Chapter 390 Wilson, Anti-Soviet Pioneer

The establishment of the European Common Market was also supported by the United States and was one of the conditions of the Marshall Plan.

If it is established at this time, Federal Germany has not yet been established, and France has not yet recovered, then there is no doubt that the United Kingdom is the boss of the European Community, as well as the future boss of the European Union.

This is Alan Wilson’s idea, but this matter, although a good thing, but it is not as easy as imagined.

Britain has always had a policy of continental equilibrium, are accustomed to watching the fire from the other side of the river, the most recent experience of active involvement in European affairs is the First World War, as for the Second World War, that is Germany’s revenge for the war, and whether the United Kingdom is involved in Europe has nothing to do.

Britain’s continental equilibrium is like the isolationist ideology of the United States, the supporters are never a small number.

Just jumping in head first to lead Europe was actually not a good decision for Britain to make.

Alan Wilson wasn’t actually sure he could convince the London government to do so, so it wasn’t impossible to lead Europe and look and feel like you were checking it.

When Churchill came to power for the second time, he came up with a strategy called three-ring diplomacy, dividing British diplomacy into three parts, Europe, the Commonwealth and the United States. Maintain the special relationship between Britain and the United States, military and interest alliance.

Secondly, to maintain the relationship with the major countries of the Commonwealth, especially Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which were of the same language and race as Britain. Third, to maintain economic and military cooperation with the EU countries, but at the same time keep a certain distance.

As for the rest of the world, it is more difficult to develop only economic relations and to form military alliances unless there is a common enemy or considerable common interests. But such a three-ring construction has enough small partners already.

If Churchill’s idea had been followed, as Britain and the United States moved closer together, the United States would have had a siphoning effect on Britain. Britain would have ended up much the same as it did historically.

That is why the three rings diplomacy is not desirable and a different diplomatic strategy should be used. At least for now, the U.S. is in favor of European integration, and in fact is particularly supportive of the U.K. stepping up to the plate.

But historically, because of the traditional thinking of continental equilibrium, the U.S. proposal to support British integration of Europe was ultimately rejected. Three ring diplomacy was adopted, but ultimately the Commonwealth all followed the US.

Now in a similar choice, Allen Wilson already knew the consequences of three-ring diplomacy. Naturally then, it could not be adopted, and since the United States supported Britain’s integration of Europe, Britain should integrate Europe.

In the previous two years, whether by fluke or not, the two-winged plan he had developed had worked at least as well.

Then jumping headlong into Europe is easily slammed by supporters of continental equilibrium, as well as opposition parties.

Then add the Commonwealth to the mix, following the previous relationship between German British Occupation and British India, for an expanded version of a two-winged approach.

Attitudes are not set in stone, just as there was already a call for American aid to Europe when Prime Minister Alderley first came to power, and if it had started at that time, Prime Minister Alderley would have shouted that the special Anglo-American relationship was unbreakable.

But when Prime Minister AIDLEY first came to power, it was the United States that cut off aid and told him that Britain had so many colonies that it would have no problem recovering from the war.

As for France in 1945, it did not give any hope to American aid at all, and up to the time of the advance contact, it still sang the opposite tune from time to time, which was very different from the attitude of Britain and the United States at that time.

Now the time has approached to 1948, Britain in addition to foreign debt have been restored to the pre-war level.

There was a change of attitude towards the Marshall Plan, still looking forward to it, but even if it was not given, it seemed that there was nothing to lose.

Without the dollar aid from the United States, Britain could just as well use Germany’s British-occupied territories to recover. France’s attitude, on the other hand, is not as tough as it was in the first two years, and has turned to look forward to U.S. aid.

This is the difference between Britain and France at present, Alan Wilson found Pierre’s want to reach a common position, summed up in fact very simple, set up a principle of money sharing, to ensure that Britain and France occupy the largest share.

There are two principles of money sharing: the United States has more allies than neutrals, more neutrals than Axis countries, and more countries than fewer countries get more.

Britain and France were both allies of the US, and while Italy and Germany were not less populous than Britain and France, the two countries were Axis countries.

As for specifically here in Britain and France, France’s population was forty million and Britain’s was forty-nine million. It’s almost almost 10 million more people than France, so it’s not too much to take a little more.

Allen Wilson was talking from the data, and did not mention the relationship between Britain and the United States of America’s blood is thicker than water.

Pierre couldn’t stop nodding his head, saying that this common position was very fair, then in return for Britain’s support of France’s access to the resources of the Saarland, France could take the initiative to propose that the four Yugoslavian countries influenced by the Soviet Union be kicked off the aid list.

“That’s actually what the Americans are saying, only a fool would believe that the US would take dollars to allow the Soviet Union to speed up its recovery.” Alan Wilson let out a long breath, “Less aid from them, more aid from us.”

