Chapter 406: Governor of Newfoundland

“I’m only in New York for a few days, and I’m off to Newfoundland next month.” Alan Wilson gloated, there was nothing a MILF couldn’t handle.

“Well then, go ahead, what are you doing in New York?” Greta Garbo put on her clothes with a cool face, “Just come to New York specifically to collect actresses? A special trip?”

“That’s not true, mainly just passing through.” Alan Wilson lied without changing his face, this kind of attitude of this silent movie queen is really puzzling, “What’s the difference between you and your competitor Katharine Hepburn like this? She, on the other hand, followed a married man, and you’re stuck in the memories for a long time, is this fun?”

He realized that the actresses of this era were really different from those of a few decades later. What about Katharine Hepburn, she never got married in her life just because of a married man.

Greta Garbo was even more legendary, her first love was the director from her own country who tapped her. Later, because Hollywood used Greta Garbo to hype up the scandal, the director and older, and eventually took the initiative to quit eclipsed, resulting in this silent film queen disheartened, made up her mind to be single for life.

“Whatever!” Greta Garbo was poked to the sore spot, her face which was already full of melancholy appeared even more cold, “It’s not like you don’t have a fiancée, don’t you provoke a forty year old woman every day just for your vanity?”

“Be reasonable, okay, you weren’t like this when you were in New Delhi.” Alan Wilson sighed, not knowing what went wrong, but when something went wrong, it had to be fixed.

He was counting on Greta Garbo’s bright brain to help him analyze what Americans were into so he could throw his weight around.

This kind of thing is best to make Newfoundland’s position strengthened, in fact, in the heart Alan Wilson also has such a trace of luxury, Newfoundland stayed under British rule, do not choose to be independent.

In how to say like Newfoundland, to the British Empire, a loyal, and not much population to maintain the cost of ruling the place is really not much, and the area is also large, more than 400,000 square kilometers, the United Kingdom mainland only more than 200,000 square kilometers.

Restoring the color of seriousness, Greta Garbo finally returned to normal first, “Newfoundland is the autonomous territory of northeastern Canada?”

Seeing Alan Wilson nodding, Greta Garbo thought for a moment and said, “With such a small population, it’s too difficult to start a business through work.”

“Exactly!” Allen Wilson deeply agreed, Chinese laborers going to work could only solve the short-term problem, after all, Chinese laborers couldn’t live there permanently, and the residents of Newfoundland wouldn’t agree to the settlement of Chinese laborers.

“Then you should think about how to attract the attention of the rich. But the local climate is not very friendly, Americans usually go out to play in their own country, Puerto Rico is even quite far away.” Greta Garbo looked thoughtful and said, “Making movies wouldn’t work either, with Hollywood. Lottery is a way, but it’s not certain if it can influence the United States, think about what can be done to benefit the rich people as a class, and then at that time, you will find some stars you are familiar with to shoot TV commercials and open up the popularity.”

“Tourism won’t work either.” Alan Wilson listened to Greta Garbo’s words and began to think around the rich class, what do the rich need? Prestige? Some of it, I guess, but certainly not all of it.

The general desire of the rich class is the same as the general desire of the poor, to make money, the more the better, and the rich would like to see an increase in their wealth, especially since the inheritance tax in the UK is so high!

Inheritance tax? Allen Wilson as if he had opened the odd meridian, all of a sudden the thoughts went through, this time in New York or come to the right place, “Greta, thank you, in order to express gratitude, I’ll make you a meal.”

Alan Wilson was really limited in time, as a master of time management, it was not possible to turn time out of thin air. He was going to Boston in five days, and then after stopping for a day to explain some things, he took a boat to Newfoundland.

In fact, originally, before he had thought of a good way, time was not so tight because he had to go around the United States. But now that he had thought of a way, there was no need to put off the Newfoundland post.

Greta Garbo was still confused and was puzzled when she saw the man seem to be a different person all of a sudden, but frowned slightly when she saw that the man had gotten up naked, “At least get your pants on board, what kind of cook cooks like that.”

“Sorry, I thought I could have the treatment of a husband.” Alan Wilson apologized without any sincerity, entered the kitchen without taking himself as an outsider, “Can you accompany me to buy some clothes tomorrow, after all, it’s not good to buy when you get to Newfoundland.”

Who will accompany you to buy clothes? Greta Garbo thought so, the next day a man and a woman appeared on the streets of New York, Greta Garbo with huge sunglasses, she did not want to come, but was threatened.

