Chapter 880 – Revolving Door

“Is that even possible?” Hearing her husband’s words, Pamela Mountbatten asked back suspiciously, although she also had a media group to operate, she still didn’t know much about the crooked circles here.

“Of course, the biggest role of the media group is actually rumor mongering.” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed, “Just think about how we slandered German-made products in the beginning. America’s industrial products are not as good as Germany’s, you can’t deny that, can you?”

The ding-dong of Made in Germany was the masterpiece of the British hegemony of public opinion, Britain became a world power through the Industrial Revolution, and became an example for other countries to learn from, and at this time, Germany also began to learn from Britain, because many factories plagiarized the technology of British products, and then counterfeited and imitated them, and this way was recognized and even encouraged by the German government, and some departments even sent industrial spies to Britain.

Subsequently, the British Parliament passed the Merchandise Act against Germany, which ordered that all products entering Britain and its colonies had to be stamped “Made in Germany”.

In the end, of course, the German factory owners were so ashamed of the British Merchandise Act that it took a lot of time for them to reverse the negative effects of the hegemony of British public opinion, but that’s a different issue.

Truth be told, among traditional industries, the US has no advantage over Western European countries, and even many of them are significantly shorter. To put it politely, there is no Soviet Union in the free world, but the US is the Soviet Union of the free world.

From the 1950s European recovery, the United States industrial exports were beaten back, and then even Japan rode on the head of the Americans, the automobile industry has long been the most important export industry of the United States, and was finally taken away by the Japanese alive.

To know the United States automobile industry, in the post-war period is the United States to maintain the balance of imports and exports of important industries, was crushed by the Japanese car to snatch away the market, resulting in the United States trade deficit can not be restored, and ultimately led to the Bretton Woods system shaken.

Aviation industry is the U.S. national strength to support, if it is not the U.S. national strength as a backing, Boeing to Airbus will not appear on one side of the road situation.

Regardless of whether it is useful or not, for Pamela Mountbatten, who dabbled in the aviation industry through the Comet airliner, even if she knows that it is useless, she will take the opportunity to expound on the insecurity of U.S. airliners.

“Cars are just stupid big gas tigers, and airplanes are all about horsepower and moving bricks and flying into the sky, but they lack safety. It says the high cost is unfriendly to the consumer.” Allen Wilson followed his wife’s lead, “Spread the political jokes, target some of the words of industry, and boil it down to the fact that American industry is the Soviet Union in the midst of the free world.”

This is to be the hegemony of public opinion added in the ability to put the hat on, Allen Wilson in the map gun in this regard is not against anyone, he does not dare to say that it is a connoisseur, but also have sufficient experience. The hegemony of public opinion is important, such as Jack Ma’s province, the first in the country of people who have lost their trust, replaced by an old, young and poor, the map cannon has long been opened.

“Uh-huh!” Looking at her husband with an adoring face, Pamela Mountbatten couldn’t wait to take out her little notebook to memorize.

Alan Wilson is not slandering the United States, the United States in the traditional industry, to the European countries, really can not talk about the standard, of course, the military industry is an exception.

And the United States in the total population exceeds any European country, so the industrial sector is complete, can put a separate European country to gasp for breath.

That’s why there is a need for integration in Europe, only when countries unite together can they complement all the categories and compete with the US.

The Overseas Assets Management Board is now working to eliminate the less profitable local industries to Malaya.

For the time being it has come to the iron and steel industry, which is already fast, under normal circumstances Malaya’s iron and steel industry could never have gotten ahead of Japan’s, all because of the relationship between Australia and the UK, and Australia’s close proximity to Malaya and the provision of cheap iron ore to have a base, as for the market it is the UK, the big European funnel and the British colonies together.

The future lies in the chemical and automotive and shipbuilding industries, with a similar path to Japan and South Korea, the automotive industry may not be as smooth as it was Japan’s post-war ace in the hole, whereas the UK’s car manufacturing is at the luxury car level.

But the shipbuilding industry can be no problem for Britain, Britain’s civilian shipbuilding industry scale and the United States is not comparable, and even dominate the majority of years, the chemical industry Britain, at least for the time being, there is still influence in the Middle East, can be in the field of petrochemicals in the Malaya to provide help, in saying that Malaya itself has oil resources.

Malaya colony’s basic conditions are still very good, wait until the support of the education industry is established, although the size of the population and Japan can not be compared, but there are Britain and Australia’s political and resource support, to be more than the loss of the Hokkaido Japan is very bottomless.

Once again filled with new points of knowledge, Pamela Mountbatten was satisfied and asked about work.

“There’s really one more thing for you to help with.” Alan Wilson had an old opium merchant’s face, “This campaign to rectify social security is very remarkable, and several tons of drugs were confiscated, so I gave a distribution plan, can you help me dear?”

