Chapter 816 – North Sea Oil

“That’s true, but?” John wanted to speak, and spoke with a difficult look on his face, “It’s not easy, is it?”

If contraction was that easy, the United States wouldn’t be all over the place decades later.

Who would give away land that they had put time and effort into, as long as there was a little room to fight for it?

“But we need to avoid colonial fallout on the home front. The group in India is a special case, and I don’t believe anyone would compare those of Tata, Bilal, and Maharaja Ali Khan to ordinary people.” Alan Wilson sighed and said, “Right now there are many more colonies, and there’s no telling how many thousands and tens of thousands go on retreat at a time and all end up back on the mainland. And for now, Sudan’s independence is the beginning of independence for the British colonies in Africa, we provide an example, the agreement is made, and the independence of future colonies will be handled according to the current standard.”

“That’s right, it doesn’t look like much of a problem now, but inside the framework of the entire colony, it becomes a big deal.” John’s face changed slightly, and he felt shivering when he thought of the future scene of the mainland being filled with foreigners all over the place.

As Alan Wilson had said, it was only a sultan, but it was more than a sultan in the hands of Britain in Africa.

Even if it does not live up to the former heyday from Cairo to Cape Town, the existing colonies living in the diaspora, is still a not insignificant number.

Even if Britain is not pursuing the rule of the colonies, really pull back, this is also a long process. It wasn’t the unified action in South Asia in the first place, and it might have been decades long.

Neither man would necessarily still be able to care at that point, so providing an example of how to deal with groups that intermarried with the locals had been imperative, and it was a way to give the other colonial commissioners, an example of what to do by the book.

It certainly wasn’t easy, and along with the garrison plus the expatriates in Khartoum, it wasn’t that tricky. What was tricky was the offspring of the union of these people with the colony, what to do with this group.

That was what John found tricky and looked at Alan Wilson, also a colonial commissioner, “What would you do if something like this happened in Malaya?”

“It is the Sultan who is in trouble now, not Malaya, my friend.” Alan Wilson corrected his longtime friend, “This is a matter where we need to get the representatives of an independent Sudan to come forward and relieve us of the moral burden of being unsympathetic. Since they want to fight for independence, I believe that making such a promise will not be a problem.”

Alan Wilson, though, was intending that the British troops in the colonies should leave their wives and children behind, and not be able to bring back to England their offspring with the natives.

But this kind of thing was more offensive, he did not want to do it himself despite the risk, and it was better if the Sudanese came forward.

If John had known the saying about a million flowers and not a single leaf, he would have used it to describe his colleague’s cock-up.

It was clear that he was the one who wanted to cut off the product of some expatriates who couldn’t keep their pants on, but he had to ask the Sudan to take the initiative.

That’s for sure, and isn’t the new post-independence government prepared to show a little fraternity?

As long as the Sudanese offered, Alan Wilson was absolutely not at all polite and just went along with it, in order to honor the sentiments of the Sudanese people and allow the British bastards to stay in Sudan and shine for the newborn country.

This is also for the good of these marginalized groups, although there is an Indian community in Britain itself, but the number of people is not very large, to put it politely, are the original Allen Wilson hand-issued residence permits, per capita million pounds of assets.

Such people London government is welcome, London citizens will not resent to where. Allen Wilson is also generous so once, that kind of thing will not be at all in the future.

From this point of view, he was worthy of being an old friend of the Indian people and gave India special treatment.

Now the time has changed, Sudan’s situation and India is not quite the same, the key is the Sudan this country in Africa, if generous to take all the people back, in the future, the independence of the African colonies have followed the example of a group of black people back? Thinking about it is difficult.

It would be fine if both blacks and greens took part in the same thing, but if they both took part in the same thing, the servant of the empire would not be able to get over the hurdle of his own heart.

He has always respected the most successful peace religion culture in the agricultural era, especially that kind of extremely difficult to assimilate the characteristics of what China, what India is just a figure of fun, and the speed of expansion of the religion of peace compared to nothing.

Really when the three religions appeared the latest, the fastest expanding religion is a joke, no great voyage of Christ the world is surrounded.

Two people after a discussion, immediately acted separately, liquidation of the British colonial Sudan, left how many and colonial people formed a family, it should not be much, if the French colonies do not need to check, the Latin people are famous can not control the crotch.

The world did not revolve around an imperial commissioner, while he was busy with the winding up of the British Empire in Sudan.

There were also major events happening all over the world with their own far-reaching consequences, and while the United States hadn’t forgotten to launch a tirade against the founding of the Warsaw Pact, Eisenhower wasn’t putting all of his energies into the confrontation.

