Chapter 770 – From a position of strength

Pamela Mountbatten knew that it would take time for her father to even thread the needle from it, but with that attitude she had a good idea in mind, and it was her husband’s suggestion to talk about Algeria and the situation in South Vietnam together, and she began to brush up on her knowledge of Algeria.

There is a saying in France that Algeria is a natural extension of mainland France, separated only by the Mediterranean Sea. From this statement, it is clear how important Algeria is to France.

Since Algeria is geographically close to France, France believes that Algeria is the natural extension of France’s territory to the south, and other colonies are either distant or economically lagging behind and difficult to produce very close economic and trade links with France, naturally, Algeria does not get such special treatment.

For a long time, the French military had occupied an important position in Algeria, and Napoleon III’s rise to power was also supported by the Algerian military. The French, with the support of the French government, bought property and prospered in Algeria, and reproduced the second and third generations. Such a large group of European immigrants was not seen in any other French colony.

The presence of these European immigrants and their descendants, thought to be simply French born in Algeria, also led to attitudes within the French government, as well as the French military, toward Algeria.

Alan Wilson in Saigon, who had also received his wife’s doubts, explained in a telegram, “With the present population of France, it would be easy to annex Algeria by virtue of France’s demographic superiority, as long as it avoids the social fragmentation that would result from a large-scale war. Will not be much more difficult than Britain left Newfoundland, the key to see how the French military think, Southeast Asia evacuation of the French army, the probability of immediately invested in Algeria, exploration of oil shares should be sold to the French government, but not cheaply sold.”

“France to really leave Algeria, it can be difficult to deal with in the future.” Alan Wilson was quite torn in the face of this problem, and he had been thinking about it since the oil resources were discovered by his wife’s company.

Being in Britain’s point of view, of course, he didn’t want his 800-year-old arch-enemy to have too good a time. Algeria can be more than two million square kilometers, plus the area of mainland France, this land area is already not worse than India.

Although the United Kingdom has retained Newfoundland, but I believe that no one will believe that with the addition of Newfoundland, the United Kingdom will be able to maintain a balance with the addition of Algeria and France.

Britain wants France to be stronger to balance the United States and the Soviet Union together with Britain, so that the vested interests of Britain and France can be protected. But this presupposes that Britain should take the relative advantage among this combination, instead of deferring to France.

If France really swallowed Algeria, London would be troubled, and probably would not let the colonies become independent, even if it was to balance France, it could not head down to be a follower of the United States.

He had to admit now that it seemed as if familiar historical memories might become complicated in the future.

“If I can’t keep Malaya, won’t Britain have to bow to the French in the future?” The thought that this future might arise made Alan Wilson furious.

Unlike her husband, who was tangled up in Saigon from afar, Pamela Mountbatten’s thoughts were much simpler, and who doesn’t like to make money. Since her husband was still saying that Algeria might not be safe, all the more reason for her to pry the French for a fortune.

Right off the bat the French sent Georges Pidoule to talk, and from that you can see how seriously the Parisian government, took the British discovery of Algerian oil. What’s Algerian, is French, that’s what most of the French realize.

Georges . Pidur once said, in the face of an American loan, that for every loan we accept, our independence decreases by one point.

Georges Pidoule, the foreign minister. Pidul, the foreign minister, was in fact similar to de Gaulle on many issues, even more reckless than de Gaulle, and he was also a strong advocate of maintaining colonies in France.

Pamela Mountbatten had already met Georges Pidoule many times. Pamela Mountbatten has met with Georges Pidoule many times and could sense the importance that this man attached to Algerian oil, and this was the third meeting between the two men.

At the outset, Georges Pidoult praised the British. Pidur sang the praises of the friendship between Britain and France, but also said that General Mountbatten was a figure he admired quite a lot, Pamela Mountbatten is also to listen to, her father Mountbatten, although the high position of power and a wide range of friendships, but there are not many places that can make the public opinion admire.

“Miss Pamela, I come in good faith, in fact the oil, although discovered by your company, is a resource that is on French soil, and if you’ll pardon my bluntness, it certainly belongs to France.” Georges . Pidoule, after expressing his friendship, once again reiterated the position of France, with its unquestionable sovereignty over everything in Algeria.

“Honorable Foreign Minister, such threatening statements are not conducive to the traditional friendship between Britain and France. And I’m just an entrepreneur, it’s not appropriate to talk to me about this.” Pamela Mountbatten then clichédly said, “From a global perspective, at this time, Britain and France should be united together, in fact, Britain also did so, in the situation in Southeast Asia, Britain has done everything it can, my husband is the High Commissioner of the British Malaya colony, which provides a large amount of military supplies to support the French military operations, at this time your remarks are very chilling.”

