Chapter 1320 – Firmly Defending the Prime Minister

“But the economic growth over in the United States last year is out, it went up six percent, it’s amazing that it’s still growing so fast for such a large scale.” Makins couldn’t help but sigh, “It seems that the economic growth was driven by the demand of the war, otherwise it wouldn’t have been so high.”

“Isn’t that normal, the economic crisis ended as soon as the World War started. It’s happened twice.” Alan Wilson spoke, “But any war for a long time will affect the economic development of Benjamin, this is the law, the longer the time, the bigger the aftereffects of the United States. Let’s not follow the Americans’ example.”

The U.S. economic growth in the last two years has been truly outrageous, close to seven percent the year before and six percent last year, which is faster than in Japan after the Tokyo Olympics.

With that kind of growth, it’s a bit like throwing two trillion dollars at Afghanistan, and the American war machine is really scary as hell when it’s on.

Now for the United Kingdom, is to take advantage of the spillover effect of the Vietnam War, to build Malaya, in borrowing a wind, as for the British side to industrial upgrading.

Especially the semiconductor industry, even if it can not do the level of the United States and Japan after ten years, but also to be satisfied with self-sufficiency.

As for what water resources law? What nationalized water supply system, that is just to give the prime minister an opportunity to show self-worth, in Alan Wilson’s eyes far less important. He supported it only because he was the Cabinet Secretary and wanted to use the nationalization campaign to arrange the establishment, that’s all.

“What do you, a permanent undersecretary of defense, care about the U.S. economy for, there’s only one problem in the U.S. that will shake the heel, and that’s the possibility that English-speaking in the country may be impacted by Latin American immigrants, and other than that matter, all other issues are up to the U.S. itself to see if it’s being overly greedy.” Alan Wilson reminds Makins that it’s better to pay more attention to the Ministry of Defense, such as keeping an eye on the Secretary of State for Defense, Denis Healey, to make it clear that Britain’s defense forces are just fine as they are, and not to fight funding cuts.

The racial problem in the United States broke out, at least for now it is still far away, the origin is naturally the Cabinet Secretary’s old acquaintance Reagan, in 1986 Reagan pardoned three million illegal immigrants from Latin America, as a direct result of which, California, the most populous state in the United States, has since then become a large vote bank of the Democrats, and the Republican Party’s power on the West Coast has declined sharply. It established the Democrats’ dominance on the West Coast and in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

As of the time Sleeping King was in power, the Latin-speaking population was approaching one-fifth of the population, keeping in mind that the entire black population was just a little over one-tenth of the size. Of course the United States thought it had no problem with this, just as the French thought they could handle blacks by telling them your ancestors were Gauls.

The problem is that America’s traditionally English-speaking young whites are only fifty percent of the population anymore, which is pretty scary, and the Democrats are trying to come up with an amnesty in this case, and I don’t know if America can afford it.

At the beginning of the year the U.S. Army in Southeast Asia opened Operation Mashers, and in order to transport more troops to the mountains for raids, the U.S. Army then deployed a total of helicopter groups, including British Tiger helicopter gunships, to begin sweeping for infiltration forces in North Vietnam.

More than 1,500 U.S. troops were flown to the combat zone, and the Vietcong had already prepared for the arrival of the U.S. fighters. According to war history, the Vietcong had hidden more than 300 anti-aircraft machine guns in the combat area, and when the U.S. helicopter gunships arrived at the target location, the ambushed anti-aircraft machine guns opened fire in unison.

Unprepared U.S. forces in the intensive artillery fire was beaten back one after another, leaving more than thirty helicopters were beaten into a sieve like a hasty escape, but also paid the price of more than 500 casualties, of which two hundred died on the spot, the rest of the U.S. troops also became prisoners of war.

But thankfully, the British helicopter gunships were positively evaluated by the U.S. Army, playing a pioneering role in the breakout and counterattacking the ambushed Vietnamese troops. Only one-tenth of the helicopters shot down belonged to Tiger helicopter gunships, which impressed the American troops fighting in Vietnam.

After this unsuccessful operation, the U.S. abhorred the densely forested environment of Vietnam, and in the port of Saigon, ships from the mainland unloaded defoliant in orange drums. It was used to clear the densely forested environment of Southeast Asia and expand the horizons of U.S. military operations.

Tiger helicopter gunships are, after all, active British equipment, so after this battle, Washington hoped that Britain would send troops to help the United States with this weapon.

This is certainly not possible, Aidan in office when this is only theoretically possible, now that the Labor Party came to power that is not at all possible, the Secretary of State for Defense Denis Healey want to cut military spending it, although the Prime Minister said that will not do so, but the degree of military spending hard to keep down, but also want to increase?

Don’t you know that the representatives of the deep government, the supreme authority, have given the logistics of the British army abroad to the Chinese, and then let the Chinese follow the British army to Vietnam? To fight North Vietnam supported by a major power? It was a joke.

