Chapter 858 The Treaty of Ankara

Such accusations could do nothing for Alan Wilson, a patriot, as he was in a previous life, only transferred to Britain in this one, and although he had also been hit once in the soft underbelly by the Soviet Union, it did not detract from the determination to benefit the community.

At this point in time, he is talking to the stakeholders of the League of Five, about how to maintain the security order in Southeast Asia. While half the world might think otherwise, it wasn’t as if he couldn’t hear the voices of that half of the world.

Alan Wilson believed in his heart that without his help, Holland was destined to roll away from Southeast Asia in disgrace.

But that future no one knew but himself, and the fact now was that before and after Indonesia’s independence, Holland had indeed ceded some of its interests to Britain, and Lieutenant-General Sconce’s statement that Holland should be honored was the truth as one saw it.

As for Allen Wilson’s claim that it should be Holland thanking Britain, no one but himself would think so.

Holland did cede some of the land under its rule to Britain, which has now been incorporated into the Malayan colonies.

Ditto for the part ceded to Portugal, the island of Timor was originally divided between the Netherlands and Portugal, and the part administered by Portugal was called East Timor.

But during the time when Indonesian independence was inevitable, the Netherlands had to retreat from Java, to shrink to Kalimantan, and by the way, the other half of West Timor, transferred to Portugal.

So now the entire island of Timor is under the administration of Portugal, which is currently removing the influence of the religion of peace, this is what Governor Calais said, Alan Wilson is very impressed, I have to say that the Iberian Peninsula countries, this is really a love affair.

Without the two brothers of the Iberian Peninsula, Christendom in front of the world of the religion of peace, with a war with the five dregs almost.

I just don’t know if the Portuguese, took out the strength of the Inquisition, using the stake against the pacifists in West Timor.

Alan Wilson was too embarrassed to ask, otherwise it would not look very gentlemanly, only to ask side by side how far it had gone.

“Australia has been very supportive of our efforts.” Governor Calais mentioned Canberra’s diplomatic, if not economic, support for the Portuguese work.

“To no surprise.” Alan Wilson listened and said to himself, Australia has never been one to lay down money when it comes to security, the underlying reason being that it was psychologically scared out of its wits by Japan’s move south.

As long as Australia’s security was involved, Canberra didn’t care if the Portuguese, were being religiously persecuted.

Alan Wilson likewise expressed goodwill toward Governor Calais, and he knew from history that Portugal could be trusted to suppress waves of colonial resistance, at least while Salazar was alive.

Don’t think that Britain is not at all determined to maintain the colonies, last year also suppressed the rebellion in Kenya, only that Britain and France’s style is different, immediately after the fight talks, to take the divide and rule tactics is more clever. Not like France, I want all of them, so the impact is not as great as the Algerian War.

“Commissioner Wilson, the development of Malaya is really surprising.” Oakhurst praised the prosperity of the Malayan colony, after all, most of the island of Kalimantan, or in the hands of the Netherlands, if it can develop well, the Netherlands is also a big help.

“We work together, it shouldn’t be a problem.” Alan Wilson hypocritically perfunctory, he had no time to help the Dutch. In his eyes the rainforest was almost as worthless a land as the desert.

Coincidentally, the island of Kalimantan is a tropical rainforest climate, except for a few coastlines, the development value of the vast inland is almost non-existent, the reason why he suggested the Mountbatten Group, to plan North Rhodesia as an agricultural base. The fundamental reason is that Northern Rhodesia is actually a plateau.

If the climate is like the Belgian Congo, don’t think about any agricultural base, the land nutrients are stronger than Australia is limited.

Kalimantan island population is only half of Malaysia’s head, 700,000 to 800,000 square kilometers of land to support so many people, visible in addition to resources, the development value is not great, but fortunately the island of the Dutch are not many, the day can still live well.

“How to develop Timor Island, we are also at a loss.” Calle also indicated that Portugal was now running into a similar dilemma.

“Conduct some exploration to see if there are any valuable resources, this is something I might be able to help with.” Alan Wilson immediately opened his mouth willing to help as soon as he heard that there were two major supporters of East Timor in the latter days.

One was China and the other was Australia, with Australia having more influence because of the distance. After East Timor discovered natural gas, it was sold to Australia and tied together through energy.

This kind of enhancement of influence, no need for Calais to say, Allen Wilson has to do it, not to mention the other party took the initiative to ask.

Allen Wilson thought of this brain a flash of light, took the initiative to ask, “Calais Governor, my wife’s company intends to enter the Brazilian development, I wonder if Portugal can provide some convenience?”

