Chapter 1332 – Scrambling to Show Goodwill

At the same time that the British Foreign Secretary was traveling to Moscow, Alan Wilson, a representative of the pro-American faction in London, was explaining to the U.S. Ambassador Donald, the reasons why Britain was doing what it was doing.

“In the midst of the current time when part of the U.S. military is tied up in South Vietnam, we are pushing for détente also to eliminate Soviet hostility on the European side.” Alan Wilson justified, explaining the rationale for doing so in front of Donald, “At the current time the Soviet Union is carrying out economic reforms, to some extent we seem to see the hope of moving away from the planned economy, taking the initiative at this time may have unexpected gains.”

“Is that so?” Donald’s face eased a little, and after a moment’s thought he said, “Personally, I certainly understand what Britain realizes politically, but it may not be so easy.”

“Using Finland as an entry point to penetrate towards Eastern Europe, it would be nice to succeed, and even if we fail, wouldn’t it be more conducive to rallying our hearts and minds if the USSR subverted the governments of the Eastern European countries that wanted to get closer to us?”

Alan Wilson waved his hand, with an air of determination, “Finding trouble for the USSR may also ease our pressure. To be honest, compared to the massive military spending that has been poured into Southeast Asia, with the power of the United States it’s entirely possible to take out a minuscule amount of money and test the waters in Eastern Europe.”

It wasn’t up to Donald, but it had to be said that he was really interested in the infiltration that Alan Wilson was talking about, “If we’re going to do that, choose Finland?”

That was naturally a no-no, Britain had already decided to borrow Finland to do business with the Soviet Union, the Americans were not to come over here and break it up.

Alan Wilson shook his head gruffly, “Poland, this country has a population of thirty million people, it is the most populous country in Eastern Europe apart from the Soviet Union itself, and strategically located, this is almost a cordon sanitaire in the heart of the Soviet Union, once Poland is in turmoil, the Soviet Union will definitely save it regardless of its full strength, and if it can be saved by economic means, and if the economic means don’t work, it may be that the Soviet Union will then send troops to suppress it, and if something like that happens, it will definitely be good for us.”

“The United States has been slow to make progress in South Vietnam, even if we in Britain have been cooperating with the United States in the information blockade, sooner or later, unfavorable news will come out, how can we prove that the Soviet Union is darker than us? Luring Poland to galvanize the Polish anti-Soviet mentality is actually a good way.”

“By the way, there was a long period of instability in Poland and Hungary in 1956, it would have been good for us to seize the opportunity at that time. Unfortunately, the Soviet ICBM tests squashed that revolt and we didn’t seize the opportunity, and God won’t forgive us if the opportunity presents itself again and we can’t seize it.”

Poland has two advantages, the first is a real grudge against Russia, when Russia was not too strong in its infancy, it was attacked by Poland to break Moscow.

For a long time Poland was Russia’s nightmare, of course Poland is Slavic, the Russians are also Slavic, both countries have Slavic qualities, wait until Russia’s extreme sublimation into Imperial Russia, the Poles began to be unlucky.

While having a history of hatred, Poland was also the first most populous country in Eastern Europe outside of the Soviet Union, and a country of thirty million people making a scene was enough to keep the Soviets’ hands full.

“You guys can help?” Donald inquired with a frown, wanting to know if Britain had some unknown hidden stakes at hand.

“The Polish government in exile was in London at first, then we sent them back, I don’t know how many are left. But I’m sure there’s always a little left. We’ll check through the Warsaw Embassy.” Asked about this, Alan Wilson was a man of honor; the Polish government-in-exile was sold out by Churchill.

Throughout World War II, although Poland had fallen, the government-in-exile was still in place, the Polish heart for restoration was still there, and large numbers of Poles were still fighting for their country on various battlefields. Polish soldiers had a high casualty rate on the battlefield because they were parasites and wanted to prove their worth by fighting.

He hadn’t really cared about this for a long time, ever since sending the Polish government-in-exile back, but this time it was different again, maybe he’d be able to eat two fish with one?

“Will Britain provide government level support?” Donald asked the most important question, being able to stir up waves within the Soviet bloc could deflect a bit of Soviet support for Southeast Asia, and he agreed with Alan Wilson that whether the Soviet Union economically conceded or sent troops to suppress it, it could be blamed on the U.S. The question now was whether or not the UK was willing to do it together.

“That’s, well, difficult, isn’t it? The Prime Minister is not anti-Soviet.” Alan Wilson was a little embarrassed, didn’t the Americans know that Harold Wilson had respect for the Soviet Union?

“When the time comes, we can ask General Franco for help, I heard that Spain has taken in a lot of people from the government in exile, maybe they still have connections with Poland at home.”

