Chapter 555 – Chain Reaction

In 1950, although both Britain and the United States talk about any special relationship, it definitely means that the two countries look at the problem from exactly the same point of view, and in the twenty-first century it should be roughly the same, but it is the United Kingdom that shouts about the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States. The United States is not much emphasis on the Anglo-American special relationship.

Who let that time, the United Kingdom only the British Isles reduced to a lapdog role.

On the day of the fall of Seoul, the United Nations passed Resolution 82, declaring armed intervention on the Korean Peninsula.

Alan Wilson is in the process of policy development, the hands of the United Nations eighty-second resolution, although nowadays the United Kingdom is the Labor Party in power, and many ministers of the Labor Party, once was a young hardcore pro-Soviet elements, but an age has an age of thought, about the definition of the Korean War, the United Kingdom also tends to think that this is the Soviet Union’s part of the attempt of the global strategy.

The Labor Party, because of the previous long time in power, for a long time the lack of talent, so Adderley’s cabinet, the existence of a number of super ministers. The outbreak of war drew the attention of Ernest Bevin, the former and current Foreign Secretary, and Herbert Morrison, the current Foreign Secretary.

The two foreign ministers were on good terms, in contrast to the relationship between Morrison and Airdrie.

Together, the two men listened to Alan Wilson’s prognosis of the scale of the war and the judgment of what Britain’s response should be.

The current Foreign Secretary, Herbert Morrison, was being advised by his predecessor, Ernest Bevin, to prepare for the Colombo Plan, both with the help of Australia, to preserve the influence of the British Empire in Asia.

The main motivation for the Colombo Plan was to defend the British Empire’s vested interests in Asia both against the Soviet Union and against the United States. It was also a counter to the increased local influence of the United States.

As the current High Commissioner of British Malaya, there is no doubt that this matter is certainly related to Alan Wilson. It so happened that Alan Wilson was summoned to return to London and talked about the Korean War along with it.

In the face of the two ministers of the inquiry, Alan Wilson said he has been practicing against the gods for many years has had a few fire, to the local Malays as well as the Chinese are to take an open and honest attitude, and even have their own long-term plan, not only to British Malaya as the center, to beat the surrounding independent or semi-independent countries of the industry, and to achieve the purpose of recreating a British India.

Ernest Bevan and Herbert Morrison glanced at each other, both very surprised, not expecting a Whitehall-trained civil servant to brag, not putting politicians in their eyes at all.

“Alan, I heard that you have a good personal relationship with Senator McCarthy of the United States?” Ernest Bevan opened his mouth and asked.

“Yes!” Alan Wilson nodded his head and replied, “He is a very good person, treats people with great sincerity, different from the traditional senators, if you want to say there is any fault, it might be too much love for alcohol.”

McCarthy was certainly a good man, although because of the outbreak of the Korean War, McCarthy had become more and more watered down in the United States, appearing as an untouchable face, McCarthy had, after all, helped Vivien Leigh to get the shares of United States Pictures.

By virtue of that alone, McCarthy was his Alan Wilson’s friend, and even if McCarthy shot someone on the streets of New York in the next second, it wouldn’t change that.

This answer caused Herbert Morrison to frown slightly, “According to his comments, the current cabinet are all Soviet spies.”

“Honorable Minister, if the truth be told, it is indeed true!” Alan Wilson made a helpless face, “In the eyes of McCarthy and the forces he represents, the current government does have the suspicion of being Soviet spies, but that’s the United States after all, if the perspective isn’t limited to the United Kingdom, the Americans will find that there are pro-Soviet forces all over the countries of Europe, France? France? Italy? Greece? etc. ……”

The opposition party is talking nonsense and do not have to be responsible, not to mention McCarthy, is still energetic Churchill is not also often in the Congress to fire a gun, but I do not know and there are rumors of adjusting the royalties are not related.

Thinking of Greece, Alan Wilson can not help but worry a little, pro-Soviet forces are still entrenched in the northern mountains near Yugoslavia, the history of the 1950s, Greece’s pro-Soviet forces have long been no threat. There were also large numbers of U.S. officers and soldiers who had gained combat experience in Greece who had gone directly to the Korean Peninsula.

“Bevin and I have read your report, and you know about President Truman’s decision to intervene armed on the Korean Peninsula. The Cabinet is saying that the United States should be helped, and there are several main reasons for this attitude.”

Herbert Morrison pontificated that if the Korean War had resulted in a victory for the Soviet Bloc camp, it would have dealt a great blow to the prestige and reputation of the free world, especially in Germany, and it would have seriously jeopardized the security of near-by Central and Western Europe.

And support for U.S. war policy could be exchanged for U.S. support for British rule in Malaya and French rule in Vietnam, thus preserving British strategic interests in the Far East and Southeast Asia. Supporting American war policy could also mend the Anglo-American partnership that had previously been mistrusted because of British support for Arab states in the Middle East.

