Chapter 1450 India earns money and spends it in India

Foltseva asked the good Dahl to refresh his memory as to whether father and son had talked about the source of the outbreak of the war or not when he was in London, and Aliksheyev replied after a half-hearted recollection, “That wasn’t said, but it was said that Israel itself lacked water resources, and that in the case of a well-qualified citizenry, that couldn’t be changed.”

“The Jordan River!” Foltseva replied affirmatively after a moment of contemplation, “There was once talk on the Egyptian side of trapping Israel by rerouting it through the Jordan River. Once the water source is cut off, Israel will definitely go to war. So once the Arab League countries reach a consensus on this, Israel will attack. Also at risk is the Golan Heights, where Lake Tiberias is the largest freshwater lake in the area, and that saltwater lake, the Dead Sea, is not something Israel can utilize.”

Alikseyev raised one eyebrow and nodded, “So, if the proposal to divert the Jordan River is discussed at the next Arab League meeting, Israel will have to do it.”

Now that Alikseyev trusted his father’s judgment, the culture czar’s current vision was definitely above his, telling him to come back and discuss the issue with his mother.

“Absolutely.” Foltseva thought to herself, “You’ve only met him a couple of times, she’s the one who’s had lasting, in-depth exchanges with the other side.

Israel’s population was small, just over three million, but even with just those people, water was still a big problem, and once the water issue was threatened, the option of war was forced upon them.

Why hasn’t this option been considered before? Wasn’t that because Britain had been campaigning for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and pressing for the Jordan River diversion discussion not to pass? The main reason was that construction in Gaza and the West Bank was not complete, and now that the fortified towns and air defense towers are finished, naturally, there are no concerns.

Foltseva is absolutely sure that the bad guy will release the news that the water supply is cut off and force Israel’s hand, and he’s definitely capable of doing it.

“It’s as if I feel someone thinking of me in the underworld.” Alan Wilson, who was at the door, muttered self-consciously, and then roguishly looked back at Monroe, “If my sexy goddess is talking at this point, then I’m not leaving.”

“Get to work! I wouldn’t dare delay you from benefiting society.” Monroe’s phoenix eyes flickered, full of flavor, and she kissed the man’s cheek as if she were coaxing a child, then pushed the supreme authority out.

“Every day I think of ways to make the world a better place.” Alan Wilson puffed out his chest proudly and set off with a cup of goji berries in his hand.

Expecting another day of doing nothing while waiting for an update on the Watergate scandal, Commonwealth Secretary General John Hunt came straight to his door with a stony countenance that simply made Alan Wilson wonder if, just an hour earlier, Warsaw Pact forces had toppled the Berlin Wall and officially started a world war?

“Indira Gandhi has announced the nationalization of insurance companies, private coal mines, steel companies, textile mills, etc.” John Hunt spoke directly after sitting down.

Of course there was social control of banks, nationalization of the general insurance industry, gradual nationalization of the private import and export trade, food rationing policy, restriction of personal speculative income on urban land, abolition of princely privileges of the native states, guarantee of minimum food requirements, advancement of agrarian reforms and rural development schemes, and so on.

“In the insurance and banking sector, we have several companies that have suffered heavy losses. The Prime Minister will know soon, I believe, and the representatives of the companies hope that the Cabinet will come up with a way to stop the loss of British capital by diplomatic means.”

Alan Wilson nodded with an expressionless face and rushed to John Hunter and asked, “I remember I warned that the two funds should never enter the Indian market? John, come straight to the point, do we have any losses?”

“Alan, absolutely not, I guarantee it on my degree.” John Hunter gambled that the Commonwealth Foundation and the Prosperity Foundation had absolutely no access to the Indian market.

“Then there is no problem.” Alan Wilson’s face immediately turned relaxed, the way he had just looked was a different person, “Maybe that’s life, sometimes things just happen.”

How many British companies might lose out in this nationalization of Indira Gandhi? What does this have to do with Whitehall? In business there are supposed to be losses and gains, where can you only make a profit and not a loss.

“But these damaged companies have spoken to several Tory MPs.” John Hunt said this looking at Alan Wilson, the meaning was self-evident.

“And then what? Land in Bombay and sack New Delhi?” Alan Wilson snorted, “It’s not as if we haven’t been warned to be cautious about investing in India. Either be direct and generous and work with Tata and Birla, or don’t go in, did anyone listen to us? Both and also want more, and now they are looking for us? Why don’t you appeal to the Supreme Court of India and go to court with India? The result will be the same anyway.”

“Is there really nothing that can be done at all?” John Hunt couldn’t talk about disappointment, but the damage was done to a British company, and he still wanted to make amends.

