Chapter 798: A Visit to Washington
“Please sit!” Alan Wilson, who went upstairs, made a please gesture, let Su Yang sit down, and brought himself two cups to pour the waterway, “Don’t blame the poor care, as you can see, Pamela is talking about things.”
Su Yang sat squarely, palms attached to the cups, waiting for the following, the reason why he came to the door today was purely because he was entrusted by someone, regarding the issue of a friend’s conflict with the British military.
“The matter of coca, I will pay attention to it.” Alan Wilson took a sip of water and calmly opened his mouth to assure him, “When I know who it is, I will give him an explanation when the time comes. It will definitely satisfy him.”
“Then thank you, Lord Zhongtang.” Su Yang let go of the worry in his heart as soon as he heard this, “Actually, I shouldn’t have bothered Lord Zhongtang, because it involves an Englishman, it must be troublesome for you to deal with it.”
“Trouble?” Alan Wilson’s face was very wonderful, as if he wanted to laugh out loud but couldn’t do so, “Do you think that I would, out of a country’s considerations, run into this kind of thing and would side with the British, not to mention that it could be an officer of the British army?”
Su Yang nodded his head, his attitude was already self-evident, that’s what he thought, finding Alan Wilson was nothing more than a try-and-see attitude, and didn’t think there would be any results.
“If Gouke is an ordinary person, then I may just casually appease a couple of words. The choice between a colonial subject and an Englishman is not at all difficult. But he’s doing pretty good business, that’s different.”
Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed and laughed straight, “If it’s any Englishman who doesn’t respect Ali Khan, there’s no need for Maharaja Ali Khan to even look for me, I’ll take the initiative to go to him, like an honorable monarch like Ali Khan, not to mention the Englishman clashing with him, even if he has his eyes on an English girl, I’d be willing to help him get it, so what’s so hard to understand.”
This is the consideration of different perspectives, standing on the side of the British is to consider the blood is thicker than water, standing in front of the Chinese this is called to take into account the overall situation, stand on either side can be, but coca’s business is doing very well, Alan Wilson must also consider the problem from the class above.
After all, the environment of the colony is special, need to rely on a trusted group to help Britain to maintain the stability of the colony. For the sake of the British Empire as a whole, some Britons with little background should be sacrificed when they ran into Chinese businessmen who were starting to get bigger.
This is completely reasonable, if Alan Wilson found out, if the British soldier who put Gu Ke into the hospital has little background, he can even give Gu Ke a chance to finish him off.
Of course Gu Ke had to leave evidence behind and put it in Allen Wilson’s place so that he could prove his infinite loyalty to the British Empire.
In the face of Su Yang’s expression of gratitude, Allen Wilson waved his hand blissfully unconcerned, and said anticlimactically, “I hope that one day, when faced with a similar choice, you and your successful businessman friends, will be able to make the same choice as me. The Soviets were right, everyone has a price, some people’s lives just don’t mention it all the time, none of us are the kind of people who aren’t worth anything in terms of value, right?”
Alan Wilson implied that Su Yang these big buyers and himself is a kind of people, not and the so-called Chinese group is a kind of people’s, different nationalities of billionaires, originally than a nationality of the rich and poor, more like the same kind. He didn’t think he was wrong, even if he only entertained Su Yang with a glass of water now, it was still a kindred spirit.
Then he sent Su Yang downstairs, by the way, saw his wife downstairs slightly strong negotiation conditions, if replaced by others that is a big talk, replaced by the wife well? Do the right thing, it should be done.
“I want to take an equity stake in the four families’ businesses, they are willing to sell their shares at half price, but it’s mutual, to exchange holdings.” Pamela Mountbatten tiptoed up after the talk, and seeing her husband reading the telegram, spoke to herself and inquired, “What do you think of it, dear?”
“The four of them together have assets of less than two hundred million pounds, don’t they?” Alan Wilson replied with a double mind, “The Mountbatten Group’s assets last year alone were over three point five billion. Don’t they feel that they are losing out? If they don’t feel that, exchanging a small amount of shares will be fine, several of them are family businesses, a small amount of shareholding won’t change the decision making. A large number of shares exchanged we lose out.”
“I’ll call the accounting firm tomorrow and count the industries of several families.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, she was not going to lose out.
Alan Wilson nodded, holding the telegraph report, “Father may be visiting the United States in the near future, wanting to try to see if he can get the United States to transfer nuclear submarine technology.”
“Do you think it will work?” Pamela Mountbatten scanned the telegram, she still trusted her husband’s judgment.
“How should I know?” Alan Wilson spoke without even thinking, “But I think it mainly depends on how far the domestic submarines have gotten.”
He was in the British-occupied area back then, and focused on scavenging a group of German submarine talents, and he didn’t know which shipyard this group of people were now serving, and he wasn’t in the country to inquire about these things.
