Chapter 545 Looking forward

Three hours later, Alan Wilson has returned to the Malayan Commissioner’s Administrative Office, although he was very reluctant to part with Ingrid Bergman’s entanglement, but in his heart, he still knew which end was more important.

Just arrived at the administrative office, ignoring the greetings of many administrative officials, directly returned to his office, water did not even bother to drink a mouthful of directly asked, “alloy tube has arrived, in which port.”

“Penang!” Alisa didn’t know exactly what alloy tube meant, but she instinctively felt that if she could make her top boss rush here, it must be something extraordinary, “Lieutenant General Bilton has already rushed to Penang.”

“Prepare the airplane, I’m going too.” Alan Wilson said without even thinking, “The work of the Administrative Office is still in your hands.”

Allen Wilson, whose butt is not even sitting hot, directly let the driver send himself to the military base, showed his documents and rushed to Penang at a rapid pace.

Penang for the British earliest in the Far East colonization of trade free port, a very long time the status of no less than Singapore, the administration of Malacca and Singapore. The Straits Settlements consisted of several colonies that were not next to each other, and Penang was the place of jurisdiction.

Penang location in the Isthmus of Krakatau after the transfer to British Malaya, in the center of the Malay Peninsula, geographic changes have not changed the importance of Penang, stationed in Malaya, the British army also has a military base in Penang.

Allen Wilson, who took the airplane, soon arrived at Penang airport, and Penang commissioner Everard has been waiting, saw Allen Wilson appeared in a hurry, confused and asked, “Commissioner, Alisa said you came over, is there anything important?”

“I heard that a transport ship from the mainland has arrived at the harbor, how are your arrangements going. What is the attitude of the military!” Alan Wilson did not stop on his feet and asked several questions one after another.

“We just prepared the accommodation, Lieutenant General Bilton is very serious, the whole harbor has been put under military control and is not revealing information, I don’t know why.” Although Everard was dumbfounded, he quickly answered all the questions.

“With your rank some secrets are indeed to be kept from you.” Alan Wilson directly got into the prepared car, “I’ll communicate with Lieutenant General Bilmont and the people in the country, there might be some work that I still need to let you help with.”

Alloy tube program to this day, has cost Britain a heavy price, as the first discovery to envision the atomic weapons of the country, until nineteen fifty to take out a finished product, the road twists and turns simply smell sad.

This is also already two years earlier than in history, would have been Prime Minister Adderley at the beginning will be deceived for two more years, has been the United States hung up until the patience is exhausted to restart the alloy tube program. And this time at the Potsdam Conference, ran into Truman, who had just become president, and was directly disillusioned.

Even now, the U.S. is still constantly looking for trouble for the alloy tube program. Originally, Britain was still interested in borrowing the U.S. nuclear weapons test site because it was readily available, but the U.S. even refused Britain’s request to test the first atomic bomb at the test site in Nevada.

It was only after getting a clear rejection that the Australian and Malayan proposals were taken seriously. Eventually the Malayan proposal was endorsed.

At the Penang Commissioner’s Office, a tightly packed Alan Wilson met William Penny, the head of the Alloy Tube program, who had arrived from the mainland, and Lieutenant General Bilton Walker, the commander of the British forces in Malaya.

“Commander, Sir!” Alan Wilson greeted the two directly upon seeing them, “Was talking to the guests about the investment, hopefully it’s not too late, Mr. William has worked hard all the way.”

The two nodded their heads, mainly to discuss the specific test site, Allen Wilson had already had a place to use as a test site, “The westernmost part of the Langkawi Islands has two small islands not far apart, first of all the islands are not very large in size, and then far away from the main island won’t be affected, and the two islands are not far away from each other, we chose one the other as an observation site in the right place. ”

Langkawi Islands, the largest island group of Malaysia in later times, consists of ninety-nine islands, located in the Strait of Malacca, the northern part of Penang, before the Isthmus of Krakatau is not in the hands of the geographic location closer to Thailand. The local scenery is pleasant, and the latter-day Malaysian cavity beating tourist destination.

But Allen Wilson felt more suitable for a nuclear weapons testing ground, if possible, he actually wanted to occupy an uninhabited island in Indonesia to conduct nuclear tests, but doing so might intensify the conflict, although he personally did not think it was a big deal, but if London asked about it, it was always a problem.

Hearing Alan Wilson’s words, Lt. General Bilton Walker directly told his staff to bring out a map, and found the location of the two westernmost islets of Langkawi Islands, and couldn’t help but nod his head, it was indeed a good place to observe.

“I will invite the leading figures of the local communities to observe. I hope that I can get the approval of the two of you.” Alan Wilson spoke, “Don’t get me wrong, originally before I arrived in Kuala Lumpur, I had been advocating for nuclear testing in Malaya because of the importance of the Malacca Straits, to deter and contain the threat of certain people to British Malaya. This was also agreed to by the Cabinet and the nuclear test was certainly not a one-off, was it?”

