Chapter 1564 panic society
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs funding is certainly useful, but also need to be divided into what is the matter, usually does not involve the national capital of the problem, that are harmless, but when it comes to the critical moment, the money is useless.
The world is very realistic, what cultural hegemony, hegemony of public opinion, in the final analysis is the need for military support, which is precisely what Japan lacked after its defeat, admittedly from an economic point of view, Japan’s defeat directly to the Americans kowtow to one, in exchange for a good day from the Japanese islands since there are human habitation has never had.
But military autonomy is not in the hands, even if there is a moment of good life, ultimately, it is also the infinite water can not be long, Japan, a country deliberately let go by the United States, and now the time has come to pay the debt for the United States.
“A country garrisoned by the United States cannot have the capacity to defy the will of the United States in fact. From this point of view General de Gaulle is very much to be admired, remember how great General de Gaulle was before the war when the French were following in the footsteps of Britain, and in looking at France now.”
Alan Wilson used France as a comparison in front of the Prime Minister, “Behind every dollar sent out is within the shadowy shroud of the American GI. In fact the same is true of Britain, which is why I have been using a variety of methods over the last almost twenty years to maintain Britain’s non-negligible military strength.”
Listening to the boasts of the man in front of her, Mrs. Thatcher, who did not agree with all that was said, but admitted that most of it made sense, suddenly blurted out, “Sir, the representative of the pro-American faction? It doesn’t seem so convincing.”
“How can I, a Brit, who needs to defend the national interest, believe in shared values kind of bullshit that is based on defending the British interest in defending the Anglo-American special relationship.”
Alan Wilson pointed out that common values is what Margaret Thatcher frequently mentioned, the two have very different perceptions of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, the emergence of life and death enemies Britain should indeed stand on the side of the United States.
But two countries are two countries, Alan Wilson is not the Stars and Stripes, the United States of America’s upper class has been solid before World War II, why he has to squeeze in, not necessarily squeezed in.
It’s much easier to squeeze into Australia, with a higher success rate, and an imperial legacy like Malaya to draw on.
“Sir’s explanation was an eye-opener, Sir’s wife is half Australian.” Mrs. Thatcher sneered, Pamela Mountbatten with a bunch of aristocrats stooping to the level of a bunch of convicts’ offspring, and smug? That’s a staunch defense of Britain, and being on-again, off-again with the US is a defense of Britain?
“Because Britain is stronger than Australia, is that clear enough to explain? Carol now lives in Australia a lot too.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to point out the female Prime Minister’s double standard.
Nonsense aside, what did Margaret Thatcher think of the arms sale of the Ark Royal? Alan Wilson knew in his heart that the Soviet Union and Iran were neighbors and could replenish their armaments through the Caspian Sea route.
If the Iran-Iraq war started, even if the Kingdom of Iraq sold down both Eagle-class carrier battle groups, it could not do to cut off Iran’s foreign aid.
From this point you can see the Soviet Union is so large country, in its heyday is how horrible, easily can radiate the influence of the entire Eurasian continent.
However, to cut off the arms sales of a major power can be done, the purchase of the Ark Royal arms sales success, even to weaken the Iranian maritime transportation, outside underestimated the radius of operation of aircraft carriers, even if it is to make foreign aid ships around the far it, the accumulation of a small number of great effect.
Mrs. Thatcher nodded her head and expressed her agreement in principle to the sale of heavy aircraft carriers, a strategic weapon, to Iraq, and Alan Wilson replied easily, “Now it’s up to the U.S. to see if it will object. If the U.S. objects, it will be necessary for us to let the Kingdom of Iraq know that the U.S. is objecting.”
The corners of Mrs. Thatcher’s mouth twitched, through this incident she had completely understood how the Cabinet Secretary actually defended the Anglo-American special relationship. When there was nothing going on, he was hanging on to the Anglo-American special relationship, and when there was something going on, any relationship was more important than the Anglo-American special relationship.
“Or what? Like you did in Washington, using the Kingdom of Iraq, a pro-British country, to take the heat for the American hostages.” Alan Wilson grunted softly, “Reagan, even if he was good looking when he was an actor, he’s old now, you can sacrifice Iraq with a hug, you mustn’t betray Britain with a kiss?”
“Enough, Sir.” Mrs. Thatcher heard the other side more and more outrageous, can not help but clap, not just a hug, endless take words to point her.
Just wanted to explain the situation, Alan Wilson has whisked his sleeve away, leaving the prime minister’s office to the prime minister, Mrs. Thatcher can only sulk at the empty office.
The news of a mysterious disease in the United States, with a long incubation period and no cure, had appeared in London, the heart of the British Empire, which was intolerable. According to the usual practice, the government should dispel the rumor, but it didn’t, and this kind of talk spread rapidly, leading to panic.
