Chapter 407 The Governor General’s Talk

From now on, the theoretically more than 400,000 square kilometers of Newfoundland, is the place under Allen Wilson’s jurisdiction.

The moment he stepped onto the pier, there were quite a few local councillors rushing to greet him, Allen Wilson and the people who came to greet him greeted each other, and one of them came up and introduced himself, “Mr. Governor, I’m from Northern Rhodesia, Mr. Mihailovich asked me to wish you hello, just call me Savyevich.”

“Mihailovich and I are also old acquaintances, with your presence, I believe that the Chinese laborers who will arrive later should not be in conflict with the locals. Of course I first remind one thing, our relationship with the Chinese laborers is purely an employment relationship, because of the cultural differences, if there is any incomprehension you can sit down and talk about it, don’t use force to solve the problem.”

Alan Wilson spoke up, “It just so happens that I also understand Chinese, so I believe it won’t be a problem. Your duty in Chetnik is to isolate the conflicts between the Chinese workers who come to work and the local residents.”

“Understood, Governor.” Savijevic nodded before reminding in a low voice, “We are Ustasha.”

Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, so it was Croatian, and coughed softly, “Pretty much. In that part of Africa, you’re all white in the eyes of the blacks, there’s not much point in preaching about it anymore.”

This point Savijevic agreed, Serbs and Croats hundred years of hostile relations, after arriving in Northern Rhodesia, just a few months to reduce a lot.

Although they can’t talk about being close to each other at the moment, the two communities, as well as a small number of Slovaks, have coincidentally chosen to embrace the warmth in the face of the issue of Africans.

“Since we don’t have many people either, and Northern Rhodesia needs to produce, ours came over three hundred this time. Arrived a week ago.” Savyevich followed Alan Wilson and introduced his group.

“That’s enough, it’s really just policing, I know something about the Chinese, so as long as we get the word out, there won’t be a conflict, as for the locals, I’ll explain to their representatives right away.” Alan Wilson walked into St. John’s, the capital city, without stopping on his feet.

There are four hundred and forty thousand square kilometers of land belonging to the rule of Newfoundland, and Newfoundland, the island alone, has eleven hundred thousand square kilometers, leaving more than three hundred thousand square kilometers of land next to Canada on the North American continent.

Newfoundland proper has a temperate climate, but the land on the North American continent has a cold climate, similar to the climate of Siberia.

St. John’s is a city in the northern Avalon Peninsula in southeastern Newfoundland. The capital and largest city of Newfoundland and an important port.

Alan Wilson knows that it is also the home base of the resistance to the merger of Canada, and currently St. John’s has 80,000 inhabitants, a very appropriate number in Alan Wilson’s eyes, as his former home town had a population of about that size.

The total population under the rule of Newfoundland is less than two hundred thousand, the rest of the population is distributed in other settlements, as well as the North American continent of Labrador, at present, because of the relationship of the direct colony, the parliament of Newfoundland has long been dissolved for more than a decade, the current Newfoundland has only one committee, as a channel of communication with Canada or London.

To a certain extent, this committee also determines the future of the entire British Newfoundland.

Newfoundland’s Governor’s residence, in fact, is an inconspicuous three-story European-style building, Allen Wilson just familiarize themselves with their nominal residence, directly to the previous Newfoundland Parliament building, and the members of the Newfoundland Committee, to discuss about the future of Newfoundland.

The Newfoundland Council building was now just a symbolic building although it was only a symbolic building because the council had been canceled. But as a bridge to communicate with the local elite, it was more than appropriate.

Allen Wilson entered the Newfoundland Parliament building, stepped into the time, but also looked at the time, nineteen ninety-four at eleven o’clock and three minutes noon, it is possible that this is a future day to remember it, as an immodest governor, he must write a diary.

St. John’s was not a large area, how large could a coastal city of eighty thousand permanent residents be? It didn’t take long for the members of the Newfoundland Council to arrive in droves at the Newfoundland Parliament building.

They already knew that the newly appointed Governor General, had finally arrived, and their first impression, was to marvel at Alan Wilson’s age, an age that did make it hard to believe in London’s sincerity.

“Honorable gentlemen, please make yourselves at home as we meet for the first time. I am the newly appointed governor, of course you can just call me by my first name, if warmer call Alan is fine, if business call Wilson is fine.”

Allen Wilson took out the information from among the briefcase while greeting in a friendly manner, letting these Newfoundland elites who had some distrust in their eyes sit down, as for that distrustful gaze of theirs, Allen Wilson attributed it to the fact that he was probably envious of the fact that he had hair that was still very thick, it was a kind of jealousy, which was completely understandable.

“We heard that London had assigned a governor, we just didn’t realize that Governor Allen had taken office a little later than we expected.” A middle-aged man with a monocle first spoke, “I believe it was a pleasant journey.”

