Chapter 1196 The Broken Window Effect

“Perhaps the Indians are not as relaxed as you are at this time.” Rab Butler said dumbfounded.

“Minister, not really, isn’t it true that from India’s point of view, isn’t it the most autonomous time in thousands of years? Is it really true, as Nehru said, that India has been a political entity since time immemorial?”

Alan Wilson laughed and said, “As much as Indians may not believe it, it may be a bit uncritical to say that this is the time when India was at its most glorious; it was at its most glorious before this war.”

As long as it is summarized in a grand narrative, being in a different country means looking at other countries in a completely different way.

Other people see Britain, the place where the Industrial Revolution originated, the Sunset Empire that crisscrossed the world. The world’s dominant power for two hundred years.

Alan Wilson’s eyes of the United Kingdom, British India independence, British Sudan independence, British Nigeria independence, properly a sharp decline of tomorrow.

A few decades later, a major power in the eyes of their own, opium war defeat, a hundred years of humiliation, cession of land and reparations, Sino-Japanese war defeat, civil war for decades.

In the eyes of others, a big country, and finally a dynasty of expansion all the way to swallow Junggar, the population of 400 million, expanding the land of 13 million. The victor of World War I, the victor of World War II, war with the United States, war with India, war with the Soviet Union, the world’s second-largest economy, and then muttered this hundred years of shame to be snowed under.

Both are true, purely depending on how you look at it. Britain did nothing more in the colonial era than the nations of the agrarian era, but that era documented all the bad things Britain did.

But now, at least in India, Britain can finally take the opportunity of this war to come down from the list of India’s number one enemies. Even if Nehru was still wary of Britain, it didn’t change the Indian people’s simple mindset: how can you forget a beating you’ve just taken?

The news of the arrival of the British delegation in New Delhi spread fast in the independent country, Rab Butler was given a huge welcome, and India, having fallen from the top of the heap to the bottom of the heap, remembered the good things about Britain.

On the way to the Windsor Castle Hotel in New Delhi, countless Indians, young and old, saluted the convoy of the British delegation, who, at this point in time, had no choice but to pin their hopes on Britain, a million miles away.

Entering the hotel, Alan Wilson went straight to the door of his booked room and knocked, the door was opened and Hedy Lamarr opened it and dragged the man straight in.

“Not wearing the classic robe yet?” Allen Wilson hemmed and hawed, “It’s New Delhi, the place where our destiny began, but it’s very monumental.”

“You’re the one who talks too much.” Hedy Lamarr blankly glanced at Alan Wilson, and muttered in a small voice, “That is, I am obedient to you, no matter where you go, I have no complaints to accompany you.”

“Yes, you worked hard.” As he spoke Allen Wilson had already taken Hedy Lamarr into his arms and admitted his mistake, “I was wrong, any complaint in front of you, is a blasphemy to your hard work.”

“That’s more like it!” Hedy Lamarr seemed to have lost her temper, feeling that her hard work had not been in vain.

After a long journey, the two decided to take a bath and relax before getting back to their intense work.

“This visit to Delhi was a surprise, didn’t you say that you wouldn’t be coming back?” Hedy Lamarr lay helplessly in her man’s arms, a red flush on her face that hadn’t faded, and obviously hadn’t yet recovered.

“Times are different now; I didn’t come, because I had some hard feelings here. Now it’s different, other countries have taken the place of Britain.” Lighting a cigarette, Alan Wilson said with an intoxicated look on his face, “So now that there is a change, I don’t have to purposely avoid the opportunity to come to India.”

To this day, Allen Wilson can restore the original face of an old friend of the Indian people, and justifiably stand on the side of India for the benefit of Britain.

“But what about the great fleet you have assembled in England?” Hedy Lamarr asked suddenly as if remembering something.

“They have things to do.” Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, the Broken Window effect was coming soon. It wasn’t Britain’s fault, it was the Indians themselves, naturally affecting Indians elsewhere.

Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, was the core of British Africa as once planned by Britain, and here, as in other British colonies, there was a large Indian community, with a population of 400,000 people of Indian descent in the whole of Kenya.

The news of India’s defeat traveled across the ocean and immediately sent shockwaves through the Indian community. Countless Indians took to the streets of Nairobi to show their solidarity with their home country. These people were so excited that they wanted to leave and go back home to fight.

This led to the British troops in Kenya standing by, not daring to board the ships as planned, but adopting a vigilant attitude to protect the white community. What happens when a foreign community in a strange place doesn’t think of itself as local?

