Chapter 1373 – Race Against Time
Alan Wilson knew the weakness of these countries, food! The Middle East and North Africa can be said to lack everything except oil, if there is no oil and India’s conditions can not be compared. Food is the biggest problem of these countries!
For these countries, food security is more important than anything else, not burning oil will not die, do not eat food that really will. And for Pamela Mountbatten, food is not that important.
If you can use the power above the grain to share the interests of these emirates and the United Kingdom bundled, the status of Pamela Mountbatten has a huge boost, how much money can only be sold in a normal year grain.
“My dear, once the Bretton Woods system comes to a head, the currency at that time will not be the current currency. And what currency is, currency needs to be physically backed. Currency without physical backing is a waste of paper. Predictably, every year is the best year of the next decade.”
“That bad?” Pamela Mountbatten’s face became grave at the sound of that and whispered, “It’s like the crown falling to the ground!”
“You could say the same thing.” As the husband of the richest woman, Alan Wilson did not know what to say all of a sudden, but instead pondered whether his wife’s analogy had a deep meaning.
In fact, it is very simple, the Queen of Sandy Lawn Crossing is just a name, but Pamela Mountbatten really has a crown to inherit, the kind that is worn on the head.
Field Marshal Mountbatten is a descendant of Queen Victoria, and while Queen Victoria’s era was the peak of England, Mountbatten promised the title to Patricia, but gave some iconic possessions to his youngest daughter for safekeeping, including a great crown.
This radiant great crown, with diamonds set in a pattern of clovers and vine-mansions, was densely enclosed into a gently spiked top. Pamela’s mother, Edwina, wore this crown and shone at important social occasions, including the current Queen’s 1953 coronation.
Pamela Mountbatten was also taken aback by her husband’s comment that every year was the best year of the next decade before she used the crown falling to the ground as a metaphor for this pessimistic outlook, “What on earth are you going to do about it, darling?”
“It’s only a matter of time before the emirates around Oman become independent, we can’t keep them in protectorate status forever. Of course we’ll talk about military base garrisons. But the binding of interests is inevitable. Some things are too early to say, but the over-issuance of dollars in the US is counted in the hundreds of billions, and this is likely to bring about a major inflation. Britain must prepare for it early.”
At this point Alan Wilson turned the tables and began to express optimism again, “Of course, sooner or later the crisis will pass, but we need to make sure that Britain has the ability to face it alone. If we let other countries help, I don’t want another Atlantic Charter anyway. I don’t know how much energy I’ve wasted struggling out of it.”
“It’s not going to get to the point of a Great Depression, is it?” Pamela Mountbatten tensed her face, the Great Depression had started the World War, although he had only just been born at the time and had little memory of it.
“Not so serious!” Alan Wilson heard seems to instill optimism is not enough, hurriedly said, “certainly difficult for a period of time, but no effect on you.”
How did that relate to the Great Depression? In fact the Great Inflation of the seventies was not even as bad as the one in the twenty-first century when King Sleeper was in power.
Although the inflation in the United States at that time was more than eight points, while the peak in the late seventies was more than thirteen points, but the two have different statistical standards, the Sleeping King that time the United States has not counted the house prices, the statistics of the seventies that time include real estate.
Do not underestimate the difference, in fact, large economies real estate are important indicators to support the economy, there is not an exception, the Americans since living on earth naturally is no exception.
Reagan came to power just to muddy the stagnant water, he was successful in suppressing inflation, but the U.S. economy is still in place, Reagan stepped down, the U.S. economy has begun to stagnate, just inflation disappeared is considered to be his achievement, there is no inflation coupled with the economy’s high growth rate, it would have to be the Soviet Union without a war since the collapse of the Soviet Union, ceded their own sphere of influence, coupled with the head of a large country a low concentration on sweatshops, only to have the world thirty years of smooth development. The world has been developing smoothly for thirty years.
Sleeping King that time it is clear that Russia is not possible in the disintegration of a time, there is no second a big country the same organizational strength of the country to do sweatshops, the United States how to do? There’s the old way of a world war, depending on whether the city on top of the mountain dares to activate that option.
If dragged on, a big country is not the Soviet Union, strategic strength this thing Soviet Union is almost no, by Reagan a robbing the poor to help the rich operation to get the suspicion that can not win directly admit defeat thing, not likely to happen in a big country, than the competition strategic strength, the result is that you have a hard time I also have a hard time, you say I have a brain infarction I say you have a heart attack, to see who first infarction into the intensive care unit.
So because the Bretton Woods system will be dismantled coupled with the oil crisis brought about by inflation, and what does it count? Alan Wilson doesn’t see it as a big problem anyway, not as dangerous as the twenty-first century.