“That’s not true, the journey was quite tiring as well, especially during the American expedition.” Alan Wilson was completely truthful, without any semblance of falsehood, and that was really not even a drop.

He also got from Fei Wenli’s hands to come to the road fee, blackmailed Greta Garbo some clothes, completely afford the evaluation of two sleeves, as for the white whoring from Bokina the Chinese workers’ living supplies, even ordering the machinery are Bokina paid for this kind of thing, he is also embarrassed to mention, he paid too much for Newfoundland, the key can not be self-congratulatory.

“Gentlemen, I know you have misgivings about me as the new Governor, for the moment, I am considered to be alone in office, and have received nothing but a million pounds allocated by the Ministry of Finance. There is also machinery ordered from Europe, and the expense of recruiting labor.” Alan Wilson, seeing a look of disappointment on the faces of the members of the Newfoundland Committee, turned the conversation around and said, “There’s still a million pounds left ……”

The members of the Newfoundland Committee are all dignified characters, one by one, they are not small in age, hearing Alan Wilson complaining bitterly one by one, and then saying the result that it is in fact a white whore, almost flashing his waist.

Of course this is not what Alan Wilson has to say, the next is the first formal communication, “Gentlemen, let’s get to the point, from a comparative point of view, the situation in Newfoundland I have done my homework, at present Newfoundland’s basic conditions and Canada, Australia, similar to, and may even be a little better. The per capita resource holdings are immense, and also exceed those of Canada and Australia, and even if nothing is done and time is used to slowly recover, life is much less stressful in terms of living than in the other two places.”

“Australia’s deserts, as well as arid lands, occupy seventy percent of the total area. The Canadian tundra takes up half of the entire country’s area, which of course isn’t completely unexploitable, it just requires a lot more hard work and effort.”

“In terms of industrial distribution above all else, Newfoundland is more similar to Australia than either Canada or Australia, and still has twice the resources per capita.”

In the first meeting, in front of these local elites of Newfoundland, Alan Wilson mentioned the one million pounds allocation, and the rest was to praise the per capita resources of Newfoundland.

Australia had a population of eight million people, counting land suitable for settlement or not, one person per square kilometer.

Canada is similar, and British Newfoundland is different, Newfoundland’s population is less than two hundred thousand people, the total area is four hundred and forty thousand, a person two square kilometers and surplus, this is all has been counted unsuitable for development of the land.

Moreover, Newfoundland’s main product is fishing, Australia’s main product is farming, the world’s largest and best quality of iron ore has not yet been discovered, the Australians are now farming and raising sheep.

Newfoundland’s fist industry is fishing, and it has become so powerful that even forestry resources can be ignored. Maybe it is because the fishery resources are so good that even the forestry resources are ignored.

So the problem of Newfoundland is similar to the Dutch disease, which is completely fed up. The only problem is the indebtedness, mainly because the British Empire also owes money now, which is why Newfoundland is treated as a burden.

In fact, this is also the general idea of the residents of the capital city of St. John’s, in the process of the referendum on the merger of Canada, the capital city of Newfoundland, St. John’s, was the main force of opposition, and finally a referendum of all the residents of Newfoundland, only very reluctantly over the percentage of fifty percent, and became a part of Canada.

“There is no doubt that Europe is currently in the midst of reconstruction, and Newfoundland’s forestry resources are extremely scarce for such reconstruction.” Alan Wilson stood up and gave a copy of the data brought in on the estimated shortfall of raw materials for the reconstruction of Europe to each of the members of the Newfoundland Committee in front of him, “The reconstruction of Europe will require vast quantities of timber, all of which is now supplied by the Soviet Union, and in fact, dividing out some of the share to Newfoundland will easily take care of Newfoundland’s indebtedness problem.”

“But we don’t have the manpower!” The speaker was Newfoundland Magistrate Joseph Roberts Smallwood.

“Dear Mr. Joy, the last thing the British Empire lacks is manpower, just not in Newfoundland.” Alan Wilson corrected without panic, “Today, as my first day in Newfoundland, I will communicate with you gentlemen, and in the evening, I will talk to the residents of Newfoundland through the radio. Let everyone understand what my view of the future as Governor-General is.”

At 6:00 p.m. on the evening of Nineteen Forty-Four, the residents of St. John’s were enjoying their dinner by the warmth of the fireplace when Allen Wilson’s voice appeared in the middle of the radio right on time, first beginning with an introduction of himself, greeting all the citizens of British Newfoundland, and then laying out his views on British Newfoundland.

“The truth is that the citizens of Newfoundland, themselves, don’t realize what a great place you live in. I used to work in British India and have a deep understanding of what a person’s basic needs are, and for a lot of people, being alive is just being alive, whereas the citizens of Newfoundland can want to live even in the most difficult of times, and as it happens, British Newfoundland is perfectly capable of doing that ……”

Alan Wilson’s calm and sincere voice reached thousands of homes in British Newfoundland through the radio.