Chapter 636: We Have a Solid Win

“I just have some basic concerns.” Gerard stated that he, himself, was more than willing to agree to it for the sake of Alan Wilson being a lobbyist, but there might be some irresistible factors.

Alan Wilson understood very well what irresistible factors manifested themselves in, indicating that the local Commonwealth Lottery in Newfoundland, might be the next winner of the lottery is Gerard.

“Will something so lucky happen? Alan?” With the irresistible factor in Gerard subsiding by a large margin, and the two Heilmann family sisters, the reliability index was climbing by the minute.

“Who knows, there are always some lucky people in this world.” Allen Wilson spread his hands, with practical actions to express the fear of God, still remain in Europe during this time, his biggest purpose is to help the big and small Dragon Riders to realize this wish.

Allen Wilson knew in his heart that the German banking industry would never go in the direction of the Anglo-American banks. There are some areas where there is indeed something called ethnicity, for example, Britain and the United States always come out with trusts, Germany and Japan come out with Konzern.

Among the financial kernels, among the developed countries, the UK and the US are typically capital market-driven financial systems, which means that corporate financing takes place mainly in the capital markets, and the role of banks is more to help corporations to issue financing products such as shares and bonds in the capital markets. Germany and Japan, on the other hand, are relatively typical of bank-driven financial systems, in which firms not only rely on banks to provide loan financing, but at the same time usually have very close relationships with them.

In a sense, Gerald Edward still had a lot of affection for British Malaya, and he knew about the distribution of the Asian pound issue, which was state-owned, privately-mixed, and locally-banked.

And the local bank’s share, the name is called Sarawak Development Bank, and Gerard Edward said that if he could be the executive vice president of Sarawak Development Bank or something at some time in the future?

“I didn’t think British Malaya could wait for such an opportunity!” Alan Wilson very happily agreed, “Why not? An official like you, Gerard, deserves more opportunities to benefit the public.”

“Oh, I can’t believe there are such opportunities.” Gerard Edward realized, then blushed, “Of course we all agree that for England some of the old bankers are behind the times, and the reliability of the Heilmanns speaks for itself.”

“It might even serve as a standard case for women’s rights.” Alan Wilson said borderline, “Especially in current Germany.”

After an exchange, both Gerard Edward and Allen Wilson agreed and recognized the reliability of the Heilmann family. To this end Gerard Edward made assurances that he would do his best to get the North German Bank, which was rooted in British Occupation, into reliable hands.

Alan Wilson handled what he thought was important, and McCarthy’s I’m a Berliner speech accompanied the launch of the air corridor. Seen by the Soviets as an offensive statement that turned black and white, the war of words was heating up.

There was no question of who was responsible for the current situation in Germany, and neither was splitting Germany in half a unilateral Soviet idea. Regardless of Stalin’s attitude towards the rest of Europe, his attitude towards the German question appears to have been quite open all along for a long time.

Instead, it was a change in Western policy that triggered the de facto division of Germany. From the outset, the Allies were divided over what to do with post-war Germany, and these divisions existed not only between the Soviet Union and the West, but also between each Western government.

The initial policy-making was chaotic, and the harsh Morgenthau Plan, designed to de-industrialize Germany, was abandoned but still had an impact. Since then, Western policy towards the German occupied territories has changed dramatically, from punishment to reconstruction.

The Marshall Plan, which was implemented for the reconstruction of post-war Europe, not only represented this change, but also documented it. The Marshall Plan looked ahead to the economic and political reconstruction of Europe, and the decision to implement an open-door policy in search of markets, and to use the Truman Doctrine to discourage the growth of communism and to curb the expansionist policies that the Soviet Union might have pursued in Europe, were all very favorable to the new international role of the United States.

The U.S. calculated that the Soviet-occupied territories with their non-market economies would reject the offer, and thus the Marshall Plan represented a further demarcation of West Germany from the Soviet Union. In the emerging Cold War landscape, the United States placed the FRG in the camp of the broader economic and political organization of Western Europe.

Alan Wilson was reminiscent of the British Occupation Zone; had it not been for the British Occupation Zone, Britain would never have been able to pay off its short-term foreign debt so quickly, although Germany’s economy may have started a little later than it did historically. But thinking about Japan, the Germans should be grateful.

Although he couldn’t reunite Germany, he could have split Axis Japan as well, which should have balanced the Germans’ hearts a lot. As for Italy Allen Wilson was really out of ideas.

In 1945, Allen Wilson was still a man of little worth, and could not allow France to occupy Sardinia as compensation for Italy. It is a pity to think about it now.

