Chapter 1078 – Expel the Foreigners and Secure the Interior

“Of course we are prepared, these students who already have the skills of workers in the vocational school are treated twice as well as Malaya in terms of treatment, we attract them over on the terms of teaching skills and set them to work for two to three years. That won’t be a problem, it won’t delay their precious lives and it will solve our problems.”

Alan Wilson said, holding out the prepared plan, emphasizing, “I once used a similar approach when developing Newfoundland more than ten years ago, when conditions were limited, and now both skill-wise and age-wise, they are much stronger and easier to rotate.”

“I would like to emphasize, however, that student workers entering some of the private shipyards must be guaranteed food and shelter. Once the la scandal breaks out, it will bring Britain into disrepute. I hope that the owners of the civilian shipyards will all realize that they should not save money on the smallest details, and that having these student workers, who are paid only one-third of the salary of the British mainland, is already a godsend.”

The departments having been talked over, the more important, if not the most important, issue remaining was, naturally, the establishment of the Shipbuilding and Transportation Board. It was, after all, a department which would add to the importance of the civil service, and the discussion was much more lively.

The others mainly discussed how many civil service posts would be appropriate for the arrangement, and whether it would be a formal department or a career organization?

Alan Wilson, on the other hand, talked about the issue of specific competitive countermeasures, taking out the side of Japanese shipbuilding, while speaking, “Japanese shipbuilding has a very strong planning aspect, and it seems that a number of countries have learned the Soviet Union’s way. So the accusation of the London Maritime Arbitration Association is not wrong, Japan is indeed competing unfairly, and I’m adding that it’s doing so under the patronage of the U.S., and also having this kind of treatment is Germany.”

The US was doing everything it could to close the gap between countries other than itself so that Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain and France could be compared.

Exports to the Axis powers, especially Germany and Japan, were given the green light all the way. To Britain and France, they were not helped when they could on the grounds that Britain and France had colonies of their own.

The US just didn’t realize that Britain had someone who played up the economy much more skillfully than Germany and Japan. The colonies to cash in on the set of not happy, but also know the world’s large body of precious mineral deposits in what place to make a response.

Let the United States on the side waiting for the United Kingdom slowly rotting attempts to fall through, not only fell through, but also the first out of the quagmire.

Looking back over a dozen years, it’s hard for Allen Wilson to say exactly at what stage he felt he was able to make a difference, but there was one thing that mattered, the moment Pamela Mountbatten opened the door to him was the turning point in his life.

Moving forward, he began to go out of his way to strengthen the value of Pamela Mountbatten’s wealth, calling it a no-brainer.

“Currently Japanese shipbuilding is concentrated in two major areas, bulk and tankers, with more than seventy percent of bulk ships. If the UK adjusts its shipbuilding focus, it should focus on containers and cruise ships, and even yachts. In the market segments and Japan to form a difference, and at the same time consolidate in the container shipbuilding design also patent barriers.”

“Britain’s advantage is that shipbuilding as a systematic project, the importance of supporting industries is self-evident. In this world, Britain has the strongest accumulation, except that we do have high costs. Japan’s shipbuilding is not worth mentioning, even the United States only piled up a huge production during the war time, and the end of the war American shipbuilding stepped into the middle of the decline.”

“The fact that British warships cost less to build than the US also has to do with the fact that the US is now less and less able to equalize costs. So to protect the shipbuilding industry is to protect Britain’s defense. Fortunately, the citizens of the country have now expressed their support.”

At the same time that the rough strategy was taken out, the discussion on the Shipbuilding and Transportation Committee also came to fruition, with many of the towns surrounding the shipyards living off the income from these shipyards, driving local employment.

Naturally this committee, certainly can not ignore the interests of these locals, these shipyards have to send officials to sit on the town, along with the local elected mayor, together for the support of the shipbuilding industry to make efforts.

The elected mayor and Whitehall may not have much in common, but the civil servants below him have to listen to Whitehall, so this kind of organization is capable of doing the job.

As for the allocation of specific Malayan migrant student workers, that would have to be investigated, but there was no doubt that the new committee would have to take care of that as well.

A day apart, Norman Brooke called a meeting of greater scope, and the subject of discussion had come to national support. It was really about how to come up with a program of military spending increases that would take care of the interests of all the military services. The main protagonist was Thomas, the permanent undersecretary of defense.

In principle Whitehall will be proposing to raise military spending from last year’s £1.65 billion to £2 billion. Even if this cannot be done, there will be an increase of one hundred million dollars in military spending for all three branches of the army, navy and air force. Balancing the interests of the military services will inevitably lead to a discussion on the distribution of military spending.

The Royal Navy has something to say about adding two more Queen Victoria class aircraft carriers to increase the total number built to five more. There are also projects for strategic nuclear submarines and attack nuclear submarines, the Army has plans for the construction of the Chieftain tank, and the Air Force has projects for the tsr.2 attack aircraft and the Belfast strategic transport aircraft.

