Chapter 1112 The New Foreign Secretary

Integration of British capital into the control, the key does not lie in Alan Wilson and the Governor of Hong Kong between who is deeper.

The power lies in how London chooses, capital is not Pamela Mountbatten in?

Whether the Governor is willing or unwilling, can not change the final result. Like the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), there is no consultation with the Hong Kong side, as long as the relationship with London, the Governor of Hong Kong is also no way.

Now the struggle of the Governor of Hong Kong, not at all on Allen Wilson heart, what financial autonomy fooled who. Even the Governor of Hong Kong can not be too selfish, should consider the interests of all civil servants.

“The four big corporate families are not against it, it is his turn to be against it?” Pamela Mountbatten, who returned to Kuala Lumpur, also agreed with her husband’s judgment, and also informed of the communication with Princess Bardia, whose Highness was willing to help reach a series of cooperation in military sales, as well as the purchase of the island, which would be used to strengthen the strong alliance with the United Kingdom.

“There are just a few Giant-class ships left, finally this time packing out.” Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief, like he had gotten rid of a piece of his heart.

In this year, the Royal Navy still has two million three hundred thousand tons of tonnage, including the Eagle class, the Queen Elizabeth class, the heavy carriers of the Queen Victoria class, which is not yet fully completed, plus four Centaurs, and still maintains the framework of the global navy.

Compared to 1945, Royal Navy tonnage fell by one million tons. From three million three hundred thousand tons to two million three hundred thousand tons, which is the result of the continuous decommissioning of old ships and packages for sale.

If we compare it with the United States, it is still proportionately one-fourth the size of the United States. The total tonnage of the U.S. Navy in 1945 was nearly twelve million tons, and in this year it has become eight million eight hundred thousand tons.

In fact, the tonnage of the U.S. Navy is also declining, but the replacement cycle is exactly one cycle later than that of the Royal Navy. The U.S. Navy turnover cycle would have accelerated steeply after the 1970s. This coincided with the time when the Vietnam War was raging.

From 1970 to 1980, the U.S. Navy’s gross tonnage dropped from eight million tons to four million tons. Meanwhile the Soviet Red Navy made great strides forward before Reagan came to power to revitalize the U.S. Navy’s Grand Fleet program.

Alan Wilson thought it was better to get the Royal Navy’s warship replacement done while the cost wasn’t too high. Otherwise by the time the United States secretly printing money, even the United States itself can not guarantee an orderly replacement of naval warships, the United Kingdom at that time it will be more difficult to update.

As for the next cycle to time to say, first to the immediate top of the past two or three decades, the immediate can not, but also say what later?

The current U.S. is certainly not in a hurry, and will not feel the Royal Navy tonnage what threat.

The United States did not enter the quagmire of the Vietnam War, the national strength is not damaged at any time to open the shipbuilding program. Will not be a quarter of their own gross tonnage of the Royal Navy more importance, the Americans do not see the Royal Navy, the strength of the Red Navy is not very strong in the eyes.

Alan Wilson stood in the United States point of view, before the intervention in the Vietnam War, the Americans would not have thought that this war will have such far-reaching significance, almost to the pre-war solitary United States accounted for in the rainforest.

The war was so disastrous that the United States had to turn over a new leaf at home, not to mention the normal change of navy.

As long as Britain can stay out of it and maintain a normal naval turnover, it’s a good opportunity to close the gap in maritime power.

If the Red Navy stayed the same course, it would pose a formidable challenge to the US Navy in a decade or so. At that time, in order to maintain the superiority of the free world over the Soviet Union, the United States will be more solicitous to the United Kingdom, even in view of the size of the Royal Navy.

So far, Alan Wilson was still thinking about how to be independent and be a powerful ally.

He didn’t think about defeating the Soviet Union, let alone defeating the Soviet Union on its own. If he wanted Britain to defeat the Soviet Union on its own, he would not have been able to give him a map of Golgotha, unless the man in charge of the Soviet Union was his son, which was not possible.

In naval matters, the daughter of the Marshal naturally had a say, and Pamela Mountbatten asked if Alan Wilson wanted to strengthen the naval forces in the Far East.

“No, a few Centaurs are enough, no need to increase.” Alan Wilson categorically denied.

The current arrangement of the Royal Navy, simply put, the further east the weaker, the mainland and the Atlantic Ocean is not fully completed Queen Victoria class, the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East is Queen Elizabeth and the Eagle class, to the Far East of the Pacific Fleet, there is only the Centaur class and a bunch of normal cruising fourteen knots of the battleships.

Certainly enough to deal with Indonesia, not to mention the air support in Malaya and the Vulcan bombers in Western Australia.

The table was filled with detailed intelligence on the current situation in Indonesia, especially the current assessment of the strength and influence of the Indonesian Communist Party.

After taking out Mossadegh in Iran, Allen Wilson was now thinking about how to capitalize on the victory.

Completing the plan that he had been planning for a long time, but had been patiently waiting for the time to appear. The reason Pamela Mountbatten had just suggested strengthening the Royal Pacific Fleet, was that she had seen so much information about Indonesia and thought her husband was going to do something about it.

