Chapter 588 Front Page Headlines

For a country, the importance of coal and iron can not be overemphasized, look at France on the coal and iron community how attached to know, Nehru is not want to turn India into a large rural Gandhi, surely the importance of a good iron ore is clear, how can tolerate the quality of such a good iron ore, for a long time by foreigners to control? Even if this country is the United States.

In terms of the current international situation, it can be said that India is very favorable, the United States is trapped in the Far East can not move, and the United States and the Soviet Union are extremely important to Europe is still in a standoff, the current international environment is relatively favorable to India.

At this time if Nehru wants to take risks, in fact, the risk is relatively not so great. As for whether he dares, the Indian Congress Party’s conservative leader Patel although just died, but the conservatives have not gone up in smoke.

The power of the conservative faction in India has always been very strong, even if Nehru had concerns, the conservative faction would push him to take the risk, not to mention that the risk is not as big as imagined.

Pamela Mountbatten listened to her fiancé’s analysis and kept nodding her head, “It seems that once India grows up, it’s really hard to deal with.”

“That’s something I have reservations about.” Alan Wilson bristled, to say that India’s existence has any objective benefits, especially for China, that is, India’s crotch-pulling behavior, objectively making Europe and the United States less wary of China.

The original version of the Yellow Peril theory is often inseparable from three places, the Prime Minister’s rising Japan, and then there is China and India.

The former was the first power of any sort to make it to the top, other than the white Christian nations. As for China and India, it has always been the huge population and area that became a vague worry for Europe.

Various illustrations of the Yellow Peril Theory have featured dragons and Buddhas to a lesser extent. And in this day and age, it can be argued that India, independent from Britain, has a decidedly better base than China, on almost any metric.

And while it can’t be said that India with a better foundation never developed, it’s also true that it didn’t make much of an impact on Europe and the United States. Have first attracted attention to India in front, Europe and the United States naturally, also feel that China’s development can not subvert the world order to the point.

Even after the Korean War, India still had a higher international status than China. The same was true of various national indicators!

“Nah, the telegram Alim asked me to pass on to you is from a man named Grace.” The two men returned together to the hotel where they were staying, and Pamela Mountbatten took out the telegram and handed it to Allan Wilson.

“Oh! Let me see.” Alan Wilson resulted in a quick scan of the telegram, two things, the first was that Ali Khan was very interested in Sabah and the second was indeed a short sentence from Grace that everything was in place.

After reading the telegram, Alan Wilson’s thought for a while and said, “I am going to adjust the administrative region of British Malaya, incorporate part of Sabah into Sarawak, and then divide a part of the land to Brunei. As you know Brunei has been divided into two unconnected parts, which is very inconvenient.”

“So will my territory expand or shrink?” Pamela Mountbatten asked the main question directly.

“It should have expanded a bit.” Alan Wilson took off his jacket and replied unhurriedly, “Together?”

For her fiancé’s request to share a bath, Pamela Mountbatten was of course willing, she liked the feeling of being held by Ellen Wilson while soaking, it was very comfortable.

The world news of this day was the third battle that started non-stop after the first two battles.

The third battle was actually not very long, but from the view of the latter is eyes, it was considered the first time that there was a breakthrough that was observed by Li Qiwei, who had just taken office, and that was that the enemy’s logistics could only sustain the attack for about a week. This is also the origin of the worship offense in Li Qiwei’s mouth.

Of course this was also discovered by Li Qiwei after the end of the third battle, when only Li Qiwei discovered this in the command level of the US army, while MacArthur and other top brass were still kept in the dark.

By the time of the fourth battle, Li Qiwei verified his own speculation, and from that time onwards, the American army had a clear idea of the next battle, and there was no more scene of a hasty retreat when surrounded. So it was the best chance!

On New Year’s Day, Allen Wilson wished the subjects of the British Malayan Empire a New Year’s Eve by open telegram with a previously discussed code word, which was considered to be a formal signal of action to Grace, who received the signal and had to take action within a week.

The New Year began and the repatriation of prisoners of war from British Malaya at the request of Japanese prisoners of war was about to begin in earnest.

Alan Wilson then sent a round of telegrams to Bonn, Los Angeles, Paris and London before celebrating the New Year with Pamela Mountbatten in Brussels.

On the first day of the new year, the two were also busy with other things, thanks to the war appropriations and mobilization of U.S. President Harry S. Truman, U.S. steel stocks responded to the war, Allen Wilson and Pamela Mountbatten, reduced the hands of the steel stocks for cash.

Originally was to cash out all, but because Pamela Mountbatten just from New Delhi, get India may recover the Mysore iron ore news, a moment can not judge what impact will cause, so Pamela Mountbatten to steel stocks are left half.

