Chapter 457 – Newfoundland Crown Territory

Things had come to a head, the final outcome was beyond his control as an administrator, waiting for the outcome to appear was the only thing Allen Wilson could do, and he had done his best.

For the time being, Allen Wilson and the Chinese laborers were the most carefree, as none of them were citizens of Newfoundland.

So Allen Wilson decided to take a break from the heavy workload and have a drink to wait for the final results to come in.

It was a sleepless day for many and Allen Wilson was up early the next morning before sunrise, despite the extra drinks.

Without a word, the rising administrator opened the blinds and let his eyes look down on the front, the conspicuous sandy beach blending in with a hazy mass of scrub, the water of the bay faintly visible under a star-filled sky. His head still ached, but his heart was hot; everything in front of him was exciting, and even a mind duller than his would have been enlightened by the sight.

After a day’s time, Alan Wilson to do not think the whole of Newfoundland’s vote has been counted, but the results of St. John’s should have come out, here occupies roughly half of Newfoundland’s population, here the results come out, even if it is not a tenfold certainty, but also can decide a direction.

“It shouldn’t be so bad that there’s a result of a Brexit referendum, right?” Alan Wilson asked himself, it shouldn’t be so bad as to have that kind of result.

The referendum on Britain’s departure from the European Union, if divided geographically, is that London with Scotland is the Remainer, and all of England except London is the Leavers.

London, though the largest city in the UK, ended up drowning in a sea of English people, with the Scottish factor negligible, and Scotland, though large, has only one-tenth the population of the UK.

The stronghold of Independence is also St. John’s, the capital of Newfoundland, Labrador is definitely in favor of the merger with Canada, now it’s up to the capital, to overcome the other settlements of Newfoundland.

In this small bay, several sloops had just sailed by, and now a larger rowboat was again swinging on the microwaves. Several fishermen rowed over to the rowboat, then tied their own small rowboats to the moorings and hurriedly climbed into the larger one.

St. Johns, as the capital, had gone through the entire referendum process in one day, and now only the counting of the votes remained to be tallied.

Alan Wilson knew that Stalin had a famous saying that the voters decide nothing, the counters decide everything. So it wasn’t incomprehensible that King Understanding was upset about losing.

However, he was not quite convinced that the Newfoundland referendum, which historically was supposed to be a very scorched-earth referendum, could it be that his own participation in it had even become a negative effect? Now the situation in Newfoundland should be much better than the same period in history is right, there is no reason to gutter overboard.

Out of the Governor’s residence Allen Wilson, did not go to the polling station, the Parliament building or even anywhere, is to take Savage walk around, he did not want to admit that he did not dare to take the initiative to inquire about the results, but walk around to ease the mood.

Two or three miles south of the bay, on the sloping pebble slope of another cove, a fisherman’s strange sail, hauled his boat to shore. Shrubs along the sandstone edge of the waterfront mysteriously shook then parted, and the fishing boat was pushed in.

This scene Allen Wilson had only seen in the clip of the black cat, cat-eating mouse smuggling back from Africa, and thought to himself how a normal fisherman could make it look like a pirate.

“Mr. Allen, since you are very reluctant for Newfoundland to leave England, why don’t you do more work?” Savievich could see that Allen Wilson was preoccupied, and couldn’t help but open his mouth and ask, “Save yourself from being so troubled right now.”

“It’s too close to the United States, if it was somewhere else, say? Northern Rhodesia then, I will seriously think of a way.” Allen Wilson raised an eyebrow, all of a sudden there was a desire to chat because of this question, “Savyevich, when it comes to this topic, I’ve never asked you about Northern Rhodesia, now I want to ask, can you honestly explain to me what the current Slavs of Northern Rhodesia, think about the future.”

“Mr. Allen, we are very grateful to London for being able to give us a piece of space.” Savyevich mused for a moment, and while he couldn’t be said to be supremely intelligent, he knew that the question wasn’t without cause, and that it had to be approached with caution.

“Once Northern Rhodesia breaks out of its colonial status, it could devolve into an Israeli-Arab relationship, and as I recall, you didn’t arrive in Northern Rhodesia with a large population, did you? Even if you add the children born in the past few years, there aren’t many of them, and it takes at least ten years for those children to grow up, but the population of the black community near Northern Rhodesia is no less than that of the Arabs.” Alan Wilson said meaningfully, “Once you guys choose to become independent one day, it’s going to be even more difficult than it was for the Israelis, do you think I’m right? Unless you start ethnic cleansing over and over again, but do you dare to guarantee that every time, you will be able to hide it tightly?”

