Chapter 1213 Developing Semiconductors

There has always been ambiguity in the responsibilities of the Secretary General of the Cabinet, who is responsible to the Prime Minister as well as to the Cabinet as a whole.

The title of the position has never been changed, and successive Secretaries-General have been very clear about their accountability to the Cabinet as a whole, but at times this responsibility has inevitably led to periodic tensions in the relationship between the Secretary General and the then Prime Minister. This is especially true when the Prime Minister sees himself as the head of government rather than the chief of his peers.

The question now arises as to whether the post of Secretary-General of the Cabinet and the Chief Civilian Official should be held by the same person. The advantage of having the same person in both positions is that the Chief Civilian Officer is in daily contact with the Chief Executive, the Prime Minister, the disadvantage is that it is difficult for one person to fulfill the duties of Secretary to the Cabinet and Chief Civilian Officer at the same time as he or she carries out the administrative work.

It was good that Norman Brooke was genuinely retiring, handing over both the posts of Secretary General of the Cabinet and Chief Civilian Officer to the later, Alan Wilson himself, ensuring the wholeness of Whitehall.

“Burke could have been very unhappy with you as Chief Civilian Officer, and would have thought he could have gotten at least one of the positions.” Makins connoted Burke Trench, the rival of Allen Wilson.

“Understandable.” Allen Wilson, who had changed office locations, wasn’t quite used to the environment of the Cabinet Secretary’s office.

Allen Wilson had thought that he would be very excited, but when it really came to this day he realized that he wasn’t as happy as he had imagined. It was probably too soon to know.

It’s like the war will increase the support of the incumbent president, but always borrow the war stimulus, over and over again, in the warlike people also have fatigue, the sleeping king’s support has not been pulled up. On the contrary, with the outbreak of war, the support rate also fell.

The president of the United States in Europe and the United States is considered to be a great power of the number one person, such presidential power can easily be transformed into a personal distinctive style, whether it is Kennedy, Nixon or later Reagan and Bush father and son are so.

The problem with the Sleeping King is that no matter what he does as President of the United States, people are not impressed. It’s seen as a collective decision of the U.S. government, which is the opposite of the King’s distinctive personal style.

And for a U.S. president, that image, if not reversed, is extremely frightening.

Makins, who didn’t know what the new Supreme Authority was thinking, inquired if there would be any personnel changes?

“What we are seeking is stability, and it is certainly not set in stone. But there won’t be any major changes for the time being.” Alan Wilson replied sincerely, unchanging was not an option, but stability was again necessary. The two words looked similar, but were definitely different in meaning.

At this stage, Whitehall and Norman Brooke period will not have obvious changes, Allen Wilson certainly have some ideas, but the implementation is not necessary to be in such a hurry, and here to say one more thing, he has not stepped down from the Foreign Office from the permanent undersecretary for the time being.

Conservatism now, the people are always easy to be incited by the emotions of ignorance, when they can not see farther ahead, Whitehall need to do is to adhere to their own views, never compromise, or every government will not achieve anything.

While the two were chatting, the phone on the table rang, Alan Wilson picked up the microphone and said, “Hello, this is Alan.”

“Sir, the Prime Minister is looking for you.” The voice of the Prime Minister’s private secretary, Brewster, came through.

“Right away!” Alan Wilson smiled and said, “Brewster, actually, all of my colleagues think that you’re quite a reliable person, and many times cur may still need your help.”

“No problem, Sir.” Brest’s voice was filled with excitement and joy at the attention of the supreme authority.

Whether it was in reason or not, Aiden had to meet the newly appointed Cabinet Secretary, and while the head of the civil service had almost broken the mold by asking for the job at an exceedingly young age, it might be possible that it would lead to a lot of new changes.

Aidan is also well aware of the extraordinary potential power of Alan Wilson, whose father-in-law, Mountbatten, is a full-time commander-in-chief of Britain’s three armed forces. His wife is the president of Britain’s largest industrial conglomerate, which includes, oil, steel, raw materials and food, aviation and automobile industries.

This is probably the Cabinet Secretary with the wealthiest family since there was a Cabinet Office.

There are even some voices that Britain should split up the Mountbatten Group, but of course such voices would only make a group of aristocrats who have already gotten Australian citizenship to run away with their buckets.

When the capitalists could use economic strength to defeat the aristocratic group whose main income was land, the current aristocratic group could likewise use greater economic strength to reclaim the past glory again, and even worse, they wouldn’t stay on British soil and sit around waiting to die.

“Alan, you’re here.” Aiden saw Alan Wilson appear and pointed to the seat in front of him to let the other party sit down, starting the first meeting after Alan Wilson was promoted to Cabinet Secretary General, and in the coming period, the other party would be his partner in leading Britain.

