Chapter 1482 – On the Front Line

“We put everything in front of the cannon and they put the cannon in front of the butter ……” Taking the remote control and turning off the news showing Margaret Thatcher’s speech on her inauguration as leader of the Conservative Party, Alan Wilson crossed his fingers and dragged his chin as he looked around and said. “What does everyone think.”

“Somewhat unexpected, previous predictions that she was unlikely to become party leader.” John Hunt sighed then commented, “Mrs. Thatcher is kind of a gutsy MP though. The inaugural speech was almost like a Churchill visiting America and fierce looking.”

Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, was it fierce? In fact, when young, even if it is not the most beautiful kind, the appearance is also good, soft cough a little said, “We do not evaluate the appearance of politicians. But one can see that women in power are often more willing to act tough and want others to ignore her gender, like Indira Gandhi, Mrs. Meir.”

“Then it’s better for her to say less, it’s not wise to confront the Soviet Union now.” Burke Trend spoke up nonchalantly, “Look at the situation over the last few years, the comparison between the two is downright embarrassing.”

“Speaking of which, we have to look at the practical benefits of recognizing Angola’s independence. Portugal is already in that situation, try to follow the Chilean maneuver and give Portugal an understanding.” Alan Wilson mused, “Buy time for the withdrawal of large amounts of money from Goa, inform Lisbon of our proposal to expedite the transfer of wealth. Several British banks will assist.”

Both men nodded solemnly, and in any case, since Portugal thought it could no longer hold out, it could not return empty-handed.

Lately Portugal had been in the midst of chaos, the expenses of the war in Africa had trickled down to the mainland, and although Alan Wilson had done his best to help, it had only served to keep the revolution from breaking out a year or so late.

There was no doubt that both the United States and the Soviet Union were now doing everything they could to hopefully take control of the situation in Portugal, and the comparison between the coup in Portugal and that attempted coup by Marshal Pi against Allende in this world was the best proof of the double standard of the United States.

Because Portugal in Europe, even if the coup d’état of a revolutionary nature, the United States can hold its breath and continue to maintain patience to pull together, or open favor, hoping to pull Portugal on the track that the United States believes is right.

And that coup in Chile, if it is not unwilling to mention the name of the authority leaked information, Allende already grave grass ten feet five.

Where is the promise made two years ago at the International Congress of the Socialist Party, saying that he just wanted to lead Chile in economic development, saying that he would never undermine the electoral system.

“Nothing more than the leader of an opposition party. With the current Soviet Union in full voice, Mrs. Thatcher’s comments are just her personal remarks.” Alan Wilson smiled and pacified, “Whenever she gets to 10 Downing Street, that’s when it’s time to make good on what she said.”

With the outbreak of the oil crisis, the Soviet Union’s global offensive has made quite a bit of progress, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, which were originally French colonies, plus Indonesia, have almost split the world in two with the free world in Southeast Asia, and that’s not even counting the armed guerrillas in Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, and other countries, which, of course, have a certain major power partly to their credit.

Now the United States is not going to say anything, when one day the Soviet Union is finished, the city at the top of the mountain will surely teach to be a man.

These countries are also divided into two parts: those that use the Soviet system directly, and those whose ruling parties or leaders are favorable to the Soviet Union. If the latter is to be counted, Burma is not much of a reliable country in a certain sense, and Alan Wilson remembers that Burma was called the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma for a while, and was already ready to jump ship at the sight of a bad opportunity.

If not in this world’s Indo-Pakistani War, Britain played a hand landing in Bangladesh, it is not likely that the name of Burma has now been changed.

In fact, the most obvious country in Burma’s state is India, which has an electoral system, but no one can deny that it is an ally of the Soviet Union. Even Liberia, a country founded by black American immigrants, has been making frequent overtures to the Soviet Union in the past two years.

Countries like Ethiopia, Somalia, DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Mozambique, Angola, Togo are countries where all the institutions are copied from the USSR, and countries like Tanganyika, Liberia, and North Sudan are countries where the leaders or the ruling coalition maintains friendly relations with the USSR.

Once said that half of Africa is France, now half of Africa are pro-Soviet countries, which Allen Wilson also made a small contribution, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, such as the history of the United States of America’s staunch ally, became a close ally of the Soviet Union, it is the credit of his supreme authority, in fact, how can his credit only these, Hokkaido, Indonesia.

These two years the United States is very supportive of Britain’s African strategy, in addition to the Kingdom of Egypt, from the Red Sea has been down straight to South Africa, in addition to British Kenya, the entire east coast of Africa has been all by the broadly hostile camp supporters occupied, except that some of them are pro-soviet, some of them are and the Sino-Soviet relations are good.

