Chapter 895 – The West Malaysian Railway
Alan Wilson was thankful that the current government, within its means, had tossed around and squeezed out troops to form the British Army in Australia to escort Britain into the space race.
After all, times have changed. When the Sunset Empire was in power, it didn’t need such a large standing army. But now eight hundred thousand standing armies have been maintained from the post-war period until now, and they all seem a bit insufficient.
The reason is also very simple, the times are different opponents are not the same. Two thousand years ago when a Han when the five hu, is built in the Xiongnu people almost no metallurgical technology in the environment. With the passage of time, you are iron and I am also iron, naturally, can not replicate the glory days, and two thousand years ago the Han people have blood, now the Han people have no blood without a little bullshit argument has nothing to do.
Now the United States and the Soviet Union are more populous and technologically at the same level, which allows the United Kingdom how to fight? Naturally, the original than the current colonies are still more, but not now the lack of troops embarrassed this kind of thing.
At the end of the year, it was not good news that Nigeria was successfully upgraded to a self-governing territory.
Britain had given five years to prepare for independence after that. Ingram is talking to the local elites about how the local nationalized enterprises established by Britain will be handed over and how the profits will be distributed.
Programs are of course varied, these enterprises can be privatized and then listed in London, of course, also bound to the pound settlement of this condition, after the independence process of British India, British Sudan, Britain on this kind of colonial treatment means, already familiar with.
John, an old colleague who was sitting in the Persian Gulf in place of Sir Barron, had similarly bad news, as Jordan dismissed the British commander of the Arab Legion, Grab, marking a shake-up in Britain’s unique influence in Jordan.
“I have been in touch with the Jordanian royal family and will be making a trip to negotiate shortly.”
Alan Wilson took his old friend’s telegram and fell into deep thought, Grabh Pasha represented British influence over Jordan, whose previous role in World War II was equal to that of Farouk I, who was now as alive as Ali Pasha.
Considered by Britain as the main base for maintaining influence in the Arab world, this influence was maintained through Grabh Pasha, a British national who served as Chief of Staff of the Jordanian Army and Commander of the Arab Legion.
As early as 1935, Britain established a military dictatorship under Grabh Pasha, the commander-in-chief of the Arab Legion. The military authorities were empowered to arrest and confiscate the property of those whose activities were considered a threat to the security of Transjordan, as well as to detain and deport “suspected” persons.
All other laws of the Transjordanian State ceased to be in force as of the date of the application of the Defense Law. The extraordinary and virtually unlimited carte blanche possessed by the Grabh Pasha in Transjordan was utilized by the British imperialists to meet British military needs.
Grab Pasha’s Arab Legion, which only had a name associated with Arabs, was actually under the command of the British Joint Middle East Operations Command in the Middle East and was part of the British military force in the Middle East.
“Try not to let the Jordanian royal family dismiss Grab Pasha, any conditions can be talked about, talk to the Jordanian royal family with the fact that Nigeria has become an autonomous territory, if it is money, it is actually simple, the main thing is to express sincerity.”
Alan Wilson quickly called his old friend back, stating that there is nothing that Britain and Jordan can’t talk about, don’t get to the point where it doesn’t end well, Alan Wilson actually doesn’t think Jordan is much of a value.
Jordan’s value is essentially the vision of a previous era, just as Britain has always looked at British India as the most valuable colony, for example, but what actually happened? At a glance in this era, Australia was mostly more valuable than India.
Jordan is not as valuable as Qatar in the Persian Gulf in Alan Wilson’s eyes, never mind the fact that the former’s area and population are dozens of times that of the latter. But even so, because of Britain’s previous layout in the Arab world Jordan occupies a large proportion, he still does not want to tear his face.
If things can not be done, then do not openly tear your face, leaving Britain a few years time to withdraw should not be too much to ask.
Soon after, Alan Wilson submitted the matter about the Jordanian Arab Legion to the British Foreign Office and gave his opinion, while stating that the Persian Gulf Commissioner had already departed for Jordan and would follow up on the matter himself.
“What’s the matter? Darling?” Pamela Mountbatten walked into the bedroom to see her husband breathing a long sigh, thinking that she had made him angry by driving him back to Kuala Lumpur recently.
Pamela Mountbatten just thought it would be better to stay away from Turing, that kind of person was different after all.
“The British layout in Jordan is in danger of faltering.” Alan Wilson saw his wife come in, but did not hide a bitter smile, “Sometimes I wonder, after trying so hard only to be confronted with such a scene, is it not too powerless a bit?”
He can not be said not to work hard, every year in the major colonies around, just afraid of what bad seedling appeared to be caught off guard.
