

The size of Britain’s economy is now sixty billion pounds, which translates to seventeen billion dollars.

“To maintain the size of the shipbuilding industry helps to reduce procurement costs, so one of the ways to save the shipbuilding industry is to increase military spending.”