Chapter 1445 Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

Once the total failure, the price to pay will be very heavy, out of the consideration of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, Britain also has to remind the United States, to do this is the real ally.

Taking the Boer War as an example, Britain couldn’t even get a quick life against a tiny Boer, but the end result was still an agreement with the Boers, even if it got the appearance of decency, Britain lost its aura of deterrence to the other powers, not to mention the United States this time around.

Calling Wick to his office, Allen Wilson was going to let Wick articulate the British view instead of himself, and yes, the Greeks were going to teach the Romans how to deal with problems again.

America, the new age Rome, will certainly not accept it, but the supreme authority doesn’t care if America accepts it or not, and the loyal Americans are going to listen, who made you lose the fight?

Send Wick to Paris, Allen Wilson began to carry out the work plan for the beginning of the year, according to the schedule he had to go to the Ministry of Defense to ask about the progress of the shipbuilding program.

Half an hour later, the supreme authority with the goji berries was sitting in front of the permanent undersecretary of defense, scoffing uncontrollably at this American war in Vietnam.

“Thinking about it this way, it might really make a big difference, and Hanoi must be made to guarantee the safety of South Vietnam. That’s the way to leave with dignity.” Makins listened and agreed that the problems would not end with the end of the war, they might just be beginning.

“It’s useless!” Allen Wilson shook his head slightly, Le Bang was a political strongman, his heart to unify Vietnam determined the future of Vietnam.

Furthermore, there was already a North Korea that was divided between the North and South as an example, Le Shoot would definitely not let Vietnam become like that, but wherever there was the slightest possibility, Le Shoot would fight for the unification of the country.

This will not fail just because other countries are dragging their feet, in fact, Le shoots will surely fall to the Soviet Union to get this task of national unification accomplished, and it’s useless for anyone to stop it.

Even if the U.S. is promised for the time being, once the U.S. withdraws most of its military power, the North will go back to war, unless the U.S. puts atomic bombs up on the borderline.

But Vietnam, which had already been bombed for so many years that even Agent Orange had been digested, might really dare to carry the nuclear threat and continue to fight, in which case the one who would be embarrassed would be the United States.

“But right now we should be concerned about the reconstruction of Bangladesh, I heard that South Korea has an open stance on sending laborers to participate in the reconstruction.” Makins changed the subject, he could also tell that Allen Wilson was not very excited.

“Park Chung Hee is a formidable political powerhouse.” Allen Wilson nodded, “South Korea is using all its strength to seize the opportunity to make money. There aren’t many countries like that in the world.”

South Koreans are a little bit odd, but it can’t be denied that there are still brains at the top, although the bottom layer is washed like idiots, but the top layer still understands the real situation of their own country, didn’t take the fictionalized history seriously, and the top and bottom layer segregation is inevitable, which shapes the elitist mental world of the greasepipe Pentagon on the internet.

“The Eastern world is indeed interesting, no wonder our authorities on Orientalism are keen on Eastern issues.” Markins chuckled, “It seems to be more developed than the Pacifist world.”

“Wherever there is a slight trend of development in the Pacifist world, we should just go down and stifle this trend, we don’t want the history of Christendom being under siege to repeat itself.” Alan Wilson grunted lightly, “Israel has a role to play, only in the real interests of the British still have to make good relations with the Arab world.”

What’s so strange about being and standing again, this is the essence of diplomacy, Britain doesn’t want the Arab world to develop well, and maintaining friendly relations with the Arab world at this stage is not contradictory.

Who doesn’t like a party with greater interests? The influence of Indian civilization throughout Southeast Asia is great, except for Vietnam, on the basis of this fact, Southeast Asian countries are more important to the relationship with a major power, and is reluctant to get involved with a reputable power, the fundamental reason is that India is too poor, is not as rich as the Southeast Asian countries.

The U.S.-Vietnam peace talks and Britain were not supposed to be relevant, but at this point British public opinion took an extraordinary interest in them, the equivalent of shooting flares over the heads of U.S. troops as they retreated themselves.

At the same time that Wick was traveling to Paris to pose as a mentor Greek, British public opinion was comparing the failure of the Vietnam War to the significance of the Boer War, and the British Foreign Office began an urgent disinformation campaign stating that the negotiations were a win-win situation, that it was definitely not a case of the U.S. bowing down to Hanoi, and that South Vietnam would certainly be preserved.

Having quelled, or pretending to quell, this discussion of flares to the heads of American troops with a tone of conviction, the next task of the British Foreign Office was to express an expectation of détente in the general environment.

The specific approach to this expectation was the necessity of doing business with Eastern Europe, and the changing structure of Eastern European imports and exports of commodities: traders in Eastern Europe machines, equipment, means of transportation, and commodities such as fuels, ores, and metals accounted for the largest share of the total foreign trade of the Soviet East European countries and its growth.

