Chapter 561 Even France

“Why mock the Americans, it does not seem conducive to unity.” Lord Makins of Sheffield, who had also come to Germany, walked out of the conference room with Allen Wilson after this day’s meeting and was quite puzzled by this behavior.

“Are we wrong? Isn’t it a fact that the Eighth United States Army, now in the Far East, is being beaten back by a country that has only been around for two years with a population of nine million? Things are coming out, and we’re not allowed to talk about them?”

Alan Wilson said with a heartfelt smile on his face, “I personally believe that showing some skepticism towards the United States is beneficial and harmless in negotiations, in fact, the United States and the Soviet Union are almost the same, both of them have only just proved their national strengths from the World War, but it’s not over yet, and both of these two countries still want to prove that their uniqueness is the best one. The Soviet Union was a bit more obvious about this, while the United States also had this mentality, but it was not as obvious as the Soviet Union. Since both the United States and the Soviet Union want to prove that they are the one and only one to lead the world, appropriate skepticism is instead what inspires them to move forward.”

“You think this war is the one that America wants to prove.” Makins said with a puzzled, disbelieving face, “That’s too implausible, what’s the point of proving it?”

“Although America is a descendant of Britain, Americans are not British after all. We fight wars for profit, and of course so does the US, but the difference is that the US always packages themselves in wars for justice. Add to that the fact that the Soviet Union was right there watching, Makins, and the forces were mutual.”

The Soviet Union was a country that relied on ideas to coalesce, and against such a country, something like the traditional imperialist powers such as Britain and France, was not in the least bit morally superior.

Among the major world powers today, only the United States is considered to have a good image.

At the same time, in terms of national hardware, only the U.S. was able to confront the Soviet Union on all fronts. The U.S. is certainly ready for a confrontation at this point in time, but as the saying goes, force is mutual.

Inevitably in this confrontation, the US also had to make up for its inferiority in terms of ideology. The United States was one to be an ordinary nation-state, but after a Cold War was fought, the United States also became another version of the Soviet Union, also relying on political correctness like the banner of freedom to maintain centripetal force.

Alan Wilson felt that this was a road of no return, and although the Cold War was ultimately won by the United States, the price paid by the United States existed in every aspect of society as a whole, it was good when it came, but there was no going back.

It is no longer possible for the United States to be in the process of becoming a nation-state again, and for the current United States, the Americans of 1950, if they could see the United States of the twenty-first century, would surely be very distressed that the United States had become that way.

Anyway, Allen Wilson, through the memories in his head, knew that the United States was very much wanting to prove the strength of the United States in front of the countries. The best way to prove the strength of a country is war.

Today the strength of the United States does have the courage to risk the money, the United States annual wheat production is one-third of all countries in Europe and the United States, the gold reserves of 25 billion U.S. dollars, the proportion of Europe and the United States accounted for seventy percent of the annual steel production of up to eighty-eight million tons of annual industrial and agricultural output value of 150 billion U.S. dollars, the total amount of its total amount of Europe and the United States all of the total amount of more than half.

The United States even in the Korean War after the failure is not dead, specifically ran to Vietnam again to try to prove that the United States can fight.

The failure of the Vietnam War once again led to problems throughout the United States, with frustration spreading throughout the country and skepticism about the American dream, with many Americans believing that the U.S. would surely lose to the Soviet Union in the end.

The current problem was that the United States was overpowered, and Allen Wilson swore in his heart that if the United States did reach the day of defeat in Vietnam, Britain would be the most reliable ally. But it was good to let the Americans suffer a little now.

And this is the choice of the Americans themselves on their own initiative, others Allen Wilson dare not say, but the five-star general Emperor McTenant must have taken the initiative to make this choice.

In Allen Wilson in Germany, fighting for the consolidation of the occupation process to get favorable conditions relative to the United Kingdom. Returned to the mainland gold-plated Secretary of State for the Sea Mountbatten, also received the Royal Navy Pacific Fleet, and the U.S. Pacific Fleet to discuss the joint war.

Royal Navy since the end of World War II, five years has sold a lot of warships, large aircraft carriers battleships, small destroyers minesweepers, now the Royal Navy’s total tonnage of only 2.1 million tons. And the strength of the United States Navy has been far from the United States, but is still the Soviet Union France and Italy Navy combined twice.

The difference between the United States and the United States is that the United States is not like the United Kingdom because of financial problems, freezing and stopping the original shipbuilding program. There was also the fact that the warships built by the US during the war were not sequestered or sold off as quickly as the UK.

But even so, the Pacific Fleet is still the main fleet of the Royal Navy, and the Mediterranean Fleet are large fleet configuration, British Malaya around there are the Netherlands and Portugal, France’s naval power.