For the sake of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, Alan Wilson still gave the trip a clear path, but also to reshape the relationship with Spain, because of the matter of the falling hydrogen bomb, the relationship between the United States and Spain is a little delicate, and the Americans think that Franco did not appease the discontent of the Spaniards.

This is not to blame Franco, hydrogen bomb dropped such a big thing, not let the Spanish protest protest? Franco could not fool the Spaniards that the hydrogen bomb was not dangerous. This time it is the opportunity to break the deadlock in diplomatic cooperation.

In this link Britain can help, as for the Polish link later, Britain can not contribute, the Prime Minister will not agree to ruffle the Soviet Union.

“No Poland.” When the other party had gone away with a heavy heart, Alan Wilson opened his mouth and spoke Chinese.

To explain that Britain was prepared to see if the isolated economic system of the Soviet bloc could be dismantled through economic means, he had gone so far east that it gave him a headache to think about it.

Doing business with the Soviet Union through Finland was explained as infiltration into Eastern Europe, and it was not clear whether the Americans would believe it.

But the biggest problem for the Americans right now is definitely still the Vietnam War. Exactly what the concept of an enemy is has become a problem that the Americans have to face.

This is a very vague and ambiguous issue, and the controversy centers on the definition of “enemy”. The enemy that the United States faced in Vietnam was very complex – North Vietnamese regulars, North Vietnamese who entered South Vietnam as individual soldiers, guerrillas recruited by the Viet Cong in the South, and paramilitaries of all kinds. The paramilitaries ranged from rifle-toting peasants to villagers who joined informal military organizations to engage in sabotage and intelligence transmission. The problem was how to draw the line at “enemy numbers”.

Optimists excluded many irregular forces, while U.S. intelligence officers and CIA analysts counted some. The debate within the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam and Washington’s intelligence community became increasingly heated and protracted.

The President, CIA Director Richard Helms, and other senior officials in the administration were aware of it, and it remained highly emotional throughout the war. Several people who disagreed with the judgment of the other faction at the time were interviewed on CBS.

They either explicitly or implicitly said that the other side had deliberately misled the President and the Department of Defense. These men stuck to each other’s judgment and blamed the other side as the culprit for the current lack of progress.

There was a disagreement between the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam and the Central Intelligence Agency over enemy numbers; this disagreement also affected the effectiveness of the sweep operations. Originally, the sweep operation was to get the ROK and South Vietnamese armies out of the way and the US to avoid ground combat.

However, as Allen Wilson had judged at the outset, the South Koreans had a profoundly diabolic style, and indiscriminate killing was nothing more than a standard feature of the South Korean army. Finally, in the midst of more than two months of sweeping operations, the South Vietnamese and South Korean armies engaged in a firefight over an incident of indiscriminate killing.

This firefight was reported back to London by British military advisors in Saigon and it has been made clear that the South Vietnamese government had suppressed the matter in favor of maintaining friendly relations with Korea.

“The bought-and-paid-for governments are all in the same boat on this one.” Alan Wilson took the intelligence documents of Southeast Asia and read them with great interest, the Korean-Vietnamese firefight could be watched as a fun, he was more concerned about other aspects of the intelligence, among the documents judging the social level, expressed Britain’s pessimistic attitude towards the direction of this war.

“Earmarks for many programs and projects never went to the right place, and many local officials saw the regular army as a threat to their positions of power. War-traumatized villagers were indifferent or wary of the integration program. It was never clearly explained who or how the program would be administered, especially in the absence of an efficient and accountable South Vietnamese government. When the U.S. tried to speed up the process of rectifying the program, it seemed to fail even faster.”

After reading the news from Saigon, Allen Wilson told Dixon, “It is not our duty to keep negative news of local American troops from being published, realizing that this battle is taken very seriously by Washington. A defeat would have far-reaching consequences for the international situation,”

The world’s hegemon fights a war if he loses the war, the question of whether big brother is still viable or not will follow, the world is very realistic, the United States of America’s trouble is still ahead.

Britain can just hold on to its own acreage, and there’s a lot going on over here in Europe, such as de Gaulle’s visit to Moscow and the announcement of a special Franco-Soviet partnership between the two men and Brezhnev.

Now the Cabinet is paying close attention to the proximity of France and the Soviet Union, of course, this is also Allen Wilson for the advancement of the economic and trade progress with the Soviet Union is a big example, Britain is one step too late, the benefits will be let France alone. France’s success was Britain’s undoing, and the Cabinet agreed.

Advancing economic and trade relations with the Soviet Union, it is necessary to speed up rather than be apprehensive, also thinking of improving relations with the Soviet Union, Harold Wilson, let the Foreign Office to speed up the promotion of trade and trade negotiations with the Soviet Union.