Chapter 186: Nehru Comes to Town

“Oh, it’s Pamela.” Burgess gave Alan Wilson a meaningful look, letting the other party experience it for himself.

Something like jade, in fact, Alan Wilson thought it was a representation of IQ tax, but there was such a people in this world that had something called jade culture.

It just so happened that there were quite a few of this ethnic group in British Malaya, and in terms of production alone, if diamonds were an IQ tax, jadeite was a much more definitive IQ tax, especially for the Chinese.

Diamond reserves are huge, averaged over everyone on the planet, with another carat each. The industrial value of diamonds is very low, having an irreplaceable position only in the cutlery and abrasives industry.

The popularity of diamonds is a result of De Beers marketing. In ancient times, diamonds were mainly produced in India, with very low production, which is why they were so valuable. After the discovery of diamond mines in South Africa, diamond reserves skyrocketed. De Beers took advantage of the situation and took ownership of the South African diamond mines, limiting shipments and creating the illusion that diamonds were in short supply.

Emerald vein foot tens of thousands of square kilometers, out of the emerald is calculated in tons per year, a separate raw stone a few tons dozens of tons are normal, should not have such a high price. Alan Wilson also did not see the emerald as much precious, just want to be in this thing is not worth money, follow the example of Imperial Russia’s precious amber house, to create a set of furniture for themselves to do decoration.

This idea Alan Wilson thought was not excessive, and now Burma was also a colony of the British Empire. If the locals were willing to help him fulfill this small dream, he could expand his support for these ethnic armies by trading scrap iron for broken stones, considering the mountains of weapons that had piled up in European countries after the war.

Plus something like this IQ tax depends mostly on marketing, and who’s to say it couldn’t catch on in Europe and the US if it was advertised hard enough?

If you take into account the independence of Burma in 1948, Allen Wilson efforts in delaying a year, there are still three years to ship out these broken stones, the dream of the Emerald House should not be a problem.

It’s just that the current new Commissioner of British Burma doesn’t understand his bitterness, doesn’t understand that such things are useful for social stability, and that as soon as the ads blow up, women come out of the woodwork in pursuit of the shiny stuff.

Considering the espionage status of the man Burgess, Allen Wilson did not divulge too much of what was classified. Before Burgess arrived in Rangoon, Allen Wilson had contacted local civil servants to inquire about the local Indian National Army prisoners of war, who had been abused by the Burmese, but there were still some who had survived until now.

Rather coincidentally, the date of this communication with the Congress Party was close to the date of the final trial of the Indian National Army. I heard that there had been another mutiny by Indian soldiers, which of course was not surprisingly quickly resolved.

If there was a risk of provoking another mutiny, according to Allen Wilson’s idea there would be no trial, and the Burmese would simply be allowed to act cheaply and finish off all these Japanese lackeys.

Of course, after careful consideration, Allen Wilson still decided to see the results of communication with the NCP.

If there was a good result, let these Indian National Army soldiers who were pursuing national independence live for a few more days, if this result was unsatisfactory, then don’t blame it on the liquidation of the Axis-affiliated forces.

How to give the Congress Party something to think about during the next two to three years has been the thing that Alan Wilson thought about when he set foot on this land again.

It may be that within the confines of British India, a hard-line approach may be out of place for the time being.

But the British Empire was not just British India, there were many other colonies. Which brings us to another question, what was the role of Indians in the colonies of the British Empire.

Not counting the homogeneous colonies of Australia and Canada. British India, because of its importance in the British Empire, could of course trade in some privileges, such as acting as a local force to maintain British colonial rule in other British colonies.

If the Congress Party dared to take an uncooperative attitude, a wave of exclusion from India might not be far away. As assistant commissioner of British India, Alan Wilson had no control over the other colonies, but he could still intervene in the immediate neighborhood.

For example, Aden, the Yemeni city of Aden, located in the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, stifling the Red Sea to the gateway to the Indian Ocean, known as Europe, Asia, Africa, the three continents of the main hub of maritime transportation, but also the world’s most famous port.

Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula, looks and British India has nothing to do, but in fact Aden is part of British India, just not often appear on the map.

Aden was occupied and colonized by the British, and the British East India Company built fuel coal depots in Aden to fuel passing steamer ships for the settlement of Aden under the jurisdiction of Bombay until 1937, when it was separated from British India’s jurisdiction, as was Burma.

Because it was a transit point for Bombay, there were many Indians working locally in Aden, and if the Congress Party was not tamed, Alan Wilson might have to telegraph the Aden Commissioner.