In practical considerations, the United States, if not to support the United Kingdom, as seen as the Kingdom of Uganda, British Kenya also regime change, once from Cairo to Cape Town, the British Empire’s strategy for Africa, is about to be realized by the Soviet Union, the United States began to pass through South Africa, support for the white arm of Southern Rhodesia, but with the west of Angola, the east of Mozambique successive independence, and in the Soviet Union’s support before the independence of the South How long could Rhodesia hold out?

Alan Wilson was pessimistic anyway, the Labor government had already cleared the air with Southern Rhodesia, and if the white community did not agree to hand over power to the subject blacks, there was only one suggestion, to partition the country in proportion to its population, and that also depended on whether the blacks agreed or not.

Although the free world was tormented enough by this oil crisis, everyone was equal, even the United States swallowed most of the consequences of the currency overshooting, the United States declined, the economic gap between other countries and the United States narrowed, and the economic landscape shifted from the United States’ monopoly to a triad of the United States, Japan, and Western Europe competing with each other.

After entering the stage of stagflation, with the deepening of contradictions, the degree of stagflation occurring in each country’s economy is different, and the imbalance of development has taken a new turn.

Stagflation in the United States than European countries and Japan earlier, monetary overshooting is not the United States in South Vietnam scattered hundreds of billions of dollars it, but not what industries are affected by the economic crisis.

Chase Manhattan, Citibank, Hanwha Industrial, Barclays, Lloyds, HSBC, Sandy Lloyd’s, Midland and other such banks, without exception, in this economic storm earned a pot of money, London and New York, the two financial centers, bucking the trend of growth into the biggest winner of this oil crisis.

After work, Radwicky was already waiting in a Silver Soul, waiting for Alan Wilson to get into the car, “Secretary General, where to, the leader of the IRA side wants to meet with you.”

“No problem, Donaldson is it. Thank him for his contribution to the British Empire.” Alan Wilson nodded, “Although sometimes we have to pay a price.”

“It must have added a lot of trouble to the Secretary General.” Radwick expressed his apologies, “We also didn’t really expect to list Senator Churchill as a target.”

“It’s not incomprehensible that a representative of British imperialism would be a target.” Alan Wilson shook his head slightly, “In order to completely control the IRA, any price is worth it.”

Britain’s undercover agent in the IRA was more than just this one, to be honest, he just didn’t have a child with an Irish woman, but wherever there was he had to be sent to the IRA as an undercover agent.

Donaldson joined the IRA as a teenager and was involved in creating a series of riot attacks. In 1971, at the age of twenty-one, Donaldson was sentenced to four years in prison, where he formed a close friendship with future Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. Upon his release, Donaldson became one of Adams’ most trusted aides.

There was simply more than one undercover agent like Donaldson, both British-sent and absorbed Irish, and some sacrifices were inevitable in order to get these hard-working men with a heart for Great Britain promoted quickly.

In fact, Alan Wilson has spared Churchill’s offspring, but then think about it, or think let the Churchill family in the British Empire to contribute to the light and heat is better.

Allen Wilson is willing to step in to build an undercover, but also to express the importance of the other side, out of reluctance perspective, the IRA into a reliable force.

Of course, some of the activities of the funds can not be less, Alan Wilson how also invented a lot of things, ate a lot of royalties, the same as a book of scholars, some of the conspiracy theories such as the Soviet Union’s sleep experiments in the past few years is quite popular, especially in the North American market, do not need to move the private investment, do not have to manage Pamela Mountbatten to ask for money, their own money out of pocket to deal with this matter.

What’s wrong with paying for it yourself? Is there such a thing as a patriot in this world, and isn’t a controllable IRA more important than the lives of a few politicians?

“According to Marx’s class theory, the British people are not the enemy of the Irish people and all imperialist behavior is the responsibility of a small group of politicians. Military action cannot target civilians.” After talking for a while, Alan Wilson said grudgingly to the culprits of the assassination of Senator Churchill, “I wonder if the Honorable Mr. Donaldson thinks so?”

“Secretary-General, you are absolutely right.” Donaldson grasped the dollar to express his reverence, “The British people are by no means the enemy of the Irish people, Sir’s realization is astounding.”

“Of course, things are universally connected.” Alan Wilson smiled grudgingly, “Radwick will arrange the issue of your assistant, at the same time this is also in order to protect your safety, in no way is it any kind of surveillance, in fact, there is no need to spy on you at all, it’s not that there are no spies of your level, on the contrary, there are still quite a few. There is no need to be redundant.”

A little later in the evening Donaldson left first, and it was half an hour before Alan Wilson left the meeting place, being on the front line himself in a certain sense as Secretary General of the Cabinet, he needed comfort, especially from Hepburn.