British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1288: A precursor to a currency war

The latest website: "London is quite optimistic about Yemen's development." Alan Wilson smiled, holding a mixed resource assessment document, and said to the representatives of all parties who came to the roundtable, "Actually, we have already discovered it. Yemen's resources, but they have not been exploited for so many years, are ready to hand over these wealth to the independent Yemen."

Alan Wilson lied with a blushing face and a heartbeat. It was obvious that the cost of mining could not be compared with the Gold Coast and Australia. But in his mouth, it has become Britain's grace to Yemen, but Yemenis can't refute him, because the oil, gas and gold mines in Yemen are really beautiful.

The British occupation of Yemen itself is considered to be more strategic factors. To put it bluntly, it is to look at the safety of the Suez Canal.

Yemenis, including Fahra, a representative of the Free Officers Organization, were overjoyed as they looked at their theoretical wealth. Alan Wilson keeps his mouth shut and has painted some wonderful prospects for Yemen, old rules, starting from history and culture, and places with a bit of history like this. He discovered this from India.

Yemen is one of the origins of the Arab nation, especially in the past two years, because the United Kingdom is about to shrink, so let this kind of talk spread in Yemen.

It can be said that many people in Yemen are very proud of history. They just don’t know if they will be like India in the future. Whenever they talk about history, they will always stand up proudly.

Obviously, the completeness of this resource assessment has opened up the situation. After the representatives of several sultanates expressed their gratitude, Fahra also expressed his gratitude to the United Kingdom. I don’t know if the situation is stronger than people, or if he has mastered the strategic decision. In short, the attitude of the Free Officers Organization is relatively soft.

After several failures in North Africa, Nasser has fully appreciated the cunning of imperialism, and he chose to manipulate Yemen's political situation from behind the scenes, fearing that his sense of existence would be too high. As for the sultans and chiefs in South Yemen, we will wait until the British leave.

If you just look at the information, Yemen's foundation is not bad, it is quite good. This is also very normal, this is a rotten world. Many of the advantages that exist on paper may not be as powerful as they think when it comes to real use.

The steel torrent of the Soviet Union in the eyes of people is not so sharp in the hands of Russia.

The financial nuclear weapons of the city on the hill, Russia said that is the same. The powerful organization of a big country boasted, and the magic capital also smiled.

After reading these resource assessment documents, the morale of these representatives was boosted for a while, and it was very normal.

Just when these Arabs were happy, Alan Wilson reminded lightly, "How does the UK know who can better represent the rights and interests of the Yemeni people?"

The meaning of this sentence is very clear. The United Kingdom has not said who it will give these things to. It is too early for you to be happy. The distribution rights are still in the hands of the United Kingdom.

The world is not unequal. Those old-fashioned battleships in Malaya that can only patrol in the Bay of Bengal, as long as they arrive at the Yemen port, they will be ruined. Don't really not regard Britain as an imperialist power. In the face of the United States and the Soviet Union, it may be swayed, and in the face of Yemen, the United Kingdom can also strike hard.

"Actually, we in the UK think that Yemen can implement a federal system." After Dixon set the tone, he accepted the guidance of the meeting and talked with these national leaders about the political system.

What is Yemen's political system after independence is destined to be a difficult topic, and Alan Wilson left the roundtable directly, leaving the rest to others.

The peace talks proceeded with difficulty amid the tense confrontation between the two sides. As for the determination of the political system, Farah represents the Free Officers Organization, and must have reservations, because the Free Officers Organization must be able to fight more than these small sultanates, but it can be suspended.

Because Nasser was more inclined to solve each other's problems with these small sultanates alone after the British left.

The representatives of the sultanate objected to the use of the term with the meaning of the end. Fahra did not agree. After difficult consultations, the final decision was made to "stop the process". Every time a problem gets stuck or some progress is made, both sides stop to seek advice from the agencies they represent. Negotiations between the two sides remain difficult.

If it were the independence of British India, Alan Wilson must have tried his best to provoke the negotiation as long as possible.

But since it is Yemen? You can do whatever you like, there are oil and gas, there are small Arab countries that are not comparable to the Persian Gulf, and there are gold mines that are not comparable to Australia and the Gold Coast.

It was in the best interest of the UK to make the Yemen problem their own, and of course he took the time to host the Saudi ambassador. The ambassador of this pro-American country is rarely so proactive. Obviously Saudi Arabia is very concerned about the future direction of this place under the ass.