Machines, equipment, and means of transportation all account for about one-third of imports and exports, and if fuels, ores, and metals are added, their share of imports and exports is more than half.

In view of the complementarity in trade and the cooperation in the two gold purchases of food, together with the Labour government currently in power, Prime Minister Harold Wilson does not exclude all sorts of factors from the Soviet Union.

Britain took a substantial step in its détente strategy by providing the Soviet Union with a loan of 200 million pounds.

Loans were an important form of utilization of foreign investment in the Soviet Union’s Eastern European countries and were the main source of foreign investment for these Eastern European countries. Foreign capital obtained in the form of loans was generally used by the Soviet Union for large-scale construction projects, including for the development of the resources of the eastern regions, for those sectors that determined scientific and technological progress, and for the enhancement of the reconstruction and technological modification of existing enterprises.

For example, the use of loans from Western countries and the introduction of advanced technology and equipment accelerated the development of resources in the eastern regions of the USSR and solved some of the technical difficulties in the development work.

The two sides finalized the loan, the Soviet Union proposed the compensation trade mode, which was derived from the reconstruction of Bangladesh on the trade mode, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed a compensation trade agreement mainly focused on the following two categories: one is to use gas and oil in exchange for steel pipes and equipment, the other is to use the product in exchange for equipment.

At the end of January in Paris, the United States, together with Hanoi, signed an agreement to end the war and restore peace in Vietnam.

To ensure the implementation of the agreement, an international conference on Vietnam was convened in Paris from February onwards by China, the United States, Britain, the USSR, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Poland, Canada, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Southern Republic of Vietnam and the Republic of Vietnam, as proposed by the parties participating in the Paris peace talks.

On the same day, Britain and the USSR announced a consensus on the development of relations in the field of trade and economy. Before the ink was dry on the agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam, the United States approached Britain and asked if it was going to defect to communism.

Foreign Secretary Patrick had a deep talk with the American side, and with the current situation, the free world had to let its rivals put aside their hostility for the time being so that the time for adjustment could be ushered in.

Explaining that détente is the current trend, Foreign Secretary Patrick immediately backtracked and asked if the United States had de facto accepted a dichotomy with the Soviet Union, and that if it really was going to be two empires, East and West, it would be a heavenly shock to the European countries, and that there might be some less-willful countries that would rise up to the idea of defecting to the Soviet Union.

The Secretary of State, William Pierce Rogers, was in deep thought, there might be some ill-willed countries that would rise to the idea of voting for the Soviet Union? Right now just Britain looked unreliable. It had only just signed the Soviet Union’s economic and trade development agreement.

“He is a Secretary of State in name only, a rubber stamp in diplomatic work, excluded from the inner circle by Kissinger.” After learning of the dissatisfaction on the American side, Alan Wilson came to Foreign Secretary Patrick specifically to point out Rogers’ embarrassing situation, “Even for something as big as Nixon’s visit to China, it was Kissinger who played a role. I see that sooner or later he will resign and will not continue to be this famous Secretary of State.”

“Of course, with the special relationship between Britain and the United States, we will give the Secretary of State enough courtesy to elaborate on the significance of the détente strategy, and it doesn’t really matter whether he accepts it or not.”

If you, the US, can lose Vietnam, doesn’t the UK fudge for the security of Europe? It’s all for the greater good, and it’s not because the US didn’t win, otherwise why would Britain need to do this?

“But Rogers did complain that Britain should have given more support to the US in the middle of the war, and from what happened in Bangladesh, Washington doesn’t think Britain did enough.” Foreign Secretary Patrick sighed, relaying America’s displeasure with Britain.

“Isn’t that one more body? It’s better for one American country to lose than two together.” Alan Wilson said in a tone of voice that I, Great Britain, don’t eat this, “Honorable Minister, avoiding the use of force in places where it is clearly worthless has always been Britain’s preeminent embodiment of diplomacy, and we are not the United States, always going to needless wars.”

Alan Wilson convinced the Foreign Secretary that the détente strategy was the right one, and that using some monetary policies to promote détente was not unacceptable. Besides, didn’t the United States give the Soviet Union generous loans on food? What qualifications are there to come over and blame the UK now?

Oh, and even if there are sanctions, it’s still Europe that has to stick to the bottom line, so the US can show a flexible attitude towards sanctions, right? Costs to the UK, money to the US?

“That’s what the Prime Minister said, and of course we can’t agree to it.” Foreign Secretary Patrick replied firmly, thinking to himself that the Cabinet Secretary’s views were so much in line with the Prime Minister’s?

That’s of course, because before meeting the Foreign Secretary, didn’t Alan Wilson prefer to go and have a discussion with the Prime Minister? Otherwise how could there be this economic and trade agreement.