Chapter 1471: Making Conditions

“It’s like you said, Sir, Kissinger might create topics out of thin air to accuse us.” Foreign Secretary Patrick’s face was serious, indicating that he was taking Kissinger’s visit seriously, “such as accusing us of appeasement of the Soviet Union, which of course we all understand is a problem between the United States and the Soviet Union.”

“On this matter, we can take the initiative and go on the offensive by saying that the matter of Nixon’s visit to China is not widely recognized by the free world. The reason we established diplomatic relations was to take care of the prestige of the United States. Since the U.S. is now majoring on détente, a fierce confrontation with the Soviet Union, which has the same system, is not going to convince most of the allies, plus one, especially France.”

Alan Wilson pointed out to the foreign minister that it might as well take the initiative to draw the woeful waters to the east, and this matter will surely have a miraculous effect, “Think about the fact that Nixon’s visit to China was originally facilitated by Kissinger’s strong efforts, he will never sit back and watch his political legacy being discarded, so he will surely give an adequate explanation on this issue, and we’ll use this as a breakthrough.”

Of course, external affairs are not determined by a major power, but internal affairs are not determined by France, and France is as important as a major power, if not more so, because France is in Europe.

The current France is certainly much, much stronger than the France that Alan Wilson remembers, the mainland plus Algeria’s three million square kilometers of land is there, the weight is absolutely enough.

The area of the Roman Empire is only six million square kilometers, now France has three million square kilometers of territory, even if it can not be compared with the Roman Empire, but also the volume of the Western Roman Empire, such a country can be ignored?

Of course Algeria still shows signs of instability from time to time, that’s another issue.

Who’s to say that the territory of North Africa wasn’t important? Do you know why the Roman Empire was divided between East and West? Instead of the easier option of a north-south partition? The reason is that once the southern coast of the Mediterranean was lost, the northern part of the Roman Empire could not be self-sufficient at all, so that the Roman Empire would surely be barbarized and the north would cross the sea to attack the south.

East-West partition is the Roman Empire to take care of the balance of the partition, early civilization, the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea is far more developed than the north, if Foreign Secretary Patrick has time, you can even teach Kissinger history during the conversation, showing that Britain is an important presence to balance France, blood is thicker than water, the critical moment or to say English stand together.

After some surprise dumping training, Foreign Secretary Patrick is also confident about the upcoming meeting, Kissinger’s plane landed at the London airport to open this trip to Europe.

Prepare on the war in the Middle East, financial and energy cooperation, and even the international situation and the United Kingdom to communicate, at this moment, the United States more than ever need the support of the United Kingdom, in front of the world to highlight the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, Kissinger will be able to achieve the purpose of the British Mediterranean fleet is not just arrived in the Far East, to highlight the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States it.

At the same time Kissinger visited London, because of the reluctance to disclose the name of the source to play a role, this news was also immediately known by the Arab world, now is the age of information technology, the Arab League side to get the news is very normal.

At the same time, Pamela Mountbatten was also welcoming the visit of a guest, Nelson Rockefeller Jr. He is the son of Nelson Rockefeller, who came to the UK in a private capacity this time to discuss a wide range of cooperation with the UK’s most powerful entrepreneur, Pamela Mountbatten.

“The Honorable President Mountbatten, it may be a bit untimely, my father is soon to be President of the United States, and Nixon will likely not be able to weather this storm.” Nelson Jr. leaked to Pamela Mountbatten shortly after their meeting about his father’s decision to take his gift to the beautiful White House.

“Oh, that’s really good news. But I think the White …… Cabinet is more interested in this matter, Mr. Nelson may be mistaken about something, I am not keen on politics.” Pamela Mountbatten picked up a cup of black tea and took a light sip, her posture was as elegant as she could be and replied, “In fact, it might be worthwhile to make things a little clearer.”

“The president’s bluntness is shocking, in fact, father’s meaning is very obvious, the United States is also in a difficult situation to a certain extent, only if our two countries stand firmly together, the difficult times can be passed.”

“Oh, Britain and the United States are an extremely special relationship in the international community, and should indeed be united in many things.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded with a smile and added, “But it depends on what exactly.”

There was still such a thing as patriotism in this world, and Pamela Mountbatten knew very well that her husband, was not going to unilaterally sacrifice his country’s interests to unconditionally cooperate with the United States.

And the Labor government will not allow it, this is not to say that the Labor government is how patriotic, but has been accustomed to, the United States did not put Britain and France completely after the war, a flash of more than twenty years in the past, the British government found it seems to be the same thing, has been accustomed to the current situation, and then the bad will not be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad enough to be bad.

Harold Wilson himself also especially think so, belonging to the Labor Party government within the extremely pro-Soviet representatives, otherwise why there are rumors that the current prime minister to Russia it.

