Chapter 1515 – The Afghan Coup

“Speaking of places of interest, I must mention their specialty, the panda, and it can now be concluded that the two countries are moving towards each other, so as a gesture of friendship, if the Prime Minister can ask for two pandas, I believe that the matter is by no means difficult, and Whitehall judges that at this present time it should be possible to accomplish the purpose. Note that it is one male and one female, permanently gifted rather than leased, and this point must be made clear.”

“It is possible, where appropriate, to set out Britain’s efforts in animal protection, with the example of the elk in front of us as a positive example.”

Because of a variety of reasons, anyway, the elk had come to the brink of extinction, obsessed with the elk of the British eleventh Duke of Belfort out of heavy money from Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, Manchester, England, Antwerp, Belgium, and other places to acquire eighteen elk, released in the fragrant wild and open, rich in water and grass in the Ubang Temple Manor carefully cared for, and the size of the population is constantly expanding.

Since then, the Beiford family generations, committed to restoring the elk population, and send them to the world to flourish, a rescue elk action in the world’s countries flourished.

All of the elk in the world today are descendants of those eighteen, and there are no elk in any of the major countries, except for two pairs that the British government presented in 1956 in an effort to improve bilateral relations.

However, it is obvious that this is not enough to form a population, if the panda issue can be loosened, in exchange for the British can return to a certain big country a certain base of elk, so that it will be revived in the original place.

To say that in this field of animal protection, Alan Wilson is not against anyone, after all, his eldest daughter is among the best, Pamela is very much in favor of her brother and the Rhodesian side of the establishment of a marriage relationship, in her eyes, this layer of relationship can be used as a guarantee that she in the royal territory of the enclosure.

In the end Alan Wilson finished all the thirty notes that were needed and added, “Since the visit will be in a few months, you can continue to add to it at that time, this is all that is needed at the moment.”

“Sir, in your case, will anyone doubt that you are the Prime Minister.” Callahan asked rhetorically, crying, “Of course, I didn’t mean anything else.”

“Say what? Prime Minister!” Alan Wilson proudly puffed out his chest, “We are nothing more than enforcers, but as enforcers we also have to make sure that we don’t make mistakes.”

“But something has clearly gone wrong with the execution as well.” Callahan opened his mouth to deride, connoting that Whitehall wasn’t carrying out the Cabinet’s orders one hundred percent either.

“Mainly because on internal issues, Whitehall must take into account the interests of all parties and look at the whole picture in order to achieve the best possible result.” Alan Wilson replied with a difficult look on his face, “As we all know, internal problems are far more serious than external problems. If the external problems are dealt with, it might be possible to use it to deal with the internal problems.”

As for the issue of Rhodesia’s merger, Alan Wilson decided to hold off for the time being, the problem didn’t lie with Ian Smith or Grace, there was nothing wrong there.

The problem lies in the other big countries, so the time for the merger of the two places is best after the problems on the Afghan side have surfaced, and while the other big players are just focusing on the Afghan side, the UK makes its own things happen.

Once the merger is successful, Britain’s post-war contraction can be said to be officially complete, and for the time being, Britain can do it, encompassing Newfoundland in North America, the Falkland Islands in Latin America, Rhodesia in Africa, Malaya in Asia, and the South Pacific territories in Australia, and Malta and Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea, which can be regarded as a pocket-sized version of the Empire of the Sunset.

Overseas territories two million square kilometers out, radiating from an area that includes almost all the traditional scope of the British Empire, thinning that is inevitable, but still a world power.

The territories retained, at least temporarily, were no smaller than those of the French who occupied Algeria. The problem is that it’s a bit more dispersed and less centralized than the French overseas territories.

Certainly not comparable to the USSR that was the world’s first in size that was certainly not comparable, and it seemed to fall slightly short of the next level up, Central America, but Alan Wilson had done his best, and now waited for the Black Concordat families of Southern Rhodesia to arrive in British Kenya, so that he could formally set a date for Kenya’s independence.

Kenya was small in size, but had once operated as the core area of British Africa, and after the war Britain had wanted to consolidate Africa into one colony to replace British India. The core area was Kenya, so there were not a lot of white immigrants in Kenya, over 400,000 of them.

These immigrants either stayed in Kenya, but it was reckoned to be unlikely, and if they left, they either returned to the mainland or went to Australia and Malaya and Xiangjiang, the latter depending on how it was considered.

The advantage of going to Australia is naturally the same language and the same race, Australia backed by a huge amount of minerals, certainly food and drink is not worried, in this world is even more so, with the United States and the United Kingdom is not yet dead through the joint guarantee, the days are quite nourishing.

But Australia’s prosperity was built on a series of layouts, for example, the conditions in Australia itself were not suitable for industrialization, and the easiest way to develop was to sell minerals, so Malaya was left to take on the role of producer.