However, for the perspective of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, Alan Wilson still informed the prime minister of the request of Washington, the result was naturally rejected without mercy.

This has nothing to do with him, he is only a district cabinet secretary, only the power to deal with day-to-day affairs, to send troops to this kind of big thing, naturally, the prime minister to make a decision.

“Honorable Sir, out of the perspective of the special relationship, I shouldn’t be dictating British policy, but there are some remarks that Prime Minister Wilson seems to be too friendly with the Soviet Union.” Donald, the U.S. ambassador who was coming to the Cabinet Office to push diplomacy, expressed his concern about British foreign policy.

He hoped that Alan Wilson, the Cabinet Secretary, would safeguard the Anglo-American special relationship and not let the dubious Prime Minister jeopardize it.

“Honorable Ambassador, he is the Prime Minister, although our two countries have a special relationship, but this kind of talk?” Alan Wilson showed a skeptical tone, but still kept his position tight to remind the other party not to talk nonsense.

Doubts about Harold Wilson did circulate in the streets, after the war, the Labor Party defeated the Conservative Party and won a big victory in the general election, and Wilson was successfully elected to Parliament. To his surprise, however, he was immediately employed as Parliamentary Secretary in the Public Service. Two years later he was reassigned as Overseas Trade Secretary, and during his tenure he made several visits to the Soviet Union to discuss trade matters, during which time the sale of the Rollo engine naturally came up.

This time and place relied on the presence of Alan Wilson to sell a few hundred more engines, but there did appear to be an exodus of technology from Britain’s superior aero-engines to the Soviet Union.

But it can not be therefore suspected that the Prime Minister through the Soviet Union, if you can suspect the Prime Minister, this matter Allen Wilson is also involved, is not he also to be suspected?

In the face of U.S. pressure, Allen Wilson is naturally to change the subject, “The urgent task now is not the question of how much help Britain can provide, there are some things that only Britain can say frankly to the United States. That is that the United States must achieve a big battle as soon as possible to give the free world confidence. Both our countries speak English, and Britain is naturally the staunchest ally of the United States, but this is not necessarily true for other countries, and the United States should be aware that modified socialism on this side of Europe is very strong, and the reason for this is that Europe is also not sufficiently confident about facing the Soviet Union. And the United States must give Europe confidence.”

Challengers are always isolated, you can say that the USSR didn’t have as many allies as the US, but that’s based on the US being able to keep the USSR down. If you, the U.S., can’t do it anymore, no one wants to be friends with a loser, and the countries on the European side are able to defend, but to say that they’re going to help the U.S. fight where it’s at? That’s really overthinking it.

“I’ve heard that the Korean army in South Vietnam has exceeded 50,000, so why not organize a major offensive?” Alan Wilson countered, “What’s the point of having the Koreans? Isn’t it so they can cut down on the losses of American soldiers? Is it so the Koreans can go on a tropical vacation?”

“Perhaps Britain can offer some useful advice on how to use these troops of different nationalities, we have fought side by side with the Indians after all. It is important to understand that Korea now needs the United States more than the United States needs Korea, and by making this basis clear, things will be easier. In fact the United States is now on better terms than Britain was during the two world wars, and Korea has no ability to refuse.”

Who the hell is Alan Wilson? He was once the Assistant High Commissioner of British India, now Britain, and the man in a high position who still understands that Britain will never surrender until the blood of the Indians runs dry can’t say that there isn’t one, but the only one who meets the criteria of old age and strength is himself.

“And the Koreans might not listen once mass casualties occur?” Donald frowned slightly, clearly Washington hadn’t thought through the question.

“Then let them swim back on their own, all the way to Vietnam and still dare to disobey?” Alan Wilson snorted and said, “I don’t believe Park Chung Hee would dare to refuse. You can also use this to try and see if the warning about the 17th parallel is effective, and if it causes the Soviet bloc to be upset, just say that it was a decision made by the Koreans themselves. It has nothing to do with the U.S. Army.”

“Actually, Washington is fortunate that there is now another country that has exchanged its life for support; Britain can’t even find such a country now.”

Sending the Donald, who had regained his confidence, away, Alan Wilson instantly changed his face and finally managed to fool the Americans, muttering, “Shall we find out if the Prime Minister is really a Soviet spy?”

Pamela Mountbatten is about to return to the country, there are some things that may not be convenient to wait until her return, Alan Wilson decided to visit his sister-in-law, and its main purpose is to ask Turing about the development trend of the semiconductor industry, and it is very surprising that Turing is not at home.

Princess Margaret expressed her gratitude to the Cabinet Secretary’s concern for her husband’s behavior, this communication is considered a home away from home, “I’ll call you when he comes back.”

“Thank you Princess for your help in upgrading the industry.” Alan Wilson owed a slight debt of gratitude, “The royal family’s concern for the economy is a blessing for Britain.”