Chapter 1340 – The Iron Lady of India

“The death of Prime Minister Shastri after a long illness is a sad day, and the whole of India and even the world should remember the departure of such a remarkable leader, Shastri and I met in 1942.” Field Marshal Mountbatten began this speech with a face full of sorrow and mourning.

A young couple in the VIP gallery below had long since gotten bored, and Pamela Mountbatten was simply deaf to her father’s words, inquiring about the ins and outs of the incident with the wounded soldier.

Alan Wilson hallowed his arm around his wife’s petite body, whispered, “There are also Americans in it, but it was not publicized, and the guidance of public opinion before leaving was still successful. We also put the criminals in clear justice, is a big deterrent, as for the victimized family also gave hush money. As well as treatment arrangements.”

Malaya is used to replace British India, this can not be equated, and then lose this colony, Britain can consider being a follower. Being a follower in this world could be even worse than the world in Alan Wilson’s head, France swallowed Algeria in one bite, although the livable land wasn’t that big, right, but in comparison Britain would be stretched to cope with France if it didn’t manage to achieve the same level of control over a single place, and that was the consensus in Whitehall as well as in both administrations.

“But I hear that the US military operations in South Vietnam are not very effective, will it affect us.” Pamela Mountbatten is still vaguely worried, in the British point of view is this, in the face of the United States of America’s secret tripping Britain is of course dissatisfied, but if the United States a defeat?

“Do not worry. In terms of the location of the mainland, the Soviet Union has always been a threat to us, are at this point, still worry about what?” Alan Wilson looked on the bright side, “The free world controls far more than the Soviet Union, and there is only one threat worth taking seriously, and that is the top three populations in the world being in one camp.”

That’s the only way to change the contrast in power, but that hasn’t happened in history, and since India hit the mountain, that possibility hasn’t existed. While there was a time when both the Soviet Union and India and China were on good terms, that time was not used to regulate the border issues between the two countries.

Then again, the USSR didn’t always manage to do so either, and it’s not right to take the side of either country on something as bad as a border issue.

Even if Allen Wilson had been a Soviet, he probably would have sided with India, because no one would have thought that countries in the same camp would turn against each other, and even Tito’s Yugoslavia didn’t do it to the extent that a certain great power did later.

But this is the trouble of the Soviet Union, wait until a certain big country jumped ship, as a free world’s humble social commons, Alan Wilson will lend Britain’s hegemony of public opinion to the Soviet Union to use, to speak for this enemy, you have your own war, not allow Britain to sow discord? Seek to keep these two countries from coming closer in the future.

India is a powerful country, although the Indians have not reached the standard of an industrial power arrived at, can only fight a stream of war, but no one can deny that can resist India’s stream of countries are not a few, the problem is that its two neighbors happen to be in this range.

If India were to side with the undivided Soviet bloc, that would be enough to make the free world’s head spin.

Even if the U.S. is strong enough to hold off its enemies on both sides of Eurasia, who’s going to hold off India in the Indian Ocean? You wouldn’t expect Pakistan, would you? Pakistan, which has not yet become independent, can hold its own for a while, but if Bangladesh becomes independent, it will not be able to hold its own against India.

Can not let India too close to the Soviet Union is a priority, at least at this time, India still has the value of pulling together.

“Like India such a great country with a long history, with the genes of a strong country, it is logical that it should be one of the permanent members of the United Nations.” While the couple bites their ears, the last Viceroy of British India, Field Marshal Mountbatten, Britain’s representative of the Crown, is already waving an air chip and painting a big picture for the Indians.

Indian upper class people are understand English, Mountbatten’s air chip out, the most afraid of the air suddenly silent, but immediately, like a thunderous applause and cheers Marshal Mountbatten surrounded.

“See, isn’t that effective?” Alan Wilson had an expression of advantage in me, his soul was a person from a major country that was often keyed to politics in India, and his current identity was a British citizen of India’s former sovereign state, the two major powers could serve the Indians from a different angle, is this blessing still small?

In the future in the United Nations, the British representative from time to time with the permanent hook India, and do not really need to take aid, maybe this fish bait can also be played to let India from time to time to benefit a little bit of the United Kingdom, can be said to win hemp.

Shastri’s funeral and Mountbatten’s speech occupied the center of Indian public opinion for the next few days.

Such an enthusiastic response also surprised the Mountbatten father and daughter, not realizing that it would really have such a big effect, Pamela Mountbatten spoke up for her husband in front of her father, “It would have been England’s good fortune if he had worked before World War I.”

