Chapter 847 Sterling Settlement and Boundary Delimitation

That said, having implemented two of the world’s near-failure five-year plans, Perón should be on the verge of being ousted.

It’s not as if he has nothing in common with Britain at all; Juan Perón, like Prime Minister Airdrie, claimed to combine the virtues of capitalism and socialism, except that he combined explicitly the shortcomings of both systems.

In fact, with Argentina’s bottom line, it would be good to be an unquestionably wealthy country, and trying to be a great power is clearly overthinking it.

It must be recognized that the colonial era, Spain occupied the territory is a rich zone, the sea of precious metals and excellent agricultural conditions, the British colony is simply a piece of the bitter cold, if the Indians are also divided into nomadic farming, Britain occupied a bunch of nomadic territory, the Spanish Empire simply do not see.

But it is not very good conditions in North America, there is the most important need for the Industrial Revolution, coal and iron resources. Latin America’s gold and silver can make steel? The entire Latin American coal mines account for only 0.4 percent of the world.

Argentina such a foundation, and Britain can not fight, the Falkland Islands dispute, the reason why it turned into a war. To a large extent because, after the British let the colonies independence, the attitude towards the Falkland Islands is not very tough, and even proposed the idea of co-management of the Falkland Islands.

In Argentina’s eyes, Britain has let so many colonies become independent, will not make a big fuss over a small island that can only raise sheep, and are willing to co-administer the islands, I believe that even if Argentina occupies the Falkland Islands, Britain will not go to war.

But as it happened, Margaret Thatcher was enjoying the fruits of previous Prime Ministers’ fishing expeditions and needed support too, and war broke out.

Alan Wilson, an honest man, wants Britain to continue with its attitude of not resolutely defending the Falklands, and maybe Argentina will take a chance. Britain always needs a stepping stone to maintain its status as a world power, and the intertwining of interests in Eurasia is too dangerous for Argentina to be really quite suitable.

Pamela Mountbatten was once again in the thick of things, busy with the formation of a South American exploration team, and a program for a regional airliner.

The former just needs a word, to ensure that the treatment of the exploration team will be on the line. The latter is more cerebral some, Alan Wilson also gave his wife some advice, nothing more than differentiation and mature program improvement, the regional airliner is set at seventy to ninety-seat range, which is also the approximate standard of the latter days.

Britain is obviously a conservative atmosphere of the country, but always in the new technology is incredibly bold, always get some fancy things, and finally proved to be of little use, increased costs and unsafe.

It’s not impossible to do this with weaponry, the military can adapt hard and other countries don’t know.

But if you do it on commodities, it’s not a problem you can just overcome and get over yourself.

Compared to his busy wife, his sister-in-law had little to do, except to help watch the children, always citing physical exhaustion as the reason for Alan Wilson’s laborious orthopedic work.

In the face of the unreasonable demands of an important member of the royal family, the imperial commissioner dared to be angry but could only do as he was told, “The princess is getting too much, I’m an officer of the state.”

Princess Margaret grunted, clamped down on the strange big hand, and protested in a small voice, “I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m helping you take care of your daughter.” Then offered her red lips.

Engaged in a verbal battle, Alan Wilson only looked relaxed and resumed the gentleman posture, pondering when, to cook the raw rice, the relationship has evolved to this day, no next step forward is simply sorry to God.

The British national motto inspired him at this time, God in heaven and I have rights, he certainly had the right to do what he liked.

Frank is still talking to Australia about the price of arms sales, arms sales are not used for general business, everyone knows that the arms business is lucrative, profits usually start at fifty percent, and one hundred percent is not uncommon. Far from the normal processing industry, earn a little hard money.

Arms market is also winner-take-all, because the importance of arms sales, the Cabinet and Whitehall to be so concerned, take out the old practice of backroom operations. Visible to this time how much importance to the arms sale.

Otherwise, how would Alan Wilson hear that Australia has this meaning, immediately summoned Comet One directly back to London? Even without mentioning the price, being able to pry the renewal of British aircraft carriers is a huge gain.

Even in the twenty-first century, Britain has long been the top three in military sales, and France, which does not look weak, has nothing to offer in military sales most of the time, so once there is a big order, it will be taken very seriously.

Although Alan Wilson can not help, but also hope that Frank can get things done, once the success of the credit is two people, at least do not have to do useless.

If it is not the princess always come to ease his mood, he would like to let Frank and himself say once a day what to talk about.

