Chapter 873 – Good News from the Soviet Union

Nine million pounds wasn’t cheap at the cost of the Giant-class carriers, but there was also the addition of steam catapults and angled decks to consider with all this new technology. Britain may overpay when it comes to selling weapons, but it won’t compromise on quality.

This alone is higher than the two superpowers that don’t talk about martial virtues; the Soviet Union’s monkey version of weapons is world famous, and American weapons are famously overpriced and underpriced. A country that stumbles upon a military power like the UK that is clearing out its stockpile should get on board.

India may not be clear on the general political strategy, but in this kind of problem has been keen sense of smell, know that after this village may not have this store, because of Mountbatten’s visit, New Delhi a shot to reach a military sales contract.

Nehru was delighted when Mountbatten returned with a full cargo of unfinished aircraft carriers drying on the sills. India would be the only country in Asia to get hold of an aircraft carrier, leaving aside Malaya, which was a British colony and essentially a British military power, and India was the first.

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, two silhouettes walked out amidst an escort, the radiant image belonging, of course, to Britain’s wealthiest woman, and Her Royal Highness the Princess of the day.

Alan Wilson waited at the front of the passageway, and at the sight of his wife and sister-in-law took the initiative to step forward, “Welcome my wife and Her Royal Highness, to the faithful Kuala Lumpur.”

“Odd words to say.” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes rippled as she rushed at her conspiratorial husband, “Have you seen those designers, are they any good?”

Pamela Mountbatten had followed her father to India for a short time, but the assembled designers and teachers were already one step ahead.

“They and I have met and talked about the city and the support of the education industry. I can’t say the guests are happy, but I can say that they are happy to talk to each other, and the treatment has been agreed upon. Introductions have also been made to the local elite, and the feedback on public opinion has been quite favorable.”

Alan Wilson volunteered to help his wife with her suitcase, leading the two to the waiting special car.

“Speaking of city construction, I also have an idea to build a mansion in Kuching and Kuala Lumpur at the same time, respectively in East Malaysia and West Malaysia far away from each other, as a landmark of the Malayan colony, what do you think.”

The sedan drove smoothly as Pamela Mountbatten asked her husband who was in the front passenger seat.

“Of course I’m okay with it, as long as you’re okay with it dear, it’s a known fact that I can’t even afford the glass of a building, what’s it called?” Alan Wilson grumbled to himself, his words filled with the blood-curdling indictment of capitalism.

“Mountbatten Mansion.” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes looked through the car window to some billboards alongside the road.

These giant billboards featured images of urban glossy beauties with slogans cheering for the city, and that alone wouldn’t be a big deal, but the images of these women were all too famous, all of them pictures of famous actresses.

“You’re using these photos indiscriminately, don’t let people sue, Americans are very concerned about these things.” Pamela Mountbatten retracted her gaze and reminded sideways.

“Not using them indiscriminately, they came to Malaya on vacation and I met these people and paid them to invite them to shoot some commercials. Sort of an advertisement for the city. Ms. Vivien Leigh lives in Hong Kong a lot, and she was the one who helped pull the strings.”

Alan Wilson turned back and said with a questioning face, “Actually, image-wise, we should look for Hepburn and Taylor and Monroe and those people, but they are justly popular, so I guess it will cost a lot.”

“That’s true.” Princess Margaret opened her mouth to help out, then poked darkly, “I guess you’re not interested in messing around with these old women either.”

“Margaret, what are you babbling about.” Pamela Mountbatten chilled her face and chided the princess of the day. Telling her not to talk nonsense and provoke her father’s feelings on this occasion.

“It’s fine, Your Highness has an extraordinary status after all.” Alan Wilson didn’t mind and rounded off the situation from it.

Back to the two people’s residence, Pamela Mountbatten saw her husband busy before and after, as if full of energy, Pamela Mountbatten warmed her heart, “And don’t be so attentive, are old married couple.”

“How old are you, what kind of old married couple.” Alan Wilson diligently prepare food, head also did not return to the road, “other people have not yet old, first the mentality of the old, I do not like this.”

Food is very simple answer, European meals are not complicated at all, not like the Asian and African side of the flour and rice, but mainly pasta, which happens to be in line with the taste of Allen Wilson, in his previous life, he was because of gastrointestinal problems, but also tends to pasta, eating rice is not impossible, but can only eat soft rice.

Pamela Mountbatten directly appeared the sign of ear pregnancy, suppressed the heart flower said, “I still don’t know you, is not recently there is something good, let you just so energetic.”

“The Soviet Union had a conference that brought important good things.” Alan Wilson had an expression that my wife is just smart, brought up the finished pasta and looked at his wife who was chewing slowly and said, “This time, we can not worry about the Soviets subverting the free world.”

