Chapter 1778 – A Sincere Invitation

“This French is also too fast.” Alan Wilson couldn’t help but frown, was France distrustful of Britain? Did Mitterrand also have election pressure?

In any case, France’s move to eat is very ugly, there is absolutely no need to be in a hurry, how is this just back to order the French army into Hungary, making it seem as if someone is betraying the United States.

Allen Wilson called Middleton, face to face, “Just say to the Americans that the Queen’s parade, Britain will find an opportunity to talk to the French to deal with some of the current differences.”

There was an upside to the French eating their words; didn’t that cover Britain’s move to similarly betray the United States?

France could not be blamed with public opinion, but it could be hinted to the US through the intelligence network of the Five Eyes Coalition that the UK would find a way to pull the French back, and it was not the first time that France had made a similar mistake, and it was not unreasonable to grab the benefits in the context of the Cold War, which had been declared to have come to an end by President Bush.

He knew in his heart, of course, that things couldn’t be kept under wraps for long, but a day was a day, and the UK could make a series of preparations to guard against possible US containment.

Still, as the Royal Bank of Scotland announced, the takeover of the Bank of Poland was made public, the Americans put their skeptical eyes on the UK as well; what deal must these two countries have made with the Soviets in Berlin?

Whitehall used every trick in the book to say that the special relationship between Britain and the United States is rock solid, but once the suspicion begins it will not be so simple to end, the Central Intelligence Agency began to investigate Britain, France and the Soviet Union is not there is an unknown secret, the date of the general election is approaching, Margaret Thatcher announced an invitation to be in the Queen’s 40th anniversary of her accession to the throne, to invite the navies of all countries to participate in the British Empire parade of ships, of course, among the list of invitations, but also including the Soviet Union Red Navy.

And after the Queen’s 40th anniversary of the throne celebration, the Conservative Party will open the current general election, in order to win, Mrs. Thatcher also hinted that once re-election success will adjust some unpopular policies, as to whether or not it is including the adjustment of the poll tax, can only say that it can be considered.

“This is sort of the last stubbornness of the Iron Lady.” Alan Wilson, holding a hot tea in his hand, said in front of the new Deputy Chief of Staff of the British Army, who was also his son Albert.

“Father, will the Americans go to war with Britain over this?” Recently Alan Wilson had asked him to make a battle plan against the United States, which inevitably made Albert a little worried.

“America’s heaviest weighted opponent is Japan, when the difference in national strength between the two countries was more than ten times. America’s military buildup is not convincing, so the odds are that it won’t be, but we have to be prepared.”

Alan Wilson said as he thought, “The Pentagon in particular has no confidence in the Army, that’s an open fact and we all know it.”

The United States is certainly stronger economically than it was when Britain ruled the world, but militarily, should I put it this way beating a country that is a generation behind is definitely Wunderkind plentiful. But rather than the army can fight, it is more important to say that the weight of the plus brought on by science and technology is a little more, technology has advanced, remote animal husbandry has also been developed, it is not necessarily necessary to solve the problem by means of war.

Alan Wilson doesn’t think that the United States can pull the carriers in their hands and go toe-to-toe with the Royal Navy, but provoking the colonies to independence is quite possible.

“So Britain’s main military preparation right now is to protect the colonies’ peace.” Albert nodded, “I will immediately contact the three major joint war commands to discuss this matter.”

“It’s actually not a big problem, if it’s the Middle East that’s in trouble, there might be unexpected gains.” Alan Wilson yawned, “I reckon Mrs. Thatcher will announce after a while, the real content of the Berlin meeting, the Americans must be furious.”

The entire Soviet Union operated economic system trade regulations in pounds, will bring about a sea change, Japan’s industry is strong but far from Europe, Western Europe’s industrial system can be compared to the United States industry, and now with the addition of the Soviet Union as well as the parts of Eastern Europe, the difference is very obvious.

There are just a few industrial zones in the world, and as for petrodollars, Britain still has the UAE and Kuwait in its grasp, and relations with the Kingdom of Yinlak are smooth. Overall, Allen Wilson also feels the advantage is mine, but be careful in the future and avoid being an open car.

The U.S. is over sixty percent in debt, and Reagan overissued trillions of dollars? That’s America’s own business, and the pound was also overissued under Margaret Thatcher, and didn’t that require the Soviet market and trade to solve the overissuance of the pound?

The UK would definitely still be the US’s most loyal ally if the US let out internal and external trade to be settled in pounds, but obviously the US can’t do that, so that’s out of the question.

Sterling to dilute their own debt, obviously a country that has never had a financial industry is more appropriate, the Soviet Union is such a country, as for the United States that is a competitor, the end is already obvious, the United States can not help Britain solve the problem, but the Soviet Union can.