Therefore, once Malaya became independent, not only Britain would be hard hit, but also Australia and New Zealand.

When it comes to immigration, it’s not just the UK that’s troubled either. The return of Portuguese citizens from overseas to their homeland can cause problems as well, after all, the UK wasn’t the only colonial power.

There are definitely different parts of the world, like the fact that Portugal is a small country after all, and while its efforts to maintain its colonial legacy are commendable, they basically don’t play a big role in the world situation.

But definitely not no role at all, for example, a lot of overseas Portuguese to Vegas as a place of residence, Vegas is increasing the white people, not necessarily when these live in Vegas Portuguese, become part of a large country, it can not be helped, Alan Wilson to help the transformation of the city of Vegas, it will happen, maybe this is life.

Who let Portugal’s local economy, indeed, has not yet developed well in Vegas, Allen Wilson has done his best to provide help, but also transferred the Land Rover pickup production line, but Portugal is essentially a small horse-drawn cart, not to mention the comparison of the whole world, in Europe Portugal is considered a small country, perennial maintenance of a huge overseas garrison, how much money is not enough.

Choose a tough foreign policy will happen this kind of thing, Allen Wilson helped the Soviet Union to optimize the strategy, can avoid the Soviet Union played off?

In fact, it can’t be avoided, the Soviet Union may spend money smarter, but the speed will never be slowed down in any way, except that the places where money shouldn’t be spent are omitted, and a few key areas of offense will cost more.

Afghanistan, for example, would be just as heavily invested by the USSR as a result of the Durand Line’s comparison with Pakistan, modified by the fact that China and the US would also be heavily invested in it, probably more so than they have historically been. Still, the USSR’s commitment will not be reduced, and to say that the USSR will retain its mettle is surely not to understand the country.

A few people know what it cost the USSR to win the Nicaragua war game in Latin America, the backyard of the United States, the USSR shelled out more than 20 billion dollars, hardly less than what it spent on the war in Afghanistan.

So Allen Wilson is absolutely not worried about the speed of the Soviet Union’s spending, will certainly be too hard, not too hard is not the style of the Slavs.

After work, Alan Wilson knocked on the door of Hepburn’s room, and in the midst of the ball flower has seen everything, to the place where the soul belongs.

In the early morning hours of April 27, coup forces under the command of Colonel Abdul Qadir, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Afghan Air Force, and Major Aslam Watarajan, Commander of the Tank Corps, rolled into the capital city of Kabul, cutting off the capital from the provinces.

The coup forces went into action, first seizing key ministries such as the radio station, the Ministry of Defense, and the Ministry of the Interior, where heavy fighting took place at the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, the Air Force Command, and the International Airport. The coup forces seized the prisons where political prisoners were being held, rescued PDP leaders, including Taraki, and escorted them to the coup headquarters at the radio station. Tanks encircling the presidential palace opened fire and bombarded it.

With the fall of the presidential palace, troops stationed throughout Afghanistan declared their allegiance to the new PDPA regime, but there was still localized fighting as some of the forces loyal to Daoud refused to pledge allegiance. The Soviet government declared its recognition of the new regime on the same day that the coup authorities announced the formation of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

Commenting on the coup, the TASS news agency said that the birth of the new Afghan government was “a turning point in the history of the Afghan national liberation movement”.

After shooting Daoud’s entire family, the PDPA collected incriminating evidence at the presidential palace that Daoud was ready to formally recognize the Durand Line and sell out Afghanistan’s main ethnic group to Pakistan, and made it public.

“The act of selling out the motherland of Afghanistan and giving the gathering place of the Pashtuns to Pakistan is the reason why the PDPP can’t bear it anymore, the Durand Line is a disgrace imposed on the Afghan people by imperialism, and the new Afghan government must take it back and maintain the territorial integrity of Afghanistan.”

Daoud’s crime, surely the good Dahl fabricated, Allen Wilson again in the visit to China among the notes added another, about the hegemony of a certain social imperialism, a great danger to the national defense and security of a large country, talk, can talk, there is nothing that can not be talked about.

In the days that followed, India as well as Pakistan were making statements around the Afghan change of heart, only with diametrically opposed positions.

The British Foreign Office naturally lashed out at the Soviet Union for its hegemonic behavior, with Alan Wilson suggesting before the prime minister that “Britain should publicly call for a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to make the Soviet Union understand the cost of doing so.”

“Isn’t that a little too extreme.” Callaghan felt as if it wasn’t such a strong case in terms of justification.

“It could be used as a threat to keep the Soviet Union from acting rashly and attempting to change the situation in the neighborhood.” Without changing his mind, Allen Wilson changed his words and said, “Why don’t we ask our American allies what they think.”