Chapter 886 – The Brown Motion Bomb

“Have we fought so many countries for over a hundred years just to let Indians blossom everywhere?”

Alan Wilson and the Persian Gulf commissioner, who had gotten used to the local area, looked at the boisterous Indian community not far away and had a very bad taste in their mouths, “John, there are Indians in the Sudan too, aren’t there, I almost forgot about them last time.”

“There are, but not many, a community of a few thousand.” John suddenly looked to Alan Wilson lowering his voice, “What are you going to do?”

“Get them back to where they came from.” Alan Wilson put his hands in his pockets all relaxed, “But a few thousand people in one community, we can still do something like that. Right?”

“That’s not so hard.” John and Alan Wilson turned their heads and disappeared into the Indian community of Aden as if they had never been there.

In the days that followed, commissioners from all over the world arrived in Aden, stopping by to express their congratulations to the new Persian Gulf commissioner and to Allen Wilson. Everyone already knew that Allen Wilson had been bumped up a grade and had taken an important step in his career.

More than twenty colonial commissioners, gathered in the Aden Administrative Office, the official start of this Aden meeting, Allen Wilson did not have to be polite, directly took out the Whitehall’s work instructions and said, “Thanks to the efforts of colleagues, ten years after the end of the World War, Britain finally did not have to keep its head down as a human being and be held financially hostage by dubious allies. Whitehall is very pleased with our work, and the next phase is going to involve some adjustments in strategic direction.”

“Change is something we don’t like, and likewise I don’t like it, but the gentlemen I’m sure understand that to do things in the national interest, some adjustments are inevitable.”

“Undersecretary, you can be blunt, everyone wants to know what the adjustments are in.” Ingram opened his mouth to inquire.

“Then I’ll be polite, on the overseas garrison, in addition to the British forces stationed in Germany within the framework of NATO, there are three main blocks of the current garrison, the Near East, the Middle East and the Far East, the three major joint warfighting commands, headquartered in Cyprus, Aden under our feet and Singapore, British Africa is actually not important on the strategic map, not to mention that British Africa is a very large area. ”

Words to this point, the real purpose has been called out, among the three major joint operational command, the Near East direction is the strongest, a sense of the Mediterranean fleet sitting in the Near East Joint Operational Command, can be described as part of NATO, rather than belonging to the British garrison alone, the Middle East and Far East direction is different.

Compared to the interests of the Middle East as well as the Far East, British Africa is certainly on the back burner, never mind being much larger than the latter.

“The huge funds in our hands are going to support the Middle East Garrison to stay here all the time, treating the British African colonies as the great rear, then the Middle East and the Far East is the front, this is the meaning of Whitehall, I hope the gentlemen can understand.”

The present configuration of 800,000 British troops, plus a hundred thousand or so garrisoned in the colonies if British Africa is added. The numbers are certainly not large, and cannot be compared with the French army in Algeria.

Most of the colonial commissioners who came to Aden were from British Africa, and it was Allen Wilson’s job to get these colleagues to accept this fact and take responsibility for it; the policy had shifted, and Britain had to invest what little economic power it had in hand in important directions.

Now Britain has recovered, but the economic strength and pre-war can not be compared, can only put the limited foreign investment, in more important places, the Middle East and Far East sequence before Africa.

“There is no need for anyone to be dismayed, it may be a little embarrassing to say. But the situation in Africa must also be seen to be stabilized by France. If France stabilizes, the African colonies will have enough time to adjust without worrying about challenges coming right away, unlike the Far East and the Middle East, where challenges can happen at any time.” John followed Alan Wilson’s train of thought, “The situation in Africa is still very solid, it’s Alan’s and my jurisdictions that are really struggling.”

“Who doesn’t know the importance of the Persian Gulf, we know it, the US knows it, the USSR knows it. To be honest, the US and the USSR are both above the UK right now, and our advantage is dependent on what our fathers have built up. It’s hard enough to be able to stabilize, and we can’t continue to ignore American and Soviet interest in the Middle East.”

“Uh, can’t agree with all of it, but it’s for the greater good.” Unlike the others, Ingram was a commissioner in British West Africa, which happened to be where the most densely populated part of Africa was, and he found it tougher the greater the desire to suppress the local desire for independence, “Before we came here, the political parties in Nigeria had already indicated that they were going to submit the idea of setting up an autonomous territory.”

“A place with nothing but people.” Alan Wilson this sentence, although some slander, Nigeria is not in addition to the people have nothing, but the per capita resources are not much is also a fact, the latter day’s Africa’s first big country is all the population to support, directly give their own advice, “go through the procedures, listed five years buffer, if therefore ease the situation, will be the local part of the garrison transferred to the East African colonies. ”

“Will Whitehall agree?” Ingram knew that Alan Wilson had just come out of London, and surely knew what Whitehall meant.

