Chapter 1430: Counting on nothing

Having learned the date of de Gaulle’s funeral through diplomatic channels, the Prime Minister began his travel arrangements, wondering if he would think about the phrase that his death had contributed more than a lifetime.

It is not impossible to think so, since the Franco-Prussian War France and Britain were not on an equal footing, and had to take more account of British feelings when formulating policy.

Thus there was a decades-long dependency, and in that respect, de Gaulle’s rise to power reversed that unequal relationship and must have caused some loss on the British side.

However, if not for Alan Wilson’s presence, Britain would have faced the problem not of loss, but of disgrace, being shut out of the EEC by France and begging for entry in a lowly manner.

A little later in the evening, Pamela Mountbatten, who had finished her current South Hunt, called to say that she would also be attending De Gaulle’s funeral, as well as talking to her friends in France, “And sending Albert to join the army, it’s safer to serve on home soil.”

“How can I object, isn’t Marshal Mountbatten all set.” Alan Wilson said with an old spirit, “Since the child likes the military career, it is good to enter the army to exercise.”

Put down the phone, Allen Wilson will continue to write the standard of scrap car, at the same time let the Kuala Lumpur side to add evidence, to argue the logical relationship between the car depreciation and the percentage of car accidents, scrap car also includes agricultural machinery and motorcycles, at the same time to pay strict attention to the modified car, to reach the age of the end-of-life of all the scrap cars handed over to the colonial government unified treatment.

But the luxury car is the exception, the value is different, naturally have different treatment, no matter what regulations to the capitalist place should follow the customs, so that in the long run and even beyond, otherwise there will be a problem that I really have a cow.

Not much time, has written thirty-one articles, thirty-one only a short line, this method from the date of publication.

“Like my kind of secretary general who learns from the East and the West and combines the advantages of the two systems, I don’t know if I can still come across in the UK in the future.” Alan Wilson stood by the window and sighed with a look of turning his back on the crowd.

De Gaulle had long ago made a will, “For my funeral, everything will be simple. No state funeral, no state leaders or representatives of all walks of life, no orchestra, no speeches of any kind, and no eulogies from Congress.” , but with De Gaulle’s status as a member of the wartime leadership on the line, leaders from all over the world have indicated their intention to attend.

The first to express the need to attend is the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, which is driven up a trend, in Harold Wilson expressed the need to attend the news spread, the leaders of European countries have expressed the need to attend, including the German Chancellor Brandt, including the dignitaries of various countries have left in advance.

Because de Gaulle died in office, unlike historically when he died in his own home country, his will to keep everything simple was destined to be only partially realized.

Taking advantage of the occasion of this funeral, Harold Wilson was also trying to discuss with Prime Minister Pierre Mesmer, who had taken over the handling of the country’s affairs in the time of de Gaulle’s profound absence, about how Britain and France’s interests in each other’s favor would be safeguarded in the era of the post-Bretton Woods system, and this, of course, along with Germany’s role.

“If this had been two thousand years ago, how could de Gaulle not be on a par with the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.” Meeting his family at the Windsor Castle chain of hotels, Alan Wilson eyed the Woodpecker Pictures headquarters across the street and let out a not-so-subtle sigh.

“Father, it’s not so bad, is it?” Pamela spoke up before her mother, “And what does Britain count as?”

“Count Britannia Savage.” Alan Wilson looked at his daughter who was better at feeding orcas and raising crocodiles, “I’m pessimistic about your future, what’s going to happen.”

“You can’t say that father, there’s Albert for joining the army and Arnold if you want the next generation in Whitehall. I’m a woman, I don’t need to shoulder the hope of revitalizing the family, mother can just give me a random industry to run.” Pamela commented as if she were counting, expressing the expectation of a life of both wanting and wanting more.

“Good dream, the Comet airliner carries the trust of 100,000 local employees, which is 100,000 families. Land Rover automobile because of different production lines in different places, the local only Range Rover production line, involving fewer employees, including the headquarters has 40,000 employees to bear the responsibility. This is not to mention the automobile is a correlation is very big industry, at least there are two hundred thousand derivative jobs, add up to more than two hundred thousand direct jobs, the income brought about by the relationship between the more than two hundred thousand families and their consumer spending support, such as eating a big meal, buy a high-grade suits, which in turn determines at least five hundred thousand family income. The fact that most of the oil companies are based abroad doesn’t count, you only need to consider one-fifth of the local jobs within the seventy thousand employees.”

“All of the above are jobs that involve the British mainland, like the steel base that’s all a matter of Kuching, I don’t even need to count with you.” Alan Wilson rushed to his daughter nuzzle said, “you if you can do like you raise crocodiles so professional, that is certainly no problem.”

