British Civil Servant

"Only keeping Northern Rhodesia and Newfoundland is close to 1.5 million square kilometers of land. If you add the mainland, we are no worse than the French. The available land in Algeria is not as good as us."

During the Whitehall party, Markins shook his glass and talked about the just-announced breakthrough. That is, the influence of the Rhodesian royal family's territory, of course, is not completely without doubts, "It's just isolated overseas, and control is also a problem."

"Control is not a slogan. First of all, we must ensure that the local economy is much better than the surrounding economy. Second, it is a problem of political structure. It is like Newfoundland has no army and Northern Rhodesia has no parliament."

Alan Wilson took a sip of whiskey and said calmly, "In terms of the population of northern Rhodesia, there is no need to worry about it in 20 to 30 years. Why are hundreds of thousands of independent people? Not to mention that independence is also a landlocked country. It's a black country."

"Speaking of this, there is no idea in Southern Rhodesia?" Markins asked, if there was, Alan Wilson must know, he guessed right, but even if he knew, there was no way.

"The most important thing is that Newfoundland and Rhodesia can't help the Malay colony." Alan Wilson was also a little distressed. "Newfoundland has no industrial support other than fishing. Northern Rhodesia is inland. , in addition to mining and farming, the help to Britain is also limited, and the British can maintain a relatively detached position, still depends on whether Malaya is safe."

Britain has lost British India, which once served as a market, but as long as Malaya remains, it is still close to the two most populous countries. What's more, Southeast Asia itself has a large population, and the foundation to support Britain's international status is still there.

Now is the time to think about it, get rid of the less valuable colonies, and go all out to maintain a few key areas. Alan Wilson can promote the multi-monarchy model in the United Arab Emirates after the independence of Uganda, and now the scattered emirates are merged.

The Middle East is still important, and the British military cannot withdraw from the region. This is also to prevent the occurrence of an oil crisis.

After all, the UK is still on the Arab side, which is different from the US's Israeli and Iranian strategies.

The situation in the Middle East cannot be avoided by Saudi Arabia. Everyone knows that Saudi Arabia is the world's largest oil producer and has a good relationship with the United States.

Saudi Arabia's pro-Americanism can be traced back decades, because BP's oil exploration in the Middle East started in Iran, and the investment was huge at the time, so it ignored Saudi Arabia's request for oil exploration.

At that time, the United Kingdom was an empire on which the sun never sets, and the Middle East was dominated by the United Kingdom. It was beneficial to control the output of oil by covering the remaining oil production bottom from the exploration concentration. But it was missed by the United States and established a good relationship with Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia is the country with the lowest oil extraction cost in the Middle East, and the second lowest is the United Arab Emirates, which was merged by a bunch of emirates. The UAE is still in the hands of the United Kingdom at this time, and the British army in the Persian Gulf also has the purpose of preventing Saudi Arabia from becoming bigger.

Alan Wilson helped his wife find oil in Libya, Algeria, the Gulf of Guinea, Malaya, and the British North Sea. Not because the Mountbatten Group is untenable in the Middle East, but to prove that oil is not a scarce resource.

After preventing the collapse of the Breston Woods system, the United States used its relationship with Saudi Arabia to hold European countries hostage. It is not easy for the United States to tie up oil to diversify the share of oil-producing countries in the Middle East.

It is easy for the United States to persuade the chiefs in the Middle East, but it is not so easy to suppress the British, French, German and Italian oil-producing areas in Europe and the oil-producing areas that Britain, France, Germany and Italy have already controlled. Oil beats the oil crisis.

"By the way, are you attending the Anglo-American summit?" Makins suddenly asked, "It seems that you have a good relationship with the Americans, and you are about to become cabinet secretary, so you should establish a good relationship with the United States. "

"I only have a good relationship with some people in the United States." Alan Wilson sighed, "I have no connections with the US Democratic Party, and I am also preparing materials for the UK-US summit."

As for the information, it is nothing more than several massacres by the United States during the Korean War, and how many women have been raped in Japan for so many years, not only from Japan and South Korea, but also from South Vietnam, Iran, and before the Anglo-American partnership to kill Mossadegh and Lumumba A record of attempts, etc.

If Kennedy wants to start from a position of strength, Alan Wilson will settle accounts with the Americans. The United Kingdom is a colonial empire, the United States just does not have the name of a colonial empire, and what it does is the colonial empire.

"I don't know what the purpose of the United States is, but it seems to want the nuclear weapons of Britain and France to be under unified command."

"This must be one of the purposes." Alan Wilson continued after listening to it, "Maybe he wants to set up a military base in the UK, and hope that the US aviation industry will not compete with the US aviation industry."

