Chapter 628: The Water Is Too Deep Here

“I didn’t expect the Soviets to do this, it’s a travesty of the free world.” Allen Wilson was furious in front of McCarthy, showing his stern stance, and at the same time not without pity, “Now the pressure on the American troops in Japan won’t diminish anytime soon.”

McCarthy nodded his head in agreement with a cold stare, he did not bend so much as Allen Wilson, but considered the problem from the position of the United States and the Soviet Union.

This is the time to use the expert on the Eastern question, Allen Wilson is willing to give some answers on this issue. Concerns were expressed that the Soviet Red Navy could become a big threat in the future.

In the original history, before World War II, not to mention Hokkaido, even the Kuril Islands are half of Japan. Similarly, the southern four islands of the Kuril Islands were also in Japanese hands. Such a situation was originally very unfavorable to the Soviet Union, the original World War II Soviet Union launched the August Storm, but only to take back the Kuril Islands, by the way, occupied the Japanese part of the Thousand Islands.

From the goal of getting Hokkaido is even farther away, can not get Hokkaido, the Soviet Union Far East is still in the United States under blockade.

And Hokkaido, if in the hands of the Soviet Union, can blockade the Soviet Union, is no longer a geographical problem. Rather, it is a question of when.

Right now the Soviet Red Navy is not getting a lot of input, so this is not a big problem for a short period of time. If one day the Soviet Union’s national strength can hold up in maintaining a strong army at the same time, strengthen the naval investment. The USSR will be able to easily break through the US naval blockade.

Moreover, Hokkaido has an unfrozen harbor, Vladivostok is not an unfrozen harbor, there is a freezing period. The rest of the Hokkaido fisheries, and agriculture in Hokkaido and other issues.

Of course these issues Allen Wilson did not say, fishing grounds and agriculture are not within the scope of the two men’s discussion. Allen Wilson only spoke about the Red Navy being able to remain blockaded.

After standing on common ground and bashing the Soviet Union, McCarthy still wasn’t done and was ready to return to Washington to continue his old job of bashing Truman. There was more fodder now that the Soviet Union had only just annexed Hokkaido, no doubt another piece of evidence of inaction on the part of Truman and indeed the entire MDP.

“Joseph, still waiting.” Alan Wilson still had reservations about McCarthy leaving right away, on the one hand it was already a little late for McCarthy to go back, on the other hand, what if it was the Soviet Union sounding off?

After all, McCarthy is not in the country now, in Europe to comment on the situation in the Far East is not appropriate. If it is a little something out of Europe, it is possible to make comments along the way.

“Allen, if only you were an American, I would certainly run as your partner.” McCarthy spoke with great sincerity.

“That would be a shame.” Alan Wilson considered the question very seriously, if it was then of course there was nothing to say, the problem was that it wasn’t.

Once again dismissing McCarthy’s idea of returning home on the grounds that it was too late to return to make a statement, Alan Wilson had to shoulder his own work and head to Whitehall to discuss the response.

In fact, what is there to discuss it, simply win hemp, the Soviet Union appeared to move in Japan, it is better than doing it in Europe.

And it would be good for Britain as far as the long term future was concerned.

Since the annexation of Hokkaido, the USSR has completely broken through the geographic disadvantage of the Far East. It couldn’t be said to be dominant, but geographic parity was on the line.

“Colleagues please pay attention to Europe! There are three directions in which the USSR can put the Red Navy to sea, the Baltic direction, along which are countries that tend to favor the free world, the Red Navy in the Baltic Sea is extremely vulnerable to blockade. In the direction of the Dardanelles, the actions of the Soviet Red Navy are at the whim of the Turks.”

“Even Yugoslavia, with the Italians watching, any Soviet access to the sea in the direction of Europe is geographically unfavorable to the Soviet Union, and this is irrevocable.”

“But we can’t just wishfully assume that the Soviet Union will never develop a Red Navy, can we? Once the Soviet Union begins to develop the Red Navy, that is when we will worry. Although we are superior above sea power, once the Soviet Union starts investing in its navy, even Britain will have to bear the pressure of the Soviet Union.”

“And now well, with the emergence of such a geographic posture in the Far East with easy access to the oceans, it’s reasonable to assume. The Soviet Union will focus on putting the layout and strength involving the navy, in the direction of the Far East. Based on available information and experience, the latter navy will develop a submarine-centered naval force in its infancy.”

