Chapter 661 – Getting rid of him

“Actually, things are better over here, the independence movement in Gold Coast is much more vocal.” Ingram frowned, “Nkrumah is also harder to deal with than Azikiwe, after all, his authority on the Gold Coast is much higher than Azikiwe’s.”

“Gold Coast is my next stop, difficult to deal with?” Alan Wilson frowned slightly, “I don’t want to take strong measures, but if necessary, I have a pretty good relationship with Mihajlovic in Northern Rhodesia, so I can utilize it if necessary. As you know, Ingram, going to Northern Rhodesia involves taking an airplane, and airplanes are not a safe means of transportation.”

Of course Alan Wilson still didn’t want it to come to that, he could talk about it if he could talk about it he could also be patriotic.

But after listening to Ingram, and especially after Allen Wilson heard about the socialist ideas coming out of Nkrumah’s mouth, his mind unknowingly changed.

This Gold Coast independence movement leader, in fact, than Azikiwe bad contact, may be directed to the Soviet Union. In the current Gold Coast because of its own gold resources, in Africa is considered a very rich colony. The foreign exchange reserves of the Gold Coast colony are 200 million pounds.

Of course, this is with the gold coast gold exchange, the current gold coast gold is very important to Britain.

“It seems to kill this guy to do.” Alan Wilson made this decision in his mind after careful evaluation.

He is not worried about Nkrumah’s ability is very outstanding, in fact, Africans engaged in socialism seem to have little effect. Before or primitive tribes, running into socialism? Putting satellites also need to have a basic law, which is a passion to solve the problem?

Even Alan Wilson himself could not have led a group of primitive tribes into socialism.

However, although he was not optimistic that Nkrumah’s road to socialism would be successful, whether or not the Gold Coast could become socialist and whether or not it would cause trouble for Britain were two different things. The former Nkrumah would not succeed, the latter very easily.

There have been numerous precedents from the founding of the Soviet Union to the present day that show that a new socialist state doesn’t always develop much better, but it will certainly cause huge problems for the sovereign.

Knowing that such a person as Nkrumah existed on the Gold Coast, Alan Wilson’s mind was not on Nigeria. Rather, it was on Nkrumah, who was also a Pan-Africanist as well as a socialist.

While constantly meeting with several ethnic leaders of Nigerian interests and selling his plans for stabilization and development. Alan Wilson was also liaising with the Gold Coast Commissioner and the necessary foreign aid.

The necessary foreign aid was, of course, the African hegemon, France, and Allen Wilson found that in 1947, in order to strengthen the unity of action of the people of West Africa in their struggle against colonialism, Nkrumah went to Paris to work with the African members of the French National Assembly, Sulu Migang Apiti, Leopold Seda Sangor, and Félix Houphouët-Boigny, to draw up plans to establish the Union of Socialist Republics of West Africa, among others. The plan.

It was a no-brainer that the safety of the British Gold Coast was at stake, and as a servant of the Empire he could not turn his back on it, yet the current situation made it unlikely that Britain would send in troops just because of the independence of a single colony. Not to mention not yet independent.

From the Gold Coast Commissioner Davis mouth Allen Wilson learned that Nkrumah also used a non-violent non-cooperation movement. Only the gold industry, it is true that it is not too difficult to find workers for production, and it is still the mainstay of the Gold Coast, Nkrumah’s nonviolent non-cooperation campaign is a little watered down and has been dismantled.

But the situation was still treacherous, and unlike the Nigerian side, which was talking to itself, Nkrumah on the Gold Coast had pretty much formed a Leninist political party, the Gold Coast Unity Congress Party.

In the middle of a telegram, Davis asked what to do about this, and Allen Wilson said to hold his horses for a while, he needed to think it over. His own mood was low, and Joan Bennett felt it most clearly.

But Joan Bennett did not dare to ask more, after all, she is not as reliable as Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman. Even if he inquired, Alan Wilson would not say anything.

As an imperial civil servant who had suffered losses from the Dragon Riders, his mouth was now much tighter than before. True, it was unlikely that Joan Bennett was a Soviet spy. But she was an American, and when it came to colonization, Americans and Soviets merely had different ways and methods.

It is also true that Nkrumah studied in the United States, exactly like Azikiwe, who is making a fuss about independence in Nigeria.

Among the telegrams to London, Allen Wilson also mentioned this, that most of the independent leaders in British West Africa had a background of studying in the United States and informed their own responses to Nigerian independence.

As for the Gold Coast, Allen Wilson did not mention it in the telegram, because the normal approach was no longer useful.