Allen Wilson in the Ruhr turning his hand to the clouds, Berlin’s situation is actually not good. The shortfall of supplies in West Berlin was five thousand tons, and that was based on not wasting anything.

And the British capacity could not even reach half of that, West Berlin’s supplies could not hold out for days, and this time the Soviet Union made a substantial move only after it had counted on it before making its move.

The external condition is, the United States into the war, and only because of the Hokkaido thing, urgent aid to Japan, strengthen Honshu Island material hoarding, this time Berlin accident, let the United States a head two big.

From this point of view, the United States is very grateful to the United Kingdom to pre-empt, to help the United States mobilize capacity to buy time.

The British airlift capacity could not make up for the consumption of more than two million men in West Berlin. Although the Allied forces throughout West Berlin were having a major cock-up, supplies were still bottoming out as far as the eye could see.

Allen Wilson was aware of this fact, but he pretended not to know it now. After a basic analysis, if West Berlin could not be saved this was a failure of the US, not the UK. Britain had reacted early and the US was the one pulling the crotch.

If West Berlin is ultimately unsuccessful, the UK can be seen as having done its best, and the US’s popularity will surely fall harder than the UK’s.

And not being able to keep West Berlin is simply a false proposition, as long as Britain and the United States have this determination, West Berlin is certain to be able to keep, even if it is to starve to death a few tens of thousands of Berliners, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, with the hegemony of public opinion in hand, the starving West Berliners can be blamed on the Soviet Union, and it was indeed the Soviet Union that blockaded Berlin in the first place anyway, seizing the Soviet Union’s reason for making the first move to blame.

When McCarthy, who had already arrived in Bavaria, telegraphed that things weren’t looking good, Allen Wilson responded anyway out of politeness, but only to verbalize his encouragement to the United States.

“My dear, you don’t seem at all concerned about the Berlin crisis.” Bokina had a worried look on her face, very concerned about the continuation of the current confrontation.

“Oh dear, why should I worry about something that is a sure thing.” Alan Wilson laughed and said, “We are certain to defeat the Soviet Union this time, there is no doubt about that.”

“But you also said that the current capacity can’t supplement the needs of over two million people in Berlin. Won’t the Berliners go back to starving at this rate?” Anna asked cautiously as she listened.

“Then let’s starve, after all, what the Free World wants is that place in Berlin, in fact, for the Berliners? It’s best to be able to fight for it, but if you can’t because of irresistible factors, it’s good to save this nail that’s stuck into the heart of the Soviet camp anyway.” Alan Wilson spoke honestly, although a bit cruel, but he was telling the truth.

No one can morally kidnap me if the bottom line is placed low enough! Anyway, it was the Soviet Union that first started the Berlin blockade, and it was certainly best that Britain and the United States could save it, and if they couldn’t save it caused a humanitarian crisis. The responsibility is of course attributed to the blockade of the Soviet Union.

Alan Wilson even thought in his heart, really starve to death a few tens of thousands of people and benefits, can rally the hearts of the people of the free world, proving that the Soviet Union’s cruelty and ruthlessness.

In short Berlin was a place that Britain and the United States would surely save, and it didn’t matter if it would cost them something. The Soviets were there as a cushion anyway.

“My darlings, don’t concern yourself with Berlin.” Allen Wilson gave one of the Long Rider sisters a kiss on the cheek and talked about happy things, like the fight for the North German Bank.

Allen Wilson stated that he had worked hard for the sisters and had to be compensated in some way.

In fact, much as he had estimated, the reduction of supplies in West Berlin, after a few days of this, finally went into control, and the market was snapped up for any supplies. The British transport planes with their beige flag markings arriving in Berlin again were not surrounded by cheers as they had been at first.

The concentration of people together was this bad point, a lot of fake news spread very fast, and rumors had already appeared in West Berlin that Britain and the United States had already resolved to abandon the place, leading to the start of sporadic exodus teams from West Berlin.

This trend was quickly fed back to London and Washington and Paris through the British, American and French agencies in Berlin.

The matter of feedback to Paris was laughable; France could not help at all.

The fact that West Berlin was on edge was not going to lessen as the gap in supplies tapered off. Even on the seventh day of the airlift, Britain and the United States had raised the airlift tonnage to two thousand eight hundred tons.

Public opinion in Britain had begun to call for the necessity of the United States to step up its airlift and send everything that could be flown to Europe.

Britain’s public cries let the whole world know that the situation in Berlin was all but critical, and that more than two million Berliners were threatened with being deprived of food.