Chapter 1267: A Year of Hilarity

Half of the life of the British Empire in Malaya, is by no means a false statement, in the basic industry above Malaya’s production capacity has exceeded the mainland. Coal, iron and oil are all three, which is a national lifeblood.

Britain’s mainland steel production last year, twenty-three million tons, Sarawak state capital Kuching, thirty-five million tons. Add up to 60 million tons, the United States last year was close to 90 million tons. Britain’s indigenous cement production of fifteen million tons, Malaya thirty million tons, Malaya itself is not much coal, although exploration but has been dependent on the supply of Australia, Britain’s indigenous consumption of two hundred million tons, in which the upper hand.

With Britain’s indigenous industrial capacity, it would not hold up the present share of the pound’s settlement, and indeed even if Malaya were added, it would be equally untenable, but it would be much altered. Standing on the British point of view, the world peace, the pound can still rely on inertia to maintain.

However, Alan Wilson knew in his heart, counting on inertia once the United States because of the Vietnam War lost too much blood, the idea will hit the pound.

Sterling in the seventies settlement amount dramatically smaller root cause, or the British mainland can not support such a large share of the settlement, once the United States to do, the United Kingdom will not be able to resist. Currency needs to be backed up in kind, and having the capacity of the Malayan colonies to back it up is much more certain than inertial dependence.

No matter what happens, Britain can’t withdraw the British troops in the Middle East, and pinching the remaining protectorates in the Middle East, together with the production capacity of British Malaya, is at least better than Russia under the Great Empire. Russia only had resources and capacity but no finance, Britain sort of had everything it needed, just a little less than the US in each case.

As the high commissioner of such a colony, Richard’s position is certainly being watched, and who wouldn’t want to go to the Pearl and be a handful of supreme authority? Even the African colonies need to replace the high commissioner, everyone rushed to go.

Currency, after all, has to be linked to physical objects. If Russia’s territorial conditions were similar to those of Niger, would it dare to treat the dollar as scrap paper? In fact, the dollar’s plight in the future and now the same as the pound, the U.S. production capacity can not afford to support the dollar’s share of the settlement, the dollar itself in the largest share of the settlement, a decline of even one percent, will be fed back to the United States.

Just now the dollar and gold pegged, the Americans will not consider other options, but Alan Wilson must prepare for the next, France can pull out of the CFA franc zone, Britain is really not even maintain the pound zone? It’s almost like Britain is paralyzed compared to what France is trying to do.

“If, Secretary General, if it’s like you say, the U.S. will escalate things, will our assistance be needed?”

Richard was deeply aware of the responsibility, he was actually happy being the Malayan High Commissioner, giving a permanent undersecretary for all depends on whether he wants to or not. But he also knows well that the economic foundation of Malaya, is in the female richest and four families united nobles, with the local Malayan buyers combined. The man behind the richest woman was even his own top man, the supreme authority in Whitehall.

“Assistance, with the current public opinion, it is unlikely that the Cabinet will agree to even a little military support. We didn’t even participate in the Korean War! To say that assistance is nothing more than on logistical supply, just now already told you, as for bigger? At most, we can only promise to open Singapore’s hospitals to receive wounded soldiers.”

Supreme authority hand inserted into the pants pocket, a face of impatience, “Even so I do not want to open, the virtue of the American soldiers who do not know? If they really mess up something, it’s fortunate that they’re only receiving wounded soldiers.”

“Uh?” Richard didn’t know how Alan Wilson came up with such a sentence, what do you mean, fortunately it’s only receiving wounded soldiers.

“When something really goes wrong wipe your ass, it’s supposed to be wounded soldiers, can’t you cure them if they can’t live?” Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, revealing a you-know-what gaze said, “The importance of Malaya to Britain is known to be in any priority position, as long as it makes the locals happy, we can do anything except make it independent. A bunch of cannon fodder better understand that or they could be attacked by the Marxist Communist Party in Malaya too.”

Is there a Malayan Communist presence in Malaya, yes, is it a climate? That’s not a climate, but it can be a climate if necessary.

Anyway Richard’s task ahead is to borrow a more convenient geographic location than any other country, get a portion of the US military overflow, and push Malaya up the economic ladder in. Aren’t there hundreds of thousands of Indonesian immigrants with families in tow running over now. Surely they can’t all be mega-rich, these people are also quality labor.

In fact, the history of the Vietnam War period, it is not impossible for the Chinese to eat the dividends, Singapore is one of them, the first to bear the brunt of the natural South Korea, with the Vietnam War is becoming more and more intense, the U.S. military on the demand for war materials increasing day by day, South Korea received a large number of U.S. military munitions orders to help the U.S. military to help the U.S. military production of canned goods, tents, raincoats and other munitions supplies.

As a result, South Korea’s national economy was greatly stimulated and began to develop rapidly.

