Chapter 456: The Referendum Begins

Like this kind of time, not adding to the chaos is helping, Allen Wilson’s silence on most of the remarks against Smallwood is in itself helping Smallwood, there is no doubt about it.

For an official to benefit a party, Allen Wilson does not care what the outcome of the final referendum in Newfoundland will be, but he should do what he has to do, to influence people’s subconscious mind, is not necessarily to say something, to do something is actually possible, except that it is indeed more difficult than a speech.

Just pretend you don’t know, and now with the mutual accusations of the Independents and the Accessionists, Allen Wilson has officially formed three departments. The Newfoundland Forestry Consortium, the Newfoundland Fisheries Authority, and the Newfoundland Business Office.

As you know from the names, these are the agencies that correspond to forestry, fisheries, and tax havens. The Newfoundland Parliament building, Allen Wilson did not mention a word about the referendum, at least not until the three departments were established.

As the chief executive who is always in tune with the prime minister, Alan Wilson has the cheek to link the duties of the three departments to the three rings of diplomacy supported by Prime Minister Adderley.

To put it bluntly, this is Newfoundland’s economic troika, the cornerstone of the entire economic development. What is not in doubt is that the Newfoundland Business Office is in the most important position.

“Newfoundland’s unique position will make this the brain of the Commonwealth.” Alan Wilson actually wanted to say become the office of the Commonwealth, but on the spur of the moment remembered as if that wasn’t a good word.

In later times India became the location for outsourcing software and services because of its large English-speaking population. India for a while claimed to be the world office, but of course everyone understands that there are certainly fewer people sitting in offices in this society than there are as workers.

In consideration of India’s massive population, software and services outsourcing, the increase in employment brought to India and the huge population is not worth mentioning, and in the end, Indians do not mention it much.

“In fact, as far as the population of Newfoundland is concerned, doing well in two industries is enough to maintain a high quality of life. And I don’t know if the honorable members know about the tulip bubble. While it is a happy annoyance, we must remember that society is still healthy when it maintains the quality of thrift.”

“The government led by Prime Minister Adderley is to combine the best of socialism and capitalism. Guaranteeing basic security for all citizens and molding a prosperous society on that basis. So as tiring as logging is, and as hard as fishing is, Newfoundland cannot be abandoned, or else it will be hard to guarantee that a tulip bubble will not appear if all the people speculate.”

Allen Wilson came across as very sincere, and in fact was very sincere, how it was the first place he was allowed to practice, and sorry for the experience without leaving some useful legacy.

“Those of us who have seen the work of Governor Allen have seen the changes that have taken place over the last six months, and I believe that every citizen of Newfoundland has seen them!”

In front of Allen Wilson’s rather deceptive performance, the vast majority of Newfoundland Committee members, have opened their mouths to express their gratitude, in fact, before the referendum even started, Allen Wilson did not need to explain to these members at all, signing an executive order to set up these three departments, but he didn’t do it, and it’s not as if he is on the verge of leaving to prepare for a vote, British India is British India, Newfoundland is Newfoundland, the two cannot be mentioned in the same breath.

Although Alan Wilson did not in words, the results of the referendum on the statement, but now what is done, are in the strengthening of the status quo in Newfoundland, so that the current development trend to keep going.

The waiting process, accompanied by the citizens of Newfoundland with the sacred vote of the different ideas of the quarrel, to which Allen Wilson turned a deaf ear, but maintains the old habit, people in Newfoundland, pay attention to the world.

The current world-wide, two major events related to Britain, the Indo-Pakistani War and the Palestinian-Israeli War, the trend of the Indo-Pakistani War, in the direction of unfavorable to Pakistan, the most important is the death of Ali Jinnah’s illness, is in the final moments of the Srinagar fight, the father of the nation of Pakistan left the country that he built, the Governor of the autonomous territories has been taken over by the Bengali Khawaja Nazmuddin.

The other thing that has happened is the resumption of the Arab-Israeli war, once again over the question of whether Israel should exist or not, and the fierce fighting in the West Bank, both of which have been multiplied by several times the number of soldiers on both sides, has taken the brutality of the war to another level.

It’s not worth paying too much attention to the fact that Israel had the upper hand and defeated the Iraqi-Jordanian Coalition, which was the biggest threat to Israel and had the largest number of soldiers in the West Bank.

But then the Iraqi-Jordanian coalition came back, and the threat of Syria in the north and Egypt in the south remained, taking over some disputed land but not changing the course of the war.

Israel occupied more land, won more battles, and killed more Arab militants. Yet the fighting could not be stopped, a situation in which the UN General Assembly ordered a ceasefire between the two sides, while a U.S. military unit in Greece, along with a portion of Greek and Turkish soldiers, was directly transformed into a peacekeeping force, strong-arming both sides for a ceasefire.

