British Civil Servant

v2 Chapter 1341: 1 and a half years in a hurry

For more than a year, Whitehall has been fighting wits and courage with the cabinet. The relationship between the two parties has not been smooth sailing. It has spent more than a year around the two cores of various nationalization campaigns and guaranteeing military expenditures.

Alan Wilson supported the nationalization movement, but opposed cutting funding, on the grounds that there were still many overseas interests that needed to be defended by British troops.

In the past year or so, several major events have taken place. Tanganyika and the United Republic of Malawi have become independent. After independence, Nyerere tends to move closer to the Soviet bloc.

The direct consequence is that the power of a certain major country has appeared in Africa, but Alan Wilson has already had a plan for this result, leaving Zanzibar as an offshore balance, and the relationship between the independent United Republic and the United Kingdom has not taken a turn for the worse. .

Now I heard that a railway expert from a certain big country is investigating along the way to build a railway to the sea for Northern Rhodesia and the United Republic. The Slavs in Northern Rhodesia are still very concerned about this matter. Northern Rhodesia is not small in size and has good resource reserves. The only disadvantage is that it is inland.

Although it is possible to export minerals to the south, the situation in Southern Rhodesia is indeed not optimistic. Although with the support of Northern Rhodesia and South Africa, the resistance of the local blacks has been compressed to a less threatening level, it still has some impact.

The situation in Asia is still calm. Indira Gandhi has been in power for a year and a half, and now he has firmly secured the position of Prime Minister of India. However, the Congress Party's rule over the country has been loosened. This can be seen from the latest national elections, because Shastri died of illness while in office, and Indira Gandhi is a successor, so after the end of Shastri's term of office, India still has to hold general elections.

The Indian parliamentary elections began, and the Congress Party suffered a major setback, with the total number of seats slipping to 55%. The high position of the center is still there, but in the local states, the monopoly situation has been broken.

This is the worst record of the Congress Party after independence from India. It can be seen that the opposition parties in India have begun to challenge the dominance of the Congress Party. It may not be possible to break the dominance of the Congress Party for a while, but the seeds have already begun germination.

After the general election, the Congress Party formed a new federal government. Ingandhi Gandhi became the prime minister, and Said served as the deputy prime minister and finance minister. Ingandhi Gandhi further strengthened his position in the Congress party and the government.

After securing the throne of prime minister, the cooperation between Britain and India has continued as before. Britain is extremely supportive of India's agricultural modernization project, and understands the devaluation of the rupee after Indira Gandhi came to power, but the rest is not. I appreciate it very much. This strong woman is still relatively influenced by her father Nehru, and she has revealed the idea of ​​nationalizing some industries.

This is also the reason why Alan Wilson focused on protecting military expenditures, rather than preventing Harold Wilson from nationalizing the movement, because the current British Prime Minister used the nationalization movement of the Indian female prime minister as a means of promoting his own nationalization movement One reason, a look of crossing the river by touching India, who dares to stop it?

Over the past year, Britain has expanded its trade with India, mainly from two aspects, the British mainland and the Malayan colonies. The main reason is that the Indian rupee has depreciated by 36% after Indira Gandhi came to power. Point five, which puts British imports at a considerable ease.

Borrowing the surge in exports from India, the United Kingdom has used this to increase the closeness of the Commonwealth of Nations. As for exports to India, for a long time, oil from South Sudan was exported from British Kenya to the sea, which helped India through the A tough time.

It has to be said that the oil embargo that lasted for a year due to the India-Pakistan war has had a great impact on India. Because of this incident, India has also begun to establish a national oil reserve. For India, which has almost no local oil resources, this is not an option but a must.

However, India is still wary of Britain’s economic influence in its heart. For India, the experience learned from the history of colonization is to be vigilant against foreign capital. The colonization is all from mutual trade, and its economic colonization precedes political colonization. Political colonization is the result of economic colonization, so India's historical experience on colonial issues is just the opposite of that of a certain big country, which believes that seclusion is the cause of failure.

In the eyes of the Indians, closing the country to the outside world is an advanced experience, and doing business with each other is a bad practice for subjugating the country. Because the Qing Dynasty was defeated by the Royal Navy's sailing battleship, a certain big country thinks that it should open its doors to the market and actively learn from foreigners. The method of training troops and casting guns, And India was defeated by British factories. They thought that as long as they closed their doors to prevent foreign goods from entering, they would be done.

Gandhi led the Indians to engage in the non-violent non-cooperation independence movement. He called on the Indians to weave homespun cloth and sell it on their own. He used seawater to dry salt and boycotted foreign goods. He attempted to use the small-scale peasant economy in the market environment to resist Britain. Man's modern industrial product.