“Whitehall’s opinion is to go through the procedure.” Alan Wilson nodded, “Negotiate the matter of sterling settlement, the rest follow the precedent of British India and Sudan as usual, and in terms of the alliance of interests formed by the nationalized enterprises and the local elites in Nigeria, the main consideration is not to let the autonomy of Nigeria impact on the local economy.”

“I understand, I’ll keep an eye on movements in this area when I return.” Ingram stopped talking with a nod.

“The enhanced layout in the Middle East requires at least two hundred million pounds of funding, and the Ministry of Finance means to provide fifteen million pounds of support. Let’s figure out the rest on our own.” John was a little embarrassed when he took out the document, after all, he was now in the position of asking for money and was a little short of breath.

Sure enough, the huge gap between the money needed and the Treasury’s allocation caused a buzz in the room. Painful when it comes to spending money, it’s a different story when it comes to shelling out.

“Can your jurisdiction replace the significant economic value and status of the Middle East?” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to ask a rhetorical question, seeing that the crowd did not speak, only then said, “So well, this is how simple it is, the Far East and the Middle East lost, the Cabinet evacuated all the colonies without hesitation, if the difficulties in Africa is a quadratic operation, the two of us are simply the calculus of the place.”

Not complaining, this is an obvious fact, Alan Wilson must make colleagues clear this fact, “This I even think it is not enough, two hundred million pounds of investment, from the interests of the United Kingdom to consider, and no difference between no investment. Don’t say you haven’t seen the moves by the US to organize a blockade of the USSR by the Middle Eastern countries, and the counter moves by the USSR.”

“Taking advantage of the recent disturbances in Poland and Hungary is a good opportunity, now that the Soviet Union has no time to focus on the Middle East. Our pressure mainly comes from the United States, and the United States at least won’t openly tear itself apart from Britain, it depends on whether we, in the dark, can rely on the former foundation of the British Empire to safeguard Britain’s interests.”

All the colonial commissioners nodded their heads in recognition, and although none of them were in Europe, they had heard about the current events in Poland and Hungary, and were watching with an attitude of watching how the Soviet Union would react to the anti-Soviet voices in the two countries of Eastern Europe.

The matter in Hungary mainly stems from two people, the tension of the current situation in Hungary is only just reflected in the level of the government, the discord between the two people of Rakosi and Nagy, already the antagonism of the followers between the two people, has not yet affected the masses of the people of Hungary.

This matter has nothing to do with Allen Wilson, but he remembers that because of what happened in Hungary, the Soviet Red Army suffered nearly a thousand casualties. The Soviet Red Army in Eastern Europe was, normally speaking, an elite force, far from being comparable to the KGB border guards in the Far East.

Could the isolated incident in Hungary alone have caused so many casualties to the Soviet army?

But the truth has long been submerged in the fog of history, the victor of the Cold War is the United States, no one can find out the Hungarian incident in the end the United States has no influence in it.

The world is not calm, Aden’s meeting is still being held, Australia, Wumaila launch site in the middle of the United Kingdom has just arrived here De Havilland face gloomy, looking at the huge blue light missile, the first finished product has been manufactured, in today will usher in the first experiment.

When it comes down to it, de Havilland is also anxious, of course he wants to prove his talent through the success of the Blue Light Missile, but in this field, he is also a true novice.

After several years of preparation, the test launch of Britain’s first ballistic missile brought him here in person.

Also coming to the Woomera launch site was the Governor-General of Australia, Slim, the British Field Marshal. As well as the Australian Minister of Defense and Army Commander.

The figure of Pamela Mountbatten appeared and greeted de Havilland, “I didn’t expect you to come in person, esteemed Mr. de Havilland.”

“I regret it already, ma’am, I didn’t expect so much attention.” De Havilland laughed bitterly, “With Marshal Slim and the leaders of the Australian military, what would be the best thing to do if it failed.”

“Then continue the test, it’s a strategic weapon. I absolutely support continuing it.” Pamela Mountbatten remembered her husband’s words, this was something that would save her life.

The body of the Blue Light Missile was glowing with a metallic sheen. It was a huge thing, designed for a maximum takeoff weight of up to sixty-eight tons, very large, liquid-fueled, and using an engine that was Rollo’s RZ.2 rocket engine.

As the countdown began, the crowd in the observation position also held their breath, and finally the huge Blue Light Missile ignited successfully, and the huge projectile broke away from the earth’s gravity and flew into the blue sky.

Just when everyone was ready to celebrate, the Blue Light Missile showed an irregular movement, causing the people who wanted to celebrate to stop, and finally exploded with Brownian motion high in the sky, becoming a large firework, and the ignited fuel fell to the ground like a rain of fire.