Chapter 913 I am pro-American

Inwardly Alan Wilson’s thoughts were no different from those of the three Latin countries, but outwardly, full of words about Nigeria’s need for independence, preserving the post-colonial era, and not allowing the Soviet Union to exploit the situation.

This was of course said to the Americans, a dubious ally who had to sit in on the conversation and made this four-nation meeting a bit bizarre.

Truth be told, though, Allen Wilson was treating this meeting as a diplomatic achievement, and the move by the United States to have to squeeze in was not unexpected.

From the very beginning, Allen Wilson had already had a through idea of the demarcation issue, and had prepared another topic. Prepared to discuss with the Americans, used to hide the true purpose of Britain.

In the first day of the meeting, basically in the stage of talking to each other, which is also in Allen Wilson’s expectations.

In the Berlin Conference of 1884, countries were at war for more than a hundred days before a compromise was reached to divide Africa.

This meeting involves the oil interests of the Gulf of Guinea, of course, it is not necessary to take so long, but talk for dozens of days is also very normal, there is never anything that can be accomplished overnight, the fart can be negotiated for several years, not to mention that this time involves the rights and interests of the Gulf of Guinea, and it is not a small matter.

“Britain’s attitude is nothing more than maintaining Nigeria’s interests after independence, it can be concluded that the oil in the Gulf of Guinea, will not affect Nigeria’s independence, while the attitude of France and Portugal, Spain, three countries is obviously much more conservative, never mention the issue of independence of the colony.”

After the first day’s meeting, the representatives of the American side who attended the meeting to observe the meeting, communicated the basic attitudes of the countries to Washington, which was still in Eisenhower’s term of office, and the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Senate was, a longtime friend of Allen Wilson’s, Joseph Remonde McCarthy.

McCarthy saw the familiar name on the document and gave a decisive and precise argument, “British policy remains a set of orderly retreats, slowly divesting the colonies while preventing such behavior from hitting the British mainland. France, Spain and Portugal, on the other hand, did not show any tendency in this regard, and for the British move, the United States should be encouraged at the diplomatic level.”

Such professional assertions could only be made by McCarthy, who knew his British friend well.

His British friend, was tapping rhythmically on the door of a luxury apartment, and with a series of light footsteps, Greta Garbo opened the door from the inside, looked at the man with unsurprising eyes, and offered to stick it up for a triumphant kiss, reaching out to tug the man inside and take the door with her.

“You’re a colonial high commissioner, you always seem to forget your job and not stay properly in Malaya, the whole planet is full of you.” Greta Garbo brought out bread from the kitchen and placed it in front of the man.

“It’s all about the country training me, I’m responsible for overseeing the UK’s overseas assets, again it’s my job.” Alan Wilson directly reached out and wolfed down the bread, vaguely said, “The Malayan colony has an established team running it, things are rather not that tricky, but of course in a position that is extremely important to the current British Empire.”

“America must be dyking Dad back from the dead.” Greta Garbo teased with a slight curl of her mouth, “Why don’t you go over to the movie studio and come over to my side again?”

“It’s very restful with you.” Alan Wilson said honestly, “Being able to discuss things with a very assured mind is exactly the environment I need right now. And it’s also pleasing to the eye.”

Greta Garbo gave Alan Wilson a blank look, failing to hear that the short summation of those words was that it was good to live and not be sticky.

It was a little old from the factory, but well maintained and had only been sitting in the booth for a long time, it could still be considered a new car one, and the test drive experience was excellent. Of course classic luxury cars demand a lot from their drivers, and once the owner shows up, they need to be wiped down frequently.

“Americans in general are so arrogant that you can’t leave them out completely if you fool them.” Greta Garbo lay in Alan Wilson’s arms, “You used to say that America was an agricultural empire. And you’re shipping all the food out of Nigeria, and look at the fact that the US doesn’t even have a policy on that. Britain don’t step in, let the local black leaders do it themselves.”

“Two years ago the US seemed to have a policy of food foreign aid.” After Alan Wilson heard this, he really wanted to slap himself on the head, and was about to do so if the two of them weren’t lying stacked in the bathtub with both of his hands free.

Azikiwe had connections in this area because Azikiwe himself had the experience of studying in the United States. At the juncture of what was going to be independence, Azikiwe, a would-be father of the nation, still had ties to the United States, which made him in a position to ask for aid.

“Whitehall asked me to come to Paris for a meeting, and I didn’t realize there was a windfall.” Alan Wilson, who already had an initial idea, lowered his head and accurately found Greta Garbo’s red lips and whispered, “I’ll serve you well today.”

“I’ve never been too demanding.” Greta Garbo looked back in response, the dominance of a primordial screen goddess evident.