Inviting leading Malay and Chinese figures to watch the nuclear tests would have been something he had set in motion earlier and there was no chance of wavering.

“Alan, we conduct nuclear tests in defense of Britain.” William Penny was a little uncomfortable to hear that, the shock and awe was a little too strong.

“This is British Malaya, it doesn’t matter if it’s Malaya, what matters is British.” Alan Wilson said to himself, “The main thing in our line of work is not to find answers, but to find questions. I’m here to deter any potential anti-British force, no matter where he comes from, whether he’s an enemy or an ally, it doesn’t matter.”

William Penney, as a scientist, studying science was either rational to the point of being hexagonal or idealistic to the point of being hexagonal, and now it seemed that William Penney couldn’t exactly be described as the latter, but had some of the latter in him.

In Allen Wilson’s eyes, this was only the beginning, he even wanted to learn from France, in withdrawing from the colony in a big way, really one day in Malaya can not stand, he want to raze the place to the ground.

Although and William Penney is not a kind of person, but Alan Wilson still hides the evil heart, and did not show in front of a scientist, nuclear weapons only two practical combat regret.

Having settled on the location of the experiment, Lt. Gen. Bilton Walker’s misgivings were about inviting the leaders of the Malayan community, and whether these people would come.

“If they still want to live, they should come.” Alan Wilson said with a smirk, “I already communicated with these people when I took office, and will invite them once more not too long from now. If they promised then and now backtracked, I would have to question their reliability, and now the current question is how long it will take to prepare. I would suggest that it should be as soon as possible, preferably in May when we can have good news.”

Both Lt. Gen. Bilton Walker and William Penney recognized that they too wanted good news as soon as possible.

Allen Wilson had nothing to say when it came to test targets, and Lt. Gen. Bilton had already prepared escort carriers, liberty doctrines, and abandoned Japanese battleships. William Penney indicated that some animals were being dropped.

What did Allen Wilson have to say? He couldn’t suggest experimenting with people, though in his heart he wanted to do so very much.

The three men set May 25 as the date for the nuclear tests, and Alan Wilson at once had Everard, in the name of the Commissioner of Penang, issue an executive order for a ban on sailing from May 20, together with an evacuation of the inhabitants on the Langkawi Islands now.

Almost simultaneously, under Lt. Gen. Bilton Walker’s military order, the escort carriers, Liberty Theory and other target ships used as test targets also left the harbor and headed for the nuclear weapons test site.

Anyway, Alan Wilson felt that the location of the test site was just fine, not too far from the Malacca Straits, the Andaman Islands, and the all-colonized British Burma, and Thailand, which had been forced to cede the Krakatau Isthmus, and that to deter could come together.

With all the details having been finalized, Alan Wilson telegraphed Eliza in Kuala Lumpur to send an invitation on his behalf to the Sultan of Malaya, the Malay-Chinese Guild, and the Malayan National Congress Party, a no-show, but an invitation indeed.

He felt that the Chinese leaders were not to be surprised, it was not as if they had never learned about the Hongmen Banquet, what was there to be surprised about.

Now it’s just a matter of waiting for the countdown, the people involved on the Malayan side are busy, and the London side is quite concerned about how things are progressing.

The success of the alloy tube program was a major event for the entire British Empire. Even Prime Minister Adderley was eagerly awaiting the success of the alloy tube program and kept calling to inquire about the preparations.

Allen Wilson, who never wastes time, took the time to put his arm around Ingrid Bergman’s body to tell the prime minister that everything was under control, and then thought for a moment about changing the word “gun party”, which was too strong, as “gun party” was synonymous with “accomplishing nothing”, so as not to poison the milk of this important nuclear test.

“No, all said no.” Ingrid Bergman dodged the man’s desire to make out, “It’s not safe.”

“Stop it, not these days at all.” Alan Wilson could have diaries that clearly showed it was very safe these days.

“How busy am I right now, you don’t realize there’s a big project coming up.” When the strong attack didn’t work, Allen Wilson changed to outsmarting him, and showed his cultural cultivation by writing the Chinese character for good, explaining the meaning of the character, “The word good split means woman, and having a woman to give birth to my child is being good to me.”

“Can’t help you.” Ingrid Bergman sighed quietly, “If it’s really like I said, let’s see what you’ll do then.”

After tossing and turning for half a day, Ingrid Bergman still let this man who was full of crooked reasoning reach his goal.

Allen Wilson, who was full of energy, almost wanted to take Ingrid Bergman with him to organize a Hongmen Banquet with the local leaders, but in the end, he gave up this tempting idea.