Chapter 1097 – European Cooperation

“It seems to have been you who took over in the first place, didn’t it, Alan.” Aiden also knew about the matter of where the anti-Tito elements had gone after the war, except that the Conservative Party had gone out of power so quickly that the follow-up was half-understood.

“It was over ten years ago, and I’ve pretty much forgotten it.” Alan Wilson meditated on the fact that he seemed to have stripped these anti-Tito elements clean and cleared these people to come aboard.

It was certainly a bit ungentlemanly, but the situation in Britain at the time could not afford to be poor and generous, a World War II made Britain run out of gas, and when they saw any little bit of funds, they hated to grab them, and on the basis of the fact that these remnants of the former dynasty still had some deposits in the Vatican, Britain decided to be a good guy for once.

This matter is carefully said, Britain is sorry for his own, not even a medal was issued.

Old things can not be recalled, the glory is already in the past, now talk about the big problem of Northern Rhodesia.

Aidan was also weighing the pros and cons in his mind, and in short it was a question of both. There was a need to judge the Soviet Union’s reaction as well as to guard against minor moves by the United States. But Aidan believed that at least nominally, the United States could not do anything to Britain.

It wouldn’t make sense for the US to be a direct backstabber while Britain was fighting the Soviet Union in Africa.

And at least for the time being, Britain can still be considered to have deep roots in Africa, and with Africa as the battlefield, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Britain can’t compete with the Extraterrestrial Evil.

As for Alan Wilson more calm, not to mention the United States has no reason to take the opportunity to make trouble to the United Kingdom, even if it is really difficult. He believes that Britain’s current national strength topped for a period of time to realize the problem.

Next year is the outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, adhere to that time, the United States will naturally be calm and raise the flag of unity, so Aidan judged that the risk is not big, Allen Wilson is directly judged no risk.

Overseas deployment of nuclear weapons, in principle, should not be widely publicized, so it is limited to discussions among a small circle. But as the full-time commander-in-chief of the British military, Field Marshal Mountbatten still learned the news immediately.

When Field Marshal Mountbatten came to your daughter’s house, Alan Wilson was holding the latest newspaper, showing off his erudition in learning both Chinese and Western, and today’s newspaper mainly has two main contents, “Old and new colonizers get out of Africa ……”

“The Sino-Soviet alliance enters its eleventh year ……”

Both of these things are fine on their own, to have them both in the same day’s paper at the same time is pretty embarrassing.

Alan Wilson, if he remembers correctly, it seems like it’s been more than a year since the rival camps blamed each other, and now they’re stepping into their eleventh year? Wasn’t there something a little bit off about that?

“So what do you think is going to happen?” Hearing her husband’s playful banter, Pamela Mountbatten inquired softly.

“It won’t be anything. Just pretend you didn’t hear it.” Alan Wilson put down the newspaper, it was hard for him to imagine that Britain would have anything to look up to China on African affairs. But people were going to shout slogans against colonialism, and there was nothing he could do to gag them.

Just then, the British military No. 1 commander in chief, Mountbatten, knocked on the door of his daughter’s house.

Pamela Mountbatten cheered and warmly welcomed her father, “I’ll get some whiskey, dear father.”

After a discussion in the Cabinet, the fact of Northern Rhodesia’s involvement in the Congolese civil war would be treated as unknown by Britain at the government level for the time being, whether it was to the US or the USSR, and there would be no initiative to inform or acknowledge any British involvement, and if it was discovered, it would be a personal act on the ground that had nothing to do with the UK as a means of waiting and watching to see where it would lead.

This attitude is external, and Field Marshal Mountbatten is the head of the British military, so naturally he is not included in this. And it was impossible to bypass Mountbatten himself by using tactical nukes.

“This kind of advice you dare to give is too bold.” Marshal Mountbatten shook his head, lamenting his son-in-law’s audacity.

“It wouldn’t be the first time, Malaya has tactical nukes too.” Alan Wilson picked up his whisky and offered to clink glasses with his father-in-law, “If Britain doesn’t do something while France is in the stall of solving the Algerian problem once and for all, it might regret it later. It can also be used to test the reaction of all parties.”

“The main thing is stealth.” Mountbatten nodded heartily; the Red Beard tactical nuke was the first nuclear weapon that could be carried and used by naval carrier aircraft. Its piggyback platform was very wide: from the Air Force’s Canberra and 3v bombers, to the Navy’s Marauders, Machete and Sea Mosquito.

Even helicopter gunships can be used as weapons platforms, so if the UK wants to quietly send nukes to Northern Rhodesia, it will be difficult for other countries to detect them, and they can be readily utilized without strategic bombers being stationed in Africa.

Now that the decision had been made, it was not too late to take advantage of the testing of the Belfast strategic transport aircraft to transport tactical nukes to Northern Rhodesia and have the local British garrison pick them up.

