British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1209: suicide threat

Some criminal acts in Japan and South Korea are small problems after all. If you don’t talk about this kind of thing, I won’t talk about it. If the two countries with the hegemony of public opinion in the English-speaking world don’t talk about it, it will not spread to other people’s ears.

Although Churchill was replaced by Prime Minister Attlee of the Labor Party after the war, the dominant thinking in Britain after the war was still to maintain Britain's status as a global power and an imperialist power during a period of rapid changes in national political challenges.

In all fairness, even if the Soviet Union retreated into an inactive international political force immediately after the war, Britain would have made the above policy a top priority.

Maintaining the image and facts of Britain's international power through leadership discourse, influence ability, and swollen faces is a considerable part of the mentality of British national planners, military and political circles.

Imperialist policies are not dead. The Middle East and Far East are still important fortresses of the empire, and Britain still has a large number of troops stationed in many areas, such as the Persian Gulf, Malaya, and Kenya; the scale of the garrison cannot be underestimated.

Under such circumstances, Alan Wilson officially used the land-scraping method of learning both Chinese and Western to bring blood back to Britain as soon as possible.

In fact, Britain formulated a plan to invade the Soviet Union in 1945, and the person who formulated this plan was Norman Brooke, who was about to leave the position of supreme authority.

God knows what Churchill thought at the time, but there were not a few people in the British government at the time who thought that the British economic downturn after the war was only a temporary difficulty...

Coincidentally, Eden is one of these people. The Conservative Party believes that this is the price of victory, and the Americans will definitely pay for the British. For British bureaucrats and politicians, the decline in Britain's international status following its victory in the war was simply an anomaly.

In the end, it was not the United States that paid the bill, but British India, which was dug three feet into the ground, and Canada, which helped the United Kingdom at a critical moment. But in any case, the abnormal phenomenon that the Conservative Party believed occurred but did not completely occur. Britain out of intensive care after bleeding profusely.

Under such circumstances, Eden would not agree with Kennedy's claim that Britain was not taken seriously.

Now that Aiden and Kennedy both think about the same thing, how can they make each other compromise?

"Agence France-Presse's report on this summit is from TASS, and Germany's response is roughly similar to that of Agence France-Presse." Alan Wilson compiled news reports from various European countries and handed them over to Prime Minister Eden.

This is all from London to Nassau via telegram. In fact, there are many voices, all of which are called the European Solidarity Club. This is the deep state in the European sense, including Schuman, who yells about European unity every day. change.

Needless to say, Britain, even de Gaulle was not interested in these people, but at the moment of the Anglo-American summit meeting. An enemy's enemy can also be a friend. Since these people support Britain, they are naturally Britain's bargaining chips.

This is partly the voice of European countries, and the voice of Britain's own public opinion also focuses on criticizing the belligerence of the United States. In fact, the belligerent criticism of the United States has already begun since the Korean War.

If it weren't for Alan Wilson, who said that no one knows the East better than me, and he tried to dredge the relationship with the British pound, the Attlee government would definitely be brought into the Korean War, which would make Britain's newly balanced finances unbalanced again. Pay off the U.S. debt.

That is to say, since the beginning of the Korean War, Britain has become more and more wary of the United States and its Cold War policy. The United States has become more and more belligerent and more inclined to preemptive strikes. Policy differences.

Once the hot war started, the United States was far away, and the British mainland was in Europe, so the Soviet Union could get Britain.

The outbreak of the Cuban missile crisis eventually led to the withdrawal of Turkish missiles, which made Britain firm on this point. It is even more impossible for Eden to agree that the United States regards the United Kingdom as the front line to balance Europe offshore.

"Negotiations are indeed quite difficult." Aiden, who had been posing for a day, nodded heavily after listening to Rabo Butler... Alan Wilson behind him, "Kennedy, after a day of contact, I feel I see, he has a lot of ideas."

"I don't have many ideas. Will Aramco be given to Saudi Arabia, and the steel industry controlled by Wall Street will be adjusted to death." Alan Wilson looked tired, "I don't think he may be re-elected. The oil group and the steel group , are all powerful and deep-rooted industrial groups in the United States. So far, I haven’t seen Kennedy exchange interests at all, but just keep suppressing.”

Alan Wilson didn't say in front of Aiden that Kennedy would definitely be happy, but that Kennedy might step down.

Whether Kennedy will be assassinated, there is no doubt about it. Kennedy was killed by execution in public, which shows that there are not one or two forces that want to kill Kennedy. You must know that the power of the President of the United States is extremely rare in Europe and the United States. According to the conclusions of some key people, the President of the United States has the power of an emperor.

