Chapter 749 – The Soviet Union is not fit for NATO

“Well, of course I’m not a soldier and can’t advise London on anything, just some concerns.” Alan Wilson hung up the phone with a sigh, and said half-heartedly, “It seems I must become a proponent of the domino theory.”

Once the French retreated from North Vietnam, it was the time for him to wave the flag, and thinking about this he smoked Eisenhower a little bit, if it was not for this last traditional Republican president, the United States joined the battlefield in Vietnam much earlier.

Korean War Wake Island meeting, the U.S. high level in addition to North Korea, but also discussed the issue of the Central and Southern Peninsula. Admiral Radford, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, did not understand what U.S. forces in the Central South Peninsula could and should do. And MacArthur believed that the French Army was performing incomprehensibly in the Central South Peninsula, where they had 150,000 of the best soldiers and the highest-ranking commanders, and their opponents, who had half the strength of the Korean Army, could not wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop.

Radford argues that the U.S. Army must be a strong backstop for France. This exchange of dialog made it abundantly clear that the U.S. military was ready to open a new theater of war in the Far East, which would ultimately drag the U.S. into years of war at great cost.

It can be said that the U.S. military already had the idea of intervening in the Central and Southern Peninsula, and Eisenhower’s term of office, sort of restrain the desire of the United States to go to war, if not for this military president came to power, the U.S. troops will only be earlier.

But to say that Eisenhower has always been is the anti-war position is not quite right, in the time of being president Eisenhower mouth to voters to prevent the military-industrial complex, but in the aftermath of power he, or open for the United States to send troops to wave the flag of the day.

Ike resisted the pressure to go to war when he was president, but after leaving office, after all, he still had to eat, joining the ranks of singing the praises of the United States to send troops, a time to have a time to think, at that time to believe that Eisenhower also believed that he was the right idea.

When he was raising his eyes by Allen Wilson’s window and thinking a thousand thoughts, a pair of white arms encircled him from behind, and Vivien Leigh’s nice voice came, “My dear, what’s the matter with you.”

“I was thinking about how precious peace is, the years are quiet over here, but Vietnam is fighting to the death.” Alan Wilson never mentioned anything about battleships shelling the city of Haiphong, but expressed his cherishing of peace.

This kind of hypocritical posturing made Vivien Leigh very distressed, “My dear, you’d better not think so much, your power alone is limited, the French tactics are still a little too cruel.”

“Cruel almost as much as stupid.” Alan Wilson barely held back his hateful tone, “I mean, the French should accept reality instead of stubbornly talking with guns.”

The French army reorganized after the war. Practically in a state of ambivalence. On the surface was a sense of racial superiority, i.e. Europeans were superior to other peoples. Although the defeat to Japan dealt them a big blow, it did not make them curb this sense of superiority. However in reality the French army did lose WWII; now they want to redeem themselves.

This very screwed up mentality led to treating the colonies with abusive force by the French without even considering objective conditions.

Dien Bien Phu was less than a hundred miles from the Chinese borderline and almost two hundred miles from the French base at Hanoi; as a result, this was the limit of range for French supply planes. The terrain is rugged and the land is not accessible to Hanoi, so that the fortress of Dien Bien Phu must be defended entirely by air power.

In fact, as long as the French air supply line is not interrupted, it is not impossible to achieve the goal in the end. This is also the original intention of General Navarre, and the Viet Cong to fight a war of attrition, the Vietnamese blood Fang dry and then peace talks.

But Allen Wilson knew the evolution of the war, the point is that he can’t really do anything about the weather, he is not God.

If France lost the war, Allen Wilson thought about the consequences, when the time came, it was necessary to guide the French to ask for help from China.

Now the battle of Dien Bien Phu can only be left to fate, first stabilize the British own colonies is more important.

The reports in the major Malayan newspapers about the thousands of Vietnamese who fell in front of France’s fortified defenses gave the colonial subjects of the empire a preconceived impression that the price of such independence could not be borne by ordinary people.

This was of course what he, the Malayan Commissioner, had authorized to be reported, and it was true anyway; the French, even if they had finally surrendered at Dien Bien Phu, had killed and maimed the Viet Minh far more than they had lost themselves, except that there were only so many elite French troops, and they could not be easily replenished as easily as the Viet Minh could be replenished.

Than the rotten big method is certainly not a brilliant means, but in human nature point of view is a good way, most people subconsciously have a simple psychology, to build their own happiness on the other side of the pain.

This kind of you are not happy I’m happy simple psychology, was Alan Wilson use up, made into human blood buns to make the Malayan colony of imperial subjects happy happy, this is not excessive.

But in front of the thousands of beautiful actresses, Alan Wilson is still the pacifist, raging against the excessive force of France, comparing it to the American troops in the Korean War.

