Chapter 1290 – Benevolent Britain

“Switzerland? I think I remember you calling them the Gnomes of Zurich.” Pamela Mountbatten pursed her lips and snickered about the British nickname for the Swiss, “And wasn’t it also claimed that Switzerland wasn’t neutral.”

“A time has a time for different views, it’s normal, and right now Switzerland works. Switzerland is the most financialized country in Europe, the talent pool are enough, as long as you choose there to start the operation, the talent is readily available.”

Alan Wilson didn’t feel embarrassed at all, and directly explained, “In the national perspective, we can’t directly enter into a confrontation where we don’t know whether we’ll win or lose, and the financial field doesn’t work either. A country can’t just think about money. But on a personal level, with intention, the French may get a big bargain.”

The first to eat the crab always gets the biggest bargain, Alan Wilson remembers that France did get a big bargain from this time out of the knife. It was quite embarrassing for the United States, embarrassing to what extent?

To the point that the United States can not use the financial strength to fight back, this time the weakness was seen by Britain and Germany, only to have the back of the attack.

As for Switzerland, which had all the conditions to accomplish the operation of the richest woman in London instead, Switzerland was intentionally protected by Hitler as a neutral country in World War II as a hub for Germany’s secret business dealings with the Allies. The general accounts declared by Swiss banks to the Swiss Treasury show that Switzerland’s gold reserves almost tripled.

Taking advantage of the fact that the British gold market was still closed after the war, Swiss banks began to move around, consolidating gold supply and sales channels around the world in an attempt to establish a global gold market centered in Switzerland. In terms of supply channels, the Swiss had no ideological concerns, and on the one hand, they established a strong business partnership with the Soviet camp, and on the other hand, they even ran to South Africa to dig into the British wall.

That is to say that Zurich is a rival to London, otherwise how else would Zurich’s gnomes resound through British politics, and Pamela Mountbatten could pull together all the conditions for launching a financial attack overnight if she put her money in Switzerland.

The question then arises as Alan Wilson asks the richest woman how many dollars and dollar bonds she now has in her possession, which can be used to exchange for gold from the United States.

“I don’t have a lot of property in dollars, but I can get out a billion or so if I use the principal of the Sarawak Development Bank.” Pamela Mountbatten mused for a moment, then reconfirmed, “The United States has the world’s number one gold reserve after all, and my dear, you have to realize that this is no small matter once you are retaliated against. What exactly is the success rate.”

“Let’s not say it’s one hundred percent, we can also say it’s ninety-nine percent.” Alan Wilson answered with certainty, to say that the butterfly effect can affect other aspects, but to say that the impact of the countries’ gold reserves that is a joke, this world’s main gold origin is just a few, although he opened the panoramic map, but that is to join the Australian gold mines as an exception to the factor, the Gold Coast’s gold was discovered long ago, but only now late in the independence for a period of time.

Now the gold reserves of each country, in addition to the United Kingdom will not be different from history, the hand of cards is still the same card. So de Gaulle attacked the dollar, and the United States will be able to counterattack with no more force than it did historically.

The United States, this country, if you can speak with guns, he will never talk to you more than a word of nonsense, did not retaliate against France at the financial level, certainly not retaliation. But de Gaulle stepped down this matter, history has the shadow of the United States in it, no one knows.

“I have never trusted you unconditionally, and I still do this time.” Pamela Mountbatten heard, directly state to join in, personally add to the Anglo-French alliance, “just France succeeded, will not, in turn, because of the financial strength of the surge to Britain to add trouble.”

“Not likely.” Alan Wilson replied, if Algeria hadn’t succeeded in becoming independent, he would have said there was no such possibility, but now there was indeed a theoretical possibility.

Informing his wife of the basic situation of the three European countries of Britain, France and Germany, Pamela Mountbatten thought for half a day, “Japan’s strength is also quite strong, why don’t you talk about the situation in Japan.”

“This kind of stage, Japan is not qualified to take the stage. There is no possibility for Japan to have any resistance against the United States.” Alan Wilson let out a light laugh, it’s not good to worry about anyone but Japan?

On the basis of what? By virtue of Japan has a lot of foreign exchange reserves? Most of the financial talents should know the fact that the concept of foreign exchange reserves was created by Britain, Britain knows what this concept represents, and also knows the weakness of this concept in what place.

After World War I, Britain’s gold outflow is serious, in order to deal with the internationalization of the dollar, Britain exhausted, pondering how to solve the dilemma of gold shortage. And so the only way out was to harden the treatment of sterling bills as gold, persuading and forcing countries to accept the idea and add sterling to the monetary reserve assets of their central banks, in addition to gold.

