Chapter 699 – Zonal Advance

The Thames basin feeds into the North Sea from the east coast, and it is the East End of London that is threatened by the brunt of this storm surge of seawater backing up. After this very supportive operation.

Although the people of the East End were on tenterhooks for two days, as the sea receded, the mood of the aftermath was released to the maximum, and it is not surprising that the support rate of the Labor Party has soared.

Now there was one more reason for London to remodel, and with the experience of the current storm surge, the Airdrie Cabinet declared that the East End of London, which was already on the lower reaches of the Thames, would surely end up in misery if the storm surge was not successfully resisted.

Alan Wilson, of course, knows that this belongs to the politicians’ rhetoric, the East End of London is indeed lower than the rest of the city, but not so low as the Low Countries, saying that the East End is an ocean is certainly to scare the voters.

But is it? This is a good thing for London’s redevelopment program, the Ministry of Redevelopment officials went to the East End to conduct public opinion polls, found that at this point in time, the citizens of London’s East End, very much believe in the assurances of the Labour Cabinet, and support for redevelopment plans.

After all, the storm surge has only been over for a few days, and the Netherlands still has large swathes of the country soaking inside the sea.

“At the moment, it seems that the citizens of the East End have reached a new high of support for the current government after this storm surge. It has also accepted the London Renovation Plan, and according to a survey by the Ministry of Reconstruction, public opinion resistance is minimal.”

“Most importantly, the UK is still in the midst of a state of emergency, and the Parliamentary Labor Party also has the upper hand. It is indeed rare in politics to have all the right conditions on all fronts!” Norman Brooke agreed after hearing this, “The citizens of the East End are more inclined towards the Labor Party, and if this reconstruction plan is successful, it is estimated that it will become the most stable vote bank of the Labor Party for a long time.”

“We consider matters beyond party interests, just whether it is good for Britain.” Alan Wilson said this, took out a stack of documents, pulled out a sheet from it and said, “This is the relief supplies that were sent down, I communicated with the Ministry of the Navy, Admiral Mountbatten used to manage the naval logistics, hoarded a large number of logistical supplies needed by the Navy, many of which were made in Malaya, and this time they can be sent down.”

“Ministry of Navy? Yeah, you should know all about the Admiralty like the back of your hand.” Norman Brooke couldn’t help but laugh, “Where Commander Mountbatten has run the show, there really are no secrets from you.”

Inadvertently, when Mountbatten was transferred to the Fourth Sea Minister, his position was clearly in the field of logistics. Of course the Great Britain Long Ao Tian can not be common sense, and eventually Mountbatten early to experience the feeling of the first Minister of the Sea, everything is in charge.

But as the logistical aspects of the job, Mountbatten is also under the big effort, the quota for 150,000 people of the Royal Navy Reserve logistics to fill, this time the storm surge came in handy.

This time the seawater backed up did not spread to the city, in fact, there are not many affected citizens, enough to supply 150,000 reserve logistics warehouse, just take out a little bit will be enough to meet the demand.

At this moment, the Ministry of National Defense was teaming up with the Ministry of Reconstruction to send down these supplies for distribution to the more affected neighborhoods in the Eastern District.

“Regarding this reconstruction plan, I decided to take charge of it in a division, normally you as an overseas commissioner can’t always care about the works of reconstruction in London, but I heard Baron say that you had formulated a big construction plan in British India.” Seeing Alan Wilson about to open his mouth to explain, Norman Brooke signaled for a little peace and quiet, “I know which big building plan was not implemented because of the partition of India and Pakistan, and this is not your reason.”

“This is my good fortune, if not partition, four million square kilometers of British India, now must be very disobedient.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to state his opinion.

Norman Brooke picked up the phone, “Operator, get William Penny, Burke Trench, Armstrong, Lawrence, Frank, and Douglas to Seventy Whitehall.”

Norman Brooke was calling all the big names in Whitehall to-day; besides the Ambassador to the United States, Burke Trench and Armstrong were both high officials in the Treasury Department, and Frank was the Secretary General of the Board of Trade.

The one who is arguably not an official here is the government scientist William Penney, who of course is first and foremost a zoologist.

What made it possible for him to be part of the chief scientific advisers was Norman Brooke’s view that William Penney could only give some general scientific advice to the Prime Minister and the government.

Simply put, among scientists, William Penney, a zoologist, was more in line with the basic principle of outsiders managing insiders.

But this time around, the remodeling of London in the aftermath of the smog incident needed just such a zoologist to endorse the plans drawn up by Whitehall from an environmental point of view.

“After the smog incident, the government has decided to launch the remodeling plan, although immediately we encountered another storm surge. But this triumphant fight has been a great inspiration to the citizens of London.” Norman Brooke turned the tables and said, “Especially with the premise that Holland is submerged in seawater.”

