Chapter 1451 America’s Backyard
“The Arab issue, is a complex issue between us and the United States.” Harold Wilson had a difficult look on his face, a close ally in one camp, there was really no common language on this issue.
It had to be said that this was a very, very awkward thing, Britain, in order to maintain its traditional influence, even if it was not adamant, but it was also very obvious that it was on the side of the Arab countries.
Alan Wilson did not think so, he did not feel embarrassed at all, standing on the side of Israel will make Britain suffer major losses, once Britain and the United States is a position, Britain is not far from being out of the Middle East situation.
That’s for sure, the history inside his head has clearly shown that.
Not even talking about the Persian Gulf, the world’s oil depot, the reason why he sold the Congo, which is more than two million square kilometers, to the Soviet Union with a single heart was because at that time, Britain and the United States had already produced a huge conflict in Africa.
Although the DRC was not a British colony, British capital had a great deal of say in the Congo’s mineral-rich Katanga province. This capital agitated for proposals to the government in an attempt to persuade the British government to incorporate Katanga into the Commonwealth of British Central Africa or to give Katanga independence from the Congo. The United States, for its part, had found an agent in the central Congolese government and did not agree to the division of the Congo.
In addition to the Congo, at that time Australia had not yet been developed, and the whole world’s high-quality copper mines were in the Americas, and the U.S. still wanted ninety percent not enough, I wanted one hundred percent.
Because there is a huge gap between the United Kingdom and the United States in terms of capital, and the United Kingdom has already invested a lot in Australia, he was ruthless to dump the DRC to the Soviet Union, the United States dared to rob the United Kingdom then let’s see if it dares to rob the Soviet Union, and later sold Indonesia to the Soviet Union, also based on the same reason.
Congo gold fell into the hands of the Soviet Union, but instead solidified the interests of British Africa Britain, because at that time the Soviet Union has not yet the strength of the global attack, got the cheap certainly want to stabilize for a period of time.
Indonesia falling into the hands of the USSR also contributed to the proximity of Australia and Britain, where Australia could curb Indonesia’s expansionist mentality with Britain one south and one north.
It’s not over yet, he’s all set to sell out Chile now, selling out the colony to make way for a US-Soviet confrontation is the second thing he sees as the value of the colony other than cashing in on it.
Since the beginning, Allen Wilson has not forgotten, can let the United Kingdom still have a source of strength lies in the last two years of British India’s luminescence, and even caused a great famine.
So what was this nationalization of India that cost a handful of British companies so much? Forgive India, of course, and it’s not like the loss went to the richest woman and her aristocratic friends.
The way to do that is to send out a diplomatic communiqué to give the damaged British companies a piece of mind, and he can’t do the rest, it’s not like these are the days of gunboat diplomacy anymore.
This round of India’s wave of nationalization, Alan Wilson also does not think all bad, on the level of India, the market economy did not play understand, planned economy? That request is higher than the market economy.
If India’s development is hindered, Bangladesh can instead quickly out of the quagmire, is not the jute industry?
India’s important industry, the same is also an important industry in Bangladesh, the two countries would have been the original Calcutta industrial zone into two, completely competitors.
Pamela Mountbatten, having ended her migratory residence in Perth, returned to London after the arrival of spring, and after hearing of the wave of nationalization that had opened in India, also inquired about the losses of British companies.
“You can just focus on the House of Lords, that’s your base. The House of Lords is facing a step-by-step rout in the House of Commons, which is essentially capital controlled by the aristocracy, and can’t be compared to the emerging capitalists. Want to get rid of the rubber stamp, at least not continue to creep backward, turn around the economic power is the most important thing. Of course, if the House of Lords were all like the Duke of Manchester, merely changing countries and continuing to farm, I see that the House of Lords would still be finished sooner or later.”
The Supreme Authority took the opportunity to bury the Duke of Manchester again; any move to dry farm in Australia would be better than going to Rhodesia, or indeed Argentina, for fear of having all his assets confiscated later.
Silika judge in the published Watergate confession, this time the event is considered to have reached the real fermentation stage, Silika judge randomly ruled one of the three scapegoats Liddy guilty, the court re-sentenced to twenty years, this re-sentence brought about by the impact of the Watergate incident, so that the participants feel afraid, after all, ride in twenty years, the general public can not afford it.
Watergate influence more and more unmanageable, Nixon chose to launch a little higher scapegoat, White House Counsel Dean.
But with the previous example of a felony sentence in front of him, Dean didn’t believe Nixon’s promises, especially after learning that he could face a forty-year sentence, and pleaded guilty in court hoping for a lighter sentence.
By this time, Nixon’s trust as a sitting president had been sapped, and the Democrats organized a commission of inquiry that was crying out for Nixon to step down.
“Nixon was still too conscious of his face and probably did few bad things.” Taking the latest developments reported by the Washington Post, Alan Wilson really didn’t appreciate enough the operation of the American president in this era.