Yesterday Alan Wilson had just come from the embassy, to explain the air chips to the country, said that this statement is to fool the Indians, although Marshal Mountbatten is very well-known, but after all, does not belong to the current British government, used to make a statement is more appropriate, I believe that the Cabinet also understands that India’s entry into the permanent membership of the difficulty of how big.

India into the permanent and a big country’s return to the road is not a difficulty, catching up with the time is also quite good, a big country, although and the Soviet Union has been in conflict, but has not yet formally revealed anti-heart. There were no statements that went against the other Soviet allies at the time of Allende’s death, and there was no large-scale war with Vietnam.

Otherwise, with the Soviet Union’s prestige even surpassing that of the US in the 1970s, a permanent stop might not have been possible to trip up, but a delay of a few years shouldn’t have been a problem.

This was mainly the result of the fact that there was little major opposition from either bloc, rather than some African brother lifting it in. These are all conditions that India does not have.

India’s problems are still considerable, India is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic country, five years ago the census was logged sixteen hundred languages, the main language eighteen. Hindi is the number one language, but it is also spoken by only one-third of the country’s population.

When British India was divided into provinces without regard to language, the same linguistic areas were fragmented. The Congress Party, in order to make it easier to promote national autonomy, put forward the intention of dividing the states according to language before independence. After Independence, it is not advisable to make too many changes in the state boundaries in view of solving the problem of belonging to the native states. Traumatized by the partition of India and Pakistan, it became a consensus to be wary of localism.

Nehru Patel and Sitaramaya formed a language commission and decided that the exercise should be implemented at least ten years later. Many local leaders and people were unhappy with this and it transformed into a mass movement.

Local and central confrontation. The government enacted the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution and the administrative regions of India were reorganized into fourteen Madhya Pradesh states and six UTs on the basis of linguistic distribution. Each state was to adopt the prevalent major language as the official language of the state. The question of the official language of the country was debated and in the Constituent Assembly Hindi was made the official language by a narrow margin, while English was retained as the official language and continued to be used for fifteen years.

However, there was strong resistance from the southern states, with mass protests against the strong push for Hindi, and the exact timing of the replacement of English by Hindi was eventually withdrawn.

Now India with the death of Shastri’s illness, who will lead India next, and become the most concerned about the issue, Alan Wilson therefore to the Prime Minister has returned to London to take leave, said to see the future political direction of India, persuade the armistice unfavorable Harold Wilson agreed.

The internal elections for the Indian National Congress Party had been scheduled, and just before the family had left the stalls of New Delhi, the major candidates were stringing together in full swing. Pamela Mountbatten took the opportunity to approach Indira Gandhi, when in fact Pamela Mountbatten would naturally be of little value if she were only the daughter of a retired field marshal.

But Pamela Mountbatten herself was a mega-rich man in England, and although her father had retired, her husband was still in England as a supreme authority, so naturally she got Indira Gandhi’s attention.

“Indira didn’t say anything useful either.” Pamela Mountbatten came back, not very good face and his husband said so, Alan Wilson is working for the government, how to avoid the main issue, Pamela Mountbatten can be too know.

“If you believe me, the Prime Minister of India is her. Let’s make a bet.” Alan Wilson said this holding up a small whisper in his wife’s ear.

“Blow what blow.” Pamela Mountbatten blushed and reached out to slap her husband’s chest, always trying to trample the richest woman.

After Shastri’s death, Desai, as the most senior patriarch, thought he was in his place. But the Nehru family saw it as a good opportunity for Indira Gandhi to come to power. It was the syndicalists who made the decision. They fully supported Indira Gandhi. In the caucuses, Indira Gandhi defeated Desai by a wide margin. He was inaugurated as the third Prime Minister.

Indira Gandhi’s rise to power made Alan Wilson sit as the great prophet, but muttered in his heart, “This Iron Lady, she is no ordinary person.”

Indira Gandhi and Margaret Thatcher, although both Iron Lady, but Indira Gandhi dismembered the arch-enemy Pakistan, Margaret Thatcher took out a Latin America are to be ranked after Brazil and Mexico, Argentina, who has more gold is obvious.

“With that side of things over, it’s time for me to head back home.” Alan Wilson stretched a lazy waist, now the weather in London has turned cool, Mountbatten father and daughter is to return to Perth, just here to say goodbye.

The end of the matter of India, Alan Wilson has to continue to return home to do their own loyal and reliable civil servants, think about it as if Britain will enter a period of stability, concentrate on their own reforms.

Nationalization of the water supply system, nationalization of steel, nationalization of coal, Whitehall’s work is still very much, and the Cabinet will also have to cooperate and struggle, which is certainly the main theme of Harold Wilson’s term.