Chapter 410 The Contract for Exploration

Alan Wilson, who had already entered the deep forest, knew that Pamela Mountbatten had arrived in Australia, so he was not the least bit worried about reaching his goal, or was it the saying that blood is thicker than water.

In the future, after the Nassau agreement is signed, if it is assumed that a nuclear war breaks out, the UK has already suffered the end of the world.

Among the top-secret filings of the British nuclear submarines, there are two that involve two countries, the first, if the U.S. still exists, directly under the command of the U.S. to launch a counterattack, and the other is to go to Australia.

Australia, sparsely populated, detached from mainstream Europe and the United States, directly facing the demographic advantages of Asian countries, has always been strongly wary, but until up to 1942, Australia was clearly oriented to the interests of the British Empire.

After the entry of the United States into the World War in 1942, there was an almost instantaneous favorable impression of the United States in the native Australian political circles, and the impression of the United States became extremely positive, mainly because Japan was approaching in such a way that Australia was unable to resist it by its own means.

But up to this point, Britain and the United States remained equal priority options in the eyes of Australians. This perception would continue into the sixties, when the US would thoroughly establish its dominance over British influence in Australia.

Whoever made the Royal Navy pretty much finished by the sixties, in close cultural feeling, also had to face the facts.

Alan Wilson’s guess was indeed pretty much the same, it was almost a carbon copy of Pamela Mountbatten’s arrival in Australia, the British had always had a heart advantage over the Australians.

Except that when she arrived, Alan Wilson had specifically warned against showing such arrogance. The cost of living for Australians was actually much smaller than for the British. As long as the population didn’t reach the upper limit of Australian land, this would always be there.

As of now, Britain is still Australia’s largest trading nation, forty-five percent of Australia’s imports and thirty percent of its exports are related to Britain.

Pamela Mountbatten with a group of noble ladies, and the Australian government to talk about the exploration program is very smooth, smooth as if General Mountbatten as the Prime Minister of Australia.

Pamela Mountbatten was educated when Alan Wilson was still in British Malaya, to do two things after arriving in Australia, the first do not mention the disgraceful performance of the British army at the time of the Battle of Singapore, and if you can not avoid it, you will scold Churchill.

He said that the British noble officers wanted to fight for Australia very much, and it was Churchill’s ignorance of the military and blind command that led to Britain’s defeat in the Battle of Singapore.

Another question about the EEC, if anyone asks, is that the Americans forced them to do it, and that Britain didn’t want to lead Europe.

Historically after Churchill’s three rings of diplomacy went bust and the Suez war ended, Britain was forced by the US to join the EEC, and apart from being humiliated by de Gaulle, the rest was cooler relations between Australia and Britain.

Compared to the fall of the Singapore base in World War II, Britain’s move to apply for membership of the European Union constituted a more fundamental shock to the Anglo-Australian relationship. Australia even condemned the UK for this act as immoral and dishonest.

In Canberra, Pamela Mountbatten hosted a costly reception to express her gratitude to the local Australian elite who had been invited to the event, and then said something that pulled in the favor, “If there’s another war, I’m going to join the army to defend Australia.”

At the reception, Pamela Mountbatten then attributed the disgraceful performance of the British army at the Battle of Singapore to Churchill’s micromanagement. It was also made clear that Europe was no better than Australian blood.

As for pulling favor, it mentions that the royal and aristocratic classes appreciated Australia because it was a place of immigration for criminals, and saying so as an aristocrat would give Australians a sense of being valued.

The aristocracy’s ill-feeling towards Churchill was real, except that it had nothing to do with Australia and was entirely due to the fact that the aristocracy had suffered terribly in the midst of the Great War.

It wasn’t even just a question of inheritance tax, many of the holders of British companies before the war were aristocrats.

But because Churchill was going to fight to the end in the Great War, the Lend-Lease Act was extremely unfavorable to Britain under Roosevelt’s power, resulting in a large number of companies owned by the aristocracy being sold to the United States under Churchill’s pressure.

The U.S. added a customized rider for Britain: “Britain must sell all valuable businesses in the U.S. before receiving aid from the U.S.”. This provision meant that Britain had to sell off a large number of high-quality industries in the United States to the United States. When the British government protested this, it received a cold response from the U.S. side: “The U.S. government, however, felt that this sacrifice was necessary.

The Rollo Company, which is still on British soil, is only a lucky escape from the large number of quality companies accepted by the United States. A large number of quality companies operating in the United States were sold by Churchill to the United States overnight, resulting in a heavy loss of British capital.

Naturally, Pamela Mountbatten slammed up Churchill, as well as the noble lady who came to Australia together to help, it is very emotional, even if Churchill and Mountbatten’s relationship is actually very good.

