Chapter 504 Northern Rhodesian Guests
The news of Chaplin’s deportation aboard a cruise ship just after leaving the United States was the biggest news story of late. The U.S. Department of Justice’s decisive decision had caught everyone off guard.
Chaplin also realized on the cruise ship that he had been deported by the U.S. Department of Justice and could not set foot in the U.S. banditry.
This invitation to the Shiner International Film Festival became a good opportunity for the U.S. Department of Justice to strike.
During the silent film period, Chaplin’s movies were not strongly political, but from the beginning of Modern Times, Chaplin constantly showed his ideas in his movies, and in addition to the criticism of Germany, the exploitation of the working class by capitalism was also don’t be shown to the fullest extent, and the owner of the United States Film Corporation was Chaplin, and no one was in charge of him.
Chaplin experienced this expulsion three years earlier than in history, and the only thing worth Alan Wilson’s consideration was that, unlike in history, the current British Labor Party was in power and might take Chaplin in. In the original history, the British Conservative Party was back in power by the time Chaplin was expelled, and treated Chaplin no differently than the United States.
Katherine Hepburn, who went out of her way to accompany Vivien Leigh, couldn’t help but feel distressed at seeing Vivien Leigh’s current appearance, “Vivien, where’s Alan, you’re at a time when you need companionship the most, why isn’t he with you.”
“Catherine, he is a diplomat. Has his own job!” Vivienne was very touched in the face of her best friend’s concern, and kindly said, “He said he’ll be back after he finishes his business.”
“You just know to speak for him.” Katherine Hepburn wanted to speak, really wanted to say that the man once took out a photo and asked himself to take care of a beautiful young girl, but seeing Fei Wenli touching her stomach with a happy face, she could not open her mouth, and without words, she said, “It’s really surprising that Chaplin was expelled.”
Chaplin was already famous all over the world thirty years ago, and became the most recognizable person in the world in nineteen seventeen, and such a character had just left the land of the United States, and was ordered by the Department of Justice to have been disallowed to be in the country.
Because of political reasons, many filmmakers did not dare to be in the company of Chaplin, but they just dared to be angry.
“Uh, Catherine, we’re not in a position to police this.” Vivien Leigh was a bit evasive, others didn’t know that she knew in her heart that there was still her man behind the expulsion of Chaplin.
Fei Wenli is aware of Alan Wilson, still trying to find a way to snatch the United States company, and now by Katherine Hepburn’s sense of justice broke out, instinctively want to avoid this topic.
“It’s also true that in your current state, it’s best not to think about these annoying things either.” Katherine Hepburn turned a smile, “In fact, if Chaplin hadn’t left so early it would have been better, and I received an invitation from Shana.”
The current Xana International Film Festival did not have an exact opening time, and France had just recovered from the war, and last year it was outright not held.
“Actually, I did, I just can’t go like this right now.” Vivien Leigh was really in good spirits, “Heidi and Ingrid and the girls, they’ve helped the French invite quite a few people this time. In fact, it’s good to go there. The market here in the United States is not so good, a change of place may be able to seize a good opportunity, even if it’s just to go out for a break.”
“You have to take good care of yourself after giving birth, image is still very important.” Katherine Hepburn joked.
Meanwhile, on the coastline of Los Angeles, Alan Wilson was walking side by side with a man of a similar age, a formal dress at odds with the cooler attire of the beach.
“Grace, actually, compared to the people in Nuremberg, those of you who escaped are still very lucky.” Alan Wilson stopped and lit a cigarette while giving handing one to the other and continued, “Isn’t that so.”
Almost without exception, all German supporters in Europe were liquidated, even in Germany.
After surrendering to the U.S. Army, German soldiers on the Western Front were held in prisoner of war camps close to the Rhine River, one of the two hundred U.S. prisons that guarded the four million defeated Germans. Rain or shine, they were housed outdoors and were supplied with half a ration plus a glass of water each day. Untold numbers of Willie’s buddies who had escaped the heat of North Africa and the cold of Russia had died in POW camps. The Americans called the Germans war criminals.
“I thank Mr. Allen for his help, father always mentions you, and we Serbs are not ungrateful people, so after getting a forwarded answer from the South African side of the family, father asked me to come over to America to visit Mr. Allen.”
Grace Mihajlovic, his father was the head of Chetnik, according to his father, Grace left Northern Rhodesia and rolled over to the United States, in terms of time, it could be said that it was a starry night trip.