Although the United Kingdom supports India's agricultural development, there are some things that cannot help India. Alan Wilson is well aware of the differences in many aid methods. It seems that the Soviet Union has aided China and India, but the final results are completely different. In addition to the differences in nationality, It also has something to do with the fact that the Soviet Union learned to be smart after suffering a loss from a certain big country.

It can be said that what the Soviet Union gave a certain big country is a system, which may not be the most advanced, but it can support the development of a country.

The total amount of assistance to India may be larger, but it has nothing to do with the system. The UK is willing to help whether it is agriculture or animal husbandry, but Alan Wilson thinks that the UK is not an agricultural power at the request of building a fertilizer plant. Refused.

Chemical fertilizers are not something you can produce as you want. Both nitrogen fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer need synthetic ammonia. The earliest purpose of clicking the synthetic ammonia technology tree is not to make chemical fertilizers, but to make explosives. The hardware needed to make chemical fertilizers is similar to cannons. They all require alloy steel seamless pipes. After entering the 20th century, nuclear submarines have become a landmark dividing line for a country to manufacture fertilizers.

Because the submarine has to bear the static pressure generated by the water pressure when sailing in deep sea water, the shell of the submarine is also called the pressure shell. Corrosive, large-scale production must also have first-class welding capabilities.

The pressure hull manufacturing technology of nuclear submarines has the greatest role in the civilian field, which is to manufacture high-pressure spherical tanks that can produce synthetic ammonia! With this technology, a country can produce chemical fertilizers indiscriminately and increase food production! So how could the UK provide such a chemical fertilizer plant that seems to have nothing to do with the military industry?

This is the current situation of overseas interests. For the United States in 1968, the biggest problem was the Vietnam War that was still going on, and a domestic anti-war wave had already appeared.

This is not as good as South Korea. South Korea has a population of more than 20 million and sent 100,000 troops. There is no obvious wave of anti-war in the country, but there are already protests in the United States.

On the one hand, it shows that the United States' tolerance for war damage is not high, and on the other hand, it also shows South Korea's professionalism in being the second devil. When fighting with the imperial army, I worked hard and fought hard. Once the imperial army is defeated, the Republic of Korea and Japanese imperialism are at stake...

Alan Wilson feels that the current problems in the United States should be due to de Gaulle. After all, France has been running on gold this year. As for private funds, for example, a certain British richest woman mines gold mines in Australia and New Guinea, while following the French to harvest gold reserves in the United States.

When it comes to gold, the Republic of Yemen has to be mentioned. Before independence, Allen Wilson pointed out the fact that there are gold mines in Yemen with great sincerity. This aroused the great interest of the Freedom Officers Organization, and they used the gold mine endorsement to win the aid of the Soviet Union. Sure enough, the Soviet Union was very generous in aid during the Brezhnev era~lightnovelpub.net~ Not to mention Yemen still has Gold mine endorsement.

The Soviet Union's large-scale assistance to Yemen began immediately, accompanied by Soviet mineral experts, who entered Yemen to help the Yemeni government find out where the gold mine pointed out by the British was.

In a short period of time, Yemen's military strength has become extremely inflated. The Soviet Union has an annual production capacity of 3,000 tanks, and the four major tank manufacturers can continue to increase this production capacity.

Arming a medium-sized country is extremely fast, so during the Cold War, the allies of the Soviet Union were able to pull out a decent army no matter where the country was.

During the Cold War, Cuba, as an island country, had thousands of tanks and 2,000 armored vehicles. It was the largest army in Latin America except Brazil.

Yemen has not been a few years since its independence, and its military size has approached that of Syria, another Arab country supported by the Soviet Union, and it has become another military power in the Arab world.

This also had to force the UK to continue to carry out its arms sales to Arab pro-British countries more conscientiously.

During this period, the United Kingdom also had diplomatic dialogue with Israel. How about you, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, play me in the Arab world?

This one supports Syria and Yemen, and the other supports Iraq, Egypt and Jordan. Thousands of tanks and anti-aircraft missile systems do not need money. In addition, the navy and air force, the catamaran missile boats sold 30 Egyptian missile boats at a time.

The military strength of countries in the Arab world has risen, making Israel feel like it is sitting on pins and needles. If it is the history in Alan Wilson's mind, the third Middle East war has ended for a year, but the battle for the founding of Israel in this world has not built up confidence, and there is no Suez Canal War to practice hands. I want to preemptively strike, but see The combined military power of the Arab countries inevitably felt apprehensive, and one punch was not opened, and it attracted hundreds of punches.