Chapter 143: The BBC won’t bow down to the government

In Bonn, Alan Wilson received the national media reporters to communicate on the report, in fact, it is not particularly important thing, is to make the report more close to the facts.

Soft articles have their benefits, but wouldn’t it be more intuitive to add data.

In front of the reporters belonging to different newspapers, there is a statistical data, which introduces the Military Commission’s statistics on the ratio of men to women in the British-occupied areas, and the figures are absolutely shocking.

The ratio of German men and women of all ages in the British-occupied territories is now forty-six percent and fifty-four percent. With eight more women than men out of a hundred, the problem was actually serious enough, except that straight away it felt as if there was not much of a problem.

Then Allen Wilson took out another statistic and distributed it to the journalists, this one is the current statistic of the male to female ratio of twenty to twenty-nine years old in the British Occupation Zone, and on this statistic, the ratio of male to female in a hundred in the British Occupation Zone between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine years old is thirty-seven percent and sixty-three percent.

That is to say that a German man of this age corresponds to an average of sixteen German women. This is still established in the British-occupied area of prisoners of war has almost all been released under the premise, the United States-occupied area still exists in the Lehigh British camps, I believe that the United States-occupied area of the degree of imbalance in the proportion of the population will only be even more serious than the British-occupied area.

“Honorable reporters, this is a common phenomenon in Germany at present, so the harshness of the occupation soldiers is actually unnecessary, the soldiers are also ordinary people, in the face of this kind of situation with military orders to prohibit to no avail.” Allen Wilson in the reporter looked at the statistics at the same time, with a helpless color, “everything lies in a balance, once the man is too little even if it is a woman will make trouble, by the way, I heard that recently there is a wave of divorce in the country?”

Alan Wilson’s inquiry, let a lot of reporters are very embarrassed, because the current wave of divorce in the country is very raging, the divorce rate than before the war soared five times, a lot of soldiers returning home after the war to the first thing is to divorce, the civil service department has become the busiest department in London now.

At first civil servants mediated the divorces, but later, as the crowds of people waiting to get divorced swarmed in, it completely exceeded the ability to mediate, and tens of thousands of British Expeditionary Forces soldiers alone have chosen to get divorced since their return to the UK until now.

When it comes down to it, World War II Britain was used as a springboard for a counterattack on the European continent, and that’s how the United States sent a million troops, stationed on British soil. From a macro view of the war situation, the benefits of this to Britain are very obvious, they can no longer worry about the invasion of their homeland, and the British troops sent out can fight outside with peace of mind.

But the British soldiers who were out fighting led to a shortage of male population within Britain, just like the current British Occupation Zone, where American troops were stationed for long periods of time, and many of the American soldiers were cohabiting with British women.

These women, many of whom were the wives of British frontline soldiers, because of their husbands’ uncertainty of life and death on the frontline, coupled with the American soldiers guarding the UK at home, the two sides became attached over time.

Coupled with the fact that the male population within Britain was very small, many British women chose to cohabitate with American soldiers.

Now the British soldiers who went abroad to fight came back, and in the face of such a result of course they simply chose to divorce.

But this wedding in Bonn, Allen Wilson has learned, and the German girl combined with the soldiers are unmarried status.

This is not unreasonable, no family in itself, do things up to have no scruples, would rather apply for discharge also want to be together with the beloved woman, may really be a very innocent love story.

“I believe that all journalists are gentlemen with sympathy, put the plight that Germany is now facing should truthfully let its citizens know, the accuracy of the information is never very important.” Alan Wilson looked at the BBC journalists and said, “As the newspaper most valued by its citizens, the BBC should take a lead.”

“Mr. Allen, you may be very young and may not be so clear about your job, the BBC of course has always maintained objectivity and neutrality and accuracy. This is out of a media person’s responsibility, not political pressure.The BBC will not bow to government pressure.” McHale, the BBC’s correspondent in the British Occupied Territories, holds his head slightly high to express the integrity of a neutral media personality.

Wow! Alan Wilson whistled petulantly and had his assistant Mark call over a stack of documents, piling them in front of McPhail while flipping through them, introducing them bit by bit, “How could the government, which has always adhered to the concept of freedom, make the BBC bow down, there is absolutely no censorship, McPhail is thinking too much.”

“According to a summary from 1937 to 1945, the number of BBC reports appearing to sympathize with Hitler was one hundred and fifty-three, thirty-five of which were after the Battle of Britain in the air.”

“Many people were concerned about the BBC’s hostile attitude to the government, possibly because of German spies who had climbed to high positions within the BBC, and the investigation into the BBC was discussed among the government, but of course we still believe there was no such thing.”

