British civil servant

If either the Soviet Union or the United States were victorious in other areas, Europe would naturally choose to surrender or side with the victors.

Surrender is definitely not impossible. After the United States suffered a big somersault from the Vietnam War, the free world may not win the Cold War, or it may be the losing side. Now it is definitely not a taboo that cannot be discussed.

Of course, Alan Wilson has absolutely no intention of surrendering. You must know that the free world has not yet brought out the bottom-of-the-box seven-injury fist.

During the Reagan period, the printing of money and the transfer of production capacity resulted in enormous economic vitality. It is no wonder that the Soviet Union was shaken in the face of such a wave.

"Forget it!" Alan Wilson was stunned for a while, but decided to get his own affairs done first, "Makins, make a military plan for Yemen. Making a plan may not necessarily be implemented. Prevent problems before they happen."

He remembered, the historical confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union in the Mediterranean, this was a military confrontation bigger than the confrontation in the Bay of Bengal, during the Middle East war?What if the United States insists on pulling the United Kingdom along?The Royal Navy still has the Mediterranean Fleet now.

You must know that Britain is unwilling to offend Arab countries. If it must be offended, it is more appropriate to choose to go to Yemen.

Yemen has now fallen into the hands of the Free Officers Organization, whose origin is in Egypt. If Yemen is chosen as a sharpening stone, at least the Kingdom of Egypt is happy to see it. This is a matter of class attributes.

At that time, an aircraft carrier battle group from the Mediterranean Fleet will be dispersed and placed in Alexandria, cheering for the US Navy from a distance, and the other capital ships will be placed off the coast of Aden.

While the supreme authority was doing its best to keep Britain out of the matter, at least not to get involved too much, the Watergate incident that made Nixon anxious has made new progress, and the investigative committee has grasped a new situation. , ordered the installation of wiretapping devices in the White House office in order to record conversations and phone calls with his subordinates.

So the investigative committee went to the White House to investigate.Ask if you know there is a recording system inside the White House.The White House staffer questioned admitted to having such a recording system.As a result, Nixon's secret recording system in the White House was exposed.

Learning of this situation, the committee asked Nixon to provide these recordings and materials.Cox, the special prosecutor appointed by the Department of Justice, learned that there was a secret recording system inside the White House. With the support of the investigation committee, he issued a subpoena to the president for the tape.

When Nixon was in a state of desperation, the diplomats sent by Gromyko had met Cuban leader Castro in Havana and talked about how to retaliate against the United States for inciting the Cuban people to flee.

"This is a very good suggestion!" Castro was overjoyed, as if he had come up with it himself, not knowing that it was actually his original idea.

Castro showed the unyielding fighter side of the cultural tsar. Not only did he not object at all, on the contrary he was eager to try. He even wanted to immediately provide the Cuban identity certificates of the prisoners from the Warsaw Pact countries, proving that these prisoners were all Cubans.

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Whose idea is this?It is simply that the hero sees the same thing, Castro really wants to have a good time with this comrade who has never been masked, and talk about heroes over wine.

Involving tens of thousands of people, Castro has shown unprecedented attention. For this reason, he specially found his own brother to promote this matter. This requires careful planning.

Nixon, who was deeply involved in the Watergate incident, did not know that under his nose, he would give the United States a hard time.

In fact, who is to blame?Whether it is the Cold War or after the Cold War, the United States has countless opportunities to fundamentally dismantle the threat of Cuba.

There are many ways to do it, and it can be done with the national strength of the United States. I don’t know if the United States insists on taking Cuba as a negative example, so it maintains an attitude of not asking.

Similarly, no benchmark country has been established in the Americas. If the United States establishes a benchmark country, it proves that following the United States can surpass Cuba's living standards, and Cuba will not last so long in the backyard of the United States, but obviously the United States has not done so. , the pro-American and anti-American countries are at the same standard of living in Latin America, so it doesn't matter whether they are pro-American or not.

