Chapter 133 – Prime Minister Wilson

“But there are some similarities with Soviet policy, and the American-occupied agencies wouldn’t want to overthink it, would they?” Tim Brand mentally agreed with the idea, but only had to take into account the feelings of the Americans.

“This is a matter for the British-occupied zone, how effective it is, what does it matter to the Americans?” Harold let out a sneer and said, “I can hear one thing, now the prime minister is in a very bad mood, I heard that since the day after Japan announced the beginning of the surrender, the Americans have notified London that the aid to Britain will be stopped immediately, just this month.”

“These greedy Americans, they’re so stingy when they’ve gotten so much out of wartime.” A few people whispered for a while, how many bases of the British Empire had the United States received during the war time, that could not be bought with money.

Now it didn’t even want to pretend to be friendly for a moment, and was going to cut off aid the day after Japan’s surrender.

“The world has long since learned about the greed of the Americans, and if they weren’t greedy, they wouldn’t have developed to this point today.” Alan Wilson sighed in his heart, the British Empire had not yet come out of the thinking of the world’s hegemony, and was not quite accustomed to being held to ransom by the Americans, but there was plenty of this kind of thing in the future.

The key is that Britain must retain its current strength, once it steps into the track of step-by-step decline, it will be difficult for God to save it.

“It’s not really a big deal to follow the Soviet Union’s example, we all know that during the Great Depression, the Soviet Union grew up on its own, and we’re not the only ones who know about it, I believe the person who knows the most about it is our current Prime Minister, Adderley.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “In fact, we believe that the British Empire now has an advantage over the Soviet Union back then.”

“Advantage in what way?” Tim Brand and Harold both came to be interested, in fact, during the Great Depression, Britain was not ignorant of the changes in the Soviet Union, as Alan Wilson said, Prime Minister Aidley was extremely appreciative of the Soviet Union at first.

Only at that time was the Conservative Party in power, the Labor Party is the opposition party has little say.

“The Soviet Union’s approach to that executive directive, in which all the surplus value of a society is nationalized and the state then holds that excess value in its hands to be sold at a price, coincided with the Great Depression. The Soviet Union struck against the tide with its resources in hand.” Alan Wilson spoke eloquently, “In fact, the Soviet presence was a complement to our free world, provided of course that we were always better than them, and maintaining the status quo would have been best.”

“We adopted the Soviet approach and deliberately remodeled the directives to be plausible. By making the Germans suspicious of the Soviet system and maintaining living conditions just below the minimum for a long period of time, they will become disgruntled over time. And during this period of time, we hold in our hands, through the Board of Trade and the Military Committee, the surplus value of the British occupied territories, and exchange them with British India, so that prosperity will soon return to Britain.”

“And the Germans in general will also have an aversion to Soviet-like policies, so this will also serve to stabilize Germany to block the Soviet Union, which is simply great.”

“By pretending that we are also socialist and penetrating the enemy, we can make Germany resentful of the Soviet system, which will work better than if we repeated the Soviet evil a hundred times.” Tim Brand clenched his fists, an excited smile on his face, “Not only should we do this in British Occupation, but we should do it in British India as well, and with the surplus value of both places in our hands, I can see that rationing in the homeland will be abolished in no time.”

“Of course, gentlemen. It is precisely because of the hostility that we have to join in and get in, pressure from outside will only cause a greater backlash, and by joining in we are attributing all the problems after Germany to the Soviet Union’s wrong approach. The British Empire was not to blame for the whole process! We’ve learned our lesson, but apparently it was the Germans who weren’t ready for it.” Alan Wilson said with the same unconcealed excitement, “Long-winded propaganda doesn’t work, we just need to get the Germans to understand two things, rationing is socialism and compulsory labor is socialism.”

“Exactly!” Hadlow happily brought out a bottle of whisky, and after starting to open it said, “Let us drink to rationing.”

“To labor and rations!” Tim Brand added with a grin.

“To the prosperity of the British Empire, with British Occupation and British India, Britain will surely get out of this mess quickly, we don’t need the Americans at all.” Alan Wilson similarly raised his glass and said, bang ……

Drinking whiskey, the three decided to set up a new agency dedicated to getting German women involved in reconstruction. A document was also given to Field Marshal Montgomery, the commander of the British Occupation Zone, in hopes of getting his approval.

With the consent of the Military Council, the Board of Trade of the British Occupied Territories formally established the German Women’s Working Labor Bureau, and at the same time announced the linking of post-war reconstruction labor to the receipt of rations under the rationing system.

