Chapter 158 A Sense of Secrecy

“Britain has always had a heartfelt admiration for the spirit of sacrifice shown by France during World War I.” May also know that he was a bit out of line, Alan Wilson immediately took a remedial attitude, glorifying the sacrifices made by France during World War I, while also remembering the comradeship in the trenches.

France is still to pull together, by virtue of the United Kingdom itself, will soon be in the gap between the United States and the Soviet Union, was crushed to pieces.

Alan Wilson really is a European faction, hoping that the British Empire to avoid the fate of the heel.

A speech to Nino Bertrand are said to tears, the surrounding diplomats are applauded, for the World War I period of Britain and France side by side of the comradeship of the war.

Brussels last night, the reception was filled with an atmosphere of unity and deep hope for a better tomorrow.

Edward Bridges, the Cabinet Secretary, was still sitting on the sidelines watching the lively reception from the attitude of a bystander, who at his age should have stayed away from such occasions and sipped his whisky when there were fewer people.

After the reception was over, Edward Bridges had Alan Wilson called to his room, and for no particular reason, except that he would be returning to London tomorrow, and was looking for a few people to talk to this evening.

There were only a few people to talk to, and most of the topics were business, from the colonies to reconstruction, and little by little the time passed.

“Then again, one thing our Prime Minister does agree with Mr. Churchill on is his assessment of General de Gaulle, amazingly consistent, the nuisance.” Alexander Cadogan shrugged, “Why does this general have so many problems and is always giving us a hard time.”

“His stubbornness is more conspicuous than his height.” Edward Bridges didn’t move, “If it’s a leader of a country, even if he has some suspicions in his heart, right, he certainly won’t openly proclaim it, but De Gaulle always expresses doubts about London’s intentions, which is a bit incomprehensible. There is no doubt that from our point of view this Commodore is a nuisance.”

“Honorable Sir Edward, Sir Alexander, General de Gaulle is indeed a difficult character to deal with. But we are not necessarily overly anxious; the Fourth Republic is and is a parliamentary state. Perhaps there are countless people within France that would like to involve this French hero.” Alan Wilson expressed his own opinion only after both of his top two bosses had finished expressing their opinions; fortresses were all breached from within.

The current French political system, but the parliamentary system of the Fourth Republic of France, the political instability of France can be said to be not even the twentieth century, can be traced back in a century.

Paris is known as the old revolutionary district, itself Paris in France, is absolutely a dominant position. From modern times, Paris has been France’s unique economic, political, cultural and artistic center.

The second largest city Lyon simply can not look back, in this case, the Parisians will naturally give birth to some kind of arrogance, almost from the end of the Bourbon dynasty, the provincials have become their outside of Paris of all the French, slightly mocking the name, that they are rustic.

This arrogance of the Parisians made them very discontented with almost all governments, and at certain moments these discontents turned into anarchic riots, or even into revolutions that toppled a dynasty.

This is not the first time in the history of France has long been the case, just established the Fourth French Republic, it seems to be twelve years appeared twenty-two governments, Allen Wilson’s impression, this is faster than the Japanese change the prime minister.

If not for the French politics in two hundred years have been in a state of instability, either revolution or restoration, time and time again internal strife, Britain is not so easy to suppress France.

“Let’s hope that those mature politicians in France will be like our politicians in England, so that de Gaulle can return to a life of leisure soon.” Edward Bridges said with a bemused look on his face and a glass of wine, “Mr. Churchill is much livelier now, and has simply lightened up by ten years since he became a backbencher again, and Parliament always hears him shouting in mid-sentence.”

“That’s true, from what the Foreign Secretary says, the diplomatic field is by far Mr. Churchill’s biggest complaint.” Alexander Cadogan agreed with a smirk, “He accuses the Labor government of being a proxy for the Soviet Union.”

“Oh, and what do the voters think?” Edward Bridges came to attention and pursued the question with a look of anticipation.

“It’s a complicated situation, the Conservative papers say that the Prime Minister serves the Soviet Union, the pro-Labor papers say that the former Prime Minister serves the United States.” Alexander Cadogan said, stifling a laugh.

“Which is not really such a problem, if the Soviets want information about London, they can just get two backbenchers from the British Communist Party. Pollitt would have told Stalin everything he knew.” Edward Bridges said with a twist, “Of course let’s stay out of the parties and let these MPs with different ideas work things out for themselves.”

