Chapter 547 – A Bold Idea

A similar scene played out inside an observation post on another island, where Lieutenant General Bilton and the French, Dutch, and Portuguese and Australian observers fighting in the Asian colonies congratulated each other.

The French, who were fighting in Vietnam, happily emphasized the similarities between Britain and France in the current situation. This drew nods from the Dutch Portuguese.

The vague vibrations coming from the ground did not disturb the good mood of everyone, especially the Australian Major-General Herbert Jones, who ostensibly had nothing to do with the matter, and was probably the happiest of all except for Lieutenant-General Bilton, as if the nuclear weapons were as good as in his own hands.

Another location of the battleship Malaya, has not been opened for a long time the main guns, toward the direction of the nuclear bomb explosion, firing, with practical action to show the intention of celebration.

Whether in the observation center or on board the battleship, cheering for a long time, but Alan Wilson’s side of the situation is more complicated, he was forced to observe the nuclear test of the Malayan leaders, see the mushroom cloud for a long time, the heart of mixed feelings.

As the head of the community, they certainly understand the meaning of Alan Wilson forced them to come over, on the surface said that it is friendly, but in fact it is a deterrent.

It was like mentioning that the battleship Malaya was going to shell Jakarta to replicate the deeds of the Royal Dutch Navy before the nuclear tests started. Shelling Jakarta when hot is OK, likewise switching to any Malayan city, like Penang, is equally OK ……

Despite being on an old battleship with few missions, celebratory champagne was still prepared on board the Malaya.

William Penney was in an excited mood, to the success of the nuclear test, so that it is the alloy tube program head of the ruthless release of emotions, from nineteen thirty-nine, the research began and terminated, until again restarted, the United Kingdom was originally the first to start research on the alloy tube program, until eleven years later finally waited for the success of the alloy tube program.

The hardships along the way have made it hard for William Penny to calm down at this point, it’s been so hard.

“It’s been eleven years and I can’t describe how I feel right now.” William Penney shook his head uncontrollably in front of Allen Wilson and Captain Grant of the battleship Malaya, all the emotions bursting out.

“Yeah, eleven years.” Allen Wilson cupped his glass and shook it gently, “Being an enemy of the United States has proven to be dangerous, but being an ally with him is deadly.”

“Since 1945, it’s hard to tell whether the United States has made more moves against the Soviet Union or caused more trouble for the British Empire.”

Finishing his glass of red wine with the words, Allen Wilson poured another, though that wouldn’t decide anything right now. But slowly and surely, the United Kingdom, which suffers from a lot of pincer movement, will change its mind.

The news of Operation Hurricane’s success immediately arrived in London with the radio waves, and after being made known to the Cabinet as well as Whitehall, it was then announced to all British citizens, and instantly hit the headlines of all the major newspapers.

Britain became the third country to control nuclear weapons after the United States and the Soviet Union, and many newspapers interpreted this as an important step for Britain to get back on the road. There were two choices for the special edition posed photo, and almost all the newspapers chose the one of British Malaya celebrating the success of Operation Hurricane regardless of the ethnicity of the people, with their hands dancing and their faces overflowing with joy from the bottom of their hearts.

Among the photographs were the High Commissioner of British Malaya, Alan Wilson, the nine Sultans of the Malays, the leaders of the MCA, and the leaders of the Malayan National Congress Party.

It is simply a very symbolic picture of the close unity of all ethnic groups under the leadership of the British Empire. As for the other photo of Lt. Gen. Bilton and representatives of the French, Dutch, Portuguese and Australian militaries, it was too serious and was not published.

The news of the success of the British Hurricane operation also caused the reproduction of the Western European countries, these countries believe that, although after two world wars, but the United Kingdom still proved that the thin camel is bigger than a horse. A day later, the news of Britain’s nuclear test city kung fu had spread around the world.

After the successful nuclear test, both the military personnel from the Observatory and the VIPs from the Battleship Malaya had returned to Penang, but the scene they saw was still a topic of conversation.

William Penney also mentioned in front of Alan Wilson how the Alloy Tube Program had been subjected to a purposeful information blockade by the United States after it was restarted, and how the home-grown scientists had to work against all odds to get to where they were today.

“These we also have the atomic bomb, and then talk about cooperation when I believe it will be much easier.” William Penny exclaimed.

“Is that so?” Allen Wilson listened to such naive words, as a professionally trained commissioner, he would never laugh unless he couldn’t help it, huh ……

“Commissioner Allen, am I wrong?” William Penny looked at Allen Wilson suspiciously, Britain has broken the blockade, and now does not have to beg the United States, now can be face to face.

