Chapter 1647 – The Culture Czar’s Expectations

“Did you think that I was just going to show favor to the United States one way or the other?” Mrs. Thatcher squinted at the increasingly disrespectful man and gritted her silver teeth, “In your heart you just despise me.”

“Spare me the hatchet.” In the face of the poised empress fist, Alan Wilson chose to dodge, but also had the limit to admit it, “From the current dealings with the United States, really don’t see where you defend British interests, really hope to have the opportunity to prove this, I see even if the Soviet Union announced that foreign trade is settled in pounds sterling, you wouldn’t dare to agree.”

“Why would I dare not agree, you just look down on me.” Mrs. Thatcher dripped with whining, “Of course I’m the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, that’s never changed much.”

“Does it?” Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, “Like siding with Reagan for the Third Reich trip?”

Last year, when President Reagan visited the Federal Republic of Germany, one of the items on his agenda was a visit to the Bitburg cemetery, where the bones of SS servicemen were buried, and there was such an outcry and outrage in Western Europe that Reagan braved protests from all sectors of Western Europe to go to the Bitburg even though he was still accompanied by Chancellor Kohl.

Mrs. Thatcher, unlike the irritated Europeans, reacted with rare calm and “appreciated” Reagan’s “motivation” to go to Bitburg because it showed Reagan’s “strong desire for world peace and reconciliation in the future. “.

“Germany was a threat of the past. Reagan is now an important ally.” Margaret Thatcher explained her behavior, “Why is the gaze always on the past?”

“He’s still a political novice, Alzheimer’s.” Alan Wilson couldn’t help but chuckle playfully, “Maphead is a sheer idiot, and he’s only slightly smarter than Maphead. And yet we are for touting such a man as the leader of the free world as never seen before, hmmm. Honorable Prime Minister, if this world is unbalanced, Britain is America’s next enemy, and then maybe we, and France, will be the next round of American strikes. Anyway, if it were me, I wouldn’t spare a potential opponent.”

“As a matter of fact if I were an American, I would not have given up my suppression of Britain, no matter how much goodwill Britain showed after the war, and I could not allow Britain to leave any of its overseas territories behind. The Prime Minister, who was then a member of Parliament in the opposition party, had no idea how grief-stricken I was at the time in the face of the United States. I couldn’t wait to blow up Yellowstone.”

“I didn’t realize until today that the Anglo-American special relationship turned out to be not worth a penny in your eyes.” Mrs. Thatcher looked as if she had confronted the suspicion in her mind, “You simply despise America.”

“Who made America not go through hard times, two hilarious post-war wars.”

Alan Wilson did not deny this, it is like his previous life on James and Messi no feeling, non-major games as much as the king of the ball style, the more major games the more can not be counted on, was proved again and again the key moment will only be invisible.

The United States of America this country usually only think of the control of the allies launched to do the scapegoat, really to all the allies are sacrificed no, the United States raised his hand and surrendered him are not at all surprised.

Their own strength is the real strength, I believe that the United States is the end of the Plaza Agreement Japan, this is what he wanted to let Mrs. Thatcher understand, Britain still can not put their hopes on other countries.

Now it is not already unable to face the problem independently, there are Rhodesia and Malaya direct control of the place, as well as the garrison in the Middle East, how to run into a major problem first asked the United States for advice?

Margaret Thatcher if really in the next big chess game also even if, is afraid of this female prime minister really think, and the United States shoulder to shoulder stand together, when the United States will be after the victory to spare Britain a horse.

“I am unable to understand your plan, why do you put the obviously very important semiconductor in Xiangjiang, if as you say this industry is very important, put in Xiangjiang that is not very dangerous.”

Mrs. Thatcher recovered her face from above the inspection of Xiangjiang and questioned Alan Wilson’s plan.

“Because the supply chain is in East Asia, this will maximize the advantage, knowing that Japan’s semiconductor industry is now the strongest. And considering the market, only Xiangjiang is more suitable.”

Alan Wilson replied unhurriedly, “The two factors of market and supply chain make it possible to set up a production base in Xiangjiang. This is also the basic structure of the UK’s world power, the UK mainland is responsible for Europe, Xiangjiang is responsible for East Asia, and the economies of Malaya and Australia are connected as one, so far, nothing major has happened.”

He’s all about doing practical things, unlike Margaret Thatcher, who was good at posing as the leader of the free world, but other things, that’s about it.

Subsequently, Alan Wilson managed his own Whitehall, and Margaret Thatcher busied herself with establishing herself as the leader of the free world. Margaret Thatcher made a major speech in the southwestern British city of Torquay, where her Conservative Party held its central council meeting.

