Chapter 452 – Visiting Hepburn

“Alan, don’t be so surprised, it’s just the truth.” Norman Brooke laughed and brought the topic back to the Newfoundland referendum, “But since the claim of the Crown Dependency is the one that is most favorable to us, I’m going to suggest this to the Prime Minister, and if one of the ministers is opposed to it, then in principle, that minister should choose to resign if they can’t convince the majority of the people.”

“Wow!” Alan Wilson looked at Norman Brooke with a somewhat unfamiliar gaze, “Sir Norman, I admire your thinking and have learned a lot.”

“Talk about learning nothing, our responsibility is here.” Norman Brooke said flatly.

Although the system of internal committees was established by his predecessor Edward Bridges, he strengthened the system after taking office, supplementing it with the Defense Committee, the Economic Policy Committee and the Home Affairs Committee,****.

In this way, a large number of matters can be implemented directly by these committees without having to go through the Cabinet.

Not only that, Norman Brooke also drafted the ministerial performance procedures, approved by the prime minister to the ministries, standardized the ministers of the terms of reference, for this successively and the foreign minister, the finance minister had a conflict.

Alan Wilson does not know from the beginning of the year left London, to now is also half a year’s work, Norman Brooke surprisingly has been on the civil service system for large-scale adjustments, and even reached out to the minister.

The British civil service system originated in the decline of the king’s power, after the First World War was formally established. Now Norman Brooke had gone further than his predecessor and greatly expanded the authority of the civil service.

Now Alan Wilson knew why the Permanent Secretary of the Colonial Office, said that the environment in Whitehall was now somewhat delicate.

Norman Brooke had only been in office for a dozen months or so and had already achieved a much stronger authority than the previous two Cabinet Secretaries.

“In fact the main dilemma is that a number of ministers believe that relations with Canada should be preserved. It’s not a bad idea to give away Newfoundland for that purpose.” Norman Brooke mused, “Should that factor be considered.”

“Honorable Sir Norman, the truth is that the biggest problem within Canada is the Quebec problem, not the Newfoundland problem.” Alan Wilson lowered his voice and said, “Jurisprudentially Canada should ask for help from Britain, not the other way around, right?”

“Very well.” Norman Brooke nodded with a smile, “In fact, regarding the situation in Upper and Lower Canada, we are in principle not at liberty to speak out, except that if the French move to do so, we can put a stop to it, can’t we?”

Alan Wilson nodded, he really remembered that France, after de Gaulle came to power, also really used the Quebec issue, ruffled Canada, leading to the outbreak of the Quebec issue in Canada.

To Quebec nationalism one has to mention France’s de Gaulle. This old man was a wunderkind and really despised Britain and the English. So when he attended the Quebec World’s Fair he devised a route that was to beat him to death and not to enter the land of Anglo-Canada.

In fact, Canada was very nervous about his visit for fear of what he might do.

As it turned out, de Gaulle lived up to his reputation by delivering an impromptu speech at Quebec’s City Hall that he had prepared long ago about how France had been strong and unyielding in its resistance to Germany. At the end of the speech, he shouted the historic words: “Long live a free Quebec”, which became a maxim of Quebec’s independentism.

Beginning with de Gaulle’s words, “Vive la liberté du Québec,” the next two decades saw a wave of independence in Quebec. De Gaulle’s speech was seen as an endorsement of the Quebec independence movement, and at the time sparked a diplomatic crisis between France and Canada.

In fact, who can say what will happen in the future, maybe we can also take advantage of the Quebec matter, so that France and Britain can form a synergy, together support Canada to balance the influence of the United States on Canada, operating in a different way, bad things can also become good things.

“Brezhnev?” Alan Wilson walked out of the Cabinet Secretary’s office, looking inside his head for a political figure that corresponded to Norman Brooke’s tactics, but after thinking about it, there was no more suitable candidate.

Even Brezhnev had gone through a long period of adjustment before he was able to monopolize power in the Soviet Union, while Norman Brooke had used less than a year and a half to have Whitehall firmly in his hands.

Allen Wilson just even want to directly express loyalty, degree of this Cabinet Secretary to express willingness to serve as a dog and horse.

Back to London Alan Wilson, in fact, there is nothing to do with personal affairs, Pamela Mountbatten followed the Crown Prince and his wife traveled, he could not look for his sister-in-law Patricia it, her husband is not willing.

After careful and logical consideration, Alan Wilson has something to do, and Alim got in touch.

First of all, he inquired about his good friend, Maharaja Ali Khan, the situation in Hyderabad, for the time being is that, while India and Pakistan are fighting for Kashmir, Ali Khan is constantly cleansing the forces of resistance.

