Chapter 1154 – Military Exercise and Invitation

“You still doubt the craftsmanship of the Royal Mint?” Makins couldn’t help but laugh at the sight.

“Craftsmanship is not in doubt. I just like the smell.” Alan Wilson put the gold medal in front of his nose and sniffed it, and said with a smile on his face, “It’s this smell of money that’s so mesmerizing.”

“Land Rover has just gone public. That’s half a billion pounds!” Makins shook his head and shook his head, “And now you’re saying that you just love this smell? I really don’t know what to say about you.”

“That has nothing to do with me. Pamela and I have separate finances!” Alan Wilson said this with a slight lurch to explain, “This clears some suspicion on me personally, of looking at the wealth of the Mountbatten family.”

Overall, the Royal Mint’s craftsmanship is naturally nothing to speak of, this batch of medals are of high quality.

In fact, it wasn’t just the quality, the value was also very high. The athletes who participated in the Commonwealth Games this time had definitely earned it.

In addition to the fact that the gold medals were not made of pure gold and were silver plated, there was absolutely no problem with the color of the silver and bronze medals.

Now the Games gold medals have than fifty years ago Stockholm Olympic Games, twenty times heavier, if it is still like that time with pure gold to build, an Olympic Games down to the organizers can lose a lot of money.

This Commonwealth Games medals, is Pamela Mountbatten out of silver sponsorship. Although it is not gold, but it is also full of sincerity.

Makins can also see that Alan Wilson’s regard for the Commonwealth Games, “You seem to be completely different for Malaya and India, obviously served in both places.”

“The big countries with sound and color, don’t need me to care about them.” Alan Wilson flexed his fingers and flicked the gold medal, and put it back as it was, “This time the Games, it is best to increase the cohesion of the Commonwealth countries, I have invited the independent not yet independent, as well as the protectorate to participate together. The program is also good for the Olympic Games to be consistent, and probably a little more.”

“Including socialist sports programs?” Makins inquired with a frown, is it necessary to make it so big?

“Including!” Alan Wilson nodded, the so-called socialist sports programs, refers to the American population of the Soviet Union is very good at the project, such as weightlifting, gymnastics, fencing and these projects.

A closer look shows that this is also a program that a certain big country will be good at a few decades later, and the Soviet Union’s position in today’s weightlifting is similar to that of a certain big country in the latter part of the world. In fact, a few decades later, weightlifting was just as strong in Eastern Europe; there were ethnic differences, and the gold medals were still dominated by Caucasian athletes in the heavyweight weightlifting.

Because of the strength of these sports, the United States collectively referred to them as socialist sports. It’s a good thing it’s not the Winter Olympics, or figure skating and hockey would be called that too.

Hockey in particular, a person who doesn’t live long enough to be a hockey fan is likely to keep seeing Soviet teams win championships for decades to come.

“And boxing, and shooting, and cricket, and, yes, martial arts, and badminton, and table tennis.” Alan Wilson than rattled off a bunch of items, just from the point of view of the program, what the Olympic Games backward, the Commonwealth Games is the better one.

As for what to promote martial arts, not to mention, false promotion of martial arts, a variety of southern boxing and northern leg masters, the real promotion of martial arts, the British Empire Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent undersecretary.

However, the martial arts program is limited to routine performance, but not against, otherwise it is too similar to the boxing program.

And to be honest, when martial arts programs really fight, they are all kinds of punches. Cannon Party period held a north-south martial arts confrontation, the real fight is a variety of punches, there is no sense of beauty, and ultimately the southern boxers with ten battles, one draw and nine losses lost the war record.

This result fully proved why the confrontation program should be divided into weight classes, as well as leg kicks are more powerful than punches.

Therefore, after careful consideration, and in order to leave a way out for the future of Hong Kong cinema, the competition will not be held, but rather as a performance event, with the Malayan team scoring points, and having a good time.

The sailing program is reserved for British athletes, and athletes from Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Newfoundland, after all, with the current economic level, other places do not have the economic conditions to be able to play in the sailing program.

Introducing Makins to the program for a round, Alan Wilson offered to ask if there was any interest in adding to Newfoundland’s revenue generation, to which Makins asked directly in return, “You guys rig the races?”

“That’s not true, this Commonwealth Games is about transparency and cleanliness!” Alan Wilson said and continued, “But some places do specialize in certain sports, Jamaica got an invite, I can see the Jamaicans dominating in the sprints, and in the toga events, British Kenya is also participating.”

“The explosive power of the blacks, although good at boxing, but did not go through systematic training, now should not be the opponent of these teams in Newfoundland, nutrition are very not on the case, have the potential to play out.”

Makins heard his best friend mentioning the Games on the gushing, a look to know is absolutely attentive, “You left the project for Xiangjiang and Malaya, as well as the Asian Commonwealth countries, is the small ball and cricket?”

