Chapter 571 – A lot of energy

For the current Malaya, it was quite normal for Alan Wilson as the chief executive to pay attention to the potential rivals, besides Japan there was also a near-by Philippines.

After the independence of the Philippines, the Americans did not leave the Philippines alone, after all, the Philippines and the United States have a special relationship.

The United States not only provided the Philippines with a large amount of assistance, but also made huge investments in the Philippines. The Americans invested in opening a large number of factories in the Philippines.

In fact, against the Philippines, Allen Wilson still had a certain degree of certainty. And one thing he remembered was that Japan actually tried to avoid World War II reparations by all means, but the Philippines did not renege on its reparations.

That was the benefit of the special relationship between the Philippines and the U.S. On the issue of reparations to Japan, Allen Wilson could even be a good friend to the Filipino people, and anyway, he had already been an old friend to the people of India before, and it wasn’t so bad for the Philippines.

Though not a particularly industrially savvy administrator, Allen Wilson still knew that a counter-bite was a good bite, and he wouldn’t have been so eager if time hadn’t been running out.

But it was the knowledge that British Malaya and Japan were in no way comparable in terms of population that led to a very bold development program. As far as possible to realize the influence of Britain still remaining in Asia.

After the formal meeting, Alan Wilson invited the representatives of India and Burma and Ceylon in a private setting. Indicating that on the issue of nationalization, Britain was in the way of Canada and Australia, and could not express its support at the formal meeting.

But Britain is actually not averse to the start of nationalization-led industrialization within Burma and India. And it is hoped that India and Burma will give proper help to the development of British Malaya.

As for Ceylon, it was a complete scene-stealer for Britain to say that Ceylon’s independent status would not be disturbed by outside forces and that it would be happy to see Ceylon and Burma develop relations, with a British naval base in Ceylon.

The American knuckle-dragging didn’t have much of an impact on Southeast Asia, at least not on Allen Wilson. He just didn’t realize that the expansion of the war would have another negative impact on the US in the next six months. That was the Mysore iron ore that he had sold to the US before he left.

But now, in a state of excitement about the development of Malaya, he idly gathered intelligence on the Philippines. Then it was discovered that the two places had something in common, and it turned out that threatening Japan with reparations in the form of prisoners of war wasn’t the only thing Allen Wilson thought about.

The Philippines had already openly shouted several times that if Japan did not compensate the Philippines for its wartime losses, it would kill all of the Philippines’ more than 100,000 prisoners of war.

“What a hero!” Alan Wilson said as he picked up the phone, “Being able to go through some unobtrusive channels and make it clear to Mr. Elpidio Quirino that in British Malaya on the issue of reparations, and the Philippines are on the same side. I am sure there must be such a channel.”

Alan Wilson put down the phone, thinking that there could be some public opinion maneuvering on the issue of military prostitutes. It was even possible to pull Australia and the Netherlands along, after all, these two countries could be victimized countries.

Although it was a bit unethical to rub salt in the wounds of women’s issues, and it was completely out of line with his demeanor on the streets of Paris a few years ago. But things have come to this point already can not care so much, as a gentleman of the British Empire, should have a flexible moral bottom line.

Definitely can not let Japan lightly, he even before wanted to make Japanese prisoners of war into disabled and then sent back. And cultivating an anti-Japanese environment would have been an important part of developing British Malaya, counting on both public and private interests.

Clearly the future, Alan Wilson is energized, as if all of a sudden back to New Delhi after the end of World War II, thinking like a spring, with endless strength, only the object from British India changed to Japan.

And the difficulty is not the same, although the population of British India is more, but Britain is a direct colonial government. And it was the United States, not Britain, that had that position in Japan.

Hatred is something that can never be forgotten as long as someone keeps mentioning it, but once no one mentions it anymore, forgetting is quick.

Opinion manipulation especially for Australia, Alan Wilson needs Pamela Mountbatten’s help, the real mother to help with a new round of financing Pamela Mountbatten also immediately agreed to do the same, also agreed to do is to send has been an exploration team to arrive in British Malaya, in the vicinity of Brunei to look for oil and gas resources.

Against the two main helpers of the United States in the Asian region, Allen Wilson did not feel that he could not compete with the Philippines, but Japan was indeed a difficult opponent. Then since the Philippines was biting Japan because of the issue of reparations, then at this time the Philippines must be in great need of someone who would stand up for justice to come out and help.

Although he could not help openly, Allen Wilson did not want to appear in the open, and traditionally, good deeds are done without leaving a name.