“Let’s just lie to the others about this crap, you guys did keep what you did in Northern Rhodesia a high level of secrecy, not bad for what you used to do right here in the Balkans. But as the person who sent the telegram at the time, how could it have been hidden from me.” Alan Wilson smiled and stopped and waited a moment before saying with some disappointment, “Don’t you have anything to say?”
Grace shook her head, “This matter being exposed will be detrimental to both of us, Mr. Allen, we will be blamed by the whole world, and likewise you will not be able to get rid of the suspicion. So it’s better for us both to pretend we don’t know.”
“That’s what I’m saying, if I can reach the position of helping to cover it up, I will definitely erase all traces of it one day.” Alan Wilson nodded to himself, “Of course it also requires the support of some people, you know what I mean.”
“Northern Rhodesia is naturally very welcoming to Mr. Allen, to be able to play a greater role within the British Empire.”
Until this time, Grace breathed a sigh of relief, relaxing all over and said, “Regarding that time when the chaos that was absolutely out of expectation and no one wanted to happen would instead become the basis for us to help each other.”
“Essentially I don’t care how many people die in a colony, but this is something that, as long as it happens, will be feared to be exploited by someone else someday, and we certainly don’t want that day to come. But it’s not too much to be careful.” Alan Wilson stopped there with the question about the riots in Northern Rhodesia and asked another question, “What do you think of the apartheid practiced in South Africa? No desire to emulate it?”
“That prospective system was just a no-brainer.” Grace heard an undisguised sneer, “and want to enslave the blacks, and want to be reasonable and legal, direct cleansing but do not dare, how do I comment, I have nothing to comment. Can be suppressed for a while, can be suppressed forever?”
Grace to South Africa’s apartheid system, is horizontal and vertical can not see, this is also the North Rhodesia Slavic high-level consensus, Ustasha and Chetnik’s chiefs all believe that this system sooner or later can not play.
“I made a suggestion to the South African embassy to follow the Indo-Pakistani partition, but who would give up half of their territory when they were strong?” Alan Wilson asked with a shrug, “Over in Northern Rhodesia, is there a serious problem with the ethnic ratio now?”
“Blacks are definitely a minority!” Grace replied decisively, “I can guarantee that.”
“I’ll take your word for it, then immediately apply to the Colonial Ministry through Commissioner William to take a census of all the population within the territory. At the same time be on the alert for itinerant tribes. Above all create the impression of a white majority within the world.” Alan Wilson mused for a moment, “Of course I base this suggestion on the truth of what you say.”
“Of course I’m not lying, the census can start anytime, we can even invite officials from London to come and supervise it.” Grace threw away her cigarette and went further, “We don’t leave anything to chance.”
“I hope that’s not a threat, but that’s fine, as long as there’s that foundation. When the time comes, London will be administered as Northern Rhodesia under the name of the White Autonomous Dominion. But South Africa has South Africa’s problems and you have yours. Your population is not even a tenth of the white South Africans. If the day of independence does come, the blacks in the neighborhood will not work as well once they flood in.” Alan Wilson laughed, “But it’s safe for ten years, I’ll try to help you guys as much as I can, but sometimes I need your help.”
Grace was stunned, then whispered in a sudden realization, “We have no desire to be independent, let’s put it this way, if there is a need in London that is inconvenient, you can leave it to us.”
“Very well, there are just some people in this world whose very existence is to cause hindrance to others.” Saying a double entendre, Alan Wilson retracted backwards and said, “I’m referring to some of the forces that have their hands inside the British Empire, and I’m not talking about you guys, in fact, with your professionalism, it’s entirely possible to make killing a business. This world is not as stable as it seems, people can do anything for money. The ones who aren’t afraid of death are ultimately the minority!”
“It seems Mr. Allen must have someone who wants to make him disappear. We are more than willing to help!” Grace spoke up painfully, “Whoever he is, as long as it’s easier to deal with than Tito.”
What wasn’t easy about an actor, it just required a bit more. There was no hurry now, and it would not be too late to plot the matter when we had ascertained where Chaplin had landed. In the final analysis, Alan Wilson and these Slavs are two grasshoppers on the same line, and to help each other is to help yourself.
The Xana International Film Festival, held in Paris under the summer grand, this is the third post-war film festival, beforehand the Paris government has been carefully prepared, plus a large number of Hollywood movie stars invited to come, can be described as the attention of all the people.
The most eye-catching is still just expelled Chaplin, France is worthy of the old revolutionary area, and the French Communist Party is powerful, Chaplin suffered from the U.S. Department of Justice persecution of the fact that the majority of French people very sympathetic.