Chapter 188: To combine labor and rest

“Please don’t misunderstand, it was the Japanese who tampered with the airplane. After all, in order to fight for a good treatment after the war, this is understandable. It’s not just selling out a colonial resistance leader, in the final analysis, people have to think for themselves.”

Seeing the silence of the Congress people, including Nehru, it was Alan Wilson who spoke up to break the silence and unraveled the cause of the death of former Congress leader Chandra Bose.

Nehru was silent, remembering his days in the Congress party with Chandra Bose. The two actually had a lot in common, like both had gone to England for further studies and both felt that socialism could save India. But Chandra Bose was clearly more radical than Nehru.

In the thirties Bose traveled to Europe, during which time he also researched and wrote the first part of his beloved work, The Struggle for India, which chronicled Chandra Bose’s experiences in the independence movement and the building of syndicalism.

On his return from Europe, Bose put forward his view that “the struggle against corruption should be organized on the widest possible anti-imperialist front, with the twin objectives of winning political freedom and establishing a socialist regime.”

Bose was almost elected president of the Congress of Communes. He stood for unity and independence at all costs, including the use of all necessary force against enemies within and without.

That was also the day when Nehru and Chandra Bose began to go their separate ways, Nehru felt that force-wise India was not strong enough to take on Britain, that India needed time to develop, and that it was better for London to maintain a confrontational yet cooperative relationship.

Chandra Bose, on the other hand, wanted an immediate national uprising to overthrow the British colonizers.

In retrospect, Chandra Bose’s proposition was unattainable at that time in 1934. But he had not expected Chandra Bose to end up being so extreme as to join the Axis directly.

Now from the eyes of this British people learned the cause of Chandra Bose’s death, Nehru’s heart is quite complicated.

On the one hand, Nehru’s heart could not help but feel a little sad, on the other hand, he was glad that Chandra Bose’s death also showed that his own claim was the right one.

As for the eyes of this British from the Congress Party into the conference room, began to put a tough attitude, until the mention of Chandra Bose’s death, Nehru believes that it is nothing more than to force their own concessions.

Since the Brussels Conference, Britain and France had joined forces with the European colonial powers and embraced a return to Asia, with the Dutch navy shelling Jakarta, French troops landing from South Vietnam, British and French pressure forcing Thailand to cede the Isthmus of Kra.

As well as Portugal to increase troops in Goa, Spain to form the Far East Dispatch Army, all the signs indicate that this time the Europeans are embracing the group to remove all the barriers between each other, put all the power in the suppression of colonial action.

And the mention of Chandra Bose being dropped dead by the Japanese is a veiled reference to the fact that the Axis powers that some colonial resistance organizations had counted on had been overthrown, and not only overthrown, but in order to avoid punishment, they had taken the initiative to kill the leaders of the armed forces that they had previously supported.

The Japanese, whom Chandra Bose had counted on, could yet be taken out by the Japanese as a sacrifice to appease the Allies’ wrath.

Does the Congress Party still think it is wartime when the European imperialist countries are now coming back in a group? That it could threaten Britain?

Alan Wilson did not expect Nehru without saying a word to brainstorm so many problems, he is actually very blunt threat to Nehru, did not expect these politicians so much bending, they put themselves in a circle.

Although the atmosphere is a little awkward, things still have to talk about, after the threat, Alan Wilson also said that the current situation is so blunt, on the one hand, the British Empire and India can be a win-win situation, on the one hand, it can also be a lose-lose situation, which depends on the Congress Party’s choice.

Once the big build begins, the demand in British India will drive the recovery of the British mainland, which is a win-win situation.

If the Congress Party comes back to the non-violent non-cooperation, the British Empire will talk to the PML-N. The Congress Party is not the only national party in British India.

Moreover, in terms of interest, the PML-N will probably be more vigorous in its implementation, and more than half of Greater Bengal itself is pacifist, so the mass base is still very good.

Pacifists are only a quarter of the population of British India, but as long as this quarter follows the British, the same can be made to implement the big building program, and finally Allen Wilson said in a salty way, “Who let in this piece of land, manpower is the most worthless thing, maybe this is life.”

This? The negotiators of the Congress Party looked at each other, and must admit that Allen Wilson is right, in British India manpower is the least thing in short supply, even if it is a pacifist, the same manpower can be mobilized to support the big construction.

Now, after all, it is not the environment after World War I. At that time, Ali Jinnah and the Congress Party maintained a close relationship, and together they fought against the rule of the British colonizers, but since the PML-N and the Congress Party parted ways in the thirties, the relationship between the two sides has become more and more strained. It is no longer possible to be united as they were after the end of World War I.

