Chapter 686 Burgess, Ambassador to Germany

After several transits, Alan Wilson returned to Kuala Lumpur, which he had been away from for several months, and brought with him the reward of the outing, which was the market he had found for the industrialization of Malaya.

He had at least found an export market for the colony he was administering in the midst of the Iranian negotiations.

There is also the already initiated strategy of property development in British Africa, the aerodrome project in the Middle East, plus the Aswan Dam project, which is still only an idea. These were all good things that could boost Malaya’s industrial development.

At present Allen Wilson could not think of, for the time being, what other external conditions could be fought for, and a few days later held a meeting of the Commissioners of the British Malaya colonies to talk about the needs of the other colonies.

“Even if these colonies are to become independent in the end, we need to build an upper structure that is solid enough and obedient. Otherwise, in the future, these colonies are likely to become Soviet-leaning countries.”

While talking about the strategy of African real estate to build up the country, Alan Wilson explained the importance of this to the British Empire.

As for the direct evidence held in his hand that was used to convince his subordinates, it was the Soviet Union’s fourth five-year plan, which was also the first five-year plan after the war, and while Britain was doing its best to get rid of the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Union was of course doing the same, and recovering faster than Britain.

Alan Wilson, of course, knew in his heart of hearts that the Soviet Union could not learn from this kind of recovery in the average country, and seven years was not a long time to lose nearly 30 million people in battle. If we use the analogy of trauma, the Soviet Union was wounded and then sprinkled gunpowder on the wound to force the bleeding to stop, rather than choosing to slowly recuperate.

In fact, the USSR could not do so either; after all, from 1946 after the war, hostility between the two sides had already emerged. NATO would not have waited until 1952 if Britain had not also been trying its best to get out of its financial crisis and had been shying away from confrontation.

While his subordinates were observing the results of the Soviet Union’s post-war five-year plan, Allen Wilson continued, “For eight years we have worked from British India all the way up to British Malaya, working with the original intention of trying to solve the financial difficulties encountered in the homeland. By and large the finances are fine today, the problem is that relying on the homeland alone will only take us further and further away from the United States and the Soviet Union. We need a second place where we can share the pressure on the home front for our development, and this is the third time Britain has made the choice, and if we fail again this time we may as well be honest and watch the British Empire become a thing of the past.”

Britain’s longstanding problem has been that when it comes to building the armed forces of the empire, all resources come entirely from the homeland. Once trying to find colonies to share the burden, it often doesn’t work out; Britain started out by having the thirteen North American states share the cost of the empire’s defense, and then the United States became independent.

Later on, it opted for British Canada, but the Canadians didn’t want it either, and in the end, they kept relying on British India for support to maintain the military power of the Sunset Empire.

You can see from this how important British India was to Britain. Once India became independent, the pressure on Britain’s military expenditure would increase greatly. With Britain’s own finances, it would be impossible to maintain the existing standing army of 800,000 men.

“Are the figures released by the Soviet Union to the outside world accurate? The Soviet Union’s economy is already twice the size of the mainland?” Ender looked at the five-year plan report in his hands and said with skepticism, “Is it possible that the Soviets are lying?”

“Let’s just assume it’s true.” Alan Wilson thought to himself, “Do you think Soviet cadres are British civil servants?” but still explained, “In any case, if the two countries have the same economic size, when has Britain ever needed to strangle a weak opponent through an alliance.”

Now the situation is actually quite simple, the US economy is more than twice the size of the USSR’s and the USSR’s economy is already about twice the size of Britain’s. And the potential of the two countries is completely different; the native citizens of the UK certainly live far beyond the citizens of the USSR, but can grow much slower as well.

“The growth that Malaya must have, with the full support of the homeland, comes at the price of the colonies we administer having to cover military expenses and not letting the homeland cover the expenses alone. If we can’t do that, the current empire’s 800,000 standing army will still be untenable. Once we fall into a vicious cycle, we won’t have enough power to maintain the stability of the colonies. For this reason, the intensity of the industrial transfer, Malaya will receive more care than the original India, at the same time from next year, British Malaya’s financial expenditure, will be partly included in the home territory’s military expenditure.”

“Commissioner, isn’t it a good idea to fight for a few years, otherwise will it cause unrest here.” Alisa spoke with some concern, “At first, the thirteen states in North America were taxes, and eventually became independent.”

“Through industry transfer and export markets, I believe that this feeling can be diluted. The matter of sharing military expenses has to be carried out right at the beginning, otherwise, if we wait until the development reaches a certain level and increase this expense, the people here will be even more reluctant to agree.”