Marilyn Monroe, all cool and enjoying the tropical beach, felt a little uncomfortable hearing such grandiose ideas and spoke up, “France is a colonial army, America is not.”

“Doing the same thing is not the same!” Alan Wilson didn’t forget that the other party interfered in Britain’s internal affairs and provoked the close relationship between the Malayan colonies and the British mainland, and this time he said this because he wanted to fight back for Monroe’s previous remarks.

Marilyn Monroe’s face flashed with a trace of contemplation, then as if she had figured out something, “Such a big man so petty. It’s amazing that he’s still cynical over what I said earlier.”

“There’s such a thing as patriotism in this world.” Alan Wilson stared at the red lips of the sex goddess and slightly angled his head, “Ms. Monroe, in fact, everyone has their own goals, just like you wish to have a wider popularity, and my goal is to maintain the stability of the governing precincts, everyone is not at fault.”

“What are you talking about?” Hedy Lamarr moved in, her perfect face full of suspicion, then flatly said, “Commissioner Wilson, Ms. Monroe is the most recognizable actress in the United States right now, you wouldn’t have any thoughts about her, would you.”

“Ms. Heidi, when it comes to thoughts, I still have more thoughts about you.” Alan Wilson winked at Hedy Lamarr, the other party’s concern he had already received.

Compared to the current war in Vietnam, the matter of Shigeru Yoshida stepping down once again and no longer serving as the Prime Minister of Japan was definitely considered minor.

This time, the ouster actually had to do with the reparations treaty that Japan had signed a few months earlier; thirty-five point eight billion dollars was not a small amount of money, but Japan had no choice.

Shigeru Yoshida sort of took the blame and took the fall, sort of bringing the reparations treaty to a close. A change of prime minister in Japan was even less of a big deal to the U.S. The Tokyo District Prosecutor’s Special Investigation Department had been in operation for years, ensuring Japan’s stability.

Compared to France’s big fight in the Central and Southern Peninsula, as well as the change of the Japanese prime minister, Washington is still more headache the Soviet Union to join NATO this topic, after the initial fumbling, London chose to pretend to be dead, anyway, NATO’s commander-in-chief is the United States, it is not Britain’s turn to take a position.

Washington also wanted to play dead to avoid the Soviet Union’s request to join NATO, but soon realized that this matter can not be avoided, we must know that in the Second World War in the countries of the emergence of a huge Communist Party, the Soviet Union wants to do anything, have their own channels to notify the brotherhood of these parties, so that these brotherhood of parties know.

In other words, the information blockade that was invincible to ordinary countries was useless to the USSR. The Soviet Union had many ways to make what it wanted to say widely circulated in the free world, which made it impossible to talk about blocking information.

By now the countries of Europe would all know that the Soviet Union had offered to join NATO and work together to maintain world peace to avoid war.

“London is definitely not going to take a stand.” Secretary of Defense Wilson arrived at the White House and, after meeting Eisenhower, conveyed the resolution that Britain had decided to pretend it hadn’t heard and let the United States take a stand.

“The British have never been so cunning in such matters.” Eisenhower’s brow furrowed upon hearing this, and although he was uncomfortable, Britain’s approach of treating it as if it hadn’t been heard was actually what he wanted to do.

Since Khrushchev came to power, Eisenhower also wanted to make a move to ease, but could not put the Soviet Union into NATO, invite God is easy to send God is difficult to send God, really come in the significance of NATO also does not exist. The Soviet Union is in Europe, borrowing the framework of NATO, the Soviet Union even have the possibility of the United States out of Europe.

So the Soviet Union to join NATO this matter is never agree, thought for half a day, Eisenhower said with a bitter smile, “It seems to be impossible to avoid, through the Secretary of State to inform Moscow, the Soviet Union to join NATO this matter is not appropriate.”

“Reason?” Secretary of Defense Wilson looked directly at the President and waited for him to follow.

“Reason? There is no reason!” Eisenhower cut to the chase, there are times when one should be shameless above national policy, “As for the Soviet Union, say what you like. Just don’t let the Soviet Union in, so what?”

As time moved into April and Dien Bien Phu was in the midst of a fierce battle, Khrushchev was eating at the Kremlin in Moscow when Molotov, still one of the giants, came in and spoke directly, “Nikita, Eisenhower has rejected our request to join NATO, and it is now obvious what is going on.”

“We all know that NATO is after the Soviet Union. This time it has merely made the Americans open up about the purpose of this military organization, and no one will believe any of the peace-keeping nonsense next.” Khrushchev was not surprised and thought for a moment, “I think it’s time we had our own military alliance. It’s inevitable!”