Chapter 961 – The Minister Who Spied on the Artifacts

Harold Wilson was the recently appointed Foreign Secretary, similarly Alan Wilson was the newly appointed permanent undersecretary of the Foreign Office, for a variety of reasons, this was the first time that the two had an open and honest discussion about foreign policy, before each other envisioned occasions to deepen their understanding, but did not expect it to start from Haiti, a place that had nothing to do with Britain.

Of course, the fate of Haiti has nothing to do with Britain, it is not a British colony, less than 30,000 square root rows of area, for the former Sunset Empire, but just a speck of dust under the vastness of the starry sky, it is not worth caring too much.

In the current year, Haiti’s long dark days have just begun, and will step by step approach the day of eating dirt.

But for this time bomb next to the U.S., Alan Wilson is optimistic that the tens of millions of people in abject poverty in the future will make Americans tremble at the sight of Haiti.

“But then again, the Caribbean, the situation in Cuba does worry Washington.” Harold Wilson talked about a scene he saw when he visited Washington, “Dulles is worried about pro-Soviet forces in Cuba.”

“Minister, I think the Americans may have misunderstood. Rebellion against the rule of a dictatorship is not necessarily related to the Soviet Union. I think the Americans may be overly nervous about what’s going on in their backyard, and in that nervous state of mind, they may be making bad judgments.”

Allen Wilson in the Foreign Office also received information from the Caribbean, the Cuban government forces in the United States Air Force support of the siege of the insurgents, after a month of fierce fighting, the Cuban government forces from a full-scale attack, shifted to the focus of the offensive phase, in the fraudulent island of Chang Gong said this scene I am familiar ah, the next stage should be from the full-scale defense to the focus of the defense.

It can be said that Alan Wilson is the whole of the United Kingdom on the Cuban situation of the most understanding of a group of people, which is familiar with the history of the relationship is not very much, the reason lies in a whole of the United Kingdom know, but the government never recognized the existence of the department, he used to be overseas when he did the department of the agent, that is, the MI6.

MI6 is a foreign intelligence agency, and from a country’s point of view, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are the standard foreign departments, and MI6 is in principle under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, but in practice under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It can be said that the current permanent undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can not be said to be the immediate superior of MI6, but it is one of them.

In fact, Alan Wilson is more interested in knowing that this big-name agency, has not investigated himself, especially in the aspect of the ladies who are on an equal footing with his wife, there is no hurry now, he will have time to take care of this problem.

Through open channels, after the Foreign Secretary’s visit, which helped Harold Wilson himself but did nothing for Labor support, it was clear that the British electorate was indeed entering a period of fatigue with the Labor government.

But even so, because Harold Wilson himself was helped by no small amount, Alan Wilson is still willing to help the foreign minister of this family, to add some political achievements.

OPEC was the political achievement that Alan Wilson gave to the Foreign Secretary, but of course it was none of his business whether he could do it or not.

It’s impossible for Britain to create a fully fledged OPEC, it’s nice that Britain is an old imperialist, it’s nice that London is the longstanding financial center of the world, but the United States, a rebellious son, is fully out of the woods and must find the threat of creating a fully fledged OPEC.

So his advice to Harold Wilson was to create an OPEC within the framework of the imperial preferential system. And to do it under the guise of a fair wrapper. With Britain’s residual power in the Middle East, this would still be possible.

The current remnants of British power in the Middle East include, but are not limited to, Aden, which is a major British military base in the Middle East.

Those that can help with this OPEC idea are Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and a series of emirates known in later times as the UAE, in the form of a British protectorate.

The two largest countries in the Middle East in terms of area, the situation in Iran is still in the midst of a three-way split, and Saudi Arabia, which already looks up to the United States only after the war, is certainly not going to offend the UK, but the world gas station will not be joining OPEC, which was established by the UK.

“The minister can talk to European countries and locals by gathering them to ensure European oil security. This reason is believed to be sufficient, most countries in Europe are short of oil, and although North Sea oil has been discovered, the cost of extraction is actually higher than in the Middle East.” Alan Wilson follows the argument and explains the great political achievements that would follow success.

The above countries that are still under British influence add up to the fact that Iraq, Kuwait and Qatar and the UAE alone have even more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia. Britain’s legacy of the Sunset Empire is still quite rich.

“Plentiful and cheap oil will be a powerful engine for Europe’s growth.” Alan Wilson said this turn of phrase, “for Britain is also especially so, in fact, we give certain benefits. For example, let these countries set up their own oil companies, and then come to London to list, so that through financial means, you can bind each other’s interests, but also help the British Empire to maintain its influence in the Middle East, can be said to be two birds with one stone.”