Allen Wilson does not know at this time, Emperor Mak, has thought of copying the enemy’s back, but feel that it will not be so early, now the priority, should not be driven into the sea is right.

First properly run the Pusan defense circle is serious, Allen Wilson in Bonn, for the British to obtain the interests of the main two points, the future capital of Germany must be in the British-occupied area, the British-controlled Ruhr area is the most important place in Germany, can not put the capital of the U.S.-controlled Bavaria, it is not possible to put the capital of the U.S. control of Bavaria, right?

The other point was to take care of the French sentiment and the feelings of Germany’s neighboring countries. Although the relationship between Germany and neighboring countries before the war was not necessarily bad.

But it was politically correct for Germany to be stepped on as a defeated country, and the war had been over for five years, and after five years of political correctness in the neighboring countries, even if even if there was a good feeling towards Germany before, it was now washed away.

The so-called neighboring countries, of course, also had the Soviet Union, Allen Wilson knew that provoking the Soviet Union had been doomed. But that didn’t stop him from using the Soviet Union to justify Britain’s fears.

Just as it had been done before with the one about Emperor Mack going to Swindle Island without saying a word, there was nothing wrong with doing as he had done.

“We in London believe that if the United States can quickly turn the tide and defeat the enemy invading Korea. This would be a deterrent to the Soviet Union, and the security of Europe is a matter of the utmost concern to Britain.”

“Don’t forget that there are still our people in Berlin, once the Soviet Union is angered despite its objections, will those people become hostages?”

Allen Wilson, with the mindset of looking at the big picture, said that with the uncertainty of the war situation in the Far East and the free world not having the upper hand, setting up a coalition government on this side of Europe that excludes the Soviet-occupied territories despite Soviet objections would be detrimental and unhelpful to the current situation.

This was not Allen Wilson’s own idea; the consequences of the non-appearance of NATO and the Federal Republic of Germany were already apparent.

With war already breaking out in the Far East, the Adderley Cabinet was certainly reluctant to add fuel to the fire on the European side and draw the Soviet Union’s attention back from the Far East.

So the fact that Britain agreed to the consolidation of the occupied territories and was willing to work for it did not mean that it supported the immediate emergence of the FRG.

Allen Wilson was merely relaying the views of the current administration to the Americans, and it was only after the United States led the free world in repelling the attempted invasion of Korea that Britain agreed to allow the FRG to emerge, and until then the occupation zones could be merged, with the matter of a coalition government on the table.

This is out of the consideration of not to aggravate the conflict in Europe, very reasonable, unless the United States is ready to open a second battlefield in Europe, or even Washington can not pressure on this matter.

Alan Wilson to the present found that NATO and the Federal Republic of Germany only appeared more than a year late, catching up with the outbreak of the Korean War, it is surprising that the United Kingdom can bring so much room for maneuver, and it is true that Britain’s diplomatic tradition is not wrong, it should be to stir up the water.

For this explanation, the U.S. representative also expressed recognition, “Washington also does not want to radicalize the situation in Europe at this time, but about the trans-Atlantic military alliance, but also need the support of the United Kingdom. After all, the U.S. is willing to help Europe resist the Soviet threat for the sake of maintaining world peace, but without the existence of a military alliance, there is no reason for the U.S. to station troops in Europe for a long period of time, and the citizens will oppose it.”

“In the consideration of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, I will not take these words as a threat.” Alan Wilson listened and then turned his words around and said, “This matter still involves France, and as I’m sure you know, France is the country with the army tradition. And not Britain, so the persuasion of France will be very important to the matter of military alliance.”

Germany, of course, has more of an Army tradition, but right now Germany is a defeated country and doesn’t even have a government. Historically, the Korean War was over when Germany joined NATO.

The U.S. wanted to find a country in Europe that could stand up to the Soviet Union in terms of land forces, and at this point in time it could only enlist France; there was no second choice. In fact, the headquarters of NATO was not located in Brussels at the beginning, but in Paris, the capital of France. This shows how much the U.S. relied on France.

Later NATO headquarters became Brussels, that is not de Gaulle came to power after the Americans to get out of it.

So in the establishment of NATO, Alan Wilson’s focus is to let the United States try to put the military bases in Europe, located in France, along with should be set up in the United Kingdom that part of the also in France.

Pamela Mountbatten happens to have connections in Paris, the key moment Alan Wilson always show a bad stomach, decisively let his fiancée to try to be able to let France to reach out to Europe’s tentacles to attract the past.

Anyway, de Gaulle prestige so big, the French will sooner or later de Gaulle out, and then let the Americans get out of the way, so that Britain and France can avoid being infiltrated by the United States. Everyone has advantages, even France.