Chapter 840 – Economic Trade Turned into Arms Sales

The location of the uranium discovery was in the Northern Territory of Australia, an area of less than a million and a half square kilometers, with less than 100,000 permanent residents in the entire Northern Territory, and the most important port and city being Darwin.

Although Australia is vast and sparsely populated, the Northern Territory has clearly reached another level, and it is doubtful whether the local population is larger than the number of resident Bay Crocodiles.

So sparse is the population that the Northern Territory is an Australian government territory. Alan Wilson can’t talk to a local governor, he can only talk to Canberra, unlike in Western Australia, where he can just talk to the Governor, Ross McLarty.

The local Perth newspapers and radio stations followed the news of Princess Margaret’s arrival in Perth with a great deal of content. There is no doubt that Princess Margaret’s status as a Princess of the Crown, and her unique demeanor attracted the attention of Perthians.

Many of Perth’s residents were British citizens only a few years ago, and only came here with the dream of finding an easy place to live, and they still consider themselves British in their hearts.

An image of Princess Margaret was playing on the television, and it was very eye-catching in its elegance.

And right across the TV, Alan Wilson was engaged in a verbal battle with Her Royal Highness, one hand already occupying the high ground. Desecration of Her Royal Highness, who is popular in Perth.

It was a long time before the two, breathing a little heavily, separated, and on the screen Princess Margaret was saying things like how much she liked Perth.

“Her Royal Highness is so popular in Australia.” The salty hands didn’t stop even for a moment, Alan Wilson hadn’t forgotten to point out to the princess on the screen.

“You bad thing.” Princess Margaret looked at the man softly, “Let it be known that you’re doing this to me and you’re done for, your life will be incredibly dim.”

“So? Would Your Highness let that happen?” Pulling Her Highness into her arms and looking at her from close range, Alan Wilson’s questioning seemed a little aggressive.

“Of course …… no, no!” Princess Margaret stammered out a satisfactory answer.

“Very well, that’s the mesmerizing response.” Alan Wilson was very happy, he felt that in the current year, there might be a breakthrough, although in England he didn’t dare to do anything to Her Highness.

But in this free world, it was still not difficult to find a safe zone to fill the emotional void of the princess.

From the reaction of the princess now, she is absolutely not rejecting the emotional emptiness to be filled, completely groomed.

Alan Wilson for the test to the bottom line of the princess feel satisfied, under the mood of happy feeling this time the Australian trip there is no reason not to achieve complete success.

After a few days, the family of three plus Her Royal Highness, took the airplane to Canberra, the capital of Australia.

On top of the Comet I, looking through the window at the endless Gobi below, Australia was out of place with the rest of the earth, even from the latter-day satellite photos, the colors were completely different.

It was almost as if an alien land had been affixed to the top of the earth, billions of years of wind and sun had made this land very different from the other continents.

“The best thing about this desolate land is that all the minerals are buried very shallowly, God is still not mean to Australia.” Alan Wilson sort of understood why the Three Bodies placed humans here.

“Strange indeed, Australia seems to be the flattest continent.” Pamela Mountbatten shook her head, “Even the mountains are short.”

“Maybe many billions of years ago, Australia’s mountains were tall too. They just got shortened by the wind and sun maybe.” Alan Wilson answered his wife’s question.

He remembered that the oldest rocks on the surface Earth were in the Murchison Ranges of Western Australia, probably four billion years old.

It wasn’t until reaching a short distance above Canberra that the earthy color of the ground, appeared as a speck of green. It didn’t take anyone to tell them that this was another part of Australia where the land was still passable, Canberra nestled in the southeast corner of Australia.

Disembarking from Comet One, the group went directly to William Joseph Slim, the current Governor-General of Australia.

Issues involving Malaya could equally well be talked about with the Marshal, and the incoming Lieutenant General David Sconce, who had once been Marshal Slim’s subordinate, came to be one of their own as far as Marshal Slim was concerned.

At the same time, Marshal Slim also paid tribute to the visit of Her Royal Highness, the matter of the uranium mine involves confidentiality, although Marshal Slim is an important general of the British military, but this matter should still not let him know.

Just on some issues, there is still a need for the Governor General and the Australian Prime Minister to communicate, this is something that Marshal Slim feels is fine, from the time he arrived in Australia as the Governor General, no friction has arisen because of the relationship between Britain and Australia.

“Also, I have found that the Australians take security extremely seriously.” Marshal Slim told of his findings.

“That’s easy then.” Alan Wilson was confident, and he was just about ready to start on the Bamboo Curtain threat and elaborate on the security angle to make Australia understand the importance of helping Britain stay in the colony of British Malaya.