All of these ideas seemed to make sense, but Allen Wilson asked rhetorically, “Personally, I feel that the outbreak of the present war has shown that the United States and Britain are obliged to stand together. Under the general premise of facing the Soviet Union, the so-called repair of the relationship that was previously subjected to suspicion? It is not very urgent, according to the current news, the United States entered the war did not change anything, the United States in the Korean Peninsula troops, all that can be done is to follow along with the retreat.”

“If the scale of the war can not be controlled, just in the second half of my report, then the two and a half billion pounds of investment in the Far East, may be confiscated, Xiangjiang may also be unsettled, Honorable Minister, in all fairness, according to the current summary of the news, the news of the confiscation of the American capital has already come to the news, we can not let the British capital also suffered such a downfall. ”

“It is foreseeable that the United States is bound to retaliate because of the confiscation of American capital, and I believe that not long afterward the Paris Coordinating Committee will have new business. The consequence of this, when it occurs, will be that the whole Far East, so large as it is, will be the only external channel for the Fragrant River, and I have certainly not forgotten the piece of land occupied by Portugal, but it is too small.”

“Xiangjiang under British governance would become the only channel of contact, then this benefit would be exclusive to the British Empire, bringing very unlimited benefits.”

Ernest Bevan nodded his head in recognition and spoke, “We are also firmly against the expansion of the war, and will oppose any attempts by the United States to expand the war. In the context of a five-nation coalition for defense, including United Australia, and the upcoming economic aid, we cannot risk another world war.”

“The bottom line is there are no winners!” Alan Wilson shook his head slightly, “Through the several wars that broke out after the war, especially within Asia, the forces supporting the Soviet Union were far superior to the forces supporting the free world, and the supporters of the free world were usually the ones who suffered in a fight. Naturally a fight would be bad for the British Empire as well.”

It’s rather demoralizing, but it’s true, and it’s not the first time it’s been demonstrated; the retreating American army is the immediate example, as is the French army, which has been slow to make progress in Vietnam.

In the discussion surrounding the Korean War, Allen Wilson said that he would have liked nothing better than for Britain to stay out of a war that had nothing to do with him, but he also knew that this was almost impossible.

Then he tried to use his own relevant analysis to help the two ministers to formulate a response, the United Kingdom does not want to see the Korean War will spread from the regional conflict to the surrounding, or evolve into a full-scale conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, or a world war, that would not be in the interests of the United Kingdom. Therefore, Britain basically determined the policy that the Korean War should be localized and the war of intervention should be limited.

By this time, the cabinet also formalized the combat range of the British army, which could not exceed the military demarcation line previously drawn by the United States and the Soviet Union. Alan Wilson considered the Inchon landing, as if he felt that the restriction was too rigid again.

“In fact, we are also against it, the United States sent the Navy to intervene in the civil war in the Straits, if possible, we can even help China get back its seat in the United Nations.” Ernest Bevan wanted to say something, “All of this was in the expectation that the war would not grow in size.”

“Unfortunately we couldn’t achieve our goal, the Americans now feel invincible. Britain is nothing more than an overbearing bully!” Alan Wilson replied with a bitter smile, “On the issue of European security, we are on the same page as the United States, but on other continents, we seem to be a bit more antagonistic. If the nuclear tests hadn’t been successful, we really wouldn’t have known how to respond to the American offer to ask Britain to send troops.”

There’s only so much Alan Wilson can do without literally banging his head against the wall some days. Deep-seated touches don’t go away, like before World War II broke out, when Britain and France thought the Soviet Union was just another Imperial Russia that could never stand up to a German blitzkrieg.

It was only when the Soviet Union and the Germans fought to a standstill that the Western European countries realized that the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union and Imperial Russia was Imperial Russia, and that although the same group of people lived there, they were completely different.

For this reason Alan Wilson, under the care of two ministers, drafted the fourth-order tactics on this limited intervention. Britain was willing to physically use all possible support, except to help.

If this was not possible, the Royal Navy would organize an expeditionary fleet from the mainland to arrive in the Far East after six months to participate in the war. Thirdly if the United States thinks it is taking too long, Britain will use the Royal Air Force for extensive maneuvers to help the United States.

Finally if ground forces had to be sent, Britain would send a limited number of ground forces into the war, using Nepalese mercenaries as much as possible rather than sending Britain’s own ground forces, under the pretext of strengthening its defenses against the Soviet Union’s having troops in Europe.

While Alan Wilson was campaigning for world peace, war broke out again in South Asia, with the Indian Army once again attacking Hyderabad.

“So fond of getting together?” Alan Wilson, who got the news, was very helpless; this should be considered a chain reaction.