Chapter 1420: Human Rights Are Greater Than Sovereignty

Palden pinched his hands on his waist, and never seemed to feel so confident, “Britain’s high commissioner, America’s ambassador, two great powers serving me alone, this blessing is still small, isn’t it?”

Sikkim Royal Palace, the two sides of the rice flag and the Stars and Stripes, David straightened his lapel and the United States Ambassador Mason, who had just been promoted by fire, waved, representing the two countries’ hands clasped tightly together.

“It’s a small, scenic country.” Mason was favorably impressed with Sikkim, and the move from a diplomat to the ambassadorial position had not been so simple. Apart from the most important connections, it also required a series of coincidences, and apparently Sikkim had helped him accomplish this crucial step.

“Still extremely important small country.” David interjected smoothly, “There are countries that have strategic value even if they are small in size.”

Hearing this, the two men simultaneously cracked a smile, the two men had an unspoken understanding of Sikkim’s value, even with one American GI in Sikkim, the fragile Siliguri Corridor would be threatened.

At this point in time Sikkim, with a population of no more than 100,000, had a company of British airborne troops and a company of US Marines, totaling no more than a few hundred, but representing two countries that India could not face.

The news of the United States and Sikkim to establish diplomatic relations, in the complacency of India can be described as a wake-up call, the fragility of the Siliguri Corridor India is not unaware of, but the British before the departure of the backdoor operation, resulting in India lost its grip on Sikkim and Bhutan, and want to penetrate the three Himalayan countries but always unable to, and now the Americans also came in.

All of a sudden all the victories over arch-enemy Pakistan were washed away quite a bit, India’s troubles were the Indians’ business, and in London, Alan Wilson had his own business, and he was accompanied by Commonwealth Secretary General John Hunt and Deputy Secretary General of the Cabinet, Burke Trench.

Burke Trench earlier and Allen Wilson’s relationship is very delicate, after all, Allen Wilson is almost stepping on his head to sit on the position of supreme authority, who can not accept for a moment.

However, since the Burke Trench ten billion pounds of British prosperity fund, the relationship between the two has been better, working together to maintain the unity of Whitehall, only Whitehall unity, Britain will be good.

Handing the two men a Cuban cigar each, Alan Wilson spoke slowly, “This time the Bengalis suffered greatly, and the whole of Bengal was reduced to ruins. There may even be a famine, of course, there is always a famine in Bengal.”

The reason that there is always famine in Bengal is because the Greater Bengal region, which encompasses Calcutta, is the core of British India’s rule, and when the empire is in trouble, it is natural for the Bengalis to go first.

Although the two men had not worked in British India, they had heard about it, and they heard Alan Wilson continue, “John, the tragedy of this war has to be widely publicized from the Commonwealth countries. And this is a good opportunity, the deficits everywhere must be filled immediately, I give my colleagues the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, in taking my warning as a whisper, Fiji but a high commissioner, to see who is willing to run a trip for the country.”

“Just a telegram won’t do, I’m afraid; someone should make the trip.” John Hunt shook his head slightly, “Otherwise those High Commissioners, really might take our words as a whisper.”

“How about Wick, let him make a trip and explain things face to face.” Burke Trend took the initiative to open his mouth to show his goodwill, “The Secretary General has always been very optimistic about Wick, let him meet with the high commissioners from all over the world to explain things clearly, how much is the material donated to Bangladesh worth, and it’s not like we’re saying how much is how much.”

“To realize that the consumption of sixty million people is very horrible, who is going to find out? They can’t find out anything.”

John Hunt also spoke up in agreement, “With the accounts leveled out everywhere, colleagues will be able to tread lightly. In the future, they will be more dedicated to benefiting society. Otherwise it’s always a hidden danger, it’s not good to cause the cabinet to be alert, and it’s not good for us to always send people to check the accounts.”

“We can’t always check them all, in case we find out something.” Alan Wilson nodded and gave the core guidelines for this donation, “The previous things will be treated as if they never happened, but we can’t just let them continue like this. It’s our money, they get two million, Whitehall gets a million and they want us to thank them?”

John Hunt and Dean Lasker were also filled with righteous indignation, the past was over, but from now on, it was really time to take care of those colleagues overseas.

“Wick, bring the papers on the Dhaka massacre, John and Burke are here and happen to want to meet you as well.” Alan Wilson took the phone and pressed his Cuban cigar out with his other hand.

The Commonwealth wasn’t all newly independent countries still controlled by their colleagues, or occupying a great deal of influence, but also wealthy countries like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as well as the emirates of Malaya and the Middle East, which weren’t independent but had clearly been able to stick their chests out proudly in the region.

