Chapter 375 The Palestinian Question

“Making it sound like you’re busier than the Prime Minister.” Pamela Mountbatten beamed her displeasure, “Just got back and you’re going to go after that Indian again?”

“Arim? He’s not just any Indian, he’s the Maharaja’s steward. Ali Khan is the real deal, the former richest man in the world. Hyderabad’s accumulation of over two hundred years is with him.”

Alan Wilson said with a tone of this can’t be helped, “Like your mother, Mrs. Mountbatten, is even a rich man in England. But in front of the Maharaja still seems slightly thrifty so much, in fact, in many places in the future, we may need the Maharaja’s help.”

“But as a friend, I will certainly not let the Maharajah suffer, your man me, other places are debatable, but after receiving money to do things, I am a person with a beginning and an end.”

The Mountbatten family had a huge sum of five million pounds before, and in this day and age it was already considered rich among the aristocracy.

But Ali Khan’s wealth was counted in billions, and when he didn’t have any money he opened his mouth and asked for a little help, and there was a lot left to do.

So this network, will not because Alan Wilson has returned to the country on the interruption, but rather to be more and more time-honored to be able to do.

Although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not everything, such as the Palestinian-Israeli issue that has been raised, but at least there is no formal war, this issue is still there to talk about, and do not need to be too anxious.

Alan Wilson still think and Alim’s negotiation is more important, after all, conflict this world at any time, the number is certainly less than the people who have done the world’s richest man, compared to or Ali Khan is more in line with the scarcity of things.

Before leaving New Delhi, Mountbatten also did not forget to carry out the final framer’s work, explicitly assured that he participated in the Crown Prince’s wedding, come back should be to participate in India’s Independence Day celebrations.

By now Mountbatten himself has been and Ali Jinnah six private talks, in fact, the results of the partition of India and Pakistan has been very clear, but the same in front of Nehru talked and laughed, ready for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from India, froze a little bit of mouth did not leak.

Alim after meeting Allen Wilson, talked about Ali Khan’s views on this matter, “the Maharaja is absolutely will not give up the land inherited from his ancestors, has been prepared to go to war for this. Also thanks to Mr. Allen, who has been helping Hyderabad in its machinations.”

“Having been the Commissioner of Hyderabad was an important starting point in my life for the rest of my life.” Allen Wilson nodded, “I will do everything I can to help the Maharaja, and I am willing to do it myself, regardless of whether or not that effort works or not.”

To put it mildly, Arium could be said to be the person Allen Wilson trusted the most in London, never mind that he was Ali Khan’s steward.

It’s hard to describe this mentality in words, just as the Swiss Guard was willing to fight to the last minute for Louis XVI, and the new Ottoman army, which was predominantly Christian, broke ground for the Ottoman Sultan.

He just felt more at ease with Alim helping to keep an eye on things than with a real Englishman helping him.

Back in London, Alan Wilson, instead of having a bit of a respite, has gotten busier and busier, with opinions on Palestine being a busy focus of the Foreign Office these days.

Now the British citizens have not come out of the world hegemony mentality, long-term strength to create a national mentality of egoism, this mentality makes the top to countries outside the United Kingdom to hold habitual contempt, so that in the strategic and tactical unconscious underestimation of the opponent, which is particularly prominent in the face of non-European countries.

Even civil servants in Whitehall were in the minority with this mentality, and at the end of the war, while the public was still basking in the glory of victory, the top brass were well aware of what had happened – in order to boil down Germany, Churchill had sold half the world’s military bases as a package to the United States – and -London could no longer afford to maintain the beige flags all over the world.

The origins of the Palestine problem lie in the overbearing maneuver of creating a new state with a stroke of the pen by British Prime Minister Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference when William II’s Second Empire collapsed.

With a single stroke of his hand on a map, the British Prime Minister divided the land half a world away into two.

Whether or not this straight line would separate people belonging to the same nation, or put people not belonging to the same nation into the same country, London did not care. For London, slicing and dicing the loot that was about to come to him in a fair way was all that mattered.

In the days that followed, Britain did as she had done, promising the same land to the Arabs, the French, and the Israelis, and with all the false promises and empty declarations the British made to all parties for their own benefit, little by little time passed, and it came to the outbreak of World War II.

Of course, there is a role for Britain in Palestine, but it does not mean that the Arabs themselves are not responsible, in the thirties, Britain once mediated the Palestinian-Israeli issue to make a resolution, the resolution in which Israel re-established its statehood, but it is not at all what 50/50 split.

But occupy a small piece of land in Palestine, probably less than thirty percent of the area, the rest of the seventy percent to the Arabs, although the Jews only get such a small piece of land in the heart of the disappointment, but ultimately also accepted.