This is if the zipton couple, must not come to a fear of suicide, shot in the back eight conclusions for suicide? Or depression can not withstand the pressure of work hanging?
Obviously, the means of the U.S. President is also evolving, Nixon and the twenty-first century politicians compared to, or a little too brown, even without a series of premeditation.
“As if you could perform better than Nixon when faced with the situation he’s in now.” Pamela Mountbatten blankly glanced at her husband, the inside of her mouth shattering, “What can you do?”
“I need a plane crash. Then bemoan the fact that Britain is missing a few more of its pillars. It’s best to do it from a distance, I think it’s better to do it over Indonesia. The Soviets have air defense missile bases and we know where they are deployed.”
Alan Wilson replied while thinking, “Nixon once said that he wouldn’t take out Kennedy for the presidency, I think that’s definitely the truth, and as we can see from this Watergate incident, he’s definitely not that kind of person.”
Watergate was done so crudely, and you want to play the high end operation of assassinating JFK? But anyone who paid the slightest bit of attention to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers should know how to kill and kill.
“That kind of thing with Duncan, it’s best not to do it again.” Pamela Mountbatten leaned over to talk to her husband’s ear, “Once is an accident, do it too much and sooner or later you’ll get found out.”
In Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, Foltseva took the information that the good Dahl had brought with him, including an update on the Watergate scandal in the United States, and an upcoming meeting of the Arab League in two months. There was also the Chilean intelligence that Alexeyev, the head of the advisory ministry, had investigated.
Alexeyev, who was blearily waiting for his mother’s reaction, just kept watching the Culture Tsar keep flipping through it and couldn’t help but speak, “Well, Mother.”
“These are a few things that if they broke out one after the other in a short period of time, the United States would not be able to take care of them.” Foltseva put down the intelligence and judged with a thoughtful look on her face, “Especially now that Nixon is still in trouble, now that the United States has essentially betrayed the South Vietnamese regime, Comrade Brezhnev is recently expressing the intention to ride the wave of victory.”
“That’s bound to be an all-out confrontation.” Alexeyev muttered, saying that, in his present position, he was unable to comprehend what a full-scale confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States would really mean.
“Yes, a full-scale confrontation, and perhaps another place of confrontation would be in the Americas, the Americans’ backyard.” With a thoughtful look on her face, Foltseva instructed, “You give the information about Chile to Andropov, and I will be in the Kremlin at that time, initiating talk about Chile.”
Now the Culture Tsar is about to do her homework, and for her own motherland, and she certainly understands that that British bureaucrat has been dumping colonies for years in order to allow the US and USSR to fight it out because of the power vacuum.
But could the Soviet Union not accept that? Especially now that Brezhnev wanted to overwhelm the United States.
The Chilean situation came up at the time of the Kremlin’s discussion, marking the time when the discussion entered the home stretch of the international situation, where everything is afraid to be discussed, and the more it is discussed, the more it becomes clear that Allende is in danger. Since last year, Chile has been experiencing inflation.
And the government’s methods of limiting supplies and freezing prices have caused the prices of basic necessities such as rice, soybeans, sugar, and flour to skyrocket on the black market, and in the case of agrarian reform, the conflict between peasants and landowners has deepened and grown increasingly violent.
The international price of copper was also falling at this time; at its peak in 1970 it was sixty-six dollars per ton, while in 1972 it was less than fifty dollars per ton. The standard of living of the Chilean people declined and the number of strikes and marches increased.
Early in the year women had organized marches to call attention to the strange shortage of commodities, in August retailers staged a strike against business, in October a general strike that swept the country broke out, and the year began with no improvement at all, but rather more and more turmoil in Chile.
“With the ability of the United States to create economic problems in Latin America by targeting one country for a short period of time is doable, with the U.S. dollar accounting for more than ninety percent of trade settlements in the Americas and the British pound less than five percent.”
The culture czar, who had done his homework, pointed out that Chile’s social crisis was not all a derivative of the reforms, “The U.S. controlled most of Chile’s copper mines before Allende came to power, and it would have been too easy to move a little bit on trade.”
Kosygin, as chairman of the Council of Ministers and the de facto economic helmsman of the Soviet Union, nodded his head in approval of Foltseva’s judgment, and Brezhnev took the information provided by Lubyanka, “The situation in the Middle East is also tense, and now Allende’s situation is also very dangerous, it’s really hard to know that Nixon, who was caught up in the Watergate scandal, still has so much energy, and seems to have already forgotten about his failure in Southeast Asia. What are the views of the comrades?”
“Support North Vietnam’s continued attack southward.” Field Marshal Ustinov spoke up, “Draw the attention of the United States.”
“Not enough to keep the U.S. hands tied, I have an idea. It will require Castro to take responsibility though.” Foltseva spoke slowly, “There are still over 200,000 prisoners in Cuba, Cuba is close to Florida, and Cuba is deeply plagued by the U.S. giving the green light to Cuban opponents, so why not start with that.”