Chapter 1353 – The May Storm

Really taking the idea to Algeria, this financial attack went sour, and in the grand scheme of things, there was no chance that it would lead to France and Britain tearing themselves apart, and if the Council for a Free Europe couldn’t put an end to the total risky idea, Alan Wilson could get the director of the Central Intelligence Agency to tell Dennis to calm down.

“You ask that rice-bag if the Americans are going to fill the gap in ground armament left vacant by France’s military forces turning hostile.” Allen Wilson said seriously to Richard White.

Than the U.S. Army, Allen Wilson does not lie at all that he still believes in the combat power of the French army, although the French army in World War II was killed by the Germans in seconds once, but this is nothing, the reaction is not as good as it is.

And the U.S. Army, he had a hard time thinking of times when he shouldered the public’s expectations, the Ardennes counterattack? The Korean War, or the ongoing Vietnam War? And that’s expecting to face the Soviet Army.

Ground combat NATO facing the Warsaw Pact is nothing more than you come and I’ll drop nukes, or else what, counting on Patton to change?

Not to mention now, a few decades later can not count on, NATO military exercises Ukraine a company dry U.S. a battalion, China and Russia military exercises PLA a battalion to fight the Russian army a regiment, however, the Russian army encountered the Ukrainian army, Ukraine do not dare to go out of the city, you bombing you bombing, anyway, I do not go out.

Limited to the financial field of the attack, this is good to say, inciting the French workers to protest is not a big deal, is reaching out to the French army to fight for many years to calm down Algeria, that is another thing, France to no reaction, so many French troops killed in action is not a white death?

This time can not let a Central Intelligence Agency peripheral organizations fooling around, Allen Wilson is not polite, directly the Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms moved out, so that this secretary general to calm down and calm down, do not want to do can be replaced.

“There are actions to report in time, who let you make your own decisions.” Richard Helms directly a transatlantic phone call to the side of Dennis, the secretary general a meal education, let it cooperate with the British operation, the United States is fully dealing with the Vietnam War, the European side does not have the energy.

Now the American troops in Vietnam are more than half a million, and even the American troops in Germany have been deployed. The size of the American troops in Germany is now the four divisions of the Seventh Group Army, which is the same as that of the British Army Rheinland Group. As for the French garrison, since France withdrew from NATO, it has withdrawn two armies from Germany, and now only retains one army in Baden.

Britain is willing to teach France, which is squeezing gold, a lesson, and at this juncture the United States is naturally happy to see it, but the United States is also reluctant to turn against the French. When the enemy is at hand, can not be directed against the French under the knife, as the British said, the financial attack is not so much and the French turn the other cheek, the real operation of the Algerian problem is not necessarily.

De Gaulle’s Fifth Republic, nor is it a fully democratically elected government, Algeria’s military control has not been lax, is not a place that can be casually ruffled.

Educated some subordinates, Richard Helms and Allen Wilson contacted, thanked the United Kingdom at this time to help, Britain and the United States this time will be appropriate to educate France this prick, but will be controlled in the appropriate scale.

The Federal Reserve side is also preparing, a counterattack against the French squeeze on gold, and also endorsed the plan to mess up France internally first, and soon the Central Intelligence Agency received an intelligence analysis from London.

Aimed at the student body, this was a restless generation that no longer wanted to endure the rigid, disciplined and crowded university life, let alone the prospect of being expelled after just one year of college or being unemployed upon graduation. When the University of Nanterre was closed down and the Sorbonne students occupied the campus in solidarity, Charles de Gaulle’s authorities began to send the police in full force to clear the area.

The pressure to appreciate the franc from the gold rush, which has weakened the competition for French exports, has always come at a cost to France, and the students, who are not yet on their own, have borne the brunt of it.

Paris, as an old revolutionary area, often played a role in giving the French a change of government, but brought glory or sinking, which is benevolent.

France wouldn’t have been so easily put in its place by Britain during the colonial era if it hadn’t always imploded, and since the citizens of Paris have a tradition of leading revolutions, it’s okay to maneuver.

Essentially, Alan Wilson treats this provocation as a yellow vest movement, you see because of a little fart French people wearing yellow vest protest, really encountered the Russian smashed pot leading to energy food all rise, yellow vest movement but hair and disappeared, who is behind the supporters is not a clear-cut?

Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman has arrived in London, Allen Wilson took the time to come over to visit, left and right to look at the opening of the inquiry, “Where is my son?”

Hedy Lamarr, hearing that she was asking herself, replied, “Why is the Soviet Union calling? Look at you, he’s at school in Vienna.”

“I can’t help you guys.” Allen Wilson skinned his teeth, there was a Queen of Sweden who wouldn’t let him see his son either, what was wrong with that, “Well, it’s not a big deal. Just don’t be in Paris.”

