Chapter 1103: Everyone Knows
A permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who always stays out of the country? Will there be a problem? In fact, there was nothing wrong, the Foreign Office was not just the only Permanent Undersecretary, just like the Treasury had more than just one Permanent Undersecretary, Norman Brooke.
Away from Alan Wilson, the other permanent undersecretaries monitor the Foreign Secretary as usual, and only take positions on matters of right and wrong.
Away from London, Alan Wilson still hasn’t forgotten his job to make some policy adjustments towards India. Particularly in the area of overseas assets for buttressing India in preparation for next year’s big event.
It would not be necessary to have a plenary session to bring in the High Commissioner for the Persian Gulf, the High Commissioner for Malaya and the Consul for Goa. Britain had a consulate in Goa, which he had strongly recommended after he had come on board as Permanent Secretary in the Foreign Office.
Indian Independence had both advantages and disadvantages for Britain, the disadvantage being that Britain could no longer cry out that it would never surrender until the blood of the Indians was dry.
The upside was that it could be stopped in time, and with India’s size in an ironclad desire for independence, there was really nothing Britain could do about it. The cost of maintaining colonization would have been unacceptably high. After all, the special circumstances at the end of British India could not be maintained for long.
In the Indians have a thought, Allen Wilson seized this psychology to increase the pressure, but usually to do so?
But Allen Wilson does not deny that India is a vast market, in addition to Europe, North America and parts of Asia, India can also really venture a little bit of a prestigious power.
Others have you do not have, this is just need, India’s other resources of the gap, in the category of low human rights are not big, but the exception of oil resources, if the oil control of India’s energy channels, the maintenance of traditional British influence is good.
Hundreds of millions of people even if a large portion of them are so mixed up that they don’t even know they’re alive. The rest can create a sizable demand.
For India’s economic and trade adjustments lay mainly in the Persian Gulf and Malaya. The two High Commissioners are also people that Allen Wilson is all friends with, and this is something that the three of them can do. At the same time also need to make good use of Goa this window.
Allen Wilson wants to obtain a win-win excuse, want to in the next year when India is panicked, the prestigious big country flag thrown aside to beg Britain to help, agree to some conditions.
But considering India’s antecedents in this aspect of credit, so it is still necessary to borrow Goa this smuggling window, as far as possible to avoid India get too much benefit. Formal channels of trade and commerce, India can not collect taxes? He did not want the Indians to collect taxes.
And Allen Wilson has an understanding of the living standards of the Indian people, know the existence of the vast proletariat in India, in order to avoid radicalizing the contradiction in India, there must be a control of the price, smuggling is a good means of controlling the price, the British Indian Commissioner Assistant’s ownership of the spirit once again broke out, he is all for the good of the Indian people.
“We are going westward from the Persian Gulf, and Malaya from the east, to exert an economic and trade influence on India.” Laying out his plan to his two friends, Alan Wilson inquired, “Where are the destinations for oil exports from East Malaysia now.”
“Japan Korea, Australia.” Richard answered without even thinking, “The export price to Japan and Korea is actually slightly higher than the price of oil exported from the Persian Gulf.”
“That’s even good.” Alan Wilson nodded, a little higher than the Persian Gulf oil export pricing was reasonable.
The distance factor had to be taken into account, how far the Persian Gulf was from these markets, it was the distance cost that Malaya’s oil export savings were.
Distance costs also play a big role, Japan a cruise ship to the Persian Gulf takes twice as long as Malaya, the cost of transportation will be much higher, a round trip can also save half the time, not to take out more than the price of oil to earn back it.
Although the development of Malaya and Japan is a competitive relationship, but the export of oil is not the enemy. Can export some resources to share the pressure of society is good, afraid of really in addition to selling labor, there is no other way at all.
“India’s car ownership is only this small.” John laughed bitterly, “This can even have an oil shortage?”
“India’s car ownership is small, but some gasoline bikes are still held quite high in certain cities.” Goa Consul Nicholson replied, “It’s kind of a novelty.”
“What’s novel about it, the country is different.” Alan Wilson was reluctant to continue the discussion. He would not say that the idea of gasoline bicycles, which was his idea, was rather humiliating.
But the gasoline bicycle trick did fit the Indian context, and was a bit of a brand name for many Indians who considered themselves middle class in the 1960s.
Indians are extremely price-sensitive, and by the twenty-first century, Suzuki’s position in India was the equivalent of Nokia at its peak, the fundamental reason being that Suzuki was cheap.
This is Pamela Mountbatten once passing through India, and the Tata Group of people to meet, came back and said the Tata Group to build a car sales are not good, Allen Wilson is flirtatious to give this advice, he was just joking.
