Chapter 513 Blockade List

If we are talking about competing in scientific research investment for the purpose of innovation, even the current Europe is not afraid of the Soviet Union. Because Europe’s level of technology and the United States in a class, is more than the Soviet Union.

But if the exchange of technology has been ongoing, there will be a consequence, the Soviet Union breakthrough a technology will be copied, which will not just involve the Soviet Union a country, but will spread the relevant technology to the world.

At the same price European and American products are of course better, but the delegates here also know that there is a premium for European and American products, and this premium is still quite high, while the Soviet Union is able to depress the selling price.

“Once the technological exchange continues, the Soviet Union will kill our enterprises, with the current state of scientific progress, the Soviet Union wants to catch up with our technological superiority is not easy, but once it catches up, it may pull us down to a level with them.”

Alan Wilson’s words elicited agreement from the representatives of France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands that profit comes from monopoly, and that it can take many forms, what with trusts, konzerns, cartels, whatever the model. There are plenty of ways to circumvent it anyway, and the technological blockade that the US wants is in the interests of European countries.

“What we want to avoid is the possibility that the Americans simply ask us to blockade technology and open the back door to the Soviet Union themselves, a possibility that exists in a world as complex as this one. It’s not like the US hasn’t done this before!”

“We agree with Britain!” Claire, the French representative in charge of negotiations, deeply agreed, “The US has not only supported the Soviet Union, but also Germany!”

“This matter is clear in everyone’s mind, so let’s not repeat it, after all, we still need America’s help.” Alan Wilson coughed softly, indicating that this was not the time to talk about this matter.

The United States on the European countries continental balance, all the countries here today are clear in their hearts.

The famous Soviet Union’s three major steel bases, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Kuznetsk Iron and Steel Works, and Zaporozhye Iron and Steel Works were almost entirely built with U.S. aid, with some of the equipment coming from Germany.

The Gorky Automobile Plant, the largest automobile plant in the Soviet Union before the war, was also built with the aid of the American Ford Motor Company.

Three of the four pre-war Soviet tractor plants were built with American and German aid, including the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, which was first built in the U.S., dismantled and shipped to the Soviet Union, and then reassembled by the Americans and Germans.

So the United States in this regard definitely has a previous record of, Allen Wilson mentioned the idea of preventing the United States hand absolutely not excessive.

There is also the doorway about the technology blockade, about the third category of rare materials, is the most likely to be trolled by the United States, because the term rare materials itself is very general.

In any case, Europe is geographically united, Western Europe and Eastern Europe can not be completely isolated, in the third type of rare materials, if the more serious, whether Europe blockade of the Soviet Union, or the Soviet Union blockade of Europe is still not certain.

At this point Allen Wilson raised his concerns, saying that the United States may be digging a hole in this category.

“Either let the Americans explain clearly what this rare material really means, or just give up this door category, and only blockade in military weapons and high technology, anyway, I can’t think of what rare material we have and the Soviet Union doesn’t have, are we going to export gold to the Soviet Union? In exchange for food?”

“These are the areas where we in France think we can have a blockade!” Claire brought out a list, clearly having a record of the upcoming meeting, followed by Italy, Belgium, and Holland all bringing out their own lists as well.

The five countries here plus the U.S. totaled six countries, and it was no surprise that they were the founding members of the Paris Coordinating Committee. When the Paris Coordinating Committee was first established, there were only these six founding countries. Among them, Belgium and the Netherlands have quite limited technology, the real technology is the United States, Britain and France plus Italy.

Alan Wilson knew in his heart, this so-called Paris Coordinating Committee, in fact, the blockade of the Soviet Union may be a short period of time only symbolic significance. Just take a look at how many Italian and French Italian and French Republicans totaled.

Before leaving London, Alan Wilson also indicated to Norman Brooke that this organization currently has only symbolic significance. It can’t be said to be completely useless, the role is very limited.

This is simply to bring a few police undercover agents to drug trafficking, don’t get to the end of the day in addition to the United Kingdom by the United States to see tightly, watching France and Italy constantly and the Soviet Union to reach cooperation, so that the pitfalls of the United Kingdom is only the United Kingdom itself.

Norman Brooke can only say first agree with the United States, the details can continue to discuss.

Britain, of course, has also prepared its own technology blockade categories, all the countries present agreed to carry out the blockade of the project, the first is the machine tool, machine tools, also known as the mother of industry, the machine that makes machines. The upstream of the machine tool industry includes the steel and foundry industries, while the downstream affects automobiles, railroads, wind power, shipbuilding, aviation, and military industries related to national defense.

With machine tools as the mainstay, the rest of the automotive, steel, shipbuilding, and a host of other subdivisions were added to fill the ever-lengthening list of embargoes.