Yesterday evening on the balcony the man had threatened her, saying that if she didn’t agree she would shout at the pedestrians below the downtown area so that everyone would know what the two were doing, mouthing off that this was the United States and not the United Kingdom and that she would have to call the police the Queen of Silent Movies gave in and agreed to come out and accompany her to shop for clothes before she allowed Alan Wilson to carry her back to her room.

Shopping was all very new to her, since her hiatus Greta Garbo had been housebound for years and had rarely even been around friends, let alone in the downtown area.

“You should just get out and shop more often, although you Swedes, by nature, have a sense of distance, but your current state of life is too much, if your first love is still alive, you do not want to see you live like this.”

That’s the fact that temperatures in the northeastern United States aren’t too high at this time of year, otherwise Greta Garbo would look oddly out of place in this snapback hat, scarf, and huge sunglasses.

This day’s trip to the Big Apple, basically is Alan Wilson in said, Greta Garbo in listening, few conversations between the two, Greta Garbo is also afraid of being recognized, how she also broke the box office record, in the United States visibility is still very can.

After fulfilling Pamela Mountbatten’s obligation without any danger, Greta Garbo returned home with a frightened heart and helped this uninvited guest to try on clothes.

“Actually, Newfoundland is so sparsely populated that you can visit me then.” Alan Wilson said as he stuffed the clothes into his suitcase and rushed to the silent movie queen behind him.

“Who’s going to visit you there.” Greta Garbo refused instinctively.

“Say that again?” Alan Wilson’s face cleared and he looked straight at Greta Garbo.

“I mean, I’ll go again sometime.” Greta Garbo’s attitude immediately changed from adamant opposition, to conditional approval, and finally to adamant support.

“It’s so gratifying to hear such an ungrudging answer.” Alan Wilson finally felt the pulse of the Queen of Silent Movies, although Greta Garbo appeared to be strong, but in the face of even stronger will choose to yield.

In the next few days, Alan Wilson stayed in Greta Garbo’s luxury apartment, looking through the books he had just purchased, and it had to be said that in this day and age, books published in the United States were already very expensive compared to the price of goods.

The title of the book is “An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”. The book is hugely influential in its condemnation and indictment of inequality in America, especially in the American South, in many ways.

The author points out that the American creed believes in freedom and opportunity for all, and that the problem of racial inequality in the South violates this creed.

Few Southerners will like the book’s description of the South as a “dull, insecure,” remote place where “emotional Puritan religion” prevailed and “an unhealthy emphasis on sex” was everywhere. “.

In terms of the lynching system and the legal system, it shows how blacks and whites in the American South were trapped in a destructive relationship filled with fear and aggression. This relationship emerged because of slavery and was perpetuated because of widespread American attitudes toward poverty, crime, and social segregation.

Reading and then taking notes has always been a good habit of Allen Wilson’s, and in the book he carries with him, Allen Wilson recorded that in addition to the red threat represented by the Soviet Union, he added the pink threat, the purple threat, and the black threat, with the latter three color threats representing the women’s movement, gay and lesbian affirmative action, and black issues.

“It would have been nice to combine those three issues with the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson put the book away, it was just a shame that now was not the time for him to get acquainted with McCarthy.

It so happened that Greta Garbo came back from the balcony to put away the clothes that Allen Wilson had already dried, and when she saw the man muttering, she said more, “What’s the smile?”

“Reading your Swedish writings and learning something.” Allen Wilson raised the book in his hands, not forgetting to spit out, “American books are overly expensive compared to the prices.”

Greta Garbo is not Hedy Lamarr, there is no habit of reading, home life is to watch a soap opera every day, but also really thanks to be able to live so seven years time, according to the future trajectory, she will also be so until her death.

In New York is the time has come, Alan Wilson dragged the filled suitcase to the door, suddenly turned around, “It seems that at this time of the year, wives will have a parting kiss for their husbands who are out of town or something.”

“You’re not my husband.” Greta Garbo stood on her tiptoes for a kiss despite what she said.

“Remember to visit me sometime, you’re Swedish, acclimatizing to the local climate shouldn’t be a problem.” Allen Wilson stood in the doorway contentedly and said something about being well at home and taking care of his health before dragging his suitcase slowly down the stairs.

This time he was really going to his appointment, and it was not until the footsteps on the stairs disappeared that Greta Garbo closed the door.

Arrived in Boston Allen Wilson, in the consulate said some fine words of solidarity, every other day on board the ship to Newfoundland, he already has a rough program, this premise time is very precious, finally, his feet stepped on the land of Newfoundland, this is when it is considered to enter the role of the Governor of Newfoundland.