Chapter 1328 – There’s a mole in the free world

“Intelligence on the Kosygin reforms in Moscow.” Richard White, the head of MI6, arrived at the Cabinet Office and brought out the intelligence Alan Wilson needed.

“Oh, thanks, let’s see what good stuff our enemies have brought out again, maybe we can learn from it too.” Alan Wilson smiled and expressed his thanks, then looked interested and pointed to the corner, “There’s coffee over there, Richard, just help yourself.”

“Thanks!” Richard White was no longer unfamiliar with the supreme authority’s office having a water dispenser, and the function of heating, and the design was still very innovative.

This is of course, this kind of water dispenser is his own design, in his previous life in the school when often used, has applied for a patent in the United Kingdom, has now become a popular product marketed around the world. If the hair loss rate in the UK dropped, he should really be thanked for this supreme authority.

“Secretary General, you’ve been concerned about the movements on the Soviet side.” Richard White took the coffee and plumped it up himself, not forgetting to have a conversation with his top boss.

“With such a powerful country, it would be a dereliction of duty to our country if we didn’t care.” Alan Wilson flipped through the documents, in fact, the Soviet Union in this era still had a good reputation.

The black spots certainly existed and were tossed around, but that was all harmless, the most basic reason being that the Soviet Union was still alive.

If the USSR were to go down in flames tomorrow, we in the free world would have no problem with it, and a harmless black mark would inevitably turn into a black mark of no return. Wasn’t there a TV show that said, “Why don’t we go support Afghanistan, because the Soviet Union is too strong.”

The difference in national power caused the treatment, Britain and the United States both hated the Soviet Union, but as long as the Soviet Union said they wanted détente, then Britain and the United States must have said détente was the right thing to do, to avoid a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union.

Of course the USSR is not to détente just to détente, at least the USSR is not likely to stop the problematic countries in the same camp, such as a certain big country that has been disobedient to the call.

At present, the relationship between a certain big country and France, a problematic country in the free world camp, is surging and seems to have a tendency to merge. Especially recently.

Take the Vietnam War for example, although Britain did not send troops, but still support the United States at the diplomatic level, in look at the attitude of French President Charles de Gaulle about Vietnam? De Gaulle made a speech strongly condemning the American invasion of Vietnam, and then urgently summoned former French Prime Minister Edgar Foer to visit various countries to expound France’s position.

France’s blatant opposition to the US policy on Vietnam was summarized in Washington’s eyes in the statement that France was working against the US at all levels in all fields.

The Soviet side is undergoing reforms, a fact that is clear from public sources, and the UK is concerned about it, taking the best from the bad, not to mention the fact that it is now a Labour government, and there are some nationalization initiatives underway, such as the nationalization of the water supply system, which is now firmly underway.

When Brezhnev came to power, he made a clear request to the Soviet economics community to start a discussion on how to revitalize the Soviet economy. With Brezhnev’s support, the Soviet economics community responded enthusiastically, most notably with the publication of Lissitchkin’s article “Life Proposes Amendments”. The article argued that it was highly unreasonable to regard the planned economy as the only means of economic development of the country, and that only by combining planning with the market could we obtain sustainable economic development.

As long as the plan is combined with the market? See, isn’t that pretty much the same kind of rhetoric that we used in the days of Adderley when we combined the best of both systems?

With the support of Brezhnev, Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, began the economic reforms of the USSR, which were already in full swing within the USSR under the auspices of Kosygin. It is reported that at that time, a total of 43,000 enterprises in the country to adopt the new economic policy, accounting for 94 percent of the total industrial output value of the entire Soviet Union, the weight can not be said to be small.

The autonomy of the enterprises in utilizing capital for mass production was accompanied by the establishment of enterprise funds at their own disposal, while on the other hand, the economic reforms presided over by Kosygin permitted the material satisfaction of the members of the enterprises through the reform of their wage system. And a policy of full accounting that was completely close to the market.

Of course, this kind of thing, the Soviet Union to do that is called the Soviet Union to repair, a different country to do it is not the same, that can be called innovation and openness, the so-called double standard everywhere.

“New economic growth point, can we think of ways in Eastern Europe?” Alan Wilson had to be worried, Britain’s economy is now once again to the bottleneck. Hands of the colonies worthy of development has been developed, the laborious future will not change.

Once the economic growth is insufficient, you see the former Prime Minister Aidan in diplomacy so hard, the voters as much as not to buy it to know that the economic problem is the root. Harold Wilson came to power, but also must play the main economic card in order to do, the status of world power after all, can not be eaten.