“What’s wrong with Paris?” Ingrid Bergman sat her two daughters to one side and asked the man what was going on in Paris.

“I heard the students in Paris are going to protest on May 6th? There is such a thing!” Seeing the two women nodding, Alan Wilson continued, “That part of Paris has never been the center of a revolution, it would be better for you to stay out of Paris during the time of the protest and spend some time in England. Vivian has accommodation there.”

Words still do not need to say too much, the two movie queens will live in London for the time being, he, the supreme authority, in this place of London, the words still work better than God his old man.

“Could the protests be expanding?” Hedy Lamarr had an expression of shock, “But then again, your style of bringing a woman with you even if you have to run might delay the efficiency of your escape if the Soviets really fight.”

“I will definitely resist to the end when the Soviets come.” Alan Wilson said firmly, “This is the basic conduct of a patriot.”

He was bound to be very busy these days, he didn’t even have time to talk about manned spaceflight with his two wifely equivalents, as his wife, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, was on fire raising funds to prepare for the strain.

“Two and a half billion pounds!” Pamela Mountbatten reported to her husband the results of their own war, Pamela Mountbatten herself in fact, because of the squeeze on the gold hand is not much cash, which is mostly the liquidity of the major banks in the United Kingdom, “Where are you looking for foreign aid?”

“You’ll know in time, they’re not British.” Alan Wilson replied vaguely, the Dragoon Sisters should be his biggest achievement besides Pamela Mountbatten.

The German Mark was a strong currency in Europe, being well known after nineteen fifty-eight, not to mention that it was now ten years later.

I wonder how much capital the Dragoon Sisters, who were still accumulating wealth after so many years, were able to mobilize now? Probably not less than Pamela Mountbatten.

It wasn’t so troublesome to take on the franc because there was a European Payments Union, and as intra-European trade recovered more quickly after the war, because the European Payments Union allowed the participating countries to settle their bonds and counter-claims with each other. Each country maintains a balance in the epu in “European units of account,” defined as 0.888671 grams of gold, the assumed gold content of a dollar.

Claims and counterclaims are liquidated by the epu each month, and each country must settle its net claims with the epu. Monthly liquidation ensures that the epu does not evolve into the liquidity machine dreamed up by Keynesians, although modest amounts can be borrowed to offset short-term fluctuations in the balance of payments.

Ironically, it was created on French initiative, and this time it would be possible to attack the franc, a Trojan horse if you will, through this French-created payment institution.

“When will the attack on the franc begin?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired of her husband as to when exactly the so-called time would be.

“On the sixth of May the French students will march in a national parade, this has been determined by the National Union of Students of France, on that day you will know, as the saying goes, a star can start a prairie fire.” Alan Wilson raised one eyebrow to signal his wife to be at ease, “It takes time for a sapling to grow into a tree, doesn’t it?”

As long as the parade began, you can wait for the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, once in the midst of mindless chaos, there are more places to maneuver.

Time quickly came to May 6th, and the powerful demonstration was held as scheduled. Soon the students clashed with the police. For the first time, tear gas was used in the Latin Quarter, and barricades were the first to be built on St. Germain Boulevard.

The students pushed down the barricades and threw stones at the police to force them to retreat, while the police dealt with them with high-pressure water hoses and clubs, and inside the police station they threw the arrested students into the police station after beating them severely.

The spark of the old revolutionary quarter was, at last, kindled, and almost immediately the British Embassy in Paris was able to make a current affairs report to London, informing Whitehall of every move in Paris.

“It is extremely appropriate to go and agitate the students now.” Allen Wilson took the microphone and consulted with Richard White across the microphone, “Enable your favored leaders and fire on that iron fisted man who eats the past and can’t listen to the masses.”

As the sun sets, the barricades of the boulevard St.-Germain still stand, as if to tell what happened here during the day, and that things won’t end so simply. A new round of protests is brewing among the youthful students.

“That bunch of cannon fodder.” In front of a few movie queens, Alan Wilson let out a scoff with impunity, “I remember one of the reasons why the student organization in March was formed was because they couldn’t enter the girls’ dormitory? A bunch of stinking hooligans froze to pretend to be fighting for the people, and anything really can happen in a city like Paris.”

It doesn’t matter what one of the sources is, though, each group has its own quest; auto workers want a change from working eight to ten hours a day and being supervised by their company-employed superiors.

Train and bus drivers would like to be able to control their shift system and have plenty of time to rest, read and discuss …… even participate in running their industry and society.

Farmers will talk to workers and city dwellers about how best to produce and distribute their products, and the government will help farmers buy seeds and farm equipment.

All of this requires an opportunity, and it doesn’t matter why the opportunity arises, it just arises.