“This is simply nonsense, the BBC has maintained the national interests of the British Empire in the midst of the war by reporting on things in good faith.” McPhail said with a turn of phrase, “And is Mr. Allen putting political pressure on the neutral media?”

Snap! Reaching out from his pocket and pulling out his MI6 credentials and remaining on the table, Allen Wilson usually looked at the air in front of him and indifferently said, “I definitely don’t mean that ……”

“Of course professionally speaking, accurate and close to the implementation of the report has always been the BBC sought. We want the public to see the real story.” McPhail rounded off without embarrassment after seeing Alan Wilson’s credentials, “The role of the media is not to jeopardize the public’s right to know, which is why truthful reporting on the British Occupied Territories is extremely important.”

“It also allows the public at home, to know how much effort the Board of Trade and the military have expended on the reconstruction of the British Occupied Territories.” A reporter from the Daily Telegraph chimed in, “The public and the government are going to have to work together to get through this difficult time.”

“It’s not going to be a case of succumbing to government pressure, is it?” Alan Wilson pressed his contempt and asked knowingly.

“Pure nonsense, of course there’s no pressure, and we won’t bow to government pressure.” All the reporters from all the newspapers all spoke in unison and denied categorically.

“That’s good, I’m sure all the newspapers are in the interests of the British Empire, all in the face of a common enemy, er, friend.” Alan Wilson waved his hand vaguely at Mark, the photos of these journalists buying and selling and trading with German women in the British occupied territories should not be shown.

These photos would undermine the level of tacit understanding between the government and the media people, and for the time being, custody waited until the next communication with the media people.

The report on this cross-country wedding continued to be an explosive follow-up, and with constructive discussions between the two sides, it soon appeared in the major newspapers, many of which reported on the matter as sympathizers.

Expressing the fact that the war was brutal, that German men, who were the initiating nation, died in large numbers, and that the ratio of men to women in the age group of twenty to twenty-nine was thirty-seven percent versus sixty-three percent, with ten men facing sixteen women of the same age.

“A German woman of this age will probably die alone because of this war and will never find a life partner in her life. The damage done by the World War is evident.”

“With regard to the emotional problems of soldiers and German women in the occupied territories, mere military regulations no longer help, and whenever a British soldier is able to meet a German woman, he will always be pursued by a local German woman.”

And the yellow tabloids reported on the wedding with the drumbeat-like headline, “Apparently the gentlemen of the British Empire, possessing the excellent qualities that attract all German women, and unlike either the American soldiers who are barbaric and vulgar or the French soldiers who are not sufficiently devoted to love, the British men are justifiably popular with the women of the occupied territories.”

These reports ostensibly sympathize with the price Germany is paying for waging war, but in the context of the current wave of divorces erupting within Britain, the divorced men who read these papers remember a ratio of only ten to sixteen men to women, and in the eyes of these men who have just lost their families, Germany is now no less of a man’s paradise.

Perhaps these men, who had just paid the price of their families as a result of the war, could find spiritual solace and renewed counseling on love in another place.

Alan Wilson’s hooking up with a reporter from the British-occupied zone was certainly not just about confirming the neutrality and objectivity of the coverage. That’s just one aspect, and the other aspect of what he, a veteran keyboard warrior and penman, is doing is, well, firing map guns.

In terms of moral values, in terms of behavior. In terms of morality and ethics, the salient differences are that Europeans are more tolerant and Americans are more narrow-minded; Europeans are reasonable and sensible, while Americans are only stereotypically conservative.

Europeans are rich in knowledge and connotation, Americans are arrogant and ignorant, Europeans respect tradition, Americans seem to be in a period of recklessness, as for what lack of upbringing, unkempt, and so on the fact is not to say more.

To this stage, Alan Wilson found the major newspaper reporters, each all of a sudden showed professionalism, did not expect a small British-occupied area, there are a multitude of crouching dragon and phoenix at the same time, it is really surprising.

I laughed at that the United States without strategy, the Soviet Union less wisdom, really can generally get the European countries welcome, but also my British Empire.

These map gun paragraphs naturally will not appear in the newspaper, but will soon be circulated in the British Occupation Zone at an alarming rate.

“I’m going to Brussels at once to attend a conference!” Allen Wilson stroked Isabella Bogina’s smooth spine, experiencing the wonderful touch, and at the same time, he came to the woman’s ear and said, “I may not see you for a while.”

“What do you want to say?” Isabella Bokina rolled over and asked back suspiciously.

“Nothing really.” Alan Wilson, a little embarrassed, secretly whispered a prayer, “Will three be okay?”