Chapter 1169 – The Cuban Missile Crisis
It wasn’t long before Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maxwell? Taylor, his own brother Attorney General Kennedy, FBI Director Hoover, CIA Director John? Alex? McCone, Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Rusk, and the commanders of the Army, Navy and Air Force arrived at the White House.
“What are you doing when you find something suspicious in August and it takes a month and a half to turn it over to the White House? For a month and a half, our Pentagon, the CIA was sleeping?”
Kennedy’s roaring voice poured out in front of the heads of departments, he did not understand, such a big thing, involving the national security of the United States, how could a month and a half of no movement, wait until the Soviets have been almost ready, this time only to hand over the hot potato to his hands.
Jacqueline pulled her pair of children a little farther away, not wanting the children to disturb their father in the midst of his rage.
“John, calm down.” Only the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy, dared to open his mouth at this time, rounding up for his brother and these heads of the real power departments, “The key thing at the moment is still to solve the problem rather than pursuing what happened before, wait until this hurdle is over, then solve the problems exposed by this incident.”
Dulles, as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, would have been hard to blame, and at this time was not willing to open his mouth to argue.
What the Soviet Union had deployed in Cuba was not a defensive weapon like an anti-aircraft missile, but an offensive strategic weapon in the form of an intermediate-range ballistic missile, carrying a nuclear warhead that could instantly destroy any city in the United States.
“The priority now is to find out how many of these missiles there are in Cuba and how much danger they pose to the United States.” FBI Director Hoover spoke coldly, “Whether or not the United States can withstand it is a big question.”
“If a first strike is taken to eliminate the threat at the initial stage, is the Air Force capable of doing so?”
“Most critically, are we psychologically ready for a showdown with the Soviets, to do whatever it takes to make the Soviets understand that this is the beginning of a nuclear war.”
When the Monroe Doctrine first began, there was no doubt that it was just a proclamation; the European powers of that time didn’t take the Monroe Doctrine seriously; warships from all countries came when they should, and governments from all walks of life just casually talked about it without the slightest ability to counteract it, and this continued until WWI.
But now it is different, America is the Americas of the Americas has long been true to its name, the Caribbean is the place where the United States has the upper hand, in any case, the United States should not retreat.
“If we are retreating in this place, how can European countries still believe that the United States has the determination to maintain world order?” Dulles finally spoke up, indicating that he was on Hoover’s side.
This must be considered in light of the consequences of the US backing down, unable to even get Cuba under its nose? Across the Atlantic, can the European nations closer to the Soviet Union still rally around the United States?
Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taylor finally took a stand in favor of responding with the strongest possible countermeasures. Kennedy nodded his head, as if determined, and said, “The number of Soviet missiles must be determined, and the Pentagon develop a battle plan.”
After having the White House firebombed by British Canada, this was the first time the United States had faced such a significant threat.
At the end of the day, Kennedy had Secretary of State Dean? Lasker to inform European allies to rally support.
Almost immediately, and every hour from then on, there was a U.S. aerial reconnaissance presence over Cuba, and this time the U.S. wanted to find out not if there was one, but how many.
More and clearer pictures of the imagery were sent to image-processing laboratories in Washington. Technical experts have begun studying the enlarged images at the Pentagon’s analysis center.
On Sunday, October 14, Alan Wilson was hosting the arrival in London of Palden Dondup Namgyal, the Crown Prince of Sikkim, who was romancing the great American Ocean Horse and occupying a number of philandering posts.
It has been proved that what kind of people are small problems, rich and powerful these two items as long as occupy one, the spouse aspect is not a problem.
Crown Prince of Sikkim do not know why Allen Wilson to find himself, and ultimately very entangled in and Ocean horse rocket and come to London, after the trade-offs, unwillingly and reluctantly came.
Long time no see, the Crown Prince of Sikkim’s English level has improved greatly, I do not know if there is an American girl’s words and teach.
Of course it does not matter, although Alan Wilson is extremely dissatisfied with this short-sighted behavior, but now can use the other side, and become the husband of an American, but also help Sikkim to get more attention, in a sense it is also good.
Talking about the dangers of the forward policy, Alan Wilson looked as if I, Great Britain, still maintained my influence over India, in a trance, invincible, and made Palden Dondup Namgyal look like a fool.
“Sir thinks which country is more dangerous for Sikkim.” Palden Dondup Namgyal asked.
“India, of course! What else is there to think about?” Alan Wilson replied with a long drawn face.
“Is it for me to accuse India of infiltration when the time comes?” Palden Dondup Namgyal was full of questions.
