Chapter 1102: British and American Cooperation

Currently India’s four or five hundred million people, not to cause India as a country’s population pressure, but Allen Wilson also knows that it is almost as if it is something visible to the naked eye, India’s Green Revolution occurred in the period of Nehru’s daughter’s rule, counting is also ten years later.

The period of Nehru’s rule in India focused on heavy industrial development, and agricultural progress was actually not great, and the pressure on food was always there, which led to a breakthrough in industry, although there was progress.

Industry and agriculture are the two thighs of a nation, and when either one limps the other suffers.

The most obvious example is the Soviet Union, but that doesn’t mean that other countries don’t have similar problems, like the U.S. as gifted as the country is ultimately a minority.

Pamela Mountbatten is the energy to talk to Nehru, she, as the daughter of the last Viceroy of India, has also been in touch with India for many years, the reason for the conversation to express gratitude to India, so that Nehru viewed good.

“With the way things are going, the interest in Iranian oil should be irrelevant to India. The US is clearly more careful than the UK when it comes to strategic resources.” With an apologetic face, Pamela Mountbatten then elaborated on the development and sustenance of the special Anglo-Indian relationship, “India’s energy problems are something that Britain can think about. We are also aware that India has a shortfall in oil.”

India in this day and age already has a gap in oil, Pamela Mountbatten only knows this reality, her husband knows more, in a few decades a major country will be able to guarantee fifty percent self-sufficiency in oil, how much will India be able to guarantee, India will be able to guarantee fifteen percent, with an eighty-five percent dependence on the outside world, on the basis of India’s use of two hundred million barrels, and China’s use of five and a half hundred million barrels.

India doesn’t use that much now, but oil dependence isn’t just about refueling cars, it’s about every aspect of industrial development.

Nehru came to Basra for the same reason, and Pamela Mountbatten, in the name of gratitude, said that although the United States had excluded India, Britain was still willing to help India develop.

And this was just what Nehru wanted, if he could achieve this, his coming to Basra this time was not a loss, and directly thanked, “Pamela, I have a very good personal relationship with your father, and I hope that the relationship between us can be passed on. In fact, my daughter Indira loves England.”

“Miss Indira is a very intelligent lady.” Pamela Mountbatten, of course, looked like she was begging for more, “Britain is happy to see India shoulder more international responsibilities.”

Pamela Mountbatten certainly couldn’t compete with her husband on the subject of hypocrisy, but still tried her best to learn.

Back at the hotel, Pamela Mountbatten told her husband all about the meeting, “Why would you keep helping India when you have always despised it in your heart.”

“Because India is bound to disappoint.” Alan Wilson said in disbelief, “And a complete blockade is not a good thing, keeping India somewhat dependent on Britain makes it easier to control the country.”

Alan Wilson is not good to say to his wife, India’s national power to turn sharply just next year, more than a decade of accumulated international prestige will be lost.

But still can explain why to pull India a hand, the free world blockade is easy to blockade out a Soviet Union again, in order to avoid the Soviet Union’s fans more and more, so can not be blockaded to India, on the contrary, but also to take care of India’s mood.

“But I support India is also sincere, this is not contradictory, although India will never thank me. They will only think that it was their own hard work that made them successful.”

“You can’t say that either, can you?” Pamela Mountbatten covered her mouth and laughed lightly, “Don’t you have a good reputation?”

“That’s now, people will only emphasize their own efforts, a bad development is God’s fault, a bad development is my personal ability is strong.” Alan Wilson laughed, there are too many examples, any country is somewhat different degrees think so, there is no exception.

South Korea is the most obvious performance, mainly not by the U.S. burst hammer, apply for a treatment of Japan’s estimates will not be so arrogant “Rest assured, India will not develop out of control, they do not have the ability.”

Tubing the style of the head of the P5, Allen Wilson have seen, in the point of letting people down, India never let people down, “can really punch up the place, in East Asia.”

“You’ve always been big on East Asia.” Pamela Mountbatten knew the Pillowman well.

“I’m going to take the overseas assets in Hong Kong and Malaya and put them under the Overseas Asset Management Board. It’s still a bit thin on the capital front right now. It’s a bit daunting to mobilize the capital forces. Especially when facing the United States.” Alan Wilson mused, “It’s about time too. The situation in Xiangjiang is still above Malaya, and incorporating it into control can improve Britain’s risk resistance.”

Before the Cuban Missile Crisis and even the Vietnam War, Britain must bite the bullet to hold on. Don’t get to the point where you don’t even have a basis to turn the tide, and make a gesture of goodwill to Nehru because of that.