Gasoline bike Allen Wilson just seen a few times in his past life, is in the big two eight bike with a gasoline motor. When there was gas, it was used as a motorcycle, and when there was no gas, it was used as a bicycle.
But this kind of modification is also very dangerous, even if the big two eight bicycle is considered to be very strong among the bicycle, it is impossible to withstand for a long time, the bicycle frame, bearings, chain can not carry the power of the gasoline engine.
You can have fun with it if you change it, but if you use it a lot, a bike accident is not so bad that it kills you, but the percentage of accidents is much higher.
He was just bullshitting in front of Pamela Mountbatten at the time, saying it once and forgetting about it, but in the eyes of Pamela Mountbatten, her husband has always been reliable, and when she passed through India again, she really did give this suggestion to the Tata Group.
Alan Wilson also did not expect, he figure a fun joke, really led to the emergence of gasoline bicycles in many cities in India.
India is, after all, a magical land, Allen Wilson is not good to talk about people’s prestigious big country state. He just hoped that Pamela Mountbatten would not publicize this, and the permanent undersecretary was also face-saving.
“In short, the whole of India is extremely short of oil resources, pinching the energy issue will help Britain maintain its traditional influence over India.” Alan Wilson spoke in a nonchalant manner, “Make adjustments according to this core. This Basra meeting, Nehru also sort of spoke up for Britain, although saying it was as good as not saying it.”
“Well, actually, with the Indians, normal trade is far less of a hassle than managing them in the first place.” John, who was also a commissioner of the native states in the first place, approved of Alan Wilson’s adjustments, and both were men who knew the state of India.
“I’m sure it will be even more hassle-free in the future.” Alan Wilson smiled and opened a bottle of whiskey, pouring a glass for each of the two high commissioners a consul.
The present India is still in the stage of self-consciousness, never mind the sound and color of the great nation into how.
The Indians still have a me-very-strong illusion, and next year when that illusion is punctured, the Indians will be reminded of what’s in it for the kid with a daddy.
The Windsor Hotel in Basra, which has now become the base camp for staging Iran’s overthrow of Mossadegh, is now not a question of whether to do it or not, but a question of how to do it. Even if the U.S. doesn’t help he has to keep pushing.
The United States can choose not to help, but if the United Kingdom this time to overthrow Mossadegh action failed. The consequences were definitely not borne by the UK alone, the US would have to pay the price just the same.
“The code name for this operation? Let’s call it Operation Ajax!” Alan Wilson turned to the agents of the Naval Intelligence Agency and set the course of action for this subversion of the Mossadegh government.
“Once the operation is successful, immediately use Mossadegh as a pro-Soviet element and launch a purge of its main presiding officers, the Mass Party and the Workers’ Organization, preferring to kill three thousand by mistake rather than sparing a single one. Mossadegh’s political allies we turn over to Pahlavi.”
The specific program of this Ajax operation was laid out exactly as the historical Suharto cleansing of the Indonesian Communist Party was laid out, except that Suharto’s role was changed to that of Pahlavi.
Mossadegh was in for a day, and Pahlavi was a king with not much power, just in time for the blockade to last so long. Mossadegh would also have to face opponents in the slot, and Pahlavi would have been more than willing to take back his power.
“Major McCordick, someone from the United States will contact you on the Tehran front. Bring the plan straight through.” Alan Wilson handed the plan over to the leader of Naval Intelligence, urging, “This is a major operation that reflects the unity of Britain and the United States against the Soviet Union, and it may be replicated in future operations, so I hope everything goes well.”
If Mossadegh was successfully taken out, Allen Wilson would naturally put Indonesia on the agenda, and at the same time, this operation could also serve as a wake-up call to the Soviet Union that Britain was for real, so that the Soviet Union would learn a lesson on Indonesia.
Major McCordick nodded, “Permanent Undersecretary, we also know the magnitude of this operation. Otherwise the Marshal would not have sent us to assist.”
A day later, Major McCordick arrived in Tehran and met with Kermit Roosevelt, the head of the American side, to share the subversive plan Allen Wilson had developed.
“Operation Ajax? What a name!” Kermit Roosevelt exclaimed heartily, “This time we’re going to show the unparalleled unity of the free world.”
“That couldn’t be better.” Major McCordick responded with a smile, “For the sake of the Anglo-American special relationship.”
“And for the indestructibility of the free world.” Kermit Roosevelt interjected with a grin.
On this day, the streets of Tehran were flooded with pro-Mossadegh propaganda pamphlets pointing the finger at the British and the Americans, as well as at the puppet, as the patriots called him, the Shah of Iran, Pahlavi.
Early morning came, and the citizens of Tehran who saw these leaflets were talking, many of them sensed that things were not simple, but did not dare to talk too much about it, everyone felt that they knew something, but pretended not to know.