Chapter 707 – An Old Acquaintance, Ivor

“If the credit isn’t the Prime Minister’s, who else’s could it be? Could it be the Soviets’?” Alan Wilson had an unsurprising look on his face, and was very satisfied with such reports that the British Empire had been widely praised by world public opinion for embodying the obligations of a responsible great power.

This visit to Moscow, though somewhat risky, was ultimately a scare, and with the events of the resistance to the storm surge, it is believed that there is no need to worry about the support of the Labor Cabinet in the short term.

Compared to the Labor Party, which at best only pays out welfare, the Conservative Party, which always holds back big moves, seems to be more patriotic, but it is always not very reassuring. In any case, the United Kingdom has coped very well this time during the Berlin crisis, from beginning to end.

When the Berlin Crisis first started, it took a stand before the US, and now it has contributed to the end of the Berlin Crisis. Obligations to the European countries have been shown.

By the end of the day, Prime Minister Eidley deserved to be praised by public opinion in all countries.

Before leaving Moscow, of course, Prime Minister Eidley expressed his gratitude to Palmiro Togliatti and Maurice Dolores, the leaders of the Italian and French Communist parties, who had spoken out in favor of the consensus.

For the two largest Soviet fraternal parties in Western Europe, Britain, of course, had hoped to be able to draw the two parties into the line of parliamentary struggle, and at present the job was not yet done. The Italian Communist Party had never yet stated that it would give up armed struggle!

The French Communist Party, although it has stated that it does not seek to turn France into the Soviet Union, has not changed its party constitution to peaceful parliamentary struggle either.

The day these two largest pro-Soviet parties in Western Europe do not formally declare their renunciation of armed struggle and make changes at the party constitution level will always be less than reassuring.

By dissolving these two Western European parties, the Free World would have far fewer hidden dangers, and its own predominant strength would be able to be utilized.

On the last day of mid-March, Adderley and his party, who had ventured on a visit to the Soviet Union, also embarked on a flight home.

At this time, the British and European newspapers all praised Prime Minister Eidley’s trip to Moscow, and the Berlin Crisis, which had been going on for a year, finally appeared to be over at this time.

It was not so easy to end, of course, but if the general trend was good, then the result was good.

At the same time, there were also the leaders of the Italian and French Communist parties, Palmiro Togliatti and Maurice Dolores, who departed for their home countries.

The forces of public opinion not belonging to the free world, the dictatorship headed by Soviet Pravda, were also touting the merits of the two men, in the vain hope of taking a little of the credit for ending the Berlin Crisis away from the great Prime Minister Eidley.

Such shady moves of course cannot succeed, the BBC is the first to refuse, and it is the duty of public opinion in the free world to let the people of the free world know the truth of the matter, while at the same time not to belittle too much the role of the two men, Palmiro Togliatti and Maurice Dolleth, whose parties the free world would like to introduce into parliamentary battles.

To retain Prime Minister Adderley’s important role in the de-escalation of the Berlin crisis, while at the same time recognizing to some extent the role of the leaders of the Italian, Republican and French Communists, is a very testing criterion, and only the BBC has the ability to juggle it.

Returning from Moscow and landing at London airport, reporters from major newspapers were already waiting there, ready to grab the first reports.

“I’ve brought back peace for a generation!” Alan Wilson muttered in his mind, if there were more people, it would be very much like the scene at the Munich Conference when Prime Minister Chamberlain returned.

But at this moment, in a sense, is also like the other moment, the warm scene is about the same. Prime Minister Adderley also took a few questions as he stepped off the plane, stating in an unassuming tone that Britain never gave up trying to save the peace.

“My Great Britain is invincible!” Alan Wilson could sense the joy of the current Prime Minister of the British Empire, although the mood was masked quite well.

In the midst of the current Berlin Crisis, Britain’s performance could be said to be as good as it could be, from the positive response at the beginning to seizing the opportunity at the end to let the situation de-escalate were all flawless, and it was only right that Prime Minister Airdrie should receive such a welcome.

After returning to London, the Foreign Office was again steeply busy, on the one hand communicating with the United States and France that Britain had made absolutely no concessions of any kind to the Soviet Union. It also set out the fears of the European countries about the long continuation of the Berlin crisis.

Allen Wilson also took time to oversee the reconstruction plan for the Eastern District, which was still in the middle of an organized process.

Allen Wilson, in correspondence with McCarthy, also expressed the idea that Britain wanted to dismantle the enemy from within, and to draw the Italian and French Communists into the parliamentary struggle. It was hoped to gain the understanding of the United States, and especially of McCarthy himself.

