Chapter 1509: The North-South Partition Program

Makins followed up the matter of military sales and came to the office to convey the recent situation to the Supreme Authority, “They are still quite satisfied with the performance of the fighter aircraft, after all, after the Iraqi Air Force has had combat experience in the hands of the Iraqi Air Force, but in terms of the price, I hope that we will be able to give a certain …… ”

“Can’t give even a penny, this is not an airliner, it’s a fighter, it’s a military sales contract.”

Alan Wilson directly vetoed, “If you think you can haggle, then you can find the big brother of the Soviet Union to try, of course, speak politely, be euphemistic, not too straight.”

“I think they’ll be able to accept that, isn’t it justified to pay pennies on the dollar?” Makins was a little amused at Alan Wilson’s addition, was that worth a focused reminder?

“Huh? While that’s true of the rules of the free world, their country is, after all, completely different from ours.” Allen Wilson bristled, “It’s always right to be careful, so don’t suffer.”

Makins was still too young, always applying the commercial credit of the free world to the countries of the other half of the world, for the countries of the Soviet system, there must be how not to overdo the mentality of wariness, not to mention other things, after the war, the Rollo engine incident, didn’t the USSR also break the contract?

In Alan Wilson’s original memory of history, North Korea in the seventies ordered a thousand Volvo, has been reneging on the debt, building a national network pitted against the Egyptian telecom company, kidnapping the Japanese Linlin.

Vietnam has just united leaders visited Singapore, want Singapore to pay war reparations, the reason is that Singapore as the U.S. military base in the Vietnam War to get rich, made an unjust enrichment, so that the Singapore face a question mark, just like saying the Vietnamese are not sick?

Not to mention other countries, before the collapse of the Soviet Union, dozens of countries owed the Soviet Union hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign debt, the great emperor have been the president for twenty years have not asked for it back.

The USSR itself was not recognized for its intellectual property rights, and all the countries that had supported it had followed suit, and they had all learned the skill of reverse engineering with the USSR, so how could they not be more careful?

In the military field, to other countries not limited to the opposite camp, are supposed to be strictly guarded, if the civilian field, this matter is not not negotiable.

Makins nodded his head heartily, expressing his admiration for the supreme authority to defend the interests of the country, “I know, according to our pricing, not even a penny cheaper.”

“As it should be.” Alan Wilson replied with an expressionless face, “It can almost be concluded that they are crying poor, to say the currency of other countries, they may really not have much in their hands, but to say the pound. Do you really think we don’t keep accounts in the Shannon?”

There would have been the African Great Lakes Railway cooperation project, the UK is not for nothing, that is all to give money.

Alan Wilson can not cooperate in civilian use, in the military sales still have to discount, even the most loyal communist warrior, do this is also easy to be hanging streetlights.

As Britain’s Cabinet Secretary, Alan Wilson can choose to cooperate, but can never unilaterally suffer losses, which is also a certain sense of offshore balance.

In the military sales on the strict defense, in the matter of the northern line of the Rotan Railway, Britain can make certain concessions, because this matter is indeed essentially the United Kingdom to profit more, hoping to find a stable external passage for the Rhodesian royal territory, but also to develop the Great Lakes region.

The construction of this railroad was no less difficult, and in fact the one that had been built before was no less difficult, as East Africa happened to be a wildlife migration area. It must be surveyed to come up with a route that will have the least impact and also link the Kingdom of Uganda, Kenya and all these places, which may be even more difficult than the last railroad line.

So Allen Wilson in the Sino-British cooperation in the construction of the Great Lakes region of Africa on this matter, the attitude is completely different from arms sales, anyway, the two countries have a huge gap between the cost of manpower, as long as almost all the conditions can be promised to each other.

After work, Radwicky drove to pick up Allen Wilson, and the latter took this year’s Korean history textbook to watch up, there is no textual difference, this year’s Korea has not been de-handwiched, Korean history textbooks he can read as well, a variety of maps to open up the border is non-existent, the latter days of the kind of the great Korean empire paragraph, belongs to the field of historical folk science.

When Xia Meng was cooking, Allen Wilson was immersed in the sea of knowledge unable to extricate himself, that is, sometimes it would be very abrupt to laugh out loud.

“What are you looking at, just know how to giggle.” Charmaine made the meal, greeted her man, and ran into the supreme authority cracking a smile again.

“Nothing, there’s something to be gained from reading the history of Koreans in their own position.” Alan Wilson closed the book and followed Charmaine to the front of the dining table, “It’s like reading an Irish history book.”

“What’s wrong with Korean history textbooks?” Charmaine was not a keyway man and wondered what pleasure men could get out of a boring history book.

