Chapter 568: The United States with a raised eyebrow

On the words of maintaining the traditional influence of the British Empire in Asia, Alan Wilson then said that London hoped that Australia would take the initiative and that London would be happy to see Australia show leadership.

Menzies said that his own government had the same intention, and now that he had the help of Britain, he had even more confidence in his heart. He knew in his heart that the interests of Britain and the United States were not entirely aligned, but national security was the greatest national interest, and Britain’s Portuguese Netherlands wanted to keep their colony, itself, for the protection of Australia.

In this case, of course, Australia would have to choose to follow the United Kingdom rather than the United States, which seemed to have a more promising future.

“There are many areas among which Chifley and I have opposite views, but there is one thing we share in common.” Menzies spoke with great sincerity, “and that is that we both believe that the traditional relationship between Australia and the UK is invaluable, and that Australia, whether it’s the Liberal Party or the Labor Party, has great respect for that relationship. It’s not going to change just because there’s a change of government at the beginning of the year, and the Liberal Party cherishes that relationship even more than the Labor Party does.”

“The traditional relationship will also take on new dimensions, as it has in Canberra, and it’s bound to get better and better.” Alan Wilson used Canberra, the capital of Australia, as an example.

The current Canberra actually compares unfavorably to the traditional Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney. What Menzies is currently focusing on promoting is the construction of Canberra.

A significant portion of Australians, in this day and age, consider themselves British, a situation that also includes Canada and New Zealand. In fact Australia and Canada have some powers still in London.

The constitutional power and the power to amend the constitution were both in London, and Alan Wilson remembers that Australia and Canada got those two powers back just as Margaret Thatcher was in power.

Let Alan Wilson comment on these Conservative Prime Ministers, the so-called major crime of the Labor Party was also to give out welfare, but the Conservatives came to power and proceeded to give it out just the same, but what successive Conservative governments have done, the Labor Party has not done.

The Labor Party has long been said by these American spies of the Conservative Party to be Soviet spies, but the Conservative Party Cabinet does not say that every term can do a big basket case that can cause serious damage to Britain, but also almost two Conservative Party governments can produce once a major event that makes the British national capital to be shaken.

Alan Wilson even believes that Mrs. Thatcher’s indifference to the existence of the Commonwealth during her time in power, and her recklessness in cashing in on it, is what turned Queen Elizabeth against her.

In Margaret Thatcher’s eyes, the Commonwealth was nothing more than an inefficient, money-consuming, scattered organization that merely embodied a ludicrous imperial complex, and Margaret Thatcher never changed British policy because of the Commonwealth’s views, and she did not hesitate to go against the entire Commonwealth when necessary.

“The parties in London, at times, only look after their own interests, after all, Australians don’t have a vote.” Alan Wilson had a feeling, “Actually, Whitehall doesn’t like this style, but we’re not the party in power, so even if we don’t like it, we can only enforce it.”

“Oh, Alan, your fiancée has expressed her apologies for World War II many times before.” Menzies heard Alan Wilson’s strings and spoke, “That was indeed an unpleasant experience, and we all hope that he won’t repeat it again.”

“I’m sure Prime Minister Adderley, will not be the same as Mr. Churchill.” Alan Wilson replied haughtily.

With the Labor Party in the ascendancy, Britain might slowly decline, but if the Conservative Party, which considered itself to be defending Britain, was in power, Alan Wilson would have to guard against the British Empire performing a fancy free-fall movement.

Currently he is working little by little to get Britain out of the orbit of the free fall movement.

Ask yourself, is there a commissioner of any of the major British colonies who is almost always in a working condition like him? Not at all, and Alan Wilson himself thought that if there was a model to be set in Whitehall, there was simply no second choice but himself.

After a pleasant discussion with Australian Prime Minister Menzies, Alan Wilson sent a telegram to London, expressing the idea of defending the consolidation of British influence in Asia, which received an enthusiastic response from Australia. It was believed that there was absolutely no problem in implementing it!

In the telegram, Allen Wilson also reported that Australia wished to set up an office in British Malaya, and whether this commissioner’s office was agreeable to London.

Soon Allen Wilson received a call back, asking him this British Malaya Commissioner’s opinion, for which Allen Wilson said the Commissioner’s Office can be set up in Singapore or Penang, the local are part of the original Straits Settlements.

With regard to economic and developmental support for Asia, Allen Wilson was instructed that it would be best to overlap with the Imperial Preference System.

Understanding this in a second, Allen Wilson began to negotiate with the Australian side to help Southeast Asia achieve political stability by way of economic growth, thus maintaining regional security in the Indian Ocean as well as around the Pacific.