“My friend Joseph, the ability to cut out hidden dangers will be extremely important for the future of the free world. After all, we cannot openly deal with these two pro-Soviet parties; it is still necessary to bring the two parties into line. I should not have talked about this in the midst of our private correspondence if the interests of Britain and the United States were not so highly aligned on this issue.”

Of course Britain picked two peaches in a row at the Berlin Crisis, and Allen Wilson doesn’t deny that. But did it? Wasn’t America busy with the Korean War? For the sake of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, it is not wrong for Britain to help.

Sent a telegram, Alan Wilson went to seventy Whitehall, Cabinet Secretary’s office, Norman Brooke is waiting for him.

Norman Brooke mainly wanted to ask, the whole process of negotiation. Allen Wilson, of course, knew everything, but also said that the pulling together of the Italian Republic and the French Communist Party was also true, and that the inclusion of the two parties in the parliamentary struggle should be the biggest diplomatic task at this stage.

Anyway, Allen Wilson truthfully, the so-called Europe and the United States composed of the free world, to be divided into two parts. The situation in the United States is a purely capitalist country. But the situation in Europe, it is difficult to say that it is far from Eastern Europe.

Both Britain and France and Italy have long had strong nationalized economies in their economic models. At some point in time, France’s state-owned economy was hardly worse than that of the Eastern European countries.

If you make that distinction, France could be a socialist country. In Italy, the situation is even worse, even the constitution has a strong socialist element.

This time shows the role of propaganda outlets, when there is already little difference between the economic model and the Soviet Union. The public opinion of the free world referred to the countries of the Soviet political model as communist countries, giving the term socialism to the countries of Western and Northern Europe where the Second International Socialist Party existed.

Whereas in reality the Soviet Union never called itself a communist country, this designation was imposed on the Soviet Union by the United States. Take the socialist countries of Eastern Europe and turn them into a bunch of communist countries. Continuing the Cold War confrontation is what the US did all through the Cold War.

Lying always works if it’s sincere enough and persistent enough, judging by the experience of later generations. Western European countries have also accepted this.

“Actually, the United States is not satisfied with this Prime Minister’s trip!” Norman Brooke said after listening to the report, “As for the reason everyone understands.”

“Understood, it’s nothing more than having a sense of loss.” Alan Wilson said with an impish smile, “The Americans think that the world situation is now a matter of the United States saying no more. But it wasn’t us, Britain, who convinced America to fight the Korean War, quite the contrary we have prevented it as much as we could.”

“You go to Paris for a while and arrange for the authorities of the evacuated occupation forces in Berlin to work.” Norman Brooke gave Alan Wilson a new task after he ended the conversation, “Now that Berlin has even run out of citizens, there’s no point in Eifel’s work for them, joining among the NATO’s quota of working delegates is the way out for them.”

“I see, Sir!” Alan Wilson agreed in a single breath, while taking out the list about the recent input of raw materials from Malaya, he had just returned to London and contacted the local Kuala Lumpur.

He was still the commissioner of British Malaya, he could not forget his own job, remote command is also command.

Aifor is the British occupation forces in Berlin local civilian officials, Alan Wilson remembers Aifor seems to have been working in Berlin, it has not moved places. But with the beginning of the Berlin crisis by the Berlin crisis, to the later Berlin crisis of the exodus.

There is no longer any Berlin citizens in Berlin now, and his representative in Berlin is naturally meaningless.

The future West Berlin is a purely military stronghold, the role of people’s livelihood no longer exists. It was foreseeable that the West Berlin of the future would be a group of garrison commanders who would speak for themselves.

Norman Brooke got these Berlin-based men to move into the middle of the NATO chain of command to continue their work. It was not difficult, Lord Lloyd Ismay is the current NATO Secretary General and he is British.

In principle the Secretary General of NATO can’t be an American, and that’s what the British and the French fought for when NATO was founded. So the current NATO framework is that the Americans are the Commander-in-Chief and the British are the Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Secretary General.

Ivor, as well as British officials in West Berlin, will be evacuated from Berlin directly to the French capital, Paris. This of course was subject to an assessment by MI5 as to whether they were being mesmerized by the Soviet mindset.

Alan Wilson was just a receptionist, crouching in the Woodpecker HQ building with the first book in the James Bond series in his hand before Eiffel and the others returned shouting, “I’ve got it back.”

“I’ve contacted the author, Ian Fleming, through the Jamaican commissioner, but of course when it comes to negotiating the price, you may have to do it yourselves. It is not really appropriate for me to step in!”

“It’s really a lot of work for you!” Hedy Lamarr took off the man’s coat and hung it up with a soft face.

“It’s nothing to bother me, I just love helping beautiful ladies!” Alan Wilson lifted his wrist to check the time, “There’s a flight from British Jamaica, and at the earliest, he should be in Paris in four days.”