Chapter 948 – An Old Friend of the French

“Then what are you asking about the French Communist Party for?” Pamela Mountbatten’s eyes flashed with a touch of doubt, and she tilted her head, “It’s the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what news do you want that you can’t get, and if you can’t, you can directly look for MI6.”

The key is whether MI6 is reliable? Alan Wilson said in his heart, the entire French Republic compared to the Cambridge Five, not necessarily who is more valued?

“The main thing is that the position of the French Communist Party is suitable for this kind of thing, although I have just returned to Europe, but it is certain that, judging from the position that has always been and the influence of the Soviet Union, the French Communist Party should be in favor of abandoning the colonies. Some of the words lent themselves to them to make it more plausible.”

“Tell me about it!” Pamela Mountbatten knew as soon as she heard it that her husband was on the verge of bad blood again, and that the so-called proposal was not so simple as it appeared.

“Algeria is the largest European immigrant community in Africa, there are millions of French immigrants, I just can’t believe that France hasn’t pulled together a supportive group at all over the years, the Berbers make up a small minority, there’s always a part of them that should have an okay relationship with the French immigrants, right, even if there’s only a million supporters of France, that’s two million people.”

“Algeria has been at war all these years, the population growth shouldn’t be much, and the population that grows up doesn’t come of age that fast, because the war deaths can be of those who can fight with a gun. France’s treatment of its colonies is well known, especially since the French see Algeria as home and treat rebels quite brutally, some sources put the death toll in the millions over the years.”

“So let’s do the math, out of a total population of nine million, there are two million French immigrants as well as supporters, leaving seven million minus the women and children, leaving three million men, and still a million of the population already wiped out. The Algerian resistance, in fact, has few potential forces left to mobilize.”

“There is no place in the world where you can do a war where you have to fight off all the men, and there is always a limit to the so-called indomitable fighting spirit, and with France’s current strength in Algeria, it’s already not far off the total potential mobilization of the Resistance. Isn’t that right?”

“I haven’t inquired about anything like that, but the oil regions of Algeria have always been firmly in French hands.” Pamela Mountbatten thought for a moment and said, “Is that a corroboration?”

“The fact that the oil-producing areas have been firmly in the hands of the French could be considered a corroboration.” Alan Wilson thought for half a second and said, “I would like the French Communist Party to point out in the midst of the anti-war protests that the French government is now committing genocide from a humanistic point of view, and to use the data as corroboration to show that the Algerians are on the verge of extinction, and out of sheer goodwill to get the government in Paris to give up on Algeria and let the region become independent.”

“Ha……,” Pamela Mountbatten heard, and looked at her bad to the bone husband, “you are afraid that the French will withdraw, and by the French hand, drive the Algerians to extinction?”

“You can’t talk so hard, what do you mean by driving them to extinction?” Allen Wilson flatly denied, “It is clearly the Gobi French, the internal affairs of people’s France, with what ethnic cleansing words are too unpleasant.”

Alan Wilson also didn’t deny that spreading such talk during a protest march might serve to remind the French that with a little extra effort the Algerians were wiped clean of potential soldiers.

But that can’t be said to be a bad thing, can it; he was, after all, a man who thought he had the talents of a prime minister, and slaughtering a city while singing about life in wine is what prime ministers are supposed to do. And it’s not like Britain did it. What business is it of Britain if people want to kill the French?

The French came down hard on the colonies, and maybe even managed to get a sliver of strategic space out for Britain. The responsibility is all on the French, but Britain might gain, so why not do it?

“Why don’t you alert the French through diplomatic channels?” Pamela Mountbatten looked askance at her husband, knowing full well that this was not at all an honorable thing to do, but pushing herself out to figure it out.

“My dear, I am the Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, and to get involved could be mistaken for representing British attitudes. It is well known that we, unlike the French, have always been open to colonial independence.”

Alan Wilson straightened his back, looking like an old-school English gentleman, as if he hadn’t been the one who had just harbored the evil intentions.

This matter was difficult to say the least, because currently France was in the middle of a special point, because the financial pressure brought about by the Algerian War had overwhelmed France. This has led to a fierce conflict between the left and right in France.

For the colonial issue, the French domestic from the beginning of the formation of two opposing attitudes: the French Communist Party and supporters of the independence of the colonies, opposing the government to implement the colonial policy; right-wing and centrist forces advocate the continuation of the preservation of the rule of the colonies.

The United States, which was part of the same Western alliance as France, was pursuing neo-colonialism under the banner of “anti-colonialism” in order to compete with the old colonial empires for interests in Asia and Africa, and was not in favor of France’s hard-line colonial policy.

