Chapter 161 Turing

“Come over often when you have time, and treat this place as if it were your own home. Oh, Alan, don’t always express what is called kindness.” Sending Alan Wilson to the door, Edwina Ashley instructed in a fine voice, but finally uttered something without a clue.

“Eh?” Allen Wilson furrowed his brows, savoring Edwina Ashley’s words, as if there was something wrong somewhere, and as if it was nothing?

“This guy!” Edwina Ashley pursed her lips and shook her head, her eyes filled with pity as she thought, “Maybe he’s still in the dark now and doesn’t realize how deeply he’s been portrayed in Paris.”

Because the public party came to power, the current Secretary of State for India has of course changed, the current Secretary of State for India is Lord Pethick Lawrence, but Pethick Lawrence is not the Secretary of State for India because of his knowledge of things in British India.

Quite the contrary, Pethick-Lawrence was a well-known women’s movement activist, motivated by the women’s liberation movement. How politically correct a background that seemed to Alan Wilson to be completely at odds with colonial things.

But this was democracy, and a passionate supporter of women’s emancipation could become Secretary of State for India.

Leaving the Ministry of Indian Affairs, Allen Wilson went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building again, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs permanent undersecretary Alexander Cadogan, but a little bit of no foreigners, a look you can be considered to come, “Allen, is back to graduate, I think about it, and may have to receive a medal, and then ready to leave for New Delhi, right?”

“Uh, can I say right?” Alan Wilson’s face clouded over, wondering what the other man was up to.

“It’s like this, I’m about to leave for San Francisco to lead the professional civil servants of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to leave a colorful mark on the official signing of the United Nations.” Alexander Cadogan first expressed his longing for the San Francisco conference, and then turned his words around and said, “I have to say that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been even more excessively busy in the time since the end of the war than it was during the war. I didn’t even feel the need to expand the establishment of the Foreign Office during the war period, but now I have this idea.”

Is this an expansion of recruitment? Alan Wilson asked himself if it was quite normal even to have such thoughts.

Politicians often make wonderful promises at election time, such as streamlining the size of their departments. But civil service chiefs never want their departments to be as big as possible, and it was only natural that Alexander Cadogan, as the civil service chief of the Foreign Office, would think this way.

However, Allen Wilson guessed wrong, Alexander Cadogan only expressed his wish for Allen Wilson’s help in balancing the private matters of graduation and the public matters of receiving foreign guests, because he had done similar work before.

“Reception of foreign guests?” Alan Wilson asked back suspiciously, “Sir Alexander, I’m going back to New Delhi. And when have I ever done a similar job?”

“Oh, Alan. You’ve got medals to receive and a thesis to do. It’s no big deal to receive foreign guests again. It also shows that the Empire thinks highly of you, knowing that the busier the civil servant the higher the status tends to be.” Alexander Cadogan opened his mouth to encourage, “Take me for example, I’m busy with the United Nations right now, which is something you can’t understand.”

Maybe I really can’t understand how hard it is for you to spend a month preparing a speech for the UN!

The door of the office was pushed open and a man with Mediterranean hair style walked in, very surprised that Alan Wilson was here, looked deeply and then as if remembering something, took the initiative to greet him, “Alan?”

This time back in London Allen Wilson had the illusion that he seemed to have increased his popularity greatly, hesitantly opened his mouth, “Honorable sir, may I ask, who are you?”

“A colleague of Alexander’s!” George Middleton, Director of Personnel at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, snorted, learned the ins and outs from Alexander Cadogan, nodded for Allen Wilson to sit down, and said with a gentle expression on his face, “Allen, in fact, in terms of the current situation, we can say that whether the Ministry of Indian Affairs exists or not is still an unknown, I think you are a smart person, in order to serve the future better for the British Empire, you should always be brave enough to take responsibility and exercise to become a seasoned diplomat.”

“Once the Ministry of Indian Affairs is abolished, you with your glowing resume will be able to enter the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as you wish, won’t you?”

Was that a threat? Alan Wilson asked himself as if the Director of Personnel at the Ministry of External Affairs did mean it in that way.

“I have always been overly enthusiastic about my work, as long as the empire needs me, I will do anything.” Alan Wilson’s face was filled with a genuine smile, indicating that he was happy to take responsibility as well as use it.

“It won’t be forced, will it?” George Middleton said knowingly, “Our Foreign Office has never been very democratic.”

“Absolutely not reluctantly.” Alan Wilson’s answer was decisive, completely displaying the professionalism of an imperial civil servant, George Middleton nodded approvingly and let down a stack of documents to leave Alexander Cadogan’s office.