“Are you mad? On the contrary, you should stand firmly by India at the UN.” Alan Wilson angrily rebuked this actor’s behavior and said nonchalantly, “The countries to the north won’t do anything to you, India really has the potential to turn your country into history, you know? As a ruler of a country, you have your own country to think about.”
The populations on either side of the Himalayas are completely unequal, that’s hundreds of millions of Indians in the Ganges Valley. Alan Wilson can understand India’s oppression of the three Himalayan countries, but what can be done? Still have to endure!
“All to preserve their national existence as the first priority, existence is everything, everything for the existence, as long as there is this premise, the temporary difficulties in front of them, one day can be reversed back.”
Alan Wilson used practical action to prove that the golden Buddha given to him in the beginning is absolutely not in vain, even after so many years, remembering the old feelings, he still for the three countries of Bhutan Sikkim Nepal, try to find a way to live.
He gave up the weekend, accompanied the other party to discuss issues related to life and death, just this sincerity, is enough for the Sikkim Kingdom to remember for a lifetime, not to mention a golden Buddha, even if it is the Sikkim royal family emptied is not too much, as long as the kingdom is still there, these out-of-body things can always be saved out.
“Don’t rush back to the United States first, first stay in London for a few days.” Allen Wilson opened his mouth and instructed Palden Dondup Namgyal not to rush back.
Early in October Nehru claimed in New Delhi that the Indian government was going to “deal with China by military force.” On the twelfth, he publicly ordered that Chinese troops be “removed” from Chinese territories occupied by Indian forces.
Just yesterday, India’s Defense Minister Menon declared that he would fight China to the last man and the last gun. Then he flew to the Indian border town of Tisipur, near the eastern section of the Sino-Indian border, to make a military deployment.
This is all public news, talk about no secret, from these news, Alan Wilson is very clear, some things can not be avoided, Britain a sea power, which has the power to stop the land fighting?
Weekend evening, a family of five is enjoying a moment of peace, Pamela Mountbatten thinking of after-dinner pastime, such as eating a banana or something, the phone suddenly rang will be the richest woman of the best thoughts interrupted.
“It’s Alan.” Allen Wilson picked up the microphone and said unhurriedly.
“Executive Undersecretary, there’s a major incident in Washington, and both the Cabinet and Whitehall are meeting. The Cabinet Secretary has asked you to go there immediately.” The voice in the microphone was full of urgency.
Alan Wilson’s hand holding the microphone shivered for no reason, took a deep breath and said, “Got it, go right away.”
“What’s wrong? Honey!” Pamela Mountbatten was a little disgruntled, “Isn’t work not until tomorrow? There is even an emergency meeting on the weekend, the government department is too much, putting people to use like this?”
“Who knows, just go and find out.” Alan Wilson reached out and touched his wife’s cheek, “I’ll be back in a while.”
Walking out of the house, Alan Wilson stood in the fall breeze, he probably already knew what was going on.
Cabinet and Whitehall at this time are brightly lit, the cabinet discusses the major issues concerning the direction of the world, Whitehall’s job is naturally to argue whether this issue is really about the direction of the world.
The United Kingdom does not yet know the specific situation, the current situation is only to know that the United States informed the United Kingdom of the existence of strategic weapons in Cuba.
As to how powerful this weapon is, how much in the end. The United States has not even calculated, Britain is even more unlikely to understand.
Alan Wilson or the first time, in the capacity of Cabinet Deputy Secretary General, to join the discussion, he is the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, excluding the previous identity, he is also qualified to participate in the meeting.
Not long ago, Allen Wilson followed Norman Brooke out of the Cabinet Office, to the Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Aidan, Defense Minister Profumo, Foreign Minister Rabo Butler and other Cabinet ministers are also in.
“Norman, Allen, have you guys come up with any programs yet?” Prime Minister Aidan opened his mouth to inquire.
“No, that’s under the eyes of the Americans, we can’t interfere.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth unhurriedly and replied, “To say that there is something to gain, it is fortunate that we didn’t let the United States deploy strategic bombers and ballistic missiles in the United Kingdom in the first place, or else, the problems caused by Italy and Turkey right now might still have a part of us.”
“With the deployment of the pro military, we judge that the Americans are fine with it.” Norman Brooke spoke, “Of course for the sake of world peace we should work on diplomacy and ask France what their attitude is and what the Soviets are up to. Of course this all depends on the latest news from the US, right now the situation is unknown, so naturally we can’t judge how we should react.”