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"President Quirino's rhetorical question is useful?" Pamela Mountbatten asked rhetorically, frowning slightly, "Can he really withstand the pressure from Washington?"

"His words were impeccable, and he talked about the issue of responsibility. The issue of responsibility is a very serious issue for world hegemons. Think about why Britain abolished the slave trade more than 100 years ago, and even gave a lot of money to countries involved in the slave trade. Reassurance should do the same.”

Alan Wilson kept saying, "You must know that the Philippines is a former colony of the United States. Regarding the responsibility of the former colony, the suzerain country often has two opposite but integrated ideas. The propaganda is to bring the colonies into civilization for appeasement."

Although this is just a hypocritical rhetoric, after years of propaganda, it was finally accepted by most citizens. Citizens of the metropolis believe that their country has certain corresponding responsibilities towards the former colony.

Later, it will evolve into some compensation, some harmless but sincere help. Usually based on diplomatic support and small amounts of financial aid.

Compared with maintaining the influence of the original colony, this is naturally a small investment, but it is indispensable.

This is also the reason why the British in later generations always had some unreasonable concerns about Hong Kong and India. The United Kingdom has countless times more colonies than the United States. Alan Wilson is also the chief executive of an important colony, and this psychology can be easily understood.

President Quirino's rhetorical question about pressure from the United States almost blamed the United States on a moral level. It was only after the defeat in the Philippines during World War II that the Philippines fell into the slaughter of the Japanese army.

In particular, President Quirino's wife and daughter died in the original war, which is actually a very serious accusation to the United States.

What's more, the United States is already the world's hegemony today, and it feels more guilty emotionally.

"It's really hard to imagine! Why can't I understand it?" Pamela Mountbatten was stunned. She felt that what her husband said was mysterious. How could such an idea appear?

"So you are not the highest official in the colony, so you should do business well." Alan Wilson reached out and stroked his wife's hair, "This kind of contradictory idea only exists in the governments of countries that have had colonies. Like the Soviet Union, China has never been colonized. There is no such nonsense in this country.”

Bullshit thinking, that's what Alan Wilson had to say about this kind of thinking. In his view, this so-called moral responsibility is bullshit, nothing more than finding someone to interfere with the former colony.

President Quirino's strike was a crooked strike, which just hit the special psychology of the colonial country. In particular, the United States, which originally had few colonies, wanted to support it as a benchmark. At this time in 1953, it still had high hopes for the Philippines, and there was a kind of psychology that wanted to show a positive example.

In the following days, Washington did not respond to President Quirino's rhetorical questions, proving Alan Wilson's judgment. For the former colony, the Philippines, which was developing well in this era, the United States' tolerance level is still quite high.

Even before the 1960s, the Philippines was generally regarded as a rookie in the Asian economy, and even nearly squeezed out Hong Kong and became a member of the Four Asian Tigers. But in 1965, Ferdinand Marcos came to power and started a long ruling career. In the early stage, he pursued an economic line of drinking poison to quench his thirst. In the middle and late stages, he bribery and perverted the law while killing. It is said that he alone ate the whole country's finances for three years. The budget, coupled with the frenzied exploitation of the pacifists in the South, naturally ruined the entire country's political economy.

Washington is very embarrassed at this time. Japan has become the front line for blocking the Soviet Union, and the former colony of the Philippines wants to pay reparations, and also question the responsibility of the United States to the Philippines, which makes Washington unable to step down.

There was a colonial commissioner who understood the psychology of the colonial master state better than I did. On vacation in Australia, he relayed President Quirino's questioning about the United States back to Manila, which led to the citizens of Manila showing solidarity with the president's meeting in Australia.

After feedback from the Manila embassy and discussions in Washington, it finally felt that the United States should show more concern to the former colony of the Philippines.

Soon the U.S. ambassador in Canberra invited President Quirino to be a guest, saying that the U.S. had absolutely no idea of ​​favoring Japan, and in principle, it was a response to the Philippines' claim.

The so-called pressure does not exist, but this figure is indeed too illusory. Japan can't get 8 billion US dollars, not to mention the Philippines needs 8 billion US dollars, how about Australia? What about New Zealand? What about the Netherlands?

Every country here is a close ally of the United States, and they all follow the standards of the Philippines. Isn’t Japan going to be scratched three feet? To return to the early postwar state of the United States with continuous blood transfusions?

