Chapter 426 The Lost Value of Gandhi

Alan Wilson thought the matter alone was worthy of positive influence from Britain, and as an ally there is no more comforting scenario than pointing out the shortcomings that do exist in an ally, but which cannot be solved.

These problems do exist, not only do they exist, but they are well known even to European immigrants or they wouldn’t have been mentioned in published books, and the best part is that they have existed for a long time, yet Americans always expect miracles, like the wish that a virus will miraculously disappear when summer comes, and hope that they will go away on their own.

And to actually solve the problems comes at a huge cost; President Roosevelt in wartime didn’t solve them, and those who came after him had an even harder time.

The role of the British Empire is to, knock on the sidewalk and watch these American problems miraculously disappear. For the time being anyway, Britain doesn’t have a race problem, at least not as bad as the US.

“Some Americans, in fact, have yet to recognize these problems.” Philby resumed his seat and said with some hesitation, “Is it good for us to take the initiative to expose the shortcomings of the Americans?”

“Of course it’s good, as an ally, we have the obligation to mention ……,” Alan Wilson paused, “what they naturally have the means to find out. It’s plain to see that the less the Americans want to solve this problem, the more they will promote racial equality on the surface. Doing superficial things like replacing blacks with African-Americans, such bullshit tactics.”

“But is women’s rights destructive in any way?” Philby frowned, “Can the Soviet Union capitalize on this kind of problem?”

“Of course it can, didn’t the USSR say that men and women were equal? It’s absolutely true that feminists seeking entitlements are potentially pro-Soviet.” Alan Wilson smirked, “Of course don’t get me wrong, I don’t have any views on women’s rights, the minister I used to serve was the leader of the women’s rights movement, I love women, my fiancée is a woman. But when it comes to matters of national security, we have to be wary of any hint of danger, don’t we?”

Finally when it comes to the purple issue, Alan Wilson says that the means of stigmatizing it should be that the group advocates for transgender toilets, when in fact no one else knows if a person is a transgender or not, and that such an advocate, if fulfilled, would be troubling to the vast majority of the normal.

Of course this is part of the so-called political correctness of 21st century America, which transgender toilets are, and he is merely taking the response of the US government decades later and moving it to the present as its means of stigmatization.

So-called political correctness is the framer’s job of those in power to feed the public shit without compromising money.

When it comes to money, it’s not about political correctness. For example, if a transgender character is the protagonist of a popular game, the game’s audience is greatly diminished, and most people are disgusted by that.

Alan Wilson is of course standing on his own two feet, these problems in the UK, he is just as unable to solve, but the racial problem, in this time period can still be stopped, the same kind of problem in the United States has been unable to stop. According to the memories in his head, the sixties would have been a riot.

Even if the UK gave the right advice, the US would not address it because the cost would be too great, so the UK has nothing to lose from this reminder other than the fact that it would sell, it’s the Americans who have the headache.

In the final analysis, these problems are the same as the disease of affluence, replaced with such problems in India are not a problem, what can not be solved, since the independence of India and Pakistan, the history of the two major religions to kill each other certainly appeared.

Only it did not appear in public opinion in London, but it spread very widely among the major British colonies.

Savyevich knew about it, having learned of it when he contacted Northern Rhodesia, and the major colonies knew all about it, except for the British mainland, which played deaf and dumb on the matter.

The figures also ranged from a million to ten million, depending on the circumstances of each colony. The colonial administrators, not coincidentally, resorted to exaggerating the number of deaths to scare the population of their jurisdictions.

Allen Wilson didn’t do this though, Newfoundland didn’t have that environment, and he could have copied the death figures for the Indo-Pakistani partition for a whole year if he had served in Malaya.

The problems were far from over, and although Mountbatten, who had already departed for home, called for unity between India and Pakistan on top of the ceremonies for their independence, the religious clashes occurred, and now that he’s gone, the problems have become even more complicated.

But Alan Wilson, far away in Newfoundland, was just watching the action; the man in a truly anxious mood was Gandhi.

The spiritual leader who had led British India to nonviolent noncooperation had finally lost much of his value after the British had let independence go. Now Gandhi’s enemies were no longer the morally indefensible colonial government, but the once-followed devotees of his, now high-powered Congress Party hierarchy.

In Gandhi’s view, not only was his beloved motherland divided again when it gained independence, but post-independence India was in danger of falling far short of the ideals for which he had fought for decades. Thinking about this made his heart feel as if it was going to be torn apart by someone.

