Chapter 952 The white flag should be carried!

Accompanying the sickle and hammer flag were huge banners with slogans to stop ethnic cleansing and end the Algerian war.

Some of the organizers held trumpets and chanted slogans pointing out that France’s current move was a disgrace to the place where modern thought originated, and that it would be better to not have such a victory when Algerian men were being killed off as a basis for stability.

If Alan Wilson were here, he would be pleased with his wife’s ability to do the job, and at critical moments, it was the woman who shared his bed who was reliable and had unconditional trust in him, and could be called reliable.

But he was in the office of the Secretary General of the NATO Council, spitting in the face of the former Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office, lamenting the fact that he had just taken up his post and had come across such a tricky event.

“Sir Ismay, I really want to say to the minister, use fourth-order tactics to cope with the past.” Alan Wilson, full of bitterness, complained to the high-powered NATO Secretary General.

“It’s a good thing you didn’t, France is different from other countries after all.” Sir Ismay shook his head slightly, at the time of the handover of the Foreign Office happened to coincide with the political instability in France, he also pinched for Alan Wilson, but fortunately, this successor was unambiguous, directly visited the neighboring countries in a circle, clarified the position of Britain.

Let’s not mention how useful it is, but this diligence, it is very gratifying, the Foreign Office is not wrong to pay after all.

The old Sir did not know, after all, wrongly paid, so a hundred thousand urgent situation, Alan Wilson also looked for Hepburn to have some in-depth exchanges, obviously more than the security of Europe to the heart.

“I spoke with the commander, Admiral Loris, on the current situation in France also communicated.” Sir Ismay also did not hide anything, but told him everything he knew, especially the movement and attitude of the French garrison in North Africa.

The vast majority of the more than eight hundred thousand French troops in Algeria were tasked with protecting the lives and property of French immigrants, keeping the main highways and railroads open to pedestrian attacks by the Algerian liberation forces, and securing strategically important installations, such as oil, harbors, power stations, and telegraph and telephone exchanges from guerrilla sabotage.

Less than ten percent of the army, or 60,000 to 80,000 men, actually fought in the battle, carrying out the task of hunting down, searching for and destroying the guerrillas.

“It seems that the French army in Algeria, believing that it was the government in Paris that was dragging its feet, wanted to sell out the French troops who were fighting in blood. The economic pressure is only a temporary difficulty, as long as France scrimps at home for a year or two and gives the French army its full support. Successfully suppressing the rebels is not a problem at all.”

Alan Wilson’s mouth twitched as he listened to the situation Sir Ismay had grasped, “So that’s how it is, but then again, if the citizens of France tighten their belts, it’s really possible to succeed. Then we’d be embarrassed, and I don’t know how to deal with such a France, which could usurp Britain’s leadership of Europe.”

Being the walking Anglo-American special relationship, Alan Wilson distanced himself from France at a critical moment and then said, “The Italians are very unhappy with France’s establishment of a closed colonial economy, and from what we have seen, a lot of the economic aid leaves Italy and arrives in Algerian territory, and since we know that, surely the French must know all about it as well. ”

Latin-speaking countries can be described as one displeased with the other, especially Italy, although Italy’s record, both from the colonial era and up to the last two world wars, cannot be called glorious, the country does have quite a bit of national pride, displeased with Germany when they were Germany’s allies, and now they are displeased with France.

“You’re right in one respect, it does seem rather awkward to be in our British shoes regarding the current situation in France.” Sir Ismay is also very torn, as for the reason for the tangle, and Alan Wilson, the same.

Involved in the office before and after the two foreign ministry permanent undersecretary of the diplomatic work, the two people are clear in their hearts, the United Kingdom has always advocated the independence of France to solve the colonial problem, especially the problem of Algeria.

This is already quite obvious pulling the strings, France to solve the colonial problem independently seems fair, in fact, is to fight for time for France, so that France hurry to finish the problem.

Britain has been kind to France, but after France has been fighting for so many years, the war is slow to end, and Britain can’t keep waving the flag?

After the war, Britain tried to establish a British-led organization in Western Europe to achieve its goal of a “third force”. At the end of the war, Britain realized that in order to survive in the gap between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, it was necessary to unite Western Europe and France under the British banner.

Only if Britain became the voice of Europe could the US and the Soviet Union be treated as equals. To this end, Aidan of the Conservative Party put forward the idea of establishing a Western bloc, and Bevan of the Labor Party put forward the idea of a third force.

Originally, Britain would not have succeeded, but with Alan Wilson, it has been partially successful and is currently being practiced quite well.