Do something, to be sure, but it had nothing to do with the Royal Navy, strengthening the Pacific Fleet for what? What’s the point of strengthening the Pacific Fleet? To launch an amphibious landing on Jakarta? Isn’t that the Asian version of the Bay of Pigs? The son will just do a handful of humiliating things, and daddy will still want to save face.

“Indonesia is an archipelago, can’t we use the Royal Navy?” Pamela Mountbatten was confused, how to clean up Indonesia without the Royal Navy.

“This matter has to be considered in the long run, Sukarno is not stupid. The Pacific Fleet can’t hide from the Jakarta government if it’s strengthened.”

Alan Wilson took the assessment report of the Indonesian Communist Party, said I can not succeed, can not fail? There are successes and there are failures. Who says that a coup d’état will always succeed, failure is the mother of success.

In terms of timing, we must choose a good point of entry, he felt that a few months after the Cuban Missile Crisis and the battle for the roof of the world, when the world celebrated the hard-won peace, it is very appropriate to do it.

Everyone had just breathed a sigh of relief from the haze of nuclear war and was still in a state of exhaustion, and Alan Wilson could try to strike a match with the Culture Czar. It couldn’t be any later than that, and any later than that, there was the possibility of a long night.

When the civil servants of the Overseas Assets Control Commission arrived in Hong Kong, the Governor’s round of resistance was officially declared a failure, and this round of power struggle, which did not meet at all, was concluded with Alan Wilson’s victory.

Taking the Indonesian intelligence documents, Allen Wilson considers returning to London and concentrates on planning how to maximize the benefits in the next year.

In Lagos, the capital of Nigeria, in the presence of British Foreign Secretary Macmillan, the Nigerian Autonomous Territories declared their formal independence under the proclamation of Governor Azikiwe, amidst the cheers of the 100,000 people present.

The London newspapers were united in their optimism about Nigeria’s prospects, as if a natural African hegemony was on the horizon, as the last man to do so, Nehru, was now a prime minister of a major power in his own right.

It seems that Azikiwe is also about to lead Nigeria on the path of prestige, ready to start the glorious road of African hegemony, with no regard for France at all.

Macmillan’s recent days have fallen into the category of both opportunity and risk, with Britain finally accepting the package offered by the United States and signing the memorandum of understanding, and naturally as Foreign Secretary he has borne the brunt of the fire from the Labor Party.

Fortunately, as Prime Minister, Aidan expressed his confidence in Macmillan in time, and it so happened that now that the Nigerian Autonomous Territories were going to become independent, Aidan suggested that Macmillan take the opportunity to lower his presence a bit by traveling to Lagos to witness the independence ceremony, so that the Labour Party would lose the target of its flak, and he himself stayed behind to deal with the Labour Party.

This was exactly the right idea, and Macmillan readily accepted, and so the Foreign Office of the British Empire saw a rare situation in which neither the Foreign Secretary nor the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was in London.

Alan Wilson and Macmillan, almost back and forth back to London, just a day later, about the cabinet reorganization results have come out.

“Honorable Minister, welcome to the leadership of the Foreign Office. I am the Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office!” Alan Wilson expressed his welcome to the arriving Rab Butler, as for the former Foreign Secretary and current Education Secretary Macmillan, he had already forgotten about it.

It is normal for people to leave, in saying that the fundamentals of a country lie in education, and Macmillan’s appointment as Minister of Education also reflects Prime Minister Aidan’s regard for the cause of education. And this time the cabinet reorganization, McMillan did not kick out of the cabinet, still one of the cabinet ministers, this result is not very good?

“Allen, I’ve heard of you, you’re a very thoughtful permanent undersecretary.” Rab Butler extended his hand and shook Allen Wilson’s hand, “A lot of work, and we will have to work together in good faith in the future.”

“Of course, our aim is to fully cooperate with the minister’s work.” Alan Wilson lu out Jia smile, said in a certainty tone, “NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, I thought that I want the former minister to attend, since the minister has just assumed office now, it’s not too late for us to discuss this matter.”

In fact, fate is sometimes very interesting, Macmillan was placed in the Secretary of State for Education, the very post of the pre-war Rabob Butler, Rabob Butler became Secretary of State for Education in the Second World War, and during his tenure, he passed the ‘Education Reform Act’, which established free secondary education.

After Churchill’s defeat to Adderley, Rab Butler helped to reform the Conservative Party by announcing the “Industrial Charter” on behalf of the Conservative Party, followed by the “Agricultural Charter” and other documents, and formally agreed to the Labour Party’s policy of a mixed economy with nationalization and the building of a welfare state. The Conservative Party formally agreed to the Labour Party’s policy of nationalizing the mixed economy and building a welfare state, thus eliminating the difference between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party in terms of policy and greatly changing the image of the Conservative Party in the eyes of British voters, and gaining the support of many workers.

Rab Butler supported the Munich Conference in World War II and consensus politics in the post-war period, and this time the purpose of being appointed Foreign Secretary by Prime Minister Aidan was called out, reliably …… firmly defending any claims made by the Prime Minister and party leader.