Allen Wilson is much more hidden, how to say that he has also once been the administrator of Newfoundland, naturally, there are people to help him handle the stock, Pamela Mountbatten does not know about the shares in the hands of her fiancé.

From the beginning of the post-war period, the Mountbatten family then held U.S. stocks have been reduced one after another, cash out to get the cash, but also became the source of the Mountbatten family’s rising wealth.

Now Alan Wilson, in the Mountbatten family can not just like he in front of colleagues in Whitehall, acting the kind of flunky look.

Can be said to be very status, although and Pamela Mountbatten is not married, but with the passage of time, Pamela Mountbatten’s dependence on him has increased.

It was also January 1, 1951, when the two were longing for a new year, talking about how the Emerald House had almost been established, and choosing a date to get married.

Explosive news came from the subcontinent when Nehru, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of India, announced the nationalization of the iron ore mines in Mysore, dealing a blow to Washington, which was in the midst of expanding its military.

Before the outbreak of war, the U.S. Army had only 1.3 million troops on its books, not even a very adequate defense of Europe.

It was expanded once after MacArthur’s call for expansion, and again after Truman’s mobilization order after the second campaign. Certainly a signal that the United States was beginning to engage in a serious response to the war, it also carried a variety of munitions-related stocks higher.

Especially steel stocks, and at this time there is a sound power so a backstabbing, so that the New York Stock Exchange’s steel stocks fell sharply in response. Even let back to London Pamela Mountbatten complained, should be before all sold off.

“It’s only a day apart, in saying that the subsequent impact is not yet visible, wait for now.” Alan Wilson softly relieved, “Nehru’s action may only cause a short-term impact, after all, the United States is no shortage of iron ore. It may not be as high in quality as the Australian iron ore in your hands, but it is used to support the war machine without any problem.”

“I didn’t expect it to be so fast either, I only just got the news and New Delhi announced it so quickly.” Pamela Mountbatten asked in some confusion, “There is no way this could have happened in London.”

“That’s incredible India!” Alan Wilson smiled slightly, the super-sick power does things, is not a small Sunset can understand.

New Year’s commissioners of the colonies are to return to London, mainly to prepare for the colonial commissioners meeting at the beginning of the year.

In fact, what should be talked about before have been talked about, this time back to the colonial commissioners, more like a routine vacation. By the way, the hard-earned gains in the colonies were put in a reliable place.

The joy of the harvest was shown on the face of every one of his colleagues, with the conviction in their hearts that the year ahead would be better.

Naturally, talk about India’s confiscation of American-owned iron mines and the renewed war was the center of discussion. There was a great deal of excitement about the process of graying the U.S. Army over the last six months. The words were all about a father’s concern for his son!

Alan Wilson happens to be with his colleagues, talking about developing real estate and setting a benchmark in the capitals of the colonies. And don’t say in time, that Britain did not develop the local economy. On the matter of real estate to develop the country, he thought that it could be a good idea to plan and strategize.

At the moment, British Malaya seems to be at peace, compared to Nehru, who is still in the war-torn peninsula, surrounded by expectations and accolades, it is a quiet time.

Newspapers have been running, reports of the imminent repatriation of Japanese POWs, and the news of the imminent return of Japanese POWs has even made its way into the POW camps. This seemed like a good thing.

But linked with the fact that the American troops had been beaten to a pulp in the previous two campaigns, at this time the Japanese POWs were going back home. It made an undercurrent, which had appeared months before, surge again.

Miles away from the Commissioner of British Malaya, busy schedule did not forget to send a telegram to express the New Year wishes, so that came to Asia on official business Grace, as well as with the Slavs, the last operational arrangements.

“I have heard that both of you were once soldiers, and, as it happens, we turned out to be. We’ve been discussing the basics of this one for a long time. I wish you all the best.” Grace looked at Su Yang and Tian Qianqiu and added, “To reflect professionalism, which is also of great concern to the Commissioner.”

At the beginning of the new year, the British troops in Malaya were in the midst of relaxation, the cold winds of Europe 10,000 miles away, but Malaya near the equator was still as hot as ever, along with the arrival of the new year, compared to the American troops who fought in the freezing cold, there was nothing to be picky about the British troops in Malaya.

The garrison commander, Lt. Gen. Bilton, also gave most of the British troops a vacation because of the coming New Year.

At this time, no one would have thought that immediately British Malaya would grab the headlines of the Peninsular War and India.

But it happened so suddenly that the Chinese community, centered on the Chinese workers, launched almost simultaneous raids on the major prisoner-of-war camps.