“My dear, go back home with the minister. I’m going to do a bit of unseemly business.” Alan Wilson was going to stay in Basra for some more time to keep his wife away from this place of wrongdoing.

“Is it dangerous?” Pamela Mountbatten gazed at her husband, her face full of seriousness.

“If it fails it may bring chaos for a while, but it is what must be done.” Alan Wilson stroked his wife’s cheek, “If Mossadai is not allowed to pay the price, a very bad precedent will be set. How much longer will Britain have to react to something like this in the future? Not to mention the opportunity to cleanse a wave of Soviet influence.”

“The Soviets are behind Mossadegh?” Pamela Mountbatten was a little surprised, how come she hadn’t heard her husband say that?

“Just pretend that he is, otherwise there’s no reason to do anything.” Alan Wilson smiled coldly and muttered to himself, “For the sake of Britain, this time to be the executioner, but there are some things that can not be avoided, it can not be helped.”

If Britain is above the Soviet Union’s national strength, he even dared to directly take action against the Soviet Union, but not without this national strength? That can only retreat to the third world to strike hard.

It’s naive to talk about morality in national rivalries, if the conditions allow it, he can make a move against any country, no matter who that country is.

Take the historical overthrow of Sukarno, which one was clean, the US, UK, Australia or even the Netherlands? All of them have fraudulent island characters yet, and I don’t see Changgong scrupling even a little bit.

“Aren’t they on good terms with the Germans? Let’s see if the Germans can save them this time? I almost forgot, Germany is now dealing with a claim from the United States.” Allen Wilson hemmed and hawed, he was such a person who couldn’t see the good in people.

After the signing of the memorandum, the delegations of the six countries returned separately, Allen Wilson had nothing to do, opened a Chinese character newspaper, carefully read the headline of the contemporary Munich Conference of the Basra Conference, exactly what kind of criticism has been received again, the writing is good, can be said to be spot on.

After a while, felt quite down to earth Allen Wilson exuberant review, “quite down to earth, clean and hygienic ……”

The slightly literate permanent undersecretary, before the domestic Naval Intelligence agents arrive, prepares to draft a propaganda about Mossadegh, who wants to turn Iran into a pro-Soviet state, to be disseminated inside Iran.

“The liberals are leading the country to ruin, and they are the messiahs sent to save it. To put it bluntly: they do not speak like our comrades in arms, like people who love Iran, like class brothers who are fighting with us. Their statements are hostile, arrogant, vicious and slanderous. Yes, comrades, it is slanderous! They see the masses and the workers as the champions of an arbitrary system and speak of them as sell-outs of the interests of the class and the interests of the revolution.”

“They defame the best of us, the tried and honorable patriots, that is to say, those who were cenotaphs and those who fought against Britain, those who suffered in prison cells during the occupation of Iran, those who fought relentlessly. They vilify these people by saying that patriots are the embodiment of unwiseness, enemies who have listened to Soviet incitement, not patriots. Who but an enemy could say such things?”

“Iran has a bright future when it embraces Prime Minister Mossadegh and ousts Pahlavi, the Anglo-American puppet monarch.”

“Even Soviet propaganda cadres cannot be more professional than I am.” Alan Wilson directly handed the written propaganda leaflet to the agent who had worked in Iran and instructed, “Translate it into Farsi, gazette it, and wait for my order before spreading it inside Iran.”

The hegemony of public opinion was important, and a good lead could save a lot of energy, as many coups had proved.

Naval Intelligence is also one of the British intelligence services, Alan Wilson is not very trusting of MI6 in such a big matter, or the father-in-law’s side of the agency is a little more trustworthy.

Pamela Mountbatten returned to London, found his father to ask for people, Field Marshal Mountbatten was very surprised, “why not come back together?”

“He had an operation to follow up on and I was back for the technology.” Pamela Mountbatten was blunt, “There is a shortage of fresh water in several small protectorates in the Middle East and I want to invest in desalination plants there.”

Britain has accumulated technology in desalination, as early as the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth had issued an order: whoever could invent an inexpensive method to desalinate bitter and fishy salty seawater into fresh water for human consumption would receive a bonus of 10,000 pounds, which at the time was an astronomical sum.

There were many ways to desalinate seawater, and Pamela Mountbatten came back to find a way to reduce costs on a large scale.

A few days later, Naval Intelligence agents, hand-picked by Field Marshal Mountbatten, arrived in Basra. Another two days later, Allen Wilson met his counterparts in the Central Intelligence Agency, shouting slogans Allen Wilson shouted a lot, personally practicing the special relationship between Britain and the United States, he was the first time.