Chapter 440 – Tough Truman

British Empire at least an old imperialism, if you really want to find a way, Newfoundland is completely retained.

Alan Wilson stood up happily, can stop the British Empire free fall trend, depends on the Newfoundland referendum this one, if even the same language and race, there is no bad feelings towards London Newfoundland can not be retained, Alan Wilson or early hand to sleep, the basis of such a good autonomous territories can not be retained, other colonies of the difficulty is even greater.

And from Pamela Mountbatten leaked this news, Allen Wilson felt that London seems to view Newfoundland’s position appeared a slight change, although still not much initiative, but compared with the history of the almost hard to push Newfoundland into the embrace of Canada, has been considered a great progress.

“I always thought that London was all stupid, but it seems there are still people who do things?” Alan Wilson asked, puzzled, “How could there be a change in attitude?”

“Could it be that some people are convinced that there is oil in the waters off Newfoundland?” Pamela Mountbatten nagged to herself, not really having a clue, “The news was put out, but we all know there is no oil in the waters off Newfoundland.”

“Ultimately the problem lies with the residents of Newfoundland, the idea of London is still secondary.” Alan Wilson pinned his hands to his chest and pondered, “Let’s take London’s modest change in attitude as a good thing for the time being, but it’s mainly up to the residents of Newfoundland to decide what to think, my dear, I’ve accomplished the purpose of this trip to the United States, shouldn’t we head back?”

The reason why it was felt that there was a change in London’s stance lay in the timing chosen for the referendum. As well as the timing of the Crown Prince and his wife’s arrival in Newfoundland, this can be interpreted as Crown Prince Elizabeth first pulling a wave of goodwill, and then going along to get the Newfoundland referendum.

In this way, it seems that the time of the Newfoundland referendum and the U.S. election election in a month, that time the biggest thing in the United States is the election, there is no any idle concern about the outside world, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party to each other as the biggest enemy, not to mention the Newfoundland, the standing public facing the two of the three major battles, are in the United States before and after the election to fight.

When the results of the U.S. election came out, Chang Gong has been a defeat, and then by the winning Truman a foot into the garbage.

Every presidential campaign, the candidates have to invest a lot of time, energy, financial resources, touring speeches to gather popularity, but also canvassing to raise funds, however, at the moment of defeat, all the efforts in an instant into nothing, the losing candidate not only to bear the personal failure, but also to fail the expectations of millions of supporters, the psychological pressure can be imagined.

To be honest, Alan Wilson simply do not believe that the defeated can be treated as not a matter of fact, to know the House of Commons Churchill, but has always wanted to regroup, from the hands of the Labor Party to take back the prime minister it.

Only at the moment Churchill is facing increasing difficulties, Alan Wilson even copied the three rings of diplomacy and sent it directly to Airdrie, and if the result in Newfoundland is cheering, Churchill’s chances of making a comeback will be even smaller.

There is nothing more dangerous to politicians in this world than being on the wrong side of the fence, it doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it, you just need to patiently board for a few months, and the Standing Lord will use himself as an example to educate politicians around the world.

Alan Wilson has even prepared a pen name, ready in the major British colonies, in the form of Chinese and English double subtitles, to help Chang Gong make a name for himself, this is not the first time he has done this kind of thing, without him so dedicated to the work, India in the world can have such a big name now?

I believe that with the help of him as a foreign friend, Chang Kung will be able to take his popularity in the world to a higher level in this decisive action.

He did not return to Newfoundland at once, but kept in touch with London in Boston, explaining to London, from the point of view of being in the front line, that this election was not so simple as it appeared.

After three telegrams of communication, the London side recognized him as the Boston consul’s explanation, and only at this time Allen Wilson can be considered to be at ease, returned to Newfoundland to continue to be his own administrator.

As a hard-working administrator, Allen Wilson must immediately return to his post, step out to change the important step of changing history, for this reason his heart is stirring.

“You were amazing today!” Pamela Mountbatten is very satisfied with her rather motivated fiancé, who is in a very good state at the moment, and carries out all-around multi-angle compliments.

“What upsets me the most is that you’re going back, but Newfoundland does get a little too boring.” Alan Wilson let out a long sigh of understanding for Pamela Mountbatten’s desire to return to London.

“I’ll be here with the Crown Prince and his wife when the time comes, and the separation will be brief, my dear.” Sensing Alan Wilson’s reluctance, Pamela Mountbatten took the initiative to offer a kiss and said, “I’ll go back to see what stage the Comet airliner has reached, maybe I’ll do a jet airliner to come when I come to see you in the future.”

“You don’t want to sit on it without rigorous experimentation.” Alan Wilson face solemn shook his head, “or to what I said before, airplanes are different from trains and ships, in the final analysis is the product of confidence. Must ensure safety, for this to do more advance preparations are worthwhile, not only in advance preparation to do, but also to be ready for large-scale production, at present the British colonies are still a lot of, we can market these airliners, and even at the beginning can be disregarded profit, take a thin profit and multi-selling way, as long as the first to take over the market down, we sell out a, is equivalent to the competitors less one market We sell one plane, it is equivalent to one less market for our competitors. When the competitors die, won’t the profits still be ours?”