“Kissinger wants Britain to call, on the Arab side, for a cease-fire.” Wicker kept transmitting the conversation of Kissinger’s visit to the Cabinet Secretary’s office, “The Foreign Secretary said he would respond appropriately.”

“Of course we will say yes, because of the special Anglo-American relationship.” To Wick’s surprise, Alan Wilson agreed to come straight away, and immediately the supreme authority told him he was overthinking it, “But add to the front of the official letter issuing the note that it was done at the request of the US government.”

The U.S. wants Britain to step in and be offended? Nice try, just add that to the official letter of note and the meaning will change completely.

Britain would of course try to broker a ceasefire in the interest of preserving the special Anglo-American relationship, but it was the US that asked for it.

Once word of this got out to the Arab world, the Arab League would simply assume that Israel couldn’t hold out and that the US, in order to prevent Israel from losing too badly, had talked Britain into being a peacemaker.

Not only to help, but also to reflect the unprecedented efficiency of Whitehall, the valuable views of the United States to let the Arab League know, and soon the ambassadors in the Arab countries received such a directive, the opportunity to exert diplomatic influence, the ambassadors fist pumped, conveyed the concerns of Washington.

When the news spread throughout the Arab world, all Arabs cheered, and as Alan Wilson had predicted, many took the American pressure as evidence that Israel had run out of gas.

The supreme authority, the Keyway Man, of course, knows the Keyway Man in particular, even if these fellow travelers are Arabs.

Egypt’s King Fouad II immediately publicized the news, along with a speech staunchly defending Egypt’s interests, “There is no basis for negotiation between the two sides unless Israel unconditionally returns to the UN territories of 1948, and as for the role of the United States, the Arab world already knows all about it. A protracted war hurts both sides, but the Arabs have no choice ……”

“What a nice way to put it, as if the destruction of two armored divisions of tanks didn’t happen.” Back home Allen Wilson watched the Egyptian king’s almost polemical speech on the news, still obsessing over the fact that the sheikhs hadn’t beaten Patton.

“Today Nelson Rockefeller Jr. is here and he wants to talk to me on behalf of his father, Vice President Rockefeller.” Pamela Mountbatten picked up her husband’s briefcase, then sat down together and began to make peace with the fact that the Rockefellers had gone the madam route.

Alan Wilson didn’t say a word and listened to the cause and effect before saying, “So it seems that the Republicans have given up on Nixon, and I don’t think it will be long before someone approaches Nixon to talk.”

“So, Rockefeller will be the President of the United States?” Pamela Mountbatten muttered with surprise on her face, “That’s the equivalent of you going to be Prime Minister …… dear, tongue in cheek.”

“Even if he were to replace Nixon, it would be hard to undo the bad publicity.” His own wife, Alan Wilson also ignored the gaffe and continued, “I see that Rockefeller will step in for Nixon after Nixon has gotten the Israel issue out of the way. Doesn’t Nixon have conditions? Isn’t it a good idea to at least get Rockefeller to promise that he won’t settle scores before he agrees to step down?”

The other thing that came out of Pamela Mountbatten’s mouth, saying that the United States was very sincere about joining Britain in solving the current worldwide economic problems, surprisingly found its way to Pamela Mountbatten, a businessman.

Alan Wilson knew right away, “Contribute to an oil price hike to tie up the dollar? Digesting the hundreds of billions of dollars of over-issuance, which will surely cause inflation, short-lived economic problems are inevitable. However, the Rockefeller family is an oil tycoon, the world pays for the price increase of oil, the Rockefeller family happens to be an exception.”

“So what do you think, if you don’t agree, I’ll turn him down.” Pamela Mountbatten spoke up good-naturedly, knowing full well of course that her husband had always been very defensive of Britain’s interests.

“It’s still a tough choice, Saudi Arabia has the lowest cost of oil extraction amongst the Middle Eastern countries. It can even be fifty percent smaller than the cost of the UAE and Kuwait. In fact, the U.S. only needs to talk to Saudi Arabia and this matter can be done. But because there are still British troops present in the Middle East, especially in the Persian Gulf, if we strongly resist. It would be a tug of war. Even if the U.S. finally achieves its goal, it will suffer from a long period of inflation, and of course the U.S. will use all means to force Europe to give in.”

Alan Wilson explained the stakes to his wife, why in a short time Europe just can’t get rid of Russian gas? The most fundamental reason is that it’s cheap.

Saudi Arabia is the country with the lowest cost of oil extraction in the world, do not look at the United Kingdom in the beginning to deal with Iran seems to be not afraid of the oil embargo, but Saudi Arabia is completely different.

“Then what to do? Does Europe have the ability to resist?” Pamela Mountbatten inquired, “Are you able to swing this, how about uniting France?”

“It’s not a matter of our two countries, American troops are all over Europe.” Alan Wilson shook his head, “I’m trying to figure out what kind of offer to make, the yen problem should be solved, there should be other benefits to fight for, I’ll have to get Whitehall to make me a list out of it.”