Chapter 1675 – Germany has a backbone

In fact, since 1987, the Soviet Union has changed a lot, otherwise Alexeyev would not have felt that something was wrong and had to meet with him.

After rounds and rounds of cleansing, there are not many explicit opponents of Map Head now, but of course, Map Head will promote the opponents one after another to the top, and most people will oppose him when they reach that position.

Put down the phone, Alan Wilson called two people to the Cabinet Secretary’s office, respectively, the Cabinet Deputy Secretary General Abu Strong and Robin Butler, to talk openly and honestly about, John Hunt, Burke Trench in addition to the gentleman respected by all colleagues, is about to leave the beloved work of this matter.

British Prosperity Foundation and the Commonwealth Foundation, must be reliable people to grasp to be able to, of course, this also marks the chances of asking the cabinet secretary general is not very good.

“You are actually widely supported by your colleagues and are, like me, rare traditionalists in this day and age. In fact having all worked together for so many years, you all know what I am.”

Armstrong, once the British ambassador to the United States in various countries, is nevertheless a self-proclaimed Europeanist, and his long tenure as Under-Secretary-General is due to a good relationship with Harold Wilson, and Heath, the leader of the Conservative Party, which has not been Prime Minister in this world, and which certainly has a European wing, Heath being a Europeanist.

“As for Robin, you can also choose to be the Permanent Undersecretary of the Treasury, Frank has recommended you before.” Alan Wilson said this with a turn of phrase, “But the work of the Treasury is probably more involved now than it was during the previous Prime Ministers’ tenures, and our Prime Minister prefers to be personally involved.”

Mrs. Thatcher’s personal style knew all about it, and with her certain sense of dictatorship and impatience with all sorts of procedures, Armstrong was in fact always being scolded.

Robin Butler has a typical elite trajectory, Harrow Public School workers top student, Oxford University, double chat first, sixty-one years into the Treasury, and quickly rose to prominence, and later became Mrs. Thatcher’s private secretary, which in the past few years to help Alan Wilson in the one-on-one with Mrs. Thatcher, to intercept a lot of people interruptions.

The only thing that is anything but credible is the possible rumor about 10 Downing Street being a husband and wife store, in which Robin Butler’s role may not have been innocent.

For the fifty-year-old Robin Butler, may not want to manage one of the two foundations so early, after all, the Cabinet Secretary with his age can still fight for it, so Alan Wilson did not guide the other party to make a choice, because of the pros and cons of it, Robin Butler himself will consider.

“The work of the Secretariat for European Affairs has always been a place where the Prime Minister has been extremely concerned but has been dissatisfied. But I think this NATO summit, our Prime Minister might have a new understanding.”

Alan Wilson said this turn of phrase, “of course, in order to reliable government generation to generation, there is also the permanent undersecretary position to be adjusted, we hope to choose out everyone recognized candidate, in the days to come to lead the various departments, this is not I alone to say, this matter we still need to discuss it.”

There are many candidates for these permanent undersecretaries, Terry Pence, Middleton and so on, Alan Wilson opened his mouth to explain, “What we want to avoid is the Cabinet Office, and the departments, becoming a subordinate department of the Prime Minister’s Office or the Minister’s Office, merely speaking on their behalf, and all choices are made on that basis.”

Robin Butler and Armstrong nodded at the same time, there was certainly no doubting that, both knew Margaret Thatcher’s style and even thought it was incredible that the Cabinet Secretary was able to stand up to the Prime Minister’s pressures, which were really nothing special, it was the Cabinet Secretary who had taken the Prime Minister on a manned space flight.

At the time of the conversation, is about to leave the civil service family of Burke Trench, John Hunt also came, the five people together to discuss, about the British Empire’s cornerstone should be how to tamp, and in Brussels, Margaret Thatcher, felt from being the British Prime Minister since, has been smooth and smooth international situation has changed.

NATO countries met in Brussels for their first summit in six years. French President Francois Mitterrand also fluttered into the meeting. It was the first time a French head of state had attended such a meeting since France withdrew from the NATO Military Committee and NATO headquarters was moved from Paris to Brussels.

And the bigger change was brought about by the signing of the INF treaty, which Britain’s attitude to the INF treaty, or the Thatcher government’s attitude to the INF treaty, was that signing it was fine, but that it would be acceptable to the Soviets to target Soviet ground forces in the GDR using short-range missiles with nuclear warheads, which couldn’t reach Moscow anyway, and that the Soviets would accept it.

But whereas the Federal German Chancellor talked up trust in map heads, Kohl, for one, did not see the need to modernize the NATO short missiles deployed on his territory, but still advocated avoiding the third zero option for short missiles and denuclearization, Foreign Minister Genscher took the opposite view to Chancellor Kohl.