“John, without sharing the benefits with the local consortiums in India, it seems like there’s only one company making money.” Alan Wilson took a sip of goji berries and replied helplessly.

“Which one?” Listening to the supreme authority that was getting more and more outrageous, John Hunter was also tickled with curiosity, wanting to know where this company was.

“You’ve heard of this company, it played a major role in British history.” Alan Wilson licked his lips and gave the answer, “The East India Company.”

This is something that Alan Wilson can’t do anything about, people in India are all equal in this regard, it’s not like they’re targeting Britain, there must be victims in other countries as well. Nationalized enterprises led to heavy losses in the United Kingdom is not once or twice, this account should be counted on the head of the Soviet Union.

The wrongs were done, just like Indonesia taking out the Indonesian Communist Party, targeting Indonesia and ignoring the US can only be described as a cowardly move.

Without the USSR, would any country a nationalization have dared to confiscate British assets?

He also has no reason, to help these British companies to seek justice, anyway, he previously reminded Pamela Mountbatten, watching point aristocratic class of enterprises do not go to India, India that place is India to make money in India to spend, a respectively want to bring home.

Want to make money in India is not cut leeks, it is necessary to find the depth of the integration of the Indian ground snake, or to find light assets industry operations, at any time through the Bombay Stock Exchange run.

Soon, 10 Downing Street also called him to go, naturally, and met the political secretary Maria Falkender, “Maria, what is it?”

“It’s not the Indian nationalization bill. Is there any way out of it, Sir? You were once an official in British India.” Maria Falkender cooperatively divulged the purpose.

“Then I really don’t have any solution at all, it’s very normal to have losses and gains in business.” Alan Wilson did not change his mind and expressed his love. Damaged one is not the aristocratic class of enterprises, rather than the British state-owned investment, then the loss is a loss, the market economy is not so?

After waiting for a while, Harold Wilson did talk about the nationalization of Indira Gandhi, Allen Wilson laughingly said, “If you do this, sooner or later, India will run into big problems. It is simply looking for death to nationalize even the textile industry. Although the textile industry is a labor-intensive enterprises, can create a lot of employment, but the textile industry’s profits are too low, the disadvantages of nationalization far outweigh the benefits. The profits of the textile industry are so low that any country can do it, and to exchange such low profits for a deficit in the national treasury? Is it worth it?”

“Let alone the textile industry, even coal and steel, it’s good enough to break even. Nationalized industries should be concentrated among industries that can make money lying down, dumping the burden on the people to fend for themselves while increasing the source of the state’s finances, if you compare it to Australia, which has a mining industry that is well suited for nationalization. But the private sector would not be a burden either, after all, Australia is too uniquely positioned to do so. India is so overpopulated that it is surprising that it chose to nationalize such a low-margin industry, bringing with it inefficiencies that completely offset the advantages.”

The more Harold Wilson heard, the more wrong he became, and spoke, “But you didn’t object when I nationalized steel and coal, or even the water supply system.”

“Prime Minister, I was not opposed to all of them, when the water supply system was nationalized, I was very supportive because every day that passes the native citizens are contributing to the coffers. Of course I wouldn’t oppose it, as for coal and steel, I was just convinced by the Prime Minister.”

Alan Wilson shrugged, “Pretend you can’t see the downside. The fact is that in the field of nationalization, no matter how hard we try, there is no way we can have the Soviet Union run by the Council for a Planned Economy, but in Europe it’s a trend well, when the Cabinet takes a bold decision, Whitehall can only go along with it to the hilt.”

In fact Indira Gandhi this time the effect of nationalization, are less than ten years, nationalized enterprises caused by the decline in efficiency, sick enterprises more become a bottomless pit of financial subsidies. The price of international oil has skyrocketed, and increased the cost of expenditure and foreign exchange stretched.

The biggest effect may be that many of India’s state-owned enterprises, let Modi old fairy sell sell sell, in a period of time has become the old fairy to raise sources of funds to make up for India’s fiscal expenditure of an important means.

This is of course also the benefit, Alan Wilson is actually looking forward to the Conservative Party in power again, open privatization, the sale of state-owned enterprises in the United Kingdom is an opportunity to cash. What dukes and what earls far away in Australia will be waiting eagerly with their banknotes, waiting to regain dominance of the local economy.

As for the prime minister’s talk about whether he could use diplomacy to recoup the losses of British businesses, Alan Wilson said he would try it according to procedure, but don’t expect any results.

“By the way, Prime Minister, the Arab League summit in August could be a test for British diplomacy.” Alan Wilson suddenly came without a clue.