Chapter 823: The United States is also responsible

Everyone knows very well in their hearts that the result of this talk will determine the future of Sudan, which has two and a half million square kilometers of land. The representatives of all parties have different moods, and the leaders of the two major parties in Sudan think that coming to the south is nothing more than going through the motions.

Yorke Kizdon, of the U.S. Representative Office in Sudan, is excited about expanding U.S. influence in Africa, which would immediately transform him into an ambassador to a country with a place in the U.S. bureaucracy once Sudan becomes independent.

And it’s a landmark event for the U.S. He himself may have been a witness to see the British and French hand over the established system to America.

“So the Americans are overjoyed.” John spoke up with an irritated look on his face, “York Kizzleton is happy to show up at this time so that Washington remembers him and the road ahead is much better.”

“It’s all about progress, we’re officials too and know his heart very well.” Allen Wilson hemmed and hawed, and opened his mouth to reassure his colleague who had just arrived in Juba, “But this matter, how can it be so simple. The Americans are just witnessing the process of Sudanese independence and showing the influence of the United States? There are no negative effects?”

“You mean?” John froze, a thoughtful look flashed across his face as he said uncertainly, “There are two sides to any matter.”

“Not bad!” Alan Wilson nodded approvingly and smiled very happily, “Since the cabinet has endorsed our plan of partition, let’s think about the previous example, how did many countries view the independence of British India?”

Needless to say, although as pro-lifers, both of them knew that Britain had not intentionally split British India, and had even thought about keeping the subcontinent intact, the end result was the partition of India and Pakistan.

And most of the countries in the world believed that Britain was intentionally causing the division of British India into a country that held each other back, and at the moment could not be said to be deeply hostile, but looked at each other in a bad light.

Allen Wilson two of course is considered very wronged, partition is not the British means of governing the colonies, on the contrary, Britain is keen to merge the colonies for unified management, but who believes it?

People only believe in the results they see, Britain has a history of colonization, the bottom is not clean, once the pro-exit to make bad talk appeared, immediately in the world widely spread.

“So we are giving the Americans the stage to exert their influence, only for the Americans to witness the division of Sudan.” John nodded his head uncertainly and asked rhetorically, “And that is, for the US to help out a bit with the UK sharing the blame for the division of Sudan?”

“Of course, otherwise what use would the Americans be? The discussion on the topic of racial discrimination inspired by the slave trade is the same reason. John, we all know in our hearts, of course, that within the United States nowadays, the rejection of blacks is still commonplace. But in the diplomatic realm, the United States, in order to maintain the shining image of the United States, will definitely try to maintain the results after the Civil War, and pretend that it will also pretend to be different from the black slave trade.”

Allen Wilson was not salty about the sarcasm, “Would York Kizzleton say the Negro trade was good? No way, so he would have hypocritically criticized the history of the Negro trade. Then there’s a second problem that follows, with so much hatred between Arabs and blacks over the slave trade, partition would be logical.”

“You’ve thought of a lot, one thing leads to another.” John let out a light laugh and said with a look of admiration, “Why else are you highly regarded by Whitehall, how can others be commissioners and not hang on to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the Overseas Assets Management Council?”

“Uh, but then again, our superior is really going to retire this time, in fact, when British India became independent, Sir Barron already didn’t want to work, it’s just that he was two years short of his age at the time, and when he arrived in Aden now five or six years have passed, this time it seems that he really wants to enjoy his old age.”

Seeing his colleague’s face listening with interest, Alan Wilson suddenly turned his words to look at John, “Once Sudan becomes independent, you, the commissioner, will not have a working environment, do you want to just shake it off and become an ambassador? That would be fine, but people like us are better suited to make a mark in other fields.”

We’re all career bureaucrats, so who’s worse than who? Alan Wilson wouldn’t just be concerned about how his old boss’s retirement was going, and saying such things in front of a soon-to-be useless Sudanese commissioner pointed in a rather obvious direction.

“The Middle East is but very important to the British Empire, the local commissioner should be served by a reliable person.” John looked out the window without slanting his eyes and sounded very serious.

“Exactly!” Allen Wilson, who snapped …… lit a cigar, exhaled a smoke ring, “It should indeed be very reliable. The Middle East is a very crucial place for maintaining the influence of the British Empire, and the commissioner in Aden looks after the Suez Canal to the west, and his eyes can see the Persian Gulf to the east.”

“Especially for the country’s oil companies.” John nodded thoughtfully and asked bashfully, “Alan, who do you think would be a better fit for this reliable person? As the Deputy Secretary General of the Overseas Asset Management Board, you have a great deal of say in such overseas assets.”