Redick Williams is the US ambassador to Australia. Of course, he was actually a bank manager in New York before, but after Eisenhower came to power, he was rewarded for his merits and entered the Republican Party's recommendation list to be an ambassador to Australia.

It has been a long time since American patrons entered politics through ambassadors in other countries, but they have only received public support. It started with Nixon. Before that, it was an unspoken rule, rather than an obvious reward for meritorious deeds.

Although Redick Williams is more familiar with money, he is not a professional diplomat. Fortunately, the embassy has a professional response diplomat to help him intervene in this claim negotiation.

"Dear President, I have called Mr. Ikeda to meet with you. Everyone should come up with an operational figure to achieve a win-win situation." Redick Williams said to President Quirino, "The United States is definitely not taking sides. , Mr. President, please understand that."

"Okay! I'll listen to what he has to say." President Quirino finally nodded. He also knew in his heart that it was impossible for the Japanese to agree with a random number.

This time, Alan Wilson knew immediately about the secret talk at the U.S. embassy. President Quirino took the initiative to mention it.

Hearing this, Alan Wilson sighed a little, even a small country with weak strength has the basic understanding of both sides, and it should not be underestimated when serious.

"Mr. President, what's the purpose of you telling me this?" Alan Wilson asked back with a smile.

"Naturally, it is for profit, so that the Philippines can get as many benefits as possible." President Quirino said without concealment.

Alan Wilson nodded and thought for a moment, then said, "Since that's the case, I'm still willing to help. Being able to establish a personal relationship with the president of a country may be beneficial to Britain in the future."

The mastermind of the imperial servant was suddenly aroused again, who made him like to help justice? Being so helpless by nature, he is willing to help with enthusiasm for an irrelevant country.

The key is that the United States is not favoring Japan, but is putting pressure on the claimant country. After President Quirino's rhetorical question about security responsibility, the United States has at least partially forgiven the claim.

The gap opened by the Philippines' unstoppable claims will eventually be exploited by more than one country. In a sense, it broke through the red line of claims prohibited by the United States in the San Francisco Agreement.

In this sense, the Philippine's attitude towards compensation from the post-war period to today is extremely significant.

The claims talks in Canberra have aroused the attention of all countries involved except Japan. As for Japan, it is very quiet, and most newspapers do not report on similar issues.

"Traditional or Japanese will sell, on par with Churchill." The imperial civil servant who once sold West Berlin and was only a happy second brother made such an evaluation.

By the time the claims negotiations in Canberra have come, Japan's attempt to get away with it has been completely bankrupt. In the Philippine punch, the other three countries followed up the claims talks, Ikeda is already weak.

During the contact with Tokyo, Ikeda Yuto informed Yoshida Shigeru that the development opportunities brought by the Korean War may be affected, and he hopes that the current Japanese Prime Minister will have a psychological preparation.

Isada Ikeda can only do his best to work on numerical issues, and he can accompany one less piece to one piece.

When it comes to the negotiations between the four countries, Japan's compensation figure has changed from the US$8 billion claimed by the Philippines to a total of US$8 billion in the four countries. Ikeda said that this figure is still too high and far beyond Japan's ability to bear.

Figures have been slowly dropping in a tug of war, and payment plans have shifted from one-time deliveries to instalments. Of course, Isato Ikeda hopes that the longer the installment period, the better, so as not to cause economic pressure on Japan.

Alan Wilson certainly doesn't want this future to happen, time is more important than money to the country. If you can't keep up at the critical time, you will spend several times the energy in the future to achieve the same goal.

"The Netherlands can only accept instalments of up to five years, and there will be no more time." Van Dijk made a strong statement~lightnovelpub.net~ The expatriate women who were captured by Japanese soldiers on the battlefield in Southeast Asia cannot continue. suffer alone. "

The representatives of Australia and New Zealand agreed, otherwise they would not be able to explain to citizens concerned about the negotiation of claims.

"I want to get domestic recognition!" Ikeda Yuto sighed, seeing the tone of these representatives, he understood that there was not much room to fight, so he replied.

On November 20, claims negotiations have been going on for nearly a month, and the claims negotiations between the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands against Japan have come to an end.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Isato Ikeda signed the "Japan-Philippines Compensation Agreement" with Philippine President Quirino, and subsequently signed the same compensation agreement with the Australian government, the New Zealand government, and the Dutch government.

In the compensation agreement, Japan will pay the Shikoku US$3.58 billion in cash within five years as compensation for the losses caused to these countries during the war.

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