The Arabs, who got the 70 percent, firmly rejected the British-led agreement, telling the British I want it all. So the agreement ended without a hitch and continues to this day.

“Alexander is at the United Nations and the last six months the discussion has been all about Palestine.” At a Foreign Office personnel meeting, George Milton recounted, “The number of countries involved is just so difficult, and it’s nowhere near as efficient as it was with the League of Nations.”

Alan Wilson almost didn’t laugh, he knew that this so-called efficiency of the League of Nations referred to the fact that the British Empire could just sell out to others and others couldn’t sell out to the British Empire, but apparently it was the Americans who were now being treated the way the British were being treated at the time.

“Are we supporting the Arabs?” Alan Wilson waited until George Milton had spoken and then opened his mouth to inquire.

“Yes!” George Milton frowned a bit and said, “In fact, this matter is also very difficult, it has been discussed for more than half a year, there is still no conclusion, and the foreign minister has repeatedly asked about the progress.”

“I think the main difficulty with this issue is that the Jews have suffered ethnic cleansing, which is by far the greatest crime of the Germans, and if we don’t support it. It will appear too unsympathetic, and if we support it, it may cause the Arabs to resent it.” Alan Wilson scratched his head and said, “It goes to the question of whether the World War was just or unjust.”

Alan Wilson remembered that during the First Middle East War, although the coalition of Arab countries appeared to be outnumbered with five Arab countries participating in the war, in reality this outnumbering was nothing more than the Arab countries themselves.

The major power that clearly stated its position on the side of the Arab countries was actually only Britain itself. The United States and the Soviet Union and other countries were on Israel’s side, and the first Middle East war was actually a conflict between Britain and the United States and the Soviet Union.

Alan Wilson had a brain fart, and he seemed to remember that Israel’s victory in the First Middle East War was the result of the UN pulling the strings. The first Middle East War, Israel is definitely not like later facing the Arab countries so comfortable.

“Alan, do you have any ideas yet?” George Milton was a little uncomfortable with Alan Wilson’s lack of voice.

“Thoughts? Opposing Israel’s statehood would make us look too unsympathetic to the Jews who suffered genocide. Plus, I shouldn’t take a position on the issue.” Alan Wilson’s words took a sudden sharp turn when he said, “Pamela’s mother is Jewish, and I don’t have anything I want to say about that.”

It is very offensive to the mother-in-law to speak openly at this time about how to deal with the Israelis, and to caution the Arabs that they should go for broke and not stop attacking against the pressure of the United Nations.

But from Britain’s point of view, there is simply only one option to side with the Arabs. Opportunity for something so fleeting, he still has to think about it, but do not be confused on this issue.

Plate is too big will have this kind of problem, where are the interests, where the interests do not want to give up.

Alan Wilson can only open his mouth to suggest, “We should maintain transparency to the Arabs, telegraph in the Arab local governors as well as the media, the United Nations on the progress of the Palestinian issue, in particular, the United States and the Soviet Union tend to support the attitude of Israel, be sure to let the Arabs know that the British Empire is for the Arab countries to fight against the two powerful countries. ”

Although there was no thought as to how to respond to the Palestinian problem, it was not possible to say nothing.

If one could create that impression in front of the local rulers that the US and the USSR were in Israel’s gang, it would at least stabilize the position a little.

Would it work, of course it would, even if they lost in the end, it would pull a wave of goodwill in front of the Arabs, create a wave of rhythm in spite of the defeat, and the hostility of the Arabs towards the US and the USSR would be earned if it lasted for even one more day, not to mention that maybe it wouldn’t last for just one more day.

This kind of thing involving the colonies, he still had to write it in his report to the Prime Minister, it was not appropriate to talk about it here.

Alan Wilson still owed the Prime Minister a report, and even wondered how to maintain the persona of an expert on the colonies while partying with Pamela Mountbatten and the group of aristocratic friends.

“Pamela, what’s with your fiancé?” A girl of similar age, who was quite critical of Alan Wilson’s wandering off from time to time, found an opportunity to sneak in a reminder.

“He’s thinking about how to write a report for Whitehall these days.” Pamela Mountbatten said with some distress, “You don’t know that he’s like that as a person, and isn’t interested in some entertainment.”

“Wouldn’t that be boring?” The girl winked at Pamela Mountbatten and whispered, “Isn’t that like an old man?”

“That’s not true, he’s a funny one.” Pamela Mountbatten whispered shyly to her friend.

“How about just ceding the eastern shore of the Mediterranean directly to the United States?” Alan Wilson pondered bitterly with one hand on his chin.