Chapter 1356 Warsaw Airport
The only consensus between the two countries is how to deal with France, which is also the basis of unity, France squeezed the gold in these years, really put the United Kingdom and the United States of America whole very difficult, compared to the United Kingdom, the United States because of the overissuance of the dollar is too much, bear a huge pressure.
Sterling is not a rival to the dollar this does not matter, as long as it does not look like the dollar overissued so much on the line.
“The Americans have revealed the news that there is too little gold in the world to support the demand for money brought about by the rising economy.” The man representing the British government in Stockholm, Alan Wilson’s longtime private secretary Wicker, leaked the news.
“The Americans are looking, now, for something to replace gold?” Allen Wilson was secretly surprised to hear this, and of course he knew that the US had finally set its sights on the petrodollar, leading to the petrodollar’s emergence from the shadows, but he had also prepared in advance.
This preparation was to shove a bomb under the Saudi Arabia’s buttocks to make Yemen independent in its entirety, purposely ignoring the threat of the Free Officers Organization that was widely spread across the Arab countries, and even if he knew that this organization existed, he treated it as if he didn’t see it allowing it to take over Yemen in its entirety, and then watched as the USSR took this bomb in its hands.
Saudi Arabia’s own force is not worth mentioning, this era of Saudi Arabia is not as good as the twenty-first century Saudi Arabia, since the founder of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud, the change of the throne into the brother and brother, to maintain the stability of the kingdom under the control of their own family is indeed successful, but the brother and brother and brother can not solve all the problems, the same generation of the prince so much, there is always disobedience.
This has led to a long time Saudi Arabia did not dare to expand the army, the existence of the army is aimed at maintaining stability, not because Saudi Arabia is rich so do not pay attention to the army and national welfare, Saudi Arabia is also in the oil crisis before becoming a tycoon, in this era, oil to bring Saudi Arabia’s profits, not as much as one to let the Saudi Arabia and the traditional Arab powers to fight against.
In short, Saudi Arabia’s ass below the unification of Yemen, has become one of the Arab world’s powers under the arms of the Soviet Union, Yemen’s own problems are also very big, but can not afford the Soviet Union can benefit.
What’s more, Yemen itself has a gold mine for backing, and also Syria together, became one of the two Soviet beaters in the Arab world.
Petrodollar grip is Saudi Arabia, once the Saudi Arabia, let the dollar become the oil countries oil exports the only valuation and settlement currency, that is to say, let the dollar anchor this world can not be separated, and the amount of huge commodities, so that the need for a large number of oil imports of European countries will have to continue to take the dollar as the most important international reserve currency.
Secondly, if the price of oil continues to rise, so that the world’s need for dollars continues to increase, the United States will be able to continue to increase the supply of dollars, to keep the dollar “minting” revenue; thirdly, to ensure that the oil countries received dollars through the purchase of U.S. bonds, stocks, funds and other financial commodities back to the United States.
However, Alan Wilson remembers, this is the United States to Saudi Arabia to make security commitments for the purpose, if the United States can not do this, the petrodollar will not be established.
Currently, Britain still retains Socotra Island as an offshore balance base to Yemen, covering this bomb so that it has no work to threaten Saudi Arabia, as long as the British troops do not withdraw from Yemen is to take the United Kingdom as an imaginary enemy, the Saudis should be courteous to the United Kingdom, and the United States wants to hit the idea of petrodollars is not so simple.
However, at present, it is still the maintenance of the Bretton Woods system as a priority, so that France will spit out the gold from the previous squeeze, at least part of it, and put the financial order on a firm footing.
The petrodollar is still the next issue after all, and telling Wicker about this bottom line indicates that working together against France takes precedence.
In France a paralyzed time, throw out the franc to buy gold shipped out of the operation also began, a year ago when the London gold trade was shorted, an average of ten tons of gold per day was squeezed. Although ten tons of gold put together is a table so big, but more than a month of shorting also let the United Kingdom under great pressure.
Now the franc a day’s time was exchanged for twenty tons of gold, the scale has far exceeded last year when the pound was shorted, and the whole of France is in a state of near paralysis.
After days of consecutive runs, the French are finally waking up as if from a dream to what this general strike will bring.
The pressure is on Prime Minister Pompidou, and advocates of the United States of Europe want de Gaulle to go down and restart the process of European integration that hasn’t progressed during de Gaulle’s tenure. But it is clear that the chaos is now a bit too much, and once France has lost so much in this general strike that the foundations are gone, what is there to talk about European integration?
Unfortunately, Alan Wilson in the financial above can not help, he is not a professional, but also embarrassed to show too much concern, can only be a look of victory in the thousands of miles away to cover the bewilderment in the heart, he is now embarrassed to disturb the state of his wife.
