British Civil Servant

Putting down the phone, Pamela Mountbatten was lost in thought, and she remembered what her husband had said.

"Private property is inviolable. There is also a limit. During World War II, the United States forced the United Kingdom to sell British-owned enterprises in the United States. If you do not protect your own strength, there will be a second or third such thing. Other countries are counting on not to The only one I can count on is the British government.”

Pamela Mountbatten's face changed for a while. The night before she left London, her man said a lot, and it is worth considering carefully, "The wealth in your hands is close to the British capital that was forcibly taken away by the United States during the war. If If you don't take the Lockheed way, you will be targeted sooner or later."

"Marina, ask General Wavell, the commander of the British army stationed in Australia, if he has time to meet." Pamela Mountbatten asked her assistant to help meet the commander of the British army stationed in Australia through the Australian launch site.

At a critical moment, the presence of the garrison made the female president feel more at ease with her husband's judgment.

General Wavell lives in Perth. He thought that the daughter of Marshal Mountbatten was looking for him to ask about the Cuban missile crisis that is spreading all over the world today, and he had prepared a speech.

He thought too much, Pamela Mountbatten had almost superstitious confidence in his man, "Australia's position will not be invaded by nuclear war, especially Perth, which is beyond the range of Soviet nuclear missiles, and the Soviet Union's ICBMs are all aimed at the United States, so I'm not worried at all."

This answer surprised General Wavell, "It seems that the marshal's daughter has an extraordinary understanding of military affairs."

"That's out of the question." Pamela Mountbatten said with a long sigh, "On the contrary, the instability of the situation in Asia is closely related to Australia and deserves full concern."

"But even so, the atmosphere in Europe is definitely more tense than here." General Wavell smiled wryly, "I think your husband, the Permanent Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, may be very busy now."

After Kennedy announced a naval blockade against Cuba, the whole world was shocked, which of course included the European countries on the edge of the Soviet Union. The most nervous was not the United Kingdom, but the European frontline of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany.

Even though Alan Wilson, who learned that the United States was going to conduct a naval blockade, still had a face of no panic, and was seriously analyzing the possible reactions of France and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cabinet Office.

"Sir Wilson is so calm. I don't know if this calmness is based on the fact that your family has gone to Australia." Burke Trend couldn't help humming, full of yin and yang.

Ellen Wilson replied calmly, "Burke, my wife goes to Perth at this time of year, whether there is a crisis this time, it will not change anything. Perth has her important industry, deal with it. Cross-border business is also more convenient, not to mention ... there are more people living in Australia now."

The last sentence is not a threat, but the fact that Perth's population growth is mainly due to British immigration. In fact, the birth rate in the UK is not low, but the annual population increase is not much, because of the constant immigration.

Especially after Pamela Mountbatten and many aristocrats became rich in Australia, the attraction of Australia has multiplied. After this Cuban missile crisis, it is estimated that the attraction to the United Kingdom will increase.

Australia is in the southern hemisphere, and the local environment is very safe to avoid nuclear war.

It doesn't matter whether it is reasonable or not, as long as British citizens believe such unscientific claims, they will naturally put them into action.

"Then we continue to discuss the reaction of France and the Federal Republic of Germany. Now it is estimated that the two countries are also in consternation and shock. But from what I know of the two countries, this crisis is over, and the two countries will try independent cooperation between European countries. So The UK's attitude does not need to be changed, we still support the US, but we don't need to be overzealous, after Germany and France have expressed their positions one after another, the UK will appear to be very supportive of the US."

Norman Brooke kept nodding, but after glancing at Burke Trend, he added, "Ellen, you always need a reason to make a decision."

"Of course, Sir. In fact, for both countries, the threat of the Soviet Western cluster is not much less than the threat of nuclear weapons. The British situation is slightly better, but it is the same. In the face of the overwhelming ground power of the Soviet Union, The use of nuclear weapons is already a secondary option. We are not the United States!"

"According to the current naval and air forces that the United States can mobilize, it is more than enough to implement a naval blockade."

Alan Wilson came up with the layout of the U.S. mainland navy and air force. Of course he has information in this regard, otherwise wouldn't he be the secretary-general of the Joint Intelligence Committee for nothing?

The United States can assemble more than eight aircraft carriers and a huge fleet of hundreds of warships to use it for the naval blockade of Cuba.

