Chapter 757 – Showing France the Way

There is nothing more embarrassing than making a fool of oneself in front of one’s arch-enemy, especially in a relationship like that between Britain and France, where for eight hundred years, the two countries have fought and killed each other for the hegemony of Europe and even the world, and as a result, it has been cheapened to other countries.

And now think about it, when the so-called pursuit, to today is not worth mentioning at all. Take the Seven Years’ War between Britain and France, which affected almost the whole world, and led to the participation of all major European powers in the war, and eventually France lost New France and French India, which is now seen as millions of square kilometers of land, and the loss can be described as heavy.

But when the Seven Years’ War ended, France did not attach much importance to the loss of New France and French India.

More concerned with controlling the Hanoverian territories of Belgium and Britain, France at the time felt that compared to the land in Europe, the loss of New France and French India was not an unacceptable consequence.

An era has its own ideas, and the French at the time would not have thought that Britain would become so strong with the help of the Seven Years’ War that it would keep France at bay in the time to come.

It so happened that Georges Pidoule was the representative figure in French politics who supported the resolute defense of the colonies, and he was naturally very different from Louis XV more than two hundred years ago, but caught up with a bad time.

Resolute support for military action against Vietnam has now yielded the result that the French army is struggling and surrounded at Dien Bien Phu.

Morrison did not need to think carefully to understand the embarrassment of George Pidur, at least for a few years as Foreign Secretary, working in this field of hypocrisy play mouth for so long, he can also do not be surprised.

This was the time to show the unity of Britain and France, not to tear each other down, as had been the tradition for eight hundred years.

“The Vietnam issue has to have China on board, let’s accept the reality. And the Chinese presence is still very high in this meeting.” Morrison pointed to the exchanges at the conference over the past few days.

“That’s just the Chinese themselves thinking so, Dulles clearly sees China as a Soviet satellite state.” George Pidur bristled, “And as you can see, China’s attitude is much the same as the Soviet Union’s.”

“George, that’s a misconception. It’s understandable that Dulles is arrogant enough to think so, that’s just the way Americans are. Doesn’t mean we think so though, in fact we have a lot of contact with the Chinese, don’t forget we have colonies that are predominantly Chinese.” Morrison said in a tone that no one understands the Chinese better than I do, “Mr. Dulles’s level of diplomacy as you can see, thanks to the United States is now really strong, in another average country the Secretary of State is his level, a day can be declared war by other countries three times.”

“The key is how the Soviet Union see, if the Soviet Union see the Vietcong as a little brother. How China’s attitude is has little effect.” George Pidur, despite his intentions, stated that the Soviet Union was a one word presence in the opposing camp.

“That’s not necessarily true, China is different from the Soviet allies in Eastern Europe.” Morrison shook his head firmly, “And our observations indicate that the alleged Soviet support for North Vietnam exists only in Dulles’ mouth. Our intelligence networks in Asia all agree that there is no actual Soviet support for North Vietnam at this time.”

“If the Soviet Union doesn’t care about what happens in the Central and Southern Peninsula, it should be possible for you to talk to the Chinese and get a partition clause.”

Georges Pidoule was silent for a long time and asked rhetorically, “Does it really work, and China will stand up to us …… France?”

“Of course, British diplomatic judgment should not be underestimated.” Morrison was confident, and with the joint assurances of the Cabinet Secretary and the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Foreign Office, he had full confidence in this.

But one thing was certain, don’t expect to convince a country with a bursting self-confidence just after the war in three days or two.

Morrison had a hunch that this Geneva meeting might not produce results without a couple of months.

Diplomacy seems simple, but not as easy as it seems, that is, now both sides have the sincerity to ease, if still mainly hate each other, this meeting is to clamor each other for a few days, and then adjourned.

Now clamoring with each other is not willing to break up, itself is the two sides still want to continue to talk, it will take time.

Alan Wilson is still in Kuala Lumpur, leading a group of warblers, visiting the property rights of the vacation island, you can see, a few people are very satisfied with the environment of the island just arrived, seems to have been in the future of the island owner life.

As for the Vietnam issue, but out of the simple feelings of imperialist class friendship, take the initiative to find a clear way for France to hurry.

There is no doubt that national unification is a very big deal for any country.

And the historical Geneva Conference of North Vietnam did not achieve the purpose at all, for whatever reason, North Vietnam’s biggest supporter of a major power, indeed, finally stood with the French, did not let the French bottom was peeled off, seized a little fruitful withdrawal from Vietnam.

The war between France and Vietnam, like the war between the U.S. and Vietnam, was a failure, but France retained the presence of South Vietnam at the time of its departure, for good measure and self-congratulation. When the U.S. withdrew, South Vietnam was swallowed up, which was the equivalent of the U.S. getting its panties in a bunch.

