Chapter 1419 – U.S. Sikkim Establishes Diplomatic Relations

“The Sikkimese side wishes to use diplomatic channels to get in touch with the United States? No problem, the King is my friend. Dhaka’s news must be taken care of, and news that is not in the national interest should never be sent out.” Alan Wilson hung up the phone after saying that.

Anna glanced at the man who quickly hung up the phone, a hint of brightness flashed in her eyes, “What? Could it be that you still don’t believe me even today?”

“Honey, where was that said.” Alan Wilson replied with a smile, “I just don’t want the war to ruin the Christmas atmosphere between us, absolutely nothing else.”

There wasn’t really much to say, both the Soviet Union and the UK were in favor of India, just with different levels of support, the Soviet Union being a little more outspoken and the UK being a little more subtle.

After all, the U.S. is supporting Pakistan, and the matter of U.S. support for Pakistan is not the result of a collective will, but the decision of a small group of people.

Don’t look at the US imposing and quickly forming the 74th Task Force, but US public opinion, Congress and civil servants were more in favor of India. It’s really quite simple, compared to Pakistan, India is certainly the more valuable party, as any individual can judge.

It is not like a certain big country that has already fought with India once, there is no need to be hostile to India at all in the position of the United States.

At this time the U.S. White House system and Congress, the civil service system broke out a serious split, U.S. domestic public opinion, Congress, the civil service system basically support India, while the White House, Kissinger under the leadership of the foreign affairs department is strongly support Pakistan, the U.S. civil servants almost a collective revolt, the specific support for Pakistan, there are three people, President Nixon, Kissinger and the old George W. Bush.

Hostility with India is not a consensus in American politics, but purely a small circle decision, Alan Wilson with history as a mirror, know that Kissinger in the political arena in the early days is not much shady old fox. Especially the decision-making during the Third Indo-Pakistani War, properly a regular public.

So Sikkim this card left until now, only to become extremely valuable, whether it is Nixon or Kissinger, Bush Sr. In the face of the seventy-fourth task force does not go up and down the embarrassment, as well as may be due to the India may be completely back to the Soviet Union slam, must catch a card.

It just so happened that the Queen of Sikkim was an American, and a plea for help from her to get highly strategic Sikkim in Washington’s sights was the moment for this handful of screw-ups to redeem themselves. The Siliguri corridor was so narrow that once Sikkim was within sight, it would immediately demonstrate its value.

There was no need for Anna to know these words, but Anna was still dwelling on them, “It’s been so long, you’re so petty, I’ve had two children.”

“It’s really not what you think, the Soviet Union and Britain are both in favor of India, at least we have a common position on South Asian matters. There’s always a step down for the US isn’t there?” Allen Wilson opened his mouth to relieve the unhappy little Dragon Rider, “Did you know that there was a massacre in Dhaka?”

Seeing Anna shaking her head, Allen Wilson lowered his voice and said, “When the US army shows up in Sikkim, we’ll send out the news about the massacre in Dhaka, and the countries supporting Pakistan might be embarrassed by then. Unfortunately, the Himalayas are in the closed season, and if it wasn’t the closed season, the US wouldn’t be the only one embarrassed.”

When the news of the Dhaka massacre went out, the embarrassment would of course be with a country that shares a pro-Pakistan stance with the United States, a country that is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea can’t say much about it.

Unfortunately, the snow let them get away with it, and Alan Wilson actually particularly welcomed the act of topping the Pakistani army’s massacre of civilians with firm support, saving him from having to bash colonialism at every turn.

A day apart, taking the Queen of Sikkim called on the United States and Sikkim to establish diplomatic relations with the news, Allen Wilson came to Whitehall, after writing a list of paper, and then called Wick over to let it send to Kuala Lumpur, “handed over to Alisha to amortize, is not considered to be a burden, alms can be considered a burden? With Bengal now in ruins, what’s a little donation?”

Wick received the hand is the supreme authority handwritten list of apportionment, sugar king donate some sugar, oil refining king donate some palm oil, instant noodle king donate some instant noodles, they do not lose, the supreme authority in these enterprises have shares, to lose together.

Of course, the British and Malaysian colonial government took care of the bulk of the items themselves, and they took care of it by dumping out some old rice from the granary.

After all this fighting, why pick whether it’s stale or not? The Bengalis shouldn’t be so insensitive, and as for the more widespread call for Malayan subjects to donate money and goods, Alisa herself could make the decision.

Calling on a colony to donate money and goods, this is definitely not a difficult thing, because now the situation of Bengal that is really miserable, Pakistan continued for almost a year of repression caused million-scale casualties, the Indian army this time the iron wall of the siege, and scrape Bengal, Bengalese people are on the verge of eating dirt.

Such a miserable place, especially with the Asian pearl Malaya so contrast, the fact is enough to inspire Malayan subjects of sympathy.