“If needed, Portugal will definitely try to help.” Calle immediately said that there was no problem, the relationship between Portugal and Brazil was quite okay, one could even say it was amicable.

The relationship between the American countries and the European Sovereigns, the United States and the United Kingdom being examples, was not as amicable as it appeared to be. Currently Mexico is taking the traditional route of the United States, both to the United States I Mexico coy, to Spain I hit hard.

Mexico in order to compete for the position of the boss of the Spanish-speaking countries, hate to make Spain never to live. Compared with the United States against the United Kingdom, Mexico against Spain has been more blue than blue.

This is not the case with Portugal and Brazil, Portugal has little influence in Europe. Paris is in the middle of a bunch of Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas, and while there are times when they don’t get along, they’re generally in the same boat. Portugal is not as big as Brazil, but it still has a decent amount of colonies left and is not letting Brazil underestimate it right now.

On a political level, the two countries have a high degree of consistency because of their similar cultures. Portugal, under Salazar’s rule, established the “New State” system; a few years later, Brazil, under Vargas, announced the beginning of the “New State”. The former was pro-traditionalism, the latter pro-developmentalism, but they adopted the same name based on a common idea of corporatism.

Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freire proposed a “racial democracy”. Gilberto Freire, a Brazilian sociologist, developed the theory of “racial democracy”, which argued that Brazil was a multiracial society, free from racial discrimination. This theory became the cornerstone of official nationalism in Brazil, and Portugal was quick to adopt it to promote the “Lusitanian Tropical Exceptionalism” in support of its own colonization of Africa. The synchronization of the ideologies of the two countries is evident.

It can be said that Brazil and Portugal were in harmony at the official level, far from the hostile relationship between Spain and Mexico in the Hispanic world, or the current secret struggle between Britain and the United States.

Pamela Mountbatten’s exploration expedition to Brazil could definitely have been a lot less troublesome with the help of the Portuguese.

In Calais here to get a promise, the district flunky Alan Wilson, immediately bumbling to find his wife to take credit, living a big licking dog do.

“Darling, I’ve let you worry again.” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes blinked, giving her husband the motivation to raise a family, and took the initiative to come to a verbal fight before saying, “Brazil, I’ll transfer the exploration team of the North Sea oil to Timor Island to see it. In exchange for Portugal’s support for the company to go to Brazil to explore, so that you do not have to consume contacts. This would be considered state-to-state cooperation on the surface.”

“Now it seems that there are still a lot of benefits to helping other colonial countries.” Alan Wilson tasted his wife’s lips fragrance, face with a look of reminiscence said, “The original vision has been partially realized, increase the influence in the Malayan colony, through the support of the manufacturing base approach, by the way, tied up the Netherlands and Portugal, has formed a regional political and economic alliance, the benefits of the United Kingdom is huge, and the special window status of the Fragrant River, if the operation is good, the Asian influence is sort of maintained.”

“Energy is also important. What do you have in mind for the Middle East.” Pamela Mountbatten was still counting on the UK to be able to escort her company’s development, but her husband could only manage this area, and the Middle East was still out of reach.

“I’ve suggested to Whitehall that John, after Sir Barron, go as Persian Gulf Commissioner at Aden HQ. We’ve both worked in British India and know each other fairly well. We’ll just work with each other in the Middle East.” Alan Wilson talked to his wife about his idea of helping his old colleague.

How could he forget the Middle East, in fact Britain certainly knew the importance of the Middle East. Otherwise the original history would not have stayed until almost the seventies before leaving, and the latter still has a military base in Oman.

While Britain was cheering the five-nation joint defense move, Ankara, the capital of Turkey, the United States, Turkey and Pakistan jointly signed the Ankara Treaty.

As the news came in, Alan Wilson recalled the memories in his mind and muttered to himself in a voice only he could hear, “The Treaty of Baghdad?” This so-called Ankara Treaty was very much like the Baghdad Treaty Organization.

Alan Wilson guessed correctly that the United States was indeed trying to organize a military treaty organization in the Middle East to blockade the Soviet Union. But the Arab countries are not interested in this organization now, and are particularly interested in Israel.

Iraq, the country that was to become the centerpiece of the Baghdad Pact, is now much more interested in competing with Egypt for the leadership of the Arab world than anything else, plus Britain isn’t stirring up trouble on the sidelines to encourage Iraq to join.

Because in this time and place, Britain is the one backing up the Arab countries.

No more Britain agitating Iraq, plus Iraq is a serious competitor with Egypt for influence over who is more anti-Israel. The original Baghdad Pact became an organization of only Pakistan and Turkey, and anyway, Alan Wilson couldn’t think of any place where these two countries could be the same, other than religion.