Now the world wars have been fought twice, the United Kingdom naturally can not do as once, at the behest of a quarter of the world to follow the United Kingdom wherever you want to fight, but it is, with the help of some specific circumstances to pry the current situation, or can try.

Simply put, Britain is ready to whore out 60 million Bengali laborers to fill their bellies, but does not want to pay any cost, except for letting De La Rue print money.

What could be done then? Can only be in the bitter a bitter Commonwealth people, the curse of Whitehall to bear, but also can carry out the integrity of the construction, can be said to be two birds with one stone.

A few minutes later, Wick brought over the documents of the Dhaka massacre and the intelligence about the U.S. landing in Sikkim, Alan Wilson was very satisfied, “John and Burke have something to say to you, I’ll make a trip to the Prime Minister’s.”

The Prime Minister was supposed to be after dinner at this hour, and when he arrived sure enough, Political Secretary Maria Falkender was there, what a surprise.

“Secretary General, you’re here, so I’ll go out first.” With a tone of I’ll go then, Maria Falkender said that she was about to leave the Prime Minister’s office.

“There’s no need for that, Maria. It’s all bright and open business.” Alan Wilson shook his head, then took the file and reported, “The war situation in East Pakistan has ended, it can be concluded that this Indo-Pakistani war is largely over, now there is a piece of intelligence, there was a massacre in Dhaka, the University of Dhaka was slaughtered by the Pakistani defenders, but now the Pakistani defenders have surrendered, and according to the common sense, the religion of peace that supports the Pakistani community, should now be getting bloody revenge by the Bengalis.”

“When was this?” Maria Falkender inquired with a raised eyebrow, “How come we haven’t gotten any news at all.”

“It’s not that we haven’t gotten any news, it’s that the reporter covering the story needs to look at the big picture. With the country’s interests in mind.”

Alan Wilson smirked, “I was the one who suppressed the story, but now that the US has parachuted into Sikkim, we’ve provided the American side with a step down, and now it’s time to take care of our own business.”

“Alan, you are suppressing public opinion by blocking news of the massacre at Dhaka University.” Harold Wilson lowered his voice as if trying to remind the seriousness of the matter.

“It is appropriate to direct the news in favor of the country, as we did in the case of Ireland.”

Alan Wilson replied flatly, “Based on discussions with colleagues in the Ministry of Finance, we’ve talked about the specifics of what we’re going to do to save the Bengalis, and it now looks like there may be a window of opportunity in the next few days, if that window comes up. We can then implement it.”

“Suppressing news coverage, is that good for your conscience?” Maria Falkender frowned, deeply shocked by the Cabinet Secretary’s actions.

“Why should I sell my conscience at this critical moment? Maria, I had suppressed coverage of the Great Indian Famine in 1947, and if the tragedy in British India had been reported at that time, it would have been detrimental to our plans to replace the value of British India, and without that money, Britain would likely have had to lose much more in the face of debt collection from the United States.”

Alan Wilson downplayed, with a pontificating tone, “Not to mention that this time the suffering of the Bengalis, is not triggered by the United Kingdom, the Bengalis to find the murderer to find the Pakistanis ah, if not enough there is to launch an attack on India, in the expansion of a little bit of looking for support for Pakistan’s two permanent members, in any case, can not find us on.”

“From the Soviet Union and India’s have a good treaty signed, we found the circulation of the pound in India has a problem, so ready to give India a lesson at the appropriate time.”

Allen Wilson brought out the information about the settlement of bilateral trade in rubles and rupees, a landmark step in India’s deep embedding in the Soviet economic system. In other words India had violated Nehru’s promise that Indian trade after independence would be settled in pounds sterling.

“I can’t believe this is happening.” Harold Wilson was taken aback; after all, it had only been four months since India had signed a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union, and a lot of things were still not quite visible.

The Prime Minister was taken aback partly also because it was surprising that Whitehall had sensed a problem so quickly and he, the Prime Minister, had known nothing about it.

“We’ve only just found out. If London pretends it hasn’t been noticed all along? It might have been belittled by New Delhi? It just so happens that in the previous discussion, Britain had made preparations to intervene in the Indo-Pakistani war. Prime Minister.”

Alan Wilson expressed his respect for democracy and then gave the excuse to intervene, “The British Empire must be held accountable for the humanitarian disaster in the former colony, whether it be the massacre of the Bengalis by Pakistan or the subsequent destruction of Bengal by the Indian army, which has brought discreet suffering to the natives, human rights are greater than sovereignty, and the British Army must intervene immediately. ”

“In the process of intervention, in order to call on the Commonwealth to pay attention to the suffering of Bengal, call for the launch of fund-raising operations, it is best to reduce the cost of British intervention, of course, all the costs of this kind of cost, the Bengalis in the end is to pay back, this point can not be compromised.”