“The United States has no intention of changing the status quo, except to argue that the war between the two sides has resulted in the birth of massive refugees, leading to a humanitarian catastrophe.” Alan Wilson took the telegram and read it conspiratorially.

He seemed to remember that decades later Gaza had become a large prison, completely dependent on donations from all over the world to survive, and the US had turned a blind eye to this obvious humanitarian disaster, so why was it paying so much attention to humanitarian disasters now?

The meaning of this one statement is actually quite simple: while the US is indeed pulling its punches, it is still ostensibly unwilling to offend the Arabs.

It so happened that Newfoundland’s son-in-law Su Yang was also there, came over to talk about the progress of the logging area this month to complete the situation, “Zhongtang Lord, the Americans so reasonable?”

“Reasonable is not quite right, the Arabs are not to be messed with is true, mainly on resources. It’s actually similar to the problems of your already extinct Qing Dynasty.” Alan Wilson mused for a moment and said, “The most intimidating thing about that dynasty of yours back then was that it was a complete whole with a huge population, and none of us European countries had any experience in dealing with such a country.”

“That dynasty? It’s still worthy of your eyes?” Su Yang was shocked and asked with some disbelief.

“Su Yang, you should learn more about how we, Britain, do in the world. I don’t want to say who was right and who was wrong in the past wars, but you are not the only country that fell at the hands of our Britain. More than a hundred years ago, most of the entire North America was called New France.” Alan Wilson swore that he definitely didn’t mean to insult France, but he could only use the most visual example to illustrate the point.

In the Seven Years’ War, New France in North America and French India in South Asia alone, which had been taken from France, were almost as big as China combined.

“The Arabs have the same problem; the Americans know that the Arabs are not strong now, but even if they were not, they would not dare to offend this people. Numbers reach a certain point and can be converted into a deterrent. Your country’s population alone made the European empires of the time think it couldn’t be handled, and neither we nor the French dared to move their heads only marginally. It’s not like Britain didn’t have colonies with similar populations, such as British India, but Qing imperial power was too entrenched, and we couldn’t find an ally like Hyderabad to help, and never found a place to put our mouths on.”

This issue he does not want to talk more, countries and countries are not the same, civilization and civilization are not the same, China’s history is not going to appear colonial mode of expansion, Europe can.

Each civilization has the characteristics of each civilization, if you change the atmosphere of China, the thirteen states of North America still want to be independent? Unless these rebels want to counterattack the mainland and still succeed, otherwise, change to China, especially the Qing Dynasty, but it will be another quasi-Georgian re-enactment.

Europe is not China, the characteristics of the two civilizations are not the same, this problem Alan Wilson is not willing to talk more.

Talk about something lighter, such as these Chinese workers back in Malaya, what are the ideas.

“Lord Zhongtang, it seems like it’s snowing.” As the two of them chatted, Su Yang suddenly pointed outside the window and opened his mouth.

Alan Wilson Shi Shi stood up with a rather peculiar expression on his face, it seems that he must give God his old man a face, what to bring? Whiskey?

The snow had come at the right time, the referendum was drawing nearer and the snowfall had stopped in St. Johns, but things were not so simple in the other settlements.

On November 1, the Israeli-Palestinian war had been brought to a forced halt by arriving peacekeepers, Arab countries were protesting, Indian troops had marched into the capital of Kashmir, and Pakistan was still mourning the death of the Father of the Nation after a long illness when the referendum to decide the future of Newfoundland began.

The result of the referendum is based on a simple majority, with one option automatically becoming final if it has more than fifty percent supporters.

If none of the three candidates reaches 50 percent, a second referendum will be held, in which the proposal with the fewest supporters in the first round will be withdrawn, and the top two proposals will be retained.

The referendum involved all citizens of Newfoundland, and along with Labrador there were seventy-seven polling locations, which were guarded by the Ustasha under Savage.

It may not be possible for all citizens to find them, but with the objective conditions here, one can’t ask for too much.

St. John’s, the Newfoundland Commissioners were out in full force, appealing to the citizens of glorious Newfoundland to support their claims and use the power in their hands with care.

“Hiss ……” Allen Wilson, standing by the window, exhaled white smoke and suddenly coughed a few times; it was a bit of a throat-burner today.

One after another people came out from inside the house and headed to the referendum location, Smallwood did the same, just in this short period of time, he has already suffered no less than ten times of abuse, and the polling place in favor of the merger of Canada, there is no one at all.

Alan Wilson did it purely for reasons of efficiency, and definitely not moralizing. It’s been pretty cold with the recent snow days, and an early result would be good for everyone, so a secret ballot was eschewed.