Ian Smith can be regarded as the same age as Alan Wilson. Now Alan Wilson feels that those younger than Garbo are his peers. In any case, they are also people who are about to enter the supreme authority, so they should behave older.

In the past ten years, Ian Smith's political influence in Rhodesia can be called a rocket. Even Alan Wilson, a rocket expert, has to admit that there are indeed a few people in this world who can be called geniuses in some fields.

After the war, Smith, who returned to Rhodesia, participated in the federal parliamentary election in 1953 and was successfully elected as a member of the Central Provincial Constituency. At the same time, he resigned as a member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly.

Five years later, Smith became the United Federation Party's chief whip in the Federal Parliament, but his relationship with the party and the new prime minister, Sir Roy Welenski, became increasingly estranged. At the beginning of this year, he withdrew from the United Federal Party, formed the Rhodesian Reform Party, merged with the Dominion Party, and reorganized into the Rhodesian Front.

In this year's general election in Southern Rhodesia, Smith represented the constituency for the first time. As a result, he returned to the Southern Rhodesian Congress. The party leader Winston Field served as the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, and Smith was appointed as the Minister of Finance.

Smith is now the second person in the colony of Southern Rhodesia, equivalent to the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

While waiting for the other party to come to the door, Alan Wilson was actually thinking about the value of this colony and the other party's purpose.

From the perspective of Africa as a whole, Africa does not actually have particularly superior land conditions.

This is not to belittle. The land conditions in Africa are indeed relatively average. The overall conditions are only higher than those in Australia, regardless of the tundra and Gobi Desert. On average, the cultivated land in Africa is not as good as that in Europe, Asia and America.

The best arable land in Africa can be seen from the natural population growth. It is the Niger River Delta in Nigeria.

This is a high-quality large river basin comparable to the Ganges and Yangtze Rivers. Although the Congo is large in size, it actually has a tropical rainforest climate. Once the land is degraded excessively, the speed of land degradation can be terrifying. Most of the land in Africa is still red soil.

The soil quality of Southern Rhodesia is not red soil, but it is nonsense to talk about the foundation of a strong agricultural country. The same is true for Northern Rhodesia. The soil quality of the two colonies is within the scope of Africa, which is considered good. The so-called developed agriculture is nothing more than a small population.

Australia also has a high food self-sufficiency rate, which is also set off by the small population.

Alan Wilson guessed the purpose of Smith's visit this time. The division of North and South Rhodesia is not completely free of entanglements. Malawi was given to Nyerere by Alan Wilson as a meeting ceremony, and the north was divided by North Rhodesia. Occupy, the south is annexed by Southern Rhodesia.

Now that Nyerere is not yet independent, Southern Rhodesia still has some grievances about the ownership of southern Malawi.

Allen Wilson was ready and waiting for Smith to talk about it.

Talking about this matter in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems a bit formal, and Alan Wilson felt that he should find a more relaxed environment.

An hour later, at the Southern Rhodesian office in London, Alan Wilson met the white leader who later led Southern Rhodesia to independence.

After exchanging pleasantries, Smith introduced himself and got straight to the point, "Sir Allen, do you know anything about Lubumbashi?"

"I've heard a little bit!" Alan Wilson nodded, saying that he just knew about it. He was still a little surprised by the outdated North Rhodesia's untimely walk alone without London's permission. He thought it was from Malawi. question.

Smith didn't care whether this perfunctory answer was true. He asked about matters related to his own interests, "I don't know what London thinks about the independence of Southern Rhodesia?"

Alan Wilson glanced at the other party, and said in an official tone calmly, "Dear Mr. Smith, you also know London's attitude. Why bother to ask? Either remain in the colonial state, or become independent after establishing a majority politics, otherwise There is no other choice.”

The so-called majority politics means that after independence, Southern Rhodesia will be handed over to the blacks who account for the vast majority of the population.

Although Smith and other white colonists claimed that the local electoral system was basically non-discriminatory, they believed that with the gradual improvement in education and wealth of blacks, Rhodesia would have the opportunity to implement majority rule. Opponents, however, pointed out that Rhodesia's economic and political system inherently favored whites and unfairly treated blacks.

The rhetoric of these white people in Southern Rhodesia is even more false than Russia's retreat all the way to Moscow. Not to mention trying to deceive the whole world, even London cannot be deceived.

This answer is definitely not what Smith wanted, "Executive Undersecretary, are you abandoning us?"

