Chapter 203 – Andaman Separation Program
As he spoke, Alan Wilson gave Vivien Leigh a tour of this prepared residence, leading the international movie queen up the stairs, describing as he went, “This neighborhood is considered to be in the best condition in Delhi, where the British live.”
“To the north is Delhi where the Indians live, and the south where we are is known as New Delhi, which is currently only inhabited by the British.” Allen Wilson said from the sun upstairs pointing to the outline of the city in the distance, “Don’t go alone to an Indian inhabited area without an escort, but it is said to be very dangerous. There have been instances where that has been proved.”
“And I thought Indians were welcoming.” Vivienne muttered in a small voice, sounding rather disbelieving.
“There’s no scientific statistic that shows that criminals aren’t cheerful people. Crime against women in India is rampant, and if that were all it was, crime against women is often accompanied by abuse and murder.” Alan Wilson watched as Vivien Leigh absentmindedly held onto the fence, and couldn’t help but move closer and take a deep breath behind Vivien Leigh’s back where she couldn’t see it.
By the time Vivien Leigh looked back with consternation, Allen Wilson’s entire being was back to its moral hypocrisy.
An introduction was given to the situation around New Delhi, as well as to give Vivien Leigh some idea of what British India was really like. The apartment arranged for Vivien Leigh had been cleaned.
Alan Wilson stepped in to settle the bill and express his gratitude to a couple of local Indian workers, which fell on Vivien Leigh’s eyes, but then wondered if what the man had just said was exaggerated.
“I thought those Indians were quite polite.” Fei Wenli waited until the Indians had left before she whispered, “And they just thanked you again and again.”
“That’s because they thanked me because I gave them more money.” Alan Wilson laughed bitterly, “What does that tell you?”
“Are your civil servants in British India well paid?” Vivien Lei said with a strange color, “Why did you develop such a habit of paying, Alan, as a civil servant, you still need to be frugal with your salary, in fact, if there is a need, you can ask me for help, I will absolutely help.”
Alan Wilson almost didn’t laugh out loud, is this kind of a rich woman harboring a white boy play?
Vivien Lei may not know, the money he gave to the Indian porters was printed directly, and now there are still seven million rupees unused, in British India he is properly a millionaire.
As for why he’d developed such a habit, wasn’t it that Pamela Mountbatten had once remarked that he had a handsome pose for delivering gems?
Catching up on things first came to an end, Allen Wilson let Fei Wenli enter the bedroom, and he himself found a red sofa and sat down, and opened his mouth, “Vivian, all your expenses from British India, are my responsibility, now the British Empire’s situation is of course not as good as it should be, but the empire is not so bad as to let a certain person, to pay for the empire for nothing.”
Fei Wen Li listened to Alan Wilson’s words, but her eyes fluttered, unconsciously looking at the red sofa under Alan Wilson’s buttocks, she was in the United States to make a movie.
Only at that time, Fei Wenli had already become famous among the English Havoc and Oxford Wind and Cloud, and had not received this kind of treatment. But it was also known that all the native American actors had passed the red sofa barrier, with almost no exceptions.
“Ms. Vivian?” Alan Wilson reached out and waved his hand in front of Vivienne’s eyes, re-drawing the international movie queen’s attention back, and continued, “In fact, you just need to cooperate with us, and I believe that you have a certain amount of mental preparation.”
“I’m already mentally prepared.” Fei Wen Li didn’t know what Alan Wilson meant, did she want to sacrifice herself a little? In exchange for a chance at the Anglo-Indian Actors Guild.
While thinking so, Allen Wilson happily nodded his head and said, “Great, talking to someone with a patriotic heart is simple, simply put British India needs to lend Vivian your influence to soothe the Indian’s will to resist. We are going to prepare an inspirational and educational documentary movie. The conditions here may not be able to catch up with the mainland or Hollywood, so we can only entrust you, and hope that you can use a movie to assist us in accomplishing our actions regarding the protection of women’s rights in India, no problem, right?”
“No problem!” Fei Wenli then realized that she thought wrongly, the imperial civil servant in front of her is still very ethical, and is not using her position to make her do anything, but in fact, in order to the position of the Anglo-Indian Actors Guild, it is not impossible to make some sacrifices ……
“Then if there is anything you need, contact me directly.” Alan Wilson’s wandering gaze retracted from Vivien Leigh’s, indicating that he had nothing more to say and had to get back to work at the Governor’s Mansion.
Alisa was still waiting downstairs and was relieved to see her superior coming down, “Assistant, when will Maharaja Ali Khan be allowed to come to New Delhi?”
