Chapter 147 Brussels Conference

“Don’t look at a person at face value!” Hepburn’s mother looked at her daughter and taught her tirelessly. Her daughter was still a bit too simple, but she didn’t think that a person who passed information for the guerrillas would be simple?

In terms of simplicity, Alan Wilson is the only one who is simple, and he has been deceived many times in this sinister society. Why else would he miss life in British India! It was the friendliest place for him, the harbor of peace of mind.

Her mother’s words did not go down well with Audrey Hepburn, who thought the Englishman was just fine. Because of malnutrition, Hepburn actually had little confidence in her own face, and she did not grow up amongst compliments.

If she hadn’t been overly familiar with the face, Alan Wilson wouldn’t have been able to recognize the Earth Globe flower still in her infancy.

Audrey Hepburn in 1945, did not kill the face value of the Middle West, and even worse than the Isabella sisters in Bonn, is a good-looking ordinary little girl only.

Audrey Hepburn, really well known is in the Roman Holiday after, not exaggerated, is Hollywood’s top makeup artist single-handedly created the Audrey Hepburn we all know, he captured her facial strengths and weaknesses, tailored to create the most suitable for her makeup and hairstyles, his make-up for Hepburn can be said to be a change from the bone, he also became Hepburn’s Royal Makeup Artist.

Body shriveled, look clean, if it is not Alan Wilson’s super memory, this is also a look pretty good ordinary girl, until the fifties, Audrey Hepburn went to Givenchy audition.

Body dry, dressed in ordinary Audrey Hepburn appeared in front of the Givenchy himself, the broken dream of Givenchy on the spot without face to reject Audrey Hepburn all the requirements.

After being rejected, she did not give up, repeatedly invited Givenchy to dinner, dinner Hepburn to Givenchy drew his career blueprint, only to let Givenchy become his own royal fashion designer.

If holding the realization of the eyes to see, if Alan Wilson on the face of the memory is not deep, miss is also very normal. But to look at this matter with a developmental perspective, he did not hesitate to leave his contact information in London, he believes that this ugly duckling will grow up.

Alan Wilson thought himself the vast majority of the time, the IQ is absolutely online, in the Hepburn mother and daughter to open after, he became the model of the imperial civil service again, the outstanding representative of the British Empire civil servants, the most famous image of civil servants in the United Kingdom mainland, the image of that gentleman in the streets of Paris to save the French women.

In recent months, Alan Wilson’s impression in the newspapers is no less than that of the well-known actors in the country, even Vivien Leigh, in the flow of traffic can only be on a par with him.

He had not yet arrived in Brussels, but the tone of the Brussels Conference had been set, and the place that set the tone of Anglo-French rapprochement remained in the far Far East.

Although France had decided to return to Asia soon after the end of the war in Europe, after all, the mountains were high and the French military power in Vietnam was better than nothing, just as it had been a few months earlier, in the four Austrian occupied territories, where the British, American and French forces were compared with those of the Soviet Union, and could only be considered to be theoretically present.

France could not manage to make a surrender in Vietnam, so it was the British who made the surrender in South Vietnam. Before the Brussels Conference, London had given assurances to Paris that it would hold the French colonies in Southeast Asia in place of the French army, and in exchange France had to support the British claim to the Isthmus of Krakow to show British and French solidarity over the colonies.

After the surrender of Japan, British troops had landed in South Vietnam and had telegraphed to France that they would definitely help France to hold the colony. Britain actually did not want to take charge of the hot potato of Vietnam.

Whether it is resolutely suppressed or let go, the importance of British India is far above Vietnam, but out of pulling France and the United Kingdom in a wider range of issues stand together, Mountbatten or draw troops, for France to stand back to the base of Asia.

Against this backdrop, Britain’s limited forces had to be massed, and Britain did not want to get too involved in Vietnam. It was only to be hoped that the French would move quickly and not keep Britain in Vietnam for too long.

Three days before the Brussels Conference, Alan Wilson arrived in Brussels, the latter-day capital of the European Union.

Brussels after a few decades, is the capital and largest city of Belgium, but also the seat of the main administrative institutions of the European Union, the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization resident, has the name of the capital of Europe.

The entire city is centered around the Royal Palace and built along a small ring, which is best explored on foot. Although originally a Dutch-speaking city, Brussels has developed into a bilingual city where French and Dutch coexist.

Even this time at the Brussels conference, the French delegate said that French must be added as a written language, and all the other countries agreed, with no objections from Britain, and there is no point in objecting to such minutiae.

