Chapter 1209 Suicide Threat

Some of the criminal behavior in Japan and South Korea is ultimately a minor issue, the kind of thing you don’t talk about and I don’t talk about, and neither of the two hegemonic countries of English-speaking world public opinion talk about it, it won’t get among the ears of others.

After the war, although it was the Labor Prime Minister Adderley who replaced Churchill in power, the dominant post-war thinking in Britain was still and the country’s political challenges within a period of rapid change to maintain Britain’s status as a global power and imperialist power.

To be fair, even if the Soviet Union had retreated into an international political force of inaction in the immediate post-war period, Britain would have had to make the above policies a top priority.

Maintaining the image and the fact of Britain’s international power through its leadership discourse, its ability to influence, and its ability to make a fool of itself was the mindset of a significant portion of Britain’s national planners, the military, and the political establishment.

There was no end of life for imperialist policies. The Middle East and the Far East remained important bastions of empire, and Britain still had large numbers of troops in many areas, such as the Persian Gulf, Malaya, and Kenya; the size of the garrisons was not to be underestimated.

Alan Wilson formally used the learned means of scraping the ground in this situation to make Britain bleed back as soon as possible.

As a matter of fact, Britain had made plans to invade the Soviet Union in 1945, and the man who made the plan was Norman Brooke, who immediately left his position of supreme authority.

God knows what Churchill was thinking at the time, but those who thought that the post-war dwindling of the British economy was only a temporary difficulty were in the minority in the British government at the time.

As it happened, Aidan was one of this group, and the Tories argued that this was the price of victory, which the Americans would surely pay for the British. That Britain’s international standing took a downturn after winning the war was nothing short of an anomaly for British bureaucrats and politicians.

It wasn’t the United States that ended up footing the bill, it was dug-up British India and Canada, which helped Britain at a critical moment, but in any case, what the Conservatives saw as an anomaly happened but didn’t quite happen, and a bleeding Britain came out of the intensive care unit.

Under the circumstances, Aidan would not have agreed with Kennedy’s assertion that Britain was not to be taken seriously.

Now Aiden and Kennedy were both thinking the same thing, how to get the other to compromise?

“AFP’s coverage of the summit, this is from TASS, and Germany’s reaction was broadly similar to AFP’s.” Alan Wilson summarized the news reports from all over Europe, and handed them to Prime Minister Aidan.

This was all coming from London to Nassau by telegraph, and there were actually a lot of voices, all of them voices of what was called the European Solidarity Club, which was that Europe-wide sense of deep government, including Schuman, that was clamoring every day for some kind of European integration.

Britain, needless to say, even de Gaulle wasn’t interested in these people, but at the moment of the Anglo-American summit. An enemy of an enemy can be a friend, and since these people supported Britain, they were naturally a bargaining chip for Britain.

(narrator) It was partly the voice of Europe, the voice of Britain’s own public opinion that also focused on criticizing American belligerence. In fact, the criticism of American belligerence had already begun since the Korean War.

If it wasn’t for Alan Wilson’s self-interested and self-sacrificing connections, the Adderley government would have been brought into the Korean War, which would have thrown Britain’s newly balanced finances out of balance again, and at that time, Britain had not yet repaid its debt to the United States.

From the Korean War onwards, Britain became more and more wary of the United States, more and more wary of America’s Cold War policy, the United States became more and more belligerent, more and more inclined to pre-emptive strikes, and Britain had to work hard to manage the differences between the two sides’ policies on the way to fight in the Cold War.

Once the hot war started, the US was far away, but the British mainland was in Europe, and the Soviet Union was able to reach Britain.

The outbreak of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which ultimately led to the withdrawal of Turkish missiles, reinforced this point for Britain, and Aidan was even more unlikely to agree to the United States treating Britain as a front line for offshore balancing of Europe.

“The negotiations are really quite tough.” Aiden, who had been posing for a day, after listening to Alan Wilson behind Rab Butler …… report, nodded his head heavily and said, “This man Kennedy, after a day of contact, makes me feel that he is a man with a lot of ideas.”

“Not a lot of ideas, will he give Aramco oil to Saudi Arabia, will he temper the Wall Street controlled steel industry to death.” Alan Wilson had a cloying look on his face, “I don’t see him getting re-elected yet. Oil group and steel group, are the United States domestic entrenched powerful industrial groups, so far, I simply do not see Kennedy for the exchange of interests, just keep suppressing.”

Alan Wilson wasn’t saying in front of Aiden that Kennedy would certainly be happy, just that there was a possibility that Kennedy could step down.

