Chapter 401 The Mountbatten Program

For the man who would be in his hands for the next year, working from Newfoundland, Allen Wilson could be very courteous. And what is in the heart of the Chinese, honestly can not be hidden from him.

Allen Wilson heart, indeed is sincere hope from this cooperation, selected a number of future pillars of British Malaya, to establish a cooperative relationship. The combination of interests was stronger than any ties.

Alan Wilson said that it would be best to find a group of people with massage skills to accompany them together, the local conditions are relatively poor, to be based on self-sufficiency, and if they can carry some seeds, they can also help the needs of the workers in the summer.

“Do you want a bone-setting doctor? Let’s ask around and inquire!” Su Yang nodded with a serious face, “Lord Zhongtang was able to not hide the local situation, our brothers are grateful, I, Su Yang, toast Lord Zhongtang.”

“This is all nothing, Newfoundland still needs more help from you all in the coming year.” Allen Wilson did not at all excuse himself and raised his cup, “Although I am not in Malaya, but this side of the matter can still say something, my humble father in law, is the uncle of the current Crown Prince …… according to your words called the uncle of the state.”

Posing as a royal relative, of course, concealing the fact that the Crown Prince of the British Empire is actually a woman. Although Britain is not worth comparing with China in terms of humane preoccupations, it is easier to say so and stand on the Chinese point of view to understand.

Sure enough, so a fleeting leak, including Tian Qianqiu, Su Yang, including the masters are in awe, it seems to understand why Alan Wilson such an age, has become the Lord of the Central Hall, which explains it.

A Governor of a land, so courteous, without fear of drinking with ordinary people like them, made everyone’s face very bright.

“I hope we can work together in good faith in the coming year, and each take what we need.” Alan Wilson finally took the initiative to raise his glass before stating that he was not up to the task, that he could still eat some rice, and that the wine was truly undrinkable.

After a full meal, only to return to the Commissioner’s Office, the Malayan Commissioner Gerald Edward, met the Governor of Newfoundland returned in a drunken stench, “Allen, does not seem to feel strange at all.”

Uh! Alan Wilson burped and spoke, “What’s strange about it, the Chinese food here is very authentic. When you leave, ask them to bring more wine, the weather in Newfoundland really needs a bit of wine to keep the cold at bay, and the Soviets are experts at this.”

Is this drunk? Gerard Edward smiled helplessly and said, “I see that you are quite chatty with these Chinese.”

“In what aspect, general conversation is still fine.” Alan Wilson sat down in a posture like a zombie, and did not hide it, “Actually, these Chinese are not difficult to deal with, of course this is just my personal opinion. As long as you understand their needs, it’s easy to deal with them.”

“Oh, really?” Gerard Edward’s intuitive feeling, standing and talking just doesn’t hurt, “But among some people, the desire for independence is very high, although the situation has been stable for the past year, who knows if it’s hidden.”

“Some words can be said more clearly, let them realize the fact that Malaya is compared to Japan, unless the United States troops are withdrawn from Japan one day, Malaya will never want to be independent.” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed, “In fact, some words to say open more hurtful, but the overseas civil service groups, is not ready to let Malaya independent, willing to pay some price for this, there is such a day comes, than the model of British India for partition, of course, since it is a partition demarcation certainly will not be so fair, for example, the vast majority of the city on the Malay, it’s very normal, right, after all, the Malays are the locals.”

“And as I recall, the Malays advocate that only they are the natives, no matter if Britain, China or India are foreign powers, it’s simple, when that day comes we leave and support the Malay views. Either support us in colonizing Malaya or leave with the British, there is no third way to choose.”

“Of course the best we overseas civil servants can hope for is for everyone to be at peace with each other, a falling out would be bad for everyone. We in Britain are certainly hard pressed, but they all have to die.”

“Speaking of which, it seems that the Dutch expatriates are evacuating Java and migrating to Kalimantan. And there are negotiations going on with Australia over New Guinea, and it seems that preparations are being made for partition as well.”

Gerard Edward thought of the Dutch changes after hearing Alan Wilson mention the partition.

“Well, I am aware of this. This is actually a good filing. If it’s France or Portugal, we can be a little more comfortable.” Alan Wilson nodded his head, “The French and Portuguese are more reassuring on the issue of colonization, with these two countries at the front, our pressure is much lower.”

The French are more headstrong, it should have been clear to France in Vietnam that the colonial policy was no longer viable after the awakening of nationalism, but it just didn’t bestow liberty, equality, and fraternity on the Algerians as well.

