Chapter 722 – The Domino Theory

A few hours later, Alan Wilson was already on the top floor of Woodpecker Pictures’ headquarters building, making coffee and looking at the newspaper about the Battle of Kumseong, the last pressurized battle of the Korean War, which was fought until the day of the armistice.

It could be said that at this moment, the Korean War was over, and after almost three years of drawn-out fighting, it hadn’t changed the situation in the Far East significantly, let alone the situation in the world.

But Allen Wilson knew that things were not as they appeared, that Japan was bleeding back after the war, and that China had proved to be militarily battle-hardened, especially the latter, which could not be captured in figures.

The impact on South Korea is also there, the main force of the Battle of Geumseong is the Korean army, although still the loser, but the Korean army in the Battle of Geumseong is no longer like the beginning of the Korean War, when they heard that the Chinese are coming to the direct rout.

After the United States entered the phase of positional warfare, the rearmament and reorganization of the Korean army also paid off.

However, Allen Wilson knew that the performance of the Korean army in being able to stabilize its position was a counter-example to the United States.

Only the United States, currently still in the midst of the joy of transforming the Korean Army to be effective, did not realize this.

The performance of the Korean army at the Battle of Kumseong gave the United States the illusion that it was possible to transform the army of the host country through integration and make this army a booster for the U.S. Army, while in fact the future of the United States, almost never touch a servant army with a decent fighting ability, and the arming of the South Vietnamese army was a complete failure.

Integrating the South Vietnamese army along the lines of integrating Korea didn’t end up preserving South Vietnam.

“If the Korean Army had lost the Battle of Kumseong in a more humiliating fashion, the Americans might have given a little more thought to taking over from France.” Alan Wilson thought so as he put down the newspaper in his hands.

History will not simply repeat itself, the United States left hundreds of thousands of weapons and equipment to the South Vietnamese army, eventually became part of the North Vietnamese army.

It’s time to preach the domino theory after returning to Kuala Lumpur, Alan Wilson thought.

Vietnam split into North and South. At the time, the United States was concerned that if the North Vietnamese were ever unified, the entire rest of Southeast Asia would fall like dominoes. And it was the current President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, who came up with this theory.

Allen Wilson, who was thinking about the next phase of work, did not pay attention to Ingrid Bergman who came out of the bathroom, Ingrid Bergman’s long hair was draped over her shoulders, and her body was draped in a white men’s shirt, other than that there was no strand of clothing, and she looked at the man who was sitting there and opened her mouth and said, “The water has already been put in place, and the temperature of the water is just right, just enough for you to alleviate the fatigue.”

“You’re not going to relieve me of my fatigue in this condition.” Alan Wilson’s eyes scanned the room, gulped and got up, “I see it’s going to be overtime again.”

“Oh yes!” Ingrid Bergman, with a moving smile, also began to persuade with a flowery mouth, “That’s not really good news, after all, it’s manual labor, humid working conditions, and low visibility.”

“So what’s the solution?” Alan Wilson has stepped forward, one hand on Ingrid Bergman’s fragrant shoulder, “That’s the way people are, at first I’m just thinking about what you’re called, and slowly I’m thinking about what you’re really called ……”

“Your little scoundrel!” Ingrid Bergman skimmed her head, still along with the man’s hand together into the bathroom, the weather is hot, so what’s wrong with a bubble bath, reasonable.

Hedy Lamarr has gone to the United States, now the Woodpecker Studios only two Swedish actresses in the management, Greta Garbo rather than management, more like a hermit in Paris, as in New York as every day in the house does not go out, the biggest activity is just to take a walk with his son.

This is not possible, Alan Wilson felt that Greta Garbo’s hiatus can be delayed again, is not there a script for 2007, while the appearance is still there, leaving a classic image.

“This kind of series of movies, you are trying to use my influence, so that the first movie to expand the influence, for the future to lay a good foundation.” Greta Garbo cocked her head and said with an expressionless face.

“My dear, one of the things I admire most about you is that no matter what time of the day you are in, you always have a breezy look on your face.” Alan Wilson reached out and rubbed his hand over the other man’s fullness, as if Greta Garbo hadn’t just been a party to the Anglo-Swedish War.

Greta Garbo was oblivious to the man’s actions, not even thinking of stopping them, and directly got up from the bed, “It’s time, I need to change the baby’s diaper.”

It was perfectly normal for an Under-Secretary-General of the Overseas Assets Management Board to be in Paris to inspect the UK’s overseas assets for a bit, so by the same token, it was perfectly normal for him to be in Rome for a bit of a look around.

He had made an appointment with the lady who was temporarily living in Paris in the same position as his wife to make sure he kept up the frequency of his trips to Kuala Lumpur. The Lord of the Middle Temple was serving his country and the logistics had to be kept up.