Looking at Haiti around Cuba, the famous mud cannot support the wall, and there is no essential difference in the Dominican Republic. Of course, the Cubans can proudly puff their chests and continue to fight against the United States.

In the final analysis, American countries have no united front value in the eyes of the United States. Even if the influence of the Soviet Union appears in Cuba, the United States will not change its original intention of turning Latin America into an immortal cesspit.

Look at the countries that have the value of the United Front, the countries next to China and the Soviet Union, the United States will do its best to support them, and even if they really can't support them, they will give them a sufficient sense of presence in diplomacy.

Latin America does not have this kind of treatment, and the living standards of Latin American countries can only decline, not rise.

Alan Wilson disclosed Allende's plight to the Soviet Union to a certain extent, which is a good thing at the macro level of the world structure. Maybe the United States will pay attention to Latin American countries. Of course, this chance is not great. For a country that speaks loudly to the United States, the United States is more uncomfortable than dead.

To say that the United States just likes to light fires in places far away from its homeland is to slander the United States in a sense. The bottom of the United States has always been a pile of cesspit. It should be said that the United States has extended the mature experience used in Latin American countries to the whole world.

It doesn't matter if there is a cesspit under one's butt, if the other opponents are surrounded by cesspit, wouldn't the problem be solved?

As for the instigator, he is hiding his merits and fame in London, and continuing to talk about himself and the Indian government is obviously a matter of nationalization, and the UK would have ignored it before, but India has its own traffic in the UK, and Whitehall There is no intention to solve the matter immediately.

The calm before the storm, the pillars of the country must of course find something to do. It is precisely because the nationalization of India is not important in nature that Whitehall will not let it go. It does not expect the problem to be resolved and the losses of British companies to be recovered. Holding on to it has nothing to do with the loss of British companies, it's just Whitehall proving its worth, and there is no risk.

The British citizens who were attracted did not know the busy Whitehall they imagined. They should have afternoon tea and afternoon tea, and they did not feel nervous about the confrontation with India in the slightest.

"Those voters whose brains are full of granite know what a fart. They only know how to vent their anger, but diplomatic work is like this. Let them do diplomatic work. Do they dare to declare war on the Soviet Union?" "The expansion of modern democratic elections is the root of the country's decline, although on some occasions, we also praise the greatness of this change..."

John Hunter shook his head unobtrusively and said, "Alan, fortunately this is just a very private occasion, no one will know what you just said."

"Someone will know." Alan Wilson was ambiguous. The supreme authority was actually only a Watergate incident away. His office also had a monitoring system, but it was not turned on now.

Moreover, no one else knew about it. The richest woman personally sent someone to do the renovation. Others only knew that the cabinet secretary's office had been renovated once.

"We must not let them know what is really going on." Of course John Hunter knew that the thing that Britain had spent too long on diplomacy was the issue of the yen with Japan, and even the upcoming Arab League meeting. To stay behind, "I didn't expect the problem of the yen to be so difficult."

"It's hard to do. The yen doesn't have such a great value. Why? That's the dollar's backup tire."

Allen Wilson snorted softly, "Japan has nothing, even the second largest island is occupied by the Soviet Union? Is there anything that can support the exchange rate of the yen? The Soviet Union is conducting an exercise in Hokkaido, and the whole of Japan will be scared to pee their pants , just relying on Japan's industrial strength? Even developed countries have their own levels. Japan is obviously the kind of developed country that is just getting started. It works [-] hours a year without holidays, which is the same as Europe's income of eight hours with weekends. near."

Of course, the supreme authority still expressed praise for Japan’s industrial production capacity. This is the only thing worthy of praise. The crushing of agricultural countries by industrial countries still exists. You can’t be the most cutting-edge, but you must have it, otherwise you will be rejected. Stuck neck.