“I’ll go to Hyderabad, it’s better not to let our honored guest come to New Delhi.” Alan Wilson changed his mind and decided that it would be better to give Mr. World’s Richest Man a face by going to Hyderabad himself instead of the other way around.
Just because he was now promoted, he could not forget the memories of the hard times, or else he would be forgetting his roots. Though the main reason, still, was to take Vivien Leigh along.
“Drawing up Fei Wenli’s itinerary, the top ten cities in India should be included, I believe she won’t object.” Alan Wilson pulled open the car door to let Alisa go in first, he then got into the car and quickly disappeared into the middle of the neighborhood.
British India is only superficially calm, instability still exists, religious conflicts still occur from time to time, only did not appear in the newspaper, in the internal report of the Governor General’s Office, Alan Wilson can learn that because of the religious issue of the armed fighting has not been reduced, the number of casualties has not been reduced.
But this is all in the controllable range, as long as the Indian army does not go wrong, there will not be history of British India’s last year of existence, the entire subcontinent has been on the verge of losing control of the situation.
The volcano is sure to erupt, the difference lies in when it erupts, and Allen Wilson’s aim is to hope for a later eruption. There was also time to minimize Nehru’s power.
United States, in favor of the PMLN, the abolition of military forces, all actions, is to hope that the balance of power as far as possible. But in reality, Alan Wilson can only do a limited amount, Nehru after all is not a permanent public, the power possessed by too strong.
The PML-N and TU are still limited, and the Congress Party naturally represents the majority of Indians.
But even if they did, they could not tear British India apart.
If the Hindu agglomeration becomes a patchwork of small states where the advantage of sheer numbers no longer exists, then it will all be an amusement park for the pacifists, from Constantinople to Jakarta.
With equal numbers, Alan Wilson is fair to say that the average nation can’t hold out against the expansion of the pacifists. This can be seen with the pacifists in Southeast Asia, knowing how far Southeast Asia is from even the Middle East where pacifism started.
The navigators of the agrarian age also came from the Middle East, and the oceans were in Arab hands before Europe controlled them.
Alan Wilson even argued that if the industrial age had never arrived, any civilization would have been at a disadvantage against the religion of peace, never mind where it was.
The fact of the matter is that the Arabs were the fastest expanding people of the agrarian age, occupying more territory than many more ancient civilizations, only to be completely torn apart in recent times by Europe, which came later and no longer has a Middle Eastern power.
To really tear it apart and tear British India apart would be very difficult in the first place, so high that it would be almost impossible. Even if by some miracle it was done, it would only make the Cult of Peace bigger.
This would be very bad for Europe, which had only completely broken up the Ottomans, the patriarchate of the religion of peace, around the time of WWI.
The big picture of British India could not be moved, though he thought that some cuts to the edges could already begin to be attempted.
“The administration of the Andaman Islands, transferred to British Burma?” Sir Barron sucked in a breath and looked at Alan Wilson in disbelief, “Alan, you have to realize that the biggest job right now is to maintain the apparent stability of British India.”
“Sir Barron, of course I understand that. But the Andaman Islands happen to block the Strait of Malacca, and once India becomes independent, other things aside, India’s volume is sufficient. Such a large population is just as threatening even if it doesn’t develop well.” Alan Wilson said without changing his mind, “This is all for the order and cornerstone of the empire.”
Upon hearing the order and cornerstone of the empire, Sir Baron fell into consideration, because this cornerstone and order, of course, refers to the fate of the civil service community, and to be able to stand apart from the elected ministers is not possible without colony management.
“But the risk is still too great, and you must give me a plan for which England is ostensibly not responsible.” Sir Barron shook his head with difficulty, “Otherwise I will not agree, at least in the short term.”
“There is.” Alan Wilson was prepared and spoke directly, “I heard that the Andaman Islands is a criminal exile, now the empire has 700,000 surrendered Japanese soldiers in its hands, supplies are tight on the islands, when we put up several tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and when even eating becomes a problem, communal conflicts may break out. That would be none of our business.”
“Of course this is going to require a Royal Navy blockade as a tie-in, blockading the islands in the name of keeping the Japanese soldiers out of harm’s way and jeopardizing security. When things are settled up there, the Royal Navy will logically take out the murderers and then go along with a referendum to annex the Andaman Islands to Burma. Burma is a weak country, and at the time of independence when it is annexed to British Malaya, it is expected that the Burmese will not dare to object.”
“Go and prepare a detailed plan.” Sir Barron said noncommittally, “Let me remind you that you will be responsible for failure, think it over.”