On BBC News, medical experts from the Department of Health finally appeared in front of the public, mentioning two main points, “Homosexuality is one of the main transmission routes, and the second is that keeping American spouses at an appropriate distance will stop the disease spreading to the UK in a short period of time.”
“Is there really such a terrible disease?” Pamela Mountbatten, who was watching TV with her husband, exclaimed, looking over at her silent husband.
“Uh, the description is correct. A dreadful disease indeed.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth, he could pretend to be relaxed about anything else, but he did have a bad conscience if he dared to say that AIDS wasn’t horrible. “For the next period of time, the Foreign Ministry may have the biggest job of explaining to the U.S. We don’t want to do it, we just have to do it.”
This side of Europe is the main destination for U.S. citizens to go abroad, Americans are also willing to go to socially developed places, go to Africa to explore, go to Latin America, Southeast Asia whoring people have, but certainly not the majority.
The Ministry of Health experts in the BBC above the rumor, not only did not help to reduce the panic of the British society, but also confirmed that the United States really outbreak of such a disease, immediately in the British society caused an uproar, which is also accompanied by some gay and lesbian affirmative action organizations to demand an apology from the Ministry of Health.
“Do these gays even have a brain?” Alan Wilson, who came to work in Whitehall, shook his head in disbelief when he heard the unconfirmed news from the Home Office’s permanent undersecretary about the parade being verbally abused and beaten by a large number of people, “Brewster, in principle we have to protect minorities, and while we understand the panic of the general citizenry, we have to persuade the citizens in a persuasive gesture, and not solve the problem with violence.”
Brewster eyed the supreme authority, not solving problems with violence in principle, so it was theoretically possible to do so? “I understand, Secretary General.”
This was followed by a message from the Foreign Office that, as Alan Wilson had predicted, Britain’s response of such magnitude had caused the United States to be displeased, and it was hoped that Britain would refrain from an alarmist stress response.
“Now we are also in a difficult position, if we suppress public opinion now, once the spread of the disease can not be controlled, no one can afford to pay this price.” Alan Wilson listened to Wick’s relay and directly replied, “In that case, the priority now is to cure this mysterious disease, even if there is only one case of a cured specimen, just inform the foreign minister to answer like this.”
AIDS can be cured? Even if there is only one case, to say that among the decades of time, there is indeed the existence of gifted beings who have cured themselves, but that is the best among the tens of millions of cases, and at the present time this time is certainly not available.
Allen Wilson’s answer seems to be loose conditions, after all, is the world’s first major scientific and technological power, can not cure an infectious disease? After all, the United Kingdom only need to ask for an example, there can be an explanation for the panic of the citizens.
But the supreme authority’s heart is like a mirror, the United States really can not find even one example, this one seems to be a very lenient conditions of the request, even if the city at the top of the mountain to make a shit-eating effort can not cross.
“Have the Undersecretary come here.” In the face of the sudden onslaught of the storm, Alan Wilson once again devoted himself to his work, a job that should rightfully be given to the former ambassador to the U.S., the current Deputy Secretary General of the Cabinet, Mr. Armstrong, who was known to be the Deputy Secretary General’s longtime ambassador to the U.S., and had always been the pawn of the special relationship between Britain and the U.S., and was best suited to soothe the now-agitated moods of the British community.
He believes that the Deputy Secretary General has the ability and determination to appease the public in the midst of this round of storms and at the same time defend the special relationship between Britain and the U.S. He can now predict Armstrong’s workflow, and in about a week’s time, he will need to make a trip to the BBC to explain that Whitehall has not ordered the gagging of the Department of Health officials who have previously appeared on BBC to acknowledge the existence of this contagious disease.
An efficient, clean and transparent British government would never do such a thing, and there will be absolutely no reprisals for the brave whistle blowers who have previously gone before the citizenry.
The Royal Territory of Rhodesia announced to the public on this day that U.S. citizens are not welcome to enter the country, and that U.S. citizens coming to the Royal Territory of Rhodesia must be in possession of a health report, and must also wait for a response from Rhodesia before they can set foot on the land of the Royal Territory.
“Rhodesia is embarrassing us greatly in this way.” Margaret Thatcher complained angrily, “They can’t be considerate of Britain’s difficulties when it comes to what they want to do.”
“Uh, Prime Minister, it is the Queen that the Crown Dependencies respect, and you, the Prime Minister of the ruling party, really can’t interfere with any decisions made by the Rhodesian side.” Alan Wilson calmly reminded that this was what was written in the agreement signed at the time of the transformation for the royal domain, in black and white, the British government could not interfere.
Pacify the people’s work naturally to Whitehall to do, Alan Wilson emphasized that as long as the citizens restrain panic, can help the country a lot, the difficulties faced by the United Kingdom will be reduced by a lot, after all, just in the entry and exit above the strengthened control is not difficult, the United Kingdom and there is no U.S. garrison in the territory of the United Kingdom.