The Geneva Conference on Vietnam, Vietnam’s unity claim belongs to the part that was sacrificed, and it is also a fact that a certain big country supports France, Allen Wilson does not care what the Vietnamese think, anyway, the French themselves are colonizers, the debt is not too much, as long as they can retain the face of the evacuation, Britain’s help in this matter, France must appreciate.

“Commissioner Wilson, could it be that you are still thinking about the war in North Vietnam at this time.” Vivienne was slightly so upset that so many people here couldn’t keep the man’s attention for even a little while.

“Just call me Alan, that’s what they call me in New Delhi.” Alan Wilson returned, squinting outwardly to take in the view, and whispered, “How do you feel about these islands?”

“The environment is just wonderful! I didn’t think that one day I could live the life of an islander.” Fei Wenli’s eyes were full of affection, and she whispered in praise, “As long as it doesn’t affect your work, it’s fine.”

“The current situation isn’t very stable yet, if we weren’t facing the threat of Indonesia, I’d give you a few bigger ones to work on. It’s just that those few islands are all too close to Indonesia, and now they all have military garrisons not too good.” Alan Wilson said, “But as long as I’m still alive, there’s always a chance to wait.”

Not to mention a vacation island, as long as the Great British treasure want, he even dared to sell the islands, certainly not smaller than Singapore is.

With a straw hat, a Southeast Asian dress Allen Wilson, also joined the beach party. After all, the four major stars were there, and some of their favored actors were also there.

Because only eight thousand grass Kaoru and summer dream is yellow, and far less than Fei Wenli a few people have the status, the two people at this time also do not distinguish what China and Japan, often get together.

At this moment Alan Wilson deeply feel that his knowledge base is not sufficient, although he watched the movie to learn Japanese, but only limited to a few sentences, and is not suitable for this kind of occasion. Out of the tradition of a gentleman of the British Empire, he was unwilling to leave Yachigusa Kaoru and Natsume out in the cold, purely because of the British tradition of having to weed out the strong and support the weak, and for absolutely no other reason.

Marilyn Monroe’s four people then looked at Alan Wilson, never so gentlemanly, to solve the confusion for the two unfamiliar sisters.

“I see this colonial official, maybe he wants to experience an exotic flavor.” Marilyn Monroe smiled slightly and opened her mouth to whisper, “I can hear that a lot of soldiers in the US Army in Korea are like this.”

As soon as Marilyn Monroe’s words left her mouth, Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, and Vivien Leigh remained silent for a long time.

“Did I say something wrong?” Marilyn Monroe also felt that the atmosphere seemed to have become a bit weird and frowned in confusion.

“Nothing!” Vivien Lei looked at Alan Wilson who was not far away, at this time the Imperial Commissioner was enjoying himself.

“No one in the whole of England knows more about China than me, Ms. Summer Dream, my Chinese is more standard than even yours, right?” Alan Wilson sputtered and boasted, “It’s not that I’m bragging, I mastered the Chinese language in only a small amount of time in my life.”

“Commissioner Wilson’s accent is very much like the northern side, and the northern official language is not quite like it.” Xia Meng was a bit puzzled, she was very strange about this matter, no matter whether it was Xiangjiang or British Malaya’s accent was not this kind, who did she learn this from.

“Mr. Lin of the MCA is educating on the correct accent, all future accents will be uniform. Of course this also has some insignificant contribution from me. I myself edited a number of sets of teaching materials, I dare not say that I take credit for it, but it’s still a contribution.”

Alan Wilson’s mouth didn’t dare to say that he took the credit, but at this moment’s performance, if not for the two balls crashing could have gone to the sky.

As for Yachigusa Kaoru, even if the language barrier is a big problem, Allen Wilson can also through the other side is not too skilled in English, has been conversing, even bragging with gestures, popping out from time to time a line of A Ounce of State Road, so that Yachigusa Kaoru is also shy face, a car paint pink Japanese car look.

“Natsume, Yachikusa Kaoru why don’t you guys come over here and sit down.” Vivienne launched a call to the two, she just couldn’t look away.

Alan Wilson then followed suit, and Marilyn Monroe spoke up, “You wouldn’t be into some exotic flavor like a lot of U.S. soldiers, would you?”

“Comparing me to an American soldier is an insult to me.” Alan Wilson faced Marilyn Monroe and replied in a nonchalant manner, “Do you want me to investigate how many American army bastards there are in Japan out of consideration of the special relationship between Britain and America?”

“That’s not what Monroe meant!” Ingrid Bergman changed the subject, “We’re hungry, can we trouble the Imperial Commissioner to help us with food.”

“No problem, as long as Malaya has it.” Alan Wilson looked straight into the other party’s eyes and bowed slightly just like a professionally trained butler.