Chapter 369 Additions to the list

The issue of the East Indies was the first important topic of the day’s meeting, Allen Wilson elaborated on the partition plan and the fact that Holland was going to face up to the role of Australia and analyze the psychology of the Australians.

Almand, on the other hand, stated that the Dutch government had indeed been mulling over the partition plan, and that once the situation in Java got out of hand, the Netherlands would divide the sparsely populated islands, and it just so happened that the Dutch government also preferred the island of Kalimantan, and as far as Dutch New Guinea was concerned, that had never had anything to do with Java.

“Oh, huh! Sorry, wasn’t laughing at Holland. We all know that New Guinea has nothing to do with Java, but the independence of the East Indies would inevitably claim New Guinea. As you all know I have just returned from my time in British India, and do you know what the Indians think of India? Those native Indian elites want all of the British Empire’s rights and interests in South Asia transferred to India, right down to suzerainty over the nearby British colonies.”

Alan Wilson couldn’t help but mock, “It seems that the British Empire has waged so many wars in the last three hundred years, and fought countless countries including yours, just to build a strong India? I don’t say anything else, the elite of the East India Channel proper must have this kind of greed, they don’t care if they rule New Guinea or not, because Holland ruled New Guinea, so in the future, New Guinea, will inevitably be a part of post-independence Indonesia.”

“Why don’t they go and grab it?” A host of delegates were indignant and outraged at this insatiable idea.

“Nino, it’s not just Holland, if you send a telegram to Vietnam, you’ll find that the local Vietnamese rebels think the same way, and that’s not hard to prove.” Alan Wilson looked to Nino Bertrand, then with a stern look on his face he said, “The problems the British Empire faces in British India will be encountered by France, and by the Netherlands as well, and that is the purpose of this meeting. Britain is willing to share some of the lessons learned to prevent your motherland from making the same mistakes. After all, the colonial system involves most of us here.”

If France and Holland had it easier than Britain in anything, it was apart from the sheer size and overpopulation of India. Also the leaders of the colonial revolt, not so hard to deal with.

Alan Wilson was not looking down on the leaders of Indonesia and Vietnam, who were really no match for Nehru. India was much stronger than Vietnam and Indonesia yes, and likewise the British Empire was much stronger than France and Holland.

And unlike Indonesia and Vietnam, India was a primitive civilization with a heavy historical burden, just as many dynasties were not without learned men at the end of their dynasties, but in the end those learned men could do nothing.

The India that Nehru took over was the cultural equivalent of a country that had never been reformed, with the faults that began with Brahminism accumulating up to the present.

Gandhi was nothing more than a saint who wanted India to be a big farm, Nehru was extremely interested in large-scale industrialization from the very beginning, Nehru carried Gandhi’s opposition and pushed hard for rapid, large-scale industrialization on the Soviet model, with an emphasis on modernization and heavy industry, and planning for the modernization of large-scale agriculture, and building large-scale irrigated agricultural facilities.

Nehru considered India to be an independent, socialist secular democratic republic, and this definition of Nehru had a profound effect on India, as he carried out a series of constructions of India.

These included freedom of religion in India, equality under the law, abolition of untouchability, socialist nationalization, a mixed economy, an import substitution strategy, and the protection and subsidization of nationally strategic industries such as steel, coal, and electricity.

India itself is decentralized, which is completely different from China, a country with thousands of years of centralized power, the real difficulty of social reform, but also a patriarchal system, patriarchal system can be compared to the caste system?

Nehru’s comment on the major religions in India was, “I do not want to take refuge in religion, I would rather risk the waves. Nor am I interested in the afterlife or what happens after death; the problems of this life keep me busy enough. The traditional Chinese view, which is essentially moral rather than religious, or tinged with a little religious skepticism, appeals to me.”

Nehru has also been tolerant of the Communist Party of India (CPI) mainly because he judged it incapable of making an impact on the Congress Party.

“The Indo-Congress does not understand the countryside and has very little contact with it; the industrial workers, important as they are, have to take a step back when compared with the peasants, because India’s problem today is a peasant problem, and on the other hand, the Congress Party’s workers are widely scattered among the countryside, and in the normal course of events it is bound to develop into a broad peasant organization, and the peasants, after achieving their present objectives, are seldom revolutionary,”

But the fact that Nehru knew India so well, even as well as a Chinese man sees India’s shortcomings, doesn’t change the fact that India is a religious country, a loose country that acts on its own everywhere.

Nehru’s autobiography has a full understanding of India’s deep-rooted shortcomings, but India’s environment is just like that. The caste system has existed for thousands of years, and more than one-tenth of the population follows another religion. If not for the independence of Pakistan, it would have been close to a third of the population.

The battle for India’s independence was a historical tie between Nehru with the Congress Party and the British Empire.

