Chapter 837 – The World’s First Uranium Mine

Except for the firepower, Alan Wilson didn’t feel that there was any problem with the Avant-garde, a battleship that was the last class of British battleships, and all the indicators were top notch. A small firepower problem was already the least important option in the current era. It’s not like we’re at war with the US, deterring third world countries is enough.

There will be no more battleships in the naked eye’s future, and this one afterglow of the era of big-gun megaships certainly deserves to be happy to have the opportunity to fall into Allen Wilson’s hands.

Originally, the decommissioning of the avant-garde, marking the end of an era, with the battleship as the core of the Royal Navy for the United Kingdom fought for four hundred years of sea power, sail battleships witnessed the rise of the Empire of the Sunset, “avant-garde” witnessed the decline of the Empire.

When HMS Vanguard’s gun barrels were cut off and her masts toppled, it was a sign that Britain was handing over four centuries of naval power to the emerging United States. Though not perfect, HMS Vanguard was a fitting end to a long and stretched history of British battleships.

The fact that the Admiralty is now trying to preserve the size of the Royal Navy shows that Britain has not yet given up sea power, even if the size of the US Navy is now greater than that of the Royal Navy.

As for whether the battleships were still up to date, Alan Wilson felt that there was no problem, the world was not just the United States of America and the Soviet Union, there was still a large number of not-so-powerful countries waiting for the Avant-garde to play a residual role.

“One more thing, the commander of the Far East Joint Operations Command may be changing. Lieutenant General Bilton may be going into NATO.” Pamela Mountbatten followed up by mentioning another matter, one that was even more important to the Malayan colony.

“Like that?” Alan Wilson wasn’t particularly surprised when he said he was surprised, Lt. Gen. Bilton was the garrison commander before he took office, and it was not unusual for him to switch positions for such a long time, “Who is the successor?”

If an ass sat in Malaya and never moved again, wouldn’t that mean Lieutenant General Bilton was benched?

“Lieutenant General Sconce, David Scarce.” Pamela Mountbatten knew that her husband was interested and immediately said as if she were.

Alan Wilson was stunned and said uncertainly, “Field Marshal Slim’s subordinate, the division commander of the British Indian Corps?”

Pamela Mountbatten nodded, “This has also been approved by Field Marshal Slim, Lieutenant General Sconce has served in Asia, has some knowledge of the local situation, and has also been to Malaya when Singapore was surrendered.”

“That’s really good.” Alan Wilson sighed, since he had once served in the Anglo-Indian Corps, it meant that he was a former subordinate of his father-in-law, and it would not be a problem to cooperate.

As for the former Garrison Commander Bilton, he was also considered to be highly promoted, and was released back to Europe to enter the British Army in Germany and become part of NATO. It would be good for him, too.

“The military also recognizes the importance of the Malayan colony, after all, although you never feel the danger. But the threat is objective.” Pamela Mountbatten implicitly expressed the military’s concern about the Malayan colony.

Allen Wilson had nothing to say, he could understand the military’s so-called worries, who exactly they were worried about. Bamboo Curtain well!

Although he was not worried and felt that London was making a big deal out of it, he would not object to such an arrangement.

Once the Vanguard joined the Pacific Fleet, the entire Pacific Fleet’s temperament was exactly the same as it was in the last era, with eight battleships as the core of the Pacific Fleet, and if it wasn’t for the fact that the Prestige-class battle cruisers had already been dismantled after the war, then the Pacific Fleet would have been even more interesting.

Looking at the fleet west of the Suez Canal, centered around heavy aircraft carriers, it’s hard to imagine the two belonging to the same navy.

It’s like modern day Britain, in the midst of the same contradictions, economically post-war Britain has embarked on a healing journey under the leadership of Adderley’s cabinet, but it’s still clearly not as bright as America’s more impressive results.

Although Britain resisted the U.S. gold dollar offensive, but other European countries did not resist.

Marshall Plan is still quite powerful, so that the U.S. economy is still soaring after the war, and after Eisenhower came to power, the United States began a major infrastructure, and now the whole country is really in the midst of thriving.

In the financial aspect, the earliest establishment of the financial market and long played the role of the world’s financial center of the United Kingdom, in this regard, more worthy of the “talented people”, and in the past hundred years the economy has made great progress and gradually replace the United Kingdom in the world financial sector status of the United States also has a large number of outstanding talents.

It is no wonder that some voices believe that the United Kingdom in front of the United States, as the relationship between Greece and Rome. Will inevitably give up, the long-standing hegemony of the world.

Alan Wilson also knew that with Britain’s present situation, only God could do it if he wanted to trample America underfoot again.

