Chapter 779: France has made a lot of money
Besides it wasn’t without its benefits, didn’t it demonstrate the solidarity between the United States, Britain and France? From beginning to end Allen Wilson knew what he was doing, and also knew that the current behavior of the moral level can not stand, serving a selfish power.
What could he have done in this position? Britain’s strategic space is disappearing at a rate visible to the naked eye, in order to make the country he is in a little easier, he should do so, things do not distinguish whether it is moral or not, only right and wrong.
The Far East Combined Operations Command immediately called back and asked about the ins and outs of Haiphong Harbor, Alan Wilson, who had already been in contact with Rear Admiral George Ball, was prepared, and his father-in-law’s men harmonized their rhetoric, and replied with the same caliber of response as, “the North Vietnamese military’s active provocation, and the Royal Navy was compelled to return fire.”
By the end of the night, the Far East Combined Operations Command had not pursued the matter further, but a telegram from Rear Admiral George Ball had made it clear that Admiral Bilton meant to get out as soon as possible.
This had made it clear that the Far East Combined Operations Command had accepted what the two men had said, and that at least in the division of responsibility, it had been avoided, with some degree of surprise, the possibility of being held responsible for it at a later date.
As long as there are no losses, this shelling of Haiphong Harbor, it is not difficult to make a big deal out of it. Maybe in some Conservative Party voters, this is still a thing to be happy, my Great Britain invincible ah ……
But in Alan Wilson’s own point of view, there is another place to celebrate, this point is also the old father’s love for his son, this incident may be used as a rehearsal for the future of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, for the U.S. planted a script.
The Tokyo Bay incident was a landmark event in the U.S.’s full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War, and of course this incident has always been in keeping with the U.S.’s political tradition of making a big deal out of a small incident, which is more than enough to stand up to the USS Maine incident.
There were reports at the time that the United States had entered the Vietnam War after an unprovoked attack in Tokyo Bay. The President knew these reports were false. At the time, the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox was stationed off the coast of North Vietnam, near the Gulf of Tonkin. Two days later, the Johnson administration claimed another attack. After the second attack, the U.S. Congress almost unanimously passed a resolution allowing the federal government to “take all necessary measures” to protect U.S. troops in Vietnam.
Within forty-eight hours, Washington had accomplished a unification of the two major attitudes toward the war in Vietnam that, arguably, even the Soviet Union under Stalin might not have been as effective.
After the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the United States fully intervened in the Vietnam War, not sneaking around like before, and finally began to personally take the field and educate this disobedient little regime.
After the current shelling of Haiphong, if the Royal Navy had returned in one piece, it might have increased the boldness of the U.S. Navy, and perhaps the Gulf of Tokyo incident would have erupted even earlier. But the Americans do not have to thank Alan Wilson, this is all a by-product of the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States, he is ready to hide deep and ready to leave Saigon.
In fact, Su Yang and others left a few days earlier than him, there is no way, who let Allen Wilson is such a person, like personal heroism to do the work of breaking the back.
Without these big buyers, Allen Wilson was more relaxed, likewise Vivien Lei was more relaxed, enjoying these cozy days in a third country where no one knew the two of them, but there was still Natsumi and Yachigusa Kaoru.
“It seems that the US has high hopes for South Vietnam.” When it was time for lunch, Vivien Leigh waited until Alan Wilson returned, knowing that the man must have gone to the American Embassy again, she said as she stepped forward to help take off her jacket.
Although the two Asian stars under the banner were present, the Great British Treasure didn’t care anymore, during this time as long as they weren’t blind, they could all see the relationship between the two men, and there was no point in covering their ears.
“Expect? That’s true!” Alan Wilson laughed bitterly, although he understood that this was the biggest disappointment in the middle of the Cold War in the United States, could not help but speak, “Each country is different, the United States will not put expectations on any country for no reason, to do so, indicating that it is profitable.”
“Japan’s position would be fortunate, after all, blockading the Soviet Union’s Far East deep into the Pacific. That’s even if it’s exploitable. For some time to come, Japan’s strategic space is kind of loose.”
“Is that so?” Yachigusa Kaoru looked at this Englishman with bated breath, this period of time Allen Wilson’s means of turning over the clouds, she also saw with her own eyes, and in her heart she couldn’t help but believe these words.
“Of course!” Allen Wilson straightened his waist, saying that my means of turning the tide you haven’t seen yet, such as the Canberra Japan Reparations Conference, that was the real pinnacle of the work.
“Eat first!” Vivien Leigh’s eyes rippled with light, and she remembered Marilyn Monroe saying that many American soldiers were in Asia, and their main purpose was to find exotic flavors.
