Chapter 1436: The Watergate Scandal

“John’s work as the first ambassador to China has been quite hard, and he’s been in the middle of it non-stop since his arrival. Now that we know a little bit about the situation, in terms of scale, since 1949, they have made great strides, which is undeniable. Of course once the markets are opened up, there will be nothing left to wash away, understandably a somewhat weaker Soviet Union all round.”

The ability of a certain large country to swipe data has already seen the light of day, of course it can’t be compared to the USSR, which is the most capable of swiping data in this era, but it has definitely broken free from the category of a weaker country in every aspect. It could even be said that if it was in a time of war, it would be a resounding presence.

Weaknesses are also the same as the Soviet Union, the total amount of anyone dare not underestimate, really open to competition on the dead, the total amount of various fields can be equal to the UK mainland, but the UK mainland is only fifty million people, and the scale of a certain big country’s industry to cope with eight point six hundred million of the population, maybe tomorrow and next year will be nine hundred million.

Alan Wilson raised the diplomatic document in his hand, “I make a prediction, now they have an extreme lack of foreign exchange in their hands, just as the lack of dollars in Europe after the war, gentlemen know what this means? Do the gentlemen know what this means? What does it mean for the pound?”

The same as the lack of dollars in post-war Europe? The premise itself is a reminder of the fact that in the first decade of Bretton Woods, European countries faced a dollar shortage.

Dollar overissuance that was all the way into the 1960s, and during the dollar drought, the citizens of European countries worked their asses off, again, to earn foreign exchange.

Of course, Britain and France are considered part of the exception, the two countries, although also in the collection of dollars, but mainly busy with their own things, France in the fight fight fight, the British side Allen Wilson at that time is exhausting a lifetime of memory, from all over the world to find natural resources for the endorsement of the British pound, in the colonies to scrape the land is also a part of the fast cash.

For other countries, the colonies can not scrape out anything, plus not countries are not sunset, Britain can scrape the land and then let the colonies independent, other countries scrape once the colonies are gone.

Then countries naturally for the dollar foreign exchange, to work hard to get rich, this kind of Europe and the United States relationship is fair? That naturally is not fair, but that time will need to go to do sweatshops.

With the increase of European dollars, there is no lack of dollars on the market, Europe took the dollar to start to do something about the Bretton Woods system.

After the innovation and opening up of the trade deficit for more than ten years, in fact, and post-war Europe in the dollar drought period is almost the same, from the trade point of view is a loss, but in order to put the economy up and running, we have to put up with this kind of unfair trade, and wait until the time of the dollar is not a shortage of dollars, to have the leisure to think about is not to do something about it.

Judging from the time, the dividends of unfair trade for almost more than a decade after the opening up should have been mostly eaten by Japan, and who is Japan to do anything about it?

“Secretary General, now that Nixon has visited China, the political obstacles have been lifted.” Wick has now been appointed Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office and is also the Foreign Secretary’s Principal Private Secretary.

It is now the number two person in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and furthermore, it will become the permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the joy of promotion has not completely dissipated, and understand the meaning of the supreme authority, Wick directly and proudly stood up his chest, and do a good job of holding up the joke, don’t let the diplomatic conference turn into a one-liner, and the supreme authority can’t say everything by himself.

Alan Wilson gave a look of recognition and spoke, “Good, the biggest obstacle is gone. So according to the experience of post-war Europe, and the assessment sent by John, I’m in a respectful perspective, so I’ll treat them as post-war Europe, with at least ten years of trade dividends. On an industrial scale, the value of the pound would be even more solid. Everyone knows that the pound, as the world’s recognized strong currency, is bad for exports and good for imports.”

“Faced with the squeeze of the dollar, our exhaustive efforts, together with a little element of luck, have always managed to still maintain the decency of the British Empire, and even now, with the industrial scale of the United Kingdom plus Malaya, it is very reluctant to hold up the circulation of the sterling area.”

But if you add a certain big country it, this is not a problem, Alan Wilson knows in his heart that a certain big country sooner or later will also feel, labor for a bunch of foreign exchange back not very fair, in the long run that is also a problem, but tomorrow I may eat to the point that I will not eat today? Later that’s later, he’s going to get through today.

“This year and even beyond the next few years, we have the following several goals, to maintain the current circulation of the pound with the demand of Bangladesh, to crack down on smuggling after Nixon’s visit to China, we have let the smuggling of Xiangjiang for many years, and now it is time to collect some taxes. Then wait for free trade to begin. I want both goals to succeed, at least one, and they can’t both fail anyway.”