While the Viceroy’s side of the house was preparing for the meeting, there was also a heated discussion going on within the Congress party, and Gandhi, as the elevated representative of a figure of wide influence, the signature of the Congress party, naturally had a large number of followers.

Are the ideals of these followers? In fact, they were similar to Gandhi himself, wanting the whole of British India to become a large rural village where everyone lived in peace after independence, and opposing the industrialization that was taking place.

This philosophy is really nothing new in this day and age, and political parties focusing on agriculture are very much in evidence, with the Croatian armed forces, long at war with the Yugoslav Fatherland Army, advocating this sort of thing.

If it were a few decades later, Alan Wilson felt that Europe’s wayward environmentalist parties would be considered heirs.

The internal discussions of the Congress Party, of which Allen Wilson naturally had no access, were nonetheless just as full of fireworks. Gandhi himself is to adhere to the non-violent non-cooperation, Nehru of course also expressed support for this, but the heart does not think, but also not like that defected to Japan’s former chairman of the Congress Party, and the British have to fight a war to a military to establish the country.

Nehru and Gandhi two of the Governor’s Office to release the news that will be built diametrically opposed, Gandhi is against, that this is another British conspiracy, Nehru has expressed support, that this is, after all, a good thing.

But apart from their attitudes towards the Great Build, the two men still had very much in common, for example, both believed that if independence was to come, it would be necessary for the whole of British India to be independent, to avoid splitting up into two or several countries.

When the two opinions were arguing, a third opinion naturally arose, and the third opinion was that the main focus should be on, as the Viceroyalty claimed, bridging the contradictions between the two religions.

The question then turned to the question of the unity of British India as a whole, if the rift between the two religions could be bridged and the unity of the whole of India preserved, which both Nehru and Gandhi were in favor of at the same time.

This internal discussion culminated in the decision to talk to the Viceroyalty in New Delhi.

Contrary to the Congress Party, the PMLN verbalized its opposition to this big build, but it did not turn into a demonstration.

And so it was that four days after the Christmas dinner, at the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi, Alan Wilson, representing the Viceroy’s House, waited for a representative of the Congress Party to come to his door.

“Nehru himself?” Listening to the report of the secretary of the Governor’s Office, Alan Wilson exuded a meaningful look, but immediately became breezy and said, “I have always held Mr. Nehru in high esteem, and it is well known that Mr. Nehru is a learned and personally charismatic leader.”

“Alan, how do you intend to deal with a leader with personal charisma, as you call him?” Sir Barron, who was sitting behind the table, spoke up and inquired, “Don’t mix personal feelings in your communication.”

“Of course not, Sir Barron.” Alan Wilson said politely with a slight bow of his head, “There is no room for personal bias in a formal meeting, and besides I have no personal grudge against the Indians.”

“Then I’ll have a cup of afternoon tea and wait to hear from you.” Sir Barron did not move, squatting a cup of black tea said.

Alan Wilson nodded his head and stepped out of Sir Barron’s office and headed for the conference room that had been swept out in a big way.

Nehru wearing traditional Indian robes, with a white cap, behind him is the Congress Party this time the representative of the Congress Party, a total of eight people entered the British India Viceroy’s residence, in the British guards under the watchful eye, came to the door of the conference room, pushed the door to enter.

“Welcome honorable guests of the Congress Party!” The two sides had just met, and Alan Wilson greeted them with a gentle smile, indicating that he had been looking forward to this moment for a long time, and had actually just come over.

It wasn’t that Nehru knew Alan Wilson, one could even say that he had long forgotten having pressurized a commissioner in Hyderabad. For Nehru, it was just a small matter of nodding his head and agreeing at a time when someone else was reporting.

How could a leader like Nehru, unlike Gandhi who had gone on a hunger strike at the drop of a hat, remember what he had done one day a few months ago?

In the face of a young negotiator’s enthusiasm, the Congress Party’s representative also reported a friendly smile, and even greeted with Hindu etiquette, Allen Wilson also pretended to return the salute with both hands in unison.

In the eyes of the Hindus, Buddhism is a branch of Hinduism, of course, this is only the Hindus in British India think so, other regions of the Buddhists think this is fart.

After a friendly greeting, the representatives of both sides took their seats, Alan Wilson smilingly said the sky is falling words, “In fact, I never thought that quite a lot of people in London say is true, that is, the Congress Party is the Bolsheviks of British India, Nehru is another Stalin, for some people say that we have to use drastic means to deal with the Congress Party, I personally have never been very agreeable to it. “