Mountbatten quickly made the decision to personally take care of this mission. The hulking prototype of the Belfast Strategic Transport took off from the British Isles, and began serving the Empire before it had even entered service.

“Naturally we in Britain will do all we can to create the conditions for a peaceful return to Goa. Of course there are difficulties, and it is true that Salazar is a stubborn man, but we have always believed that the possibility of a peaceful recovery of Goa exists.”

Allen Wilson, full of hypocritical words, expressed his goodwill in front of the Indian ambassador to the great power that had a voice before the collision with the mountain.

There was still value in India at the present time, and enough prestige to make Britain take notice, and as for afterward? What piece of toilet paper wipes your ass twice?

Don’t be stingy with your talent for bragging in front of India, what with the Asian century and the great power that cannot be ignored. It doesn’t cost any money anyway, the Indians like to hear it, and Alan Wilson is willing to talk about it.

Permanent Secretary, after all, is full of affection for India, that is where he worked and fought, if India has a few more golden temples, my Great Britain at the end of World War II directly resurrected in situ is not impossible.

Recently, Washington has been plagued by all sorts of things, the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation, the Iranian issue is slow to progress. France’s mobilization order and so on, the world has not come to calm, still need to show leadership in the city on top of the mountain.

Most critically, the two old dominators, already judged to be waiting for the end of their lives, are not willing to exit the stage of history. France, in particular, has left Washington rather faceless.

Fortunately, London has announced that Britain will express its blessing when the autonomous Nigerian dominions formally become independent this year. And the first time to establish diplomatic relations, the United Kingdom’s understanding of the times always let the United States breathe a sigh of relief.

Just not long to be relieved, the United States observers in Lubumbashi, the fact that the Northern Rhodesia armed intervention in the Congo civil war, reported to Washington, this is not even the question of whether or not Britain wants to hide. The Americans saw it all.

“These Slavs in the Balkans, are they under British control?” Kennedy was amazed at just how much loyalty these Slavs had to Britain and why they were there.

Dulles also had a bitter smile on his face, “It’s a long story that starts with General Patton being the administrator of Bavaria. A portion of the military voices were very hostile to the Soviet Union at the time, and these Yugoslav anti-Tito forces, crossing the border to be taken in by General Patton, made us extremely passive at the time ……”

“There was no reason why we should or could not take these people in, so we had a calm communication with Britain. Let Britain take in the men, but Britain was also reluctant to have these men enter British soil, and a colony was selected for these men to live in.”

“It doesn’t matter what happened in the past.” Kennedy waved his hand, “The problem is that now France is restless, Britain is coming together, the Soviet Union is watching, and Britain and France are not yet willing to willingly accept American leadership.”

Britain and France were extremely sublimated one after another, directly killing the dark forbidden zone, making the current United States very embarrassed. It was also unknown if these two countries had discussed the matter, and had actually made a move in Africa together.

Now the urgent task is to determine whether it is a coincidence by chance, or Britain and France have private communication to act together. Without clarifying this issue, the United States could not make the next step in the arrangement.

The United States inquiry, naturally, was walked the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, and the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office solemnly declared that the United Kingdom was also investigating the purpose of the intervention of Northern Rhodesia in the Congolese civil war, and did not exclude the possibility of the locals going it alone.

After the results of the investigation come out, he will certainly maintain communication with the United States to inform the truth of the matter.

The truth of the matter was that the Red Beard tactical nukes had arrived at the place, and Allen Wilson was busy working on the matter about the cooperation between the tsr.2 attack aircraft and Sweden.

The tsr.2 attack aircraft program has kept the treasury somewhat out of the picture because of cost issues. Is it a boon for Britain’s military programs to move forward after this increase in military spending? Nominally of course it is.

Why nominal, won’t the increase in military spending lead to more progress? That’s absolutely not the case!

If one looks closely at these military projects, it is easy to see that the cost of these military projects magically increased after the increase in military spending.

The projects are still the same, and they do receive support from the Treasury, but they don’t seem to have the effect of immediately increasing the strength of the British military.

But the tsr.2 attack aircraft program is, after all, a fairly advanced program on a technical level, and Alan Wilson decided to look for Scandinavian countries to think of a way to do it, especially the Swedes, to see if there was any interest.

Sweden has the world’s fourth largest air force, with a strong air force as a deterrent to the Soviet Union’s bottom card. But an air force the size of thousands of aircraft is not easy to update once, Sweden also needs the help of other countries.

Sweden’s requirement for fighter jets must also have the ability to fight against the ground, Allen Wilson began to tsr.2 attack aircraft for cooperation between the two countries began to run, and already have some eyebrows. tsr.2 attack aircraft program in technology is still quite bluff.

And it is still a good platform for dropping tactical nuclear weapons, Sweden has been trying to develop nuclear weapons, at least for now, has not given up this effort, tsr.2 attack aircraft is very suitable to shoulder this task.

As for whether Sweden would succeed, Allen Wilson was not worried, and really soon the US would surely flip out before the UK did.