Alan Wilson again posed out of the ten fingers crossed to rest his chin in a pose of pretentiousness, “Potential rivals are Japan, our advantage is that Malaya is not far away in absolute distance, Xiangjiang is more important, the political obstacles have been lifted as well, it is the time to promote economic and trade relations in full swing, let McLeod go all out to promote the re-export trade, and keep everything centered on this goal. ”

“There are also many things that can not quite be said outright, but should be done, that is, the list of the Paris Coordinating Committee should be lifted some restrictions. Certainly don’t make it too obvious.”

With the current Bretton Woods system in name only, one formal meeting away from saying goodbye to the system, the UK must find the next anchor for the liquidity of the pound.

Whitehall has already decided that from a productivity point of view, Europe won’t do anyway, and the UK can’t afford to have any European country come in and endorse itself; Japan is productive enough, but that’s the US’s own preserve. It was really a choice with no other option, who to turn to if not one of the major powers?

After this meeting, Alan Wilson went to the Treasury and then, after consulting with Frank, went to 10 Downing Street to see the Prime Minister to set out the latest Whitehall findings and the fact that the potential enemy in trade and economics was Japan.

“Looking at it that way, shouldn’t I make a post-Nixon visit?” Harold Wilson said extremely solemnly after listening, “The significance of economic and trade relations you have also made clear.”

“In reverse? There’s no need to be in such a hurry, we’re still not sure if there’s any consistency in the US side’s policy. After all, there are some sources that believe that this time around, everyone Nixon’s running mate is Rockefeller. In that case, I’ll talk to the royal family, and if Crown Prince Charles can make a contribution to Britain? It’s about time he made a contribution.”

Alan Wilson put forward his suggestion, while the prime minister nodded in agreement, indeed, it is not yet known whether Nixon will be affected by the major adjustment in international relations, it is not appropriate for him to be in such a hurry.

This matter is not good for the cabinet secretary general to directly ask, but he does not have a good wife, Pamela Mountbatten has such a relationship and the royal side of the discussion, in case of rejection, the crown prince disgrace is always better than the prime minister ultimately did not come into effect the impact of the smaller.

“He doesn’t have to do anything, it’s just a trip, and the Cabinet doesn’t expect the big baboon to talk anything out. It’s Nixon’s visit, and we have to show that we’re on the same level as the United States.” Returning home Alan Wilson, immediately began to firmly implement his …… was the instructions of the Cabinet and especially the Prime Minister.

“You, of all people, are totally using Charles as a tool man.” Pamela Mountbatten bristled, pointing out her husband’s subtle shortcomings.

“Without me, the House of Lords is all a pure poser.” Alan Wilson proudly puffed out his chest, the House of Lords facing the House of Commons step by step, is the development of the United Kingdom in the process of the aristocracy in the face of the nascent capitalists step by step back, the root of the economic strength of the problem.

Now the House of Lords peers have reversed the contrast in economic strength, dare not say that the counterattack, it is impossible to be cut sausage creeping backward.

At this point Alan Wilson dare not say is the British aristocracy’s great benefactor bar, but with other words to describe, but also not enough to summarize his contribution to the nobility to make a million percent.

Charles Crown Prince’s trip has been several months later, due to space limitations, can not say too much, in the Crown Prince’s visit at the same time, Allen Wilson is Chobham’s Royal Armored Research Institute.

In the course of long-term research, the Royal Armored Researchers have discovered that oxide ceramics have high hardness and abrasion resistance, high compressive strength and excellent ballistic properties at high stress, but also recognize that ceramics and metal bulletproof mechanism is very different, the metal is due to the plastic deformation and absorb the kinetic energy of the projectile.

Ceramics, on the other hand, absorbs the kinetic energy of a projectile due to its rupture. In a series of studies and experiments, it was found that many of the performance indicators of the oxide ceramics themselves have a great influence on the defense effect, such as density and porosity, hardness, fracture toughness, Young’s modulus, speed of sound, and mechanical strength.

“It looks like it’s time to update our armor force.” Alan Wilson laughingly commented that Western tanks have always had a quality gap with Soviet tanks.

It would be just as well if they occupied a quantitative advantage, and the quantitative advantage was also owned by others, but now it is finally a stage to break the situation.

On this night, after leaving the Watergate Building, a staff member at the headquarters of the Democratic Party of the United States happened to look back at his office, and he was astonished to find a few pillars of light bobbing around in the office, where the lights had already been turned out.

His coworkers had already left, so who had gone back into the office and was shining a flashlight around instead of turning on the lights? He immediately went back to the Watergate Building and told the security officers about the suspicion. Security officers immediately searched the room in question and caught five suspicious-looking men wearing medical-surgical gloves.

One of them, James McCord, claimed to be a former CIA employee. In fact, he was the chief security adviser to President Nixon’s re-election committee and had been ordered to install eavesdropping equipment at the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Building.