Chapter 985 – Rescuing the People Before Rescuing the Government

As a cabinet minister, Harold Wilson cannot stay abroad for a long time, and after the signing of the market and energy cooperation treaty, he will have to go back to his country to discuss the next steps, and as for some details, he will leave it to the permanent undersecretary who is always on standby.

Because the Labor Party is counting on a tough stance to pull up support, the timing of this Iranian crisis is somewhat coincidental. The choice before the Labor Party is no other than being tough.

And the attitude of the United States has been clear, the International Monetary Fund to provide Iran with sixty million dollars of economic assistance.

At this point has created a huge backlash in the UK, at a time when the UK and Iran are hostile to each other, the US is undoubtedly stepping hard on the UK by doing this.

Allen Wilson was not too nervous, on the contrary, he thought it was a good thing, the loss of Iran is better than the loss of the Suez Canal. However, in the discussion with the Foreign Secretary, or said, “Rockefeller has a saying, called ninety percent is not enough, to 100 percent. If Iran doesn’t give in and add pro-US Saudi Arabia to the mix, the US already has a relative advantage in the middle of the Middle East oil landscape.”

“Now that I think about it, maybe five years ago, the Iranian oil crisis, the United States, although there is no explicit move, but has not been to see our jokes.” Harold Wilson on the U.S. reaction nagging, this time to draw cold so a bit, to the Labor Party is a huge blow, go back after he has to figure out how to appease the British citizens mood.

“Deducing from this time to the last time, there is indeed a lot of suspicion.” Alan Wilson took the opportunity to amplify Harold Wilson’s dissatisfaction at this point, “Let’s say that the establishment of OPEC was a move that Britain had no choice but to make in order to counter Iran. And it expresses a determination to have a protracted war. I think the US must have had misgivings in its mind about the creation of OPEC, but stripping out the option of war, we have made it firmly clear that this is a general organization for markets and energy cooperation.”

“What if the United States were to offer to join in?” Harold Wilson raised the possibility, ah, the oil resources, the US would not completely drop its guard even if it endorsed the British rhetoric.

“Let’s say we’re not averse to letting the US and the USSR join in. That would demonstrate fairness.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and said, “Once the US is going to join, the UK has no reason to reject the USSR, knowing that the USSR is also an important exporter to the European energy market, if it causes the USSR’s displeasure, it could be detrimental to European security.”

Alan Wilson even wants the Foreign Secretary to publicly put it out there when faced with a question, “Once the US and the USSR join OPEC, the organization becomes the United Nations again, with each talking to itself and will no longer be useful. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Anyway, either they all join, or none of them do, or keep OPEC for a special observer, the UK, to lead, or the Big Three all come in and no one becomes a leader.”

“Not bad.” Harold Wilson considered it for half a day and smiled, “Let the American candidate either join with the Soviet Union or don’t come in, anyway, it is the Iranian crisis that the United States apologized to the United Kingdom in the first place, and the United Kingdom’s establishment of OPEC is just a passive counterattack.”

This explanation can be justified because this British push to establish OPEC has nothing to do with the oil pound. Of course the pound can buy oil, and the dollar can buy it just as well.

The reason why Alan Wilson pushed for the establishment of OPEC is also not that he thought Britain was enough to make a challenge to the United States in terms of financial hegemony.

Rather, it was to carve out a piece of self-sustaining land in advance to prevent being cut by the US. Don’t let the Vietnam War’s U.S. inflation transmission to the United Kingdom, now want to take back the financial hegemony is overthinking, as for the future depends on the situation.

Essentially, this is still consolidating the imperial preferential system and establishing economic links to industrial origins, energy and other raw materials.

He believed that the Foreign Secretary returned to London, and will certainly face a variety of temptations from the United States, so the two had just discussed, and Harold Wilson, who was psychologically prepared, went to the international airport in Basra, and then …… boarded the Comet airliner from Dubai, which was arranged by Alan Wilson on an ad hoc basis.

Harold Wilson was very surprised but eventually accepted the arrangement with suspicion.

Either the permanent undersecretary of how far-sighted, or a temporary decision to scare the Honorable Minister, but can not be too much, Harold Wilson went back, but also to explain to the public that the responsibility for the current oil crisis is all in Iran.

Put the minister on the plane, Allen Wilson is calculating Europe is not the existence of the problem of antipodeans.

France helped to withdraw from the group, Germany a defeated country, Italy does not have the consciousness of a defeated country, but Italy’s oil supply is mainly provided by Libya. As for the rest, not in a position to trouble Britain.

This can be sure that there will be no opposition in Europe, Harold Wilson just need to deal with the Americans.

