Chapter 1371 – The Egyptian Stands Up

“Of course, I can’t deny she’s nice.” Alan Wilson made a double entendre of his own about the Tory hierarchy, especially when it was also called Margaret.

The trip was still not over, and the night was spent on the outskirts of the city, and at dawn he pushed up the window and peeked out. The twilight had faded. The farm-house and the water-wheel siding were blurred and pale blue; the apple orchard was only a black and growing wilderness; and the air smelled of the cooking smoke of the wood-burning kitchen.

One bird, which had not yet nested alone, chirped and chirped as if surprised by the sight of the night. From the stable came the snorting and hoofbeats of a feeding horse.

In the distance loomed the moor, and farther away the shy stars, not yet bright enough, were set white in the deep blue sky. A trilling owl hooted. The Cabinet Secretary drew a deep breath. What a beautiful early morning, how nice to go out for a walk!

“Can’t sleep in a different place, can you?” Pamela Mountbatten’s still dazed voice came from behind her, knowing her husband’s problem of sleeping lightly in unfamiliar places.

“If I come back here next time, things will be much better.” Alan Wilson lit a cigarette and leaned against the window, the head of the family not denying that the reason for the early start was the unfamiliar surroundings.

“Next time? There’s no telling when that will be.” Pamela Mountbatten languidly woke up, immune to this blank check, she an important member of the royal family, the daughter of the British naval marshal, for this man saddle, complete all his vision, this is a chance to have a chance to be alone in the company of the next time, and expect the next time?

The British general election has just ended, Harold Wilson’s government is not currently replacing the members of the cabinet ministers, so for some important meetings at the moment, the original team is still used to cope with the situation. This includes the financial summit in Stockholm, which was attended by James Callaghan, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The so-called “laws of economics” are shackles thrown on the weak by the strong, and a country’s economic policy must be independent and formulated according to its own situation. The most obvious example, at the beginning of the formation of the Bretton Woods system, only the United States, Mexico, Guatemala and other countries in the Americas to implement the liberalization of foreign exchange, known as the most developed market economy in Western Europe has always been the implementation of strict foreign exchange controls, the currency is not freely convertible.

Foreign exchange and capital controls are based on national conditions to make decisions, and can not mechanically copy some of the “theory” or yield to external pressure.

Soon, Western Europe to solve the dollar drought opportunity finally came, the coin flipped to the other side, that is, the dollar disaster, the dollar over-issuance led to the Bretton Woods system in jeopardy. There were ten countries participating in this financial summit, and besides Japan, the heavyweight members were still Britain, France and Germany.

France took out its own program, the Bretton Woods system still to maintain, in order to solve the problem of dollar overissuance, can let thirty-five U.S. dollars an ounce of exchange, into seventy U.S. dollars an ounce of exchange, allowing the dollar to depreciate by one hundred percent, but the Bretton Woods system to continue to implement.

Helmut Schmidt, the Federal German Minister of Finance, supported the French suggestion that a one hundred percent devaluation of the dollar was feasible.

“This is not a spanking of the dollar, it’s clearly a spanking of the pound.” Alan Wilson, who was ready to hit the road, said to his wife, “Then what was the purpose of the successive post-war governments controlling fiscal spending and forcing me to search the world for goods to support the pound? Britain does not dare to say that there is no over-issuance of pounds, after all, before the war pounds also as many countries as foreign exchange reserves, but compared with the current dollar has been considered extremely restrained, once the dollar depreciated one hundred percent, the pound is not also to be devalued. But the Bretton Woods system is centered on the dollar, the pound is at best considered a spare tire.”

“Tighten the currency and reduce the deficit, can you do that?” Pamela Mountbatten asked her husband what would happen if the French proposal was implemented.

“It can be done, but the U.S. won’t do it. Why should we?” Allen Wilson grunted softly, “Half a million American troops is a huge amount to spend, but since the Spring Offensive the U.S. Army has been downsized repeatedly, but spending hasn’t been much less. Does this look like it’s ready to downsize?”

Pamela Mountbatten opened her mouth to check it out, and Alan Wilson had a look of you don’t be so naive, “Stop it, but if you can, why doesn’t the United States avoid going to war?”

The U.S. military fights wars without recycling armaments, even if the withdrawal of troops will leave the armaments used in the combatant country, even if there is a risk of being used by the enemy to do so, first of all, it is easy to do so to write off the accounts. Once the armaments are all captured by the enemy, how much is lost is naturally a fog.

U.S. troops from Vietnam when the withdrawal, the use of a large number of armaments handed over to the local pro-U.S. regime, even Thailand has shared a lot of the results of the armaments captured under the North Vietnam armed up a million troops at once, this loss is a muddled account, no one knows how the U.S. military is reported.

The United States people are the world’s great emperor, Britain, but a self-cutting a knife to the supreme, the current share of the settlement is largely to eat the old money, take the same radical policy, the dollar by the impact of the far smaller than the pound. Besides why, overissued is the dollar, the pound should follow the equal share of risk?

