Chapter 818 The Peak of This Life

“Nehru, Nehru ……” Starting from the Delhi Gate, countless Indians came from all corners of the country, forming a wall of people who could not see the head at a glance, chanting Nehru’s name and cheering for the Prime Minister for presiding over this Asian-African Conference and laying down India’s leadership in the Asian-African countries They cheered.

Standing in the open-top car, facing the mountain whooping and cheering Nehru, see this scene can not help but feel proud, for the Indian people from the bottom of their hearts love to move, and constantly to the cheering people waved to salute.

There is no doubt that the biggest star of the Bandung Conference was Nehru as the initiator. Although after a number of countries to make things difficult, Nehru finally let this time the conference successfully held, the whole of India is proud of this.

Nehru did not know, such pride is not all good, perhaps at some time, will also become the source of India’s bad luck, but at this moment, all the Indian people’s love, so he was immensely satisfied, the whole of India’s problems are still a lot of, he still has a lot of ideas to be completed.

Even Nehru himself, has rarely seen such a scene, has been back to the Prime Minister’s Office he can not forget the scene just sandwiched between the welcome, and this is what he seeks, has been fighting for something.

After Patel’s death, Nehru was committed to the organizational and ideological unification of the Congress Party. Nehru advocated a uniquely Indian form of socialism.

Nehru repeatedly emphasized that industrialization was the only way. Instead of changing the existing social system and ownership structure by force or dispossession, basic and important industries were nationalized and agricultural land was co-operatively and collectively managed under the premise of parliamentary democracy.

The mixed economy became an institution that was central to the long-term strategy of the Indian economy.

Public and private economies coexisted, with the public sector dominating. The state effectively regulated the mixed economy by means of planning.

Under these circumstances, the Tata Group and the Birla Consortium’s assets of up to three hundred million dollars were left unharmed, and since it was not possible to use strong-arm tactics to deal with these conglomerates, it was necessary to think of other ways.

Fortunately, in the first five-year plan, Nehru has not had to face difficult opponents, some power stations and a number of large-scale water conservancy projects established. Industrial development, capital investment in favor of transportation and key industrial sectors, especially fertilizers, steel, machine tools and other basic industries. A number of state enterprises were built. Ground was broken for three state-owned iron and steel enterprises that attracted foreign investment from Britain, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Soviet Union.

Although he did not want to fall out with the U.S., the Mysore iron ore mine was so important to India that Nehru could not tolerate it to be outside the control of the Indian government.

In general, in addition to the Mysore iron ore this one thing can not be compromised, other things Nehru is still very restrained.

But he knew very well in his heart, the first five-year plan can be regarded as India’s independence after the fine-tuning, the second five-year plan to start, will no longer be a small fight, he will face resistance will be unprecedentedly large.

He needed popular support to face this resistance, the greater the resistance, the greater the support Nehru needed.

Land reform is the core of the agricultural development strategy, this is what Nehru must do, otherwise India will not have a sea change, he can not pursue a step, can come slowly, but must be done.

Although the road ahead is difficult, but Nehru believes that he can put India’s problems.

Nehru who was in a good mood, even his daughter Indira Gandhi could see it, Indira Gandhi, who had not seen her father for more than half a month, expressed her congratulations to Nehru, “This time it has raised India’s prestige in the world, and of course I have heard that Japan, Liberia, and the Philippines, who are speaking for the U.S.A., have created a lot of trouble.”

“There is trouble.” In the face of his daughter’s question, Nehru did not evade and told the truth about some of the problems faced in the Bandung Conference, including the extremely difficult diplomatic problems.

In fact, if we are realistic, support China and North Vietnam appeared in such a high-profile meeting? Among the more than twenty participating countries, speak for these two countries that have just disgraced the United States and France? Only India itself.

India struggled to find supporters at the Bandung Conference, and in the end, only Myanmar helped India with its two cents.

“Though India and the US do not have a good relationship, this time father must have still annoyed the US.” Indira Gandhi couldn’t help but feel a little worried when she heard it, “With the arrogant personality of the Americans, will there be trouble?”

The low point between India and the US comes from Kashmir, which is the home of the Nehru family, and the US wants Kashmir to become independent, how will this Nehru family agree? At the same time the US was also very unhappy with India’s unwillingness to come close to the US and always talking about independence internationally, and after the Korean War, it started providing military aid to Pakistan.

“Indira, India is not a small country and the US is not the only power in this world. Mr. Khrushchev has been kind to India alone.” Nehru wasn’t too worried, he thought that with India’s size, it was a country that neither the US nor the Soviet Union would want to leave out in the cold, and even if the relationship was bad, it wouldn’t last long.