Moreover, due to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States was extremely concerned about the strength of the Cold War front in Western Europe. The foreign colonial wars had to divert a large part of France’s resources to the colonial program, resulting in the emptying of France’s domestic strength, which did not conform to the U.S. purpose of strengthening the strength of the Western alliance to counterbalance the USSR, and thus created tensions between France and the United States.

However, in order to get out of the predicament of the colonial wars, France had to further resort to the United States economically and militarily, and politically and diplomatically, and was relegated to the status of a junior partner of the United States. The French people, in turn, thus opposed American interference and control and demanded that the government end the colonial war.

This is not counting the factor of the French military presence in Algeria, which was always going to be fought.

So many reasons have led to the current spectacle in France where all of their respective supporters are rallying, and this kind of street politics is the perfect place to spread the word, not only quickly, but with enough depth.

That’s why Alan Wilson asked his wife to see if she could add a little fire to the current street politics in France.

As for whether the French Communist Party will win the final victory in this street politics showdown, that is absolutely impossible.

It is absolutely impossible. The more extreme the ideas, the easier it is to spread them in the street politics environment. It is a characteristic of street politics that extreme ideas are always more likely to gain adherents than rational ideas.

In the midst of street politics, the French Communist Party, if it were to resolutely end its rule over Algeria, might well turn into a second Jaurès, the leader of the French Socialist Party before World War I, and an eloquent defender of the peace, who had great faith in the Second International, which he regarded as a mainstay.

When war approached, he called for its containment and was assassinated by a nationalist fanatic.

“Actually, I’m more interested to see what happens when the Americans see such a scene.” Putting his arm around his wife’s shoulder, Allen Wilson said with an unrestrained imagination, “Out of the perspective of dismantling the French colonial influence, the Americans should support the political force that terminates colonization, but this political force is the French Communist Party, and this choice must be interesting.”

“Only back in London and playing tricks.” Pamela Mountbatten muttered in dismay, “Let’s just see if you can get me motivated, I’ve always been physically weak lately.”

“Want a rocket ride?” Alan Wilson hemmed and hawed, “Your husband will definitely let you experience the joy of manned spaceflight.”

“In a few days, I’ll be Wilson from Baroness Wilson.” Pamela Mountbatten hooked her husband’s neck and grunted, “And to help you do bad things, it’s only right that you work hard.”

Seal the title to Alan Wilson, in fact, is not how worth preparing for things, he also understand in his heart, this from the baronet rather than sealed to him, rather than the same as Mrs. Thatcher, because a woman is not good to directly seal, so it was sealed to Mrs. Thatcher’s husband.

The fundamental reason is not still, Pamela Mountbatten is now the real British richest man, but also tied up a number of nobles to open up Australia? This wave brought up the tide, and the result is that Alan Wilson alone now knows that at least ten or more heirs to the Earl and Duke reside in Australia for half the year.

If it is not still hanging a seat in the House of Lords, it is estimated that there will be even more nobles who live in Australia permanently. After all, although the land can’t run away, it doesn’t need to be looked after at all times, and the same can’t be said for the newly opened up minerals.

With this kind of Mountbatten family pendant consciousness, Alan Wilson will be at the mercy of his wife, in a group of dukes and earls of the witness, became the British more than one thousand six hundred from the baron among one of the baron.

In fact, as long as his wife is happy, what is this, who let this richest woman in England is his childhood words and teachings to cultivate it, some acidic remarks can be categorized as jealousy.

“Say I eat soft rice, have the patience you also eat ah.” The end of the knighthood Allen Wilson, hands pinched, justified holding Pamela Mountbatten’s hand, the expression on his face already says it all.

“Thank you all for coming today, my husband and I are very grateful.” Pamela Mountbatten knew her husband’s mind all too well, “I, as Mrs. Wilson, will keep the guests who came today in my heart.”

“So this is the connections of the richest man in England, huh?” Makins managed to squeeze through and tsked, “Now you’re just like me, Ellen.”

“Not the same, you’re a Lord. The Honorable Lord Sheffield!” Alan Wilson stated that it was fundamentally different, from a baronet counting as a commoner, otherwise he wouldn’t have accepted it at all.

A large number of slave barons existed in British politics, especially among the Conservative Party.

The knighthood that had been on Pamela Mountbatten’s mind since the beginning of the year had finally come to an end. Early the next morning a piece of news came that the French government had announced to the public a devaluation of the franc of sixteen and seven per cent.

“Darling!” Pamela Mountbatten hugged her husband for a long time and did not let go, her eyes were full of admiration, “If it were not for you, this time it would have been a big loss. The French really let the franc depreciate so much that it was almost harvested by them.”