“It looks like we’ll have to work a little harder on the accounts.” Ender fiddled with the pen in his hand and shook his head slightly, “It depends on whether this year’s export figures look good or not, if it looks good it shouldn’t be a problem.”

“That’s where the trade is useful, the development of Malaya will xu into the consolidation of the Imperial Preferential System. And over time, it will also help maintain British influence in the colonies.”

Alan Wilson said this with a flick of his eyelids, “Well, at the beginning of the year I said I wanted 10 million tons of steel, the goal remains the same, as long as it is produced we have a way to sell the stuff.”

The main purpose of this meeting was to share military expenses and to complete the replacement of British Malaya with British India. The real estate Hindustan has the demand, and Malaya does the exporting.

The only bottleneck that can limit the current Malaya is actually the population problem, but it doesn’t matter, the population in the neighborhood are quite large.

In the midst of Alan Wilson’s absence, the news on the Asian side was that the Korean War had entered a stabilization phase, and the other thing that happened, was that the Philippines had filed a claim for compensation against Japan, asking for eight billion dollars.

“The real son and the godson are fighting.” Allen Wilson’s mouth turned into an oh-shape as he contemplated how to show solidarity.

He might be taking too clear a stand if he, a colonial commissioner, did so, but if he could trip Japan up, why not? The big deal about those Japanese social animals was that they would have to work harder for a while longer.

Elpidio Quirino is the current president of the Philippines, and his wife and daughter died at the hands of the Japanese during World War II, so it’s understandable that someone like that would advocate demanding reparations as president.

Malaya has already released the POWs back, and it’s not reasonable to ask to be included in the reparations now. But the matter can still be flanked by solidarity, for example by talking about Australian POWs.

His wife, Pamela Mountbatten, was still in London, but would soon be going to Western Australia to give birth and escape the bad weather on the mainland. Allen Wilson sent a telegram, on the one hand to report that he was well, and on the other hand to ask his wife to think of a way to organize the families of Australian POWs who were abused and killed in World War II, and to form a lobby group to press the Australian government to demand reparations to Japan.

Once this was done, Britain could show solidarity behind Australia to show its support.

Unfortunately Britain could not join in the demand for reparations because Germany, which had done more damage to Britain. Britain has shown understanding, and it would be easy to hold on to Japan only, which could easily fall out of favor, while Australia doesn’t have that problem.

“I see, Japan is sort of a competitor to your administration of the colonies. I’ll help!” Pamela Mountbatten’s telegram immediately promised to help and said that she would be going to Australia in a few days, also mentioning that Princess Margaret would be accompanying as well.

“Can’t I hide yet?” Alan Wilson saw this news and muttered to himself with tears and laughter.

As the ship came to a stop, he stopped thinking about it and began to inspect some of the industries that had already developed in Malaya.

He wouldn’t have stayed in Kuala Lumpur if the ambassador to Japan, Burgess, hadn’t arrived in Malaya, and the key to this was that Burgess had also brought MI6 disguised journalists, who had already investigated something.

It was something that Alan Wilson had been concerned about, and his documenting the massacre of American troops was not meant to embarrass the United States. Rather, it was to serve Britain; after all, compared to Britain, the old colonial empire, the role of the United States was now quite honorable.

Although the rulers of various countries knew what a virtue the United States was, ordinary people were easily deceived. Especially among some colonies, the United States is always regarded as the savior.

This MI6 investigation clouded the massacres by the US and Korean governments. The most horrific was the Korean government-led “National Defense League Incident”. The “National League for the Protection of Guidance” was an organization established by the South Korean government in 1949 to re-educate communist sympathizers. At that time, many civilians who were not communist sympathizers were coerced or induced to register as members in order to make up the number of members, so that within half a year of its founding, the number of members of the NPCA reached 300,000 people.

After the outbreak of the Korean Civil War, the South Korean government ordered the “liquidation” of the members of the SPDC.

In the Jeju Island incident, U.S. and South Korean troops killed 30,000 local residents. Then there was the Logan-ri incident, which was a major U.S. military effort. Similar civilian massacres were brought out in this investigation report.

“Great, if these things are going to be exposed. I’ll see how the Americans can hold up the moral flag!” Allen Wilson held a small part of the investigation report and laughed cheerfully.

Then Allen Wilson realized that it seems like being so happy about such events is detrimental to the image, and changed the topic to Burgess, “Burgess, actually you don’t need to follow me here, is your work done?”

“I received a transfer order to be the main German ambassador.” Burgess explained with a shrug.

Whitehall is really a torch-like gaze, a glance found Burgess this talent, Allen Wilson deeply admired Whitehall’s vision, opened his mouth reluctantly said, “Congratulations.”