“Let’s see what technology we can have in our hands to exchange, steam catapults are not enough, if the blue light missiles can make progress, using the blue light missiles to talk to the Americans is also a good choice.”
Alan Wilson is also a little helpless, some things are easy to move the mouth, really to practice is not that.
That is to money, money is only one of the basic conditions, urgent is not urgent, in case of failure to force on the horse, the United Kingdom is not the Soviet Union, not the Soviet Union so strong resistance.
He decided that it is better to contribute to the persona of his father-in-law, talk about the Indian problem, three months later India will hold the Bandung Conference, if this is before Mountbatten is going to visit the United States, maybe it will talk about this matter, Mountbatten is the last British Governor-General of India, it is not likely that when visiting the United States will be asked.
“About all the reliance on nuclear weapons to solve the problem of one-sided words, but some original do not know what the occupation of the Cabinet Minister issued a ridiculous conjecture, nuclear weapons can never be a substitute for conventional weapons, is it in the face of pro-Soviet guerrillas, the United Kingdom also want to use nuclear weapons to threaten? The role of nuclear weapons in the colonies is to deter large-scale enemy attacks on the colonies, and in the face of infiltration forces of combat, but also need a strong garrison to solve, in view of this ……”
Mountbatten looked at the telegram from Kuala Lumpur and pondered when he would leave for Washington, taking down the names of the generals who had been on reasonably good personal terms with the US military during the Great War, to see if they could be of use when the time came, and of course among them was his son-in-law’s contacts, McCarthy, who had completed his trip to Japan to the acclaim of the Republican Party.
“Reading Allen’s telegrams again?” Edwina glanced at the contents of the telegram in her husband’s hand with a flirtatious air,, “A long time ago, I seem to remember that you were always putting up obstacles to Pamela’s marriage.”
“I don’t deny that either. The fact that I finally agreed to a marriage between the two was also because it was unlikely that my title would be inherited by Pamela, and having a loving husband to take care of her ultimately made me agree to the marriage between the two.”
Mountbatten also did not hide from his wife that he would never have compromised if Alan Wilson had had feelings for his eldest daughter Patricia, he was not enlightened enough to do that.
“As it stands now, the two have a solid relationship.” Edwina said approvingly, “It doesn’t matter if they are nobles or not, there are always some people who can break through that boundary.”
Example wasn’t the only one, Edwina and Mountbatten’s marriage was also a standard union of interests. There was an example to follow, and the youngest daughter, who had to marry her son-in-law, had inherited the family tradition.
“I’m going to visit America; you’ll come with me.” Mountbatten touched his wife’s face in invitation.
“Yes!” Edwina nodded with a smile, knowing that this visit would not be easy and that her husband would need someone around him.
Mountbatten was no stranger to the United States, as he had personally attended the Anglo-American conference in Quebec.
When discussing Operation Overlord, Mountbatten had also once spoken under the guise of an amphibious warfare expert, but in fact it was all on behalf of the British government, bargaining with the United States, only with a layer of military identity on him.
At that time, Mountbatten also got acquainted with U.S. President Roosevelt, and Roosevelt’s son established a good personal relationship.
In the meeting, as a condition of letting the U.S. lead Operation Overlord, Britain’s General Alexander became Supreme Commander of the Mediterranean Theater, while Mountbatten became Supreme Commander of the newly formed Allied Southeast Asia Theater.
Roosevelt painfully agreed to Churchill’s nomination of these two British generals, especially Mountbatten, whom Roosevelt liked best among the senior British generals.
Now, when I think about it, this was twelve years ago, and Roosevelt, then President of the United States, had died after a long illness. Now Churchill had also retired from politics, and Eisenhower, who had kept up a correspondence during the war, became President of the United States.
Allen Wilson’s telegram also indicated that a visit should be made while Eisenhower’s presidency was in progress.
In his eyes, the Republican Party was always going to be better to reach out to, and one individual had likewise expressed similar views and preferred the Republican Party.
Eisenhower was still a military man, and was the same type of military man as Mountbatten, and always had some common ground. It’s always easier to reach out than that Kennedy down the road, and if Kennedy was easy to reach out to, he wouldn’t end up with his skull flying out the door.
Mountbatten has the support of his wife, after the Cabinet’s consent, Mountbatten formed a British military delegation officially began a visit to the United States, in fact, he has just taken office a week.
So eager to visit, without the support of Prime Minister Adderley certainly not, Adderley also hope that Mountbatten can make the relationship between Britain and the United States further, the Korean War Britain firmly stood by and watched the move, Washington is not a little bit of opinion without.
Before the visit, Mountbatten also specializes in understanding the progress of the British nuclear submarine program, so that you can communicate with the United States, do to each other to understand, so that the Comet airliner full of British military delegation across the Atlantic Ocean, landed in Washington.