Chapter 994 Dissolution of Parliament

Recommending an old minister to be High Commissioner of the British Oceania Colony was impossible without the nod of the Cabinet Secretary.

Norman Brooke held the power of life and death over hundreds of thousands of British civil servants, and it was not something that could be done with Allen Wilson’s consent.

“Civil servants from British India are considered your old subordinates.” Norman Brooke took a rough look at Ender’s file, then put it aside and laughed, “Perhaps you, Allen, find this person very reliable?”

“Honorable Sir Norman, I recommend Ender with no selfishness at all, it’s all for the benefit of the Empire. The value of the Oceania colony’s ocean area is incomparable today with the two hundred nautical mile economic exclusive zone.” Alan Wilson replied slowly, “It does require a reliable and capable person in.”

“I’m definitely not mistrusting you, the Colonial and Commonwealth Departments, as well as the Foreign Office essentially do the same job, they just face different places.” Norman Brooke said with a slight smile, “I appreciate you and know of your efforts over the years, and see you as a reliable person, though? It would be good to put people in place early at this particular time, and if a new government emerges, there could be changes.”

“There’s going to be a general election?” Alan Wilson heard the chord and lowered his voice to ask Norman Brooke.

Norman Brooke nodded, steady as a rock, “It should be announced soon, and the time is set for June.”

“I also don’t know who will prevail this time.” Although Alan Wilson’s heart was prepared, he was inevitably jittery.

“Either side’s victory is possible.” Norman Brooke was relaxed, “Anyway, Whitehall has always stood on the side of the victor, adhering to the principle that civil servants have no partisan leanings to look at this matter objectively.”

This was something Alan Wilson could have chosen to believe if anyone else had said it, but this Cabinet Secretary in front of him saying this?

Norman Brooke was as close to wearing the same pants in the realm of personal friendship with politicians, both Conservative and Labor.

Since the general election was about to begin, Alan Wilson thought for a moment that it would be better to finalize things before the variables changed, not just the merger of the British Oceania territories and the appointment of a High Commissioner.

That’s right, the now scattered colonies of the South Pacific will be merged and administered, in fact Britain has always tried to merge out larger colonies in its long colonial history so that they are less cumbersome to administer, British India being representative of this.

The move to merge British Central Africa as well as British East Africa only failed. And it was also stopped early by Allen Wilson.

The partition of the colony is still a way to stop the British India after the failure of the division, but in Alan Wilson’s view, how good it is ah, divided into more small countries before it is easy to muddy the waters, the partition of India and Pakistan has proved this.

Before leaving, Allen Wilson also did not forget to re-separate the Straits Settlements from the Malayan colonies that were merged after the war, if he did not do so, what if Britain forgot?

But the situation in each region is different, too small colonies can not continue to partition. Like the colonies in Oceania, which were already geographically dispersed, with one island facing the vast ocean, there was a natural tendency to separate. It was then necessary to reverse the operation and merge them.

The merger of the British colony of Oceania is already a nail in the coffin, and will be handed over to reliable people to manage.

And before Ender came back, he now had to discuss the matter of the second generation fighter with his father-in-law, Mountbatten was the Commander-in-Chief of the three British armies, and apart from the position of Secretary of Defense, which was reserved for elections, he was the real head of the British military.

Field Marshal Mountbatten was a little surprised at this son-in-law’s doorstep, but immediately figured out that it was a no-brainer.

To this son-in-law, Field Marshal Mountbatten in the early days of the view is very general, the youngest daughter was not very old, there is a fly every day around, as a father he is of course the mood is not happy.

But can’t help his daughter is willing, he can’t help, but then get along for a long time, Marshal Mountbatten still found the advantages of son-in-law, especially the part that is similar to his own, for example, like to meddle in the affairs of others.

Mountbatten had done the whole of the Admiralty when he was Fourth Sea Lord.

This son-in-law had had more than his share of it when he entered the Foreign Office, much like him, but he had never dreamed that his son-in-law would even be interested in orders for Air Force fighters, and even if de Havilland had the technology to do so, wasn’t that too much?

“At a meeting in the Cabinet Office? Alan, you’ve got it all wrong. That was actually just a general program discussion.” Mountbatten, who was also well versed in civil service talk, spoke up, “It’s just a fighter program against the United States, and it’s limited to discussion for now; in fact, the Air Force is ready to accept the Lightning Fighter, and there’s just a debate over the size of the order.”

“When?” Alan Wilson’s face was brilliant, how did he not know about this?

