Chapter 422 – Bureaucratic Instincts

“I, I …… am certainly very honored!” Faced with what could be the biggest opportunity of his life, Boris stammered, but with a firm tone, “I think what you need Mr. Allen is someone who is flexible, calm, and has an overly energetic person.”

Despite Boris’s eccentricity and temperamental nature. He was always anxious to get back into the army again, but at the same time he had done nothing for so long that what he thought was like an idle dreamer. Though he had never saved more than a hundred pounds, he took it for granted that in the end he himself would turn the tide and become rich.

Alan Wilson took his glass of wine and accustomed a sip to his own mouth, and laughed unperturbedly, “Especially if it’s reliable ……”

“Reliable, yes, be reliable.” Boris didn’t actually understand exactly what Alan Wilson’s words meant, but repeated them twice like a repeater.

“Let’s think calmly about the specific advantages of Newfoundland!” Alan Wilson portrayed very blandly, “For most places in the world, Newfoundland’s natural conditions are so outstanding that, naturally, I certainly want Newfoundland’s future to be in trustworthy hands.”

Allen Wilson also wanted an airport in Newfoundland, and of course, there were existing facilities available. With the presence of British and American military bases in Newfoundland during the war, in his thinking, Newfoundland should also become a free port, fitting the position of a colony or autonomous territory.

If Newfoundland was eventually incorporated into Canada, the so-called plan should naturally be dead in the water.

The Comet airliner has already begun to prepare for test flights, after all, with the insistence of Pamela Mountbatten, a famous second-generation London power, the Comet airliner has been very different from the original design.

Pamela Mountbatten insisted on the reason for de Havilland had to give in, ostensibly Pamela Mountbatten, in fact, Alan Wilson believes that the aircraft, although in the data is the safest means of transportation, can give people the psychological fallout is also different from the general tools, the aircraft, if you fall off a, that is the world knows the big event.

How was the airship eliminated? Not because the Hindenburg in full view of the public, turned into a big fireball?

Without the Hindenburg accident, airships would never have disappeared into obscurity so quickly.

Jet airliners have advanced for one purpose, to be low cost and profitable for airlines, as for safety, that’s a byproduct, it costs too much to drop an airplane, so improving reliability and safety actually ends up lowering costs.

So the airliner is to allow more and more people to fly, the cheaper the ticket, the more the airlines earn, of course, the aircraft manufacturer is also full of pots and pans.

Decades later, the shape of the airliner has hardly changed much either, and only the most proven solutions will be used, not the most high-tech ones. Proven to be the safest, the most reliable, the least expensive to produce, the easiest to maintain, the least risky, and simply the most unchanged.

Anything with multiple airframes, delta wings, any innovation is to be vetoed, and to use the most mature and safe solution is to be responsible to the aircraft manufacturer, and likewise to the public.

Even the supersonic Concorde airliner was crooked, not to mention other changes.

If he had still been the talker in Newfoundland when the Comet airliner was officially test-flying, Pamela Mountbatten had already said she would have fought for it, and the test route would have been London to Newfoundland.

Of course Alan Wilson will not urge, this kind of thing or safety first, to avoid the Comet airliner history of mistakes is the most important.

Already see out Boris real Allen Wilson, of course, heart understand, in front of this try to cover up the embarrassment of the middle-aged man, in addition to the loyalty to the British Empire, should be nothing.

But? He now needs this kind of person, although the first time as a local administrator is inevitably too hard, but for Alan Wilson, the results are more important than anything else, what do you care about what is too hard but not hard?

Boris is supposed to represent one-sixth to one-eighth of the Newfoundland group, a group that identifies as British. It’s not really a particularly small number, this group doesn’t care if it’s a colonial identity or not.

The remaining two groups would be the group that restored the self-governing territories and the group that joined Canada, which are neck and neck in terms of numbers. It would have to be said that the incorporation of Newfoundland into Canada turned out to be very grudging!

Allen Wilson didn’t care if he was pushing too hard, there would only be one or two referendums, and if the first one didn’t work, there would be a second one, so there couldn’t be an endless stream of referendums. As long as the top through this period of time on the line!

After entertaining Boris with a few drinks, Alan Wilson was ready to settle his bill and leave, but Boris said he couldn’t take it, and pulled out of his pocket the entirety of his own belongings, five pounds to settle the bill for this one, maintaining what little decency was left.

“Thanks!” Alan Wilson seriously thanked, in fact, Boris’s current appearance was very much like the current situation in England. The slightest maintenance of dignity to cover up embarrassment was, in a sense, Alan Wilson’s situation as well.