This time Kosygin reform, obviously is an opportunity, Alan Wilson to Richard White instructed, “also lacks in recent years Italy and the Soviet Union economic transactions of intelligence,”

“I’ll have someone send it over right away.” Richard White nodded his head, Italy’s economic dealings with the Soviet Union was an open fact, but what did the Supreme Authority want this for?

Naturally, it was to emphasize the role of expanding economic ties with the Soviet Union, and if Britain wanted to go further, it would have to try to return to traditional sources of raw materials, such as Eastern Europe.

The situation was now simple: France was unclear with the Soviet bloc, Italy was in a secret ditch with the Soviet bloc, and the Germans were unmoved, but Alan Wilson knew that the Germans would soon push for an Eastern policy, because Western Europe had begun to see the top of the heap by relying on its own development.

The per capita incomes of the European countries and Britain were already getting closer and closer, and Britain could not sit back and watch without doing anything.

This could not be solved by relying on the issue of nationalization alone. Furthermore, the Soviet Union had begun its reforms, couldn’t Britain take advantage of the Soviet Union’s reforms to achieve a win-win situation?

Italy did not dare to make a big show of providing technical equipment to the Soviet Union, they kept the cooperation between the two sides within a manageable range, and the cooperation between the two sides was mainly concentrated in the field of civil industry. Italy exported refrigerators, automobiles, steel pipes and other products to the Soviet Union, and transferred part of the production technology to the Soviet Union, from the Soviet Union in return for a huge amount of foreign exchange and rich resources.

The most typical was the Soviet Union’s automobile industry, which could be said to be mostly attributed to Italy, with the prototype of the Soviet Union’s most famous Lada automobile being the Italian Fiat. In return, the USSR not only paid Italy large sums of real money and purchased large quantities of goods and technology from Italy, but also exported oil, natural gas, and other resources to Italy at favorable prices.

France was not far behind in this regard, and many of the technical standards within the Soviet Union were French, and with these two countries vying to sell out the free world, Britain just watched?

“Of course we want to reconstruct economic and trade relations.” Harold Wilson mused, “Do Kosygin’s reforms represent the beginning of some sort of Soviet turn?”

“That can’t be judged right away, but with France and Italy constantly exporting technology to the Soviet Union, and with the country’s development approaching that of the United Kingdom in the past few years, we’d be foolish not to have a little movement.” In the face of the prime minister’s question, Alan Wilson replied, “Unfortunately we do not have a Xiangjiang in the Soviet Union, but it is not without a roundabout way, for example, through Finland, the prime minister is also aware of, Finland is very close to the Soviet Union’s economic center, Leningrad, we can establish economic and trade relations in the economic center of the Soviet Union through cooperation with Finland. ”

“Now the problem is the United States, in fact, we all know that the United States in the post-war containment of the United Kingdom also exists, there is a period of time we can be said to be quite hard, but from the Cuban Missile Crisis after the degree of containment seems to be a little smaller, and since Charles de Gaulle came to power, the United States of America in the free world within the object of containment, obviously has shifted to France. At the moment France and the United States are at loggerheads over the dollar, in which case there may be a way out.” ,

What solution, Harold Wilson was very interested, of course he was not good at showing too much obviousness, this is after all the internal struggle of the free world.

“France and Italy and the Soviet Union to develop trade and economic relations is a fact, we use this to blame the two countries, to see the reaction of the Americans, if the United States to take the attitude of acquiescence, then there is no reason for the United States regardless of the French and Italian, and alone and Britain no end. ”

Take advantage of the current bad relations between France and the US and add another fire to the fire, if the US appeases at this point in time, then the UK will not be polite, the Eastern European market the UK also wants. Britain is not being overbearing, civilian technology France and Italy can provide, it’s not as if Britain can’t provide it.

Harold Wilson has some intention to move, the Conservative Party is because the economic development of the poor out of power, Aidan busy half a day and mediate the Indo-Pakistani war, and containment of Indonesia do not work. Still not in this election lost almost a hundred seats?

“We really can’t act rashly!” Harold Wilson agreed with the Cabinet Secretary, “Then let’s get Washington to give an account of France and Italy’s move to betray the free world.”

If that argument is no argument, then if the two can do it, can’t the UK do it, it just so happens that the UK is still in a war of words with France over the French currency rhetoric, and it’s not out of the question to continue to expand the war of words.

France says the UK is America’s Trojan Horse in Europe, the UK says France is undermining the unity of the free world.

It’s time to escalate this war of words, and while the Big Brother of the Free World is busy with the war, the UK’s bashing of France has taken a steep step up to another level, with British newspapers connoting that France is a stealth ally of the USSR, handing over countless pieces of technology, to the enemies of the Free World.