For example, a certain Wuling Hongguang sells for [-] in a big country, [-] in Chile, [-] in Peru, and [-] in Mexico.

The more there is no such industry, the more expensive it is to sell. The price of Malayan cars in the UK is lower than that in Southeast Asia, although Southeast Asia is poorer.The same goes for Portugal's pickup line.

"We are also an island country. What if the United States puts its views on the yen on the pound?" John Hunter expressed his meaning clearly with doubts.

"At any rate, there is the second largest navy in the world, especially now. The tonnage of the U.S. Navy was 770 million tons two years ago, and it is 570 million tons this year."

Alan Wilson said to his old friend, "And this is just the beginning. Within five years, the tonnage of the U.S. Navy will drop to 400 million. In six or seven years, the size of the navy will shrink by half. Now the U.S. Navy and the Royal Navy are in the middle on a starting line."

The production capacity that broke out in the United States during the Second World War, after 30 years, is now the time for intensive retirement. Although the US shipbuilding has not stopped, it has dropped from 1970 million tons in 770 to 570 million Ton, you know how strong this wave of retirement is.

Even if the U.S. shipbuilding is extremely powerful, it is impossible to make up for the gap in the retirement of 60 million tons of warships a year, not to mention that the U.S. civilian shipbuilding is almost nonexistent.

Alan Wilson reckons the U.S. Navy must have worked harder than the history in his head, because the Royal Navy has not declined to the point of being ignored.But?Efforts are a drop in the bucket. This wave of retirements is too violent. It is not much worse than the wave of retirements that happened to happen in a certain big country that time, and it is even worse.

This will have a consequence. Facing the Soviet Red Navy, the U.S. Navy will of course still have an overwhelming advantage if it has the help of the Royal Navy.If the U.S. Navy confronts the Soviet Red Navy alone, it is impossible to guarantee that it can retreat unscathed.

At the end of the Cold War, if only the tonnage was compared, without considering how many aircraft carrier battle groups the Red Navy's anti-ship missiles could replace, the tonnage of the US Navy was only a fraction more than that of the Soviet Red Navy.In other words, if the Royal Navy and the Red Navy are on the same front, the US Navy is at a disadvantage.

So Alan Wilson now feels that the United Kingdom is full of united front value, and it is not too much to ask the yen, which should not have much effect, not to be on the stage of history.

While President Nixon and the judiciary were arguing over the question of whether to hand over the tapes, the time had come to August. The problem Alan Wilson was facing was that the Soviet military held exercises in Hokkaido. Of course, this was Washington According to the second-hand news from the outside world, after the rational judgment of the cabinet, the United Kingdom made a decision, "With the strength of the US Navy, it is enough for the Soviet Union not to dare to act rashly."

Washington quickly replied, "From the perspective of the special relationship between Britain and the United States, it is only natural that Britain should send a core force with combat effectiveness to stand with the United States and resolutely fight back against the Soviet Union. If the Royal Navy visits Yokosuka at this time, the Soviet Union will I can feel the unbreakable friendship between the two countries."

This has inspired the special relationship between Britain and the United States. Alan Wilson must firmly defend this relationship. In front of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Defense Secretary Dennis Healy, he made a bitter statement, "The Queen Victoria-class aircraft carrier of the Mediterranean Fleet should be sent to To the Far East."

"Alan, we all know that you have a deep personal relationship with many people in the United States." Harold Wilson almost looked at the cabinet secretary with a reliable look.

"Prime Minister, a personal relationship is a personal relationship, and I have always resolutely defended the interests of the UK." Alan Wilson had a look of grievance on his face, "It's just that I think it is good for the UK to respond to the call of the United States."

"What are the benefits?" Defense Secretary Dennis Healey twitched his mouth, eager to hear what the specific benefits were.

Of course, there was an alibi during the war in the Middle East, but it’s hard to say, Alan Wilson pondered for a while, “I don’t deny that the United States is currently in the midst of a failure in the Vietnam War, and it desperately needs an ally to encourage it .”

