Chapter 617 Giving Opportunity to France

Become commander of the fleet, and then return to the mainland first sea minister, and finally promoted to a naval marshal, to the chairman of the committee of defense and chiefs of staff, that is, the British empire’s military commander in chief of the identity of the army, montbarton can complete his boring life.

There are only a few places where Mountbatten could be made Commander of the Grand Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet and the Pacific Fleet are both more suitable, with the Mediterranean Fleet having a heavier responsibility out of the need to maintain influence in the Middle East.

In the UK’s global interests to consider the same, no surprise, Mountbatten should be the Mediterranean fleet commander, as I asked the sea minister of the road as a key step.

“I thought that you would persuade me to take up the post of Commander of the Pacific Fleet, so that someone would wipe your ass for you.” Mountbatten looked a little surprised, and seemed a little disappointed that he had not been persuaded.

“Uh, the current potential adversaries in British Malaya are not so much of a threat.” Alan Wilson mused, “The section from the mainland to the Suez Canal is significantly more important than the section from the Suez Canal to the Fragrant River.”

Several potential rivals in the vicinity of British Malaya, including the Japanese and Korean fraudulent islands, did not have the strength to develop a large fleet.

Indonesia, on the other hand, had the need to develop a large fleet, but Indonesia, an archipelago country, could not satisfy the appetite for a large fleet in general. Giving the entire British Royal Navy to Indonesia is more or less the same, but how much money can Indonesia have to build a navy?

Not to mention the fact that there are still five countries in the vicinity of Indonesia for joint defense, in general, the threat to Indonesia is still defensible and controllable.

Other than that, if Indonesia were to really invest heavily in its navy, Australia would immediately be willing to help reimburse Britain for half of the military costs of the Royal Navy’s Pacific Fleet.

Alan Wilson mentioned that he was working on a plan to subvert the Sukarno regime, and Mountbatten was a bit surprised, “That’s a big operation.”

“Yes, an absolutely big operation.” Alan Wilson nodded, “It can be done without doing so until the most dangerous time. I hope this plan won’t be used.”

Alan Wilson still felt that it would be more cost-effective to blackmail the coastal cities of nearby countries with battleships. What with Jakarta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Tokyo, and Hanoi being a bit of a chore, but Saigon was no worse than Hanoi, and could take on the duties of the capital if necessary.

“The French are struggling more and more to cope, once the French can’t hold out, will the situation in Vietnam deteriorate to Malaya, which already posed a certain threat to Indonesia.” Mountbatten opened his mouth to ask, last year’s border battle, has declared the French blockade of the Sino-Vietnamese border failed.

Since the end of last year, the French army has been under increasing pressure, Vietnam is no longer a matter of guerrilla warfare. The Vietnamese army has been able to go toe-to-toe with the French army.

“I suggest that the French army immediately carry out complete destruction in the northern areas still under their control.” Alan Wilson said softly after a long silence, “Blow up the dams, throw mines into the iron mines, tear down the railroad tracks, and even massacre the plowing cattle, and systematically destroy the North of Vietnam, retreating step by step to the South.”

“Following the Dutch move to evacuate Java?” General Mountbatten referred to the Dutch army’s evacuation of Java a few years ago, and felt that Allen Wilson’s proposal should have a similar effect.

“Uh-huh!” Allen Wilson nodded, “It’s definitely within the capabilities of the French army, and since the colony is going to be independent, it would be better to be independent for good and build from scratch.”

This was originally a strategy that France began to implement after the failure of the Vietnam War, and even from the beginning of the colonial era France had a record in this regard, France in order to maintain the centripetal force of the colonies towards the sovereign country often destroyed local historical sites and cultural forms, so that the people in the very French characteristics of the centralized management gradually forget their original racial attributes.

The British approach was generally to support their supporters, which was not used much in France, where it was all about me.

The wave of independence has also spread to British Africa, the Gold Coast is now in the local commissioner and the local elite in the joint governance, the Gold Coast commissioner has negotiated with the head of the fight for independence.

The Gold Coast Commissioner has negotiated with the heads of the independence struggle and has also set up a state enterprise for the British Gold Coast, absorbing the leaders of the independence movement to share the rights and profits, and discussing the independence of the British Gold Coast within five to ten years.

After the negotiations, the wave of independence on the Gold Coast is gradually subsiding, and on the contrary, the rate of gold mining has greatly accelerated. Among the colonies in British Africa, the status of the Gold Coast was greatly improved.

In order to gain support, with the approval of London, Britain also promised to incorporate British Togo into the Gold Coast in exchange for the current support of the independent leaders of the Gold Coast for Britain and gold mining.

At least the current results are encouraging, with the Gold Coast sending over a hundred tons of gold to London last year. If things go well, this year’s figure is sure to exceed last year.