Although he was a military president, he initiated the great infrastructure project of the U.S. He used the prestige he had built up in World War II to push forward the strategic highway program of the U.S. Where the huge construction funds would come from became the crux of the problem.

Eisenhower forcefully argued for the prescription of a package of methods to cure deflation with federal financial investment, increase employment, increase income, and raise taxes.

After smoothing out opposition from all sides, the great infrastructure project, which has served the country well into the 21st century, was officially launched in 1955, with a long-term investment of up to 100 billion dollars, accounting for a quarter of the U.S. national economy today.

A telegram from Kuala Lumpur arrives in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, with the news that from South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Yen has initiated a referendum, and that the situation is very unfavorable for Bao Dai.

As a card that had been used by the French, it was clear that the Americans were not using it very well, and still hoped that Ngo Dinh Yen, who had more of a connection with the United States, would take control of this bridgehead of resistance to the pro-Soviet forces moving south.

Alyssa this telegram, because of the Paul the Emperor’s inquiry, once the referendum result is unfavorable to him, the original commitment is valid, this commitment is of course Alan Wilson, Malayan Chinese eyes of the Lord made in the middle of the hall.

Receiving the telegram, Allen Wilson immediately called back to Alisa that the previous promise was of course valid, so that Emperor Paul could rest assured.

Keep in touch with his wife, there is no need to send telegrams to Kuala Lumpur, Pamela Mountbatten has returned to the United Kingdom, not because of the women’s movement in the fist, but the good news of the North Sea oil appeared, if the discovery of other oil resources, the benefits are still obtained by the British oil companies, the discovery of oil in the North Sea, to the United Kingdom to bring greater benefits.

You know in the first oil crisis, the United Kingdom is dependent on the output of North Sea oil, in Europe a woeful situation, to maintain a good economic development. Otherwise, as early as during the oil crisis, Britain’s economy was also overtaken by Italy, becoming Europe’s oldest four.

With its own oil resources in hand, Britain will be more comfortable in dealing with the situation in the Middle East.

The news of Britain’s discovery of oil in the North Sea brought an unexpected consequence, the French government’s attitude towards Algeria has become increasingly tough, the French expeditionary force embarked in the port of Toulon, with the expectations of the French government, the French military’s belief in the shame of the French military, once again embarked on the journey.

Almost every day, the Mediterranean Sea, a new troop ship appeared, in the eyes of the French, Vietnam is, after all, far away from 10,000 miles. Algeria, on the other hand, is only a Mediterranean Sea away, so there is absolutely no problem.

And the major French newspapers, agitating in a very aggressive tone, “Algeria is the natural extension of French territory to the south, and we will never abandon our Algerian brothers.”

At this moment, there could be no lack of support from the other side of the Anglo-French alliance, and Pamela Mountbatten, who had returned to London, got the power of the media in her hands on board, with a slogan that went even further, “There are no Algerians, there are only Gobbledygook Francophiles.”

She, who had been in correspondence with her husband, took Alan Wilson at his word, “Something must be done about strong repression. Our French friends are willing to do it, and we should take an encouraging attitude and then sneak in and get the business at hand done while the attention is off us.”

Having been given the instructions for the bogeyman, the originator, Pamela Mountbatten, went straight to the BP people to talk about it.

Because the North Sea also involves Holland, the negotiations are also with the Anglo-Dutch Shell oil company.

Pamela Mountbatten is a newcomer to the oil field and may be inexperienced compared to these established oil companies.

But with Allen Wilson’s words and teachings, Pamela Mountbatten understands the importance of Brent crude oil, otherwise she would not have directly departed back to meet with the relevant oil giants.

In fact the discovery of Brent crude oil did not just shock these oil giants. Shocked was also the British government, and by now there was no doubt in any country’s mind about the importance of oil.

Modern society cannot do without this fuel, but the place where oil has been produced for a long time is the Persian Gulf. European countries are extremely dependent on oil from the Persian Gulf, and this pitfall is not invisible to governments, but there is no way around it.

In the previous conflict with Iran, Britain relied on the Persian Gulf garrison, and the influence of the world empire, and the Iranian government fought for a long time, but ultimately gave up the unequal distribution agreement, and Tehran shook hands and made peace.

This also has the United States and the Soviet Union explicit and implicit pressure, Britain had to pay attention to the eating, can not be as unreasonable as before the war.

Although on the surface there is nothing, and the confrontation with Iran also achieved a decent result. But that incident still makes London’s heart alert, worried about the situation of oil dependence on the Persian Gulf.

And now, the Labor government seems to be able to rest assured for the time being, if it is a big oil field, there is no doubt that it will satisfy a great demand of Britain, and get rid of the situation of being subjected to others.