"Compared with the resources of the whole of Africa, I may feel sorry for abandoning you. But I am honest, it will be a matter of time." Alan Wilson shook his head, "It depends on when the British and Portuguese colonies become independent, you You must understand one problem in your heart, the United States and the Soviet Union are disintegrating the colonial system, although Britain and France have been delaying the arrival of that day, they may not be able to support it at any time."

Gu Xiao/span> "Smith, this is not your problem, this is a mistake of this era. I personally sympathize with you. But I can't show even a little support for you at the policy level."

Alan Wilson apologized to the white Southern Rhodesian leader with an apologetic face, but that was all.

"France won the Algerian War." Smith was a little emotional, as if accusing Britain of not being as powerful as France and unable to provide help to the subjects of the British Empire.

"We also won the military operation in Lubumbashi." Alan Wilson was unmoved, showing the latest results. But still replied with an attitude that NATO would never interfere in Ukraine, "But we can't do the same to Southern Rhodesia."

"Why?" Smith looked unwilling, almost wanting to accuse the other party of righteous indignation.

"Isn't the problem very simple? The white population of Southern Rhodesia is only 300,000, which is just over 5% of the total population of 4 million. Standing on your side will offend nearly 4 million black people. And in the colonial Under the general environment of disintegration of the system, helping you is offending the whole of Africa, the well-being of your 300,000 people is more important, or is the perception of black people on the entire African continent more important?"

"Smith, let me tell you the truth. Just look at the situation in South Africa. There are 3.4 million white people in South Africa, and they are still hostile by the international community, not to mention that you only have 300,000 people."

"We can merge with Northern Rhodesia." Smith thought for a while and proposed this idea.

"I can guarantee that the people of Northern Rhodesia will not merge with you. You may think that with the current 700,000 white people in Northern Rhodesia, there will be a solid foundation for ruling, but you should think about it, Northern Rhodesia There are no black tribes in West Asia, and there are nearly four million in Southern Rhodesia."

"Don't even think about ethnic cleansing. The Soviet power has penetrated deep into the center of Africa. If you do this, you will definitely be hanged. I guess after the Nuremberg trial, you will be the thing that will attract the attention of the whole world."

"You can think about merging with South Africa, but I guess Cape Town is not very willing."

According to Alan Wilson, the problem facing Southern Rhodesia is that if it is overthrown in the future, it can consider taking refuge in Northern Rhodesia. It is impossible to become a white-ruled country after independence.

Disappointed, Smith muttered in despair, "Sir, what do you mean, as long as the black population exceeds the white population, we will lose everything afterwards?"

"At least you won't die!" Alan Wilson shrugged, "Ethnic cleansing will definitely die without a burial."

Although this is a **** fact, Alan Wilson still made it clear to the other party, don't think about going to extremes, if you really want to do this, the United Kingdom and the United States may move faster than the Soviets, measuring the heads of white people in Southern Rhodesia, It is not to frighten the other party to marry the black uncle, but it is destined to happen.

"Is there no other way?" Smith suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "Executive Deputy Chief, can't we adopt the method of dividing and conquering?"

"You white residents are dissatisfied with less points, and more points, are blacks willing? You don't even have one-tenth of the population!" Alan Wilson snorted softly, with sympathy on his face, "If you can persuade, white people Occupying less land than blacks, we can talk on that basis.”

Anyway, Alan Wilson doesn't quite believe that these local white men have the courage to cut off their wrists. History has proved that the white regime in Africa just wants me to want it all, and then loses everything.

Just out of some sympathy, Alan Wilson is meeting with the other party to discuss trying to have a good home.

The matter of Southern Rhodesia~lightnovelpub.net~ is actually not worth worrying about in London anymore. The current situation is that France occupies Algeria, the United Kingdom has North Rhodesia as a base, and both Britain and France have their own African fulcrums.

Under such circumstances, what Britain and France need to do is to firmly strengthen their fulcrums, rather than chewing too much.

Alan Wilson left, and Ian Smith didn't move for a long time. He didn't get political support, and he was thinking hard about a way out.

"Minister of Finance, Sir Allen may not be able to change his attitude here. Why can't we follow the route of Madam?"

"Madam's route?" Ian Smith couldn't understand, but there was a glimmer of hope in his heart, "You mean?"

"Ms. Pamela Mountbatten! Ms. Pamela lives in Australia. As far as I know, Australia has a White Australia policy in place, and the local social environment is very conservative. It's just that Ms. Pamela is a group president and deals with business groups. There may be some price to be paid.”

"That's no problem, let's go to Perth." Ian Smith raised the fire of hope. He couldn't handle the permanent deputy minister of the empire, so he got support from the wife of the permanent deputy minister.