Chapter 690 – London Smoke Incident

“The matter of managing important members of the royal family is naturally unrelated to me.” Alan Wilson took a deep breath and decisively bowed his head to the uninvited guest in front of him.

This kind of posture finally let Princess Margaret satisfied some, big eyes a purr to see the newspaper on the table. All at once she became interested, and it was evident that this was the thing that her brother-in-law was most concerned with at the present time.

The newspaper reported the results of Operation Ivy, just a few days ago, the United States of America’s Coral Island conducted a nuclear test. Moving into the realm of second-generation nuclear weapons, it was almost equal to nearly five hundred times the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, based on yield. The explosion leveled the island of Irujirab after the test explosion.

“So that’s what happened, the Australians are overjoyed.” Princess Margaret put down the newspaper and talked about what she had seen in Australia, “But isn’t that a good thing?”

“I don’t think so! You have to take your destiny into your own hands.” Alan Wilson pressed his forehead twice, the news that the United States had succeeded in experimenting with the first hydrogen bomb, making the good news of the recent Korean War, which had been another fruitless endeavor, now look rather bleak.

This look of distress made Wang Mei not dare to speak, and carefully said, “Aren’t we and the United States allies?”

“An ally and a servant nation are not the same.” Alan Wilson raised his eyebrows and shook his head, “The slightest change in the world is a disadvantage to countries like ours with a small homeland, just as when the turnaround from sail battleships to steam battleships wiped out hundreds of years of Britain’s naval superiority.”

All know that in the age of battleships Britain used to enforce the two-power standard as if it were very unbeatable. But in the age of sail battleships, starting with the defeat of the Dutch Navy, the Royal Navy was much more than enforcing the two-power standard.

The Royal Navy could go to war with the navies of all nations combined, and after defeating Napoleon, Britain learned the lesson that it could not rely on Europe for wood, and for that reason terminated at great expense a large number of trees in Canada to stockpile wood for the construction of sail battleships.

Then came the Crimean War, the belligerents listed steamships, especially the Imperial Russian Navy using steam engine ships and the British and French allied forces around, directly let all the countries see the sail battleships have fallen, the British reserve of wood overseas, have become a green project.

History has proved that every time a new technology is applied, the first-mover advantage is weakened, after all, there is no real protagonist on earth. Britain has initiated the industrial revolution once, and it can’t be left behind every time.

Now Britain simply has little first-mover advantage left, if in can not keep up with the pace of the United States and the Soviet Union, the end of the miserable is obvious.

Alan Wilson believes that the Atomic Energy Commission in London has also received the news, may have talked to Washington, can share the hydrogen bomb technology, it is estimated that have been rejected.

The only consolation was that the United States would have another year or so to attack the subject of the operationalization of the hydrogen bomb. The current hydrogen bomb was an eighty-ton behemoth, and there was no carrier that could bring such a thing into actual combat.

While he was still trying to worry about the country a bit, Princess Margaret had already entered a dangerous distance and sat directly on Alan Wilson’s lap, muttering, “The Prime Minister has the Prime Minister to worry about all this, so what’s the use of you drying out from here?”

“If it weren’t for the fact that the Prime Minister’s general election isn’t for a long term yet, I’d have run for it.” Alan Wilson didn’t know where to put his hands, but in the end, he was grabbed by Princess Margaret and placed on her own lap.

The two of them just maintained this posture for such a minute, Allen Wilson helplessly opened his mouth, “I’m afraid that I’ll be killed by the royal family’s spies, how many times have I said that I’m your brother-in-law.”

“Got it, brother-in-law!” Princess Margaret’s red lips had already pasted up, kissed and whispered, “Where’s your guts to harbor other women? Now you know you’re afraid?”

“That’s different, you’re the princess.” Allen Wilson reached out and broke her highness’s chin to one side, “Safety first, I still want to contribute to the country. By the way, you should leave Kuala Lumpur immediately, as an Imperial Princess, you shouldn’t stay in the colonies for long.”

Regarding the matter of his sister-in-law’s delivery, Alan Wilson showed a clear tongue in cheek. If one asked him if he was pleased in his heart, he certainly was.

But this complacency could not prevent him from making a sound judgment, and he still could not make up his mind to lay down his life.

He couldn’t make sure that Princess Margaret was content to be on equal footing with his wife, so he still had reservations about having something with an important member of the royal family.

While dealing with the princess’s initiative, Allen Wilson had never been so passive, studying and researching how to invade Indonesia, as well as inquiring about whether the uranium mines in Australia could be utilized, all of these things were much more important than the princess’s sincerity afterwards.

As for how to receive the princess this matter, he let Alyssa arrangements for the princess’s trip, there is no what the scenery is good, there is no danger of the place are arranged, etiquette or can not be neglected.