“Oh? It’s not often you look like that.” Pamela Mountbatten enjoyed her husband’s handiwork and was vaguely curious, “What has come up, have you gotten the news?”

“I’m in the civil service system, how can I be considered high up.” Alan Wilson first boasted, then mysteriously said, “This time the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, left out the news can be extraordinary, I have already submitted a report to analyze this matter, of course, also communicated with my friend McCarthy to communicate with each other’s opinions.”

There was nothing to hide from his wife, the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, which had just been held, Khrushchev pointed out that “the forces of peace have been considerably strengthened by the emergence on the world stage of a number of European and Asian countries which have declared that non-participation in blocs and alliances is a principle of their foreign policy.” As a result, “a vast region of peace has emerged on the international stage that includes the peace-loving socialist and non-socialist countries of Europe. This region encompasses a very vast area with a population of nearly one and a half billion inhabitants, a majority of the global population.”

Khrushchev also put forward the theory of détente, speaking a warm word for the confrontational situation of the last year because of the creation of the Warsaw Pact.

Of course none of this was the point, at least for the free world, there was a more important part of the meeting, where the main criticism of the cult of Stalin’s person, the wholesale rejection of the various theories of Stalin’s reign, and the pointing out of the errors of Stalinism, was made.

This was the part that was good for the free world, which had been worried about being subverted by the Soviet Union since the war. It’s a hope that’s better than nothing, but it’s certainly a possibility.

And this shift by Khrushchev made that possibility even more remote.

Of course Allen Wilson knows that this meeting is not actually like some people say, hit the pro-Soviet forces in Western Europe, in fact, the parties in Western Europe, for a long time still have considerable strength, and it is not because Stalin was criticized, it led to the rapid disappearance of influence.

The parties in Western Europe readily accepted Khrushchev’s argument, stating that the practice, though faulty in its course, was not faulty in its philosophy and remained good.

The reason for this was simple: the Stalinist brand fell, but the Soviet Union remained, and the Soviet Union was the first country to implement an entirely new system. As long as this country exists, there will be no shortage of people singing its praises.

But Allen Wilson was willing to be like some countries that deliberately elevated the significance of the Bandung Conference so that Whitehall would see it as a great failure of the Soviet Union.

At this moment, Allen Wilson’s telegram had arrived in Whitehall, the main point being, to influence Indonesia through public opinion and to curb the influence of the Indonesian Communist Party, and among the much longer secondary points was that of the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party.

“The likelihood for the next year or two is that the pro-Soviet forces in Western Europe will enter a period of disarray, and seizing this opportunity may radically contain the possibility of subversion of the free world by manipulating public opinion to build a psychological defense for the citizenry. Let the Socialist International replace the Soviet mindset and form a shield.”

The above is of course limited to Europe, like everywhere else, even eating is a problem, the Second International those parties that give out welfare can have a gross influence, want to give out welfare to ease the contradiction also have to be there before.

Allen Wilson asked the United States to give to the whole of Asia to send welfare, the Americans can afford to send? Even Indonesia, a country, the Americans can not afford to send, this one I Great Britain and won hemp report, simply discussing the security of Europe.

Similarly, McCarthy’s telegram from an old friend was consistent in content, but completely different in tone. The similarity to that one telegram to Whitehall is that it was because he heard about Martin Luther King’s protests that McCarthy was told to think about whether to go down the appeasement route and quell the anger of the blacks by handing out welfare.

How was this possible, the Republican Party, while much more progressive than the Democrats so far, had never treated blacks with passive approval, and McCarthy was still heavily influenced by the four-color threat, believing that blacks were the weak link in America’s leadership of the world, and giving welfare to these people?

The only thing this report from an old friend did was to make McKenzie think that the American Negro movement might have something to do with the Soviet Union and strengthened McCarthy’s resolve to make a storm.

Friends in London and Washington were mulling it over, and after Alan Wilson lit the fire, he accompanied his wife, Years and Years, to receive the Swire Group, Jardine Matheson, and the other four major families who had come to Malaya, and had spent months looking for manpower, so that for once they could officially break ground and kick off the construction of the city of Malaya.

“Kuala Lumpur is in your hands.” Pamela Mountbatten said to a few representatives of the groups that came to Kuala Lumpur, “I hope you can help my husband and build this place up.”

“In fact, it’s only a matter of time before the city of Xiangjiang is built up, so if you get this place right, you’ll have the experience to do it when you return to Xiangjiang. I have already communicated with the Hong Kong Governor’s side.” Alan Wilson also opened his mouth to express his welcome, “Then, it will be hard work for you guys.”