Chapter 411 Collective Enterprise

For the aristocratic ladies from England, the Australian government was quite attached to them, which made sense.

Pamela Mountbatten took a group of noble ladies and visited local celebrities everywhere, trying to win back the favor of the Australians.

The issue that has gained the most consensus is the independent Dutch East Indies in the north, which has a population ten times that of Australia, and this demographic pressure is real, and every Australian can’t afford to take it lightly.

Far from the mainstream culture of Europe and the United States, and facing the population pressure of Asia head-on, Australia has always put its security in the hands of its brethren of the same race, the United States in a few decades, and now the United Kingdom.

“Honorable Prime Minister, Britain is trying to establish a base in Malaya to contain the Dutch East Indies. It is also supporting the Dutch partition of New Guinea, also to create a buffer zone for Australia. As long as we in Britain, and other European countries remain in Asia, there is no need to worry about Australia’s security.”

Pamela Mountbatten talks about a problem that Australia has always feared, and this has manifested itself decades later in Australia biting whoever is a challenger to the United States, whether it be Japan, Indonesia, or one of the major powers. Australia is more concerned about American hegemony than it is about the Americans themselves.

And in the present, with the strength of the Royal Navy still in place, Australia relies on Britain.

Naturally, listening to Pamela Mountbatten’s words, Prime Minister Chifley was very pleased, “The movement of the Dutch East Indies is indeed a matter of great concern to us, and the fact that London can think of it makes us very touched.”

“Britain mainland after all is too far away from Asia, in the second world war we are a bit contemptuous of the Japanese, this kind of mistake will not be in the occurrence.” Pamela Mountbatten smiled lightly, “My father was very much in favor of this, and he also pointed out that the Netherlands, after all, is a small country with few people, and its rule over the East Indies is very strenuous, with the possibility of failure. If Australia could help out on the side, the matter would have a much greater chance of success.”

Pamela Mountbatten’s stock of knowledge of key politics naturally originated from the Governor-General of Newfoundland in the deep woods rather than Mountbatten, the Viceroy of British India, but it was more acceptable to the Australian Prime Minister to give credit to Mountbatten.

At least Mountbatten was the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia in the World War, and as the daughter of the Commander-in-Chief, Pamela Mountbatten should have had such a store of knowledge of key politics that it was only logical to say these things.

Prime Minister Chifley naturally expressed his great willingness to assist the Netherlands in its vision of establishing a buffer zone to separate Australia from the East Indies, and although the Dutch were ultimately one layer behind in their sentiments, the thought of the vast population of the East Indies made them seem very amiable.

“The key point in maintaining the military presence of the British Empire in Asia was the Suez Canal. In fact the attitude of the United States towards the colonies is so distressing to London that if the Suez Canal were to be taken out of the Empire’s hands. The British Empire’s power to protect Australia would inevitably be greatly reduced.”

“General Mountbatten’s vision is admirable.” Prime Minister Chifley had a look of admiration on his face, and thought that Pamela Mountbatten’s vision all originated from Mountbatten himself.

Prime Minister Chifley’s admiration was genuine, although Australia is a large island, Australians do not have an island mentality, but rather consider themselves an isolated continental country, and with the lessons learned from Japan, will be more interested in solving the problem before the danger comes.

Seeing Prime Minister Chifley so well spoken, Pamela Mountbatten couldn’t help but exclaim in her heart, “All in!”

It was almost as if Alan Wilson was right beside her, reading Australia’s heart about national security.

Australia was a strategic pivot point for Britain in the fight for maritime supremacy with the Netherlands. At that time in the South Pacific, the Dutch had the largest territory, occupying Indonesia; the Philippines was a Spanish colony, which was later snatched by the Americans; the British had a sharp eye, occupying Malaysia and Singapore, controlling the Strait of Malacca, and strangling the maritime throat of the Dutch and the French. And Australia, as an adjunct to the British Empire, held off the back of the Dutch in the south.

Now that national liberation movements were in the air all over the world, Australia’s biggest threat was no longer the Dutch, but the Indonesians, who had been resisting constantly, and London expected Australia to play a greater role.

To put it most to the point, Britain still had a lot of warships waiting to be sold, and Australia could be a good buyer.

This time in 1948, it would have been historically appropriate for the Soviet Union to step in and Sovietize Czechoslovakia, yet it didn’t happen until Alan Wilson came out of the Humber River Basin, with its pitiful to almost non-existent logging sites.

He was very optimistic on this expedition, and the pitifully small logging area was because of a problem with manpower, not a problem with resources.

For the time being, it is to take advantage of the British Occupation Trade Commission is still a big master, the amount of Newfoundland’s forestry resources, knot the European market’s pleasure, as far as possible to play out their own power, with resources for money.