“That’s right, a unity event where everyone benefits equally.” Alan Wilson replied smilingly, “In fact, it doesn’t matter who ranks first, the most important thing is that everyone has a good time.”

“Rather thoughtful, will Pakistan and India fight in cricket. I’ve heard that the popularity of cricket is very high in the region.” The two walked and chatted and in no time they were out of the mint.

“Why don’t we cancel cricket and replace it with soccer, I don’t think there’s any delay in England getting the gold medal.” Alan Wilson suddenly had a brainstorm, if China and India were to settle for soccer? Who would actually have the advantage? It was still a really hard question.

“But you say, the three local teams, which one is more hopeful?” Makins was thoroughly aroused in nature, and the discussion between the two grew more and more heated.

“I don’t know, theoretically it’s the England team, but there is chance in soccer.” Alan Wilson wasn’t exactly a seasoned fan, and was out of step with the average Englishman.

Makins was so surprised that he practically wondered if his best friend was English.

Recently Allen Wilson has been sending out invitations, treating the current Commonwealth Games, as a stage to show the results of Malaya’s development, especially the invitations sent to India, absolutely affectionate. Directly elevated the treatment of India, people who do not know also thought that Britain was dealing with a superpower.

In terms of sponsorship, the Mountbatten Group naturally bore the brunt, together with the four major enterprises in Hong Kong, including the Swire Group and the Jardine Matheson Group, to ensure that the benefits were maximized.

The Malayan colonial government temporarily liberalized the lottery industry to stimulate the most primitive desire to gamble. As for the attending representatives, Princess Margaret, on behalf of the royal family, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have all confirmed their attendance, which can be considered extremely important.

He even inquired about Norman Brooke to see if the Supreme Authority was interested in taking a break to relax and unwind. It might even be possible to meet the carpenter’s craft of the East and inspire the Cabinet Secretary’s woodworking hobby.

The Supreme Authority also now realized that Alan Wilson was very attached to this time’s Games, and couldn’t help but joke, “You’ll be sad if anything goes wrong with this time’s Games, won’t you.”

“Shouldn’t be, honorable Sir, Malaya practices the Great Clear Law.” Alan Wilson narrowed his eyes and said, “This law is rather harsh, so I made a bunch of regulations to prevent the local residents from running into this kind of punishment. But it’s not like the Great Qing Law can’t be galvanized if someone is going to come out and mess with it while I’m concentrating on one thing.”

“Like what?” Norman Brooke asked, unscrewing his glass and taking a sip of water.

“For example, the law of guilt by association!” Alan Wilson introduced up this set of iconic acts since the Shang Yang Changes.

“It’s really scary enough.” Norman Brooke let out a long breath, then suddenly asked, “The abolition of the death penalty was discussed over at the Supreme Court before, but now it’s not mentioned, does it have anything to do with you?”

Since Norman Brooke asked this, in his heart there was already a suspicion, of course he wasn’t trying to give any guidance, he just wanted to ask Allen Wilson what he really thought.

“It’s just out of a simple sense of justice. In principle it can be left unenforced, but if it’s repealed, it’s unlikely we’ll be able to bring the bill back if it doesn’t work well, it’s the same as extending maternity leave, if it doesn’t have a positive effect, it’s going to be difficult to go back to the drawing board.”

The legal circle, though transcendent, is really just a small, closed circle, the law it is high up and closed to ordinary citizens, which is why the abolitionist death faction in many countries is able to make things happen.

But how, as long as one can reach this circle, it is not that difficult to stop it. The Supreme Court isn’t all judges, there are civil servants in it who also count on Whitehall for their paychecks. What’s more, in the free world, there’s nothing that money can’t fix.

The separation of powers is also useless in the face of capital, not to mention the three powers, divided into a hundred powers, the useless or useless.

The time when India received the invitation letter from the Commonwealth was the same time when the Indo-Pacific military exercises of the British Royal Navy were conducted in the East and West, the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.

New Delhi was not briefed on this Indo-Pacific exercise and was not immune to some shocks on learning the news.

It was even more so as subsequent news came in that there were amphibious landing exercises, borrowing Goa’s land for the purpose. This made many in the Congress party, feel a hint of threat if anything.

It was at this time that the softly worded invitation, full of respect, was handed over to Nehru.

This is not a first courtesy, Britain understands that India does not understand what a first courtesy, must first show strength, in the talk of business. Otherwise the Indian will only think you are afraid of him.

“On the British side, there are two main things, repeating the previous invitation, and the Games in Kuala Lumpur, which I hope India and the Portuguese talk about. So it seems that this Indo-Pacific military exercise is Britain’s way of warning us and the Portuguese at the same time.”