He also stopped by Rome to buy a copy of an Italian fairy tale, which made an outstanding contribution to the economic development of Italy.

Italian folktales, passed down orally, were recorded in literary form long before any other country. It is not as if there were no stories depicting Italy in England, such as Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice.

Leaving from Italy, there would be no overseas assets to check personally, and Hepburn could see that Alan Wilson was resigned to his impending departure, “Your sorrow is almost visible to the naked eye.”

Allen Wilson made a pretense of uttering a deep emotion, “Really, I don’t know why I’m moping around like this. You say you are sick and tired of seeing me like this, but I am sick and tired of it myself; but how I got sadness on me, and what kind of a thing it is, and where it comes from, I don’t know; and it has made a fool of me, and I don’t know myself any more than I know myself.”

“There’s no sense in being about to go on a long journey.” Hepburn gave the man a blank look, and then said gravely, “No greater difficulty will be a problem to you; the trials and tribulations that fate has placed upon you will eventually become the impetus for you to proceed.”

Alan Wilson couldn’t help but straighten his back, reached out and touched Hepburn’s cheek, and said confidently, “If only I could think of what a plague a storm on the sea would cause. If I go to church, and see that holy temple built of stone, how can I not at once think of those dangerous reefs, which, by the slightest touch of the sides of my good ship, will pour the ship full of spices into the water, and make the raging waves cloak my satins and damasks; and what was just now of great value, will in an instant be all in ruins?”

“Thy destiny does not lie in a moment’s consideration; thy fortune does not lie in a single round-trip journey. These things should not grieve you.” Hepburn looked at Alan Wilson with full affection, and uttered a similarly marginal passage.

“The point is love!” Alan Wilson was not speaking in Shakespearean language and spoke straight from his heart with true emotion.

“Especially love!” Hepburn replied in the same way, showing that she had heard the man’s words from beginning to end, and gave a positive answer as well.

That’s a relief! Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief in his heart; he would have run out of stock in his stomach if he had gone on beating around the bush like that. After all, his knowledge base in this area was far less attained than in the field of key politics.

Alan Wilson hoped that British history does not exist Shakespeare such a person, but there is no way, this person exists. And as a civil servant one must also know something about it.

Sometimes when he reads Shakespeare’s works, he feels that the things in it are a living clown who would rather die in the midst of heckling, a man full of hot blood, but still has to sit upright.

The two kissed goodbye, and after the Dubai Airports project, which had already started, Alan Wilson returned to Kuala Lumpur, where he had been absent for most of the year, and where he was still enthusiastic about his work in Malaya.

Locally he had to be careful to cope with the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretaries, whereas here he could find that feeling of being a man of one word. What kind of colonial commissioner would a husband be without that realization, if he did not live with five tripods of food and die with five tripods of heng ears?

“Give me all the information you can now get about everything that is going on with the French army in the Peninsula!” The moment he entered the Kuala Lumpur Administrative Office, Allen Wilson had rediscovered the feeling of a colonial commissioner.

General Navarre had arrived in Vietnam in May to take over as Commander-in-Chief, and the total strength of the French army now stood at one hundred and eighty thousand men, of which fifty-four thousand were in the French army, twenty thousand in the Foreign Legion, thirty thousand in the North African forces, which were mainly Moroccan and Algerian, ten thousand in the air force, and seventy thousand in the navy consisting of five thousand men and Vietnamese.

Of these 180,000 people, first of all, similar to the pseudo-army of seventy thousand Vietnamese soldiers to be removed, the North African army is also colonial soldiers composed of combat power also exist, can rely on is the French army and the Foreign Legion, roughly seventy to eighty thousand troops size.

This size of the army, can understand why the battle of Dien Bien Phu French army was wiped out less than 20,000 people, let the situation fell to the point of unmanageable, maneuvering force has been wiped out.

General Navarre, who arrived in Vietnam, soon discovered that the situation was not favorable to the French, but he immediately perceived the weakness of his command and formulated a long-term plan. The plan was based on increasing troop dynamics, increasing troop strength, and receiving assistance from the United States. Navarre sent this plan back to Paris, but it was not approved.

Alan Wilson quickly learned about the situation of the French forces in Vietnam and thought for a moment, “Propaganda to Australia and the European countries around Southeast Asia that still have colonies should focus on the domino theory, and must create the impression in Washington that after the Korean War, Moscow is again on the offensive, and that if all of Vietnam falls, it is only a matter of time before all of Asia is under the control of the Soviets problem.”

“General Navarre and General Bilton, in fact, explored the question of help from British forces, but General Bilton declined on the grounds of dealing with the Indonesian infiltration campaign.”

“That’s the right thing to do, there’s nothing we can do about it.” Allen Wilson agreed once he heard, Vietnam this pit, Britain such a small body or do not get together, only the United States has the ability to do this.