Chapter 1117: “Victory for the Free World”

Putting down the microphone, Alan Wilson swung his fist hard in front of his wife, outputting wildly into the air.

“Look at you like that.” Pamela Mountbatten couldn’t help but smile and laugh at her husband’s childish side, “Out of breath now?”

For the past two years, her own husband had been working on the Iranian issue, and now it was finally coming to a head.

Alan Wilson after moving his muscles, his face bland, “He asked for it, we said three times that this matter can be negotiated, it is he who insisted on treating Britain as an enemy country, today’s downfall is just to let him understand that in this world, there is no small countries have the right to speak.”

“Too blunt for most countries to accept at all.” Pamela Mountbatten softly agreed.

“But it couldn’t be more honestly true. In the presence of Britain, Iran is the small, defenseless country, and in the presence of the USSR, Britain is actually in the middle of that range, if not exactly. So a strain has to be made in order to be friendly with France some people don’t accept it in their hearts but it still has to be done.”

“And we must use the power of Europe, if we let France irresponsibly fool around, there is a risk of being marginalized after France integrates Europe. Once European influence is sidelined by France, the strategy of flying on both wings is bankrupt.”

Staying close to Europe is inevitable, once the European countries have recovered from WWII, which they actually have to varying degrees. Britain would be in a rather awkward position if it remained outside Europe.

After all, a small English Channel is not enough to isolate Europe from its economic influence. Being influenced and not being a part of it, Britain would become extremely passive.

“That’s what you’ve been advocating, I understand your bitterness.” Pamela Mountbatten tugged on her husband’s hand and motioned for Alan Wilson to sit down, then sat herself on her husband’s lap, “Being close to France would still give us a great advantage with the current economic comparisons.”

“For four hundred years we have been the best country in the world. In the future, even if we are not the best, we hope to keep the title of best in Europe.” Alan Wilson reached out and dragged his wife’s hand, “By the way, Glasgow, in the north, receives subsequent Chinese trainee laborers, so if you’re interested in shipbuilding, you can care.”

“Scotland? The country lies in the balance!” Pamela Mountbatten imitated her husband’s tone and assumed the look of a veteran Whitehall bureaucrat, “The center of shipbuilding, I wonder what will happen later.”

“Later? I’ll try and look after the locals, if I can.” Alan Wilson hadn’t figured out how to balance the Scottish side of the economy, and now although he was beginning to restructure this shipbuilding center towards service yachts, and large container construction, it was hard to say how long it would last.

Glasgow’s problems do not exist in the UK alone, and the manufacturing sector faces competition from all countries. This has led to globalization, and the old approach of locating resources close to each other is no longer valid.

Some cities in the south, which also have a shipbuilding industry, can transform themselves by virtue of their proximity to Europe. Glasgow’s location is not advantageous, and it is much more difficult to transform.

Balance with administrative power? Glasgow is not the capital city of the United Kingdom, the capital city of the United Kingdom is London, and there is no administrative power to support it.

Glasgow’s neighborhood in the UK is the equivalent of the Great Lakes in the US, or the northeast of a large country.

It’s a city supported by resources, but in the age of globalization, there’s always a place that costs less than your resources. The good coastal ports are winning out over the industrial centers that are close to the resources, and the Great Lakes of the United States have become the Rust Belt, not to mention the Northeast.

Neither of these two gifted places can compete with globalization, as long as globalization continues. As long as globalization continues, these places will not be able to hold on, nor will they be able to regain their former status.

The solution is not without a solution, unless countries start a trade war, cut off their trade, and go back to the pre-World War I or pre-World War II rhythm of raising tariffs on each other.

Let globalization exist in name only, then the existence of coastal ports in various countries of the environment is gone, the advantage of the proximity of resources will once again be revealed.

In the Great Lakes region of the United States, Alan Wilson had to ask the Sixth Office for information to analyze, but he did not need to analyze the Northeast, he had lived there in his past life. Compared to Glasgow, the Northeast’s problems include population loss.

Moving away is only part of the picture, and in fact the North East doesn’t even rank in the league table of the proportion of people moving out of the country as a whole.

Although it seems to be in the top three in some local opinion mouthpieces. The provinces that are really getting sucked out hard are going all out to create strong provincial capital models, like Chengdu and Hefei, to resist the bloodsucking.

Northeast of the population loss of a greater proportion, lies in the aging population has entered a period of concentrated death.

In fact, there is a very simple way to see the degree of population aging, take Alan Wilson’s previous life lived in a town, go out for a walk for an hour, see a drugstore, write down, if the number of drugstores and hotels is not far from the ratio, that’s the nail in the coffin.

In his hometown, anyway, the number of square dance class participants already exceeded the number of children’s dance students.

Glasgow, at least, shouldn’t have a population problem, and there’s no Alan Wilson to personally experience almost forty years of solo birth, which is an added advantage. But the disadvantage of Glasgow compared to the Great Lakes and the Northeast is also obvious.