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In the fourth Middle East War in history, the Red Navy of the Soviet Union entered the Mediterranean Sea, and there was a very famous confrontation in the Mediterranean during the Cold War with the US Sixth Fleet, which was even larger than the confrontation in the Bay of Bengal during the India-Pakistan War.

Alan Wilson sometimes wondered if something had been provoked to make the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet leave.

You must know that the Mediterranean Fleet is also the second largest fleet of the Royal Navy, second only to the local fleet active in the Atlantic Ocean, and has two of the largest aircraft carrier battle groups in active service in the UK.If there is a confrontation, the Royal Navy may not be able to escape under the insistence of the United States.

He is racking his brains because of this possibility, preparing to take the opportunity to provoke Yemen.Defend the British presence in the Middle East.

Now that I have received a call from a close ally, it feels like someone is giving me a pillow when I am sleepy. If there is another confrontation in the Mediterranean, the Mediterranean Fleet, whose main battleship is in the Far East, can stand by and watch grandiosely.

Compared with such a dangerous confrontation in the Mediterranean Sea, what is it worth spending a little gas money to go to Japan?The danger is not on one level at all.

"The embarrassment of the United States in the Vietnam War was clearly seen by the whole world. At this time, the United States needs the help of its allies. After all, it cannot rely solely on the United States to defend the free world. This is the time to reflect the value of the United Kingdom. We should not refuse."

Allen Wilson is awe-inspiring and advocates that Washington should respond to Washington's appeal and go to the Far East to defend Japan. "When the time comes to discuss the issue of the yen with the United States, we will also be confident. Japan will not even be able to defend itself. Talking about the value of the yen will be nothing. A castle in the air."

"That's true." Harold Wilson immediately agreed. His prime minister's fame began with the phrase "Zurich Goblin" in the financial field. At present, Britain is pulling France to strongly oppose Germany and Japan, mainly Japan, to expand financial cooperation. Currency share weighting.

Look how reasonable what the cabinet secretary said, Japan can't even guarantee its own safety, so why is it talking about occupying a place in the world's financial field?

"The existence of the Royal Navy is part of the British credit." Alan Wilson immediately turned to Defense Secretary Dennis Healy.

"This is as it should be." Defense Secretary Dennis Healy puffed out his chest proudly. He can think about saving money at other times, but on the matter of the value of the pound, if he opens his mouth to object, it will be the current Prime Minister Ha Rod Wilson.

Defense Secretary Dennis Healey's idea of ​​reducing expenditures, Alan Wilson certainly did not forget, "We will hint in the telegram to the Mediterranean Fleet that we need to add a little less fuel, and we can do Yokosuka. As for when we come back, I believe the British help For such a big favor, the U.S. Navy will not be stingy with a little fuel money."

Alan Wilson even hoped that the two aircraft carrier battle groups had already dried up when they arrived at the Yokosuka oil depot, and it would be considered to save some navy expenses by collecting the wool of the US Navy base.

After some persuasion, both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense had no problem. Alan Wilson said that he would give Washington a warm and positive response. When the United States lost its former glory due to the Vietnam War, the actual actions of the Royal Navy Conference proved that the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is strong. unbreakable.

No one can disrespect the U.S. Navy. Although the U.S. Navy is about to face the embarrassment of shrinking year by year, the tonnage of 570 million tons at this time is still more than twice that of the Royal Navy.This also includes a bunch of battleships in the Royal Pacific Fleet that almost never leave port.

After receiving such a reply, I believe that Nixon, who was deeply involved in the Watergate incident and was arguing with the judiciary over the tapes, would feel a warm current in his heart.

Alan Wilson actually doesn't know if the Soviet Union is deliberately provoking troubles in the Far East to divert attention from the Middle East or more directions, but he thinks that the Soviet Union is playing big chess, and he thinks doing so is beneficial to Britain , happily jumped down the pit dug by the Soviet Union.