The rest is Thailand and Singapore, but now Malaya’s foundation is obviously better than Thailand’s, even if it can’t be used as a rear base, it can still make a killing on the siphon effect. The Philippines, which didn’t eat the dividends of the Vietnam War, was actually at a great disadvantage; the Philippines was supposed to be the most deserving of war wealth, but it didn’t hit the ground running when the opportunity came.

“Secretary General!” At that exact moment, Dixon walked in, nodded his head in greeting to Richard then reported, “Moscow has agreed to downsize the northern Iranian consulate. Guaranteed Iranian neutrality.”

“Oh!” Alan Wilson laughed and said to his two subordinates, “Since there has been Russian history, this period of time in the Soviet Union is considered to be one of the rare more reasonable periods.”

For this result, Allen Wilson was actually prepared in his heart, after all, during the Brezhnev period, which was known for its toughness, Egypt made a scene and Moscow withdrew the Soviet advisory mission in Egypt. That’s a few thousand people, so does that mean the Suez Canal isn’t important? Didn’t the Soviet Union go anyway.

“Unexpected indeed.” Dixon also rushed to state his position and the supreme authority a view, although he did not know the unexpected in what.

In fact, Allen Wilson does not know, only he remembers, seems to be in this year, Khrushchev was ousted from power.

This Soviet leader is no problem to be a human being, see the problems are also the problems of the Soviet Union, better than Brezhnev think the Soviet Union is no problem, to say that there is a problem, the level is really a problem.

I do not know this time Khrushchev stepped down, is not more than one accusation, it is unlikely that now in Moscow has been brewing a storm.

Thinking about it this way this year has been quite lively, Khrushchev stepped down, a major power entered the nuclear club, the Tokyo Bay incident broke out, and the Vietnam War began.

Indeed, Sherepine returned home without saying a word, his cold demeanor was visible to all, and by now there were quite a few members of the Central Presidium of the USSR who were already harboring ill will within their ranks. Tselepine believed that he was definitely not the only one, but there was one department that could never be bypassed in order to bring down the supreme authority of the Soviet Union, the KGB.

The relationship between Semichasne and Tselepine was literally one of Tselepine going up one rung, and Semichasne taking over one rung, and the two men had that relationship from the time they were secretary of the Moscow City Council. Until Sherepine took over as Chairman of the KGB, the previous position of Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Komsomol was left to Semichasne, Sherepine entered the Central Presidium, and Semichasne became Chairman of the KGB again.

During this period, Semichasne was briefly in Azerbaijan did the second secretary of the time, sort of not and Xie Leping’s career trajectory overlap, in the eyes of the onlookers, Xie Leping and Semichasne can be called like a brother and sister, the relationship good thing recognized.

The KGB is the Kremlin’s defense force, as long as this department exists, no one can bypass the Lubyanka threat to the First Secretary. Although the KGB couldn’t control people at the level of Central Presidium members, the KGB’s backer was Khrushchev, and with the deterrent effect on the level of Central Committee members, theoretically Khrushchev’s position was solid gold.

“Now the imperialists must be delighted with our compromise.” Without intrigue in front of Semichasne, Slepian expressed his displeasure with Khrushchev.

Semichasne didn’t say anything, he was only forty this year, in fact he had been KGB chairman at thirty-six, and the mainstay of the circle was Serepin, “How many supporters.”

“A lot of people, look at the last few years, the leaders of the industrial and peasant divisions, the hundreds of tons of gold taken to fill the holes in the corn campaign, not to mention the humiliation of the Cuban Missile Crisis.” Shelepin replied in a hushed voice.

Semichasne shook his head and analyzed, “Just by virtue of us it won’t work, plus Suslov is not enough, it’s necessary to understand Brezhnev’s attitude, since Comrade Kozlov’s stroke, Brezhnev is the number two, we can’t bring a group of high ranking municipal officials to make a scene.”

“Foltseva, a woman, is not worth paying attention to; it would be almost as bad if her son had only been growing for twenty years. But it’s best to understand her movements as well, Shurik. You remember years ago, Foltseva stepped in and convinced Zhukov to call in a military plane to send the nation’s Central Committee members to Moscow, she personally spent a day and a night at the Moscow airport, and put convinced most of the Central Committee members to flip Khrushchev. Be careful of the Ukrainian Gang, they are a very big force.”

The Ukrainian Gang has nothing to do with Brezhnev, the Ukrainian Gang in the USSR is now someone else, someone who rallies around Podgorny, the Ukrainian First Secretary Shelest, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet, Korochenko, and Polyanskiy.

“Foltseva dotes on her son so much, it’s not hard to get a hold of him at all.” Shelepin smiled, “Alexeyev is still in Jakarta, and she’s certainly not willing to take any chances. It’s unlikely to be like the last time, when she went out on a limb to get to the next level, she’s already a member of the Central Presidium, does she still want to be the First Secretary?”

“If none of the above is a problem, then wait until Khrushchev is out of Moscow to finalize things.” Semichasne nodded, “The First Secretary being in Moscow is completely different than not being there.”