That is that the former really belongs to the proximity of resources, and the thickness of this proximity of resources in Glasgow is not even comparable to others.

Northeast and Great Lakes situation should be grateful, has not been encountered by the rest of the country, really to the trade war lasted a decade and two decades upwards, the impact of spreading all corners of the world, a lot of places do not necessarily have the performance of these two places good.

Foreign trade all abolition of their own old death, it is possible that there will be a wave of homecoming, these two places can hold, does not mean that you can also hold.

People that is thick blood to carry, Glasgow in Alan Wilson’s memory, almost by Margaret Thatcher directly screwed, from the second city in the United Kingdom, directly dropped out of the three.

The North East and the Great Lakes have been screwed by globalization for so many years, and are still at least in the middle level in their own countries.

Scotland’s number one city fell directly out of the third place, not to mention the situation in Scotland, the whole of Scotland set in other countries, it is equivalent to the whole of the North does not have a first-tier city, it is no wonder that Scotland wants to be independent.

“There really are any barriers to high industry, you can consider in the future to consider placing in Glasgow.” Alan Wilson thought of the future, inevitably worried, rushed to Pamela Mountbatten, a patriotic entrepreneur, blowing pillow air.

“I hadn’t considered it, but since the head of the family said so. I’m sure I’ll do it.” Pamela Mountbatten had a good-natured look on her face, though in her heart she felt that her husband was worrying about nothing.

All together in bed together for so many years, how women think, Alan Wilson can see at a glance. Mind that this is definitely not worrying, put the Great Lakes and northeastern resources to Scotland, Scotland will not be independent in the next century.

If the decline of the shipbuilding industry is inevitable, the English Channel of Southampton are well transformed. Glasgow wouldn’t be comfortable without a semiconductor industry to put there, Alan Wilson.

If Land Rover open Range Rover production line, it will be placed in Glasgow, as for other industries Alan Wilson did not think well.

A low position does not dare to forget to worry about the country, the matter is still waiting for the coffin, although it is not yet the day to do the Cabinet Secretary to look at the whole situation, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Executive Undersecretary is still in a safe place to think of danger, for the balance of the United Kingdom’s internal problems exhaustive thought.

He decided to take advantage of the environment of today’s nothing, to go to Glasgow local visit, by the way, to see if you can take care of the Chinese intern workers, Glasgow industrial area, in order to welcome the arrival of Chinese intern workers, some of the highway leading to the shipyard, pasted on the Xia Meng giant posters, to nearly three thousand interns to shape a home away from home feeling.

Alan Wilson looks very dejected, the goddess of people’s hearts, has been obtained by him.

In the Iranian capital, Tehran, the final trial of Mossadegh’s heavyweight political allies, including former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and Foreign Minister Hossein Fatemi, six high-ranking ministerial-level officials, came to a close.

It was a highly controversial trial, with Britain doing its best to build up public opinion as a setback to the Soviet bloc’s subversion of the free world, and as for whatever flying coffins had preceded it, in the face of right and wrong, let’s lower the heat for the moment, as Britain and France have reached a cooperation agreement.

And Surin, as well as his camp, is verbally attacking this trial as another act of imperialist aggression.

But that didn’t change the fate of Mossadegh and the others, the court declared Mossadegh and the others guilty and rejected the confession about Mossadegh’s claim that he hadn’t defected to the Soviet Union.

Mossadegh and the others were declared guilty and sentenced to immediate execution by hanging. It was only at this time that Alan Wilson finished his tour of Glasgow and rushed to Basra to sign the document on the lifting of sanctions.

By this time news of Mossadegh’s death had spread around the world, while Pahlavi, who had returned in a triumphant mood, ordered the execution of dozens of military personnel and student leaders with links to Mossadegh. The National Front was characterized as an illegal organization and most of its leaders were arrested. The PPP was subjected to even greater repression.

Countless Mossadegh supporters fled the territory of southern Azerbaijan in the north in the hope that they could be sheltered by the pro-Soviet environment there.

“We cannot deny that there is a Soviet attempt to split Iran to undo this defeat.”

Turning to Major McCordick and Norman Schwarzkopf, representing the United States, Alan Wilson declared victory in an almost glowing tone, “But I am confident that the Soviets will not achieve their goal. The free world is ready for anything, and Britain will join its great ally, the United States, in protecting Iran from the Soviet threat.”

Alan Wilson was full of confidence, and in his mind he couldn’t wait for the US and USSR to hurry up and push the Iranian crisis to the next stage. Anyway, once Britain signed the document, it is officially out of Iran, but the north of Iran but there is still the Soviet Union’s influence, hurry up the conflict intensified, so that Kennedy find something to do.

Obviously this time the United Kingdom is at a disadvantage, Alan Wilson has to pretend to be a victor’s tone, the heart can not wait for these two countries more powerful than the United Kingdom died on the spot.