Allen Wilson lifted Mountbatten out of the air and submarine fast strategic concept and made a big deal of it in front of the bigwigs in the departments.

This was and is a strategy that the Soviet Union has been going on for years, and since the 1920s, the main task given to the Red Navy of the Workers and Peasants was to mobilize the Navy’s surface ships, submarines, air force and shore defense forces and other kinds of forces in concert with the army forces to defend the offshore areas.

Taking advantage of Mountbatten’s position as Minister of the Sea, it was concluded that the Red Navy had centered its shipbuilding efforts on submarines for some time to come. Then the easiest place in the future for the Soviet Red Navy to kill in the oceans has been called out as the semi-inland waters of the Soviet Union in the Far East from the Kamchatka Peninsula all the way to Hokkaido, which is already completely controlled by the Soviet Union.

“It is only the loss of an island by Japan as a defeated country, but a bright future of sharing the pressure of the Soviet Red Navy can emerge. In that sense, Japan has sort of contributed to world peace, and I don’t think any of the gentlemen here would want to be on top of the Soviet ground armies while also being on top of the Red Navy, which may grow stronger in the future. And isn’t it great that the Far East direction doesn’t have that problem, and that Japan can find its role in the free world?”

“And!” Alan Wilson reminded lightly, “Within Asia, only Japan can compete with British Malaya, and I, as Commissioner of British Malaya, certainly don’t want Japan to have fewer weaknesses. Losing Hokkaido, Japan’s agriculture will have a big gap, more serious dependence on overseas, and British Malaya control the Malacca Strait, we can through sensible and reasonable regulation, let Japan’s development is in a controllable range, to avoid a repeat of the experience of World War II, the Japanese army does not respect Europe.”

“Then the advice to the Prime Minister is to respond to the Soviet move to annex Hokkaido with a strong condemnation.” Sir Ismay nodded and looked to his colleagues here for advice.

“Would that be a little too drastic? I mean, it might be the same as the American response.” Alan Wilson said in an understanding tone, “I’m mainly concerned with preserving the special relationship between Britain and the United States, and everyone knows that the United States should have the most say when it comes to Japan.”

“Fair enough, I think an expression of regret would be more appropriate.” Norman Brooke hammered home the point, and after inquiring of his private secretary, immediately said, “So much for discussion.”

Britain regretted the Soviet Union’s decision to incorporate the Hokkaido Islands and called on the U.S. and Soviet Union to sit down and find a win-win solution. Alan Wilson felt that it was already a win-win situation right now, with the British mainland winning once because the opened up Pacific Ocean would inevitably share the Soviet Red Navy’s strength in the direction of Europe.

British Malaya wins once, and it shouldn’t be a bad thing that Japan now has more weaknesses, more resource gaps, and fewer competitors.

Hokkaido is the Japanese equivalent of the land of fish and rice, with a food self-sufficiency rate of two hundred and seven percent. With Hokkaido, Japan can still maintain close to half of the self-sufficiency rate, without Hokkaido, it is almost a country that relies entirely on imports. Without Hokkaido, the country would be almost entirely dependent on imports. As for the issue of fishing grounds, it was no longer necessary to consider it.

In short, in terms of agriculture, Japan would lose its bargaining power. Allen Wilson as a close ally of the United States of America, Britain’s commissioner abroad, once returned to British Malaya, in the face of the same belong to the free world. Willing to give Japan a certain amount of support in agriculture, depending on whether Mr. Yoshida Shigeru is willing to completely open the agricultural market.

Currently, Japan has a large number of people in agriculture, if we can use the surplus agricultural products of British Malaya, so that these Japanese farmers are in the low-income society. This is not a bad thing.

As a foreign commissioner, Alan Wilson can not just think about profit, some time to look at the long term.

The annexation of Hokkaido by the Soviet Union caused a fierce reaction in Washington. Stating that it was unacceptable, a war of words broke out directly. And for Washington’s accusations, the Soviet Union to the United States, Britain and France dismemberment of Germany counter-argument.

The two camps spit on each other as if their mouths were smeared with honey, and the Soviet Union not only didn’t wimp out at all, but instead grew more and more courageous. Said to the United States, Britain and France dismemberment of Germany’s criminal retaliation is only a beginning, the near future there is a greater counterattack.

This kind of speech appeared, London and Paris, the whole atmosphere for a change, have said to listen to the old British and French imperialism a word, imperialism this inside the water is too deep, for fear that you Soviet Union can not hold.