While it might be a bit of a disservice to the unity of the free world to say it, the basic truth was so true.

Without putting major effort into Holland, Norman Brooke spoke to several officials who were all rated as promising in Whitehall, “My idea is to move forward in zones, and it is the East Side that has suffered the most damage from both this smog event and the storm surge. The citizens of the East End are also very excited about the government’s decisions.”

“Each of you is responsible for an urban area, Burke Trend is in charge of London’s West End, Armstrong, you’re in charge of the North End, the Southwest End is given to Lawrence, Frank Southeast, and as for Douglas you’re coordinating the work of your colleagues from the center. The Central District may be small, but there are a lot of historic buildings, and the workload isn’t that much smaller.”

It had been another month since the outbreak of the smog incident in early December, and Alan Wilson had waited for his daughter’s full moon to return to London, and now the freighters carrying cement and steel from Malaya had departed.

The Cabinet Office is responsible for promoting, the Cabinet is responsible for supporting the London reconstruction program, finally at this time officially launched.

Just at this time, Britain did not forget to let the British troops in Germany to help the Dutch relief, show a bit of mercy of the superior students.

The most important work in the diplomatic field at the moment was to assess the American President Eisenhower, who had just been sworn in. After all, the Anglo-American special relationship is so important.

Will this military-born president be expected to intensify the conflict between the two blocs, or will he respond in some other way. At present, the British Foreign Office is still quite uncertain.

Temporarily responsible for remodeling work Alan Wilson, work has always been in the Foreign Office, and the Foreign Office colleagues to formulate policy towards the United States is also very normal, he also received a telegram of condolences from McCarthy after the storm surge it. The contact between the two men has never been broken!

“President Eisenhower, precisely because he was a military man, was rather less likely to intensify the conflict. And the Republican Party itself is considered very restrained in its foreign policy compared to the Democrats.” Alan Wilson rushed at Sir Ismay, “We just have to think about who came up with the slogan of expansion of the manifest destiny, which party was in power in the United States in World War I and II, and it’s easy to be able to judge this.”

“Eisenhower was of German origin, wouldn’t he have taken a drastic program of response to the current Berlin Crisis, which has not yet ended?”

“It seems like the Rhine Barracks was built by Eisenhower.” Allen Wilson rushed at his dissenting colleague, “It is impossible for us to estimate how many prisoners of war have died unnatural deaths, but the more German-born he is, the more he will avoid suspicion instead.”

Today’s Foreign Office Alan Wilson is considered to be the most knowledgeable person about the Rheinland camps, because he had checked them out, and who made him return briefly to Europe in 1945 to work on them? He was dreaming of catching some Americans in the act! Preparing for the Nassau Accords that may or may not have come about.

He investigated the Korean War massacres for the same reason, all to build up some leverage for Britain. Of course the usefulness of those chips would depend on how much of the imperial legacy Britain had left.

Sir Ismay nodded his head, seemingly already inclined to his own opinion, and Allen Wilson once again upped the ante, “We also need to know that the Republican Party bigwig Taft was a complete isolationist, and the influence of the Taft family is still very strong in the Republican Party right now.”

Eisenhower ran for President of the United States. During that time told the isolationist Taft that he would drop out of the race if Taft would pledge his support for NATO, which Taft refused to do.

After leaving office opposed the moon landing program as a waste of money with no bang for the buck. Opposed the missile defense program as immature rather than a hindrance to offensive power.

Allen Wilson knew nothing other than that this president had struck hard at Britain and France during the Suez Canal War. He couldn’t even think of any other international event that had anything to do with Eisenhower, upping the nukes from 1,000 to 20,000? It actually had limited impact on other countries.

Once this discussion was over, Ismay was interested in sending assessment papers to Foreign Secretary Morrison. Think the United States, this new president, to a certain extent, may be interested in maintaining the current situation.

As for Alan Wilson, he took a little time out of his work day to send telegrams to Bonn, Paris, Los Angeles, Kuala Lumpur, and Perth, a norm to which he had become accustomed.

Substitute Hedy Lamarr arrived in London, much to Alan Wilson’s delight; this was the life of the Lord Lieutenant.

“I’ve also received a telegram from Los Angeles, and the crew has come to Europe with the cast set.” Hedy Lamarr squinted at Alan Wilson and spoke.

“What play?” Allen Wilson asked stupidly as he listened to the clueless words.

“It’s tentatively titled Roman Holiday, with Hepburn in the female lead.” Hedy Lamarr inquired meaningfully, “Are you happy now? Or anxious? Or both minds?”

“Eh!” Reaching out and scratching his scalp, Allen Wilson was torn, he was indeed in both moods right now.