Even now, with Allen Wilson laying more landmines, it’s not certain that it’s going to be enough to set Nehru straight.

Maybe just a few more years of Nehru’s hard work would end up making India the leader of the Third World just as well.

Sometimes Alan Wilson wanted God to replace Nehru with the old fairy Modi, so that no one could stop him from dismantling India, the Nehru of this era was just a little too difficult to deal with.

As for Almand’s later reference to Dutch repression of local resistance, Allen Wilson offered his opinion that these independence seekers could never be described as nationalists.

Allen Wilson, in turn, urged that it was best to do so as soon as possible, and immediately convert the Dutch army, “No matter what race or creed, the Dutch army after the suppression of all identified as the resistance of the Indonesian Communist Party, and we absolutely do not recognize nationalists. Only Soviet followers. If defined as nationalists, the Americans would not be overly offended. Defined as Soviet apparatchiks, not so much.”

“Let me draw an analogy, if the United States finally judges that Indonesia is unlikely to become an ally of the Soviet Union, and demands that Holland let the East Indies become independent and let Indonesia become a nation. What about the Netherlands?”

In the face of Alan Wilson’s question, Armand thought for a moment and said, “If we don’t agree?”

“Kick the Netherlands out of this European reconstruction program.” Alan Wilson said without even thinking, “Once the US threatens to terminate aid, will Holland let go or not? So deal with one, just slap a label on the Indonesian Communist Party, the Dutch East Indonesia’s rebels have no nationalists, all of them are said to be the Soviet Union’s vassals, even if they are faked, they have to be stared at the Indonesian Communist Party to be faked. Not to mention that the Indonesian Communist Party is powerful in its own right, and it’s not a wrongful accusation.”

Seeing Adelman’s silence, Alan Wilson tilted his head and said, “This is actually a problem faced by Britain and France, the two countries of Portugal and Spain do not need to be overly excited, with the current state of government in both of your countries, the aid is not to say that it is completely absent, but it can also be said to be basically absent.”

“On the Spanish side, the current new Mexican president came to power, a change from the previous anti-American, but to focus their efforts on attacking Spain. I believe you guys are well aware of this.” Alan Wilson said with a long sigh, “Learning from the United States, the United States now wants to receive the world order in the hands of Britain and France, Mexico followed suit, looking for Spain, to be the leader of the Hispanic world in Latin America, so now Spain’s situation, we are not unable to understand, and even empathize.”

If they didn’t empathize and still feel good about themselves one by one, this meeting wouldn’t have happened.

At this moment, these colonial countries have not yet withdrawn from the stage of history to warm up, Allen Wilson can really understand the reasoning and emotion, simply do not even look like a British, respectively, stood in the perspective of France, Belgium, Holland, Spain and Portugal countries, one-on-one counseling.

To the Netherlands expressed the need to be far away, contact Australia, while on the surface of the posture of uncompromising, secretly all the forces other than the military force, focused on Kalimantan and Dutch New Guinea, the former and the United Kingdom to share the island of Kalimantan, the latter can be and Australia’s interests in the warmth of the group.

Military action against France was indicated as taking the worst possible view of the situation, changing the administrative planning of the three countries under their rule and dividing them while the situation was still manageable, all from the experience gained over British India.

This was followed by a conversation with Portugal and Spain, both of which were countries with military-like governments, which, although the international environment was worse, was not without its benefits, such as the possibility of both countries to implement long-term plans.

Currently Portugal and Spain’s colonies are mainly concentrated in Africa, which is safe for a short period of time, but sooner or later they will be targeted. If a long-term plan is formulated now, when something really goes wrong a certain amount of overseas territory can still be retained.

For example, migrate the population, in the name of building up the local area, to attract the black population to a colony to concentrate. When the time comes, the momentum is not right to directly let go of independence, the native immigrants and native white majority of the colony to retain the name of overseas provinces.

Whether the representatives of Spain and Portugal listened or not, Allen Wilson did not know. What he also didn’t know was that the one who listened most attentively was actually the French representative, Nino Bertrand, an Algerian in this time and place who was destined to fight more courageously to do so.

Alan Wilson, the colonial expert’s man set up very steadily, the sun has gone down, the representatives of the countries are still washing their ears. Even the Cabinet Secretary, Norman Brooke, had been here several times, and the Prime Minister was still waiting for the daily report.

“It’s already nine o’clock, for time’s sake, that’s all for today for now, friends want to go back and think about it. Any questions again think about tomorrow, I’ll go back and think about it too and see if there’s anything else I can add.”

Alan Wilson finally uninterested in the end of the talks of the colonialist family, can let the surrounding interpreters breathe a sigh of relief, the interpreter for this country to pay too much, are dry mouth.