Chapter 480 Partition of the East Indies

On April 2, the Dutch government formally announced that it would let the East Indies become independent and adopt the terms of partition, retaining the islands of Kalimantan and New Guinea under Dutch rule, while the rest of the East Indies could be handed over to the Indian government.

After the partition of India and Pakistan, the Dutch government officially began to follow the footsteps of the British Empire and adopted a partition policy for the two million square kilometers of the East Indies under its rule, with the Netherlands retaining the island of Kalimantan and a part of Dutch Guinea, which accounted for half of the entire East Indies, close to one million square kilometers.

The announcement of this news by the Dutch government caused consternation among the countries that had been watching to see exactly what program the Netherlands would adopt.

But almost on the same day, five countries, namely, England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, made statements in support of the Dutch partition plan within one day, and a little later, Australia and New Zealand also expressed their support for this partition plan.

On April 2, eight countries, including Australia and New Zealand, supported the Dutch partition plan for the Dutch East Indies, and at the United Nations General Assembly, Alexander Cadogan, on behalf of the United Kingdom, loudly praised the partition as the best solution, which showed the sincerity of the Dutch and avoided conflict.

“As we all know, many things are not as simple as they appear, the northern part of the island of Kalimantan once belonged to the Kingdom of Brunei, if the annexation of Indonesia to Brunei is very unfair, which is prone to cause conflict between the two countries, and the relationship between Guinea and Java is only common in the Netherlands under the rule of the Netherlands, can not be because of such administrative division of one-sidedly think that the two islands are related. ”

Alexander Cadogan took a biased position and stood firmly on the side of the Netherlands, followed by the representatives of France and other countries who were in favor of it, and the representatives of Australia and New Zealand who also spoke one after another, stating that the Dutch government, after careful consideration, had done so in an absolutely responsible manner, and that the consequences of the partition of Indo-Pakistan could definitely be avoided.

The support of eight countries, including Britain and France, two permanent members, made the American ambassador to the United Nations quite dismayed.

But at a glance, it was clear that all of them, except Australia and New Zealand, were European colonial powers.

Even without knowing the colonial countries, these countries together, as well as Australia and New Zealand so firmly support the Netherlands, the United States is not good to open their mouths to oppose.

At this moment, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations looked at the Soviets with all expectations, as long as the Soviets opened their mouths to oppose, the U.S. will surely follow, I believe that the Soviet Union, which has been opposing from time to time since the establishment of the U.N., will definitely not let the U.S. down.

The Soviet ambassador to the UN didn’t end up saying nothing, which disappointed the Americans ten thousand times over.

“It is not appropriate for us to take a position on this matter at a time when Britain is about to make a visit to Moscow.” Stalin, who had a large pipe in his mouth, took two steps back and forth and spoke to Molotov, “The current situation is very complicated, and our most focused, if not only direction is still Europe, and this will not change in the foreseeable future. In fact, we can also see through this incident that the United States and the European countries are not close to each other when it comes to the colonies.”

“Yes, Comrade Stalin. The Netherlands has just declared its partition, and on the same day Britain, France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, as well as Australia and New Zealand next to the East Indies, expressed their support. To say that there was no private communication is hardly convincing.” Molotov’s brow furrowed as he said, “Now it seems that Adlai’s Labor Cabinet, with the same imperialist mindset, is not unlike Churchill’s.”

“No, there is still a difference.” Stalin knocked his pipe, “No matter what, it’s definitely better than that Churchill guy, there are only these two people in my life that I can’t see through, one is Hitler, and the other one is him, these two people can’t be described as sensible at all in what they do, the difference is that Hitler didn’t have an America next to him to help him out. It’s fair to say that Britain’s predicament today has a great deal to do with Churchill.”

“At the moment our main aim in Europe remains to use as much time as possible to recover from the losses at home.” Stalin said this rhetorically, “I hear that rationing has been abolished in Britain?”

“That is so!” Molotov replied, “Should we call Malinkov to inform him about the internal affairs?”

“It isn’t necessary, and in fact it’s about time we put an end to rationing. Let the departments bring out a report to see if the conditions for abolishing rationing are sufficient.” Stalin shook his head slightly and said, “It can’t go on like this forever.”

Naturally, the current Moscow is not interested in doing justice to the Indonesian independence movement.

The current Soviet naval power is unable to exert influence on Indonesia, and the good news from Asia is enough to make the current Moscow happy; it is not yet ripe for a full-scale confrontation with imperialism, and it would be better to wait it out.

Moscow’s shocking silence surprised the United States, which had been waiting with bated breath for the Soviet Union to drop the cup as a sign. This is not the character of the Soviet Union ah, from the establishment of the United Nations to the present, the Soviet Union does not know how many times the veto power.

