Chapter 570 Results of the Kuala Lumpur Conference

The participating countries in this conference to support the economic and development programs in Asia were Britain, Canada, Australia, India, Ceylon and Burma, New Zealand plus British Malaya, a total of seven countries plus the Malayan colonies. There are also two countries that are not members of the Commonwealth, Portugal and the Netherlands, which have colonies in the region, sitting in.

In fact, no need for the Foreign Secretary has what instructions, Alan Wilson heart is clear, the core is the British pound, most of the participating countries are also Commonwealth countries.

Subsequent days, the representatives of participating countries arrived one after another, after all, in addition to British Malaya, are former British colonies, this meeting has a strong Commonwealth color, probably equivalent to the historical variant of the Colombo Plan.

The countries of South and Southeast Asia have, after all, become independent, and the interests of each country do not coincide, and the members of the British delegation arriving in Kuala Lumpur understand that it won’t be like the Glorious Era, when Britain said whatever it wanted, and that it was inevitably necessary to go through a long period of discussion and compromise before they could do so.

Even the relationship between Burma, India and Ceylon was enough to embarrass the hosts, for example, the UK and Burma had a defense agreement, however, it is particularly interesting to note that most British officials believed that Burma was not vital to British defense.

It would therefore be inadvisable to provide military assistance to Burma, lest Rangoon use it to suppress the Karen, with whom Britain has long enjoyed friendly relations. Similarly, Britain’s own finances were in difficulty, and it should be prevented from following Burma’s example of other internally troubled countries asking for British aid

Alan Wilson himself came to Malaya, has always guaranteed that he will not control the Ministry of Finance to ask for a penny, are about to pay out of their own pockets for the development of this place, but also thanks to the reverse practice of the power of God has been successful, Malaya, sparsely populated by him to stabilize the situation with a land distribution bill.

As for the source of funds, they all buy stocks, are resorting to Pamela Mountbatten, has been running to Canberra to ask for Australia’s support. Even he did not dare to manage London to ask for money, not to mention Burma.

Burma, after not getting what it wanted from London, found its way to the neighboring Commonwealth countries, and Rangoon found Indian Prime Minister Nehru, proposing to sign defense and economic agreements with India, Pakistan and Ceylon. But Nehru argued that Indo-Pakistani relations were currently strained because of the Kashmir issue. Moreover, Ceylon was unlikely to be involved in such an arrangement. From this point of view, it is difficult for the time being to realize the idea of the Myanmar side.

As for relations with the North, Myanmar as well as the Commonwealth countries in Asia have a similar attitude to that of Britain. At the stage of swaying from side to side, Burma has been the first to establish diplomatic relations after ascertaining that Britain has no intention of severing ties.

Not only is this the case with Burma, but independent Ceylon, India, have all shown wavering, just like the current Britain, facing different objects and saying different things.

The first day of the conference was spent almost in talking amongst themselves, even discussing the ongoing war.

“India’s opposition to the United States’ adventurous expansion of the Korean War is shared by New Delhi and London, and Prime Minister Nehru believes that the current military action is dragging the whole world into war.”

Listening to the Indian’s righteous words, Alan Wilson’s eyes swept over the representatives of the other nations and reached up to scratch his scalp; if it had been normal, he might not have been able to resist connoting the vocal powers.

But on this very matter, India and Britain’s current reaction was unanimous, and it was Allen Wilson who had returned to London once specifically to deliver an analysis specifically, so he couldn’t object to it, whether it was a matter of national interest, or personal interest.

“Prime Minister Nehru’s demeanor is very awe-inspiring.” As soon as the Indian’s words fell, Allen Wilson first applauded and agreed, “This world needs different voices, and after independence India already has a wide international influence.”

Since it was Nehru who said this, this represents the attitude of India as a nation, because Nehru is not only the Prime Minister of India, but also currently serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, and Nehru’s words are India’s foreign policy.

India from the outbreak of the war, only in the first United Nations General Assembly in favor of U.S. intervention, and since then is in the constant singing of the opposite, and now Nehru in the eyes of Washington, has been an uncompromising pro-Soviet elements.

Although in the meeting, Alan Wilson as the Malayan local administrator identity, once again found the feeling in British India, India’s self-reliance and self-improvement attitude, a full range of dead-end bragging.

But it does not mean that this is what he thinks in his heart, the non-aligned several leading countries, in addition to India there are Egypt, Yugoslavia and Indonesia, Egypt is the current British operation of the Middle East’s base camp. Yugoslavia has become a hardcore ally of the Soviet Union, Indonesia is even more directly partitioned, theoretically two million of the country’s land area, directly divided in half, also surrounded on all sides by Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal and Australia.