"Americans treat us as a colony?" Markins said in a sullen voice. "They're crazy."

"I don't know, I'm just guessing." Alan Wilson said this and kept his mouth shut. Of course, his guesses have already been made into reports and sent to Prime Minister Aiden.

Anyway, there are several aspects at present. The first is that Britain has already repaid its war-time debts.

The second is that Britain has resisted the pressure to establish a nuclear triad. If there is no debt held by the Americans, and they have nuclear weapons, they do not need American technology to be held hostage, and they should not bow their heads and surrender their guns. Gu Fen

However, it also depends on the price offered by the United States. There is a price for everything in this world. If you are not satisfied, you will have to pay more.

Maybe the United States can really offer a price that the United Kingdom cannot refuse? Although Alan Wilson's ordinary mind can't think of what price can be offered.

On this day, Alan Wilson was a little surprised. The Aiden government appointed a new Minister of Education, and the original Minister of Education, Macmillan, really became the Honorary Chancellor of Oxford University.

The new education secretary is not a cabinet minister, but it is surprising enough, at least that's what Alan Wilson thinks, because he knows this minister better than anyone else, Mrs Thatcher, who is now Minister Thatcher .

Although Mrs Thatcher became a member of parliament three years ago, there are hundreds of Conservative MPs, and they are not so worthy of attention, but being a minister is different even if she is not in the cabinet.

"By appointing a woman as Minister of Education, won't she bring her one-sided emotions into the education system?"

In front of Norman Brooke, Alan Wilson expressed his doubts, or prejudices.

"You're a little younger, but aren't you very young too? Politicians are actually younger than the average age of senior civil servants in Whitehall." Norman Brooke wondered why his ideal successor didn't seem to like the new education Minister, was there a festival before?

"The key is that she is a woman. Our views on women are not mixed with personal prejudice, but if you can't do it, you can't. They are too emotional and delay making accurate judgments."

Alan Wilson denied having a holiday with Mrs Thatcher. It was just a conversation when he was young, and there was no holiday at all. He believed that a great female prime minister would not care about such trivial matters.

But seeing Margaret Thatcher for the first time in the political heart of Britain, he couldn't help but want to chime in.

Thinking that he has worked hard for the UK for so many years, I dare not say how much contribution he has made, but it can also be said that he is exhausted and does not dare to slack off. Today, he has become the Deputy Secretary-General of the Cabinet, and he has not been promoted to the supreme. authority.

A woman who does not see any contribution to the country is now a minister? It makes sense that he is unbalanced.

But the imbalance is the imbalance. After a short thought, Alan Wilson decided to give the new minister a chance. After all, at the stall that is about to take over Whitehall, he will still have contact with the Minister of Education in the future.

Norman Brooke is happy to see such a scene, and he hopes that the future cabinet secretary can have more contacts with Conservative or Labour politicians, which will help safeguard the interests of Whitehall.

The supreme authority still does not know that the future secretary-general of the cabinet he has chosen has a complicated relationship with the newly-appointed Minister of Education.

Relying on the training of actresses who have the same status as his wife, Alan Wilson has nothing to be embarrassed about. It is a celebration for the new minister and came to the Minister of Education to express his welcome.

"Your Excellency the Deputy Secretary-General, or your Excellency Deputy Secretary-General of the Cabinet, thank you for coming." Mrs. Thatcher was startled, but quickly expressed her welcome, "I just took office, and I still need the help of civil servants."

"What are the words of the minister? We are just humble social instruments that hold the fruits of your deliberation."

Alan Wilson said with a smile, "I am not familiar with many things in the Ministry of Education. In fact, like the minister, I am also learning from scratch. I hope the minister can become familiar with the work as soon as possible."

"I will!" Mrs Thatcher said eagerly, as if she was about to implement the grand blueprint, "Your Excellency Deputy Secretary-General, you may need more help from you in the future."

"There is absolutely no problem. I personally hope to be the support behind the minister." Alan Wilson nodded solemnly, "If you need anything, you can call me at any time."

The atmosphere of the conversation between the two was quite strange. Although they kept a certain distance, it didn't seem to be the case. Of course, the people who eat melons without knowing the truth of the Ministry of Education did not discover this at this time.

The blessing in disguise, Alan Wilson still faced the reality calmly, and decided to observe and observe first, maybe nothing would happen, and the two could be at peace with each other.

Washington sent a message back, hoping that the UK-US summit will be held in Nassau to discuss, on the basis of the special relationship between the UK and the US, solidarity to face major challenges at multiple levels.

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