Australia’s native land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no lack of capital and technology, but the development of resources is limited. However, Southeast Asia has a large population and a huge market potential. Australia through the aid for Southeast Asia, in the opening of the local market at the same time, through the use of abundant local labor resources to promote the country’s energy extraction and industrial upgrading.

It is important to know that even British Malaya has a population of 10 million, and Australia has a population of just over nine million. What’s more, it can radiate the surrounding through the important throat position of British Malaya.

Certain Australian questions were also answered by Alan Wilson, such as how Australia thought a hostile country like Indonesia could capture the market.

“The planned economy of the Soviet Union has not yet been able to solve all the problems, let alone Indonesia is not even close to that. In terms of the laws of the market, a good product at a good price is far from being a problem that can be solved by tariffs.” Alan Wilson thoughtlessly said to the Australian, “Once that happens, it will only bring about a rampant smuggling industry.”

“Indonesia is an island nation and the cost of defense against smuggling is already enormous, I don’t see a good solution.”

Indonesia is still the biggest concern for the Australians as it relates to national security. Alan Wilson, of course, has been proactive in expressing his concern about the issue and has been engaged in efforts to try to overthrow the Sukarno regime. It’s just that the time is not ripe at the moment.

Historically, the one operation led by the U.S. was arguably a great success, and Allen Wilson was willing to share the U.S.’s concerns, though for the interests of the British Empire, failure was success.

Of course such thoughts are not necessary for simple Australians to know that the US operation that took out the Indonesian commies, while successful, did not change Australia’s situation. It only appeared in a different guise, after all Java’s population of hundreds of millions versus Australia’s abundance of resources for such a large and sparsely populated area would not cease to exist just because Sukarno fell.

Finally, the two sides agreed that after the approval and review of their respective governments, when the time comes to formally sign the agreement in Kuala Lumpur.

Australia promised it would soon export iron ore to Europe and British Malaya, which would be excluded from the export ban. This marks a boon for the steel industry in British Malaya.

After all, having the support of the world’s mines was a huge boost to the steel industry planned by Allen Wilson. British Malaya doesn’t have a large amount of iron ore, so it can’t be that thirty percent quality iron ore can be shipped over from the British mainland, can it?

“That alone is a ten-year advantage over Japan.” Alan Wilson pinched his waist and sighed, this is the so-called old imperialist heritage, although it can not completely replace the role of money, but it is indeed possible to spend less.

Japan lacked everything, and naturally lacked iron ore, but Australia had it. Japan could only save money slowly from the textile industry, and only after having a certain amount of money did it intervene in the iron and steel industry, and there was no shortcut to this process.

There was no shortcut in this process. However, British Malaya, because of the relationship between the United Kingdom and Australia, could skip this step and receive support from Australia to develop the steel industry, which was incomparable.

Australia was even willing to invest 10 million pounds to help develop the steel industry in British Malaya. This Alan Wilson also made a guarantee, willing to communicate with his fiancée on this.

Allen Wilson, who had achieved his goal, was released directly back to Kuala Lumpur to prepare for the arrival of the Foreign Secretary in Kuala Lumpur. London, on the other hand, is at the same time contacting the former colonies in Asia to work together for it.

While Britain over here was busy with its own affairs, the smug Emperor Mak, assured by the U.S. Seventh Fleet and the British Pacific Fleet, began the amphibious landings he had been planning.

The U.S. Tenth Army landed at Green Beach in the northern part of Wolmi Island. The landing force consisted of nine M26 Panshin vehicles, one of which was equipped with a flamethrower and the other two with bulldozer blades, from the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment and the 1st Tank Battalion, and the landing force landed on tank landing craft designed and built during World War II. The entire island was captured by sunrise.

Walker, commander of the Eighth Army at Pusan, heard the news and simultaneously led a counterattack against the enemy outside the Pusan defense perimeter.

Allen Wilson, who was preparing for the Kuala Lumpur Conference, learned of the successful Incheon landing the next day; after all, Emperor Mak was a very high-profile man, boasting strength countless times greater than his own.

And different from history, this time the United Kingdom also expresses skepticism about the U.S. combat power, the Americans naturally can not let go of this amphibious landing war won a great victory, proving that my great United States of America invincible, to the British to see, what is called to lead the world.

This time the Korean War if you compare the sea and air force, Britain is still greater than the history of dealing with. But the determined not to send ground troops, or let the Americans remember.

“Now even if the British want to share in the glory of victory, we don’t need to.” The New York Times report is rather like yesterday you looked down on me, today you are high on the list.