Chapter 587 – Movements in India

“Of course!” The representatives of the other countries spoke in unison, pointing out the poverty and backwardness of the overseas territories, which must have basic self-management and economic circulation to be truly independent.

Alan Wilson wore a smile on his face as he listened to the representatives of these countries spouting off, truth be told he hadn’t even expected the law of the crow standing on the pig to appear so quickly. Even if he were to spit on the third world, he probably wouldn’t be able to find so many words.

Essentially this meeting wasn’t binding the other country present, the proposal made by Allen Wilson was actually used to bind Britain.

It is well known that Britain was the first country in Europe to let its colonies become independent, almost as if they were going with the flow.

Much of the effort to protect the traditional British influence in the colonies was focused on the period before the Suez Canal War, and by the aftermath of the Nassau Agreement of 1962, not even cosmetic work was done.

The collapse of British Africa first inevitably affected other European countries. Just as the Soviet Union collapsed and socialism in Eastern Europe was doomed, Britain couldn’t hold out and neither could the other European colonial powers.

And historically Britain was the first to fail, so this conference is about coming up with a framework for moving forward and backward together. So either the colonies are allowed to become independent at the same time, or none of them are. No colonial power, including Britain, should try to jump ship first.

The first day’s meeting had already set the tone for the next few days, and after the meeting ended, Makins listened to Alan Wilson’s assertion and said with some arrogant intent, “Isn’t this putting us, Britain, in the same position as the other countries?”

“Honorable Lord, a discussion of equal status ultimately leads to nothing.” Alan Wilson smiled smugly, “It’s a lot of people, every country has different ideas, and no one will be able to back out when the time comes. The French want to fully Frenchize their overseas territories, God knows how long it will take them to do it, I don’t think it will take thirty to fifty years to even think about it.”

“What about the Portuguese? Anyway, as I recall, the Portuguese government doesn’t recognize colonies, and over on the current subcontinent, Goa is doing quite well right now because of the presence of good quality iron ore in Goa. The Portuguese are gainfully employed in Goa, how easy is it to withdraw?”

Alan Wilson mentioned the attitudes of several countries, and in the case of Portugal alone, as long as Salazar didn’t die, there should be nothing to worry about. Salazar would live for at least another twenty years. It would be the seventies by then, and it was time to get enough.

“That way if we want to give up a colony in the future, we’ll have to take into account the attitudes of other countries.” Makins asked rhetorically with a slight frown.

“Well!” Alan Wilson smiled and nodded, the framework was mainly to fit Britain in.

Of course the current Britain would not think anything wrong, this is the time, the current Britain is still in the stage of trying its best to maintain its influence, and would not think about the future of Britain’s free fall movement.

“The colonial commissioners overseas, but they are very anxious for me to get this thing done.” Alan Wilson said with a burdened posture, “I cannot fail my colleagues.”

It was a proposition that had been settled by the Colonial Commissioner at the Zanzibar meeting. It was only back at the Brussels conference that it was formalized, and it represented the collective interests of the overseas civil service.

A package on how to develop Africa, support education and enrich recreation and culture was the main agenda for discussion at the second day’s meeting. Demand can be created when there is no demand.

The British idea for this was to start with sports. Africa has been at the bottom of the world for centuries and its self-esteem has been extremely fragile. And it is through sports competition that self-esteem is theoretically most likely to be stimulated.

As for the French, they said that they would definitely promote the financial support of the French language. Alan Wilson expressed his approval. The French have always been obsessed with the promotion of the French language.

Without mentioning the too-distant history of the European court language, culturally, France has been relentlessly guarding and expanding the French-speaking realm, ceaselessly introducing French language norms to ensure the purity and accuracy of the French language while relying on political maneuvering to ensure that the vast number of quasi-colonies use French as an official language.

It is believed that French is widely used in diplomacy and law because it is precise, but this is not the case. French is actually much more vague than English. But this happens to be the advantage of French.

Diplomatic laws are never precise, they require a lot of room for ambiguity. Diplomatic orders, legal texts, when they are vague, they have to rely on the institutions in which they are made to interpret them. And the right to interpret gives them an advantage. That’s what makes French so popular in diplomatic settings.

Simply put, it’s a great language for casting words. The French had an obsession with promoting French, and even went so far as to abolish the Vietnamese variant of Chinese characters and recreate an alphabet system, as is generally evident.

On the Vietnam one alone, though, Alan Wilson doesn’t think the French did anything wrong, nor does the fact that the alphabetization of the Vietnamese script caused much of a problem.