“Sir William, remember what you once said about fusion reactions? You were the one who said that it could be a much more powerful weapon. If that’s true, I have a suggestion that you use the technical exchange with America as a test run. If the attitude of the Americans changes the matter is still open, if the Americans still arrogantly refuse, it means that nuclear fusion is being studied by the Americans, and of course they will continue the technological blockade.”

Alan Wilson remembers that the original history of Britain was 1952, after Prime Minister Adderley restarted the alloy tube program in 1947, it took five years to research the atomic bomb. But Britain succeeded with the Hurricane program in October, and in November the U.S. lifted the hydrogen bomb out for testing.

Such a close proximity did not please Britain for very long at all, and it was an act of embarrassment to Britain, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of specific operations. After the successful explosion of the hydrogen bomb, the United States continued to impose a technological embargo on Britain until the British hydrogen bomb was successfully exploded, and the time had come in 1957.

There was nothing wrong with opening the door to test the waters, as to whether the Americans would have a clear conscience. This can be rest assured, just as the Cannon Party will never let anyone down when it is time to do so.

The United States never makes mistakes on many issues, for example, in the area of nuclear weapons, the United States even has to defend itself against the United Kingdom, not to mention other countries.

For the leadership of British Malaya, this nuclear test has left a deep impression on them. But for the civil society, the impact of the nuclear test was not so great. It didn’t matter whether the people were concerned or not, the purpose was achieved by being able to deter the upper echelons.

Some things are bound to happen, such as the Korean War, which was already on the verge of breaking out in history, and Allen Wilson couldn’t think of any reason why it wouldn’t. Standing in North Korea’s position, it is not a mistake to unify the country.

And the Soviet Union that kind of system of the country, resisting foreign pressure to become independent is very easy, and there is no foreign troops stationed in North Korea, people want to fight, who can stop?

But this is not a bad thing for Britain, can consume a little bit of the United States’ national strength, for some breathing time which is not right? As for whether or not this will be used to arm Japan, this is simply a false proposition.

Would the US, a country that even the UK has to defend itself against, trust a country that attacked Pearl Harbor only a few years ago? As was said before, there are some mistakes the US will never make.

In fact, if Alan Wilson were to estimate that if one day a country was strong enough to force the US out of East Asia. What would the United States do in response? Re-arm Japan? This he found unlikely.

He felt that completely scrapping Japan and leaving a huge burden on its opponents was quite possible. Because that’s what he was going to do when he couldn’t stay in British Malaya.

“Japan!” Alan Wilson pondered bitterly; since taking office he had been thinking of two things, one British Malaya and the other Japan.

These two things are essentially the same thing, he wants to maintain the stability of British Malaya, at the same time, hope that Japan does not live so well.

Currently, Japan’s population is close to 80 million, which is difficult to compete with the population of British Malaya, and this is a small matter; British Malaya is still a colony, and instability may occur.

This source of instability is varied, both against the Soviet Union and the U.S. Allen Wilson stood in front of the fishbowl in the Commissioner’s office and muttered to himself, “Can we force the U.S. to choose one of the two?”

As long as the U.S. chooses one of the two, the U.S. is bound to choose Japan, but on what basis can the U.S. be made to choose one of the two? It would also contribute to the stability of British Malaya.

“Get my friends Mr. Tien and Mr. So to come to the Commissioner’s Office.” Alan Wilson picked up the phone and had to say that he had an idea that didn’t quite fit the mainstream values and had the urge in his heart to put it into practice.

This matter was not only related to Japan and British Malaya, but it was even able to be related to the Korean War, provided that the Korean War broke out.

Tian Qianqiu and Su Yang are of course his friends, and not only including but not limited to the likes of Ingrid Bergman, can be friends with him, he also need to have nothing to talk about drinking friends, especially the local friends. Although Britain was not on the same level as this colony in terms of national power, it was ultimately a minority in the colony.

It must borrow other forces to maintain the stability of the colony, and the Chinese as the majority was the best choice.

“Su Yang, Tian Qianqiu, I remember that you are soldiers, what do you think of the Japanese?” Alan Wilson lit a cigarette, spat out a mouthful of eyeballs and asked, “Have you fought with the Japanese?”

This question let the two face a solemn, both are after the war came to British Malaya immigrants, once or military, can not say that it is expressed out of the teeth hate it, but not much worse.

Listening to the blood and tears of the two accusations, smoke in the Alan Wilson thought of his own, can be said to be a huge risk of the plan.

If the Korean War breaks out as expected, a rumor emerges in British Malaya folklore that the United States is going to rearm Japan, and the prisoners of war that were asked back for the United States are to be rearmed and thrown into the middle of the battlefield?

It has to be said that the group he now trusts the most in the world is the Slavs of Northern Rhodesia, because he knows that those of Mihailovich, cleansed the territory of blacks. At the same time this matter also because of him, we all have the same honor, which can only trust each other.