Chapter 1208 – Kind and Friendly Negotiations

“On such a solemn occasion today, I don’t want to clichédly emphasize the threat of the Soviet Union, which the U.S. felt firsthand two months ago, and the U.S. is still engaging in misguided judgments, and I’m very worried about the future of the U.S.”

The Soviet threat could not be overemphasized, and even Allen Wilson felt that Russia, after disintegration, would be difficult to deal with.

Think about the total economic volume of the United States itself plus the European Union, Russia even if the economy is underestimated due to sanctions, it is still an astronomical difference, but so what? It’s still not making Europe and the United States gray.

Add up to forty trillion economies, was fifteen trillion economies to get down, visible Russia really angry, let Europe and the United States how embarrassing, more than twenty times the economic gap, for a comparison, that is being sanctioned before the Venezuelan and U.S. economic volume comparison.

It’s only been a month since the USSR removed nuclear missiles from Cuba, and here the US is talking about unifying nuclear forces?

At the end of WWII in 1945, Britain wanted to rule the world with the US, and by today it’s nowhere near as difficult as it was back then, how much does it want to be a follower of the US?

“After the unification of nuclear forces, it will help to increase the trust between Britain and the United States, unless Britain thinks that the special relationship with the United States, has come to an end.” Dean Lasker started to threaten with a cold face.

“You’d better tell that to the De Gaulle government. I think the countdown is on to the dissolution of NATO.” Alan Wilson was unmoved by this threat, “Honorable Secretary of State, you should know a little something. The United States has been able to gain a foothold in Europe, with the assistance of Great Britain playing a large part in that.”

“And the French government has always preached European autonomy, we and France are different in that understanding. But if pressed? It’s not impossible to unify the understanding, and if it came to that, would the United States be able to stand again in Europe?”

Alan Wilson reminded Dean Rask, this American Secretary of State, that the history of NATO’s founding was that Britain contacted France to take the initiative to make the U.S. the European ally, and that it was an open question as to whether or not the U.S. would be able to stay in Europe in a stable manner once Britain and France felt that their interests had been compromised.

“America is defending the freedom and stability of Europe.” Dean Lasker emphasized, almost cocking the table.

Allen Wilson, for his part, leaned back in a tactical, nonchalant retort, “It’s for the Europeans to think that the United States is defending the freedom and stability of Europe, and that the Soviets know that they don’t, and likewise that France doesn’t think that the United States is defending Europe.”

Without waiting for Dean Lasker to retort with anything, Alan Wilson added, “The United States didn’t even win the Korean War, and couldn’t even win the number two country in the Soviet bloc, so what makes you think that the Soviet Union didn’t do anything about Europe because they were afraid of the pitiful number of troops stationed in the United States?”

This is already a contempt for the military power of the United States, although Allen Wilson said it once before in front of Dulles.

But what was the occasion, this was a formal meeting at the Anglo-American summit, and for him to say that was almost like questioning America’s capabilities.

Dean Lasker glared angrily, then looked to Rab Butler, “Foreign Secretary, I wonder, is this sound bite the common understanding of the British diplomatic team?”

“Dear Secretary of State, it is only the realization of some.” Rab Butler smiles and rounds off the conversation, then asks rhetorically, “I wonder if the inclusion of British and French nuclear weapons in the Common Nuclear Force, is a common understanding in the American political community?”

Just as Kennedy and Aidan, posed for a shot at the special Anglo-American relationship, the diplomatic teams of both countries talked straight through it.

This makes the two big names silent, the two have a certain psychological preparation, but also through this meeting, know to a certain extent the other side in the end what the purpose.

Kennedy was aware of the existence of Article 26 of the Treaty of Hui Ying, in his view it was the British blackmail of the United States.

It was also clear to Aidan that the U.S. actually wanted Britain to hand over the nuclear weapons that it had put so much effort into fielding after the war.

On the right to use nuclear weapons, Allen Wilson rehashed the U.S. reneging on the treaty, with President Truman tearing up the shared nuclear program, resulting in huge losses for Britain.

On trade protection, Allen Wilson mentions the US covertly putting up barriers to prevent the British Comet airliner from entering the US market until the Boeing airliner was introduced. This was not at all the case when dealing with Japan and Germany, and every effort was made to cultivate, and consciously indulge, Germany and Japan, in competition with Britain and France.

“With the Soviet bloc, Washington was cavalier, with its allies Washington punched hard. The result has been the Cuban Missile Crisis and the increased distrust now felt by European nations towards the United States, at a time when the United States still wants Britain and France to bring nuclear weapons under American command.”

The major London newspapers, which had expressed concern about the Nassau conference, drew solidarity from the Agence France-Presse. (narrator) De Gaulle’s government had already declared to the public that “France’s nuclear weapons belong to France alone and will not be handed over to anyone, ally or otherwise.”