Because eighty percent of Hyderabad’s population is Hindu, Ali Khan, of course, can’t kill everyone under his rule. But it’s kind of very thunderous, and New Delhi is playing deaf and dumb to Hyderabad’s moves as if nothing is happening.

“A little too conservative, shouldn’t we be proactive.” Alan Wilson frowned and lamented.

“Many of the Maharaja’s sons believe that it is not impossible to compromise as long as the current power can be preserved.” Arium hesitated for a moment and said, “Of course there is truth in what Mr. Allen said.”

“Even if I’m on good terms with the Maharajah, I wouldn’t dare to compare myself to his son. Hey, let’s take a step and see what happens.” Allen Wilson shook his head, he can’t say that Ali Khan’s sons are thinking wrong, after all, with such a great wealth, really put everything on the line to fight, this determination is really not good.

In what name did he persuade Ali Khan to fight for his life? People have to think for themselves, before the matter has not come to the head, the determination to give up everything is not so easy to make?

“Take me to meet Audrey!” Allen Wilson had no choice but to find a little lighter topic.

“Mr. Allen, I know where she is.” Arium immediately replied, “I’ll drive you or?”

“You drive!” Allen Wilson was still apprehensive about vehicle driving, he was more adept at the other way of driving, now on the other hand, he wanted to see the treasures of the Dutch automobile industry, it was not accurate to say so, it was an Anglo-Dutch joint venture to be exact.

As an imperial civil servant, Alan Wilson was certainly excited, and while the current Audrey Hepburn was not the classic image on screen, she was definitely not, as Arium said, a common, ordinary country girl either.

The most admirable thing is that, compared to many actresses who married and divorced and divorced and divorced, or who died in their heads because of a single change, the former has a bunch of Hollywood, the latter like Greta Garbo to stay home for the rest of her life. Audrey Hepburn is very much an ordinary woman.

Although Audrey Hepburn has had two marriages, but through the information, the two marriages are seriously managed.

The first marriage lasted fourteen years, Hepburn was the third wife, the two divorced very unpleasant. Hepburn was already almost forty years old, she pushed out Hitchcock because of the family, pushed out the “West Side Story”, can be described as trying to run the marriage, however, it still failed.

The second marriage, Hepburn married after she found her husband is a famous playboy in Rome, a variety of cheating events layer after layer known as tabloid headlines, so that Hepburn tired to serve as a “fire-fighting captain”. Hepburn in order to manage the second marriage, announced that rest, more than 10 years settled in Rome, but also in order to have a common language with her husband to learn her husband’s profession: psychological medicine, can be said to pay a lot.

From what aspects are considered a quality stock Audrey Hepburn, now in Alan Wilson’s combat radius, no matter how to personally visit the door to see.

Before going, Allen Wilson also washed his hair and pretended to be a spiritual boy before arriving at Audrey Hepburn’s dance school.

“Mr. Allen, you’re back?” As soon as Audrey Hepburn saw the visitor, she immediately showed her enthusiasm, in fact, this was only the second time the two had met.

“Ms. Audrey, is it good to live in London.” Alan Wilson pretended to be a gentleman and greeted with a smile without a sense of distance, “Fate this thing is really wonderful, in the Rhine a goodbye, we meet again. Although Europe does not dare to say it is very big, but it is not small either, and it gives me great pleasure to see the beautiful lady again.”

“It is still thanks to your help that I am able to have such an opportunity.” Audrey Hepburn smiled lightly and said with a flutter, “Did you come to see me specifically?”

“Of course, I’ve also just returned to London to run some errands in Whitehall. I have to go back to Newfoundland after a while, the place is preparing for the referendum, there are still a lot of things to do.” Alan Wilson tensed his face and made a troubled look and said, “Of course, out of the pursuit of democracy, I can only assist to a certain extent.”

In fact, it was tripping, but Alan Wilson’s words like this, directly in front of Audrey Hepburn, set up an image of an enlightened official, also doubling as young and talented.

“How about we wander around?” Alan Wilson put his hands in his pants pockets and said with a hint of gangsterism, “I haven’t been back to London for a long time either, and even when I walk on the streets of London, there is a sense of unfamiliarity. It might not be as familiar as you are with London.”

“Actually, apart from classes, I’m not very familiar with London either la.” Audrey Hepburn was a little embarrassed, but still agreed to the invitation to walk around with the thoughtful-looking man in front of her.

“Doing what?” Following the mask handed over by Alan Wilson, Audrey Hepburn asked with some confusion.

“The air in London is bad at this time of year, and for a young lady it should be protected.” Alan Wilson personally for Audrey Hepburn put on the mask urged, “girls still need to take care of themselves.”