If India wants to be leading the Non-Aligned Movement, it’s going to have to find a suitable country to complement it.

“New Delhi doesn’t think that its neighbor to the north would make a good assistant, does it?” In the midst of the applause for India, Alan Wilson suddenly thought, if it is another country may not be so confident, as for India? Very likely!

But then again, Alan Wilson does remember, throughout the war, Nehru did continue to run for it, a few times to the United States angry enough, but also because of Nehru’s youth on the Soviet Union quite a lot of praise was turned over, to Washington left a tendency to the Soviet Union’s impression.

“World peace is currently the order of the day!” Alan Wilson in the Foreign Secretary Morrison’s gesture, began to try to end the discussion of the war, “Britain is very hopeful that India in Asian affairs to play a major influence, the United States behavior of the concern, London said it understands, the same commitment to the local economic development is also very important, London hopes that India can play a major role.”

India at this time and the United States of America’s relationship to understand all understand, in the United Kingdom after the contraction, Nehru do a five-year plan, another does not exclude socialism, so that the United States is ready to fill the vacuum of misgivings, coupled with the tradition of the United Kingdom on the hoeing of the diplomatic tradition of the United States naturally followed the example of the United States, focusing on the support of Pakistan.

This has made the big powers with a strong voice very dissatisfied, and for various reasons, the relationship between India and the United States can not be good.

At the Kuala Lumpur Conference, there were Canada and Australia and Britain, countries of the same language and race. Once again, India made its position clear.

It was with great difficulty that Alan Wilson brought back the conference towards what otherwise would have been a vocal meeting of the vocal powers, bashing US imperialism.

Although in the context of Britain’s non-involvement in the war, India’s stance was also shown to be in line with Britain’s attitude towards the war. But Canada and Australia were in the war.

The necessary stance to show that Britain was not alone in its move not to intervene, but to always talk about it undermined the unity of the Commonwealth.

So Allen Wilson’s attitude was to recognize India’s important influence on international affairs while bringing back the theme of the conference.

The historical Colombo Plan was politically charged to begin with. In fact, the purpose of the plan was to counter the expansion of American and Soviet power in East Asia and to continue the Commonwealth’s influence in Southeast Asia.

The purpose of this Kuala Lumpur meeting was much the same, still to maintain the influence of the British Empire.

Britain, with the support of Canada and Australia, in the name of the Commonwealth, was prepared to spend 16 million pounds to support British Malaya, Burma, and Ceylon.

The Netherlands and Portugal are there because of the military protection provided by the previous Five Nations, and the purpose of inviting India is not to support India, but to express transparency to India that this meeting is not meant to exclude India.

This meeting is a bit more concrete than the historical result of Britain’s stingy and stingy take out of eight million pounds, immediately followed by the United States with hundreds of millions of dollars to flush out the result.

Especially since earlier, Alan Wilson had already taken care of Australia, not only getting Canberra to liberalize the iron ore ban, but also getting a promise of ten million pounds. Not among the sixteen million pounds of Commonwealth funding. Together with the fact that the United States does not currently have a military presence in Southeast Asia, it can still be a fight.

In short, the subject of this Kuala Lumpur meeting is the financial support and military protection of Britain, Canada and Australia, New Zealand, for British Malaya centered on Ceylon and Burma. But the military protection was specified above the previous five-nation coalition defense.

This was not the result of Allen Wilson opening his mouth to London, it was London itself that wanted it.

After a few days of discussion, while the U.S. Army continues to continue to the north of the same time, the Kuala Lumpur meeting is generally considered to take out the consensus, just waiting for the signature.

“Alan, who do you see as the main rival to British Malaya.” Foreign Secretary Morrison asked the native administrator on the eve of the big success.

“The dollar, Japan or the Philippines. The former is held hostage to US money, the latter two are the current pro-American countries in the neighborhood. There may be Thailand as well, and if I were the United States, I would try to cram as many non-Commonwealth countries into this meeting as possible to dilute the Commonwealth overtones of this organization.”

Alan Wilson, truthfully, and this is historically how the US has responded, opened his mouth to ask for help, “The European market must have a back door for Malayan products. I actually have some ideas.”

With the financial support, Alan Wilson’s aim is to do everything possible to increase, the importance of British Malaya to Britain now. That is to say that all the foundations are currently in place for British Malaya to take off, and he wants to get ahead of Japan in terms of production.

On October 1, the U.S.-Korean coalition forces, purged of regular arms in Korea, began to cross the pre-war demarcation line, and on the same day the Kuala Lumpur Conference closed.

Major newspapers in British Malaya disclosed the exact details of the conference, believing that good times were at hand for Malaya.