The De Gaulle government’s statement has caused a huge reaction in Europe, and many European countries have recognized it. Britain and France were at odds with the United States over the issue. France had not been at the negotiations, but had been in solidarity with Britain.

The ladies in Bonn, Paris, and London, who were on equal footing with their wives, were also watching their men’s performance in Nassau.

Alan Wilson, of course, was doing his best to defend Britain’s interests, repeating like a repeater the Twenty-Six Articles of Beneficence. Get the US to open up its markets, unconditional aid, and confront Japan and Germany with exchange rate manipulation.

As for handing over nuclear weapons don’t even think about it, the Whig clause is negotiable, the rest will be discussed.

“Perhaps Britain is of the opinion that it no longer needs America’s help? Is it that the war in Asia, the Royal Navy went out causing Britain to have the illusion of thinking, others don’t understand, doesn’t America know, Britain’s so-called saving of India is a joke.”

Dean Lasker directly debunked the opinion that it was only with Britain’s so-called intervention that India was able to get out in one piece. It was simply a lie, and the war would have ended without Britain’s presence.

“Good point, now let’s talk about what the same US maneuvers during the Cuban Missile Crisis really meant. Perhaps we should inform people around the world about the US withdrawal of missiles from Turkey, so they know if the whole crisis the US did it or not, and let the USSR know what to do.”

Alan Wilson flirted conspiratorially, “Of course the US could send the nuclear missiles back to Turkey again, I’m sure that with the power of the US, it would be able to scare the USSR, so what if it doesn’t talk the talk? The USSR would really dare to tell the truth? But coupled with British public opinion, it won’t be so easy to stick your head in the ground and be an ostrich, will it?”

At the venue of the talks, the atmosphere had grown more and more heated, both sides were proving with practical actions, what was meant by the real Anglo-American special relationship, Dean Lasker’s remonstrative tone elaborated on a basic fact, “Don’t forget that Britain itself isn’t very big, and so far it’s still a colonial power.”

Alan Wilson got right up and performed what it meant to brush his sleeve off in front of Dean Rask.

In the eyes of the Americans, this is this difficult British diplomat, has been taken by the United States of America seven inches, reasoning. The departure of the opponent can prove that, although the process is tortuous, but the United States has already occupied the upper hand of this talk.

But in less than ten minutes, Allen Wilson went and returned dragging a large suitcase, opened it unhurriedly, took out a fifty-page investigative report, and read, “In July 1950, a group of ragged North Korean refugees were approaching a U.S. Army position next to a railroad bridge when stationed U.S. soldiers opened fire on them, and were joined by airplanes in strafing afterward. The death toll was at least three hundred, mostly women and children.”

“A surprise air attack on an island near Incheon in September killed more than a hundred civilians.”

“In January of the following year, U.S. Air Force planes dropped napalm bombs on civilians hiding in a cave in Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province, killing more than three hundred. Both air raids were carried out in daylight, with good visibility, and there was no misjudgment.”

“Here’s a photo taken by British diplomats at the time.” Alan Wilson waved the composite version of the photo at Dean Rask, “Dear Mr. Secretary of State, it is true that the United States is not a colonizer, and the command of the Korean army is still in the hands of the U.S. Command, isn’t it? Likewise Japan is in a similar situation to Korea.”

“I myself don’t learn from ignorance, I graduated from Oxford University completely by accident, with my shallow insight, I am not able to understand the difference between the current state of Japan and Korea and a colony.”

“With the current level of poverty in South Korea, and the de facto junta model of government in South Korea, I wonder how the United States will cope with this public outcry if this incident becomes known to the citizens of the world at large?”

“Also! This is the record of killings and rapes by American troops in Japan over the last ten years.” Alan Wilson smirked as he held out the thicker investigation report, “Over five thousand cases, that’s all the Japanese government was able to record, it adds up to something appalling.”

“First of all I’m not blaming the American soldiers stationed overseas, because the British Army, in the colonies, wasn’t all that kind. Certainly still much kinder than the American troops, I would just like to make it clear that the definition of a colonial empire can be embarrassing if you look deeper into it, and the embarrassment certainly isn’t for Britain, which is known all over the world as a colonial empire.”

All the documents and photographs that were taken out, all of which had been well documented, were in fact known to the Koreans themselves, the many massacres by the US military, which is what led to an anti-American wave in later generations in Korea.

This time the talks, unsurprisingly, fell apart again, with Dean Rask accusing the UK of failing America’s trust in its allies by investigating sterilization.

“I would not have taken it up if the US had not wanted to apply similar treatment to the UK. The United States remains a beacon that can be trusted, and these documents Britain is willing to archive and not publicize. After all, in the face of the Soviet Union on this issue, the United Kingdom also do not want the United States reputation damaged, Japan and South Korea of some isolated incidents, how can the United Kingdom really care about it?”