This is all in order to defend against the United States, the original history of the United States against the Colombo Plan played a role in taking two approaches, one is to dominate the formation of the organization, the organization’s form, function and nature of the United States and the United States is basically consistent with the claim; the second is to contribute to the evolution of the United States in accordance with the wishes of the United States, so that it is initially dominated by the United Kingdom from the British Commonwealth organization into the United States dominated by the non-Commonwealth organization.

This ultimately led to the loss of British control over the Colombo Plan, and the penetration of the U.S. into the Colombo Plan was accomplished mainly through Japan and the Philippines.

Under the current premise of the Philippines biting Japan, Allen Wilson had to take the initiative and get ahead of Japan in everything.

In the United States began to transfer to the beginning of the textile industry, Japan actually did not how to take off, after all, the textile industry’s profits are really not to take the hand, Japan really began to take off is five years later, about nineteen fifty-six when, after the textile industry’s accumulation, began to enter the stage of high development.

So British Malaya’s program was to pre-empt the development of the steel industry with the support of Australia, and also to capture the textile industry, as the former was easy to create jobs. At the same time bite the Japanese reparation issue to delay Japan’s entry into Southeast Asia.

This issue could support the Philippines’ claim that if the reparations issue still fails to stop Japan, take Japan’s tariff barriers, which, like South Korea, relied on tariff barriers in the early stages of its redevelopment to develop by exporting only and not importing.

If British Malaya is able to get ahead of Japan, it will have to bite the tariff barriers, and once Japan opens the tariff barriers, it will be targeted to use the industries that Malaya already has by then to dump on Japan.

Together with the Kuala Lumpur Conference in the name of the Commonwealth allocated 16 million pounds, Allen Wilson with a large part of the British steel and textile industry orders, as for Pamela Mountbatten said before the United States procurement of steelmaking equipment, this time have been through the Panama Canal.

The rest of the money was used as a reserve for British Malaya as an anchor for the Asian pound.

The development of the Japanese government in the post-war period was focused on supporting and limiting the enterprises could buy coal and steel at low prices, and the resulting difference was subsidized by the government. This differential subsidy was so large that it even accounted for a quarter of the budget.

Such a policy led to the development of the coal and steel industries. This, together with the fact that Japan’s factories and social infrastructure had been destroyed during the war, allowed the factories to introduce the most advanced production equipment of the time as quickly as possible to increase productivity, and Japan’s heavy chemical industry was able to develop.

Alan Wilson did pretty much the same thing, except that it was directly supported through the current pro-British Prime Minister of Australia, and the excellent iron ore that Pamela Mountbatten already controlled. This eliminated the need for financial subsidies through Malaya and avoided the resulting financial pressures.

The role of India has to be mentioned here, the center of the textile industry in British India was in the Bengal region centered on the industrial zone of Calcutta, which since the partition of India and Pakistan had belonged to India and Pakistan respectively.

Which East Pakistan, later Bangladesh, is the textile production base, and now this relationship between India and Pakistan?

Alan Wilson opened the Malayan Commissioner’s Radio and began to replicate his broadcasts from Newfoundland, expounding on British and Commonwealth support for British Malaya. The help of Canada and Australia was mentioned, very tactfully stating that the British Empire was still the great empire that had survived two world wars without falling.

From financial support to industrial support and the resources and climate that British Malaya itself possessed. Formalized the development policy of the textile industry and iron and steel industry, as for its own advantageous industries to take a free competition posture, but not tin ore and rubber, not higher than the purchase price of the government in London.

“It is difficult to say, Malayan citizens have the foundation to already accept these industries, the British Empire is ready to help Malaya, but Malaya can not catch is also a thing worth studying. The ten million subjects of the British Empire in Malaya must from now on accept the guidance of the government, put aside all trivialities, and become part of modern civilization.”

The arrival of farming seeds in Malaya coincided with the start of construction on Alan Wilson’s first major project, a large fertilizer plant.

Taking the High Commissioner’s arrival at the site as an indication of groundbreaking, a hesitant MacArthur, aboard the Supreme Allied Commander, docked in the Pacific Ocean on the island where he had met with the President, where he had discussed the battle of the Korean War with President Harry S. Truman and Chairman Bradley of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After assuring himself that everything was going well confidently said in the form of a speech, “The war as it is now taking place has in fact been won, and formal resistance throughout the peninsula will be over by Thanksgiving.”

The next day Allen Wilson, armed with a newspaper on MacArthur’s proclamation, flew to East Malaysia’s port in Sarawak to officiate at the groundbreaking ceremony for the steel mill plant. A week later, at the port of Penang, he was back with Penang Commissioner Everett to receive the textile machinery that had been drifting at sea for months.