A world without discomfort would stagnate; a world that was too fair in some ways would be horribly unfair in others. There are no problems to worry about in utopia, but no opportunities exist in utopia as a result.

Regarding this attempt to seize the airliner market, Alan Wilson understands deeply in his heart that it is unrealistic to want to use this to kill Boeing at once, and that it is a great victory to be able to dominate the aviation market in Europe, together with the orders from some of the British colonies.

Boeing even if only with the help of the United States itself, the market will live well, not to mention the United States of America on the whole of the Americas have an overwhelming influence? To be able to reach the status of the latter-day Airbus, for the current Comet airliner, has been considered Allen Wilson’s biggest attempt to kill Boeing is simply unrealistic.

Whether or not this first-mover advantage can be utilized depends on how much Pamela Mountbatten is able to use the power of the aristocracy.

Compared to the Airbus in a few decades, the Comet airliner has a huge advantage, that is, the Comet airliner should appear earlier than the Boeing airliner, the history of Boeing civil airplanes predate the Airbus, so the Airbus into the scale before the clear Boeing somehow helped to develop the norms of civil aviation.

Some Boeing aircraft design habits and maneuvering habits will naturally deep into the hearts of pilots, the majority of pilots naturally think that Boeing so that can fly, is the beauty! Boeing such an airplane is the aircraft! And the entry of Airbus brought the concept of teletype and subverted the previous pattern of Boeing.

This is not a matter of early or late, Boeing early, Airbus late. Europe and the United States and more attention to intellectual property rights.

Boeing used something absolutely prohibited Airbus use. For example, Boeing cockpit toggle switches more, Airbus buttons more. It is not necessarily the development of ergonomics, but more of a patent issue.

The exterior light switch Airbus also takes the form of a toggle switch, but the position is the opposite of Boeing. Boeing forward is on, backward is off, Airbus the opposite.

As long as the Comet airliner appears in front of the Boeing airliner, it will be able to get rid of the patent pincer that the Boeing airliner will have on the Airbus airliner after decades, and that alone is a big advantage, and reaching Airbus’s position in the civil aviation market shouldn’t be too much of a challenge for the Comet airliner.

“If Mr. de Havilland, thinks the cost of the investment is too great, you’ll offer an above-market price for the company’s shares as compensation.” At St. Johns Wharf, Allen Wilson sent his fiancée on board with careful instructions.

He also knew that de Havilland had this little bit of honeyed confidence, probably because he wanted to bring the Comet airliner to market faster, or maybe it was something else, anyway, a little dissatisfied with the progress of the various trials and inputs so far.

But Allen Wilson already knew from history that ideas like de Havilland’s would have disastrous effects on the Comet airliner.

If an airliner was shot down, that rather wasn’t a big deal; after all, it was an external factor. But if there was a design problem, it could be a devastating blow to a company.

“Don’t worry, dear, with me all tests will not fall.” Pamela Mountbatten felt Allen Wilson’s affectionate words, “I promise with the surname Mountbatten that it will all be according to your requirements.”

“It’s not my request, your career makes it mandatory. I’m a civil servant, I’m not making airplanes all by myself, what can I ask for.” Alan Wilson corrected Pamela Mountbatten, when did it become his requirement, it was clearly Pamela’s money for Pamela’s business.

Besides, it would have been better if de Havilland had been impatient and asked Pamela Mountbatten to take the risk as compensation.

It would also be possible to take the opportunity to expand the Mountbatten family’s shares in the company. As of now, because of the large number of experiments that led to high inputs, Pamela Mountbatten had already occupied more than thirty percent of the shares.

Allen Wilson, standing at the pier, waved at the distant cruise ship, waiting for the Crown Prince to sail to Newfoundland.

The preparations for this could begin now, repeating what had been done before, inculcating over the radio the rhetoric of not a small but a great good, while continuing to follow the example of Chang Kung’s decision to liaise with Commissioner Barron of the Persian Gulf, Commissioner Gerard of Malaya, and commissioners of the other British colonies.

While awaiting the Crown Prince and his wife’s trip to Newfoundland, mankind hopes that the election in the United States of America is getting warmer. The fierce battles in India and Pakistan continue, and the situation in Palestine is getting more and more tense.

The days of the key politicians were so busy that the Newfoundland matter was rather the work that Alan Wilson occupied the least time.

In this expression of fraternity to the whole world, time is also passing little by little, and the temperature is synchronized with the rise is the United States enthusiastic election campaign, in Philadelphia, after the Democratic Party Convention, Truman very difficult to become the candidate of the Democratic Party.

In the face of public opinion on Dewey’s one-sided favorable, stubborn Truman heart did not admit defeat, but into the speech tour, he wants to prove that the miracle can occur.