Kennedy will not be assassinated, this is not to be doubted, Kennedy was taken out in public, by way of execution, indicating that the forces to take out Kennedy is not one or two. To know the power of the U.S. President, in Europe and the United States is extremely rare, according to the summary of some people in the key road, the U.S. President has the power of the emperor in general.

From China’s history, the prince died for no apparent reason a lot of adult power of the emperor a few were killed on the spot?

Alan Wilson thought about it and thought that Li Yuan would fit this standard, that also does not look at his son who is? Besides, Li Yuan, he’s not dead.

“But right now Kennedy’s approval ratings in America are still very high.” Rab Butler was a little hard to color.

“That’s why I indicated during the talks that I would use the influence of British public opinion to talk about whether or not the Turkish missiles should be withdrawn.” Allen Wilson said with this turn of phrase, “Of course we didn’t want to do that, we just wanted President Kennedy to take note of a reasonable British appeal.”

Ultimately Allen Wilson had to show consideration for the greater good, he was after all the face of the special relationship between Britain and the United States. It would be unwise for Britain to fall out with the United States, which had a stronger military than Britain.

But on some of the issues in the talks, Britain couldn’t agree, as Alan Wilson said, America couldn’t even win the Korean War, did it really think that the Soviet army was afraid of the American army in Germany? It was afraid of nuclear weapons, and the Soviets were not willing to trade their lives for those of Europe.

If the USSR had been in Canada’s place, the US would be strutting around Nassau today. They’d be screaming for help. What was happening was that the US was talking to Britain about British troops in the US, not the other way round.

Meanwhile, Kennedy was talking to Dean Rask about the stalemate at this summit, and about a certain Foreign Office permanent undersecretary who was stealing the show, Kennedy didn’t care too much, “Sir Wilson is very close to Robert, and if you think about it, he’s one of the few friends of McCarthy’s who has any kind of ingredient that has gone without saying.”

“The problem isn’t a particular negotiator, it’s that the British Prime Minister, and indeed the British government, is still stubbornly defending the so-called glory of Britain.”

Kennedy still couldn’t believe how tough an Alan Wilson was, and the other man wasn’t even Britain’s chief civil servant. Just a No. 2 person in the Foreign Office, how could he represent the British government, at most he was just a negotiator who was pushed out.

Maybe it was still pushed out on purpose, using this official who had intersected with American politics to gain greater leverage.

Alan Wilson, if he were in front of Kennedy, would have said, “The president has a high opinion ……”

He is only a district of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs No. 2, which has what deep government ah, it is a joke. In said deep government Kennedy and not seen, the United States of America’s deep government is not being screwed to death?

From Dean Lasker here, Kennedy also heard some of the British dissatisfaction with the United States, the United Kingdom believes that the United States is deliberately supporting Germany and Japan, the British advantage of the industry to compete, which is true.

Britain believes that the United States is now too aggressive military policy, which Kennedy thinks has nothing to do with himself, the Korean War was not fought when he was president.

Two days of negotiations, can not be said to be no progress, but also basically can be said to be no progress, and this time the negotiation has been the attention of the whole world, Kennedy simply feel than to deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis is even more difficult.

On the third day, Kennedy finally couldn’t help himself, “The value of the pound is unstable, if the United States take out some gold reserves, it can put the pound into the ranks of scrap paper.”

Aiden did not panic to take out, within a year de Gaulle than than ranting about the dollar is the United States exploited Europe’s speech, of course, these remarks are Allen Wilson collection, because the history of the Nassau meeting, Kennedy threatened to short the pound.

“If Mr. President has to do this, I can only say that the price of the pound turning into scrap paper is that the dollar won’t have much more value than scrap paper.” Aiden said airily, “It would destroy the order of the Breston Woods system, and this order, which Washington should do its best to maintain, if it is destroyed. Mr. President’s political path may not be a long one.”

The Breston Woods system did preserve U.S. hegemony, but the system was also relatively fair, falling into the category of holding each other’s pigtails rather than letting the U.S. do whatever it wanted.

It was because of the relative fairness that the countries that supported the US monetary claims at the time outnumbered those that supported the British pound. Were all the other countries stupid? Letting the US do whatever it wants around the world with the dollar?

If Kennedy were to do something economically against Britain at this time, at the expense of the dollar system backed by gold reserves, there is no doubt that this would be digging into the corner of American hegemony, and that shooting oneself in the back eight times in a row and committing suicide would be the only end.

In the British camp, there is a hidden two-faced person, has been transported in the tent, the decision to win a thousand miles away from the permanent undersecretary, said the United States blackmail may be in the pound, but it does not matter, this is a suicidal threat.

Kennedy is actually worried about the U.S. trade deficit, resulting in a decline in gold reserves, and the result of using gold reserves to suppress the pound is that Kennedy will surely die before the collapse of the Breston Woods system.