The fact that the United States successfully experimented with the hydrogen bomb, far more powerful than the atomic bomb, will naturally cause other countries to pay attention. Not to mention that Moscow thought so.

The British Atomic Energy Agency (BEA) naturally asked the U.S. to share its technology, but of course it was unsurprisingly refused. The request was merely a routine procedure, and the Labor Cabinet understood that the Americans could not be relied upon to share, and that they would not have torn up the agreement in the middle of it.

It is the consensus of the current government that Britain must have its own hydrogen bomb, and the rejection by the United States simply allows Britain to continue its own hydrogen bomb research, which has not stopped.

Like Alan Wilson in Kuala Lumpur, the ministers who were rejected by the US could only console themselves with the stalemate in the Korean War that resulted in the same outcome of going to war again.

This Alan Wilson learned on a level, how as a colonial commissioner he had a certain amount of self-discernment, though disturbed by the Princess.

Wife Pamela Mountbatten’s collaborator, de Havilland was the one who initiated the research on the Blue Light strategic missile. General Mountbatten, the father-in-law, was a supporter of research into nuclear submarines.

So it was easy for Pamela Mountbatten to know the cabinet’s attitude toward advancing the Trinity Strike Force. When his wife knew, he, as a husband, naturally knew immediately.

“The Labor Party is indeed more reliable than the Conservative Party!” Alan Wilson muttered, as long as the Nassau agreement was not signed, Britain would not have to look at the Americans.

The Nassau Conference marked the time when the United States, after more than a century of successive strikes since the declaration of independence, finally completely crushed its greatest strategic rival, the British Empire, and this conference also marked the time when the British Empire completely lost its status as a superpower, and from then on, it was reduced to a second-rate power, and the United Kingdom in fact withdrew from the position of the Cold War contending party, and the Cold War from then on began to be reduced to the United States and the Soviet Union as a two-person show.

In any case, Alan Wilson felt that Britain certainly had much more room for maneuver than it did in its original history. This is of course all due to him, from this point of view, reward him with a limited edition British luxury car to drive, in fact, also reasonable, he himself absolutely have no conscience.

But this princess is not a peaceful existence, in the ability to fully grasp the idea of subduing the princess before, he still can not act rashly, this is bound to be a protracted war.

Toward the end of the year, Allen Wilson naturally continued to take care of both public and private affairs, sending out calls of love to ladies everywhere by telegraph, and at the same time carrying out annual summaries, adjusting the officials of British Malaya, and appointing a new Commissioner for Christmas Island on the basis of performance.

Where is Pamela Mountbatten so relaxed, taking the hard earned money of her North American quit gambling buddies and buying land in Australia.

The United States this time the hydrogen bomb explosion, for the countries appeared on the surface of the dead silence, secretly stepped up to catch up with such an effect. Compared to the sunny beaches of Malaya, London has entered the haze-prone period of the year.

And still busy London citizens do not know, this time the London haze will become the most unforgettable time in their lives.

In early December, the icy cold winds that have swept across the British capital for weeks now, on this day as on every other day, as Londoners woke up in the morning, coal-burning fireplaces were lit in houses and offices across the city to warm up the indoor air.

London has been known as the city of fog since the Industrial Revolution, and in the eyes of current Londoners, the smoggy atmosphere itself is part of their lives, and the smog that hangs over London is as much a part of nature as the wind and rain.

Citizens went to work as usual, not because of the commonplace fog fuss, out of the door of the citizens, do not know as part of their lives as part of the smog, this time will really take their lives away.

Big Ben, St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Waterloo Bridge were all covered in smoke, and the whole of London was in the midst of a thick, yellowish-brown fog, and unlike many Londoners who thought it would clear up in a few hours.

Throughout the day, the smog became more and more intense, literally out of sight, the chimneys of the major factories, the residence of the fireplaces aggravated the smoke, the smoke is so dense that some parts of the city residents can not see their own feet when walking.

The next day the smog that enveloped London still showed no sign of dissipating, it was midday, but the pedestrians who went out could not feel any traces of the sun, the sun, which usually spreads out its light, emitted a bright light in the sky as bright as the moon, which barely reminded the Londoners that it was now daytime.

Airliners, boats and trains were all canceled, universities were closed, concerts were canceled. Even Whitehall, which is usually bustling with people who are used to London’s haze, was reminded of the seriousness of the situation by the sound of coughing.

Even the birds died because of the smog shrouded into the building, and the smog continues, the public as far as possible to find a handkerchief can be used to make masks, gas masks have become the favorite of Londoners at this time.

However, this kind of protection still can’t stop some people from dying from the effects of the smoke, and many people with breathing problems are asking for help, but they can’t even reach the hospital because ambulances can’t get on the road at this time.