Chapter 1294 The Beginning of the New Deal

In other words, at some time in the future, the Suez Canal can be given to Egypt, but Egypt must ensure that its country does not fall to any country other than Britain.

This didn’t just mean the Soviet Union, but also the United States, and since no British armed forces existed in Egypt, no armed forces of any nation could exist.

In essence, of course, Alan Wilson is still using the security of Europe to delay the return of the Suez Canal, and he’ll probably have to talk to the French next, and if that doesn’t work try the option of having the Suez Canal Company listed in London.

This can not be helped, encountered the Syrian envoy so forced to ask, he can only answer so, can not say not to return.

Because the Suez Canal as early as during the period of the Labor Party’s rule, has been set with the Aswan Dam to provide support for the conditions, in exchange for the Suez Canal is still controlled by the United Kingdom. Now seeing as the construction period was half over and the Aswan Dam was taking shape, it was only a matter of time before the foot of the Suez Canal was returned to Egypt.

Essentially tying up the Aswan Dam with the Suez Canal also takes a page from the Soviet Union’s process of that ingrate supporting Egypt. When was the Soviet Union ousted by Egypt. It was during the Sadat period, when was the Aswan Dam completed, in 1970.

More than a third of the loans for the construction of the Aswan Dam were provided by the Soviet Union, and after the completion of the dam, Egypt told the Soviet Union to fuck off.

Britain, naturally, was not so generous, and simply took a portion of the proceeds from the Suez Canal and purchased the raw materials supplied by Malaya, after a series of write-offs showed that it could only provide so much help.

The behavior of the Soviet Union’s ingrates was something Britain desperately wanted to avoid, but Britain could not yet refuse Egypt’s request for help, so it had to hide it from the world through financial means, which was exactly what the Soviet Union lacked.

Of course Allen Wilson never denied that the Soviet Union’s wrongdoing during the Cold War did have an impact in many countries, even when Egypt later switched to the United States, the Egyptian public is still more than half of the favor of Russia, on the contrary, the favor of the United States is not high, but politics is politics, and has nothing to do with the public’s favor or disfavor.

If public opinion really spoke for itself, there wouldn’t be a single pro-American family in the entire Peace Cult world, and it would be much simpler to buy off the upper classes, which is the route Allen Wilson is currently pursuing.

Almost the entire Peace Cult world’s pro-american envoys are present, Allen Wilson is sure that he cannot choose to start from a position of strength, and naturally takes the attitude of keeping his word.

Anyway, that was something that the Labor Party had agreed to, and even if Britain changed hands and was now ruled by the Conservative Party, he himself was not responsible for it.

Sure enough, after taking an open view on the ownership of the Suez Canal, the diplomats of the Pax Christi countries who were present, all said that Britain’s commitment reflected the demeanor of a world power. Immediately, therefore, they endorsed it, trusting that Britain and Egypt would put the issue of the Suez Canal’s belonging right.

“Britain will not be under pressure from any country except Egypt. I know that many countries of the Pax Christi world are concerned about this question, and Britain’s promise is certainly valid.” Alan Wilson righteously, more witnesses at the funeral, is not all bad, how long the witnesses represent a great influence, Britain will later act according to the rules, the United States and the Soviet Union also have no excuse than than the chatter.

Put this off to cope with the past, Allen Wilson is out of the Arab siege, watching the Pakistani envoy Jala Khan with great enthusiasm, and the envoys of the brotherly countries in a private tandem.

February India-Pakistan conflict by now, has been over for a few months, no surprise at all, the reason for the end of course is the British most love of diplomatic work of the Prime Minister Aidan’s credit, in the care of this love of diplomatic work of the Prime Minister, the India-Pakistan conflict has decided to lay down for a few months.

At present the Foreign Secretary Rab Butler is visiting between Karachi and New Delhi, otherwise this time the funeral of Farooq I, Rab Butler should also attend, really can not go. But obviously, Britain’s good offices this time, just let the two countries temporarily suppressed anger.

From India’s defeat in the Himalayas, India’s third world leader, the aura of the Non-Aligned Movement allies on the ground broken, Pakistan also rose want to test India into the heart of the color.

Of course, the specific things, Alan Wilson is not good in such a public occasion to ask, but his good friend of the Persian Gulf High Commissioner John also secretly came to Cairo, is now in Cairo Embassy.

After a whole day of tossing and turning, the funeral of Farouk I is finally the end of the day, and the buzz in the streets of Cairo is that the British officials kept their promise to wait until the completion of the Aswan Dam to return the Suez Canal.

“Really give the Suez Canal back to Egypt?” John took the cigar handed to him by the Supreme Authority and lit it and took a drag, “The canal is too important.”