Indira Gandhi listened to his father’s words for a long time and also nodded his head in recognition, not to continue to delve into this issue, at this moment his father, is the hero of the whole of India, how can be considered a good thing.

Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, Alan Wilson holding a telegram about the Bandung Conference, scratching his scalp from time to time, while the table next to him is placed on the Indian newspaper, the newspaper has Nehru returned to New Delhi, the scene of 10,000 people in the streets.

“So many people?” John came in and caught a glimpse of the newspaper on the table and spoke up meaningfully and commented, “That’s true, India has never lacked for such things as population.”

“According to Churchill, they multiply like cockroaches.” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed, then placed the report of the Bandung Conference on the table as well, “This is outrageous, this ordinary conference deserves such extensive coverage?”

“A coalition of a bunch of poor countries?” John was not at all impressed either, hitting his eyes and noticing the Chinese newspaper on the table again, inquiring, “You’re really well informed?”

“I’m the Malayan Commissioner, and the Bandung Conference was held right next to the colony.” Alan Wilson smiled and explained, “The very guilty point is that I really don’t know Malayan, or else I’d like to see how Sukarno brags about himself.”

Heh heh, the two men burst out laughing in unison, as if remembering something happy.

“You’ve come all the way to Africa and you’re still so concerned about Malaya.” John couldn’t help but sigh, “I’m really sorry if I let you come over to help this time.”

“John, don’t say that, we are experienced professionals after all. Dealing with independence is sort of the right thing to do.” Alan Wilson waved his hand and said, “All for existence, existence is everything.”

So much for the Bandung Conference, the two men only had some private discussions, and on a broader level, given Britain’s geographic location, would it care about a conference it didn’t attend ten thousand miles away? The few remaining concerns were still for the sake of the Malayan colonies.

The size of the British army in Sudan is 3,000 men, plus the expatriate community of tens of thousands of Britons in Khartoum alone.

The two have asked London for guidelines, the British army in Sudan will have a part of the withdrawal of Africa, return to the mainland or replenish the British army in Germany, in short, is to return to Europe.

As for the remaining part, it is a change of defense, although the evacuation of Sudan, but still stationed in the African colonies. In terms of distance, it should be to Kenya, the heart of British East Africa.

Neither of them had any objection to this, it was just a matter of talking to the British troops about which part would return to Europe and which part would remain in Africa. Knowing this, John, on the other hand, thought of ways he could avoid offending the garrison.

“We could keep the officers and men who form families with the locals here and let the garrison troops who have nothing to do with the locals go back home.” John said as he thought about it, “That way we six avoid making the soldiers who form families choose.”

“So I didn’t come here for nothing?” Alan Wilson shook his head outright, unimpressed, “It’s a way to avoid offending people, but it just postpones the problems, and they’ll still come up later. And then everyone will still have to hurt their heads over it. Since I’ve come for a trip, I think I’ll just solve the problems directly and not bother my future colleagues with offending people.”

“Indeed.” John nodded, since Alan Wilson was willing to solve this hidden problem, he wouldn’t object.

The two men discussed and then reached a consensus to investigate the situation of the British expatriate garrison and the locals talking about marriage, since there were expatriates living in Khartoum, Alan Wilson believed that the scale of the intermarriage should not be large.

Normally, most people would not choose another local to form a family. Allen Wilson is an exception to this rule and is not averse to women from any country as long as the hardware is over the top.

The survey was divided into two parts, garrison and expatriates, and in the categorization survey it was also divided into two parts. British women marrying Sudanese, and British men forming families with local women.

Alan Wilson was not at all surprised when the survey was sent in, the latter far outweighing the former. While the garrison should have been more disciplined, and the British army was considered to be one of the militarily disciplined armies in the world that could be, but to have officers and men stationed in the colonies and expect them to be monks? That is indeed a strong argument.

A few years of service to look at a pig is a good look, not to mention the fact that the people in Khartoum belong to the Arabs and are not too good to look at.

“More than eight hundred of the garrison and expatriate men maintain partnerships, and fewer than twenty of the women have families with Sudanese.” Alan Wilson took the survey, “I’ll take care of the men, the dozen women are yours.”

“I’m the Sudanese commissioner, always keep you busy on?” John spoke with some embarrassment, “How does that make me feel.”

“There is nothing wrong with it, men are rather better to settle. Men and women both think differently.” Alan Wilson didn’t care to say. For example, the weight of economic conditions in the marriage, men who are very important to money, touching such problems will straightly say that they want to struggle for twenty years less.

Women will not, women will say some seemingly not too high conditions, seemingly not as men so gold-digging, but the combination of these conditions, there are not many people can achieve, but also want to struggle for twenty years less meaning.