Even better relations, also can not let Pamela Mountbatten on breaking people’s money hostility, if not her fiancé in British Newfoundland to get out of an opening, the aristocracy in the current British environment, is really a floundering.

Whether Ellen Wilson’s conduct in Newfoundland will hurt the revenue of the government depends on how it is put.

In the long run it definitely will, but at the moment the world wars have been fought, there are no wars coming up in a short period of time where large numbers of nobles are killed in action, and the next batch of noble heirs to be knocked on their backs by the government is at least a decade away.

So this kind of damage to the government revenue is not really urgent, but the aristocracy looks at this matter differently, in the face of the London government, the aristocracy is now in a weak position, especially now there are only female heirs to the family, if in a few decades when women’s rights are prevalent, it can spray the government out of the flower.

But now the aristocrats can only endure in silence, Britain after the world war, the mainland delayed recovery, but decades as one day to become the largest investor, absolutely not without reason, a large number of aristocrats certainly want to transfer the wealth, to prevent the last in the name of inheritance tax into the government’s income.

Allen Wilson is merely taking advantage of Newfoundland’s current special status to guide these fleeing capitals to land in places that are still safe for Britain, and if he doesn’t, these fleeing capitals will also run to the United States. Most people are never going to sit still.

On the inheritance tax front, there is little feeling in London in the short term, in that there isn’t a major war leading to mass deaths of the aristocracy for them to harvest either.

The current Australian Prime Minister is Joseph Benedict Chifley, who, very coincidentally, is the representative figure in Australian politics who expects Britain to recover its power quickly.

In fact, given the state of the Australian economy, it is long overdue to move away from rationing. But Chifley resisted the pressure and maintained the policies of wartime economic control, including the policy of high oil prices, which made the public quite unappreciative of him.

As a matter of fact, since Australia’s trade depended heavily on Britain, Chifley’s purpose of helping Britain was to hope that Britain’s economy would recover quickly after the war and its politics would be stabilized, which would naturally be of great help to Australia’s politics and economy.

Two days after this reception, Chifley summoned a representative of the Mountbatten Exploration Company, also known as Pamela Mountbatten, and Prime Minister Chifley first asked, very intimately, how things were going in British India.

This was because of the violent conflict that had broken out between the Pacifists and the Hindus in British India, a religious conflict between the two sects in the area centered on Calcutta, in which tens of thousands of people had died.

This conflict, which originated in Calcutta, has spread throughout British India and is the biggest news in the world these days.

“The two main sects in India have been hostile for centuries, and Father is at a loss for words.” Pamela Mountbatten was good-natured, “For two years my father and the civil servants of British India have been doing their best to bridge the conflict, and now it seems that little has been achieved.”

“Oh, yes.” Prime Minister Chifley nodded knowingly, “I wonder how much the country has recovered.”

“The situation in London is fine.” For what Prime Minister Chifley said about the country, Pamela Mountbatten knew that what was being said was actually the United Kingdom, because the Imperial Privilege System was still in place, and the Australians were, in a certain sense, considered to be subjects of the British Empire.

If Alan Wilson is here, also know that Britain eventually joined the EEC, let Australia can not accept the reason, is that Britain joined the EEC to get at the same time, began to Australia, as well as some autonomous territories, as foreigners. Seriously hurt the feelings of Australians.

Sure enough, Prime Minister Chifley nodded happily and said, “Once London is fully restored, it will have a huge benefit to the economic and trade relations with Australia.”

“This is also the purpose of my coming to Australia, Honorable Prime Minister.” Pamela Mountbatten followed her fiancé’s instructions strictly, carefully preparing a series of words, and from the time she arrived in Australia until now, the effect was very good.

Both at the government level and among the elite, there was a great deal of favor for these aristocratic ladies from London, and there were accolades all over Canberra.

After meeting with Prime Minister Chifley, the Australian government announced that Mountbatten Exploration Company, the right to conduct mineral exploration throughout Australia, all expenses will be borne by the exploration company alone, and said that Mountbatten Exploration Company, the efforts of Australia to take off the hat of the mineral poor country, supported by a large number of nobles from London.

Then Pamela Mountbatten directly in Canberra, registered a mineral company, according to the agreement with the Australian government, the mineral company will be found in the minerals have priority mining rights, the contract states that the mineral company in the discovery of resources, and the Australian government and the state government, for the division of profits.

In fact, for Australia, which has imposed a decades-long ban on iron ore exports, the sharing agreement prepared by Pamela Mountbatten is very conscientious, and is even considered to take care of Australia’s feelings.