Chapter 239: Invitation to Gandhi!

“But this incident is a wake-up call for me. The Soviets can’t afford to have problems with food, and again I don’t want to see a repeat of that one time in the thirties.” Stalin spoke slowly.

Because of the latitude and longitude, the food production incident in the Soviet Union was actually a bit later, and now that a whistle blower had appeared in British India, it made Stalin, who was also committed to post-war reconstruction, focus on his own country while watching the action.

Because in the Ukraine, there have been reports of signs of drought, British India is full of the world clamoring to face the test of drought, but also let Stalin began to re-look at their own country the same problem.

In the year the war ended, the Soviet Union’s food production was only 70% of what it had been before the war, but the Soviets weren’t afraid because they were able to defeat the mighty Germany, and naturally they could get their agricultural production back up as quickly as possible.

With two great famines under their belts, the Soviets were already experienced and were alerted to the disaster as soon as it first appeared, and they immediately petitioned the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) for their leader Stalin to give aid to the affected areas and to adjust their food consumption programs to cope with the disaster.

“Send Comrade Khrushchev to Moscow, I want a clear picture of the situation in Ukraine.” Stalin, seeing that British India was on the verge of a catastrophe, having resorted to such thieving tactics, decided that he wanted to see the real situation in Ukraine.

It was only just June, compared to that one time in history when the drought started in July and continued into the following year. Now Moscow, because of some show by British India, has taken notice of the Ukrainian drought that has also begun to be reported.

Germany was in the same climate as the Soviet Union, and while British India was facing a drought, there were precursors of famine in Germany due to the aftermath of the war and the climate.

While the news of the drought in British India was making the news in the newspapers, the Germans began to put themselves in the shoes of their neighbors, and the British Occupation Trade Commission’s report to London indicated that there were already signs of famine in Germany.

Not only in Germany, but in a report to the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), Mr. Lagardia, pointed out that the famine was not confined to British India.

We are told that there are signs of famine in Eastern Europe, the Far East and even in Europe, and that only the colonial government of British India, which has remained transparent and prepared for it, has been able to keep a tight lid on the situation.

Many of the victims ended up on the road to escape because they had nothing to eat. It could be said that there were starving people everywhere, and those who died of starvation could be seen everywhere on the roadside. Many of the victims chose to commit suicide because of the unbearable hunger.

In the face of such a famine, even ordinary landowners could not escape. A landowner in the United Provinces chose to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water because of hunger.

The common people were even left with no choice but to raise their families to starve to death in front of the famine. In a family of five, three people died of starvation, and only two children were taken away by passers-by, their lives and deaths unknown.

This famine has begun to spread in the South Asian subcontinent and East Asia, the United Nations General Administration for Rehabilitation and Relief, Lagardia, when questioned by Washington, said, “I hope that the situation in British India is really as the Viceroyalty of New Delhi said that it has been prepared to stand fast and I hope that the United States will be able to step in to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe.”

British India was certainly ready to stand fast, at least in the eyes of London and Washington. In fact the Viceroy’s office was really not idle, wasn’t it in the middle of a heavy campaign against hoarding by unscrupulous grain merchants.

This is in order to balance the prices of British India considerations, the provincial administrators at this time, in cooperation with the judicial officials, one by one can be sold very hard it.

As for the specific relief plan, after the Governor General’s Office of the prudent discussion, decided to hold a meeting to come up with a mature plan to implement, Sir Barron with a heavy face condemned the major cities of India grain merchants, the Governor General’s Office for the fight against the drought efforts into thin air.

This condemnation was unanimously endorsed by the civil servants present at the meeting, and the situation would certainly not have evolved into what it is now, had these treacherous traders not been making national fortunes at this time of the year.

“Shall we ask the international community for help, after all, the situation in British India is now known to the whole world.” A brilliant official suggested, his polished forehead indicating that his brilliance was by no means empty.

“The situation on the home front is also very serious, and rationing has not yet been fully ended at home. Nor is there any food left to rescue British India, and in saying that there are so many people in British India, how can we save them.”

Alan Wilson very temperamentally stated, “In short, any rescue should be based on the basis of self-help, external forces can not solve all the problems after all, of course, I am not opposed to the international community to ask for help, just that it is still a little early. And we can communicate with some countries first, for example France, France is the breadbasket of Europe, a famous agricultural powerhouse, this is something that I believe the gentlemen will not deny.”

“France?” The officials in the conference room all had a reluctant look on their faces, to make a gentleman of the British Empire bow down to the French?