With these words, Alan Wilson made it clear that he knew about what had appeared in Northern Rhodesia.

Seeing Savijevic’s silence, Allen Wilson whistled and said, “If I have time, I’ll pay a visit to Northern Rhodesia and have a good talk about your future.”

Of course, this premise was that the Newfoundland referendum had the result he wanted, and there was always an open door to defend the interests of the British Empire, right? That way he would have the confidence to move on to the next step.

He believes that only arrived in Northern Rhodesia Slavs, consider the problem will not be like the native whites who have taken themselves as natives as naive, a long time to kill each other, will let the Slavs understand, how to maximize the benefits.

In Newfoundland is still counting the votes, November 2, involving Dewey, Truman and the Progressive Party Wallace of the 1948 U.S. election, but also precisely opened the curtain.

While Allen Wilson was distracted by the referendum in Newfoundland, Chang Gong, far to the east, was not so idle; although the battle was unfavorable, he believed that as long as Dewey, who was shrouded in mysterious power, won, nothing would be a problem.

It is worth noting that Progressive Party candidate Wallace ran on a platform that opposed the Cold War, including the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine.

The Progressives also wanted stronger government regulation and greater control over big business, demanded an end to discrimination against blacks and women, and supported a minimum wage. They called for the dissolution of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was designed to investigate “co-conspirators” in U.S. government agencies and labor unions, on the grounds that the latter violated civil liberties.

Given that Truman’s popularity ratings are in the doldrums because of the split in the Democratic Party, Dewey appears to be resting on his laurels. Believing that their candidate could win as long as he did not make any major mistakes, the Republican Party hierarchy advised Dewey to try not to take any chances, and Dewey accepted.

Under these circumstances, the American electorate, like the citizens of Newfoundland the day before, began to cast ballots that would determine the future of the United States.

Many newspapers, magazines, and political analysts believed that Dewey had already won, and so they began to prepare their post-election articles in advance for the upcoming “Dewey presidency”.

Life magazine ran a large photo of Dewey in its final pre-election issue with the caption, “The Next President Cruises the San Francisco Bay on a Ferry.”

Writer Alistair Cooke published his article, “Harry Truman: A Study in the Causes of Failure,” on election day.

The NBC news program, in an effort to boost ratings, got a model of the White House on the set of the program, with two model elephants in it, so that the elephants could jump out of it when Dewey was declared the winner on the news; as for the Democrats, the donkey model was simply not prepared, since it was certain to be defeated.

Meanwhile, Newfoundland was in the midst of counting its votes, and for Allen Wilson, on the counting of St. John’s alone taking over, the support for amalgamating Canada was negligible, not even as much as the supporters of maintaining the colonial status.

From this result, the previous hand of partisanship was still effective, 80,000 citizens of St. Johns, more than 70,000 votes in favor of the transformation into a crown territory, an absolute landslide.

Now look, as long as the Crown Prince couple who just left North America, the trip in Newfoundland at least have even a little effect, this result is stable. There will likely not be a second round of voting now, and the result will theoretically come after all the votes have been counted.

Alan Wilson also doesn’t think that a shady outing will happen in Newfoundland, as the chief executive of Newfoundland he’s not even playing outside the box, and it’s even more unlikely for anyone else to do so.

Votes from all over Newfoundland were still arriving in St. John’s, being recorded in the presence of the members of the Newfoundland Council.

But by the time the seventy-five thousand votes from the Crown Dependencies had appeared, all was lost; the voting population of Newfoundland was only one hundred and fifty-six thousand, and with the votes already cast in favor of maintaining the colonial status, more than half of the theoretical number had already been cast, so that even if all the remaining votes had been in favor of amalgamation with Canada, it would not have had any effect on the result.

Thus the Newfoundland Commission had previously announced the result of the referendum, and the result of the Newfoundland referendum was that more than fifty percent of the population was in favor of the conversion of Newfoundland into a Crown Dependency for self-government.

The result was broadcast over the radio to all corners of British Newfoundland, and the referendum, which was to determine the future of Newfoundland, had come to a conclusion.

Alan Wilson appeared and arrived at the Newfoundland Parliament building under the watchful eyes of a number of citizens, in front of the parliament building Alan Wilson shouted, “I personally respect the decision of the citizens of Newfoundland, and now in the name of the local administrator I inform London of the result of this referendum, long live the Crown Dominion of Newfoundland!”

“Long live the Crown Dependency of Newfoundland!” In front of the Newfoundland Parliament building, supporters cheered loudly, happy that they had been able to thwart the plot to sell out Newfoundland to Canada.