“It can’t be helped, it was already settled during the time of Prime Minister Adderley, and besides, we don’t know when the Aswan Dam will be completed, so we’ll talk about it then.” Alan Wilson explained, then asked rhetorically, “Knowing that the minister has now gone to New Delhi, right, has your side talked about the India-Pakistan situation yet. I see that envoy from Pakistan is very active today.”

“Our minister is using his good offices, but you are asking for an oil embargo on Indonesia.” John exhaled a smoke ring and sighed, then said, “I haven’t talked directly to the overseas countries, but I’ve met with the Pakistani ambassador in Kuwait before and made that suggestion in a suggestive tone.”

“Good suggestion.” Alan Wilson smiled broadly once he heard it, then explained, “It’s not that I don’t trust the minister, the point is that India desperately needs a country they feel they can eat steadily to get their confidence back since they’ve been hung up on for a while, and the effect that India’s defeat has had on Pakistan is that Pakistan looks at India as if it’s just so-so. It’s a hard thing to do when both sides have a desire for war.”

“The civilians in both countries will have to pay the price again.” John shook his head in pity, he wasn’t sympathizing with the civilians of either country, it was their choice. Britain had said that the partition of India and Pakistan would cause each other harm, had anyone listened? Nehru didn’t want a split, but he couldn’t control the hardliners in the Congress party.

This kind of thing is never simple, if you want to solve a problem without blood, then you have to sacrifice money, in simple terms it’s a favor, obviously Hinduism surely doesn’t want a favor, then this matter is difficult.

“Isn’t that how countries are, a country develops civilians don’t necessarily benefit, a country if there is chaos, the people of this country will definitely be in bad luck. There is almost never an exception.” Alan Wilson commented in a salty manner.

Forcing men to go to war this kind of thing, there are many different ways, don’t expect the country to fall into the middle of the war ordinary people can still run, run out is a refugee. Refugees have no rights and interests, to put it in a better way, women go out to sell, men scrub toilets, as long as a little bit of dark thinking, not to become a provider of human organs are considered lucky.

During the First World War, British women showed great enthusiasm in supporting the war, women didn’t have to go to war, but they humiliated the men who didn’t go to war by walking down the street and wearing white flowers for every man they saw, as a way of mocking the men who were too afraid to go to war, and that was just one of the little tactics.

The fact is that any country can throw the usual norms out the window and really start a national mobilization when faced with danger, and one can choose between treason and joining the army. The former would definitely be shot on the spot, and the latter might even survive.

In front of his old friend, Allen Wilson was pessimistic about Rab Butler’s hard work in running for peace this time around, and it was good to have a fight, and isn’t there a saying that peace comes out of fighting.

“If India and Pakistan really fight, the United States will stand on which side?” John pinched out his cigar and suddenly asked this question.

“No need to think, it will definitely stand on Pakistan’s side. Even if we lose the Indus Valley and the Ganges Delta, India’s basic disk is still too big.” Alan Wilson answered without even thinking, “The so-called world order is that this world should always be ruled by the Americans. Washington doesn’t even have London in its eyes, do you remember what the Americans said in 1945 about the world being ruled by Britain and America? But when they called in the debt, didn’t they want to bleed Britain dry?”

“India didn’t have a lot of respect for the U.S. when it was a third world representative before, Nehru didn’t contradict the U.S. The U.S. would have given the Indians a hard time when they had the chance.”

The US has never changed, the common thread between the Vietnam war and decades later is to pick fights around secondary enemies, put down the less powerful ones first, and then concentrate all efforts on the primary enemy after success.

As to why it was done, path dependency issues, because a major power did jump back and wanted to do it again with Russia decades later as well. The United Russia strategy doesn’t have to be a favor, it can also bleed Russia to make the other side surrender.

“Let’s see then, is the US still free to support Pakistan when it is focusing on a battlefield.” John said this suddenly, “The Arab world won’t have a common language with the US because of the Indo-Pakistani war, right?”

“There’s a real danger of that if the US can give up Israel.” Alan Wilson smiled and asked rhetorically, “Guess, will the US give up Israel?”

The Persian Gulf High Commissioner came secretly, and after the two talked about scheming, he was about to return to Bahrain on the sly, as for Allen Wilson, he watched to see how public opinion was oriented, such as what the Egyptians thought of the discussion of constitutional monarchy, and how they evaluated the two dowagers of the two palaces, with the princes, special envoys, and even the kings of so many countries present.

According to Queen Nariman and Queen Farida, Farouk I’s last words of wanting to make reforms and establish a constitutional monarchy before he fell ill were confirmed by the two queens.

As the British representative in Cairo, Alan Wilson immediately expressed his support, commenting so in public, “The Honorable King clearly recognizes the problem and wants the Egyptian people to take responsibility for themselves.”

By saying this, he pretty much endorsed the two queens, but of course only God knows how many last words Farouk I actually left before he died, and it seemed like too many.