At present, Europe is under the pressure of the Soviet Union, on the one hand, to warm up, on the other hand, to look for foreign aid. The USSR is a country that has the potential for global domination, and this is due to the sheer size of the country.

It wasn’t just Europe that was under heavy pressure either, the pacifist world in the Middle East, and the countries in the Far East. The oppressive force brought about by a country as large as the Soviet Union was already too strong.

The popularization of mechanized large-scale industry has greatly enhanced mankind’s ability to conquer nature, and the ability to break through geo-barriers and geo-distance limitations has also increased dramatically. This has allowed mankind’s understanding of geography to change considerably.

Before the era of mechanized large-scale industry, human beings recognized the land on the basis of the level of primary industry and farming technology, which limited the geo-radiation ability and expansion ability of geo-power.

The arrival of the era of machinized large industry further strengthened the Soviet Union’s geographic advantages and geo-expansion ability dramatically increased, and initially had the ability to cover the Asian and European continents.

What’s more, the Industrial Revolution had been carried out for two rounds, in case there was a next one, now that the not-so-technologically-advanced USSR was like this, after the next Industrial Revolution came, where could there be any imperialism left to live?

Although once the USSR wins, countries will surely emphasize that we and the USSR have been living in harmony since ancient times. But wouldn’t it be better if this threat could be taken out now?

This mentality is actually repeating itself again in the twenty-first century, only with a different opponent.

But the differences are still many. The Soviet Union was the first socialist state, and the use of class as a weapon was highly symbolic. Naturally it was just another lighthouse in the world, something a major power didn’t have.

The USSR could pull in a bunch of countries for an all-out confrontation, and a certain major power likely doesn’t have that kind of influence. That’s why the U.S. has gone to the trouble of trying to re-draw out a second Cold War, and again, not many countries are attached to it.

At least for the European side of the country, does not recognize to start the second cold war, you two countries to fight alone do not affect other countries. So from the historical significance, the United States and the Soviet Union Cold War with great ideological color, the back of that confrontation is just an unusual confrontation for supremacy.

Not to mention the historical significance, the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was a group fight, and the one behind it was more like a single fight.

“Well, we’ll just have to wait and see what the US really thinks.” After comparing the lists provided by each country with each other, discussing and analyzing if there were lists that the blockade was useless, in the headquarters building of Woodpecker Studios, the representatives of the five countries took out a consensus.

The list of technology blockade with machine tools as the core, along with various branches of automobiles, aviation, and shipbuilding was out.

“Busy?” Ingrid Bergman knew that the representatives of other countries have already left, only to come to the conference room, just eyeballed Alan Wilson smoking, without fear from the man’s fingertips to take the cigarette over to take a puff and asked.

“Smoking is bad for your health!” Alan Wilson looked up and said a slogan most familiar to smokers in heaven, it can be said that smoking is not a strange thing to men and women in this era.

Many actresses have appeared in movies with smoking scenes, including but not limited to? Almost all Hollywood actresses, even Vivien Leigh smoked before, only to be closely watched by Alan Wilson in British India and finally quit.

“Spoken like you’re my husband?” Ingrid Bergman gave the man a blank look, but put out her cigarette anyway.

Alan Wilson looked at the extinguished half of the cigarette with some flesh, just this wasted half of the cigarette made his already poor financial situation worse, he came to Paris this time with nothing but a Roman gold coin on him.

Pamela Mountbatten went off to develop her career, and he spent the last few days dilly-dallying at the embassy.

Wasn’t it also out of soft eating that he had come to Woodpecker Pictures to make a fortune?

Things have come to this point, Alan Wilson also has nothing to say, did not have the good sense to let the Nordic Goddess compensate for half a cigarette, directly picked up half a cigarette again, smoked a couple of puffs to reflect his spirit of thrift.

“I’m doing this to experience the flavor of the goddess!” Alan Wilson justified, explaining that his behavior was only trying to achieve the purpose of indirectly kissing with Ingrid Bergman, and in no way could not afford to part with half a cigarette.

“Every day you know how to say good things, the purpose is still not to get cheap from me.” Ingrid Bergman pointed out the dirty thoughts in the man’s mind with a pretense of seriousness, and sort of accepted this kind of talk.

At the same time that Pamela Mountbatten was holding the shareholders’ meeting for this fund-raising, Alan Wilson and representatives of the other four countries arrived at the American Embassy in Paris for the first negotiations, which of course were not very fruitful.

To put it bluntly, because the U.S. and the European countries are separated by an Atlantic Ocean, it is impossible for their interests to be completely aligned, and it can be said that they are very divergent, and the long exchange of interests began, right in the middle of the U.S. Embassy in Paris.