Three years ago, the Soviet Union used its veto for the first time when adopting a U.S.-Dutch resolution on the withdrawal of British and French troops from Lebanon and Syria, which had already gained a majority of votes. At that time, the Soviet Union’s opinion did not really differ much from the U.S.-Dutch proposal, and the purpose of the Soviet veto was to mark a political opposition to the West.

The Soviets, who had always used the veto to brush off their presence, how come this time they did not seek justice for the crimes of the criminal colonial powers against the colonies. Americans were wanting to question the Soviets, “With all that you’ve got, you still want to liberate the world?”

The Soviet Union’s look of “I’m busy” was very embarrassing to the United States, which was ready to try to follow the Soviet Union and reap the benefits.

To know this time to support the partition of the East Indies countries, can be said to be the United States to pull together the object, if the United States in this issue, too obvious to show that want to let these European colonial countries colonial independence, and is not conducive to the confrontation with the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, as well as Eastern Europe as a whole, remained amazingly silent on the matter of the partition of the East Indies in all kinds of statements.

It was as if the matter was unknown to them, and none of the newspapers reported it, but instead reported the progress of the civil war in one of the major powers in a series of articles as a shameful defeat of American imperialism.

“Yes, burn all the rubber forests, this is all far from enough, should use minelayers, mine all the metal mines, make all the mine detectors useless, de-mining can not even be de-mined, fill in the wells, in the dumping of industrial waste into the river, before leaving the shelling of Jakarta ah, where are the battleships, why not use them? The Dutch are still too dead in the head.”

Hyde Park benches, end of the newspaper watching the news about Indonesia about the hot weather caused by the fire has spread, Alan Wilson was in the scene, can not wait to personally go on the battlefield for the Dutch to develop an evacuation plan, for the French after the approach to make a sample.

“Alan!” With a pleasant female voice came, Allen Wilson body a wit, without a trace of the newspaper put away, as for what mine, shelling things, that is all a misunderstanding.

Stand up full of gentlemanly style to meet the source of the voice, Alan Wilson with a bright smile, “Audrey, your dress today is eye-catching, only you can make the mediocre wear, impressive.”

“Which is not!” Audrey Hepburn are a little ears burning, laugh and ask, “Look at look at what? I can see you talking to yourself from a long way off.”

“It’s about a piece of news about Holland, and I thought you were brought up in Holland, so I paid a little more attention. It’s a happy thing that the Dutch possessions in Asia have been settled peacefully.” Allen Wilson seemed very pleased with the successful outcome of the peace settlement.

About to go on a business trip, Alan Wilson invited Hepburn out for a walk to cultivate a little affection, during which he said some anecdotes of Whitehall, he knew that Hepburn was not very interested in politics, so the topic was limited to Whitehall’s laughing stock.

These anecdotes amused Hepburn and said with a big smile, “I thought you guys working for the government were all very serious?”

“We’re all ordinary people doing the same things as ordinary people.” Alan Wilson pursed his lips.

Thirty years later there would be a TV series called Yes Minister that would appear, in which the protagonist was more like a collection of successive prime ministers and successive cabinet secretaries, condensed out to a few characters. So technically there was no prototype!

But there is a former Prime Minister who is in the middle of the background, and the archetype is definitely the current Prime Minister, Adderley. This is because Jim Hacker’s party has been in opposition for a long time, and it was the former Prime Minister who led the party’s turnaround.

This is exactly the state of the current Labor Party, and most notably the former Prime Minister that Jim Hacker was in, who brought down the Deputy Whip before he left office, which is exactly the relationship between the current Prime Minister, Aidley, and the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party, Herbert Morrison.

The relationship between Prime Minister Alderley and Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison is as poor as one can see. The reason for this is because back in the day when the Labor Party was deciding on its future leader, Herbert Morrison, who would have been more qualified, lost his seat as an MP because he lost the election.

The British election is essentially a party election, and the party whip automatically becomes the prime minister. Herbert Morrison, who lost his seat that time, watched as Airdrie became the leader of the Labor Party, and in the days that followed, he was always haunted by it.

Adderley knew about it too, and the relationship between the two was exactly that of a former Prime Minister and Deputy Whip when Jim Hacker was Minister.

But unlike the TV series, Adderley didn’t have a heart attack and give his successor the chance to perform a volte-face. Instead, he kept making sure that another Labour victory was a long shot before going to the House of Lords.

It stayed that way until the evening, when Alan Wilson invited Hepburn to a candlelit dinner, and then returned Hepburn in the same step.

“I’m going to visit Moscow with the Foreign Secretary, can I get a blessing or something.” Alan Wilson asked pathetically.

Audrey Hepburn looked at Alan Wilson, whose eyes were full of anticipation, and walked up to the man, standing on her tiptoes to slapdash ……

“It’s as if I’m full of motivation!” Alan Wilson looked back for a long time until Hepburn disappeared behind the door of the room.

What American emperor Su Xiu also just figure a fun, he Allen Wilson is the big boss who practiced years of divine power in reverse, leaving behind a high and profound Dao Hang.