“When we’re done with Egypt, we’ll talk to the emirates in the Persian Gulf about equalizing benefits.” Alan Wilson looked like I was doing it all for your own good, “Just trust me, your husband won’t do you any harm.”
“That’s true!” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, her mind shattered with the possibility of knocking up her sister-in-law.
Alan Wilson idly went to Whitehall, to see and Prince Munam talked about where, the handover treaty can not give Britain a guarantee, after all, the British mainland and Malaya in the middle, the Suez Canal can not be bypassed, this guarantee is not taken down, the United Kingdom will not be so easy to let go.
Mrs. Anna had returned from Bonn just in time for this very critical time.
It was amusing to see a man of equal status with her husband looking like he obviously cared but had to feign indifference, “Obviously Malaya is so important but you are afraid to say so. But then again, do you really think that Britain will be able to keep that colony in perpetuity?”
“I’m in a race against time.” Alan Wilson responded flatly, “Effort doesn’t always pay off, and without effort it definitely doesn’t.”
A recent example of how effort does not always pay off is still France. Alan Wilson wasn’t referring to the gold run thing, but the colonial problem.
The introduction of Chinese to check and balance the local ethnic groups to maintain the stability of the colonies, this move is Allen Wilson’s original? Even in this world, he is not original.
The first one to do so was France, whose colonies were next to a big country. After the defeat of Japan, France had already foreseen that the independence movement might rise and fall, and for this reason, after the war, France pondered how to quell the resistance, and decided to join hands with Vietnam, the nightmare of the past thousands of years.
At that time, the conditions offered by France were the establishment of a free trade zone in Saigon and Hanoi, the rights and interests of Chinese merchants in French Indo-Chinese territory on an equal footing with those of French merchants, and the recognition of Vietnam as having a special economic status vis-à-vis a major power. Doesn’t this go even further than Malaya does now?
This is almost close to the Sino-French co-management of French colonies, a major power and Vietnam’s distance, long-term France will certainly be at a disadvantage.
A comparison will know, France’s conditions than today’s British conditions are countless times more lenient, but France failed, the United Kingdom at least now has not failed, the reason is that Malaya at least across the South China Sea, the United Kingdom happens to be stronger than the Navy, if also bordering, today’s United Kingdom has also long rolled out.
“Race against time? We’re ready to join forces with Britain!” Anna nodded, leaking the news to the man on equal footing with her husband.
“Hmm? Didn’t Germany support the French idea of devaluing the dollar by one hundred percent at the previous Stockholm conference?” Alan Wilson’s spirit came back at the sound of the head of the family.
“The Americans avoided this issue, it seems that you are right, the Americans are ready to smash the pot, once the United States is ready, the seven or eight hundred billion dollars of the Deutsche Bank will really become a credit currency, not in the gold that can be redeemed at any time.”
Anna sighed, if the Americans had responded positively to the French claims, Germany would not necessarily have made up its mind.
In the discussions in Bonn, it had been in favor of the French view that had prevailed, but the United States did not have even the slightest intention of tightening the monetary system, how could it be done?
“Still we in Britain understand the United States.” Alan Wilson laughed, financial hegemony is like being high on drugs, which can’t be quit by force of will. Britain has been considered to be very good to talk, because the national strength is not dominant over the other powers, in the use of financial hegemony is really considered to be restrained.
Change the United States is different, the United States in the free world fundamentals have an overwhelming advantage, got the financial hegemony than the United Kingdom ate ugly much.
The United States of America on the French hope that the dollar devaluation continue to bind the claim of gold ignored, in his this is not at all surprised, decades later that are trillions and trillions of printing, shrinking military spending is impossible, millions of Cao Gong clothing and food, linked to the gold are over-issuance of so many dollars, not to mention the binding of the oil.
“Your choice is correct, do not do it now, by then even the gold can not get.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to praise, the Germans finally made the right choice, “Now France has been in the process of squeezing the gold a few years ago to play all the ammunition, now look at our two countries, the Deutsche Bank group has Europe’s largest dollar reserves, the London trading market is Europe’s largest international dollar distribution center, we join forces or quite a chance of winning. ”
“The Japanese also have a large amount of dollars in their hands.” Anna spoke up, “What if Japan could also take advantage of the situation?”
“Stop it, Germany at least has three occupying forces, Japan can’t do anything with a single U.S. Army in Japan.” Alan Wilson glanced at his head, could it be that this hairy girl had really been assimilated by the Germans? Inherited Germany’s negative general international outlook?
“When Britain and Egypt talk, let’s study this matter, remember, as long as the decision is made, the time to do it must be resolute.”