In the meeting facing the three major ethnic groups in Nigeria, Allen Wilson took out the development plan of the three major regions in Nigeria and started to draw the pie, saying that it was also a responsible performance of the sovereign state. It was a test for the ethnic nationalities to use to see fairly and impartially whether Nigeria has the basis for self-governance.

With the support of Azikiwe, the leader of the Igbo people, the meeting actually went quite well. After all, in the current Nigeria, the Igbo are dominant at all levels of institutions. With no opposition from the dominant Igbos, the matter was not too difficult.

Development plan for five years, after the end of five years, Alan Wilson hinted that by then the parties can again apply for autonomy from London, by then I believe that Nigeria, which has proved its ability to self-govern, should be recognized by London.

However, the matter of five years after five years, Alan Wilson is still not at liberty to disclose. After stabilizing the Nigerian independence movement for the time being, Alan Wilson began to carefully consider how to press the Gold Coast independence movement, which had just taken a step further.

Although he had already made up his mind that in order for the Gold Coast’s gold to remain stable for the next few years, Nkrumah must be taken out in order to do so, and it would be best if he could replace it with a pro-Western leader.

With this thought in mind, Allen Wilson informed the Gold Coast Commissioner that he would not be going to the Gold Coast for the time being, and at the same time sent a telegram to Northern Rhodesia, running into the Commissioner’s business, and needing professional help.

Grace immediately departed from Northern Rhodesia with his cronies in an airliner that landed in Lagos.

“I didn’t realize that the main part of the city was on an island.” Grace, who has been inland for a long time, spoke highly of Lagos, “What were you Brits thinking, it seems vulnerable.”

Lagos is the largest port city in Nigeria. It is at the southwestern end of the country, along the Gulf of Guinea. It consists of small islands in the estuary of the Ogun River and a mainland portion. The main island, Lagos Island, is the center of the city and is connected by bridges to Ikoyi Island, Victoria Island and the mainland.

Lagos is the equivalent of Chongming Island, the capital of China, so it’s no wonder Grace is puzzled.

“The Royal Navy can guarantee the security of the colony, so naturally they don’t care where the capital is.” Alan Wilson mused and added, “At least once upon a time it was able to guarantee it!”

Now that the U.S. Navy had become more powerful than the Royal Navy, Allen Wilson was not in a position to boast too much about himself.

Grace understood in a second and asked Allen Wilson what he was looking for and spoke, “I have a feeling that you want us to return the favor this time, it’s definitely not a small thing.”

“Grace, I have saved more than once to those of you who were destined to be cleansed by Tito.” Alan Wilson did not hold back, stating that he was on tour this time as Deputy Secretary General of the Overseas Assets Management Council to sort out some of the British pitfalls, the Nigerian matter had been squared away, but the independence movement on the Gold Coast was rather tricky.

The root cause was Nkrumah, the independent leader of the Gold Coast, which could no longer be squashed by political means.

“So what do you want to do? Can’t the local garrison solve the problem?” Grace asked rhetorically with a slight frown, “Is the garrison too small?”

Alan Wilson nodded and shook his head again, holding out Nkrumah’s picture, “This man has almost established a national political party, and is so dominant on the Gold Coast that political means can no longer contain it. But repression is impotent with the local garrison, and there is another important factor, this man has studied in the United States. In fact quite a few of the leaders of the West African independence movement have studied in the United States.”

“The Americans really don’t do good.” Grace said with dissatisfaction after hearing this, if it was anything else, of course Northern Rhodesia would want to hold on to the American thigh, after all, who doesn’t want their backer to be strong. But on this matter of colonies, North Rhodesia must stand together with Britain and France, at least in the current must be firm position.

Grace naturally dissatisfied with the United States also want to dismantle the British and French colonial empire, African colonies are independent, in Northern Rhodesia Slavs are under siege.

He also knew that Allen Wilson was looking to get rid of this independent leader, asked Allen Wilson if he had any ideas, and he himself could also make reference on the side.

Allen Wilson did not hold back, stating that he wanted to facilitate it, and that India had extended an invitation to Nkrumah to leave the Gold Coast and take him out halfway.

“It’s too far, there may be variables along the way, and I know that Britain has pro-British officials in the Indian government. But this is not a difficult thing to maneuver.” Grace shook his head, “Actually India is not a good object to visit, you once said that Nehru is also the foreign minister of India, can you influence Nehru?”

Seeing Alan Wilson shaking his head, Grace spread his hands and said, “That’s it, so there’s still the destination to figure out. I think it would be better to have a French party extend an invitation to Nkrumah, say the French Communist Party.”