Chapter 1178 mutual muscle show

Put down the phone, Pamela Mountbatten fell into deep thought, she remembered her husband once said something.

“Private property is inviolable, there is a limit, the United States during World War II forced Britain to sell British-owned enterprises in the United States, if you do not have the strength to protect themselves, this kind of thing there is a second and third time. No other country can be counted on, the only one that can be counted on is the British government.”

Pamela Mountbatten’s face shifted for a moment, the night before she left London her man had said a lot of things that on reflection were worthy of careful consideration, “The wealth you have in your hands is approaching the British capital that was forcibly taken by the United States in wartime, and sooner or later you will be targeted if you don’t go the way of Lockheed.”

“Marina, inquire if General Wavell, the commander of the British forces in Australia, has time to meet.” Pamela Mountbatten asked her aide, to help make an appointment to meet the commander of the British forces in Australia, who had previously entered the country on the pretext of the Australian launch site.

At the critical moment, it was the presence of the garrison that gave peace of mind to the presidentess who felt more and more that her husband’s judgment was justified.

General Wavell, who lived in Perth, had assumed that Field Marshal Mountbatten’s daughter had sought him out to inquire about the Cuban Missile Crisis, which had spread around the world today, and had prepared his words.

He was overthinking it, Pamela Mountbatten had an almost superstitious confidence in her man, “Australia is in a position where it would not be vulnerable to a nuclear war, Perth, in particular, is out of range of Soviet nuclear missiles, and the Soviets have ICBMs that are aimed at the United States, so I’m not worried at all.”

This answer made General Wavell marvel, “It seems the Field Marshal’s daughter, has an exceptional understanding of the military.”

“That’s not true.” Pamela Mountbatten let out a long breath, “On the contrary, it is the instability of the situation in Asia, which is closely related to Australia, that deserves full concern.”

“But even if it is, there is certainly more tension on the European side than here.” General Wavell laughed bitterly, “I think that right now your husband, the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, might be very busy.”

After Kennedy’s announcement of a naval blockade of Cuba, the world was shocked, and that certainly included the European countries right on the edge of the Soviet Union, and it wasn’t Britain that was most nervous, but the European front line of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany.

Even Alan Wilson, who had been informed of the American naval blockade, still had an unperturbed look on his face, and was analyzing, in a serious manner, in the Cabinet Office, the possible reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany.

“Sir Wilson is so calm, I wonder if this calmness is based on the fact that, your family has gone to Australia.” Burke Trench couldn’t help but grunt softly, full of shade.

Alan Wilson replied, “Burke, the Curmudgeon’s wife goes to Perth every year at this time, and with or without this crisis, it won’t change a thing. Perth has her important industries, and it is more convenient to deal with transnational business, not to mention …… the fact that there are many people who live in Australia permanently now.”

That last statement is not a threat, but a fact, and Perth’s population growth is largely due to British immigrants. In fact the birth rate in the UK isn’t low, but the annual count of the population increase isn’t much because of the constant immigration.

Especially after Pamela Mountbatten and the many aristocrats who have made their fortunes in Australia, Australia’s attraction has grown exponentially, and after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it is expected that the attraction to the UK will increase by another factor.

Australia is in the southern hemisphere, and its environment is safe from nuclear war.

It doesn’t matter if it’s plausible or not, as long as British citizens believe in this unscientific claim, they will naturally act on it.

“So let’s move on to the reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Right now it is expected that both countries are also in the midst of dismay and shock. But from what I know about both countries, this crisis is over and both countries will attempt independent cooperation between European countries. So Britain’s attitude doesn’t need to undergo a change, we are still in favor of the United States but we don’t need to be overzealous, after Germany and France have made their stance one after another, Britain will appear to be in favor of the United States.”

Norman Brooke nodded uncontrollably, but with a glance at Burke-Trend, added, “Alan, there’s always a need for reasons to make a decision.”

“Of course, Sir. In fact, for both countries, the threat of the Soviet Union’s Western Cluster is not much less than the threat of nuclear weapons, and Britain is in a slightly better position, but it’s really the same thing. In the face of overwhelming Soviet ground power, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons is already a secondary option. It’s not like we’re the United States!”

“Based on the current naval and air forces that can be mobilized on American soil, there is more than enough to impose a naval blockade.”

Alan Wilson took out the arrangement of the U.S. mainland’s naval and air force, of course he had information in this regard, otherwise wouldn’t it be a waste of time to be the secretary general of the Joint Intelligence Committee?

The U.S. mainland can gather more than eight aircraft carriers, as well as hundreds of warships of the huge fleet, for the naval blockade of Cuba, this force is the Soviet Union’s weak Red Navy, in any case, can not break through.