Without waiting for Georges Pidoule to reply, Pamela Pidur replied, Pamela Mountbatten continued, “And at this time France still need the help of Britain is not it? For example, the French army is about to withdraw from Vietnam, and my father is the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy, you may think that he can not reach the Central and Southern Peninsula, but he used to be the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, and the Soviet battlefield of Stalin, is the same level. There are still many of my father’s men in Asia.”

“Even North Africa is the sphere of activity of the Mediterranean Fleet, of which he happens to be currently Commander. Perhaps the Mediterranean Fleet is still needed to facilitate the connection between France and French Africa.”

“As for myself, I am on very good terms with Bourbon, Napoleon, and many of the families. I realize that this is not an imperial era, and these connections may not be of much help. But they are all my partners, and I consider myself to have taken care of everyone when I was in business, and no more than I should have been treated as I am now.”

Pamela Mountbatten seldom spoke so vehemently, much less laid out her family history, but on this occasion he would have just returned to her husband, only to get word that the French government wanted an interview, and to return to Europe from Asia, with the result that the Frenchman, who had a great deal to talk about in terms of friendship, had been abhorrently stingy over the shelling out of money.

Georges Pidoule was also surprised. Pidur is also very surprised, he underestimated this young woman, listening to Pamela Mountbatten from the international situation to family, and then to the business, not bad talk very logical, although some anger but not irrational.

Can not help but evaluation also improved a lot, this is not a rely on the family smooth smooth fake.

Of course not, there are men far away in Saigon taught for nine years, a nine-year compulsory education time, how also should be out of the teacher, if Alan Wilson is here, also have to add, “from a position of strength and the French to carry on the conversation.”

“Ms. Pamela, I just articulated the importance of Algeria’s oil resources to France. I’m not just talking about this from the point of view of to France, you have to realize that France has a huge immigrant life in Algeria, and their lives are also of great concern to Paris, and the discovery of the oil resources will help improve the local economy.”

Georges . Pidur’s attitude has also softened, and he does in fact act as an advocate for these Algerian immigrants. Some of the local successful people were on quite good terms with him.

You know the attitude of the army in Algeria, when Napoleon III was on the throne, had played a big role.

Now, at this time, Georges Pidoule certainly does not have the luxury of being on good terms with the Algerian army. Pidul of course does not have the luxury of being the same as Napoleon III, but with the support of such a huge force, Georges Pidul’s political path will be strengthened by the support of the Algerian army. Pidur’s political path would be greatly assisted.

“I understand, that’s why I personally came over this time.” As soon as Pamela Mountbatten heard that George. Pidur found a step down, and did not continue to dwell on the previous conversation that was full of gunpowder, and began to elaborate on the economic benefits, “In terms of oil quality, the quality of the oil discovered so far is absolutely no less than the quality of Libya’s oil.”

This time the discovery of the oil field, located in Algeria’s northeastern Hassi Messaoud, the current exploration of the quality of the oil crude oil with low sulfur content, good quality, can be transported to the port through the oil pipeline. According to the cost is not particularly high! In terms of quality it also reduces industrial costs by a lot.

In terms of value, it is what France particularly needs at the moment, as far as what oil is the blood of modern industry. As for the fact that oil is the blood of modern industry, and that France wants to hold Germany at bay and control a reliable source of oil, Pamela Mountbatten doesn’t need to say it, but Georges Pidoule knows it very well. Piedur knew it all.

George Pidul knew it. Pidour did know this, and since the discovery of the oil, Paris’s interest in withdrawing its troops from Vietnam has increased rather than decreased, and the goal has shifted from Vietnam, to fully defending Algerian rule.

“From my father’s usual remarks, although it has nothing to do with me as a businessman, I am also willing to maintain solidarity with France. The offer is not really that high, the money for thirty Comet airliners, and oil is only going to become more and more important in the future. Think about the future where every family uses a car for transportation, and people need to travel abroad on airliners, all of which will require large amounts of oil.”

Pamela Mountbatten expressed optimism about the importance of oil to society and then waited for George . Pidur’s reply.

The order for thirty Comet airliners was just under ten million dollars, each Comet airliner sold for two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, which added up to less than ten million dollars now that the cost was a little higher.

France, even because it had been at war since the war, wasn’t going to be able to come up with even ten million dollars, and, of course, Georges Pidoule was going to want to fight for it. Pidur tried to fight for it, but it was just doomed to futility. Now that France was begging Britain, it needed more in terms of needing this.