There are currently over 50,000 members of the British Communist Party, and in the 1945 election two members of the party entered Parliament as backbenchers, much like Churchill’s role is now, and giving the ruling party a hard time is the great joy of a backbencher.

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However, the relationship between Britain and the Labor Party is quite good, and Prime Minister Adderley is a self-proclaimed socialist, so for the time being, the voice of the Conservative Party advocating toughness against the Soviet Union is still within manageable limits in the United Kingdom.

If we do not take into account that the number one and two figures of the Labor Party do not get along with each other, Edward Bridges feels that in a short period of time, the Labor Party should not encounter any difficulties, of course, this also depends on whether the international environment is favorable to the Labor Party in power.

On September 23rd, the Brussels Conference, which aimed at preserving European unity, was officially closed, and apart from a common declaration of the six countries, which no one could pick fault with, all that remained was an appeal.

But when it comes to the defense of Europe, a small step at the Brussels Conference is a big step for the people of Europe. Britain pulled France out of its plan to join the European Foreign Legion, and also to see what the reaction of the United States and the Soviet Union would be.

The reaction of the Soviet Union was tepid, and the reaction of the United States was not worth studying, but the current attitude of the United States and the Soviet Union can only be described as superficial, and the United States, which has suddenly risen to the top of the world, is faced with a lot of things that can be described as a lot of things.

Construction of any power is time-consuming, not to mention the United States has not yet been within the new situation of world leadership, to produce a consensus, and this does not take into account, at every turn, with a few months time to come up with a mature program of bureaucrats, in the delay on the role of the role of the United States of America.

The United States of America human lighthouse road has just begun, compared to still retain a certain strength of Britain and France, the situation in Europe seems to be quite stable, but the world’s largest number of people involved in the civil war is already in the pipeline, the Americans are in the Far East to show for the first time to show the world’s hegemonic leadership of the wrist.

The Far East does involve the United States now a lot of energy, the Soviet Union and the United States in the Korean Peninsula and the Hokkaido issue, constant friction, which is a short period of time, can not be resolved.

Although the World War was over, the governments in 1945 still had a full schedule.

For example, the United Kingdom, which had just finished the Brussels Conference, had to witness the founding of the United Nations and rush to San Francisco to formally sign the United Nations Charter.

As early as the previous meeting, the United States and the Soviet Union have been in the United Nations operating mechanism on the exchange of words.

As we all know, the right of veto is the cornerstone of the United Nations. It is precisely because of the right of veto that the five permanent members are able to comply with the principle of unanimity of major powers when it comes to the substantive resolutions of the Security Council other than those of a procedural nature, so as to maintain the stability of the international landscape.

However, because the veto power is so powerful, some powerful countries are attracted to the status of permanent members, while some other less powerful countries simply propose to abolish the veto power.

The Soviet Union insisted on the veto because the other countries were allies of the United States, and the Soviet Union felt alone in the United Nations and had to have a veto.

At the Yalta Conference, both Britain and the United States agreed to the idea of a veto.

After the Brussels Conference, the participating countries, except Spain, were preparing their schedules for San Francisco.

Allen Wilson, on the other hand, returned to the British-occupied areas and began to prepare for the handover, while wiping his ass clean in the meantime. Preventing those who came after him from idly exposing the fact that he had tricked his way through the occupied territories.

“I heard that the Soviet Union has sent a singing group to begin a visit to Paris, I wonder what the French and the Soviets are up to?” Being in British-occupied territory, the two deputy secretaries-general of the Board of Trade still had the leisure to concern themselves with the affairs of another country.

Allen Wilson, who had just returned to Bonn, had been busy destroying criminal records for the past few days, so how could he have the time to care about that kind of trivia, like right now he was on business, because the first month’s profits from the Heilmann tobacco factory had come out, and he was looking at his colleagues on the Board of Trade to see if they had clean hands and didn’t gobble up British India’s share of the pie.

“Alan, at the Brussels Conference, was there a resolution on the British Occupation.” Tim Brand took one look at Alan Wilson’s lack of response and turned to another question.

“Out of principle, no comment.” Allen Wilson flipped through the accounts and answered without thinking, “Regarding the status and management of the British Occupied Territories, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Secretary’s intention is that the Board of Trade will carry out direct management, in conjunction with London’s redeployment agency, pulling in the complementarity of British India and the British Occupied Territories, and the two wings together to drive local employment. As a confidentiality-conscious man, I have nothing to say.”

“Very secrecy-conscious.” Harold slapped his thigh and gave the compliment without mincing words.