Chapter 889 British Follow-Up

No sooner had the men left Aden than Alan Wilson received a telegram relayed from Whitehall.

Another telegram was sent from Kuala Lumpur about French orders, out of the desire to gain British support in the midst of the Algerian War, France was willing to use a portion of its economic benefits to get Britain on its side.

Even in the latter days, when the United States was fighting a big battle in Afghanistan, it also paid for the establishment of a certain infrastructure.

Although in the United States under the superb financial sleight of hand, every item of construction in Afghanistan is the most expensive in history, but it can not be denied that the United States is shelling out money to rebuild, just spend a little too much money.

This part of the order of raw materials, a part of the Malayan colony stayed, this is Allen Wilson initiative to promote the results, after all, he did not expect to make money, just to protect the start rate. Let the Malayan colony’s industrial office run on satisfaction.

Such a conscientious seller, through his wife’s connections should rightly should be noticed by the Paris government.

In between the victorious closing of the Aden conference, John also joked that once Singapore’s largest oil refining center in Asia was built, he himself would have to look up to Alan Wilson’s nose, “But after this missile test, it seems like things are winding down in Poland ……”

“Yeah, I wonder whose idea it was to load the fuel inside Poland and launch it at a Kazakh range.” Alan Wilson listened and sighed, “But the deterrent is clear, things seem to be calming down in Poland and Hungary.”

The test launch of the Soviet ICBM had shocked the free world enough, not to mention its own camp mates. At this point in time, if Moscow had taken advantage of the Free World being dumbfounded and just stepped in to clean up the pricks, it might have calmed things down.

“The Eastern camp is indeed not easy to deal with.” John snorted, “I think Gerard Edward is the one under the most pressure, we’re more stressed than our colleagues in Africa, but we still can’t compare to him.”

“That’s true.” Alan Wilson didn’t deny that Gerard Edward was the Commissioner in Germany, which was the front line of the Cold War.

But it depended on how big the concept of the East was in his colleague’s mouth. According to the traditional European perspective, the concept of the West is actually very small, the accurate generalization is that west of the German border, the whole of the Americas is the big rear. Beyond the eastern border of Germany is the East.

However, from the perspective of other civilizations, the concept of the West is surprisingly large, and there are few major countries that consider themselves to be Eastern, and the religion of peace is a standard Western civilization, originating in the same place as Christianity. Most of the countries where the two main religions are dominant are of Western culture.

Even Iran considers itself part of Western civilization, not to mention the Soviet Union. The East and the countries that think of themselves as the East in such a generalized way are none other than the Eastern countries, including India. East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia is all of the East. The rest is the so-called West.

The West under this concept is incredibly large in both population and area, only the European countries don’t recognize it.

The USSR was Schrodinger’s West, and when it was strong, it was part of the Western camp since time immemorial. Weak and get lost.

Alan Wilson accompanied his old colleague around the Persian Gulf and inspected the air terminal project. Then he secretly left Aden with Pauline Gaudet.

Took Pauline Gaudet, who was hell bent on being an adoptive mother, to Kuala Lumpur so she could meet up with the pot-bellied Anna. Then took off again to reach Australia and appeared before Pamela Mountbatten.

“What are you doing here.” Inquired Pamela Mountbatten very puzzled as she looked at her husband who had not a drop to spare.

“The Woomera launch site is an important British asset.” Alan Wilson took out the telegram from Whitehall and showed it to his wife, righteously saying, “The Cabinet has asked me to follow up the Blue Light Missile project with all my might and provide support in every sense of the word. There is no doubt that this project is certainly burning a hole in the pocket, and all the extra extra spending will have to go through my hands.”

In other words, this space race that was supposed to belong to the United States and the Soviet Union, Britain is going to follow through. At least the current government is going to follow suit, and whether it’s missiles or rockets, Britain is going to be in the race.

“There’s going to be a large number of other people moving into the Woomera launch site soon, so darling, if possible, could you help communicate with Canberra.” Alan Wilson reached out and shook his hand in front of his wife’s eyes, his look full of solemnity.

“Leave it to me.” Pamela Mountbatten nodded, then embarrassedly said, “You’re disappointed that the Blue Light Missile failed.”

“Failure is the mother of success. It’s okay.” Alan Wilson comforted without minding it, “This kind of project is piled up with money, I’m going to meet with the head of the space center. Inform him of the mission objectives planned by the government.”

Arriving in Australia, Alan Wilson immediately went into work, verifying the Woomera launch site, determining the infrastructure and the flow of funds, and for this reason, he didn’t even have time to invite his sister-in-law to take a rocket ride, making Her Royal Highness, who had already experienced the joy of taking a rocket ride, secretly annoyed, doesn’t her brother-in-law like to be passive?