With the thought out of the way, Alan Wilson brought with him a pristine handmade Turkish carpet as a birthday present, and according to the notepad, which only he himself could read, Ms. Hedy Lamarr was going to have a birthday.

What ensues on this handmade rug is a series of stories including, but not limited to, a rocket ride.

A naked man and woman embrace and stare at each other, contentment in each other’s eyes, “I just got me a present, and it got dirty so fast.”

Hedy Lamarr gazed at Alan Wilson with such a hint of reluctance in her tone that she complained softly.

“I tried to be a gentleman in front of you and failed every time.” Allen Wilson finished his sentence and came over to him, engaging in a verbal sparring match to give Hedy Lamarr a taste of the Imperial Permanent Undersecretary’s dexterity.

After a cozy day, Hedy Lamarr also departed to leave, and Allen Wilson had to take care of the details. Of course he offered professional advice, and although he was in the UK, he was equally dedicated whenever he served other countries.

It just so happened that the monarchs of Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, and the Middle Emirates were also there, needing him at this time, to contribute to the well-being of the Middle East locally, giving him a show of what he had learned by taking the demographics of each country.

Alan Wilson sat down in front of the monarchs and opened the sprawling Middle East roadmap program, the Emir of Kuwait, the state of Sabah, at this time, there are two hundred thousand citizens, Oman has half a million people, the later merged into the UAE’s numerous emirates, together with Qatar and Bahrain, a total of two hundred and fifty thousand people, of which Qatar has 40,000 people, Bahrain has 140,000 people.

Excluding Iraq, these latter-day countries lying on oil wells and making money add up to a total of a million people.

Quite the basic configuration of a top resource country, resource-rich and sparsely populated. Saudi Arabia, though the head of the Arab world in a few decades, is a completely poor country in front of these pocket-sized countries. Citizens of almost every country are better off than Saudis.

“For small countries, the honorable emirs are truly blessed. It is now imperative that a system of national identity be established at once, and the precise number of the population of the country be ascertained. Great wealth will flood your country, literally a Newfoundland appears before me.”

Allen Wilson alluded to the fact that it’s time to address illegal immigration so that rapid progress can be made on a per capita basis. Let the citizens of each host country, show the opportunity for multiple wealth and billions.

Of course this doesn’t include Iraq, whose population is growing rapidly, doubling in ten years, and what started out as a population of over four million people has now become seven million, one-third of Iran’s population.

This growth put Alan Wilson shocked, originally he thought the Malayan colony rose from close to 10 million, to immediately 14 million has been very scary.

But compared to the population growth rate of Iraq, it is still far inferior, and the religion of peace is as horrible as it is.

But even seven million people is far from a population pressure for the Kingdom of Iraq with its two river basins.

Iraq would have no problem at all feeding a population of 30 million, and economic development would certainly slow population growth. Iraq’s population did not grow fast under Saddam.

For fear of the country falling into turmoil, there was still enough food to go around. Especially with the U.S. as an agricultural empire open to unlimited supplies, that population growth was feared, and in the two decades since Saddam’s overthrow, Iraq’s population has doubled from 20 million to 40 million.

Finding things to do for the population, as a local administrator Alan Wilson is no stranger to the Iraqi population is not as much as Malaya in the beginning, it will be the original green revolution, excellent seeds, breeding cattle, breeding sheep sent over, let the Iraqi royal family to set up an institution, even if nothing changes, food will also increase a lot.

“We have positioned Iraq as a rich and powerful kingdom, and the other emirs as a rich country. I wonder if the honorable Emirs have any thoughts on this?”

Alan Wilson inquired with a toss of his turban and a complete I’m-our-man tone, “The smaller the population the more significant the effect will be. But the Emirs can keep an eye on their country, the Persian Gulf is not far from South Asia, so don’t let the Indians, the kind of guys who are hostile to your faith, get mixed in. It’s fine to use as cheap labor, but turtling is something to be avoided.”

Forgive Alan Wilson for being the one who puts himself in other people’s shoes, many emirates are still just colonies, protectorates he’s already been matched with a phase seal to advise them.

The early rise of South Korea, is not a million laborers in the Middle East to bury their heads in the hard work to save money? So hard work or do not bother Koreans, the rise of Korea can find another way.

In any case, this attitude, just out of nowhere to generate good feelings, just at this moment, his secretary Wick walked in and whispered something softly, “Executive Undersecretary, your wife has just landed at the airport with a gift from a transporter.”

“Your Highness, Emil, my wife has just arrived and has brought you a gift.” Alan Wilson was not surprised at all, informed everyone of the good news, save the people first save the government, Emil’s days are not good, but also care about what citizens ah.