“Wait for the Last Supper, my dear.” Alan Wilson squeezed the little hand of the richest woman, this time the opponent is not the franc anymore, and not behind de Gaulle to follow the soup, to do it yourself to eat.

The two men were waiting for a guest in Athens, the original commander of the British army unit in Malaysia, General Sconce, now General Sconce is close to retirement, employed by the Arab League organization to train Arab armies. The building of fortress complexes around Israel to replicate the model of World War I trench warfare was executed by himself for Alan Wilson.

Hostile parties must avoid entering each other’s comfort zones when the quality of their armies is inferior to that of their opponents, and the previous Middle East wars in Alan Wilson’s mind had seen Arab heavy regiments being tackled by Israeli heavy regiments, with the Israeli army swiftly turning its guns around and pouncing on the next target. Knock out all the attacking Arab frontline troops and the war was over.

The Arab world is a big place, but among the separate Arab states there is not a single war that can hold up a strong army, and by strong enough an army is not an army that can only fight a stream of troops.

A relatively weak side that adopts the same mode of warfare as a strong enemy usually suffers major tragedies. As far away as Great Britain versus the Qing Dynasty, or as close as WWII when the French army headed straight for Belgium and was met halfway by a German armored cluster.

The overall strength of the Arab countries and Israel compared to the advantageous side, but the Arab countries have built their armies as disposable armies, and ultimately there is the Arab world theoretically can afford to lose, but in practice there is an army that can not afford to lose, and want to carry, you must adopt the Hezbollah model of the tortoise shell.

While Ukraine, which also poses a tortoise shell, gets its ass kicked by the Russians as soon as they leave town, I believe Israel and Russia are still not comparable.

After stepping down as commander of the British forces in Malaysia, Sconce was once again employed in the Arab League to fortify Palestine and the towns and cities in the Arab countries bordering Israel, so that no matter how elite the Israeli army was, it would eventually come down to the fundamentals of fighting bad battles, rather than forming heavy regiments to fight against Israel.

Of course Sconce has given this strategy the name of containment strategy, while British intelligence is engaged in targeted deception of Israel, the trench warfare of World War I, a long since obsolete mode of warfare.

“Fortifying the border towns and cities has gone forward quite well, especially the Palestinian settlements. Local acceptance has been high.” General Sconce detailed his work, and he wasn’t getting paid to play his spare time for nothing, he was still very much on board with the job.

“Now that the election is over, we are about to talk to Egypt about the ownership of the Suez Canal, and I believe Cairo is ready. Britain’s bottom line is that after the canal is returned to Egyptian operation it must guarantee the safety of this international golden waterway, and at the same time prohibit any country from getting its hands on it, and since the British army is not in the Suez Canal, no country can fill Britain’s position.”

Alan Wilson fleshed out the upcoming negotiations between Britain and Egypt now, “The question now is whether Egypt can do what it takes to guarantee the safety of the Suez Canal under any conditions. We will use this article as a basis for discussion with the Egyptian side. Egypt and Israel are neighbors, and there is a danger of war breaking out because of the Palestinian issue, so from the British point of view, we hope that there will be a line of defense along the border between Egypt and Israel that is so strong that it cannot be broken through by Israel. The two air defense towers must be completed.”

As for whether it can be done, anyway, Alan Wilson is to give Egypt the drawings of the Berlin air defense towers, Berlin air defense towers are able to withstand the British and American strategic bombing, in the face of Israel’s attack should not be a problem.

“It’s also a final contribution to the security of the canal before we leave it.” Pamela Mountbatten spoke up, the two air defense towers were located on the east bank of the Suez Canal for defense against the enemy cutting off this golden waterway. The completion of the air defense towers will complement the perimeter cluster of forts to contain the threat of Israeli ground forces.

General Sconce expressed optimism, stating that the land in the zone where the towers were to be built was in good condition and that there would be no dud construction.

In the couple departed to return to London at the same time, learned of the results of the British election, Egypt’s Prince Mounam immediately set up a diplomatic team, by his own personal commander-in-chief to London for negotiations, Prince Mounam has not yet departed, the whole of Egypt has been stirred up, the Egyptian people waited for how many years of dreams, the realization of the dream has been close at hand.

Claiming to be the leader of the Arab countries in Egypt, the most valuable canals but was occupied by the British army, although in the period of Adderley, the Egyptian army has taken over the defense of the British army, but the Canal Zone of the rice flag a day does not disappear, the Egyptian people always feel that there is no all back to the national sovereignty, just the British took a number of conditions in exchange, such as the right to station troops in Zanzibar, the technical support and raw materials for the construction of the Aswan dam special offer only to be dismissed.

“Egyptians stood up!” Returned to London Alan Wilson, heard the situation, relaxed to his wife said.