The door of the temporary apartment, Fei Wenli gently knocked on the door, waited for a while before Hedy Lamarr came over to open the door, “Vivian, what’s the matter.”
“Hildy, you seem to be having fun in London.” Vivienne had a hint of acidity in her tone before heading inside, “Where’s Alan?”
“Still sleeping!” Hedy Lamarr body hand ruffled her long hair, looking charming, “It’s hard to catch a double break, can’t you rest and take a break?”
While the two were conversing, Ingrid Bergman carefully opened the door to her room, gently stepped out, and nodded to Vivien Lei, “Keep your voice down, don’t wake him up.”
“Alan’s not too young now, so you guys be careful.” Vivienne muttered a little worriedly, “Just about.”
“Vivian, we don’t have the initiative, the initiative is all in his hands.” Seeing that Fei Wen Li didn’t believe it, Hedy Lamarr replied with an I’m not lying look, “I’m just saying to him, I believe he doesn’t want Whitehall to know, Monroe’s relationship with him, right?”
“Vivian, I’m actually against it.” Ingrid Bergman glared at the originator explaining, “It was just an amorous joke, don’t you worry about it.”
“I’ll just tell him to get up.” Hedy Lamarr shook her head helplessly and walked over to the door of her room and pushed it open a crack and opened her mouth to call out, “Ingrid and I got a new set of underwear.”
“Huh?” Alan Wilson popped up with his eyes closed and sat up in shock amidst the hammer death, yelling Sister I Can, “Get changed.”
“You guys can really fool around.” Vivienne couldn’t look away, at this rate the supreme authority in Britain was likely to die young.
Having a weekend was a good weekend, but Her Royal Highness wanted to talk about semiconductor development, and with the royal family’s interest in the semiconductor industry, Whitehall had to show that it was in trouble.
Of course it wasn’t just the free world that had run into trouble, the Soviet bloc had its own troubles, Moscow, a man and a woman were walking along a quiet street, obviously mother and son, one of the women, who also appeared on Soviet TV from time to time, was disciplining the young man at the moment, “Going back to do what? Can’t this country leave you?”
“Mother, don’t say that. I’m serving in Warsaw, how can I go AWOL at this time?”
Alexeyev looked helpless, who let this person is his mother, can only explain, “If people know that I am a person who is deserting the battlefield, in the future in the work may be evaluated not to be trusted, mother you know, Lubyanka assessment criteria can be a lot. I’m sure I could have listened to you and been a step-by-step, easy-going person for the rest of my life, but wouldn’t it have been better to make a little something of myself?”
“I should never have agreed to your going to Warsaw, who knew it would happen? It would have been better to let you go to Western Europe.” Foltseva’s face softened a little, and she began to reflect on her lapse in judgment, not having anticipated this day.
“But speaking of which, Comrade Gromyko would like me to go to the London Embassy.” Alexeyev informed the words of the number one Soviet diplomatic figure during the last debriefing.
When Alexeyev said that, he was just trying to distract his mother, not noticing that Foltseva blushed and was still elaborating on her plans for the future to herself, “I want to see for myself what an imperialist power is like so that I can have a judgment.”
“Get the job in front of you first, don’t think about what’s going to happen in the future before one thing is done. Sometimes what you think about doesn’t go so well.” Foltseva interrupted her son’s unrestrained thoughts.
“I’ll go back to Warsaw at once.” Alexeyev didn’t think much of his mother’s absent-mindedness and gave a mischievous military salute, “If I were a few years older, I might have been a lieutenant colonel after this one. I’ve heard that in Imperial Russia a lot of aristocrats were born even if they were of military age, and I have to say that Imperial Russia has something to learn from that.”
“I think you should go to the Gulag for some re-education.” Foltseva made a gesture to extend her hand to educate her disobedient son.
“I was wrong, just wait for my good news.” Alexeyev’s face straightened, “I’ll make you feel proud.”
“Be safe!” Foltseva gazed at her son, “I don’t need you to make me so proud, I just want you to be safe, that’s a mother’s greatest wish.”
Early the next morning, Foltseva watched with her own eyes as her son boarded the plane and returned to the dark tides of Warsaw, and couldn’t help but sigh, “Might as well have stuck him inside the science team in the first place. And get an extra paycheck.”
Culture Czar how to say is also the Soviet Union has a number of figures, how can not know, the Kremlin has made up its mind to ensure that Poland is united in the socialist family, as for the means of ensuring that is to come to a surgical strikes, taking advantage of the French side of the attraction of all the eyes of the imperialists, a blow to clear out the internal carrion of the Polish.
Changing into civilian clothes, Alexeyev landed at Warsaw Airport, memorizing the entire layout of the airport in his mind, knowing that in a short time, this would be the key to success.