Chapter 870 – Nineteen Fifty-Six
“No problem.” Numerous High Commissioners spoke up, “Under-Secretary-General, you’re actually already moving slowly.”
“It can’t be helped, Malaya has already been constructed by Japanese POWs once before. This time it’s sort of a refurbishment. But well, if it’s considered that big construction in British India, I started earlier than all of you.”
Alan Wilson boasted with a smile on his face, “So isn’t this sharing the joy of labor with your colleagues?”
Labor can be very joyful, engaging in real estate is not much of a skilled job, but it’s enough to cope with the needs of the colony, and it will also drive sales of steel and cement, ships and cars. The former is a necessity, the latter transporting raw materials can’t be carried on a man’s back and shoulder.
And the good thing about building a colony is that you can do it boldly, and if you really end up with a mine, the big deal is to let the colony become independent.
This mine is not affected by the mainland, only the colonies where the nationalized enterprises suffered losses, the risk is not completely controllable, but can also be said to be basically not.
It boosted sales in the British shipbuilding and automobile industries, and allowed the Malayan colonies to increase their capacity.
And one eye on the Soviet Union, one eye on the British and French Washington, of course, also know that Britain in the major colonies of the big building, but there is the precedent of British India in that, Washington’s judgment is that Britain is again to scrape the ground before leaving.
Who let the previous British India that set of big construction is too impressive it, until now, the Calcutta industrial area of the follow-up project to get good, are Nehru in the request for assistance in the main content.
The frequency of high even the Americans have noticed, and now review the original British in British India’s big building program, only insight into the consequences of the failure of the British that time big building.
The reason why Washington is interested in noticing the UK’s old-fashioned big build is because the United States is also currently in the process of a big build, or the current President Eisenhower to promote, if not to take a few examples as evidence, then so many think tanks would not be very dereliction of duty?
Because of the proximity of time, the last big buildup of the Calcutta industrial area in British India makes for a perfect comparison.
And this time the city building of the major colonies was also considered by the United States to be a repeat of Britain’s old trick of leaving steel, concrete and concrete to the colonies, while they themselves had to run away with the wealth of the colonies.
The US doesn’t really care what happens to Africa, but would love for Britain to pull out and withdraw, so it won’t say anything on the surface.
The great building that Britain is currently doing through the commissioners of the colonies and protectorates, along with the airports in the Persian Gulf, and part of the Aswan Dam, has never been so conscientious in three hundred years, except in the white-dominated colonies.
Because of the very vast territory covered, this wave of major construction will certainly not be completed without a decade.
African city construction of the main event, not a more extensive area of East African colonies, but the densely populated British West Africa.
Gold Coast because of gold production is important, Nigeria because the population is enough is also valued, is now the main profit point of this wave of big construction.
The city building in West Africa could provide some experience for Malaya, and one of the big aims of this meeting of colonial commissioners was for Allen Wilson to mobilize resources to kick-start the city building in Malaya.
Other colonies can grow wildly, the big deal is that they will become independent later and let them bear all the bad consequences.
But here was different, he never meant for the Malayan colony to become independent.
The big building in the African colonies was just the colonists feeling conscience because for a long time Britain had never been so uptight about building infrastructure. And in Malaya, it would not be about feeling, it would be about being really conscientious.
“Honorable gentlemen, the city building in Malaya will start in a year’s time, in 1956.” Alan Wilson glanced at Yessed for no reason when he said this; he still couldn’t separate the number nineteen fifty-six from Egypt.
This made even Ysaid wonder, but these few days of spectatorship had also enabled him to see to a certain extent the strength of the British Empire, and he pushed down the doubts in his mind without inquiring into the meaning of the look he had just given him.
“Malaya colony’s five-year goal is to build four cities with a population of one million, raw materials Malaya can solve by itself, the city design has a planner coming from London, I believe that this time the city construction can promote the export of cars and machinery from the mainland. Of course you’ve all been through something similar, you don’t need me to say more.”
“Send the most professional people over to ensure that this city building can be used as a model project, and also to show Nehru that it’s not as if we can’t run the colony well, and that the mess in India, which is clearly an Indian problem, has never been a problem for us.”
“Yes, we never had a problem, it’s these barbarians who have a problem.”
The conference room was all of a sudden crowded, the colonial commissioners of the past few years have become rich, the impression of Alan Wilson, the immediate superior is very good, although everyone’s top boss sits in Whitehall, but the person who often passes over is not the high and mighty Cabinet Secretary, but the immediate Deputy Secretary General, and all of them have great respect for Alan Wilson.