“Over the next few days, we will see the United States and the Soviet Union flexing their muscles and talking tough, but both Washington and Moscow have had plenty of time to consider how this crisis, which is being watched by the whole world, is going to end. Naval operations are slow after all, why else would we send the Royal Navy to Asia? Right?”

Just as Burke Trench said, Alan Wilson still really had a look of a titanic calm in front of him, and did not see the slightest tension in analyzing this matter, as if it were an out-of-body matter.

And Burke Trend was right about one thing he guessed, the rival family left England for Australia, really turning Alan Wilson into fearless, he wasn’t even afraid of a nuclear war happening, and if it did, there were billions of people to be buried with, so why would he be afraid of it?

“It does sound like France and Germany should have reacted more violently than we did.” Norman Brooke nodded his head in recognition, “Looking at it this way, Britain has to take a stand after the two countries so that it can appear to be composed.”

Alan Wilson sat straight down, thinking, “More than that, if it were a few decades later, Europe would have reacted even more violently. Sanctions big stick has been wheeled up, but unfortunately the more sanctions the more it is to cover up the cowardice of not daring to go down.

Really think of themselves as strong, then directly speak with military force, do not use military force, then, the more ruthless sanctions can only mean that to use sanctions to cover up do not dare to do the cowardice, only the more ferocious sanctions, in order to sell the embarrassment of teammates to cover up.

Unfortunately, now the Soviet Union has its own economic system cycle, NATO countries can not say that the sanctions can not be said to have no ass, but it is also true that the ass is not, the sanctions big stick wheel can not be up, it can only call for peace.

Just then, the phone in the Cabinet Office rang, Norman Brooke’s chief private secretary answered the phone, and then reported, “Sir Norman, the Soviet Union accused the United States of the blockade policy, and said that there will be no compromise.”

“Starting to show muscle!” Alan Wilson shrugged his shoulders, stating that his assertion was absolutely not wrong.

Within moments, the call from 10 Downing Street reached the Cabinet Office, as well as the intelligence analysis that the Joint Intelligence Committee needed to prepare for the discussion of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In a public statement on behalf of the Soviet government, Khrushchev angrily accused the U.S. policy of a naval blockade of ‘unprecedented acts of piracy and a complete move toward the initiation of a world nuclear war.’

If it had simply been a verbal threat, Washington might not have taken it very seriously. But immediately afterward, the Soviet armed forces began to be put on the highest state of combat readiness. All furloughs were canceled, veterans’ reintegration efforts were halted, and several Soviet submarines were lost in images from U.S. spy satellites ……

Faced with this threat, the United States completed the largest national mobilization since World War II in less than twenty-four hours: a military force of one hundred and eighty-three warships, including eight aircraft carriers, twelve destroyers and cruisers, and seven submarines, 1,000 planes, and 1,600 missiles, surrounded the narrow Cuban waters.

Across the strait in Florida, the U.S. had also amassed 120,000 Army and Marine troops, including five full divisions.

In the blue Caribbean Sea, on the island of Grand Turk, about three hundred kilometers off the eastern coast of Cuba, there is a huge U.S. missile tracking station that closely monitors every move of ships headed for Cuba. The whole of Cuba is surrounded like an iron barrel.

At this time in the British Cabinet meeting, it was being discussed that Britain would never take a stand until Germany and France did so.

And in the court of public opinion, the narratives of events differed between British and American opinion.

While American opinion emphasized the Soviet threat to the American homeland, British opinion added the Soviet and Yugoslav command of the Congolese army, the battle at Katanga, and the assassination of Tshombe, which, together with the battle for the Roof of the World, shaped the present chain of conflicts into a general attack by the Soviet bloc.

It was definitely not an isolated incident, but a premeditated, test of the strength of the free world. As to why there has been no movement on the European side yet, that is of course because we in Europe are too good and have been prepared for battle long enough for the Soviets to dare to cross the line.

“Strange talk and a mouth full of guns.” Alan Wilson, who was holding his wife’s rechargeable newspaper, made an assessment in Chinese in Whitehall, but although it was a lot of bullshit, the so-called citizens of the free world should not be overestimated in terms of discernment, especially in the face of such a suffocating-like stagnation, and the judgment was even more greatly diminished.

“Alan, what are you looking at.” Rab Butler asked curiously, as he heard Allen Wilson mutter something unintelligible.

“I say, the minister’s high opinion!” Allen Wilson smiled and put down the newspaper, “I estimate that France will immediately state its position, knowing that when the Soviet army enters a state of war readiness, the first ones to bear the pressure will be Germany and France. France considers itself to be a great power, taking a stance is definitely ahead of the Germans.”