Depends on what Australia wants, anyway, Alan Wilson felt that no matter what Australia wants, as long as the money is shelled out, there is nothing Britain can’t sell, even nuclear bombs.

Let’s not forget that right now Britain is still borrowing Australia’s space center to test the Blue Light missile? Although short-range missiles have been successful, but short-range missiles are not enough for the UK, the UK needs intercontinental missiles.

Even the original historical Blue Light missiles are not enough because the UK can’t put missile silos on its own soil. And placing them in Australia was obviously not enough range originally historically.

Because of the high range requirements, it resulted in the Blue Light Missile program receiving more attention, but the progress has not improved at all, and it is still in the middle of research.

The current Prime Minister of Australia is still Robert Gordon Menzies, the one who has always had an admiration for the Queen.

Alan Wilson felt that this could be a benefit of the Queen for Britain. Who wouldn’t like a Queen like Britain.

The Queen doesn’t come often, but doesn’t the Princess make a trip every now and then. Helping to maintain Australia’s centripetal pull towards Britain.

A day apart, Alan Wilson arrived at the Prime Minister’s Office pulling Princess Margaret, who looked similar to the Queen, this business card. Ready to talk to Australia about military cooperation including but not limited to uranium.

One thing that Prime Minister Menzies did a couple of years ago, just unsuccessfully, was to legislate to outlaw the activities of the Australian Communist Party. One can see by this incident what kind of political profile this Prime Minister really has.

Alan Wilson talks up the Bamboo Curtain threat while suggesting that close cooperation between Australia and Britain is extremely important to the free world.

“Many people on the home front believe that Australia’s peculiarities make it impossible to ignore the fact that Australia is in danger. While many countries in the European heel believe that Britain should choose between the Commonwealth and Europe. But so far, Britain has resisted that pressure.” Alan Wilson, with a face of blood-thicker-than-water national sentiment, drew the two sides closer in front of Menzies.

He absolutely did not lie, it has been ten years since the war, if the other European countries could not see it in the beginning, but today, who can not see that Britain has become a big leak in the European Community.

How did the Malayan colonies sell their textiles, to the European market? Was it not Britain, the gatekeeper of the EEC, who let them in? Although Britain raised the price once more in the process and sold it after raising the price, it was still lower than the price of textiles in Europe.

Britain’s move was much more despicable than the United States’ move to support the Japanese textile industry, which was to open up its own market. Although Britain also opened up its own market, it opened up the market of the European Community countries more, doubling as a referee and a goalkeeper.

The first to be quite vocal was France, except that since the post-war period, France had been fighting in various colonies, so it needed Britain to look at old imperialist solidarity to give support, and that’s why it had been holding back.

There are only a few countries in Europe that can say no to Britain, Germany and Italy lost the war, and if France doesn’t speak out, then there are no naysayers, and Britain has been selling one skin twice, or how else would it have been able to break free of the debt spiral so quickly?

France has more important things to do, not in the EEC and the UK to make trouble, the UK is focused on the Commonwealth, the European Communist Party two wings, the beneficiaries of course, including Australia, Australia is also a member of the Commonwealth.

From the discovery of iron ore in Western Australia, the economic and trade relationship between Australia and the UK that was supposed to be replaced by the US. transformed into a different shape, with British investment in Australia on the rise, while part of the close economic and trade links between Australia and the British mainland began to be replaced by the colony of British Malaya.

What appears on the surface to be a declining relationship of dependence between Britain and Australia is in fact nothing more than a switch from a bilateral relationship to a tripartite one.

Since this relationship existed, it was not at all estimable that Australia should rightly meet some of Britain’s demands.

Apparently Prime Minister Menzies felt the same way, because of the influx of British immigrants to Perth, and the fact that he himself was a great supporter of the Queen, plus the role of economic and trade relations, he agreed with Alan Wilson.

After a few years, Australia also recognized the importance of British Malaya. Australia itself was not suited to industrial development and now it had come to rely on British Malaya for the supply of many of its daily necessities.

“London believes that in the field of security cooperation, Britain and Australia still have a lot of common language, and both sides work together to maintain the prosperity of the Malayan colony, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation.” Alan Wilson said with a pro-Australian look, “Even if the French have some grievances, we have to stick to it.”

Menzies was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked, “We believe in the importance of the UK on security issues, and security has always been the core of our concerns, I wonder if the Queen class heavy aircraft carriers, can they be sold to us.”

Alan Wilson was stunned, the Queen Class Heavy Aircraft Carrier, was actually the current name of the Malta Class Aircraft Carrier.