Just as Alan Wilson returned to the capital of St. John’s, the freighter carrying Chinese laborers arrived in St. John’s port.

One by one, the Chinese faces made the local residents of Newfoundland alarmed, their paradise-like hometown, how suddenly flooded in so many foreigners?

In the evening, Allen Wilson’s voice reappeared on the radios of Newfoundlanders, explaining the arrival of the Chinese workers and the plan for what was to come.

“After careful thought, the idea of complementary colonies is very necessary for Newfoundland at the present time.”

Allen Wilson, holding a written speech, spoke into a microphone and, in a tired voice, communicated for the second time with the residents of Newfoundland about his examination of the logging areas in the Humber River Basin.

“My initial idea from the beginning was to maintain a production of 10,000 cubic meters per day, also including roughing. Take Newfoundland’s forestry resources and send them to the European market that is in desperate need of raw materials to rebuild, but as of now, there is a huge shortage of local labor in Newfoundland.”

“As for whether there will be conflicts, do not worry about it, Northern Rhodesia came to Newfoundland militia, to help local residents and these Chinese workers to isolate the conflict.”

At this point, Alan Wilson paused for a moment, not for any particular reason, but solely because he was turning the page, and then seeing the prompt on the paper, and coughing a few times as he read, he coughed a few times into the microphone, and continued to read, “I’m terribly sorry, I may have caught a cold while on an expedition to the Humber River Valley.”

With intermittent coughing, Allen Wilson’s voice continued to be heard among the radios, by thousands of households in Newfoundland, and at the end of the broadcast, the voice coming from the radio said this, “I am personally willing to eat and live with all the Chinese laborers who have come to Newfoundland and live in the logging area together, and to safeguard the psychological safety of the local population with this attitude. ”

The first Chinese laborers to arrive had a place to stay right in the middle of Allen Wilson’s show of feigned illness.

There is another problem, after a visit to the Humber River Basin, what Allen Wilson understood better is that manpower can not solve all problems, at least in the forestry production absolutely not.

With the terrain of the Humber River Basin, vehicles can hardly be used either, fortunately just pushing timber from the logging area into the river saves a lot of effort, but this section is not solved by manpower either.

As long as livestock was needed to help, that meant horses were needed at least as an aid. So he called in Joseph Roberts Smallwood, the Newfoundland magistrate, and said in a hoarse voice, “Mr. Joy, I have an honorable and difficult task for which you are the only one who seems to be better suited at the moment.”

“Mr. Allen please speak.” Smallwood, seeing Allen Wilson, who hadn’t seen him for the better part of a month and clearly had a weathered look on his face, had also reigned in his verbal socialist pie in the face a little.

In the middle of last night’s broadcast, Allen Wilson had opened his mouth to pledge to eat and live with the Chinese laborers who had come to Newfoundland, and it was not yet known what the reaction would be, but it was certainly a great sacrifice.

“Is a very important, but for you may not be very arduous thing, I need to buy a batch of horses in Canada, as a help in logging, the current settlement at the mouth of the Humber River, the stockpile of horses is far from enough.” Allen Wilson said smilingly, “I come from the country and am not overly close to the Canadian side, so I need your help.”

As we all know, Canada is sparsely populated, in fact, sparsely populated countries are not weak in animal husbandry, first of all, animal husbandry in a country if it occupies an important position, it can be reversed to prove that this country either has a small population or a vast territory.

Because animal husbandry itself has no added value, if the country has population pressure, certainly to be placed after industry and agriculture. Unless it’s like British India, which considers cows sacred and turns a blind eye to them wandering back and forth in the streets.

When livestock is strong and still a valued industry for the country, it’s bound to be a sparsely populated country, which Canada is.

“Okay, I wonder how many?” Smallwood did have okay connections in Canada, so he agreed decisively.

“Three thousand horses is enough!” Allen Wilson mused and gave a rough figure.

A day apart, Smallwood set off on a ship for Canada, and by the time he boarded the ship and left, Allen Wilson announced at the Governor’s Mansion that the Newfoundland Wood Industry Consortium was established to manage the export of forestry resources to the European market, “The Humber River basin, divided into ten harvesting zones, and the estuary for rough processing.”

“The Newfoundland Wood Consortium has myself in charge for the present, and any citizen of Newfoundland has the right to supervise it, and the inhabitants of Newfoundland may elect a committee to look into the accounts, and to prevent the opportunity of embezzlement by certain persons of low morals, in fact by myself. In principle, the Wood Industry Syndicate is owned by all Newfoundland citizens, and the proceeds will be used for the development of Newfoundland, which is a collective enterprise.”