Alan Wilson couldn't help but think of the past when the Sunni leader assembled hundreds of thousands of troops and was beaten by the Houthis, but the Houthis represented the Shiites, and now the situation in North Yemen is more complicated. On the one hand, North Yemen is indeed a Shi'ites, on the other hand, according to unconfirmed sources, the Free Officers Organization is backed by the Soviet Union. Obviously the Soviet Union was more difficult to deal with than the Shiites.

"Is it the end of history?" After receiving the Saudi ambassador with a cloth on his head, Alan Wilson lit a cigar and laughed involuntarily.

Just muttering like this, Dixon came in to report the progress, saying that the two sides still had more differences than consensus, "Secretary-General, the negotiations are still quite difficult."

"I understand the difficulty." Alan Wilson danced with joy, "It's like an election, there are two parties at the moment, and voters think they can choose who they can choose to increase their job opportunities, but in fact they may choose A candidate who cut his health insurance. You want to choose someone who is tough on illegal immigration, but the candidate comes into office who cares about environmental pollution. Not to mention a very serious thing like the regime. There's more to talk about ."

"However, our Prime Minister is still very happy. The previous decline in the approval rate seems to have stabilized." Dixon smiled tacitly.

"In a world that's not very peaceful, diplomacy is naturally a good way to boost support. But it's not too peaceful, and diplomacy will become a hot potato." Alan Wilson shrugged, "Fortunately we are very close to the Vietnam issue. Far away, otherwise, the situation may be like that of the Americans now. Oh yes, pay more attention to the French.”

Alan Wilson remembers that France was the first Western European country to start with the dollar, but he didn't know when it was, and now the Vietnam War has started. Who knows what de Gaulle is sneaking up to now?

France is a natural challenger. He sees that because the United States is in the quagmire of the Vietnam War, the government deficit and trade deficit are getting bigger and bigger, and the dollar is being unchecked. s attack.

European countries have been attacking the dollar for many years, and every country's **** is not clean, but France is undoubtedly the first to do it.

Since the franc entered the depreciation track, France has a huge balance of payments surplus, thus accumulating a large amount of dollar reserves.

President de Gaulle's loyal and hard-line economic advisers Jacques Roof and Maurice Gouve-Dumville were leading figures of monetary traditionalists who believed that the United States was deliberately undermining the cornerstone of the international monetary system, the exchange between dollar bills and gold. Fixed exchange rate.

De Gaulle was acutely aware that by converting France's accumulated dollar reserves into gold, he could both support gold's international status and at the same time deal a heavy blow to America's international political and economic leadership.

But unlike history, although the pound has declined, it has not collapsed like the original history. It is true that the pillar of the Bretton Woods system is the dollar, but in fact there are two pillars, and there is one pound. Once the dollar declines , sterling may take its place.

This is different. I wonder if de Gaulle had taken into account that the pound still has more than 30% of the transaction share. If the pound supports the Bretton Woods system, even if France attacks with all its strength, the Bretton Woods system is still unbreakable.

In January, around the same time as Lyndon Johnson was re-elected, the Banque de France announced that it intended to convert all new inflows of U.S. dollar reserves, as well as some of its existing U.S. dollar reserves, into gold. In order to reinforce his severe criticism of the laissez-faire US fiscal policy~lightnovelpub.net~ President Charles de Gaulle proposed two global currency reform programs, and his grand goal was to strengthen the role of gold in the global monetary system.

In terms of duties, he, the cabinet secretary, should discuss countermeasures with the British Bank. From the perspective of the special relationship between the United States and the United States, he should remind the United States and the French people's wolf ambitions.

But after thinking about it, there is only one person Alan Wilson can trust, and that is Ms. Pamela Mountbatten, the richest woman in the UK who has already returned to London.

This is the richest woman who she has cultivated. There is no bank in the UK who should be more trusted than her. When Pamela Mountbatten walked out of the London theater, the veteran dog licking has been waiting for a long time. Welcome the respected richest woman back Loyal London.

"Honey, aren't you hosting the roundtable?" Pamela Mountbatten was full of interest, but the smile on her cheeks clearly showed that she was happy to welcome her husband.

"If a colony is independent, how can it be important for my wife to go home?" Alan Wilson said with a disdainful face that the future of a country of 500,000 square kilometers was not worth a penny, "On the contrary, I have a decision. The major events that the world is heading for will be discussed with you.”