Under the moonlight, the breeze blew in from the window, drying the sweat stains on the two people embracing each other, Vivien Lei still solemnly asked the question in her heart, “You won’t have any idea about the two of them.”
“It seems like it’s not the first time you’ve asked?” Alan Wilson thought back for a moment and replied with a smile, “What’s wrong with you? Always asking such unexplained questions.”
“I just wanted to ask.” Clasping her hands tightly around this man, Vivien Leigh stared straight into the man’s eyes, “You have a previous record, you did this in New Delhi. How could I not think more about it?”
Ugh! Alan Wilson couldn’t argue with that, because it was a fact, but not a mistake. Faced with a woman who appeared in his precinct, like Vivienne, who held her hand? A display of prime ministerial talent was the instinctive response of most men.
“You still have an idea.” Seeing Alan Wilson did not say anything, Fei Wenli shyly said, “I knew it, you still like young, maybe even have a plan.”
“What more plans do I need? I’ll just talk to the two of them directly. Ask them what they need, what kind of help I can provide, what they can give me in return, what plan is needed?”
Seeing that the Great British Treasure was suffering, Alan Wilson opened his mouth and teased the other party, as if he already had a draft in his mind.
Retaliation ensued, and this night the Great British Treasure took a lot of initiative, Allen Wilson faced a battle that was no easier than the two sides facing off in Hanoi, to the point that he slept until noon the next day.
When they got up, Natsume and Kaoru Yachigusa’s gaze toward Allen Wilson became strangely uncertain. But the one-brained Imperial Commissioner didn’t notice this.
He received a telegram from Whitehall about the progress of Britain’s hydrogen bomb research, which was a big deal that he couldn’t let a few people know about, and the precedent of West Berlin’s thinly veiled sale hadn’t been forgotten so quickly.
West Berlin is not unable to sell, but sold too cheap, thinking about it, on Allen Wilson’s second brother got the benefit.
This kind of big thing to settle down, both to prevent the Soviet Union, but also to be wary of the United States, from the United Kingdom in the post-war by the United States after the destruction of the contract, restrictions ensue, because the United States and the Soviet Union after the start of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union on the world’s uranium and plutonium mining control is very strict, the United Kingdom is also in the United States of America in the list of defenses.
Last year, the Soviet Union successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, breaking the U.S. hydrogen bomb monopoly. The United Kingdom, which is in the position of catching up, has also tried its best, even letting MI6, the earliest professional intelligence department in modern society, to collect intelligence continuously.
Every time the U.S. conducts a hydrogen bomb test, the British Navy ships will carry these intelligence officers to secretly sneak into the test area for data collection and investigation. Whether it was a land test, an air test or an undersea test, the British would always appear in the end.
It is hard to imagine that this kind of follow the United States at the same time, while their own development of the country is the United Kingdom, the impression of the Soviet Union to do so. But there is no need to doubt that it is the UK that is doing this now. Britain, which had taken control of the American experimental data, was now ready to bring out its own results.
In the telegram, Whitehall said that the biggest problem was still the problem of the test site, just when everything was ready, the British suddenly realized that they did not have a suitable test site, and for this reason they could only carry out the test work through overseas colonies. It goes without saying that the fact that the British mainland was small, and that the hydrogen bomb was much more powerful than the atomic bomb, seemed to be a problem when placed in British Malaya.
Eventually the Labor government took advantage of this help and made a deal with the French to provide a test site to solve the problem of the test site, which was tentatively set in the Gobi Desert, midway between Algeria and Libya, as the test site for the first British hydrogen bomb test.
“The Gobi Beaches, midway between Algeria and Libya?” Alan Wilson asked Lt. Col. Klein if he had any maps of Africa, and received a negative reply, “You’re soldiers, how come you don’t even have any maps?”
“Commissioner Wilson, this is Asia.” Lt. Colonel Klein replied with a bitter smile, “We have to see reality too right? We are serving in Asia, what’s the point of preparing a map of Africa? If we want to go to Africa, the Department of Defense will prepare it.”
“Alright! It’s my fault.” Alan Wilson expressed his apology, thinking about the possible consequences of a nuclear test.
Obviously the timing of the test was still up in the air right now, but that wasn’t the big deal, the big deal was what kind of consequences would be triggered if Algeria was chosen as the test site. Although France provided the test site, it did not lose out, France did a small favor to Britain, but once the nuclear test was successful, Britain was considered to have done a big favor to France.
Wouldn’t this be a deterrent to Algerian independence, Alan Wilson thought, and France made a lot of money. The UK had done nothing more than save the cost of the nuclear test site, a few hundred thousand pounds to hold out.