Chapter 728 – Yangon’s Request for Help

“That’s great news!” Alan Wilson whistled in front of his wife and snickered, overflowing with joy at the news, “I told you, my Pamela always brings good news every time she shows up.”

Not Alan Wilson this person human nature is evil, but the competition between countries is so, break each other’s legs certainly will not make their own run faster, but as long as the competitor accident, for their own side is definitely a good thing.

The fact that Britain could go from losing the Hundred Years’ War against France, and step by step, later on rise to the top and even overtake France, proved this.

“Knew you’d be pleased!” Pamela Mountbatten pursed her lips and snickered, knowing of course what her husband’s virtues were.

Alan Wilson has a very simple asshole logic, himself if he loses a dollar if someone else picks it up, inside and out is the loss of two dollars, and because of the loss of a dollar to disrupt the original plan, the person who picks up the money has an extra dollar to catch the opportunity of an extra dollar, theoretically this loss is infinite.

This logic is very asshole, but since childhood, the woman who has already been taught by the words of this imperial public servant, has long since accepted this set of bizarre logic, since her husband is able to say this set of crooked reasoning, then this is not crooked reasoning.

“You are the one who knows me the most, my dear, and this understanding makes me feel the meaning of existence, otherwise you say that I am so powerful, but no one in this world knows about it, that’s not very sad.”

Alan Wilson bristled and groped his wife’s buttocks, causing a pout, “This is the Executive Office, you’re the local commissioner, and this is how you run a colony of ten million people?”

“What’s a colony of ten million people? How can it be as important as my wife!” Alan Wilson tilted his head and didn’t take his hand down, “Give me enough time, a lot of things that seem to be significant are nothing, but unlike you, I can only have one wife.”

Cut! Pamela Mountbatten skimmed her head and murmured with a happy smile on her face, “Just saying nice things.”

“Did I just say it? I even did it!” Allen Wilson, his cheeks racing past the Wall, said between his ears.

Seeing that Alan Wilson was going to blossom again, mentioning the famous scenes that the two of them had spent time together, Pamela Mountbatten directly blocked her husband’s mouth, and there were some scenes that still make you blush when you think back on them now.

The world is so big, every moment countless things happen, just the vast majority of the story of the world is not important, naturally will not care.

In British Malaya’s position, the surrounding situation was also not stable, only out of the perspective of letting the colonial subjects ignorant, some information was blocked, such as the regular prison clearance operations that occurred from time to time due to the number of prisoners accumulated.

There was no need for the natives to know about such trivial matters, and naturally Alan Wilson could not let his wife and Her Royal Highness be troubled by them.

There is still much to discuss that does not involve British Malaya, such as the remnants of the artillery party entrenched in northern Burma.

According to the current Burmese complaint in the United Nations General Assembly, the official description is that this is an army with advanced American equipment, which has experienced decades of warlordism, eight years of war against Japan, several years of bitter civil war, and rich combat experience.

Why did Alan Wilson know about this, after all, the United Nations was headquartered in New York and had little to do with him, the colonial commissioner, who was not supposed to care.

The problem was that Burma had been a British colony, although British India and British Burma had all become independent one after another. But Britain has not completely retreated in Asia, but has contracted its power to unite with European colonial powers to confront Indonesia.

At this moment, Britain’s presence in the world is still very high, especially in Asia. The remaining overseas territories in the hands of the British Empire in Africa is much larger than Asia, but in the eyes of London Asian colonies are more valuable than Africa.

British Malaya was again not far from Burma, and even the northern end of the Malay Peninsula bordered Burma. Burma was plagued by the remnants of the Cannon Party, in addition to complaining in the United Nations, as well as directly looking for the United States behind the Cannon Party to exert influence, then put the help of the eyes on the United Kingdom.

The U.S. had already disregarded the defeated group of the Cannon Party, but since the Korean War, the U.S. has found the remnants of this army valuable again, and has gone from being enthusiastic, to being lukewarm in its pleas to Burma.

Wasn’t the British army in British Malaya still 40,000 to 50,000 strong, and it made sense to ask for help from the former sovereign.

The Burmese contacted London, and it was Lieutenant General Bilton, the commander of the British forces in Malaya, who was directly asked for help, but naturally Alan Wilson, as the local administrator, was quick to learn of this and was at a loss for it.

Accompanying his wife on a tour of the territory in Sarawak, he even whispered, “If Lieutenant-General Bilton disagrees with me, I hope that General Mountbatten will exercise his influence in the army and transfer him.”