Earlier Allen Wilson had foreseen that the United States might have to get involved, and the subject that was prepared to divert American attention was the maritime dispute between British Newfoundland and Iceland. It was well known that Iceland had a small population and was dependent on fishing.

What was the problem with that? Originally Iceland would have fought the Cod Wars with Britain over it, but now, Iceland’s main rival was the Crown Dependency of Newfoundland, which had gotten Allen Wilson’s arms.

That’s when Allen Wilson ended his tenure as Administrator of Newfoundland and sold a few destroyers to Newfoundland, also to relieve Britain’s battleship backlog, and a few destroyers couldn’t possibly have been even the slightest bit of a threat to the U.S. or Canada.

But Iceland was definitely an exception, that had been an indefensible presence for Iceland.

Newfoundland has successfully transformed, completed the metamorphosis of the brave to the evil dragon, on the one hand, strictly prohibited the European ocean-going fishing vessels to enter the waters of Newfoundland, and expelled them to another large fishing ground Iceland, on the other hand, the fishermen of Newfoundland after updating their own fishing vessels can also go to the ocean, and the European countries’ fishing vessels to join the plundering of Icelandic fishery resources.

What is happening now is that Newfoundland and Iceland’s relationship has taken a sharp turn for the worse, replacing the role of the UK that was supposed to be fighting the cod war with Iceland, and becoming the object of Iceland’s hatred.

What appears to be unrelated to the current topic of delimitation of the Gulf of Guinea is in fact very much related. Allen Wilson was going to use the conflict between Newfoundland and Iceland to reconcile with the intervention of the United States and Britain. Afterwards, he proposed the concept of twelve nautical miles of territorial sea and two hundred nautical miles of exclusive economic zone.

So after the meeting in the following days, Allen Wilson took the opportunity to complain to the Americans who were listening to the meeting, “like this kind of delimitation problem is the most difficult to solve, even Newfoundland and Iceland’s maritime disputes can’t be solved, not to mention that around the Gulf of Guinea so many colonies belonging to different countries. Without a solution that all look good, these countries will fight even after independence.”

“And as we all know, war environments are also an important way for communism to spread, and Britain was very worried about that. If we left suddenly, a lot of places could be taken advantage of by the Soviet Union, and the Nigerian Autonomous Territories, which are the most populous in Africa, could be in big trouble if they went into the arms of the Soviet Union.”

In Alan Wilson’s mouth, the importance of the Nigerian Autonomous Territories was elevated beyond recognition.

Indeed after all the hot talk about the oil in the Gulf of Guinea being comparable to the Persian Gulf, it wasn’t exactly an exaggeration. Not to mention the fact that just the article of an autonomous territory with a population of 40 million people cannot be considered unworthy of attention by any stretch of the imagination.

In the face of the righteous Alan Wilson, the Americans also expressed their approval of this precise assertion.

Unbeknownst to them, this British man, who is always talking about the post-colonial era, had instructed the Nigerian commissioner, Mr. Roberts, just yesterday, that in the event of a famine in Nigeria, he would let Azikiwe open his mouth and ask for food aid from the United States.

Figured out that there is the United States of America’s foreign food aid, Allen Wilson even more do not care about scraping the ground. Originally he was still a little afraid of famine, and even prepared to set aside the minimum standard rations to prevent famine.

Now he is only left to the previous anticipation of famine appeared timid and chagrined, how to do something with so little courage?

“Washington is also concerned about this meeting. There is a desire to play a role, but there is a desire to do so.” Kizzleton finally managed to take a stand for the first time, inspired by the walking Anglo-American special relationship of Allen Wilson.

“Convincing the three Latin countries is really difficult, especially the French, and if Britain speaks out at the diplomatic level along with the United States, it could backfire.” Alan Wilson shirked his responsibility without a trace, “You may not empathize too much being an American, the French have a very mixed view of Britain.”

“France’s insistence on colonization is very difficult indeed.” Kizzleton also looked embarrassed, apparently Washington had communicated with Paris, but to no avail.

Never mind that from 1945 to the present, France has had nineteen prime ministers, but every government has had the same attitude toward the colonies, talking about anything but independence.

During the days in Paris, British ocean freighters traveled back and forth between the Nigerian Autonomous Territories and the mainland all the time, itching to empty Nigeria before they left, while at the same time what was going on was that the whole of Nigeria, under the hegemonic influence of an unseen public opinion, was beginning to move forward with some building programs.

A few sober people can’t influence the bigger picture when most of them think it’s right. Not to mention the oil resources in the Gulf of Guinea, which affects not just the British Autonomous Dominions, but nearby France, Portugal and Spain have all expressed interest, and Nigeria can’t even be calmed if it wants to be.