If France had gotten Algeria done earlier, Britain and France could have at least breathed a sigh of relief.

But now the war is protracted, even France is internally destabilized because of the war, France has gone from being an aid that can be relied on to a time bomb, in the British perspective, this bomb is still dangerous, the two countries are separated by a strait.

“The minister is actually communicating with Washington, the United States seems to be inclined to try to solve it with economic aid.” Sir Ismay nuzzled, “Maybe things won’t be so bad yet.”

“I hope so.” Alan Wilson nodded, unaware that the NATO Commander-in-Chief, Loris . Air Admiral Norstad, had already assessed the security situation in France with the NATO top brass, all in secret from the French military of course.

It is not difficult to represent something like an operational plan, and even if it is drawn up, it is not always implemented.

When Allen Wilson was in Kuala Lumpur, several plans were drawn up for attacking Indonesia, which is still in good shape.

It could only mean that NATO was making a preparation for the worst possible outcome in case they were caught off guard when faced with a sudden situation.

“Don’t worry, Allen, the entire NATO won’t watch anything happen to France.” Sir Ismay patted Alan Wilson’s shoulder and said.

“That’s certainly the best.” Allen Wilson forced a smile and said, it looked as if he was worried for France, but in fact it wasn’t at all, he wasn’t worried about the French at all, what did people’s apparent European hegemony have to worry about?

A country like Britain, which is outside of Europe, is the one that should be worried about, and will be sidelined if they are not careful.

Remembering history, France strengthened Franco-German cooperation and used a framework to pull in European countries, while France acted as a coordinating and cake-sharing big brother position, and eventually dominated the creation of the EEC and laid the groundwork for the EU.

Even in the collapse of the Soviet Union after a period of time, France is the world ringing number two power, replaced the Soviet Union after the United States in the eyes of the position of the imaginary enemy, although the glory days on the maintenance of about ten years, and soon the position of the imaginary enemy was replaced by a major power.

But no one can deny that the average country is in no position to flail at France.

Alan Wilson, who had left NATO headquarters, settled down to get things going, and had Radwicky drive to pick up the road near where the march was taking place, wanting to see up close and personal how the protests in the old revolutionary neighborhoods were being conducted, and if they were being conducted with professionalism.

“If I’m not mistaken, isn’t that the Bourbon flag?” Alan Wilson looked wide-eyed at the flags waving in the crowd, which was supposed to be the procession advocating strong support for the war. The antithesis of a march to end the war.

Radwick was about to marvel at Alan Wilson’s extensive knowledge of the French flag, even recognizing it from hundreds of years ago, when he heard the allegedly insulting words, “Why don’t you carry out the white flag, which the Bourbons used to use as a national flag.”

“Mr. Wilson?” Radwick was confused about the special relationship between England and France, but this was too?

“Do you think I am lying? The Bourbon dynasty did use the white flag as the national flag.” Alan Wilson stated the historical facts in a serious manner, looking very solemn, “It saddens me as a citizen of a neighboring country to see the loss of French tradition.”

Radwick was uneducated and didn’t quite know if his boss was suspected of insulting the law, so he could only try to protect his boss and listen to what the French had to say.

Unfortunately, neither man was very good at French and had to judge by people’s expressions whether they were being embraced or not.

It didn’t look too bad, and it was more than an hour before Alan Wilson arrived at the Woodpecker Studios headquarters building, unloaded his fatigue, and stood by the top floor window looking down at the dispersing crowd below.

“The most interesting thing in this world is that a lot of ignorant so-called citizens really think they have the truth.” Without turning around, Alan Wilson had already judged from the sound of footsteps that it was Ingrid Bergman who had entered.

Ingrid Bergman greeted the unsurprising eyes, and with a height that absolutely stood out amongst the women, she made a small womanly gesture and inquired in a low voice, “Is this time for the chaos in Paris?”

“What else? France is a country that is politically unstable, but this time the chaos has been going on for almost three months, from March to now.” Alan Wilson sighed, and didn’t forget to pua in passing, “But I volunteered to be willing to come over, or I miss you, and it’s no fun to stay in London all the time.”

“I should have come to see you.” Ingrid Bergman, head bowed, still coming over at no less than manly height, offered a kiss with the backdrop of the crowd that was dispersing not far away.

On the other side of the Mediterranean, in Algiers, the capital of Algeria, a natural extension of French territory and the headquarters of the French Foreign Legion, a group of uniformed generals were expressing their views, and finally came to a consensus that it wasn’t that we couldn’t fight, but rather that the civilian government had betrayed the blood sacrifices of the French army. A new leader must come to power who can fully support the war in order to resolve the current stalemate.