"In the next few days, we will see the United States and the Soviet Union show their muscles and speak harshly to each other, but whether it is Washington or Moscow, there is ample time to consider how this crisis, which has been noticed by the world, will end. Naval action is slow after all, otherwise why would we send the Royal Navy to Asia? Right?"

Just like what Burke Trend said, Alan Wilson really had the appearance of a mountain that had collapsed in front of him and did not change his color. When analyzing this matter, he was not nervous at all, as if it was an external affair.

And Burke Trend had a little guess right. The rival's family left the UK for Australia, which really made Alan Wilson fearless. He wasn't even afraid of a nuclear war. If it happened, how many would it be? A billion people were buried with him, so why should he be afraid?

"It sounds like France and Germany should really react more strongly than us." Norman Brooke nodded in approval. "From this point of view, the United Kingdom has to express its position more than the two countries, so as to appear calm."

Alan Wilson sat down directly, thinking more than that, if it were changed decades later, the reaction in Europe would be even more intense. The stick of sanction has come round, but unfortunately the more sanction, the more cowardice they don't dare to end.

If you really think you are strong, you will speak directly with military force. If you don’t use military force, the harsher the sanctions can only mean that you need to use sanctions to cover up the cowardice that you don’t dare to do. Only with more severe sanctions can you sell teammates. hide the embarrassment.

It is a pity that now the Soviet Union has its own economic system cycle. The sanctions imposed by NATO countries cannot be said to be useless, but they are indeed useless. The sanctions can't work, and they can only call for peace.

Just then, the phone in the Cabinet Office rang, Norman Brooke's chief private secretary answered the call, and then reported, "Sir Norman, the Soviet Union accuse the United States of the blockade policy and say it will not compromise."

"It's time to show off your muscles!" Alan Wilson shrugged, expressing that he was absolutely right.

A short while later, a call from Number 10 Downing Street reached the Cabinet Office and the intelligence analysis that the Joint Intelligence Committee needed to prepare to discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis.

In a public statement on behalf of the Soviet government, Khrushchev angrily accused the U.S. policy of a maritime blockade of "an unprecedented piracy that is completely heading towards the start of a world nuclear war".

If it were purely a verbal threat, Washington might not have taken it too seriously. But then, the Soviet armed forces began to enter the state of highest combat readiness. All vacations have been cancelled, veterans have been stopped from returning to work, and several Soviet submarines have been lost in images from American spy satellites...

Faced with this threat, the United States completed its largest nationwide mobilization after World War II in less than twenty-four hours: 183 warships including eight aircraft carriers, twelve destroyers and cruisers, and seven submarines The military force composed of 1,000 aircraft and 1,600 missiles surrounded the long and narrow Cuban waters.

Across the strait in Florida, the U.S. also assembled 120,000 Army and Marines, including five reorganized divisions.

In the blue Caribbean Sea, on the island of Grand Turk, about 300 kilometers off the eastern coast of Cuba, there is a huge U.S. military missile tracking station, which closely monitors the every move of ships going to Cuba. The whole of Cuba was surrounded like an iron barrel.

At this time, the British cabinet meeting was discussing that the United Kingdom would never make a statement until Germany and France did not.

In the public opinion field ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ British public opinion and American public opinion also have different narratives of the incident.

American public opinion emphasized the threat of the Soviet Union to the United States, while British public opinion added the Congolese army commanded by the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the battle in Katanga, and the assassination of Tshombe. It became this chain conflict and the total offensive of the Soviet bloc.

This is definitely not an isolated incident, but a premeditated act to test the strength of the free world. As for why there has been no change in Europe, it is of course that our Europe is too powerful, and we have already prepared for battle, so that the Soviets dare not take a step forward.

"Strange talk, full of guns." Alan Wilson, who took his wife to recharge the newspaper, made a comment in Chinese in Whitehall, but although it was nonsense, the so-called free world citizen should not be overestimated in terms of discernment. Especially in the face of this suffocating dignified, judgment is greatly reduced.

"Alan, what are you looking at?" Rabo Butler asked curiously when Alan Wilson muttered something he couldn't understand.

"I said, good meeting, Minister!" Alan Wilson put down the newspaper with a smile, "I estimate that France will make a statement soon. To know that the Soviet army has entered a state of combat readiness, Germany and France will be the first to bear the pressure. France considers itself a big country, and affirms its position. ahead of the Germans."