This is a visionary future on the scale of thousands and trillions of dollars, vital to London’s financial industry, not to mention verbal threats, even if it were true that the US had brought the carrier battle group over, it wouldn’t have worked.

Blaming France for the barricade, this time in the face of the deeply inquisitive U.S. ultimately failed, when the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom angrily approached the door, Alan Wilson explained, “Honorable Mr. Ambassador, the Prime Minister will be announced in the House of Commons of the contents of this Berlin meeting, there is no need at all for Washington to be in such a hurry. The last time I remember being in such a hurry was the time of inquiring about the Saudi arms sale, and farther back it seems to have come over to persuade England to concede to Iceland.”

“Sir, you know the alliance between Britain and the United States, and you know the power of the United States.” The ambassador was not pleased with this attitude.

“And do you know of my power?” Allen Wilson did not appreciate the threat, but would still answer in good faith, “You see, talking like that is not what we want. I can only answer that this time Britain might choose to defend its interests, after all, Britain really isn’t Japan, in fact, on a private level, from the fifties to now, because of the Comet and Boeing’s market grab, in any other country’s place, there wouldn’t be any bone crumbs left, and it just so happens that Boeing is an American industry, and that’s why they’ve stayed in peace with each other.”

“You’re just an ambassador who got political contributions in exchange for your services, why act all patriotic when you know that JFK’s father was also an ambassador at one time, and he didn’t die just the same? Right?”

Alan Wilson in no way threatening, completely honest, the British financial circle of the real big old people, have been on this time the strategic agreement, this is no longer an ambassador can stop?

This is the vision of the trillion dollar scale of interests, not to mention the verbal threat, the prime minister was collapsed in the future will also continue.

The United States from a variety of occasions to vent their dissatisfaction, so what is the use?

In the blink of an eye, came 1992, British public opinion has begun to look forward to the 40th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne, for Queen Elizabeth, if not to come up with a really big feat, then this life has been doomed.

Alan Wilson felt that the remembered years of the Queen’s reign, accompanied by the increasing decline of Britain’s national power and influence, were really nothing to write home about, except that they were rated on an equal footing with Cixi.

But he believed that this time would be different, in fact he was not the only one who thought so, the financiers in London, had already decided that this would be a great time, because a week earlier, Margaret Thatcher had officially announced the full content of the Berlin conference, in addition to the pound settlement media but insiders already knew, and even included the fact that Britain was already an observer state in the Warsaw Pact, of course, with France together.

In her speech to the House of Commons, Mrs. Thatcher took credit for everything the Soviet Union did from wanting to proliferate nuclear weapons to being willing to go nuclear, not returning to the Cold War, and opening up financial controls.

After her speech, she extended a formal invitation to the Soviet Red Navy for the Queen’s 40th anniversary parade.

Mrs. Thatcher also hinted that her own efforts for peace in Europe would establish confirmation of Britain’s leadership of Europe, without denying, of course, that France had some role to play in less important areas.

The old Bush felt that he suffered a back-stabbing, the United States of Britain and France at this time unprecedented rise in hostility, but immediately began to cool down again, apparently not the United States of America’s political circles are willing to turn the tables on Britain and France, after all, the two countries together, the strength of the two countries is still not to be underestimated.

Short-term pressure, or long-term layout, within the U.S. government caused a discussion, but obviously this major adjustment, not today after talking about the announcement tomorrow so simple. And it is not possible to jump ahead of Mrs. Thatcher’s time for this election.

“I’m going to retire soon, can I come over.” Alan Wilson hadn’t called Moscow for quite a while, and he’d wondered earlier whether to ask Alexeev to come over or the Culture Czar, but in the end, on reflection, the Culture Czar was a little more important.

Of course lately the supreme authority always calls, including but not limited to Hedy Lamarr, Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman, Bogina, Anna.

Hepburn, Monroe and Vivien Leigh and Her Royal Highness were right there in London, so there was no need for him to send out a love call, but he hoped to get the kids to come along, Foltseva’s kid had a traitor to sniff out and root out, so forget it, the others had better make the trip back.

“What? Is there going to be a curtain call ceremony?” Foltseva took the microphone, “Want me to witness a magnificent curtain call for the Secretary General of the British Cabinet?”

“There is this meaning, you come or not?” Alan Wilson lit a cigarette, the ringing sound followed the signal to Foltseva’s ears, “This parade can be called the beginning of a new era, it just so happens that I’ve also reached retirement age, it’s indeed very monumental, and you’ll probably meet a lot of new friends!”

“I’ll be there.” Foltseva replied dryly, “I’ll mainly be attending in person to see if the British side honors its promises, after all, your country is very cunning.”