Of course, Britain would pat itself on the back and assure everyone that the pound could always be exchanged for gold should the need arise, which was the original concept of foreign exchange reserves.

“The French dared to go against the United States for no other reason than that they had no time to pay them any attention as they watched the U.S. send shiploads of troops to Southeast Asia.” Pamela Mountbatten sighed, “Once the U.S. finishes transporting troops and launches a victorious ground war, won’t France’s idea fall flat?”

“So France won’t do it anytime soon, maybe it will wait. But preparations have certainly been thought out.” Alan Wilson shook his head, “For now our control of military spending is still paying off, although the difference in fighting strength between the troops stationed in different regions is even greater. But it turns out that there is also this problem. It’s fine to put in some weak garrisons when facing a weak opponent.”

The gap between Britain’s first-rate and third-rate troops was so large that they could land in Normandy one to seven or raise their hands in surrender to Yamashita Bongwen, and after Whitehall’s restructuring over the last couple of years, the problem had worsened. This is especially true of the African Garrison, but it’s not a mistake to adjust so much in the face of a bunch of black uncles.

As long as Britain can ensure that the British troops in Germany look like elite troops, the British troops in the colonies won’t be noticed by the Soviets, even if they’re pulling crotches.

As for an American victory? Alan Wilson couldn’t remember, after half a day’s thought, who were the few wars in which the US was recognized as victorious? Panama or Grenada? But one thing the US is far ahead of Russia is that the US has obviously lost so many times and still manages to make most of the world feel like he can win wars.

It’s as if most people have forgotten all about the Kabul trapeze since Russia did it, as evidenced by the control of public opinion.

Pamela Mountbatten has just returned to London, naturally, and their own men you and me a little, after all, there will soon be a big action, want the richest woman to work, you have to physically serve.

“All to this time, the Australian workers are still not satisfied. But the donations to the UK are very enthusiastic, domestic reports, right?” Pamela Mountbatten, in a soothing mood, began to complain again about the Australian workers’ lack of sympathy for the capitalists’ hard work.

Alan Wilson listened to his wife reassuringly, “It can’t be helped, Australia is God’s reward, and as for your comment about the donations going well, it’s just what Australians are made of.”

He remembered that life in Australia in the twenty-first century was, in a sense, better than even in the United States, and it seemed that Australia’s per capita wage was the highest in the world for some years. After all, the country sitting on a mining truck was not a country for nothing, and while Russia was also rich in resources, there was a limit to how many people a resource country could feed, and Russia was already the most populous country in the West besides the United States in terms of population, not to mention that Russia had been under financial sanctions, and the purchasing power of the ruble couldn’t go up.

Australians know very well how they got their living, so paying for security is something Australia always does, and it’s only logical that donations go well.

Life goes on, and the round table on Yemeni independence is still in the midst of tortoise-speed progress, with the Foreign Ministry now focusing mainly on representatives of the Free Officers Organization in the hope that they will accept federalism.

There are positives and negatives, even pressuring the integrity of Yemen’s sovereignty, and if the Free Officers Organization doesn’t give the UK that face, while the UK says it tries to preserve an intact Yemen as much as possible, it doesn’t rule out ending up with a partition scenario that no one wants to see.

Fakhra had no choice but to contact Nasser at home to inform him of the progress of the round table. The matter also caused controversy within the Free Officers’ Organization, but after discussion, Nasser finally chose to compromise, considering how long the negotiations had been going on and the fact that the British attitude had not changed. It would not be too late for all problems to be resolved when the British had left.

It has to be said that Nasser, after hitting the wall in several countries, was finally throwing away his wishful thinking and began to understand how to compromise. It had to be said that this was an improvement.

Alan Wilson, although he didn’t know that the father of Arab nationalism was still alive, was happy that the negotiations had finally broken through the deadlock, and reported back to Prime Minister Aidan to that effect, “At last it’s bearing fruit.”

“I hope that Yemen will not fall into armed conflict after we leave.” Aiden nodded his head in relief after hearing this, making the insincere statement.

“I hope so.” Alan Wilson couldn’t wait for Britain to leave and then fight, which was a testament to Britain’s efforts to keep the peace in Yemen.

Then it was time for the announcement, and the Foreign Office announced the progress of the round table, bringing the independence conference to a successful conclusion, with Britain immediately withdrawing its colonial presence in Yemen and setting up an embassy there.

The new Yemen will have a federal system and general elections will be held before June, everything seems so logical and Britain’s efforts to maintain the integrity of Yemen have been praised by all countries.

The news reached Yemen and the residents of some Yemeni cities celebrated the good news with songs and dances.