Instead of pacifying the Algerians, granting them French citizenship and independence, it healed the wounds of World War II and the Vietnam and Korean wars by intensifying its oppression.

If France could have conceded a little, a French-Algerian confederation, closer than the Commonwealth, would have had enough possibilities to completely overwhelm Britain and Germany and become the leader of Europe, which would have moved toward unity under France, instead of France and Germany fighting over leadership and having to be stirred up by a Britain whose national power was no longer viable.

But it was the Portuguese who were the most credible when it came to the colonies, and didn’t sort of let go of the colonies until revolution broke out on the mainland.

Holland began to secretly prepare for the partition, Allen Wilson not only know, is that he stood in the Dutch point of view for planning, what Dutch-Indian Federation? What was that, and what was the point even if it was really established?

“According to our agreement with the French, we have to fully support the French rule in Vietnam.” Gerard Edward nodded his head, he could also see that the French were serious about their military actions in Vietnam.

After the war, Britain negotiated with France, and France supported the restoration of other British colonies in the Asian region, and Britain withdrew from South Vietnam, ceding all of Vietnam to French administration.

“I can see that the French were serious, but mainland France was too far away. The war’s going to have to be tied to Vietnam’s northern neighbors.” Alan Wilson chatted for a while, the wine tending to sober up, “If the idiot the US is supporting loses the war, it won’t matter how much France holds out in Vietnam. I have nothing to suggest, blow up all modern facilities before you leave, power plants, railroads, ports destroyed.”

This was the attitude of the French in Africa later on, except that with the US taking over in Vietnam at a later stage, France didn’t have to do so much.

The French are still too rigid, if you change Alan Wilson, directly to the Ming Dynasty’s forced assimilation moved out. In fact, it would be more accurate to summarize it as shaving hair and changing clothes. In fact, when the Ming Dynasty occupied Vietnam, it was probably the same policy of forced assimilation, starting from the clothes and crown.

The Ming Dynasty is not famous for doing this for a much simpler reason: it takes courage to call out others for being simple, but to call out yourself.

But as a Brit, Alan Wilson would have truthfully written that sort of thing into the history books, or at least should have done so from the point of view of stirring up relations between Vietnam and its northern neighbors.

But then again, does that kind of relationship need to be stirred up by Alan Wilson? It was only a matter of time before they fell out. What country talked to the French at the Geneva Conference and ended up negotiating a North-South partition for the North Vietnamese to accept? What do you think if you were Vietnamese?

Anyway, Britain did something similar once in history and ended up going down in history as the Munich Conspiracy.

Anyway, Alan Wilson tried his best to convince Gerald Edward that he was absolutely right, and if he didn’t believe it, he waited for the partition of India and Pakistan, “Once India and Pakistan are partitioned into a civil war, don’t block the news, and be sure to let the people in Malaya know. It dies half a million, we will say a million in the newspaper, anyway, the statistics of that part of India is just a figure of fun, we doubled it to be the real figure may be.”

“But some of the leaders who seek independence run to Java, and we can’t send troops to fight them.” Gerard Edward said with difficulty, “What difficulty we have in catching these people in Malaya, let alone going to Java.”

“That will have to be done by means that are not on the table.” Alan Wilson opened his mind and ultimately divulged nothing to Gerald Edward.

He was going to talk to Mihailovich in Northern Rhodesia, playing ethnic cleansing on the strength of a telegram he’d helped with? Both men were now on the same rope, and it was not too much for him to ask these Yugoslavs to send some help, was it?

At this time, Lord Radcliffe, by far the most important lawyer in history, had already departed from London, and before Lord Radcliffe’s departure, Viceroy Mountbatten formally announced the Partition Scheme, which established the principle Indo-Pakistani partition for the independence of British India.

Nehru and Arijana got the news at the same time, but in fact Arijana had already made preparations for it. The PML-N, headed by Jinnah, was naturally in favor of the partition of India and Pakistan, which in turn would allow for the creation of an independent Pakistan. This was in fact Jinnah’s lifelong struggle.

But unlike Nehru, in Nehru’s view, the division of the country was a disaster. Mountbatten, on the other hand, believed that India could not afford not to bear this price in order to gain independence. He also believes that unification may not be good, and that the reality of fierce conflict between Hindus and Pacifists does not allow for this, and that India and Pakistan can go their own way and live their own lives.

“Jinnah doesn’t agree to be in the midst of a country with Hindus, what does Mr. Nehru want me to do? Tell London to go on a national mobilization to put down the PMLN and hand it over to the Congress Party?” General Mountbatten looked indifferently at Nehru and said, “Do you think that’s realistic?”