Who let people manage the personnel it, people under the eaves have to bow their heads, Alan Wilson understand this reasoning.

Director of the Ministry of Personnel, first of all, there are two rights to make people can only smile, the implementation of the imperial civil service system, responsible for the classification of positions in the imperial civil service, examination and recruitment, assessment, job elevation, rewards and punishments, wages and benefits, retirement and retirement, and the protection of power.

The second is, to carry out the management and appointment and removal of civil servants at a certain level; to macroscopically manage the administrative personnel and professional and technical personnel of institutions; and to be responsible for the evaluation of professional and technical positions in enterprises and institutions.

“George is joking with you.” Alexander Cadogan timely show his broad-mindedness, with a person to slap, he can give a sweet date, “No matter whether the Ministry of Indian Affairs exists or does not exist in the future, and no matter how long it exists, after the days of the Ministry of Indian Affairs, there must be a lot of Indian Ministry of Affairs colleagues into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to work, this Alan can rest assured that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will need such a talent as you. ”

“It’s like this, I’m going to San Francisco in the middle of the month to sign the UN documents, I don’t need to tell you Alan to understand what an important stage this is, nothing can distract me at this time.” Alexander Cadogan said a little about his own schedule, indicating that the event was of great significance.

Alan Wilson nodded, he remembered that Alexander Cadogan seemed to be the British ambassador to the United Nations later on.

“But what about this time of year, the Red Banner of Alexandria Cabaret, which is visiting Paris, is coming to London in the middle of the month. The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are taking this very seriously. But the UN can’t be delayed. I need a diplomat who has dealt with the Soviets to take charge of the reception.” Alexander Cadogan hinted, “He must have superior energy, quick thinking, and above all be reliable.”

As soon as Alan Wilson heard that, he carefully recalled his work in the recent months, it seemed that he had heard the evaluation of reliable more than once, it seemed that among the civil service, the top evaluation was not any professionalism or style, but reliability.

“I will be very reliable in my reception work.” Alan Wilson gave an equally reliable answer.

“Very well, by the way, go to MI6 to receive your medal. I’ll arrange for your graduation.” Alexander Cadogan’s mouth was full of relief, and he said with an expression of I think highly of you.

With the end of the war, the awarding ceremony to reward the wartime meritorious personnel was also put on the agenda, the awarding of this thing had nothing to do with Alan Wilson, but because of the matter of providing the important intelligence of Pearl Harbor, he did have a medal to receive.

Because it is the outstanding achievements on the secret front, in order to hide the merits and fame, so to take into account a certain degree of confidentiality, Alan Wilson to receive the medal of the place is the MI6.

Alan Wilson arrived at MI6, the same there are several people have been waiting there, or gossip, or alone on the side of the silence, among them there is a man who does not look old, sitting in a chair quietly stay.

Seeing that the gathering pile was in full swing, and that he might not be able to intervene if he went, Allen Wilson sat down next to the somewhat isolated looking man, and introduced himself, “Allen Wilson, is mister here to receive his medal, too?”

“Yes, you too? Oh, excuse me, my name is Allen Matheson Turing.” Turing extended his hand in a friendly gesture, “I’ll call you Wilson, it’s a little strange to call yourself by your own name.”

“Turing!” Alan Wilson’s voice appeared some tremors when he called Turing’s name, this was a big name, the father of computers?

After the outbreak of the Second World War, Turing enlisted in the army and began to serve in the Intelligence Center, his main task was to decipher the German army codes. The intelligence he deciphered played a key role in important military operations such as the Normandy landings.

After Germany’s famous cryptographic system Enigma was put into the war, the German submarine force equipped with Enigma sank a total of more than one thousand Allied ships. Due to the inability to decipher the German code within a short period of time, the Allied military supply line in the North Atlantic faced extinction.

Such a genius just because it is a gender issue on the suicide, too much of a pity. Although Alan Wilson knew in his heart that the opposite side is a comrade, but also did not show discrimination.

There is nothing to be afraid of, the Cambridge Five two comrades, Alan Wilson have seen, as long as they do not disturb themselves, there will be no problem. Maybe when a country goes downhill, there will be similar things, a computer genius but because of this kind of thing was forced to commit suicide.

Alan Wilson was not sorry in his heart, and talked to Turing, who was like a different person when he talked about cracking Enigma, and was a different person from the quietness he had just been.

“Oh, I forgot, Wilson how did you get the Japanese intelligence.” Turing asked with interest.

Celestial sensing! Alan Wilson would like to say so, but no one believed it, just said, it was discovered by chance through intelligence officers, and Turing could not be compared.