“Ship it to the Americas? Things aren’t too difficult. But it’s detrimental to your progress.” Pamela Mountbatten looked askance at her husband, “You know it’s not good and you’re sending it to America?”

“It’s all about subordinates down there wanting a little profit, I’m fine with it personally, I’m not interested in money.” Alan Wilson said in a tone of voice that it was all a matter of there being bad people amongst the masses, “It can’t be exchanged for pounds in the Commonwealth, can it? That’ll have to be in dollars.”

Where to send it if not to America? Could it be sent to the United Kingdom, although the United Kingdom is no stranger to this thing, but also for this and the Qing Dynasty fought a war.

But Allen Wilson is not washing his hands of Britain’s unjust wars, no one denies that the Opium Wars were wars of aggression, but Britain used the stuff until 1920, when it was banned for use on children.

In countries all over the world, drugs are not considered harmful until much later, and from this point of view, the Qing government still reacted quite quickly and knew the bad effects of the opium epidemic right away, which is very praiseworthy.

What is not praiseworthy is that the Qing army’s fighting strength was daddy in the agricultural era, but Britain was the country where the industrial revolution originated, and faced with the British army it was a lot of dishes.

It’s not easy to get your wife to send the loot to the U.S. Now the U.S. hasn’t degenerated into 20 million addicts, and there’s a zombie kingdom on Kensington Avenue in every state, but Alan Wilson couldn’t wait for the Vietnam War to start, and the U.S. social environment to degenerate before he went to cash in on it, and his subordinates want welfare now, and he says wait until ten years from now?

Fortunately, Pamela Mountbatten still agreed to help, do this kind of drop things so as not to let her husband difficult.

As for manpower, Allen Wilson picked up the phone and asked Radwick to come over, he had something to communicate with Grace, and at the moment, he had no idea that he had opened a dangerous door for Grace, and that the Mexican drug dealer’s daddies were born after that phone call.

Alan Wilson, of course, couldn’t have known about a future that the memories didn’t match, but there was always a need for manpower in this matter, wasn’t there? The Slavs of Northern Rhodesia were more appropriate; he still had a saving grace for the Slavs, after all.

With Pamela Mountbatten’s channel and Grace’s subordinates to escort them, this matter became quite easy. It was also considered a bulk cargo delivery, and could not be done without caution.

If he had not received a telegram, Allen Wilson would have been in Malaya to continue to uphold social justice and contribute to a prosperous and wealthy Malaya, but unfortunately a telegram from London interrupted his cozy life.

Edward Bridges, the second Cabinet Secretary in the Cabinet Office and now Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, was already really retiring, just a few months after Sir Barron announced his retirement.

Edward Bridges is sixty-three years old, and according to the normal retirement age, he has delayed his retirement for three years.

The most notable time in the Cabinet Secretary’s career was at the outbreak of World War II, when Churchill led Britain.

Churchill into the ten Downing Street, from a personal point of view, Edward Bridges has very mixed feelings.

Churchill was nearly twenty years Bridges’ senior and was Edward Bridges’ boss when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. Churchill had an eye for Edward Bridges. The Cabinet Secretary was impeccable in front-line combat, loyalty and professional competence.

At the time, Churchill was still seen by many neutral officials and politicians as dangerously adventurous, with the potential to put Britain in great danger or to act recklessly, as he had done in response to the Battle of Dardanelle.

Edward Bridges believed the same, and this belief proved not to be true, and probably this is why Edward Bridges distanced himself from Churchill.

Nine hundred and nineteen wartime Cabinet meetings condensed the sweat of Edward Bridges, but for Alan Wilson, the reason he was going back for a trip lay above the guideline of knowing what was right.

“Sir Edward is retiring?” Pamela Mountbatten soon knew about it as well, “Actually, Sir Edward can continue to work for two more years and no one will say anything.”

“It may be that he doesn’t want to continue working, there have been hidden problems in Whitehall and the Cabinet for the past two years, with the leader and deputy leader of the Labor Party, Sir Edward, the permanent undersecretary of the Treasury, and Sir Norman, the secretary of the Cabinet. Power, it’s a thing that changes people quickly.” Alan Wilson said, full of sighs, “My dear, but Sir Edward has deep connections, do you know what I mean?”

“Revolving door.” Pamela Mountbatten understood at a point, and then expressed her support, “Then you go back to the trip, I’ll arrange the rest, after all, Sir Edward is considered to be taking very good care of us.”

Retirement or departure of government officials is not the end, and afterward going down to the sea to enter enterprises and schools is not much of a new thing. The United States in the latter days was better known for a similar phenomenon, but as a daddy, the UK of course also had such a thing.