Alan Wilson is not exaggerating, like the latter days of Japan, the entire automobile-related industry for Japan to create five million jobs, which is five million families, to three families to count is 15 million people pointing to the car to live it, the total population of Japan is also one hundred million out of the head of the proportion of Germany is not too much smaller, because the high-end market to do a good job, the situation is just a little safer than Japan.

“There is no not simple some industry?” Pamela, unchanged from her both and also wanting nature, was close to appealing to years of watching her two younger brothers as well as lurking around her mother’s side for credit.

“Mining!” Pamela Mountbatten saw fit to say, “It’s a relatively simple industry, not many more jobs involved, with three hundred thousand employees working.”

Australia now was completely different from the Australia of 1945, the mining boom had raised Australia’s already low labor costs by quite a bit, post-war Australia was still a bit of an industrial nation, now it was purely a resource nation, and Australia’s homegrown automotive brand, Holden Motors, had been merged by Land Rover as well.

“Looks like you can only think of a way to do something about the gaming industry in Newfoundland.” Alan Wilson covered his forehead, “Start with the casinos in Goa if you’re interested, and give it a try if you think it’s good.”

“Alright Pamela, go and mind your own business.” Pamela Mountbatten gave a wink, dismissing the idlers.

Husband and wife needed their own time, and Pamela Mountbatten needed a warm embrace and waited until her children were out, muttering in a whisper, “You’re overjoyed that I’m in Perth.”

“How could I be? I don’t miss you all the time, it’s just that it’s not good to work for the country and delay your career.” Alan Wilson, with affection written all over his face, picked his wife up and placed her directly on top of him.

“Bengal thing is your operation, that is just a lackluster place, also worth your operation?” Pamela Mountbatten wondered; she was unable to see any value in it.

“There’s really no value to it yet, it’s just a place of excess. It can also have a stabilizing effect.” Alan Wilson nodded, “The British had better keep an open mind, in fact, you understand that this is not easy to do in an electoral system country, every time it comes to the time of election politicians are what promises dare to pay, what chicken blood dare to fight. The former is fine, the big deal is to pretend it didn’t happen after coming to power, but the election strategy of pulling hate and playing chicken blood can easily backfire on you.”

When emotions are stirred up, you can’t do nothing at all, how embarrassing. This is not only harmful to the country harmful to the politicians are harmful, but also to support the Ukraine are going to be the decline in inflation, Bao Zhongtang not eat their own? Both want to also want to also want which is so easy?

“Let Bangladesh attract attention for a few years, we are thinking about where the next development assistance.” Alan Wilson confident, the most dangerous time has passed, the United States did not in the Soviet Union fully grown to put the two colonial empires of Britain and France completely put down, now even more can not do.

Anyway, the option of going to war is unlikely to arise, as long as it does not go to war, the United States and what can the United Kingdom and France, a pair of crouching phoenix?

As for borrowing two defeated countries to hold Britain and France. This time to Paris is not to talk about this issue to come? Depending on whether the Germans are willing to cooperate or not, if Germany has even the slightest idea of Europeanism, it should side with Britain and France, and distance itself from Japan.

At this very moment, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany are communicating on this issue, and at first they will certainly not give the Germans any sweeteners, but if Germany is determined to want a certain share of the settlement, it must make sure that it will stand with Britain and France and press Japan down.

Two days later De Gaulle’s funeral was held in Paris, a funeral that was simple to say the least, but also grand on another level, with the French army using an armored car to carry De Gaulle’s casket, and a large number of French generals in attendance that seemed to highlight the military status of the man who could barely be called a general in rank.

But on another level it was very grand, half a million Parisians spontaneously took to the streets to see de Gaulle’s casket leave, and de Gaulle returned to his hometown of Colombe for burial, until the casket left Paris, where people once again flocked to the Arc de Triomphe, where they stood in silence, the way they paid tribute to their national hero and saw him off.

The dignitaries of various countries also followed De Gaulle’s will, and just saw him off in Paris, without disturbing this hero of France to rest in peace in his hometown.

“Prime Minister, how’s it going?” Alan Wilson waited until the casket was out of sight before opening his mouth to inquire about the course of this meeting.

“It was good, you judged it all right.” Harold Wilson lowered his voice, “It’s hard to imagine, have you really never met Pierre? It’s amazing that you know him so well.”

“Our work experience is similar, I also spent ten years overseas as a colonial administrator, much like Mr. Prime Minister.” Alan Wilson softly explained, “The perspective is similar, so naturally the stance of looking at the issue won’t change drastically. It seems I guessed right this time.”