In this speech, Mrs. Thatcher set the tone of her visit to the Soviet Union, stating that she would seek détente through dialogue, but that the posture of dialogue would be absolutely tit-for-tat and pre-emptive.

This is quite different from the customary practice of most Western leaders of deliberately tantalizing their anti-Soviet overtones in their public speeches before a visit to the Soviet Union, in order to create some kind of friendly and harmonious atmosphere.

Mrs. Thatcher wanted to stand out at this delicate moment and show her toughness and iron will.

She said: “We have seen in the Soviet leader’s speech that he recognized in no uncertain terms that the system had lost its effectiveness. Not only has it failed to bring the Soviet Union up to speed with the West, but it has fallen even further behind. We hear Soviet leaders speaking in new languages, like ‘openness’ and ‘democratization’ as we have discovered. But does this language mean the same thing to them as it does to us? Certain people who were thrown into prison because of their religious and political beliefs have been released. This we welcome. But many more virtuous prisoners remain behind bars or are denied emigration. We want to see them set free and see them reunited with their families overseas if that is their choice.”

Meanwhile, the story of some Tory MP’s kids accidentally shooting a couple of local kids while showing compassion in Africa was squashed by Alan Wilson.

Pamela Mountbatten tugged at her husband’s ear as she said, disgruntled, “You’re letting your daughter engineer something like that? Really treating Pamela like an emotionless machine?”

“Oh, shock me.” Pulling his gaze back from the middle of the TV program, Alan Wilson replied curtly, “It’s not a big problem, Pamela deserves to see the real world as well, and it’s good for her, doesn’t this sort of thing happen all the time in the world? Right.”

Even as far as countries known for their law and order are concerned, take the Soviet Union for example, the law and order has deteriorated at a fast pace in the past few years, as for a certain big country, the severe crackdown hasn’t gone by for a few years, and eighty-three has not been so quickly tantalizingly forgotten up until now.

“That’s true, but she’s a girl, you can just command someone else to do this kind of thing.” Pamela Mountbatten lowered her hand, still not wanting her daughter involved in such things.

“But she chose to go into politics herself, and sooner or later she’s going to run into something like this. It’s better to be a conspirator than a puppet on a string.” Allen Wilson stood his ground, but immediately reassured, “I would never harm my own child, you have to believe me.”

He did not know that Alexeyev, who had returned to Moscow, had already told the Culture Czar about the meeting in Xiangjiang and the Culture Czar, and it so happened that the mention of the promise of supreme authority repeated the words, I am not going to harm my own child, and the Culture Czar acknowledged this after hearing it.

“It is right to be careful, think of Grishin, who was also removed from his post at this year’s conference.” Foltseva said to Alexeyev, “You should know what position he is in.”

Grishin was the first secretary of the Moscow City Council, appreciated during the Brezhnev era, considered a flag of Soviet conservatism, but now similarly removed from his post by the head of the map. In a system like the Soviet Union, the number one person has near unlimited power.

Brezhnev’s seemingly powerful bloc has been greatly weakened after Grishin’s removal, and the most powerful local powerhouse now would be Ukraine’s first secretary, Shcherbitsky.

“And I’m sure that if in offered to retire this time, this time the First Secretary would agree.” Foltseva explained, “Now that he’s in his seat, he’s starting to put his fans in all the key departments.”

“Sir says he’ll make a big problem out of it, and he’s very unimpressed with the abilities of the one in the Kremlin.” Alikseyev shook his head, “It’s a pity the meeting was still so short, I’m sure I would have gotten more out of it if I’d had a conversation with you, Mother.”

“That’s not a problem, the Foreign Office has already issued a diplomatic invitation to Britain, and from what I know of him, he’ll certainly find a way to come along.” Foltseva said with a relaxed expression, “Perhaps this time my conversation with him will be more important than the one in Potsdam.”

Foltseva would rather not trust a man of the same status as her husband, but the problem was obvious, the statistics for the year or so since the map head had come to power were not going to lie, all aspects had shown a certain degree of decline, which could not be remedied by the liftoff of the Mir space station.

An acceleration strategy was implemented to increase investment in machine building. However, it was not to be, and as a result of the overreaching reform measures, the country’s fiscal deficit widened, prices rose, currency increased, and industrial enterprises suffered large losses.

Foltseva felt that Gikhonov, the chairman of the Council of Ministers, even if he was carrying out Maphead’s instructions in all respects, was about to be made a scapegoat.

No amount of pro-people speeches from the map-head could make up for the total regression in data, and now even Foltseva felt that this was a fool’s errand, which was why she did not object to Alexeyev’s going abroad to meet with the Soviet Union’s enemy and father.