Boris left, saying that he had to prepare to have a better mental state to work, after today, for him is a new beginning, back to his own home, passing through the room on the first floor as a storeroom, the skylight upstairs to let in the light, inside the furniture is just a narrow bed frame, a chair and broken a leg of the washbasin rack.

Usually sleeping naked on the bed, his large belly bulged into a mound under the dirty sheets.

It was hard to imagine that this was both the state of his life, but it should all be over. Boris set about tidying up his room, deciding to say goodbye to his past self once and for all.

For Alan Wilson, waiting for war to break out between Pakistan and India wasn’t as restful as he thought it would be, there was always something unexpected happening.

Vivien Leigh lay on the man’s back and asked softly if something was bothering her, Allen Wilson looked back, “Aren’t you going back to the Viceroy’s house? It’s easy for the others to see.”

“What’s the fear of seeing out, I’m a single woman, not a married woman.” Feiwenli whispered, “If they know, they know, it’s not like they haven’t thought about it in this regard anyway.”

Oh! Alan Wilson took a drag on his cigarette, but did not think it was a big deal, said softly, “In fact, I am afraid that I will be affected by the rumors, is it not selfish to think this way?”

“That’s really a little bit.” Feiwenli thought for a moment, and said very seriously in Alan Wilson’s ear, “I’m so much older than, will you one day dislike me?”

“Don’t say such things, I’m not that kind of person.” Alan Wilson put out the cigarette, kissed the red lips of the Great British Treasure and said, “Don’t always think about age, the law of nature is irresistible, you’re so beautiful don’t use other means, a little bit of nature is the best.”

Now this time period, is the era of plastic surgery technology by leaps and bounds, in the fifties, most of the plastic surgery in the latter days, have been able to implement, Hedy Lamarr old age has been done, but that, after all, can not change the laws of nature.

Vivien Leigh may not be thinking that way now, Alan Wilson first to give a preventive shot, can’t have a similar idea to breed.

Things that made Allen Wilson bad, in the next day from the Humber River to St. Johns, was brought by Savievich’s men, a man and a woman, came to Allen Wilson’s face.

The man was Su Yang, a Chinese laborer well known to Allen Wilson, and the woman was a Newfoundland resident named Mary.

Currently in Newfoundland Chinese workers over ten thousand, and did not bring their families over, Allen Wilson also knows that people are not machines after all, the so-called Chinese have a strong willpower to listen to just fine, there is always the will is not so firm, as in front of the eyes of the two people were caught on the spot.

“How should I say it? Two lonely hearts met together?” Alan Wilson looked at the two lowers, nonchalantly said, “Don’t lower your head now, at least in Corner Brook it shouldn’t be a secret anymore, or else the local residents won’t let Ustasha arrest you, I don’t want to ask more about the other words, are you two voluntary, if it’s Su Yang who forced you, I’ll hang him right away, I can’t enrage the public opinion of Newfoundland because of this matter, although the The punishment is a bit heavy, but it is definitely worth it.”

After finishing the sentence in English, Allen Wilson re-said to Su Yang in Mandarin, “I really didn’t expect that you don’t even understand English very well, but you still have this kind of ability.”

If coercion was involved, Allen Wilson, with the greater good in mind, could only bring out the imperialist’s mouth again. Making his point clear, he stopped talking and waited for a reply.

“He didn’t force me!” Finally Mary spoke up in a small voice, “He often goes to the town for purchasing, kind of Chinese that we can see not many, the two of us have quite a lot of contact, I think he is a very good person, very hardworking.”

“Oh!” Alan Wilson, with a sigh of relief in his heart, inquired, “Miss Mary, what do you think. Maybe he is going to leave Newfoundland in the future, after all, on a psychological level, the unfriendliness of the local residents towards the foreigners exists, and if I say it doesn’t, I’d be lying, it will be very hard for him to live in Newfoundland if he stays there in the future, but it seems like it wouldn’t be an easy decision to let you leave.”

“Can I go with him!” Mary knew in her heart that she might not be able to stay in Corner Brook either.

“Su Yang you heard it all, your life is kind of saved so far.” Alan Wilson switched to Chinese, “I can pretend I don’t know about this matter, but Su Yang you can’t go to Conabruk again. Accumulate a little more wife book and bring Mary back when you leave, here I solemnly remind that I am still on good terms with Malayan High Commissioner Gerard Edward, if you think it doesn’t matter, the gallows are always waiting.”

He hadn’t thought of the day when he’d have to impersonate the Grand Old Man of Heaven, but of course he didn’t divulge this to anyone else. Bureaucratic instinct, cover it up if you can.