“Unless you wish to rescue yourselves. Isn’t now the chance to show solidarity?” Alan Wilson reminded the crowd that the whole world could be watching now, it wasn’t a round of yelling for nothing before, the eyes of the entire world were now on the subcontinent.

Looking at the solemn meeting, directly running today’s rhythm of insulting the law, he had to take the topic back, now hundreds of millions of British India’s people are waiting to be fed, which has time to say insulting jokes.

Eileen Wilson naturally do not know, because of their own a flurry of yelling, really give a lot of countries to raise a wake-up call. Even if you know, this is a good thing to avoid a lot of people miserable to leave the world.

Quite a few countries in the world world, like the current Viceroyalty of New Delhi, met to discuss how to deal with the drought.

“Alan is right, it is better that the economic recovery of the homeland is not disturbed.” Sir Barron hammered the topic home, “We have to consider the overall interests of the British Empire, once the homeland recovers the benefit is the entire British Empire, including but not limited to British India, so we have to consider this issue from the whole picture.”

“About the specific program of self-help? In terms of dietary habits above all, Hindus actually consume a fair amount. It only takes a little bit of food to be able to live for a long time. The potential should be tapped a bit from this aspect.” Alan Wilson crossed his fingers, glanced at his colleagues in the conference room, and proposed, “How about we take the initiative to contact the Congress Party once? It’s always a matter of time, we need the Congress Party and the PMLN to maintain the stability of British India. Take care of these two forces, and no matter how many people starve to death, nothing will happen to the subcontinent.”

“The NCP?” Sir Barron, who was dragging his head with one hand, said with a face of impatience, “We can’t even solve it, what can they do, every day they just know how to add to the chaos. Without us Britons, the subcontinent will always be medieval.”

“Not really, I remember Mr. Gandhi is most famous for hunger strike, if we can let Mr. Gandhi set an example and ask the Indians to follow, there are so many Indians, we can save a lot of food. This can also be regarded as a self-help method, right? Doesn’t reducing consumption count as self-help?”

“Wow!” Sir Barron, who had been listless, couldn’t help but sit up straight; it sounded like there was some feasibility to it.

Wasn’t Gandhi good at hunger strikes? Now was the time when the saint was needed to lead the people of the subcontinent out of famine, so it shouldn’t be too much to refuse, right?

“Then we have an invitation for Gandhi to come to the Governor’s Mansion.” Sir Barron acknowledged with a smile on his face, “In that case, we are going to conduct a food conservation campaign, the secretary’s office will immediately draw up a proclamation, this time there is no need to write an official article, use the simplest words to explain the matter, after all, the food conservation campaign is going to require the participation of the entire subcontinent, don’t write it in such a way that only a small group of Indian elites will be able to read it. ”

“Understood, Sir Barron, just write some random compelling slogans, is that right.” Private Secretary Ender received the signal accurately.

Sir Barron then glanced at his wrist and spoke, “It’s time to go off duty, the rest will be handled tomorrow.”

Already because of the tobacco problem smoke in the conference room, the officials present at the meeting dispersed, are five minutes after the closing time.

Early the next morning, the Viceroyalty of British India issued two messages, the first of which was a call to the entire population of the subcontinent to save food, saving food is honorable, wasting food is shameful, and who knows that the food on the plate is all hard work and such slogans, which constituted the main content of this Viceroyalty’s announcement.

As for the other thing, it was an invitation to the Congress Party and the PML-N to come to the Governor’s Office at this time, to give up their partisan and religious conflicts, and to unite together to deal with this drought.

The news of the Food Conservation Campaign and the invitation to the two major parties to come to the Governor’s House to deal with the drought together.

A step further than the previous response of the Viceroyalty could be said to have been taken, it was published directly on the headlines of newspapers everywhere. In this way, to show that the Viceroyalty of British India and the Congress Party and the PML-N to join hands to fight against the plague of substantial action.

The news came to the Indians, who were already a bit on edge, a glimmer of expectation rose out of thin air.

“Bah, son of an adulterer. It’s a great relief that your father was taken in.” An Indian with a newspaper, looking at the son of a grain store owner who sold grain a few days ago, spat out a mouthful of smears and sneered at the homeless child, “The British are all more righteous than your father, your father is a disgrace to the Indians.”

As he watched the boy wiping tears from his eyes disappear, the righteous Sango let out a knowing smile.

As for the British with a sense of justice, led by Alan Wilson, were waiting at the gates of the Viceroy’s House for the leaders of the Congress and the PML-N to arrive, and this time the Viceroy’s House had asked by name to confer with Gandhi himself, with the aim, of course, of, “having Gandhi on hunger strike ……”