“As for the Asia-Pacific market, Singapore’s oil refining center is prepared for this purpose, and building Singapore as the Asia-Pacific’s oil refining center will also help the Malayan colony’s stability and development, essentially the strategy in the Malayan colony is to use development to buy the locals to stand with us.”

“That’s a very grand idea.” Harold Wilson murmured after a moment of contemplation, “It’s even likely to be interfered with by outside forces.”

Alan Wilson nodded, recognizing the Foreign Secretary’s concern, adding, “Especially the United States. If it was before the war, we could have expanded this platform indefinitely, we could have pulled in both Saudi Arabia and Iran, and forced those countries to settle for oil purchases only in pounds. But not now, Senator Churchill said, we’re a British mini-donkey.”

Harold Wilson was taken aback and followed the Foreign Office permanent undersecretary’s train of thought to expand on the association, OPEC and the bundling of oil in pounds, his eyes grew bright but then dimmed, “Pity, we could only have done it if there hadn’t been a world war breaking out.”

Apparently the Foreign Secretary understands that sometimes it’s not about finding the answer, it’s about finding the problem, and who can find the key problem, and Harold Wilson has now found the key problem.

The oil pound is certainly wonderful, but the current UK cannot do it, and being able to integrate OPEC into the imperial preferential system and strengthen the resistance to the dollar would be considered a success for the UK at this stage.

Harold Wilson is also very concerned about this matter, before he was Foreign Secretary, he used the gnomes of Zurich to describe the ambitions of Switzerland wanting to challenge London’s position as the financial center of Europe.

The value of the British pound, precisely this foreign minister before the special focus on the problem, and now Alan Wilson provides a solution to this problem, which can not help but concern him.

If he was able to make this a success, Harold Wilson would truly become a giant within the Labor Party, the leader of a large faction, and then launch an attack on the party leader’s position, and become the Prime Minister after winning the election, and for a while, his heart was in a state of flux.

Even if you just look at the expression, Alan Wilson can also see that the Honorable Foreign Secretary, is doing promotion and salary increase, become a general manager, as CEO, marry a rich white woman, on the peak of life’s dream, at this time is in the middle of a small excitement.

Harold Wilson in the Labor Party, the current prestige is certainly not as good as the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gaitschke.

Minister of Finance is also in addition to the prime minister is the most important minister position, but obviously Harold Wilson has been counted on the Labor Party’s No. 1 figure, on the artifacts have a peep heart, is also very normal.

A good half day, Harold Wilson only a solemn face, “This planning is really ……”

“challenging.” Seeing that the minister’s words were poor to find adjectives, Alan Wilson opened his mouth and added.

Known that the current distance from the general election is still more than a year, he felt that the honorable foreign minister, now certainly do not have the time to focus on trivial matters, this matter alone is enough Harold Wilson in the next year in a busy state.

If his wife is not recently busy to talk to the Americans about iron ore, Alan Wilson certainly want to discuss with his wife about electric cars, electric cars are by no means something new, finished products as early as the early twentieth century has appeared, only did not compete with the oil car.

To the Foreign Secretary delineated a grand blueprint, Alan Wilson also has a number of diplomatic level work schedule to be developed, such as the Anglo-French cultural exchange mission, the cultural exchanges in the performing arts is important. The reception of the British-German business delegation visit, no one can deny that hatred is already in the past, Britain and Germany will have to move forward hand in hand in the future.

It just so happens that Pamela Mountbatten is not in, to meet the guests of the French and German industry is just the right time. There is no need for the Foreign Secretary for such a small matter, he, the Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Office, is perfectly capable of taking care of it.

About the world’s iron ore giant Mountbatten Group, once again found in Brazil, the quality and reserves far more than Australia’s iron ore news, has been in the United States steel industry caused a sensation. The big construction within the United States is in full swing, and the demand for raw materials has reached a rather frightening point.

The United States is certainly not a lack of a country of iron ore, Australian iron ore because of the distance, not necessarily lower than the cost of iron ore in the United States mainland, but Brazil is different, the United States learned of the discovery of the location of the iron ore, immediately after the discussion, recognized the value of Brazilian iron ore mining, and the Mountbatten Group is not saying it, the quality of the reserves are far more than the Western Australian iron ore, so big industry giants! It’s a giant in the industry that won’t lie to people.

Pamela Mountbatten, of course, will not lie, but her husband will, coincidentally, her husband is also one of the superiors of MI6.