“Actually the most important thing about the Common Market is an army of Europeans themselves.” Pierre suddenly blurted out the words.

“Uh, we already have an external foreign army.” Alan Wilson pretended not to understand the other party’s words and used the Brussels Treaty Organization’s Foreign Intervention Army as an excuse.

It was so hard to get consensus on the economy, how could it be so easy in the political and military realms?

And to be honest, with the British and French armies, excluding the military support of the United States against the Soviet Union? Britain has to maintain the presence of the Royal Navy first and foremost, and has no energy above the land forces, and expects France to assume the main obligation to confront the Soviet Union? Dream of anything ……

Even Germany has recovered are not convinced by France, even if it has been envisioned that Germany has recovered, coupled with Germany’s military strength, as if against the Soviet Union is not possible, and the Soviet Union confrontation without the United States is not possible.

Allen Wilson is not naive enough to think that Britain and France have recovered to be able to compete with the Soviet Union.

Even if they did exclude the United States, it would become a case of Britain and France being hammered by the United States and the Soviet Union at any time.

He knew that the idea of a European army was definitely not a personal slip of the tongue of Pierre, it must have already been voiced within the French government, and in fact the concept of a European army was not something that had only appeared in the twenty-first century.

At least in Europe there have been two voices of the European Army, the first was in the early post-war period, France advocated the European Army.

Trying to stop the expansion of American influence in Europe, the second time was in the early nineties after the end of the Cold War, when a 50,000-strong force had been established.

Both times it didn’t work, not to mention the fact that now Britain and France haven’t recovered yet, and it’s better to wait for the American delegation to arrive in glorious Paris.

It would certainly be best if NATO could be left alone, but as things stood, the situation was not promising. Confining American troops to Germany would be considered a victory, and sacrificing Germany to keep other European countries from being kidnapped by the U.S. would also be acceptable.

If you can’t do that, you can sacrifice France along with them. De Gaulle’s rise to power will drive the Americans away anyway, and the French are better suited to be the villains than the British.

After some exchange of interests, back to the embassy of Alan Wilson to London to send a telegram, indicating that has been and France to achieve a consensus, to determine the position of the common want to rice, allies should be more than the enemy, more populous than less populous. On these two premises Britain was sure to get the largest share.

On December 13, the American delegation arrived in Paris, and the delegates of nineteen countries waited at the airport, and the moment they appeared, the delegates cheered in unison.

“It’s just a bunch of beggars, make it sound like there’s some kind of intimacy.” Alan Wilson bristled at Daniel at his side.

Daniel just wanted to nod, a gust of wind drifted Alan Wilson has disappeared from sight, the next moment Alan Wilson embodied the style of the British Empire, and the arrival of the Americans shook hands, the mouth constantly said what the special relationship between Britain and the United States, what the blood is thicker than water, blood congealed friendship and so on……

Other countries mention close relationship is kneeling to ask for food, our British Empire is different, Britain and the United States is really a special relationship.

So far, the U.S. delegation finally arrived late, arrived in glorious Paris, to the savior’s posture to deal with these stinking beggars, here to talk about it, the country will push the bill to pass, formally began to Europe to aid.

At the first meeting held that day, the Americans wrapped up the significance of this aid in the usual moral ideals. At the same time, they expressed the hope that the Soviet Union would not be petty either and would be perfectly capable of attending, so that we could all sit down and talk it over, and together we could restore Europe’s prosperity in the clouds.

After this false lie was over, it was time for the British and French to play their part, and the French representative Pierre stood up directly and angrily denounced the Soviet Union’s disruption of the peace in Europe, and that if the Soviet Union did not stop its hostile behavior, such as its expansionist policies in the Near East, France would resolutely oppose the Soviet Union’s accession.

As soon as Pierre’s words fell, Allen Wilson stood up, and after gesturing to the representatives of the countries present, he walked to the podium and gave the speech of the conference, “In no way does the current Soviet Union meet the definition of a free world, and guarding the spirit of the civilized world is more valuable than so-called money. The Soviet Union must deregulate the countries of Eastern Europe and allow them to regain their freedom under the supervision of the United Nations. The countries of Europe have suffered greatly from the proliferation of Soviet ideas and the violence that has brought them about, and it is pointless to talk about cooperation until such ideas are curbed.”

“To that end Britain and France are united in their attitude, markets must be opened unconditionally to free trade as well as political reforms or Britain opposes the unfolding of aid from any similar country.”

Alan Wilson’s voice echoed through the hall and into the ears of the delegates from the various countries, Finland, Yugoslavia and Poland, Czechoslovakia all burst into tears at the words and the hall became noisy.