Chapter 802 A Visit to the Nautilus

Mountbatten had few qualms about stating his views in front of his old friends, even though his opinions sometimes sounded harsh to the other side, as they did among the Pentagon.

It is also a reflection of the fact that the British and American perspectives on the threat of the Soviet bloc were not exactly the same.

When it came to the matter of the French withdrawal from the Central South Peninsula, Mountbatten gave his own advice, “The important thing is for South Vietnam to have a national government, so that it is independent of the Bamboo Curtain, so some assistance I wouldn’t be opposed to, but to make a big deal out of it might weaken the free world.”

Next on Mountbatten’s itinerary was a trip through the U.S. to get an approved look at a U.S. nuclear submarine factory, a nuclear test site and a meeting with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which of course required a response from the White House.

Anyway, Mountbatten had time on his hands, and in the intervening period he got together with his wartime comrades and enjoyed himself. Mentally, he was ready for a protracted war.

In view of the fact that the world was far from being at peace, Allen Wilson ran to the Far East Combined Operations Command again, and heaven forbid, he definitely wasn’t indulging in the middle of a tutorial from the owner of Woodpecker Studios, well, even if there was a certain reason for that, he really did have some serious business to do, with the people of the British Command, thinking about the summary of the Battle of Ichijangshan Island.

Changgong finally looked like a ninety-nine point eight percent probability of the outcome of the liberation war battles, and was one step closer to the aircraft carrier that the free world was not, and I wondered if his father-in-law, who was visiting Washington, D.C. at the moment, and his comrades in arms at the Pentagon, talked about Changgong’s brilliant victory.

Anyway, for the time being, Allen Wilson and General Bilton, do make serious use of public information, to summarize.

“Mr. Changgong’s army really never fails to surprise.” Allen Wilson shook the whiskey in his hand and rushed to Lieutenant General Bilton, “According to the public war records, the entire war of more than three years, a total of more than a thousand battles, Chang Gong won a total of more than twenty times, more than fifty times the big battles all defeated, so this result, we are not surprised, in saying that this has nothing to do with the British Empire, it is the Americans who are concerned about the matter. ”

Some people in later generations have tarred Chang Kung as an excuse for the enemy being too strong, not for the incompetence of our military, Allen Wilson thinks it’s not even worth mentioning, counting from the time the US withdrew from Vietnam, South Vietnam still topped North Vietnam for a year.

Chang Kung was able to outlast North Vietnam solely because China was so much larger than Vietnam. Perfectly embodying Chang Gong’s vision of trading space for time in the war against Japan.

“But with battles like this one to capture the island, we would have expected a miracle.” General Bilton shook his head slightly.

“A miracle is called a miracle because it doesn’t happen much.” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed and drank the whisky in his hand with a retrospective look, “So the strategy on the Asian side, Whitehall’s idea is to use every possible means to contain the war, and as soon as the war starts, no matter what the final outcome is, Britain has already lost.”

This was especially true for British Malaya; if the war reached Malaya and the British Army lost, Britain was going to roll over.

If the British army won, Malaya was destroyed by the war and lost value in the eyes of London, and Britain still rolled over.

The bulwark of British Malaya was the Royal Navy, the only border with the rest of the country was the Isthmus of Krakatau, and in general it was still to be expected that Indonesia would want to replicate the Battle of Ichijangsan Island and give Britain a run for its money.

To put it politely, in front of the Royal Navy, this kind of death seeking behavior, it is better to hang themselves faster.

Using this battle example to discuss how to deal with Indonesia’s ambitions for British Malaya was the focus of this discussion between the two men. After all, the Sukarno government, in fact, is not the Sukarno government, is a lot of countries are at this time, has a very obvious pro-Soviet tendency.

On how to subvert the Sukarno government’s plans, the Far East Joint Operations Command have not known how many have been done, it can be said that every year in the update of the relevant plans, even the Executive Office side is also the same.

Allen Wilson didn’t expect to overthrow Sukarno, he just wanted an excuse to rely on Malaya. With Indonesia turned into a member of the hostile camp, Britain could legitimately stay and maintain its military presence in Asia in the long run as a protector of Australia and New Zealand.

Arguably, he, the Colonial Commissioner, was the biggest supporter of Greater Indonesianism, even more sincere than Sukarno’s fans within Indonesia.

He wanted to have the peripheral pattern settled before the end of his second term so that he could leave office with confidence.

It was a dilemma, a choice between the interests of the entire free world and the interests of Britain, and he was not torn between choosing the latter; the free world was far more powerful than the Soviet bloc, and it was fine to let Britain eat a little more of the dividends.

Even if Indonesia becomes an ally of the Soviet Union, Allen Wilson is not worried, in the final analysis, Indonesia is extremely fragmented country, want to turn into a strong country there are still many unfavorable conditions to overcome.