The Mediterranean Fleet is the fleet that Marshal Mountbatten served before returning to London. Many of the generals in it are old subordinates of his father-in-law. Pamela Mountbatten is familiar with some of them and said that he can help polish the wording in the telegram. "However, will this weaken the strength of the Royal Mediterranean Navy?"

"Yes, but the Anglo-American relationship is superior to all foreign relations." Alan Wilson said eloquently, "Although we are not satisfied with the United States at all levels, we still have to help the United States."

The Mediterranean Fleet, which received the local telegram, immediately began to act. The two heavy aircraft carrier battle groups in Malta and Gibraltar pulled anchor and set sail, and stated that they would carry one-way fuel in accordance with the telegram's order, and replenish it when they arrived in Yokosuka.

"But why do you want to do this?" Pamela Mountbatten was puzzled, and ran [-] kilometers to save a little fuel money?

"Maybe the United States will see that the Royal Navy is struggling to maintain the current fleet size." Alan Wilson bared his white teeth, "I can't help for nothing, can I? It's not too much to change a ship of fuel, right? The Royal Navy doesn't have a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. , we are all conventionally powered.”

Moreover, if there is a confrontation in the Mediterranean Sea, the backbone of the Mediterranean Fleet, because of the lack of fuel, will not be able to make it back for a while, so it is definitely in the past, right?

"How else can you make money, my dear?" Pamela Mountbatten's mouth slightly curled up, praising this man who had calculated to the core.

"I can't say that. In this field, we still can't compare with the United States. Hundreds of billions of dollars were thrown directly on the Vietnam battlefield." Alan Wilson expressed humility and could not compare with the United States.

After replying to the proposal that Britain would help the United States to stabilize the situation in the Far East, he faced the question of whether the Prime Minister would explain to the President of the United States that the special relationship between Britain and the United States was unbreakable.

Alan Wilson suggested that if you have to do this, express your support for Nixon in a private name, because now that Nixon is in trouble, it is not appropriate to do so in the name of the British Prime Minister.

"It seems that the wrangling between Nixon and the judicial system will take some time!" Alan Wilson said, "We still don't know whether Nixon will tide over the difficulties. No, the immediate problem is the Arab conference. Since last year, the situation in the Middle East has become tense, and the UK should try its best to maintain peace in the world's oil depots."

Naturally, it is still the old rule, calling for the territories of the two countries recognized by the United Nations in [-], that is to say, Israel still has to withdraw its troops from the Palestinian territories occupied in the first Middle East war.

To be honest, from the point of view of Israel, it is absolutely impossible, because according to the time control line in 50.00, although Israel occupied [-]% of the land, the Gaza area and the West Bank are almost within walking distance. Let Israel build a road.

According to that kind of division, Israel may be cut into two disconnected lands in the north and the south at any time. It is not an enclave, but it is almost an enclave.

According to the division at the time, Jerusalem has nothing to do with Israel, and is purely a city in the hinterland of Palestine.

On August [-]th, the meeting of the Arab League was held in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and other countries gathered here to open this time. Arab League Heads of State Meeting.

The host was the King of Egypt. The 20-year-old Fouad II presided over the meeting as a king. At this time, he had just taken power, and the Egyptian version of the Queen Mother and Guizi Liu were still in control of the government.

But in this meeting of the Arab League, Fuad II was still quite eye-catching. The current king is not yet married, and at the age of 20, he is at the dawn of his life, which makes some Arab heads of state have some calculations.

In a sense, the Arab League meeting this time is actually a bit embarrassing, because the leader of Yemen is named Nasser, who used to be a colonel in the Kingdom of Egypt and an Egyptian Freedom Officer, the leader of this organization that has been absolutely banned.

However, since it is the meeting of the heads of the Arab League, Fuad II must not let the former rebels and thieves, today's Yemeni leaders, come.