Each of the military services is like a wolf eyeing any bit of appropriation, and each program looks ambitious. When you look at it this way the increases in military spending discussed in Whitehall may not even be enough.

Two Eagle Classes, two Queen Elizabeth Classes, five Queen Victoria Classes? Alan Wilson calculated along with the number of aircraft carriers planned to be fully installed? Both grinned in disbelief; it was unrealistic.

Even without adding in the new build program, two Eagle, two Queen Elizabeth, and three Queen Victoria would be perfectly adequate, and there were still four Centauri in service. Relaxing the criteria a bit, there is also a strong sea force of a dozen aircraft carriers.

The Royal Navy also wants to increase the Queen Victoria class construction program, is it going to be different from the U.S. Navy?

Mountbatten is not this intention, put forward to increase the construction program of two ships just to give the Cabinet to kill the space, can fight out one is also good, mainly nuclear submarines on the appropriation.

Fighting to save the shipbuilding industry’s appropriation, can not be no new warships construction program, right? That doesn’t make sense either!

“The Belfast Strategic Transport Project?” Norman Brooke suddenly spoke up and looked at Alan Wilson, “I remember that it has been integrated into Pamela’s estate?”

“Yes, this matter is known to me.” Alan Wilson sat upright and waited for the following.

“It’s important to try to save costs.” Norman Brooke nodded, “The Navy and Air Force programs are too costly and not very easy to pass through the Cabinet.”

Fiscal issues were still being taken seriously by the current government, even if it was to make plans to increase military spending. Britain is not the United States, which, with an economy of more than five hundred billion dollars, has an economy three times the size of Britain’s and military spending more than ten times that of Britain.

But the United States is far away from Eurasia and doesn’t have to worry too much about the welfare aspect, the UK can’t. Raising military spending to two billion pounds was also a reason to save the shipbuilding industry while it lasted, otherwise it wouldn’t have been so easy.

At night the whole plan has been formulated before they left from Whitehall seventy, the plan reported will be handed over to the Cabinet for discussion, if there is no problem, then there will be a result that will satisfy the military.

In fact there was another reason, the US had been pressing the UK to increase military spending to protect Europe, and the UK could use this to show good faith.

Alan Wilson, wearing a mask, arrived at Hepburn’s apartment to begin the day’s maintenance.

“I see no problem.” Alan Wilson bent over, feeling completely back to normal, wondering how Hepburn still felt uncomfortable.

“Look closer for a closer look, it’s not better at all.” Hepburn urged with her back to the man, as if she felt the man was being perfunctory and not sincere at all, “See?”

“Nothing!” Alan Wilson could only take the ointment and look closer, he was a permanent undersecretary of the foreign ministry, he would still lie to people?

When he was thinking so, Hepburn’s hand directly grabbed Allen Wilson’s head and yanked it, “Hmph ……”

The ball flower laughed out wickedly, and the noble, unearthly appearance in front of others was a different person ……

Except for the humiliation he received from Greta Garbo in New Delhi many years ago. This time he had been taught another lesson by Hepburn, and felt even more indignant than that time a dozen years ago.

It was a shock to all three of the Permanent Secretary’s senses that Hepburn was such a person!

So much so that when he went to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the next day, his entire person exuded an aura of a stranger not to be entered, clearly telling the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that the top boss was not in a beautiful mood today, so don’t come up and ask for trouble.

“Permanent Undersecretary, the Malayan High Commissioner sent a telegram, is processing the student workers to come to the mainland to study the matter ……” Wick stood in front of the top boss to report, are feeling uncomfortable, the voice is getting smaller and smaller.

“Well, ah, good ……” Alan Wilson picked up the glass of water, licked his lips, pulled a long face and said, “Tell the Malayan High Commissioner that this matter should be done as soon as possible, and frankly inform of the benefits of it, that’s all. ”

Wick was a little surprised, Allen Wilson today is eating the wrong drug, usually should be commanded in detail once right, especially when it comes to the Malayan issue. What’s wrong today?

“Anything else?” Alan Wilson stared at him with unfocused eyes, like the KGB meeting an enemy of the people.

“Nothing, Permanent Undersecretary, I’ll get busy.” Wick returned to his senses and hurriedly turned around and sprinted away, his back turned with a horrified expression as if he was in shock.

The special appropriation for defense for the year 1961, after a joint discussion among the Conservative ministers, was able to be passed in the Aidan Cabinet, and with the American proposal to convene the Basra Conference, Alan Wilson once again set out on his journey, this time for the six-party talks, which he thought would be the first major test in the face of the Kennedy administration.

But he had done his best to find a fillip for Britain, perfectly in line with Chang Gong’s general policy of making a fuss about foreign affairs, and the confrontation over the next three years shouldn’t be anything like history.

This time it was Hepburn who came in to do the logistics, the roles of the two reversed after the healing.