After arriving at the British delegation’s residence and meeting Alexander Cadogan, the permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office teased the French with the same attitude that France must add French, “The French think that French is the representative language of the civilized world, but forget how long ago that was, but it is true that the French-speaking population in Belgium is dominant, so we can’t object to that, right? ”

“This reflects the British Empire’s respect for its allies, and nothing more.” Alan Wilson echoed Alexander Cadogan’s words.

There was a saying in Europe that the center of Europe in the seventeenth century was France, and the leader of Europe after the eighteenth century was Britain. Of course this kind of talk was more widespread within France, and there was no such talk within Britain.

But it is true that the linguistic environment in Brussels is, as Alexander Cadogan says, French is the dominant language, Dutch represents poor and backward Flanders, and there is only one official language of the Belgian government, French.

Educational institutions in Brussels also almost exclusively taught in French, which further hindered the promotion of Dutch and led to the impression of its inferiority.

From the British point of view, however, this is but a slight remnant of the era of the French Sun King; the degree of progress varies in different parts of the world, and it is not incomprehensible that traces of what existed hundreds of years ago exist in certain places.

In the midst of a world where the influence of the English language has long since far surpassed that of the French, the stubborn French should be sympathized with and understood.

“This stubborn persistence of the French is really very cute, haven’t we ever overwhelmed the French once without any objection?” Alan Wilson shook his head and laughed bitterly.

“A few more times, but not many of those.” Alexander Cadogan spoke slowly.

“When was the last time the French were rendered speechless.” Alan Wilson pursued with some interest.

“In 1815, the Battle of Waterloo. The French were absolutely speechless!” Alexander Cadogan said with a bad smile.

Possibly for the sake of shining, the French arrived the day after the British delegation arrived in Brussels, and by this time Alan Wilson, was being taught by the Cabinet Secretary and the Secretary of the Foreign Office, to be fully cognizant of the improvement of his own cultural cultivation.

The Cabinet Secretary, Edward Bridges, expressed his fair satisfaction with the work of the British Occupation at the present time, and that, whatever the effect of many of the policies, the endeavors of the Board of Trade of the British Occupation had been seen by Whitehall.

At the same time said in the sense that the Brussels Conference is absolutely much more important than the reconstruction of the British-occupied areas, and even determines the future direction of the British Empire, whether at the level of the empire, or civil servants point of view, it is worth 100 percent of the effort, in a sense, even more important than the Potsdam Conference.

How to unite the European countries, the British internal consensus has been determined, it is from the current participation in the Brussels Conference on the colonies of the countries to work, which is also different interests, different ideas, and even relations are not amicable to the countries of the greatest common denominator.

Britain and France have a delicate relationship because of historical reasons, but Britain and France are not the only ones who are delicate. The relationship between Spain and Portugal was also not close, Spain annexed Portugal, and the opponents of the Belgian War of Independence were the Dutch.

Of course the supporters of Belgian independence were the French, and the countries that supported the Dutch were Britain, the Russian Empire, the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia.

It can be said that each country’s hands are stained with the blood of other countries, at this time now it is necessary to unite, if not, all these countries that once were all in the limelight, will soon be obliterated, and become the eyes of the United States and the Soviet Union in the eyes of the small shrimp.

Greeting countries to participate in the Brussels meeting of the Belgian king, is Leopold III, this current deep controversy of the king, because of the war during the ambiguous attitude towards Germany, at present Leopold III can be said to be in trouble.

The reason why this meeting was held in Belgium was also the result of Leopold III’s vigorous efforts. The fundamental reason was that the French did not approve of holding it in London and the British did not approve of holding it in Paris.

Brussels was deeply influenced by France, so it chose such a place to sit down and have a good talk about what tomorrow will really be like for the colonial empire.

The man in charge of receiving the delegations was Prince Charles, brother of Leopold III. Alan Wilson was very uncomfortable with the name and title of Prince Charles.

He thought that only Yinreng of the British Empire, who had become Crown Prince in 1958 and had been for sixty-two years, was more in keeping with the image of a Prince in his mind, and that all other Charleses were counterfeits.

At the Belgian Royal Palace, the flags of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, and Belgium flew high, signaling the official opening of the Brussels Conference, which was outwardly proclaimed as the Conference on Europe’s Post-War Recovery.

British Prime Minister Adderley and French Provisional Government President Charles de Gaulle are undoubtedly the heaviest weights of this Post-War Reconstruction Conference, and the attitudes of the two men determine the future of these colonial empires.