“What’s wrong with it? I should say what’s different. Your country’s dynasties, the one that gets the biggest praise is the Yuan Dynasty, and the image of the Qing Dynasty is relatively okay.”

“Our country has a lot of heroes.” Xia Meng retorted in a small voice, “Tang Zong and Song Zu, Qin Huang and Han Wu.”

“I know all the characters you mentioned, but others don’t know, Europeans know Genghis Khan, if there is a second one it is Batou.” Alan Wilson explained honestly, “A country is basically insignificant without its population and boundaries. Take Turkey as an example, most people think of one name as Suleiman, whose reign was the peak of the Ottoman Empire, and the rest of the Ottoman sultans, even if they doubled as caliphs, who knows who they were?”

Applied to Korea as well, in modern times Korea has been an independent, or self-identified independent country.

Koreans look at the perspective of history has also changed, once on Huang taiji three knees nine kowtow to the King of Korea Li 倧, also considered by modern Koreans as a model of the overall situation. As for Li 倧, those pro-Ming dynasty ministers, is considered to be the culprit for the Korean dynasty to incur disaster.

“But Genghis Khan was not a Han Chinese.” Xia Meng cocked her head and elaborated on the historical concepts she accepted.

Alan Wilson blew on a mouthful of noodle soup and took a sip before saying, “Do you think that was the one-million-population Mongolia that William II was talking about when he spread the threat of the East? All countries are episodically strong, would Britain have gotten respect if it hadn’t fought all the world’s strongest countries? Respect for what? Respect for Shakespeare?”

Now that the world respects the United States and the Soviet Union, and even Britain respects the Soviet Union, does it respect Soviet literature and art? Even if it does, the main respect is for the tens of thousands of Soviet nuclear bombs, and the armies of tanks that you can’t see as far as the eye can see once they are spread out. Is it respect for the Russia that even the Poles could take down the capital?

Or would one respect the infantile America that gave the White House a burn? Of course Alan Wilson knows that this general realization is bad, but that’s the level most people are at.

If the world was full of smart people, Oxbridge would have been overrun with people a long time ago, and the fact that my kid is smart and just doesn’t learn well is just a self-congratulatory falsehood.

After enjoying the delicious food, Alan Wilson leaked Xia Meng a good news, Britain intends to work with Xia Meng’s home country, together on the matter of increasing influence in Africa.

This would be beneficial to both countries, Britain could consolidate its traditional influence on British Africa, a certain big country should not get much other than political influence now, but making good karma would definitely be useful in African affairs later on.

Negotiations were certainly not so easy, whether for arms sales or railroad cooperation, and long hours of negotiation were required, while the conference on the partition of Southern Rhodesia was again held in London.

There was definitely value in the death of Muldaur, the widely respected Nobel Prize winner in economics, and in the wake of Muldaur’s death, Britain turned up its public opinion horsepower to proclaim that it was almost impossible to live safely in the midst of a country with the hatred of whites and blacks, and that partition was the sensible way to protect each other’s interests.

Otherwise the future of Southern Rhodesia would be either white cleansing of the blacks or black cleansing of the whites, and the hatred between the two sides could no longer be muddled up by the use of a program, and was not Muldaur, who wanted to propose a program, already buried in Southern Africa?

In the second half of 1977, in foreign affairs, the Eastern Strategy and the question of Southern Rhodesia became the top priority of British diplomacy. The former, in particular, also drew strong protests from the Soviet side that Britain’s move harbored evil intentions and threatened the Soviet Union.

The aim was definitely what the Soviets thought, but of course Britain could not admit it, stating that the weapons sold were absolutely in line with the concept of defensive weapons, and that the threat to the Soviet Union was clearly unfounded in Moscow.

“This is a conciliatory world, should be high to seek common ground, I said the Foreign Office can change a little new words?” Pamela Mountbatten spoke up and teased her husband, “Is it useful to fool the Soviets?”

“Useful and useless but also to say, not because it is not useful to stop saying.” Alan Wilson replied in disbelief, “It doesn’t matter how the Soviet Union sees it, what matters is how our customers see it, anyway, at present the two military-civilian collaborations are almost negotiated, and it is estimated that there will be a good result.”

At the end of the year in London again held a round table on the issue of Southern Rhodesia, the representatives of the two sides met, and the United Kingdom came out with a partition program, at the same time, said that the British army is about to withdraw from Southern Rhodesia.

In this program, as the main ethnic group in Rhodesia, the blacks will be given eighty percent of the land, that is, 300,000 square kilometers, including the capital city of Harare, and the whites will migrate to the north near the royal territory of Rhodesia, this program and the blacks for the north-south partition, and the two ethnic groups have never been in contact with each other since then.