Of course respect, Alan Wilson even for the arrival of these colleagues to solve the problem of physiological needs, specially selected a number of, down to the South China Sea to earn foreign exchange foreigners, to increase this respect.
As for his own so hard-working amount of people, of course, is not bother to be in the same stream, can only be in what the queen of the movie, what the hairy girl on the look of hard work, and these gentlemen’s high quality of life can not be compared.
The end of the meeting, Alan Wilson very Versailles opened his mouth, “I hope that, in a few years the size of our assets under the name of the Overseas Asset Management Board, to reach tens of billions of pounds, which requires demand, and without demand to create demand. In fact, as you can see through the Great Build, there are still plenty of opportunities in the vast colonies if we are good at using our brains.”
“It’s like Africans always hanging fancy things around their necks, you can try to get jade to sell in Africa, there’s plenty in Burma anyway, it’s okay if it doesn’t work out, just in case it does it’s another point of profit.” Alan Wilson rushed to Ingram, said his family jade house raw materials, is a lot of British people have seen, but Africans have not seen.
As long as the colonial commissioners are a little more diligent, there may be a windfall, diamonds are actually not rare, not the same one forever? Money to talk is tough, like London, before the aircraft carrier is not even think about, now not also started four it.
“That’s it then, Richard, tell your colleagues about the location arranged for today, I’ll leave first.” Alan Wilson told Richard to get the Colonial Commissioners’ night out in order, and was ready to get his feet wet himself.
Around Christmas time was his busiest time, but his colleagues couldn’t get enough of it, experiencing exotic flavors in Malaya. It was like him, dealing with a few tigers every day.
If it wasn’t for the fact that his career was still on the line, like Ingrid Bergman’s suggestion that he should, on a rotating basis, stay here with him, not only did it not make him feel the slightest bit honored, but instead, his heart stuttered. Luckily it was only a joke.
After Christmas, all these colonial commissioners left Kuala Lumpur, either to return to their own jurisdictions or back to London for the New Year, and Alan Wilson stayed put, calling on friends to join him for the New Year.
He welcomed Ms. Bokina to visit his sister, and the good friends of the Golden Twelve, who were said to have come over to catch up with Vivienne, Katharine Hepburn among them.
This Hollywood awards ceiling solved a great deal of his problems, because she was there, Alan Wilson had a moment’s rest, but on some occasions, Katharine Hepburn intentionally or unintentionally inquired, “I’m just wondering, Heidi and Ingrid, don’t seem like they came over here on a trip, it seems like they’re familiar with this place.”
“Oh, yeah.” Retracting his gaze from the warblers and swallows in the apartment, Allen Wilson had a guilty look on his face, “Ms. Catherine, you and Vivian are friends, in fact, all of them are your friends here, and we all get along happily which is good enough, look, they are laughing so happily.”
“Perhaps.” Katharine Hepburn looked at the smiles of the many actresses and said faintly, “You can’t be faulted for being a friend. I see that they all favor you.”
“Oh!?” Alan Wilson straightened up his waist and belabored in his heart, “Who let me give more.”
Except for Greta Garbo and the Katherine Hepburn in front of him, he hardly met anyone he couldn’t handle.
The crowds had their advantages; a few ladies of equal status to his wife mingled in the mix, all ladylike at once.
This gave him ample room for strategy in his time management, nothing to flirt with Joan Crawford, ask Bette Davis how the acting business was going in the U.S., Lana Turner, Joan Bennett, he came and went, anyway, he was a friend to all, the man behind the Great British Treasure, no need for any scruples.
Time so relentlessly came to 1956, Yi Said than the colonial commissioner left so many days later, but also with Alan Wilson a set of aircraft carriers is a symbol of power, missed the opportunity to not have a chance of indoctrination before leaving.
I do not know whether Egypt will show a tough style, Farouk I has no Ali Pasha’s ambition, depending on whether it will be offered to buy aircraft carriers, and if it is offered, it may lead to a wave of inventory clearance.
At the beginning of the year’s work session, Alan Wilson formally proposed the start of the city’s construction, “Many of my colleagues have come from British India, directly to work in the Malayan colony, and even your families live here. It seems a long time since we left South Asia in disgrace, and the leader of that prestigious power seems complacent.”
“It’s time to send out a proclamation announcing the city building program, we have to pay for the Calcutta Industrial Estate program of that year, this time to prove that the reason for the failure of the great building of British India was entirely India’s own fault, the Indians couldn’t do it. This time Malaya’s city building on the other hand must succeed.”
In January 1956, the Malayan Executive Council announced to the public, this year will start about Penang, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore’s city building program, is expected to be built to four million people of the city, the news was announced, quickly in the Malayan colony caused heated discussion.