Chapter 1500: It’s Like America
The situation in Rhodesia will also affect the Angolan civil war, Angola and Mozambique have been independent for two years, the central government has declared to follow the Soviet Union, and Mozambique compared to Angola with oil resources is obviously guilty of harboring, and has become a wrestling field for all parties.
Alan Wilson of course knows that the Angolan civil war, the Soviet Union ultimately won, in order to not let South Africa in the future are facing the situation of the enemy, or to talk to the black leader Mugabe in good faith.
Otherwise, after the independence of Southern Rhodesia fell to the Soviet Union, South Africa will face unprecedented danger.
Before Ian Smith and Mugabe arrived in London, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for National Security Affairs Brzezinski has first arrived in London, Brzezinski only young memories of London.
At that time, Britain was still the center of the world in the eyes of the public, and Britain was still the Sunset Empire.
Things have changed, and although Britain still has considerable strength, there is no doubt that the United States and the Soviet Union are the countries that determine the direction of the world.
Sentimental Brzezinski still do not know, he once because of the Polish government in exile was betrayed, on the Allen Wilson heart of the must-kill list, the face of the smiling cabinet secretary general, he also felt that the person in front of him is good, plainly increased a trace of goodwill.
After all, it is also regarded as a famous figure, Allen Wilson, although he is used to seeing historical celebrities has not been surprised, but the benefits of having visibility are still there, he is very courteous to Brzezinski.
Brzezinski anti-Soviet is real, but never brainless, he knows that the United States with their own strength, now has a little bit of the Soviet Union can not handle, the balance of victory depends on the United States allies, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, compared to the Soviet side of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Hungary.
As long as the Soviet Union can be resolved, all the current problems of the United States are no longer a problem, in order to fix the Soviet Union, Brzezinski is willing to be friendly with all countries, even if the same Soviet system of countries, anyway, in the end, as long as the Soviet Union is finished, these minions are still not just the United States how to deal with.
Are willing to talk to the Soviet system countries, not to mention the United Kingdom is still an important ally of the United States, before the United Kingdom betrayed the Polish government in exile is not happy, but also by Brzezinski suppressed.
Even if Brzezinski mentioned the matter of the government in exile, Alan Wilson also had something to say, who can not make mistakes? Couldn’t Britain be deceived by the Soviet Union?
And it is also good to return to Poland is also better to organize anti-Soviet work, nothing more than to face the repression is also extremely strong, after all, the force is mutual, which no one can do anything about it.
The two men sat down directly to tell each other’s situation, Allen Wilson is willing to step in to receive Brzezinski is very normal, can not be a U.S. National Security Assistant, so that the prime minister to meet personally, right?
Brzezinski also did not nitpick the etiquette, he can not nitpick, and directly asked what the British position is, “Is it not to partition?”
“Uh!” Hearing this Allen Wilson was a bit embarrassed, as if Britain had only carried out an Indo-Pakistani partition once, right? How come Brzezinski meant it as if Britain always did that? So he shook his head decisively and said, “Of course we want the people of Southern Rhodesia, regardless of race, to live united in one country, just like the United States. To that end, of course, we try as hard as we can, but ultimately, we have to see where both sides stand, and if it’s like when Arizona was so determined to be independent, there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”
“I thought Britain already had a solution.” Brzezinski spoke half-heartedly, keeping only limited trust in this set of words.
“A solution isn’t necessarily good or bad until it comes to fruition.” Alan Wilson replied with a smirk, in fact the vast majority of the conversation with Brzezinski went very well.
That’s probably the good thing about being a realist, it’s like someone said, preferring to deal with Republicans ……
Of course, a single amicable Ning is not the style of the supreme authority, the key moment or to create cards out of thin air, in the face of Alan Wilson asked, some voices indicated that the United States and the Soviet Union want to dichotomize the world to fix the world’s pattern of the matter.
Brzezinski said categorically no such thing, “we of course still want to defeat the Soviet Union for the purpose, just now should establish a broader alliance, may not be willing to conflict with the Soviet Union for a short time, but the United States is absolutely no as Sir said, and the Soviet Union divided sphere of influence.”
“That’s good, I believe that in that case, the allies are also relieved.” Alan Wilson spoke up, making it clear that it wasn’t Britain that felt this way, but rather the other European countries that had such misgivings, feeling that the boss that had been so reliable had now become less so.
Every country now knows it’s the Soviet Union attacking and the United States defending, and the United States doesn’t have to reassure itself that it’s business as usual, and that if it really was business as usual it wouldn’t have taken the initiative to show favoritism to one of the major powers. It’s as if the Korean War had never been fought.