Of course there is a prerequisite for this, that is, Aidan to win this election.

Alan Wilson, although deeply skeptical of the reliability of the Conservative Party, but from this meeting in Nassau, at least Aiden is no problem, did not make Macmillan in the history of the sellout.

“Honorable Prime Minister, the first time I see you in this kind of occasion, I can’t help but feel a little nervous in my heart.” Alan Wilson sat squarely in his seat, expressing his humility and his mindset of coming over to listen to the teachings.

“Whitehall should indeed have some changes.” Aiden opened his mouth, clearly he was not entirely indifferent to Norman Brooke’s leadership of Whitehall, “I hope that the Whitehall under your leadership will be able to bring out all of Britain’s potential.”

“I will naturally do my best.” Alan Wilson replied dryly, expressing reliability, “As a diplomat by birth, I have always set my sights on the scope of the Commonwealth. Hoping on the totality of the Commonwealth to drive Britain onward.”

Naturally, Aiden was unaware that the situation in Britain had been countless times better than the Britain that Alan Wilson remembered.

If he remembers correctly, history has come to this time, the United Kingdom has been in the position of the oldest three in Europe, the total economic output has been successively surpassed by Germany and France, this virtue is naturally in the Nassau conference, facing the United States hard.

To the United Kingdom in this era, countries specifically born the term British disease, an economy in Europe can only rank third, how can long support the international settlement share of the pound? The scope of the circulation of the pound is getting smaller and smaller, resulting in the British economy is getting weaker and weaker.

It was normal that the economic achievements of the Aidan government were not very bright compared to the Airdrie period. The post-war Labor Cabinet did credit itself with rising up the field, after all, from a low starting point.

After a decade or so, by the time Aidan took back the House of Commons, it was time to use all the tricks. There was nothing good about continuing to use them, which led many people in the UK to believe that the Conservative Party’s economic policies were not working.

Alan Wilson also has nothing to do, that changed the British post-war economic policy of the female prime minister, is still adapting to the position of the Secretary of State for Education, and then again with the current public opinion base, Thatcher if she dares to put the historical tricks in advance to use, the probability is that it will fail, a time has a time to do, in advance to use may only make things worse.

“Technology is constantly evolving, Prime Minister, the existing industries are not enough to take Britain to another level. Then we need to focus on high-tech industries and take policy support.”

Alan Wilson gave his own answer, “The integrated circuits in the United States are developing rapidly, I think this is definitely a trend, in the future maybe the integrated circuits will become extremely important, and they should get the government’s focused attention.”

“It’s that new type of semiconductor, right?” Aiden was also aware of the new industry emerging in the United States, but didn’t know much about just how well it could be developed; it hadn’t been that long since they had gone from tubes to transistors, and integrated circuits might face obsolescence at some point as well.

This is impossible, at least the world that Alan Wilson remembers, integrated circuits have not been eliminated, then it is worth investing in, “Prime Minister, for Britain, the industrial revolution is a big reason for changing Britain from a frontier island, to leading the world empire, in the face of emerging industries, Britain should not take a conservative attitude.”

Integrated circuits use a certain process, a circuit required transistors, resistors, capacitors and inductors and other components and wiring interconnections together, made in a small or several small semiconductor wafers or dielectric substrates, and then encapsulated in a tube casing, to become a miniature structure with the required circuit function; all of the components in the structure of the structure has been composed of an integral whole, so that the electronic components to the micro-miniaturization, low-power consumption, intellectualized and high reliability has taken a big step forward.

Alan Wilson hopes that the development of semiconductors of the original intention is very simple, the United States has the United Kingdom also have to have, and then do not help Europe also have to have, as the United States President has been to the same place, he also want to go.

Japan have been in the semiconductor industry to the United States caused a great threat, there is no reason why Britain can not do.

Of course the initial investment is certainly not small, maybe Aiden even if re-elected are not necessarily see the effect. Allen Wilson or try to persuade Aiden, should degree semiconductor industry to give support.

“You first prepare an evaluation report.” Aiden thought about it and still let Allen Wilson try. His economic achievements during his term of office were far less eye-catching than those in the diplomatic field, which was also the reason why he had been unable to pull his support with the Labor Party.

“I’ll go and research it right away.” Allen Wilson agreed in one breath, to be honest, he really does not particularly understand the foundation of the UK in the semiconductor industry, he needs a person to help himself to complete this matter.

Thinking about it, Alan Wilson reported to his wife at the same time, asked Turing whether he could return to the United Kingdom to help. As for the excuse, Whitehall was considering making Turing the president of the Royal Interplanetary Society.