In fact, without his urging, Frank also knows very well that negotiating this meaningful arms sale will let him get what kind of reward later, this may be the moment of dedication that he has never had after working for the empire, and there may not be a time when he works so hard in the future.

His wife, who had been busy working on the regional airliner and the exploration of the Americas, brought news about the demarcation of the North Sea.

“The delimitation between us and the countries involved in the North Sea has been negotiated. The boundaries are delimited according to the center line principle.” Pamela Mountbatten had just sat down and made peace with the matter.

“That’s not right, why don’t we fight for a more favorable demarcation.” Alan Wilson was shocked to hear, in the premise of the North Sea oil and gas has been found, Britain did not even a little to fight for, this is not in line with common sense, thought for a moment and asked rhetorically, “is it by the pressure of the Americans?”

He couldn’t think of any other reason, to say who else in this world could exert diplomatic pressure on Britain, it was only the United States and the Soviet Union.

The USSR had no reason to do so, the US could have done so to preserve the so-called NATO unity.

“No. The specifics are not known, but the Foreign Office says it’s not a US problem.” Pamela Mountbatten explained, “However, the Foreign Ministry fought for a condition that the oil proceeds from the countries involved in the North Sea would have to be settled in British pounds. With this premise, the centerline principle agreement was reached.”

“So it’s like this, for the sterling settlement share.” Alan Wilson understood, “Holland, Germany, and Norway all agreed?”

Pamela Mountbatten nodded, Allen Wilson this figured out, the foreseeable future, the North Sea oil will be the only reliable source of oil and gas in Europe. Of course the UK wants to get the big head by strength, but if you step back and let the neighboring countries settle the benefits of North Sea oil in pounds is also huge.

Generally the currency of a country can only be circulated in its own country’s circulation, these countries’ currencies themselves are not much influence. At this time of year, apart from the US dollar, many national currencies do not have international recognition.

There are really only three European national currencies that can circulate across borders, the pound, the franc and the mark. North Sea oil is the safest oil resource in Europe, and it is very close. It would greatly solidify the value of the pound if it were settled in pounds.

Against the backdrop of the post-war US always wanting to dismantle the sterling area and replace the pound with the dollar, North Sea oil, the nearest and most reliable source of oil, could supply traditional European powers such as France and Germany. The benefits to the UK of being able to tie the pound somewhat to the value of the franc and the mark were enormous.

That’s why, for the sake of the pound’s share of international settlements, Britain netted Holland and Norway a fair demarcation in exchange for settling North Sea oil in pounds.

If there is another country in this world besides the United States that knows the power of money, it is Britain. In the midst of negotiations with the United States and in the face of the Breston Woods system, Britain had proposed to create the World Bank and issue a super-sovereign currency.

Keynes, who knew the international financial and monetary system very well, designed a real World Bank in the middle of the future international monetary system, which would be managed by each participating country to issue a unified world currency.

The proposal of such a program, of course, there are attempts to defend the interests of the United Kingdom, because it has been seen that the United Kingdom again want to maintain the hegemony of the pound sterling is impossible, so pre-emptively proposed the creation of a unified currency.

At that time, the stock of the pound in the world was far more than the dollar, once this program was passed, according to the stock, Britain would be more advantageous, naturally, the United States would oppose it, and finally passed the Breston Woods system.

“The government has really worked its ass off for the pound.” What could Alan Wilson say, if it was for this purpose, he would have had to do the same in his place.

“It seems that you also recognize that there are benefits.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, “Can we still move the currency status back.”

“It’s hard to say, but it’s right to keep working for it.” Alan Wilson can not dare to babble on this issue, this is no longer a personal choice can be solved, “but under the Breston forest system, still able to fight against the dollar, change to other commodities more difficult to fight.”

The world’s gold is counted, the United States to overissue money, other countries can easily find out. If it really switched to petrodollars, other countries would have a harder time.

So the African colonies, wanting to be independent to scrape a sum of money and leave is also okay, the British garrison in the Persian Gulf can never be withdrawn.

Pamela Mountbatten and began to micro-manipulation, the North Sea demarcation is complete, the neighboring countries naturally began to explore the North Sea, she also want to fight for their own share of the overall exploration of the North Sea, always need equipment, right? Nothing is for nothing, the Mountbatten Oil Group can be a win-win situation with the neighboring countries.

Missy was busy with her career, the district flunky was back to babysitting his daughter, and liaising with places by telegraph became the spice of life.

Not for nothing, there were vague calls coming from the Great British Treasure and the Little Dragon Rider for him to return to the Malayan colony soon and carry the responsibilities of a man.