The PMLN is the Congress Party’s soft underbelly, and Nehru, equally aware of this, opened his mouth slowly and asked rhetorically, “I think London should know that it is the Congress Party that is the most powerful party to represent India.”

“It depends on the willingness of the Congress Party to cooperate, and the London government is open to that.” Alan Wilson performed another nationalist face turn and his tone became softer, “Now can we talk about a win-win situation? The British Empire gets rid of the negative effects of the war and India can become a powerful entity. This is not such a difficult quote to consider, is it?”

“Don’t reject such a good offer because of so-called national sentiments, this is a revitalization plan involving six million, old industrial areas of Calcutta, think about it, the feeding of six million people, their future depends on the present attitude of the Congress Party, how many families are behind six million people, and how many people are in these families?”

If the survey report is correct, six million industrial workers do exist in the whole of Greater Bengal. I just don’t know what is the gold content of this workers?

But in any case, British India in 1945 was indeed much stronger than the country under the national leader, Chang Kung, and was simply not in the same league. It can be said that the end of the Qing Dynasty, the little industry, the warlords can be utilized, replaced by the gun party all become scrap metal.

Chang Gong controlled half of the country, eight years to produce weapons, not as good as Yan Laoshi an inland province, which who dare believe. Changgong should have had a lot in common with Gandhi on some topics, like turning the whole country into one big rural village.

But Nehru is not Gandhi, flipping through the big building plan is still in the middle of consideration, glanced at the side of the aide, the aide will understand the opening of the mouth to ask, “We think that this is good for the whole of India, but need to be detailed.”

“No problem.” Allen Wilson agreed mildly, telling the Viceroy’s secretary to call in the professionals, he was still lacking in professionalism in this matter and was just in time to make up for it.

Soon began to enter the revitalization of Calcutta’s old industrial zone in the middle of the negotiations on the significance of revitalizing the old industrial zone.

First of all, take into account the significance of the Ganges Delta on the whole of British India, the Ganges River as the mother river of British India, carrying eighty percent of the population of the subcontinent, the Ganges Delta as the mouth of the Ganges River, has a very great significance.

The Ganges Delta is the impact plain, the local population is dense development potential is huge, in the whole proportion of British India, occupies a very large share, if you strengthen this advantage, and can even drive the economic development of the entire Ganges basin.

Kolkata industrial zone is the industrial cradle of British India, resources, industry, talent, infrastructure and other supporting capacity is strong, the development of space and huge potential. Superior conditions, along the border and coastal advantage is obvious, is an important economic growth, in the development of the overall situation is pivotal, in the construction of British India is crucial.

Once the big construction of the Calcutta industrial zone can be successfully carried out, can have an impact on the entire Ganges Valley. With and the Ganges River Basin occupies the proportion of the population of British India, the Ganges River is strong when India is strong.

“Really learn!” Alan Wilson likewise listened to the mesmerized, this is from where to find so many vocabulary? Not forgetting to gesture at the Congress representative across the table, “Nah, that’s called professionalism.”

Now think of the partition of India and Pakistan, the Ganges Delta from India is really a stroke of genius, simply blocked the development potential of the entire Ganges, affecting more than half of the population of India.

In fact, India’s situation after independence was extremely poor, especially before Bangladesh became independent, and was practically surrounded by Pakistan in the midst of it, even though India’s national power and population were clearly stronger than that arch-enemy.

“In principle, it is a very good plan.” Nehru finally took a stand, and after a moment’s thought said, “I’m going to go back and talk to the other leaders, and it will take some time for the others to get their heads around this.”

“I can give a personal guarantee that I will never talk to the PMLN about this until the Congress Party replies.” Alan Wilson spoke very understandingly, “After all, who would go to the minority when they can a majority support?”

The negotiation lasted three hours, and by the time the Congress men had left, it was not very bright, and Sir Barron was even ready to leave work.

“Oh my Alan, how did things go?” Sir Barron saw Alan Wilson return and opened his mouth to ask how the negotiations with the Congress Party went.

“I don’t think there’s any problem!” Allen Wilson raised his wrist and the diamond encrusted German watch flashed.

“Very good craftsmanship!” Sir Barron commented with great approval.

Allen Wilson directly from the wrist to jerk the watch down, in the midst of Sir Barron’s refusal for the other party to put on, some reproach, “Time is a very precious thing, Sir Barron, I must criticize you, must be off work at the time, to combine work and rest well.”