Both the Military Council and the Board of Trade announced that women between the ages of sixteen and fifty who did not have young children or sick elderly members of the family had to go to their local labor office and be assigned to a job.

If eligible women did not report to the labor office, the Control Board would not issue them food ration cards. This ration card is important for every family; without it, they cannot fill their bellies and may starve to death.

Isabella Bogina in Bonn became the director of the German Women’s Labor Bureau in Bonn, responsible for counting the number of women in Bonn and arranging for post-war reconstruction, and became the real power in Bonn.

The valuables at home had piled up, Isabella Bogina still dressed in plain clothes, personally joined the labor in the front line, her face appeared frosty, but this attitude, so that the women of Bonn very recognized.

Although there are some gossip that this beautiful young woman, is a British mistress to get today. But now that the whole of Germany was defeated, this kind of thing was not such a shameful thing.

A lot of women were in an incestuous relationship with the soldiers of the occupation army, and what happened to Isabella Bogina was not surprising to all women.

As expected by the Trade Commission, women all over the British-occupied areas were all moving, and the enthusiasm for labor was increased many times more than before, and downtown areas full of rubble were being cleared at an alarming rate.

Whether in Hanover, Cologne, Hamburg, Essen or Bonn, huge groups of German women worked in the rubble-covered cities, and at the same time sorted through the garbage, separating the metal from the rubble, and now everything in Germany was valuable, at least in the eyes of the civilians.

The ports in the British-occupied areas were also beginning to flourish, but Allen Wilson felt that the only thing that was lacking was the arrival of his tobacco machinery, the last time Alim said that it had already crossed the Suez Canal.

He couldn’t wait for the tobacco machinery to arrive, bribery is not a good way to get rich, occasionally it is okay. He wanted to stand and make his money, and must make it through honorable channels.

The first news to come, however, was not the arrival of the freighter, but that a member of the House of Commons had been sent from London to inspect the work.

When Tim Bland, the Under-Secretary-General, took the telegram and announced it at the meeting, Alan Wilson opened his mouth and asked, “May I ask who this member of Parliament is, it seems that people are not very happy.”

“It’s Councilman Wilson.” Hadlow let out a bitter laugh and said, “This congressman can’t be fooled, it’s the service ……”

“Yes, it’s service.” Tim Brand emphasized his colleague’s slip of the tongue, and then explained, “He used to be a civil servant, and resigned from the civil service in the middle of this general election to join the Labor Party to participate in the general election, and is now the parliamentary secretary. He knows all our work very well and is a professional.”

Wilson? Prime Minister? Alan Wilson remembered that the Labor Party seemed to have only such a prominent figure named Wilson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the sixties, who set the record for the most consecutive terms in office.

When the Great War stepped into the end, Harold Wilson began to seek to forage for a seat in the House of Commons in the approaching General Election, the General Election, the Labor Party defeated the Conservative Party, and won a big victory in the General Election, and Harold Wilson was successfully elected as a Member of Parliament. But to his surprise, he was immediately hired as the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Public Service.

But in fact Harold Wilson was only a young man of twenty-nine this year, and was already a member of the ruling party as parliamentary secretary, as well as the youngest member of Parliament in Britain.

Alan Wilson knew that this later Prime Minister Wilson, the Great Britain Dragon Pride of the road has just begun. A succession of victories over the Conservative Party in the sixties, until Margaret Thatcher came to power, only to break his record in power.

But the MP who had been a civil servant was now coming to visit the British Occupied Territories, making the members of the Board of Trade not very willing in their hearts, and the reason for this unwillingness was that Mr. Wilson, the MP, knew the civil servants, and now appeared in the face of an MP.

This was very uncomfortable, and the question of who was to receive Senator Wilson left the two Under-Secretaries, Hadlow and Timberland, at a loss, neither of whom wished the matter to fall upon them.

“Why don’t I receive Senator Wilson?” Alan Wilson scrutinized the two deputy secretaries general for a moment, secretly sighing that there is such a good thing, the two deputy secretaries general just saw the unfavorable conditions, but did not think that the risks and opportunities coexist.

However, in addition to Alan Wilson, who knew that Harold Wilson, who was about to arrive in the British-occupied area, was the future prime minister? Opportunities were only visible to Alan Wilson, all others saw were risks.

“Alan, you have to be careful how you deal with it.” Seeing that the hot potato was taken over voluntarily, Tim Brand, while breathing a sigh of relief, also hoped that Alan Wilson, would not make any mistakes.

“I will do my best.” Alan Wilson originally wanted to say do his best, but once he thought that in civil service discourse, doing one’s best might not be enough, he temporarily changed his wording.