“This is a very complicated issue, I think we’d better see if we can get the thorny issue at hand taken care of. It’s only then that we’ll have more power to advise before Whitehall and the Cabinet.” Handing a cigar at the same time, Alan Wilson answered his colleague’s question from the side.

“Right on!” John nodded solemnly and then lit his cigar as the room fell into a long silence.

Not all colonies have a governor, but every colony has a commissioner, some very important colonies, the governor and the commissioner also coexist, Sudan among the British colonies, because and Egypt in the condominium relationship, the situation is still more complicated.

Before World War II, when Britain still had enough strength to maintain its interests, there was a governor in Sudan, but after the war, when the Egyptian people rebelled against Britain, the colonial policy began to be adjusted, and Britain and Egypt also negotiated around the issue of Sudan, and in the end, it was Egypt that gave up the military presence in Sudan, and Britain withdrew the governor and part of the garrison.

So it became a situation where a commissioner and 3,000 garrison troops administered a colony of two and a half million square kilometers, not much smaller than India.

To this day there has not been a big mess, also thanks to the excellent matching mechanism of the African Region.

Juba, the capital of South Sudan, Ismail Azari and Abd Rahman Mahdi, the leaders of the two major Sudanese parties, York Kizton, representing the United States, and Joseph Agu, representing South Sudan and the local military, under the auspices of the Sudanese commissioner, will engage in a very far-reaching negotiation for the sake of Sudan’s fate.

There was nothing for Alan Wilson to do, he wouldn’t be attending the official meeting, after all, the proper Sudanese commissioner was right here busy, and he, a man who had come over purely as a favor, couldn’t just clamor and give directions at the meeting.

Play a senior wingman, is Alan Wilson’s current duties, it is easy to maintain the feelings between colleagues. Anyway, how to operate, all the preliminaries have been planned, nothing big will happen.

“It’s very generous of you to run to such a marginalized corner of the world and contribute to others.” Hedy Lamarr grumbled and spoke, while Alan Wilson didn’t care about such gains and losses, she wasn’t happy about it anymore, thinking that doing something good and giving credit to someone else just seemed stupid.

“John is a commissioner equal to me, I just have a part time job to be able to manage him, don’t you dare think he’s my subordinate. And being an official also requires friends, I can’t pay attention to everything, most of the time I can only pay attention to the Malayan colony that I manage, other things need to be told to me by my colleagues.”

Alan Wilson was soft spoken, hugging Hedy Lamarr and explaining, “Can I manage to come over to the colony myself? I can’t, in fact, every colony commissioner can’t either, we are all ordinary people, facing different problems, so often contact can take advantage of the strengths and weaknesses of a place where things go wrong, are the colony commissioner can provide different experiences to cope with.”

“As long as you’re okay with it, who am I to complain. I fish not your wife!” Hedy Lamarr brushed her head away and grumbled in a small voice, obviously not yet convinced.

“You can’t say that, in my mind you’re as important as a wife and have equal status.” Reaching out, he broke Hedy Lamarr’s head over and kissed the shadow queen’s red lips heavily, the convincing still going on.

In the middle of the long-abandoned Governor’s Palace of South Sudan, a rare landmark building in Juba, the head figures of North and South Sudan, as well as the representatives of Britain and the United States in Sudan who had arrived, had officially begun negotiations.

As for Alan Wilson, he is laughing and joking with the South Sudanese garrison, even though the military chief of the South Sudanese garrison is a major. British troops in South Sudan, to ensure the safety of the representatives of this negotiation, after all, Alan Wilson on the local security is still not quite assured, this place in Africa, anything can happen.

Especially recently, South Sudan’s military chief, Joseph Agu, can be everywhere pulling hatred, for independence from the Sudan to strengthen the momentum, there is also borrowed military facilities and outside contact, for the pre-partition of the Sudan to prepare public opinion.

“We will never stay in a country with the Arabs.” In the middle of the Governor’s Palace of South Sudan, Joseph Agu clapped his teeth and expressed his hatred for the Arabs, his eyes swept over Ismail Azari and Abd al-Rahman Mahdi, and spoke without fear, “We were not a colony, it was the British who unilaterally amalgamated the colonies, and that is what created the situation today. ”

What Joseph Agu said was also true, North and South Sudan were merged and united under one administration only after the Second World War, and at that time it was still like the old days, when the British were still contributing to national integration, according to the tradition of constantly being among the major colonies.

“Honorable Colonel, the hatred of the past should perhaps be put aside.” York Kizzleton opened his mouth to make peace.