He now begged for nothing more than independence. It is a bit ridiculous to say that the former Sunset Empire is now aiming for independence and autonomy are doubly hard to achieve.

At least compared to the current France, is not it still look good? The Algerian War is no longer a small battle, only a few months later, the French garrison in Algeria doubled to 400,000 men.

Paris had already demonstrated in practical terms that the French government was absolutely serious about suppressing the colony.

According to the characteristics of guerrilla warfare, which is both dispersed and hidden, the French army has determined the tactics of “focusing on encirclement, maneuvering and searching, and airborne assault”.

At the same time, for the national liberation army equipment mainly from the situation outside the country, strengthened the border blockade, has in Algeria and Morocco, Tunisia border and the Mediterranean coast of Algeria to establish a number of land and sea blockade line, configure the heavy military guard, and send motorcycle troops and aircraft day and night patrols.

For the security of the whole of Africa, Britain has also begun to help in secret, the Mediterranean fleet, to a certain extent, shouldered the task of cutting off other countries from the sea to Algeria’s assistance.

Although ostensibly unrelated to Britain, Britain was in fact unusually concerned about French repression of Algeria.

And, in turn, France’s interest in North Africa stemmed from the Anglo-American entry into North Africa during the Great War, which led to France’s first glimpse of the power of other nations in North Africa. Britain was fine, but the role of the United States made France very wary.

The area in which French monopoly capital operated was shrinking, but on the other hand, the more concentrated France’s capital became, the more it needed a way out.

It is easy to understand why the French government tried to maintain and consolidate its colonial rule in various places and actively carried out “exploitation”. In particular, the three colonies in rich North Africa – Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia – were increasingly seen as its lifeblood.

Now, after the discovery of oil in Algeria, France could not give up, more than the British influence in the Persian Gulf, as well as the discovery of oil in the North Sea news came, France became more eager for Algeria’s oil resources.

French land in Europe, although the best agricultural infrastructure conditions of the land, but the resources on it is not much. The desperate fight with Germany for Alsace and Lorraine was also due to this reason.

Oil resources are becoming more and more important in the modern world, and France had little influence in the Persian Gulf, so naturally it can’t let go now.

“Perhaps the oil we have discovered has, somehow, exacerbated the suffering of the Algerians.” Alan Wilson joked with his wife as he talked about it.

“That can’t be helped.” Pamela Mountbatten was unimpressed, her money was coming in anyway and the French said the rest.

Alan Wilson was all smiles, he felt that Malaya’s oil resources should be on the agenda. This added to the importance of the Malayan colony in the eyes of London.

Than in the North Sea a few years of carpet search, Malaya’s oil resources should not be difficult to find, around the Brunei neighborhood search on the line, the scope than in the North Sea blind man feeling the elephant is much easier.

But there’s no rush, Malaya’s military force has to be strengthened a bit more, at least until the Vanguard arrives.

As for when to go back, anyway, not these days, Alan Wilson has to be a good father for a few more days, he then noticed that his daughter is now a little strange to him, which is not good.

Pamela Mountbatten now had a question, similar to Anna’s, and that was a discussion about the second child program.

“Sometimes it doesn’t help to have too much charisma, great genes are missed!” Alan Wilson said rather narcissistically.

A hand accurately grabbed the man’s ear, Pamela Mountbatten with a cold smile, “I’d like to hear just how many people miss your excellent genes.”

“I was talking about you, dear.” Following his wife’s hand, Alan Wilson, not in the least bit flustered, kissed his wife directly on her red lips, while his hand was lightly placed where it should be. Pamela Mountbatten was a very hygienic woman, just smooth!

At this sight, the Imperial Commissioner was tempted to vocalize and sing, “Ride my beloved big ocean horse ……”

Sometimes it’s not that Alan Wilson has no resistance to beauty, but there are bad people among the masses, always attacking towards his soft underbelly, and among the people who want to corrupt good officials, there are even princesses of the dynasty.

Allen Wilson actually has a lot of wants to be pushed, only his current position is in the colonies, if one day he can return to Whitehall, these ideas can only be realized. After all, the two wings could be much more substantial.

A telegram came through from Perth, which Pamela Mountbatten immediately shared with her husband, “My exploration team, has discovered large uranium deposits in Australia.”

“This is important to the country, if the Australian government doesn’t already know about it, first block the news and ask the cabinet what they think.” Alan Wilson secretly sighed, the world’s first large uranium mine was discovered, Australia’s mineral resources are completely God’s reward, only the opposite configuration of France, agricultural conditions are really poor.