From the perspective of Chinese history, there are many princes who died unexplained. How many adult emperors who were in power were killed on the spot?

After thinking about it, Alan Wilson felt that Li Yuan fit this standard, so it doesn't matter who his son is? Besides, Li Yuan is not dead.

"But now Kennedy's support rate in the United States is still very high." Rabo Butler was a little embarrassed.

"So during the meeting, I said that I would use the influence of British public opinion to talk about whether the Turkish missiles should be withdrawn." Alan Wilson changed the subject when he said this, "Of course we don't want to do this, we just hope President Kennedy heeded Britain's legitimate appeal."

In the end, Alan Wilson still had to take care of the overall situation. After all, he is the spokesperson of the special relationship between Britain and the United States. It would be unwise for the UK and the US to fall out because the US military is stronger than the UK.

But on some issues in this meeting, Britain still can't agree. Just like Alan Wilson said, the United States can't even win the Korean War. Do you really think that the Soviet Army is afraid of the US troops stationed in Germany? It was because of the fear of nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was unwilling to exchange its own life for that of Europe.

If the Soviet Union were in Canada's place, would the United States be proud in Nassau today? Called Dad for help. The current situation is that the United States and the United Kingdom are discussing the issue of stationing British troops in the United States, not the other way around.

At the same time, Kennedy was also talking with Dean Rusk about the stalemate of the summit meeting. Regarding the show-robbing executive deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kennedy didn't care too much, "Sir Wilson and Robert have a very good relationship, you Think about it, he is one of McCarthy's few friends, so it goes without saying."

"The problem is not a certain negotiator, but the British Prime Minister and even the British government are still stubbornly maintaining the so-called glory of Britain."

Kennedy still doesn't believe how tough Alan Wilson is, and the other party is not the chief executive of the United Kingdom. He is just a No. 2 figure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. How could he represent the British government? At most, he is just a negotiator pushed out.

Maybe it was deliberately pushed out, using this official who has some intersections with American politics to gain more bargaining chips.

If Alan Wilson was in front of Kennedy, he would definitely say, "President's opinion..."

He is just a mere No. 2 figure in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There is no deep government. It's just a joke. It’s not like Kennedy has never seen the deep government before. Isn’t the deep government in the United States beaten to death?

From Dean Rusk, Kennedy also heard some dissatisfaction with the United States from the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom believes that the United States deliberately supports Germany and Japan and competes with Britain's superior industries. This is true.

The United Kingdom believes that the current military policy of the United States is too aggressive. Kennedy believes that this has nothing to do with him. The Korean War was not fought when he was president.

The two days of negotiations cannot be said to be without progress, but it can basically be said to be without progress. This time, the negotiations have attracted the attention of the whole world. Kennedy feels that it is even more difficult than dealing with the Cuban missile crisis.

On the third day, Kennedy finally couldn't bear to end himself, "The value of the pound is unstable. If the United States takes out some gold reserves, it can put the pound into the ranks of waste paper."

Aiden took it out in a hurry. Within a year, De Gaulle’s bickering about the US dollar is the US’s exploitation of Europe’s remarks. Of course, these remarks were collected by Alan Wilson. Because of the Nassau Conference in history, Kennedy threatened to short GBP.

"If Mr. President insists on doing this, I can only say that the cost of the pound becoming waste paper, even the dollar is not worth much more than waste paper." Aiden said calmly~lightnovelpub.net~ This would destroy the order of the Breston Woods system, which Washington should strive to maintain, if it is destroyed. Mr. President's political journey may not be long. "

The Breston Woods system has indeed maintained the hegemony of the United States, but this system is also relatively fair. It is a pigtail that manipulates each other, rather than letting the United States do whatever it wants.

It is precisely because of relative fairness that the countries that supported the US currency proposition at that time surpassed the countries that supported the British pound. Are all other countries stupid? Let the United States use the dollar to do whatever it wants around the world?

If Kennedy wants to attack the United Kingdom economically at the expense of the dollar system supported by gold reserves at this time, there is no doubt that this is digging into the corner of American hegemony, shooting himself eight times in the back and committing suicide is the only ending.

In the British camp, there is a hidden double-faced person who has already planned a strategy and won the victory thousands of miles away. The executive secretary said that the blackmail by the United States may be on the pound, but it does not matter, this is a suicide threat.

In fact, Kennedy was also worried about the U.S. trade deficit, which led to a decline in gold reserves. As a result of using gold reserves to suppress the pound, Kennedy would surely die before the Braston Forest system collapsed.