I believe that even Nasser himself never imagined that one day, in such a form and with such an identity, he would return to the country where he had served for most of his life, and sit in front of the king majestically. Nasser also participated in the first In the Second Middle East War, he was the war hero of the Egyptian military at that time.

In fact, it was obvious at the meeting that they could be divided. The country was divided between the republic system and the monarchy system. Sudan, Syria and Yemen were all republics armed by the Soviet Union.Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan are monarchies supported by the United Kingdom. As for the pro-American country Saudi Arabia, because the Arab League does not have Iran, Saudi Arabia is still a little transparent for the time being.

There is even news that the Egyptian people have circulated that after Egypt regains the occupied territories of Palestine, the royal family will consider reforming the constitutional monarchy and handing over most of the power to the parliament.

Of course, this was released by the UK. Although the UK is not a member of the Arab League, its heart is already with the Arab countries. Just a few days ago, the aircraft carrier battle group of the Royal Navy’s Mediterranean Fleet entered the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal. The Far East went to defend the special relationship between Britain and the United States.

The leader of the Syrian Arab Ba'ath Party, Hafez al-Assad, and the King of Jordan, Hussein ibn Talal, have come up with a plan to change the course of the Jordan River so that it will not be used by Israel, Hafez Assad had already received Soviet diplomats in Damascus before his arrival, and the Soviets explained the dangers of the Golan Heights.

Hafiz al-Assad also accepted the Soviet Union's warning of the danger of war, understood the importance of the Golan Heights, and came to Cairo after he was prepared.

The discussions at the meeting were intense, and Arab countries expressed their views, showing the unity of the Arab world, even including Saudi Arabia.

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The flow of the Jordan River is of course the top priority of this alliance meeting, but it mainly involves three countries, which are Israel's three neighboring countries, Egypt, Syria and Jordan.

In addition to these three countries, there are currently relatively recognized Arab powers, plus Yemen and the Kingdom of Iraq. These five countries are the few military powers that the Arab world can produce.

As for other Libya, Sudan, Morocco, which are either too far away, or have a population of only a few million people, they are completely the foil of this meeting, but one thing is the same, these Arab countries that are not involved in the Palestine-Israel issue have also shown generosity Free money and resolutely maintain the dignity of the Arab world.

On the general standpoint, the entire Arab country is consistent. It does not matter whether it is a country that is close to the United Kingdom or a country that is close to the Soviet Union. Everyone is against Israel.

Although Nasser has been chased by many countries for many years, and the Kingdom of Egypt revoked his arrest warrant not long ago, the Free Officers Organization led by him has indeed spread Arab nationalism throughout the Arab world.

Of course, Nasser did not know that he could have been more successful than he is now, establishing the United Arab States with Egypt as the main body, and attracting Syria and half of Yemen to join it.

Alan Wilson did not participate in the meeting of the Arab League, so naturally he could not remind Nasser of this fleeting dream of becoming an Arab power, but Nasser did not grasp it.

Having said that, the opponents of Arab nationalism are none other than Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia uses pacifism to counter Arab nationalism and prevent Nasser from unifying the Arab world. Otherwise, Saudi Arabia, as a feudal country with little force, will become very awkward.

King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was also in this meeting. Compared with other heads of state involved in the Palestine-Israel issue, and even other Arab heads of state farther away, King Faisal did not speak much, as if everything had nothing to do with him.

This is also more in line with the traditional understanding of Saudi Arabia in the eyes of other countries, a low-key country.

Many countries also know that Saudi Arabia has the largest reserves of oil resources in the world, and has gradually become rich in recent years, but the people of various countries do not know it, and individual understanding has a certain delay.

Saudi Arabia's debut among the Arab countries has to wait until the oil crisis breaks out. Before that, Saudi Arabia's status really cannot be compared with several traditional Arab powers, such as Kuwait.