He hoped that the India of the future would be an India free from slavery, free from modern technology, free from belief in God, free from violence, and free from conscious abstinence.

He wanted to set an ideal example in the world, or at least in Asia, through such a new image of India.

Instead of realizing this wish, his own ideals were seen by the new leaders as old-fashioned nonsense. Nehru also wrote that if Gandhi’s ideas were pursued, mankind might regress to the backward days of the past, and India would forever be placed in an unimaginably stifling state of self-sufficiency, that is, a rural subsistence economy.

Gandhi persuaded the leaders of all ministries, ministers and above, that they must all dress in earthen cloth, move into apartments without servants, ditch their automobiles, shed their racial prejudices, and engage in at least one hour of manual labor every day, such as spinning, gardening, and cleaning toilets.

But how could the top brass of the Congress Party, now a national leader, take Gandhi’s words seriously?

Isn’t it good for everyone to travel in their luxury cars? Why listen to this stupid old man?

Naturally, Gandhi, the former leader, has drifted away from the present Indian leadership.

Gandhi is not without things to do, although because of the saint persona into the drama too deep, and the current leaders have a gap, but the prestige is still there, because of the Punjab and Bengal border demarcation problems, resulting in the emergence of refugees, in the Gandhi’s own appeal, Nehru decided to go along with the condolences.

Gandhi insisted on dragging Nehru to the Punjab, and Gandhi did not care how he treated himself, he had to go along this time. They went there to console the Sikh and Hindu refugees.

These refugees were hungry, cold, exhausted and had lost everything and fled back into India. Seeing Gandhi and Nehru roaring, they surrounded them and complained bitterly of their misfortunes. Gandhi was busy here, explaining sanitation to the refugees, showing them how to build latrines, and setting up a medical clinic for them.

On their return, the two men sat in the car, exhausted. A weakened Gandhi put both his feet on the feet of Nehru, who had gone public with his differences and was no longer his follower, and fell into an exhausted sleep.

Nehru was in a state of great unrest at the sight of the harrowing scenes of the refugees. While gently massaging the feet of the sleeping Gandhi, he closed his eyes and contemplated the heavy burden that was weighing on his shoulders.

Gandhi was only concerned about the tragic events that had taken place, but the biggest thing now was not one specific person. Rather, it was the set of problems represented by Kashmir.

It has to be said that Nehru is now confronted with problems that are much more severe than in history. The religious vendettas all over the Northwest and the Northeast can be considered minor problems, and some of the powerful Tuktuks, especially those of the pacifist monarchs, are stupid.

One of these is represented by the problem of Kashmir, where in the two months since independence, Pakistan has been agitating for the Kashmiri population to join Pakistan, while the local Maharaja is a Hindu and does not want to join.

Kashmir is the ancestral land of the Nehru family, and he himself did not want to give it up in his heart, and in the present Indian government, Nehru have been considered moderates, and the number two man, Patel, was adamantly opposed to any concessions to Jinnah.

In the meeting aggressively expressed the need to use war to solve the problem, if Nehru if to carry out moderate advocacy, Patel will be the spearhead of his own.

By no stretch of the imagination could Nehru now make concessions to Pakistan, but Ali Khan, the Maharaja of Hyderabad in the south, watched with ambiguity, not to mention the fact that the British troops in India had not yet been withdrawn and part of them had already reached Portuguese Goa.

These problems came one after another, so that Nehru was very troubled, he really did not have time to accompany Gandhi, must return to New Delhi to preside over the meeting, on the current problems to discuss solutions.

On April 30th, Nehru had just returned to New Delhi, and the first news he received came from faraway Newfoundland, where a telegram from Allen Wilson indicated that the Wilson Line on Portuguese Goa existed.

“Since British India was initially hit by famine and the Portuguese offered to provide food to help the Indians tide over their difficulties, I signed the document for the territorial swap as the person directly responsible for it, and the swap was recognized in the Portuguese statement. Britain had no reason to pressure the Portuguese, Portuguese India was older than British India, and the Mughal Empire did not exist then.”

“Those damnable British!” Nehru couldn’t help but swing his fist on the table after reading this, since independence he had opened negotiations with the Portuguese, even the French had left, but the Portuguese were relentless.

And at the same time, Gandhi traveled to another center of conflict, Calcutta in the northeast.