This is because, situated at the forefront of the West’s confrontation with the Soviet Union and thus most exposed to the danger of a nuclear strike, Federal German politicians could not but respond positively to the Soviet peace offensive.

On the contrary, naturally they did not take kindly to the British, who still wanted to use Germany as a backstop, and the French sided with the FRG, which was very much unexpected by Mrs. Thatcher.

In the face of Mrs. Thatcher’s argument, Kohl did not change his attitude, which was very much to Mrs. Thatcher’s regret, the German leader does not give up the East and West to reach a basic balance of conventional military power and the premise of a clear limit of chemical weapons, in order to hold negotiations on the reduction of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

Still, it was good that Reagan backed Mrs. Thatcher and did not let the special Anglo-American relationship she had been advocating turn out to be useless, but Mrs. Thatcher was still nagging in the face of the German refusal, and when Alan Wilson came to 10 Downing Street with Whitehall’s adjustments for the two major foundations, Mrs. Thatcher talked to herself about how poorly the summit had gone, “Cole was duped by the Soviets.”

“That’s not necessarily true, it’s just that he didn’t want to be a scapegoat for Britain and the United States.” Alan Wilson corrected Mrs. Thatcher, “In fact, for the Germans, the British, American and French troops in Germany are essentially no different from the Soviet troops in the GDR.”

“How can you say that?” Mrs. Thatcher said with dissatisfaction, “There is still a difference, we have brought prosperity to the Germans, and the Germans should be grateful to us. But Kohl doesn’t show that.”

“Margaret, let’s be honest. The Americans won’t withdraw their troops even if the Soviet Union withdraws every single one of the GDR’s garrisons.”

Allen Wilson said with an expressionless face, “The American troops in Germany will always be there until Germany’s demise, and what makes the United States give in to the disagreements that have been occurring with Germany and Japan for many years now, when both countries give in? It is because of the existence of these garrisons, and the Soviet Union has been able to keep the trust of the GDR, again because of the garrisons.”

“It wouldn’t be hard to say that the Germans won’t openly oppose us, but it’s unlikely that they won’t curse oh us in their hearts. The move to threaten the GDR with the use of short-range missiles is certainly not something Kohl would approve of. I’m just being honest and not speaking from a German standpoint. The fact is that the Germans won’t budge when it comes to matters of security like this. In fact one of the things we should be worried about is that the Germans harbor ambitions for unification, so why don’t we think of another way to do it, such as getting in good with the GDR.”

Actually, Alan Wilson was just saying that, and also mentioned the diplomatic moves that the Koreans were making to improve relations with the Soviet bloc, to let Margaret Thatcher know that even if you were the British Prime Minister, you could at best control the UK, and there was no reason for other countries to give way.

Sadly, there was more regret to come, and once George Bush Sr. came to power, Mrs. Thatcher sensed a greater malice in the formerly smooth and friendly international environment. Germany under Kohl and Britain advocate differently that’s just an appetizer.

“As long as I am British Prime Minister, German unification is a dream and the Soviets will stop them.” Margaret Thatcher took the paper handed to her by Alan Wilson and signed it without even looking at it.

“This statement from the Prime Minister is what looks like an attitude of defending Britain’s interests.” Alan Wilson sat down directly and said, “In fact, we can make two-handed preparations, one is to openly oppose it, implying that while openly opposing it, once the Federal Republic of Germany attracts the East with its overwhelming economic strength, we may have to help the GDR a little. If that doesn’t work it’s time to find a way to delay it and develop a long-term plan of twenty to thirty years to keep the public opinion of German unification at bay.”

“I’m sure both France and Italy will be on our side when the time comes, with money to spare to stop this terrible scene.”

Allen Wilson in Mrs. Thatcher’s eyes, although sometimes speaks badly, but the attitude has always been sincere, see Allen Wilson is very serious about helping to solve the problem, the Iron Lady’s bad mood is also soothed a lot, “I just didn’t think that the Germans would disregard our ideas.”

“It’s okay.” Directly reaching out and grabbing the Iron Maiden’s hand, which was then shrugged off, Alan Wilson directly turned around with the documents, and his face became calm again.

It was only Germany, and soon Margaret Thatcher would recognize that the general climate was changing, and wishful thinking of the Reagan variety was not always the case.

With the Prime Minister’s approval, Alan Wilson appointed new personnel arrangements, Terry Pence, Middleton became the new Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, respectively, as well as the Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet and Secretary General of the Council of European Affairs, as for the Abstracts and Robin Butler, will be stepping in to manage the two sovereign foundations of the United Kingdom.