And in exchange, the British mainland exports to the Gold Coast soared, with modern products imported as well as support for the development of hydroelectric power, in exchange for the Gold Coast’s gold. The Gold Coast is God’s reward, at least for the time being, and the two sides are in a phase of rapprochement.

It had been five years since the end of the war, due to the absence of a federal Germany and a variety of factors. Britain’s recovery and development seems to be very much on the cusp in Europe.

But Alan Wilson, who arrived in Whitehall, understood that there were still variables in the matter, and Sir Ismay, the permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office, personally mentioned that the United States had recently once again pressed for progress in the three occupied territories.

“But won’t this divert Soviet attention back from the East?” Alan Wilson questioned, not realizing that the United States was so eager for the emergence of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

“Alan, judging by all the behavior, the intense fighting should have passed.” Ismay frowned, “And it can’t be ruled out, the US is diverting the Soviet Union’s attention to find something for us in Britain to do.”

“Meaning, the Americans are seeing that Britain didn’t join in the Korean War and are going to make us take on some of the Soviet pressure?” Alan Wilson cursed in his heart when he heard this.

From 1945 to now, if there is any new realization in Britain, it is that the United States of America, the rebellious son, is really out of the box, and is no longer the country that was arbitrarily held at the Paris Peace Conference.

Alan Wilson felt that with the war in the Far East unfinished, the United States might not be so eager. Now it seems that one step at a time cannot be applied in the midst of a policy of confrontation.

Apparently the United States thought that having contributed to the emergence of the Federal Republic of Germany, there might be a backlash from the Soviet side the United States could afford it.

The question was whether Britain could afford it? Alan Wilson frowned and said, “I don’t know what our cabinet thinks, last year MacArthur was going to use nuclear weapons, now the United States move, it is still difficult to say whether it will intensify the situation.”

“That’s why we turned it down before, the American troops being stationed at the British airbase.” Sir Ismay shook his head, “Foreign Secretary Morrison’s opposition to the US using the British airbase was because of MacArthur’s irresponsible attitude towards nuclear weapons.”

Alan Wilson nodded his head, there was no American airbase on British soil, and NATO would have been established before the outbreak of the Korean War, and Ernest Bevin, the deceased Secretary of State for the Keeper of the Seals, had created NATO through diplomacy by uniting with France and then bringing the United States into the picture.

However, now NATO has not even appeared, a series of related military facilities naturally can not be talked about, the key is that NATO has not yet appeared, but the Korean War has already broken out, MacArthur’s attitude toward the use of nuclear weapons, so that the cabinet of Adderley to consider a possibility.

If the U.S. can use nuclear weapons with Japanese air bases, it can do the same with British air bases, and then the Americans patted themselves on the back, and the risk of nuclear war was borne by the British.

Historically NATO has been in place for a year since the outbreak of the Korean War, Prime Minister Adderley has ridden the tiger, the American air bases in Britain are operational, the wood has been turned.

But now MacArthur’s voice to use nuclear weapons, but because NATO has not been established to make Britain alert, if the United States to use the United Kingdom as a base to use nuclear weapons for the bombing of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom will be the first to be retaliated against by the Soviet Union.

“The matter of the airbase can be placed within France Well, who is the President of the Council of Ministers in France now?” Alan Wilson took the initiative to speak, “Anyway, in terms of distance, placing it within France is the same, right now France still needs the support of the United States, which can be used for bargaining. This favorable condition, we can out of the friendly relations between Britain and France let to Paris.”

If this matter is done, Alan Wilson felt that it is a great achievement, as for ten years later de Gaulle withdrew from NATO, will not annoy the Americans, who can predict the next ten years of things?

As Allen Wilson was leaving, he issued a wedding invitation to Ismay, which was the main purpose of his visit to Whitehall. It was time to use the reliability of long-maintained contacts in the last few days.

The list of invitations even included the Chairman of the War Cemeteries Commission, the Defense Committee, MI6, the Management and Personnel Agency, and the Statistical Committee, and although Alan Wilson’s memory was not bad, it was unavoidable that there might have been some omissions because of the total absence from the mainland.

The thing about connections is that they take time to maintain, and he didn’t have that time, but fortunately had the habit of keeping a diary as a decent person would, and through the little book he usually carried, he was also able to collect the connections he had once established.

Allen Wilson’s aim for the next few days was, was to run through the twenty-nine important departments, and then a bunch of committees set up by Norman Brooke. As for Pamela Mountbatten, her most recent itinerary was to string around the major ancient castles, inviting bundles of nobles to attend her wedding.

Invitations were something that Alan Wilson thought it was best to take care of all of them and not leave anyone behind, and Pamela Mountbatten felt the same way, so the two of them were sending out more and more invitations.

“We still need to control the number of people, it’s best not to exceed a thousand.” Pamela Mountbatten said in a consultative tone.

“I have no problem with that!” Alan Wilson thought back, he had only invited a hundred or so people, far from the figure of a thousand.