At this moment, Adderley, who became Prime Minister instead after the war, gave an impassioned speech in the House of Commons in front of MPs from both parties, and this image entered thousands of British homes through television sets.

Cabinet Secretary Norman Brooke, not far from Prime Minister Aidley, watched the prime minister, who was rallying bipartisan support.

“Breakthroughs in spaceflight have seen the future of competition not confined to two-dimensional space, but rapidly shifting to a wide range of three-dimensional space. The major powers of the world today are all competing on the same level. As a world power, Great Britain will never back down in the face of new challenges, and this generation, like its ancient and glorious fathers and mothers, will overcome them to maintain order and peace in the civilized world.”

“The government will mobilize all its forces to join in this competition, making it clear that Great Britain will not only defy challenges from land and sea, but also in the sky.”

Every time there was a gap in Prime Minister Adderley’s speech, the Labor MPs, who occupied half the House of Commons, erupted in applause.

“Britain can get support from the Commonwealth, from Europe. Support from anywhere. Together with a hundred and twenty-thousand percent effort, let’s look to the far reaches of the universe for, perhaps, another Great Age of Sail.”

The House of Commons erupted into loud applause, the Age of the Great Seas, a wonderful era that had haunted countless British souls. Britain was originally in Europe can only be considered a marginal country, but in the era of the great voyage soared to the sky, creating the glory of the Sunset Empire.

“Affliction can test a man’s character; extraordinary circumstances can only reveal extraordinary temperament; calm sea, all ships can be driven side by side to win; destiny’s iron fist to hit the vitals, only the great courage and wisdom of the people can deal with it.”

Prime Minister Adderley ended his speech with a Shakespeare quote, “All the world’s a great stage, and all the men of the red earth are actors. We are about to make choices and will not regret them.”

“Never regret it.” Labor MPs, who occupy half of the House of Commons, stood up and applauded, showing support for their prime minister.

“If it wasn’t so far from an election, it would almost certainly be another win.” Norman Brooke raised an eyebrow at the sight.

Prime Minister Adderley brought out the special draft containing the budget that had been drawn up, and it was overwhelmingly passed in the House of Commons.

This draft included the allocation of ninety million pounds to be invested in the funding of aerospace development. Aerospace research institutes will be managed by the Ministry of Defense, and the development of military products will be financed by defense spending to reduce the conflict between the developers and the users.

Sixteen universities, including Oxford, London, Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and Southampton, set up aeronautical departments and aeronautical colleges of higher education.

The Royal Aeronautical Society and the British Institute of Interplanetary Navigation were established on top of these universities to call for accumulated talents to go to the Woomera launch site, and to negotiate with Australia to guarantee the treatment and protection of the relevant researchers.

A Cabinet Minister was appointed to be the head of aerospace development to ensure that the UK’s focus on aerospace is maintained. This appointment unexpectedly fell to the forty-year-old Harold Wilson. Many Labor Party members were surprised.

Harold Wilson, who had just assumed office, immediately packed his bags and traveled to Australia to get a first-hand understanding of the situation.

Newspapers throughout Britain were buzzing about the fact that Adderley, a prime minister who had led three governments after the war, had made a parliamentary speech on aerospace and aviation, and that the support of the Conservative Party, which had been flat or simply lagging behind for two years, had shown a slight increase.

Britain in the post-war decade, almost not in the views on international affairs, and France’s frequent big move in stark contrast to the action, and this time, a lot of countries have been taken aback.

Even Moscow and Washington, where Khrushchev, who had just silenced his Polish opponents by test-firing an intercontinental missile and was preparing to quell the Budapest conflict, were not impressed.

Far away in Washington, Eisenhower and Dulles also discussed this, “I wonder if Britain is just trying to roll over, or if it really remembers past glories.”

“Perhaps both.” Secretary of State Dulles was noncommittal, “It’s amazing how Britain recovered after the war. Especially compared to the rest of Europe it’s even more so, perhaps we still had too much aid during the war, I didn’t think they would really be able to adjust.”

“In any case, we’ll have to follow up on that as well. If even Britain can respond head-on to Soviet superiority with a straight face and we can’t, others will think we’re cowards.” Eisenhower said with a small hammer.

Just three days later, the U.S. Senate passed an even more massive bipartisan bill to ensure full support for the aerospace industry, which the U.S. used as a response to the Soviet Union’s test of an ICBM after the U.K. was to take a stand against the competition.