In fact, the economic development of the place, it is easy to breed this kind of cheap sympathy, that Malaya’s subjects are exceptionally kind that’s not necessarily, they and the Bengalis and do not know, more accurately, this kind of sympathy and see the stray dog feel sorry for almost.

If the Bengalis were doing exceptionally well, and there was industrial competition with Malaya, there was no doubt that this war would be celebrated with firecrackers when Malaya’s subjects heard about it.

The Supreme Authority is by no means taking advantage of the opportunity to woolgather, Malaya has a task for Malaya, is there no task for the British mainland?

Of course there were, for example, considering that there were sixty million Bengalis, I don’t know if there are any left after this war, but Alan Wilson took it as a given that he had, and his job now was to prepare to talk to the Prime Minister about the matter of printing sixty million pounds.

Just as the Cabinet Secretary was getting ready to approach the Prime Minister, to talk about the specifics of quantitative easing, the lifeline from Sikkim, from the Bay of Bengal, across the Suez Canal, and down the warm North Atlantic Current, arrived in faithful Washington, and was made known to the fretful Kissinger.

Forcefulness certainly sounds good, but this decision to support Pakistan was really just a small-circle discussion and then a slap on the wrist. As a result, the now-formed task force in the Bay of Bengal to do the presence of the fleet, to the Indian army swept across East Pakistan salute.

This embarrassing situation, force row has also become synonymous with blind barren operation, which makes the group that is already on the support of Pakistan non-negotiable, questioning Kissinger himself as well as the president behind him Nixon.

It can be said that since the beginning of the Indo-Pakistani war, Kissinger has not been able to sleep much, and the war is heading in a direction that he does not want to see at all.

The Queen of Sikkim’s appeal at this time came at the right time, not to mention the content of it that a small country, Sikkim, was scornful of the behemoth around it; the Queen was American, and the government of course believed in the Americans.

Kissinger, who had taken the lifeline, left and went to the White House to lay out the latest situation to President Nixon, “Hobo Cook is an American citizen, and at the present time we have no diplomatic relations with Sikkim. It is clear that India has ambitions for this small and extremely geographically important country, and this time India should be taught a lesson for ignoring our diplomatic efforts and making moves that upset the regional balance.”

This scene was all expected by Alan Wilson, who was preparing to print money, and although he did not witness it with his own eyes, Kissinger’s behavior at this time did verify his judgment.

When Soviet-backed India achieved a victorious victory, the U.S. was always going to pull back, and how important was Sikkim’s position, with the queen still a U.S. citizen.

“British public opinion is also for this matter is hotly debated, mainly divided into two kinds, that Sikkim is Britain’s traditional influence on the country, but also very strategic position, something but hope that the United States to assist. There are even voices suggesting that Hobo Cook is a CIA agent, and that this is a plot by the United States to penetrate into areas of traditional British influence this time.”

Now there is no other way, in fact, Kissinger is also very wronged, the United States in the Vietnam War setback, the urgent need to improve relations with a major power, Pakistan and a major power good relations, is the bridge in this.

But at this time, Pakistan’s civil unrest, in the United States point of view can not be abandoned at this time Pakistan.

But the point is that Kissinger’s visit was a secret one, except for the fact that it was discovered by a certain Cabinet Secretary in London, and it was kept extremely secret. How could the civil servants of Congress and the executive branch know about this?

The underhandedness, of course, could not be known to too many people, and it came to pass that the majority of the people who did not know what was going on were opposed to hostility between the U.S. and India, but the U.S. was scaring India away.

Nixon was silent, now is clearly a question of choice, improve relations to dig the Soviet Union wall corner of the decision have been implemented, will have to continue to go.

“and Sikkim to establish diplomatic relations, send C-5 transport aircraft to transport the sea Ju Marines from Thailand to take off to Sikkim, this matter to inform the relevant countries. You make the arrangements for establishing diplomatic relations with Sikkim. After that have the task force leave the Bay of Bengal. Send out a statement that the U.S. will defend West Pakistan and get New Delhi to end the war immediately.”

Soon the C-5 transports at the Thai military base pulled up with hastily improvised diplomats and a group of Marines and headed toward Sikkim, a small country in the southern foothills of the Himalayas.

At this point in time, Bangladesh had a full cease-fire in place, the Pakistani army was surrendering to the attacking Indian army, and India, in a state of national ecstasy, was unaware of the latest U.S. action.

The United States immediately exerted diplomatic pressure through diplomatic channels on India, which had already won the battle of East Pakistan, urging India to cease fire and stop the war immediately.

Sikkim had airfields previously built by Britain that allowed British strategic transport planes to land, so of course the American ones had no problem either, and on this day Sikkim saw the presence of the Stars and Stripes again, in addition to the Beige Flag.