A strong nation must first of all not be too small in size and have a sufficient population, both of which are important.

Indonesia has already lost its two largest islands and is out of the running in terms of area, the population is adequate and both are already overpopulated in terms of Java’s carrying capacity.

Once overpopulated, it brings about an inward spiral in every aspect, any aspect. This has already been proven by the three East Asian countries in the twenty-first century, and Japan and South Korea also belong to a lot of population for their land.

Once rolled up, it will affect every aspect of the person, take education for example, even if the Qingbei and Oxford and Cambridge a level, but the Chinese want to go to the Qingbei difficulty, can be countless times more difficult than the British on Oxford and Cambridge. Can be compared with this difficulty, it is estimated that there is only another populous country’s Indian Polytechnic, in order to lie down a little.

Alan Wilson’s mind, Indonesia already does not have the basis of any strong country, and now only want to take advantage of a weakened version of Indonesia, for the British military presence in Asia, to provide a reason for people to widely accepted.

Leaving the British Command, Alan Wilson returned to Hedy Lamarr and Ingrid Bergman’s apartment. His wife, Pamela Mountbatten, took dozens of professionals from accounting firms and went to Xiangjiang to count the estates of the four great families.

For a short period of time, Alan Wilson could only be alone, looking for comfort here in the two movie queens to soothe his fragile heart.

As for the work of the Office of Administration, the telephone remote control command on the line, there is the West Horse Commissioner to help manage, this day Alyssa on the phone, said that a large country in the north of the administrative documents are under discussion.

“We’ll see how it works first, there’s no need to rush the implementation.” Alan Wilson’s neck clamped on the microphone, said in a relaxed tone.

A pair of thieving eyes were not idle, constantly aiming in the direction of the bathroom, Malaya’s climate is so hot, it is normal to love cleanliness and often take a shower.

Alisha’s voice on the other end of the microphone came again, “Then we’ll file the documents first and wait for you to come back.”

“No problem.” Alan Wilson agreed painfully, encouragingly, “This approach saves us a lot of energy, it’s a very smart approach.”

A large part of the development of British Malaya was to report on the attitude of learning, using the Sharing Wheel Eye to copy.

You do what you do, I do what you do, you list diseases like smallpox, leprosy, filariasis, schistosomiasis as diseases that must be eradicated, and coincidentally, the colonial government does the same.

You launch a national literacy campaign, and British Malaya also clears literacy in the colonies. You cleaned up the bandits, I cleaned up the bandits. You crack down on counter-revolution, I’ll do the same. In short, whatever policy came out that worked, the colonial government followed.

One day, when the wave of ideas sweeps over the Malayan colonies, they will realize that it makes no difference. It’s all been through this already, so naturally the desire to make trouble will be quenched.

Just as the eradication of disease is for the body to develop immunity, so Allen Wilson is building immunity in Malaya. It is also in keeping with the ethos of the British Empire that we join them and then stir things up from within.

Putting down the phone, Hedy Lamarr emerged from the bathroom with a towel on top of her head, grumbling under her breath that the tropical climate here was a challenge.

“Out so soon. I was going to go in there and rub you down.” Alan Wilson eyed the expression of wanting to be of service, having to live like this every day, being hung from a street lamp would be willing na.

“A head full of bad thoughts.” Hedy Lamarr lightly spat, this man thought she did not know, obviously want to inside drop rubbing.

But this kind of life, also let her intoxicated, in fact, think about it is nothing, compared to when in Hollywood running around, now the days have been very cozy. So some of the requirements, Hedy Lamarr also recognized one by one, as this man some special hobbies.

At this time, Mountbatten, than the son-in-law is higher than more than a paragraph, he is Hyman George Ricoffer accompanied by the world’s first nuclear submarine Nautilus above the visit, this is a very can prove the connections of the matter, Hyman George Ricoffer is the Nautilus’s chief engineer.

The two men were also acquainted, and originally the Nautilus refused to be visited by all foreigners, including the British. But ultimately in Mountbatten’s personal efforts, Hyman George Rickover opened a special exception, personally accompanied Mountbatten a person boarded this secrecy degree is extremely high among the great powers.

Than can only vertical Hollywood movie queen in the son-in-law, Mountbatten with personal experience proved that the Imperial Commissioner also figure a fun. Crisscrossing movie queens was nothing; being able to crisscross the headquarters of the three American armies was the real high point.

“Heyman, have you heard anything about the progress of the Soviet nuclear submarine?” Mountbatten’s tall body weaved its way inside the nuclear submarine, turning back to his best friend with difficulty.

“I’ve heard!” Hyman Rickover replied, bending over, “But there’s not a lot of news right now, I don’t know how far along it is.”