But still can’t change the trend of Britain gradually falling behind, originally in the United Kingdom loudly proclaimed to join the space competition, he thought that all the way down the declining trend has appeared the dawn, but now look at the happy or a little early.
“It’s not your fault.” Pamela Mountbatten saw her husband quite lost, rushed up and hugged her husband’s head to comfort him softly, “your efforts even if other people can’t see it, how could I as your wife not know, by the way, I talked to the governor of Western Australia and the mayor of Perth to accept the hydroelectric operation, be happy for me.”
“Good news at last, darling.” Alan Wilson lifted his head with difficulty, his chin still in the middle of the gutter.
“There’s more to the good news than that, I haven’t been here this month and I’m going to the hospital to check, so I’ll let you know right away if there’s any good news.” Pamela Mountbatten winked at her man, a smile on her face full of happiness.
“That’s really something to look forward to.” Alan Wilson was beaming with joy, the hot breath from his mouth rushing through the woman’s chest.
A small amount of depression washed away, Ellen Wilson still wired Kuala Lumpur to have the A.O. keep an eye out to see if the newspapers in other countries had noticed what was going on in Jordan.
It was sure to be, especially in the rival camps, and soon a report in the official press of a major country with the headline British troops out of Jordan was known to Alan Wilson.
Alan Wilson returned to his own administrative office in Kuala Lumpur with a bitter smile on his face and said, “What’s it got to do with them? What can Britain do if they don’t leave? Send their army from the Korean War to Jordan and I’ll see?”
“And the Soviet Pravda report.” Richard gave the Soviet reaction to his top man who had just returned to base camp.
“That’s going to be worth noting for a while.” Allen Wilson’s face immediately became solemn; the fact that Jordan’s location was within range of Soviet intervention, again, was a statement that deserved even more attention.
This shows that the Malayan colonial high commissioner’s bullying, other countries tabled on a figure of joy, the Soviet Union tabled on a worthy of attention.
“This is the current year, the emergence of honor killings.” Alisa hugged up a pile of dossiers and said, “The statistics of similar cases of Chinese and Malays, a total of eighty-three cases.”
“Got it.” Take out the high commissioner seal, Allen Wilson left hand rattles pull the dossier, do not even look at a glance, the desk came out bang bang stamping sound, not long after all the dossiers are confirmed text finished, lightly said, “archive ……”
“Malayan colony because of this kind of thing appeared murder, whether to interfere?” Alisa inquired.
“The British Empire has never treated the colonies according to local conditions, and reported respect for local customs; the Qing law and the law of peace teachings have written texts on such adultery involving men and women, and the British Empire should not interfere in this matter.” Alan Wilson put away the seal of the commissioners and said, full of concern, “Whether it is stoning or any other punishment, the attitude of the colonial government is not to interfere. The case of the Chinese is less than thirty, in accordance with the ordinance of life imprisonment, and a few dozen more laborers who can be used for a lifetime, how good.”
“These are murder cases.” Alisa was a little silent, “They can be stopped if they are taken seriously.”
“The cost is too high to be worth it. We’re primarily concerned with securing labor power first, and women are less valuable than men.” Alan Wilson had a look of indifference on his face, “There are so many places around the world where men and women are not equal, and we’re going to help? It also needs to be appreciated by others before we can do so, if the interference causes a huge moral slide in society, and there is social unrest in Malaya, who bears the responsibility for this?”
He has already taken the top punishment for this kind of murder, naturally, it ends here, headache is certainly not a solution to the problem, but this kind of problem who can solve? How to solve?
European and American model? The African model, the Japanese and Korean model or the Taliban model?
“Alisa, there’s no chance that in a few decades, this will be the basis for another economic take-off in Malaya.” Alan Wilson consoled the empathizing up female ministry, “The world is constantly changing, who can say for sure.”
When the day comes to open the gates of the country, the sons and daughters of God who took decades to train suddenly find Malaya, a colony with a vastly higher standard of living but retaining traditional social relations between men and women. And then look around them at the rapid slide of morality, they may cut their heads off and squeeze in.
“Commissioner, here are the plans for the planned West Malaysian Railway.” Richard had held out a copy of the railroad construction plan that had been drawn up for the Malayan Administrator to look over.
“Not bad, and it’s almost time to start it, connecting the major cities in West Malaysia. It will greatly increase the mobility of the Malayan Peninsula, and will be of great benefit to economic development.” Alan Wilson was obviously much more serious, other things were not worth paying too much attention to, this matter was completely different.
The urbanization of West Malaysia had already begun for half a year, and if he took the opportunity to complete the construction of the railroad as well in one go, this round of construction was completed, and he would not have to worry about this aspect for at least twenty years.