Riots just happened, the whole of Nairobi was thick with smoke, the blacks saw the Indians as accomplices to the white colonizers, and in the presence of the British army they would not dare to do anything to the whites. But they were not so kind to the Indians.

Nairobi city, shouting and killing the sky, the long-standing resentment of the Kenyans, on these foreign Indians to start the zero-dollar purchase action, all neighborhoods have riots, no one knows the cause, is not clear how to start.

Sensing the seriousness of the situation, the British army in Kenya contracted to defend the white community, and at the same time contacted the Royal Navy fleet offshore, requesting that the riots in Kenya be suppressed.

At this time the Indian community is in the midst of a raging fire, the Kenyans who have succeeded in zero dollar purchase have tasted the sweetness, completely immersed in the joy of zero dollar purchase, there are still some people who want to lay hands on the white community, but by the British troops waiting in the wings to shoot directly, and quickly concentrated on finding Indian trouble.

There always had to be a reason why the Royal Navy couldn’t make it on time, or would the Indian nationalists think Britain was out of work? Alan Wilson of course knew that out of work was a fact, but Britain could not admit it.

What could be done to muzzle the Indian nationalists so that they could not think in terms of Britain picking the peach? It would have to be in suffering the Indian people a little.

As a British gentleman, Alan Wilson is very do not want to go out of this strategy, so he let the Malayan side must keep a close eye on, as for the Kennedy side because of the complexity of the social environment, the United Kingdom recently to support India, relaxed vigilance, a little error is normal.

Kenya riots immediately caused the Royal Navy’s response, thousands of miles to aid India’s plan had to be temporarily terminated.

The priority now was to restore calm to Kenya, while London formally informed of the causes and consequences of the riots in Kenya, and said it could be a broken window effect.

The Broken Window Effect is the idea that bad things in the environment, if left unchecked, can cause people to follow suit or even intensify their behavior. Take a building with a few broken windows, for example, if those windows are not repaired, vandals may break more windows. Eventually they may even break into the building and, if they find it unoccupied, perhaps settle there or set fire to it.

A wall that shows some graffiti that has not been cleaned off is soon covered with messy, unsightly things.

This effect, of course, was summarized by the famous British scholar, now Permanent Undersecretary at the Foreign Office, Sir Alan Wilson, whose fundamental purpose was to establish a scholarly persona, and Sir Wilson is currently in New Delhi.

Upon receiving the news, Alan Wilson informed Foreign Secretary Rab Butler of the fact that there was a riot in Nairobi, and pushed the root cause of the riot to the defeat of India, which led to the anger of the ethnic Indian community, which in turn led to the dissatisfaction of the local blacks in Kenya, resulting in the occurrence of this riot.

“The white community had no problem with it, did they?” Rab Butler inquired very nervously.

“So far, no problem!” Alan Wilson gave Rab Butler a piece of mind, “But there is the fear that other colonies will take to follow suit, as if from the moment of India’s defeat, this is not the same for a lot of things in the world. The movements of Aden, Mauritius, and indeed the other colonies, we shall have to pay extra attention to.”

With an air of responsibility, Alan Wilson said the matter was in his hands, and Rabo Butler was still preparing for a diplomatic trip with Nehru, which he said lightly, but in his heart he knew very well that the biggest broken window effect had not yet begun.

For example, the other protagonist of the Indo-Pakistani partition, Pakistan, watched India being beaten to a bloody head, the heart does not have the slightest idea? After the partition of India and Pakistan, the two countries are a pair of brothers in distress.

India from the war will think, should find a land power as foreign aid, Britain and the United States, although powerful but not to the land war, and the mainland is really too far away from India.

Isn’t that a coincidence? Pakistan thinks the same way and doesn’t have to weigh who exactly to get like India does. Pakistan and a big country is bordering, do not have to think much, an all-weather ally is readily available.

Even if the United States pressure is useless, the United States is far away, which is close to the strong aid to the more practical?

When Pakistan is emboldened, that will be the real broken window effect, not the current riots in Nairobi, Kenya, where no one knows how many people have died yet.

Rabo Butler and Nehru’s first meeting, with a sombre heart, informed Nehru, the former Prime Minister of the prestigious power, of the tragic events in British Kenya, and said that Britain will certainly deal with it, to ensure the safety of these Indians.

“What a world!” Allen Wilson sighed long and hard and wondered if he was replicating so in Mauritius? It can’t be too hard, the second largest ethnic group in Mauritius is of French descent, what a bother.