“Are you thinking that England should refuse Rangoon’s request for help?” A long-skirted Pamela Mountbatten cocked her head, and Princess Margaret, who was following along beside her, also cast a curious gaze.

“Since we have drawn back, let’s be thorough. What terms can Burma come up with? Will it let us recolonize? Since we can’t, India has already suffered before, we form an army into the deep forest? Where the French are now, repeat it from us again?”

Alan Wilson shrugged his shoulders, walked over to a bench and gently wiped it down, then let his wife and sister-in-law sit down, and said bitterly, “Now after a few years, Malaya is considered to be on the right track initially, and I’m counting on this colony that focuses on business to be more useful to Britain in the future, instead of wasting the time that should be used to develop industries and even industrial upgrades in the future, on the useless jungle warfare on top of it.”

In front of his wife and sister-in-law, Alan Wilson has nothing to hide, he can’t change the habit of bragging in front of women in his life, otherwise he wouldn’t have let the Soviet Union take advantage of the Berlin crisis.

Although Burma has some value to Pamela Mountbatten, who is still preparing to build another Emerald House in Australia. But that value is not worth a military operation.

“The bottom line is that Malaya is over half Chinese, and once the British army enters Burma and confronts the Chinese, it would be more than worth it if the fire burns here.” Pamela Mountbatten, having been taught by word and example, was naturally able to understand her husband’s thinking.

But the straight-laced sister-in-law was a bit tongue-tied, concluding, “Are you afraid to confront China?”

Alan Wilson gave Princess Margaret a warning look, then lightly said, “It depends on what it is! If you are referring to going to war in a fit of passion for the glory of the Sunset Empire, Your Highness, Britain has never done that. It is true that Britain and China have had bad times in the past, but we have sent out our troops with consideration and strict limits on size and time. And now through what the French are doing now, we can all see that we can’t control the cost once the war starts, and the French are relying on American military aid to hold out yet.”

“How is it that our previous relationship with China seems to be amicable in your mouth?” Princess Margaret froze, not realizing that her brother-in-law thought so.

“It was already amicable!” Alan Wilson said in disbelief, Britain was just occupying a Xiangjiang, if there were Chinese around, it might be impolite to say so, but the facts were in front of them, that was all.

In terms of the size of the Fragrant River, it was simply a very insignificant piece in the context of state-to-state relations.

There are more than hundreds of countries that have been blasted and hammered by the British Empire over the centuries, and like the whole territory has been occupied and become a colony everywhere, and the wars where Britain attacked the Qing Dynasty could be considered very restrained friction in terms of intensity.

“The British Empire never wanted, to do anything to China, and we couldn’t do it. Previous wars had been in coastal cities at best, and with China’s capital not far from the sea, it wasn’t even that tough to talk about.”

“But this time is different, this time of year, the war has been much more brutal than it was a hundred years ago. We’re going to have to go deep inland, and that’s not something an expeditionary force can do; the Indians have already suffered losses, and I know all about the difficulties the French have in the jungles of Vietnam, and it’s absolutely essential that the British Army in Malaya not be allowed to intervene in a risky military operation.”

Alan Wilson’s advice to the home front was that London should play dead in the face of this Burmese request! Burma had become independent and was not now British Burma, there was no reason for Britain to get involved in a military operation.

“I’m sure General Bilton, too, will think it over.” Pamela Mountbatten backhanded her husband’s hand and whispered, “If he doesn’t agree with you as a military chief, I’ll liaise with my father and try to pressure to think of something on the home front.”

“That would be for the best, the debt on the mainland is just at the dawn of being cleared, don’t be like the French with another debt.”

Have his wife’s position, Alan Wilson is much easier, about this Burma’s problems, or in diplomatic occasions to solve the better, independence and Burma Britain is not obliged to help.

But the reception is still to be, accompanied by two women Allen Wilson, but also learned that General Navarre has returned from the mainland, although the Burma may let the British troops out of the military action, Allen Wilson coy, but this does not delay his encouragement of the courageous French to strike a heavy blow.

Allen Wilson showed greater concern for the large-scale military action that France had been preparing for a long time than for the affairs of Burma.

Before that, of course, he still had to solve Britain’s own problems first, and had a communication with General Bilton regarding Burma’s request for help, to analyze how to respond, in fact, how to reject Burma’s request.

“Alan, didn’t you say that Mr. Chang’s army is of that standard?” General Bilton was greatly curious, when did this Admiral Mountbatten’s son-in-law become so cautious, this was not the Allen Wilson he knew, so unconfident?