Chapter 916 – Equalizing the Benefits of European Unity

“What a surprise that Britain was willing to come up with a program that so protects the interests of all parties.” Constantine shook his head and sighed, “It preserves the interests of our countries, it’s almost unlike you, Britain, to offer it.”

“Oh yeah?” Allen Wilson perfunctorily said in a noncommittal manner, the matter was simple, at the peak of the British Empire, there was no such thing as an inland sea in front of the Royal Navy, Britain could go wherever it wanted to go, and no one could intervene or point a finger at it.

What two hundred nautical miles economic exclusive zone at that time? The whole world’s waters were Britain’s, so why bother?

But haven’t times changed? Now that the most powerful navy in the world has become the US Navy, and the UK has become a vested interest, it’s time to safeguard that former vested interest.

Can’t do that on its own yet, it has to pull the many nations of the last era along with it, or it will look too obvious.

“Oh, by the way, the current program is currently limited to the division of the Gulf of Guinea, and our opinion is that it is better not to rush to extend it to the whole world, at least not before testing out the attitude of the United States.”

Allen Wilson explained to Constantine, “In terms of attitudes toward the colonies, I’m sure you French are aware of that. In 1945, the United States had taken issue with the status of Vietnam.”

It was no secret at all that the United States wanted to weaken Britain and France; on the British side it was an orderly retreat, releasing a colony at regular intervals, something that France was clearly not willing to do.

Alan Wilson also asked about the current situation of the Algerian war, Constantine said that France occupied the absolute initiative, this Alan Wilson felt half-true, how much water only the French themselves know.

However, France did heavily hoard the oil-producing areas of Algeria, the local oil pipeline has been under construction, so it certainly seems to be much stronger than the original history.

“You’re still lucky in France, at least it’s not as big a dilemma as Britain faced after the war.” Alan Wilson expressed his congratulations to Constantine.

Constantine was stunned, not understanding the true meaning of Alan Wilson’s words.

His words were of course based on the fact that the United States, in order to stabilize the situation against the Soviet Union, and taking into account that the world was in shambles, at the risk of the globe turning red, the United States took a supportive attitude towards the countries that were at the forefront of the Soviet Union, and an important part of that was to allow those countries to keep the exchange rate down to promote exports, but that didn’t include the United Kingdom.

The US was never prepared to give the UK a reprieve, and for the US the pound was either worthless, or it maintained a strong monetary policy and simply did not devalue.

Even the previous devaluation of the pound from one to four, to one to two point eight, was only achieved by Britain’s forced announcement of a devaluation, regardless of the interests of the Commonwealth.

Alan Wilson had used every trick he could think of when he was in British India. He even hardened himself against the Great Famine and scraped the land, but fortunately the Indians before independence were too intimidated by Britain to aggravate the conflict with Britain.

He even disguised himself as a good cadre of the Soviet Union, which allowed Britain to survive the most difficult stage.

It was good that the four million square kilometers of British India, for the time being, allowed the U.S. to relax, and the independence of the autonomous Nigerian territories entered a de facto stage and a continuation of the above policy, but that was as far as it went.

If France had won the Algerian War, Britain would have had to think hard about its next steps.

For the colonies in Black Africa, it was certainly unrealistic to keep them for long, but it was also necessary to satisfy Britain’s needs before considering anything else.

Soon, the Franco government in Spain and the Salazar government in Portugal brought back positive feedback. Consensus on the demarcation of the Gulf of Guinea was a done deal, though there was no hurry to sign the formal agreement.

It must be finalized at a meeting of EC foreign ministers, where France will also propose blocking Icelandic cod from entering the European common market. The time was the twelfth of next month.

While he was busy working on the demarcation of the Gulf of Guinea, the United States was still working tirelessly to catch up with Soviet missile technology. Two more test firings of the Kosmos strategic missile took place, one exploding in the air and the second launching out with success.

This was the first successful test launch of the Kosmos strategic missile, and the success boosted U.S. morale. It was then decided to build on the success, and the fifth test-fire once again exploded resulting in a failure.

“The United States is really sparing no expense.” Alan Wilson was also shocked at the high frequency of American test firings. The American heart and spirit of this era was really too different from the one in the twenty-first century.

It’s almost like two countries, one ambitious, the other twilight, it’s hard to imagine that this is the same country in fifty years time different look.

The surprises were one borrowed from the other, and history appeared to be nuanced, with Khrushchev facing Malinkov and Molotov’s outbursts a few months late, but the outcome was unchanged.

Commissars from all over the world rushed to Moscow, escorted by military planes arranged by Marshal Zhukov, and helped Khrushchev flip the script at the Moscow Congress, reversing his defeat to oust rivals such as Malinkov, Kaganovich, and Molotov, and establishing Khrushchev’s unique position in the USSR.