The United States in the need to bow down when or can? Alan Wilson thought about it, still having reservations about that assessment, and this time it was okay. That time, decades later, it seemed that the Sleeping King and the Democrats felt that the United States still had the national power to take care of two opponents at the same time.
Having achieved consensus on behalf of their respective countries, Britain and the United States, a pair with a special relationship, set about solving the problems of southern Africa, which inevitably led to whiny, strange words from France.
It was not that France had a preconceived notion about the United States, in fact France had a preconceived notion about any extra-territorial power expanding its power in Africa.
In fact, France has a problem with any extraterritorial power expanding its influence in Africa. The British pulling the U.S. together to solve the problems of Southern Africa is undoubtedly in the eyes of the French to invite the wolves into the house, but this kind of whining is easy to deal with, just as if you did not hear.
The Round Table Conference of Southern Rhodesia finally convened on time, although in theory Britain and the United States would no longer be guilty of currying favor with the black majority and treating white claims as if they didn’t exist. Still, Ian Smith’s years of activism had always had some support in both Britain and the United States.
Among other things, the Conservative Monday Club has launched a number of pro-Rhodesian actions and demonstrations in Downing Street in protest.
In addition, U.S. Senator Bailey Goward also said bluntly that “we need more people like Ian Smith. I think we have too few leaders in today’s world, and I hope that his actions will multiply a little bit and spread around”.
These voices, however, are still a little too thin compared to mainstream opinion to allow whites to secure their purpose.
Alan Wilson also nailed this point in front of Ian Smith, making it clear that the only way to save himself was to achieve as fair a partition as possible, and that the whites would surely end up with a small portion of the land.
Ian Smith’s opponent is, Zimbabwe African National Union chairman and first secretary Mugabe, Allen Wilson is not good to say that the latter day Zimbabwe face paper countless zeros and this leader related. Because once a country encounters the economic situation of sanctions, there will certainly be some distortion.
Even Russia as a big country suffered sanctions can not be said to have no effect, can only say that the land can still go on in the past, not to mention the conditions of Zimbabwe, which is countless times worse.
Ian Smith’s role now is very much like that of Ali Jinnah, the leader of the PMLN thirty years ago, expressing the idea that he was determined not to live in a country with blacks, ignoring Mugabe’s pretense of tolerance on the grounds that blacks who gained power would surely cleanse the whites of it, and that the whites would surely have to become independent, and no matter how much land was left in the end, there would be no regrets about it.
The front page headline of the Times on this day read, “Ali Jinnah in this day and age!” as the headline, detailing the dilemma Ian Smith faced, and on the one hand, implicitly pulling punches.
Alan Wilson also pretended to side with Mugabe along with Brzezinski, saying he would take his time to convince Ian Smith.
Of course Mugabe is not a figure to be fooled, and he always feels that Britain and the United States will ultimately side with the whites.
This is surely a slur against Britain and the US, what are a few hundred thousand so-called white compatriots compared to the good and evil of hundreds of millions of black Africans? The return is essentially worth nothing.
This attitude is not that Britain is so chauvinistic; it can only mean that the blacks have a unifying value that the local whites do not. If whites weren’t only a tenth of the total population, Britain would definitely have a different attitude.
Ian Smith, of course, has already been in this side of the delivery, in the face of Mugabe’s show of goodwill as if it did not see, claiming to be the last bullet, fighting to the last warrior, “the partition of Rhodesia is already the biggest concessions I can offer, if some people for all the value of the so-called local natives on the side of the side, we have no choice, only to fight to the end. Destroy all traces of modernity in Rhodesia and return the entire region to the age of barbarism.”
“Ian, why learn from the French?” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to be a peacemaker, still doing his last bit to unite the forces in Rhodesia.
Britain was on the side of the majority, of course, but if one group vehemently disagreed, then this? If Britain shrugged it off, the situation in Rhodesia could devolve into a tyranny of the majority in the future, and that’s not a future Britain wants to happen.
The Southern Rhodesian Round Table, almost every day’s progress was a grab for space, by which it hoped to shape public opinion the way Whitehall wanted to see it, and while it was in the principle of majority that the blacks should be supported, the whites should not be disregarded, which would lead to a prolonged civil war.
“Mr. Brzezinski, the Electoral College system in the United States, could it be applied to Rhodesia.” Alan Wilson inquired wistfully, the American electoral system is democratic, but not so democratic.
“Ian Smith’s support is so low that any kind of electoral design is useless; we can’t fix the right to vote only for black college students, as we did at the turn of the century, can we?”