French being a very mature language, it’s a piece of cake to try to create a set of scripts for a people.

The downside of alphabetizing Vietnamese exists only on the internet of a major country, and serves mainly to find a reason to ridicule the Vietnamese.

What really exists as an immature script causing total problems is Korean, and the difference in attitude towards Korea and towards Vietnam is a good example of dislike of the rich and the poor.

The minutes of this meeting on colonial development were, of course, not surprisingly, given to the French for publication. Allen Wilson was sure that the French would come up with a, a ring of public declarations, full of talk-fillers.

The principle of the public declaration was that the six countries of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands and Belgium, had taken note of the needs of the overseas territories and were working to improve them. As for how to improve it, the current people in the overseas territories didn’t need to know yet.

And the countries also have their own development plans, this meeting is just a common declaration, but will not interfere with the colonial countries how to do, the main role is used to constrain, do not ignore the interests of other colonial countries, one-sided and irresponsible to make the overseas territories independent, before making such a decision, it must be the understanding of the other colonial countries, in particular, Britain and France must be understood by each other.

Individually on the British development plan, Alan Wilson tends to develop real estate, using the resources of Africa to support the industrialization of Malaya, followed by the capital of the major colonies will appear, a city with decent hardware in return.

Anyway, it is not a large-scale urbanization construction, a colony left a city, absolutely childish. To show Britain’s role in building a window to the colonies, that’s all that’s needed. Don’t say at the end of the day, Britain left nothing for the colonies!

On the last day of 1950, Pamela Mountbatten, who knew that Allen Wilson was in Brussels, came here to celebrate the New Year with her fiancé, and as the most well-known standard bearer for transforming the earth within the current European context, Pamela Mountbatten was rightfully greeted by many people.

The French, in particular, were very enthusiastic about Pamela Mountbatten’s Libyan development program, expressing that they would definitely express their support for this development at the government level.

“I heard that Ms. Mountbatten’s exploration company, has acquired the exploration rights in the North Sea. Alan do you know about it?” Makins, who was with Allen Wilson, looked at the very popular Pamela Mountbatten and asked in a whisper.

Of course I know, I’m the one who made that happen. Allen Wilson cocked his head and looked at Makins, firmly shook his head and asked rhetorically, “Could the North Sea also be developed for oil? Isn’t it a mistake, the storm is so big.”

“I thought you knew!” Makins shook his head, “Looks like you don’t have any inside information for me.”

“I’m so sorry, I don’t ask about things on the wealth of the Mountbatten family.” Alan Wilson had a pitiful look of a flunky who had a hard time eating, but immediately resumed his bland color, which made Makins even more flamboyant and embarrassed to inquire further.

Not long after, draped in furs Pamela Mountbatten moved to come in style, straight to Alan Wilson, by the way, rushed to Makins greeted, “Lord Sheffield, how are you these days.”

“Fine, don’t bother you guys.” Makins nodded slightly, leaving the courier party to the couple.

“See how I look in this fur? Isn’t it beautiful!” Pamela Mountbatten immediately came up as soon as she saw the bystanders leave.

“It mostly depends on who wears it.” Alan Wilson looked at Pamela Mountbatten and said with meaning, “It’s simply so touching that you came to Brussels.”

“It’s all I should do!” Pamela Mountbatten directly took her fiancé’s hand, and then whispered, “I have news that concerns you, and the Americans!”

“Hmm?” Alan Wilson was a little confused, he would have the opportunity to appear in a sentence with the Americans, the only person he knew was Vivien Lei who was still in the United States, thinking of this, Alan Wilson unconsciously gulped a mouthful of spit, and tried to say, “What is it?”

“As you know, not everyone has left India, and a very small number of British people are working for the Indian government. According to our sources, it seems that New Delhi has appeared to want to confiscate the Mysore iron ore mine in recent meetings.”

As soon as Pamela Mountbatten opened her mouth, Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief that it was not the relationship with the Great British Treasure that had been discovered, and said indifferently, “The great powers with a voice seem to think that the American army can be taken at will after two defeats, but? Now is really a good opportunity.”

The United States was already embroiled in a war where the situation was, at least currently, unfavorable. Having no time to pull out at this time was indeed a very good opportunity, and if the US pressured India over an iron mine, the Soviet Union must have been happy as hell.

“Do you think New Delhi really dares?” Pamela Mountbatten asked rhetorically, “Does that mean that my industry in India is also in danger?”

“No, not for the pharmaceutical industry. Iron ore is really important to a country.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “As for your question about daring, I think it’s really daring.”