It was an internal struggle within the Soviet Union, and the free world only learned of the change at the top of the Soviet Union after the dust had settled.

Alan Wilson, who was enjoying a rare leisure time in Paris, thought of Foltseva for no reason, and he remembered that Foltseva was a great contributor to Khrushchev’s turnaround, and that if Foltseva hadn’t run up and down the streets, mobilizing commissioners from all over the world to enter Moscow in support of Khrushchev, Khrushchev, who had already fallen into a desperate situation, couldn’t have rallied to the occasion.

“She is about to enter the highest level of the Soviet Union.” Alan Wilson’s heart is quite complicated, from this time onwards, it is also the time when Foltseva Ekaterina III resounded through the Soviet land.

When Greta Garbo entered, she saw a naked bureaucrat, pretending to be deep in a daze, and wondered, “What are you thinking about? Could you put your panties on.”

“Oh, it’s not like you haven’t seen it before, you don’t like it too.” Alan Wilson snorted, from a primitive savage quickly became a clotheshorse, “Look, it’s not easy for me to stay in Paris for a while, you always look like this, do you know how hard it is.”

“England trained you to be so profound in time management?” Greta Garbo didn’t have the heart to sigh, “Didn’t think about how you were going to contribute to England, you were too busy doing that.”

“My little brother is busier than I am, as is humanly possible.” Alan Wilson followed Greta Garbo step by step, the time in Paris was restful, but it was quite exhausting.

The days of comfort were still over, the four countries of Britain, France, Spain and Portugal still managed to shake off the U.S. stakeout by taking advantage of the EC Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Brussels, and Allen Wilson was called to go there and get a feel for the atmosphere of the EC Foreign Ministers’ meeting.

In Brussels, he very coincidentally ran into the female head of the Heilmann family who came to Brussels to talk about business, and by the way, he talked to Bogina about a big deal of several hundred million dollars, and both of them were satisfied with the deal reached.

Success in the European Community to get rid of the United States constraints of the four countries, directly announced on the Gulf of Guinea two hundred nautical miles of the exclusive economic zone delimitation, in the adjacent sea is to take the principle of the median line, if there is a clear sovereignty of the island, the island sovereignty will be the main, and so on, and so on a series of delimitation methods.

Although Greece is not a member of the European Community, but no matter which European countries, are well aware that Greece is the cradle of European civilization, on the one hand, the island sovereignty of the colonial powers is really advantageous, and the other aspect is also taken into account, the territorial waters of Greece and Turkey as a reference.

While Turkey won the war of national independence after World War I, successfully recovering Eastern Thrace, Izmir and Western Armenia, and abolishing the consular jurisdiction and financial supervision of the European and American powers, at the same time Turkey was forced to make concessions in certain places, for example, the extent of its territory in the Aegean Sea was limited to no more than three miles from its own coastline.

This established Greek control over most of the Aegean, which Turkey resented and wanted to change. And apart from territorial disputes, the other major dispute between Greece and Turkey around the Aegean Sea was the breadth of the territorial sea.

Alan Wilson told Foreign Secretary Morrison and Foreign Office Permanent Secretary Sir Ismay that this delimitation of the Gulf of Guinea was bound to have a consequence that many countries would scramble to follow.

Other countries Alan Wilson can not guarantee, twelve nautical miles territorial sea and exclusive economic zone this matter, China’s reaction is very fast, history in the cod war began in 1958, Iceland began to promote twelve nautical miles territorial sea and two hundred nautical miles of economic exclusive zone claims, China immediately followed.

Now he’s using the Gulf of Guinea delimitation to pre-empt Iceland’s move before Iceland does, but that won’t change much. China isn’t going to stop following through just because it was a bunch of colonial powers that set up this delimitation scheme.

When it comes down to it, the law of not hating imperialism, just hating yourself for not being an imperialist exists.

Who cares if the first country to propose it is a colonial power or not, as long as they feel they can take advantage of it?

Belgium did not participate in the previous negotiations in Paris, and that was because Belgium had known for a long time that the matter would be discussed at the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Community, and that it was entirely too late to join the discussion in its own capital.

After the five countries of Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Belgium reached a consensus and announced the results of the delimitation of the Gulf of Guinea. The French side, as previously agreed, banned Icelandic cod from entering the French market on the grounds that Icelandic waters were polluted.

The continental blockade order came as expected, and the French proposal was immediately endorsed by the UK, followed by Spain, Portugal and Belgium, and was almost immediately adopted at the EC meeting, with Europe united and its interests equally divided.

Thus, the cod ban against Iceland was passed in an extremely rapid and mind-boggling manner. By the end of the EC Foreign Ministers’ meeting on October 3, it was made a common resolution of the EC member states, as was the delimitation of the Gulf of Guinea.