“While you were still High Commissioner of Malaya.” Field Marshal Mountbatten said noncommittally, “It’s no secret that the discussion of high altitude, high speed fighters is no longer a secret, it’s just that whether or not a second one is needed for risk sharing reasons is what’s being discussed in the Cabinet Office.”

It proved how terrible it was to slip up in a meeting, which was why Norman Brooke hadn’t noticed it at the time, or else he, the Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office, might have left an unreliable impression.

“Actually, I see the Lightning Fighter as perfectly adequate, and I might even try to make it a carrier aircraft.” Alan Wilson adhered to the philosophy that as long as I’m not embarrassed, the embarrassment is someone else.

There were a bunch of fighter signals of the same generation in this era, belonging to different suppliers and serving in the military at the same time. In the case of the British strategic bomber, there are three in service at the same time, which is actually completely unnecessary.

If it can’t be avoided, it’s better not to equip a large number of weapons with high-altitude and high-speed concepts like second-generation fighters, which is Alan Wilson’s real idea.

Do technical reserves will be enough, as for the third generation fighter, Allen Wilson is not talented, there is a copy of the F15 shell can help Britain to solve this problem.

No longer help, he can also curve to save the country, Sweden in Europe is also considered a military power, really can not co-development.

Throughout the history of joint research in Europe, in fact, it is easy to see, other countries are just belong to the role of money out of pocket, the old capital of the British aviation powerhouse ate for quite a long time, no matter whether it is a gale or a typhoon, and ultimately the views of the United Kingdom prevailed.

Although Britain eventually lost its status as an aviation powerhouse in the early post-war period, it was still easy to suppress other European countries.

“It’s still a bit early to talk about the Lightning fighter order.” Field Marshal Mountbatten said to himself, “But it should be in service soon, and whether or not it can be converted to a general-purpose model will be debated at that time. I know Pamela has a good relationship with de Havilland’s company and has proven itself with the helicopter gunships, but it will take some time to gain the trust of the Ministry of Defense on the fighters.”

As the current British commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, Mountbatten is of course qualified to say so, but how does he know, Alan Wilson still has a fighter shell, the general fighter is not impressed, the U.S. F15 and the Soviet Union’s Su-27 if not impressed, it is not a joke.

Even the enemy, but also the evaluation of these two fighters is quite high, even if it is copied, the cost-effective is also very high.

Learned that the United Kingdom has a Lightning fighter is about to enter service, Allen Wilson still can not rest, want to sell the United States a broken, only from the flying coffins, into the Ghost Monster fighter that has not yet come out.

Whether it is feasible to use the order to fish the United States is still a problem Allen Wilson considered, just fishing, Britain still needs vertical take-off and landing Harrier fighters, the worst will not be a large number of shares to buy the Ghost fighters. Now is not the twenty-first century, Britain is still some pursuit, not willing to be a follower.

“Can we use Macmillan if he’s Foreign Secretary, isn’t his mother American?”

Even a roll of toilet paper has value, and at this moment Allen Wilson has clearly discovered the value of Macmillan.

Malayan Colony East Malaysia Commissioner Ender, the most efficient way back in this life, he knows that this may be a big step in his life, will become a region’s highest administrator.

“Alisa …… and you, are my very good subordinates, Alisa is a woman, some work is still limited.” Allen Wilson looked at the fiery Ender, and said that the heart of progress can really change a person, this is to receive a telegram to rush back, right?

“Alisa also has work that I can’t do.” Ender expressed modesty then said, “I’m ready for anything.”

“That’s true.” There were indeed some things that Alisa could do that he couldn’t, Alan Wilson coughed softly to express the importance of the merged British Oceania colony to Britain after it was under unified administration, “Break up the various forces that want to be independent, no one is paying attention to a few of the islands, do it by any means necessary.”

Of this slightly murderous command, Ender understood perfectly and lowered his voice, “I will never spare any anti-British elements.”

June was an important time for both Britain and France, with France announcing to the public that it would not allow nuclear weapons to be stockpiled on French soil, which of course was aimed at Britain and the United States, primarily the United States.

Alan Wilson should have been in Paris again at this point if he wanted to rocket the pecking order president.

And the reason it didn’t go was that the Labor Adderley government announced the dissolution of Parliament and an early general election. The whole of the UK is in an election frenzy, with the Conservatives seeing the election as a chance for a comeback and throwing themselves into the fray.

On the Labor side, Aidley announced his retirement, and the Labor Party chose to be led by a new party leader, Gaitschke, to fight the election. Aidley’s statement also indicated that the Aidley era of the Labor Party had come to an end, and that Aidley also chose to fade out of the political world after Churchill had already left the political arena for a few years.