Chapter 1,225: Before fighting against the outside world, you must first settle down at home.
In order to stabilize the value of the pound, there are rumors that the number of gold provided by the Soviet Union is higher than the actual number.
Everyone in Whitehall is talented and well-spoken. After some logical evaluation, as well as sorting out the vague original price, I believe that the rumored range of 300 to 400 tons is more appropriate.
This is not easy to be exposed, and it can also give confidence to institutions holding pounds. After all, four hundred tons of gold is not too small in any country. Even the United States, the world's largest gold reserve country, four hundred tons of gold is not too small.
The proportion is close to four percent.
For the UK, this ratio is close to 8%. It can be said to be a windfall, and its financial and fiscal role is immeasurable. Of course, such trivial matters do not need to be reported to the Prime Minister. After all, they are just rumors and there is no need for the government to confirm them.
Is the news true?
At least Reginald Medernion, the newly appointed finance minister, is happy to hear about this situation and even has an idea of implementing the grand plan.
There is a saying that money is not everything, and nothing is impossible without money. The two world wars destroyed the European economy. Without money, you will naturally be unable to be strong-willed, which led to the decline of Europe.
It cannot be said that having money is completely different, but it can also solve many things. However, Frank expressed doubts about the grand plan of the Chancellor of Finance, and for this purpose he came to communicate with the Cabinet Secretary.
It's a pity that Frank missed the opportunity. The supreme authority is not in Whitehall. He is explaining to the Soviet Ambassador to the UK Victor, who has the closest relationship with him, about the untrueness of the rumors and why this issue has not been clarified. Of course, this is before Prime Minister Eden
carried out with tacit consent.
This cannot be blamed on the British government. An insider who cannot be named thinks that the range of 300 tons to 400 tons is more appropriate. However, Britain is also a free world, and the media in the free world like big news. There were rumors in the beginning.
It was said that this time the purchase involved three to four hundred tons of gold. The Uncrowned Kings felt that it was not enough, so they made a marginal decision.
Some irresponsible newspapers did not mention specific figures because the government would not announce them originally. However, they changed the gold used for grain purchases by the Soviet Union to one-third of the Soviet Union's gold reserves.
This is very cunning. Who knows how much the Soviet Union’s gold reserves are? But the Soviet Union is a country with vast territory and abundant resources. It is absolutely true that the world’s largest land area will not deceive others.
This kind of report created the effect of a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Most people in the world were shocked by the vast land of the Soviet Union, which was number one in the world. After thinking about it, political experts from all walks of life realized that
Incredible.
This kind of vague speculation cannot deceive real insiders. Although the rumors in the market are quite strange, Pamela Mountbatten resolutely adopted conservative figures and informed the three major grain merchants in the United States that there is absolutely nothing as much as the fake news said.
Three hundred and fifty tons of gold.
Compared with the uncapped speculation in fake news, this conservative number is really conservative. But the three major grain merchants who learned the inside story were furious. They should have had a share in this, but now they can only watch and watch other people's contracts.
Everything has been signed and shipped.
Jealousy is like a gangrene on the bones, eating away at their souls. What? Doubt the reliability of the news?
Grain merchants, please, please take hundreds of tons of gold and put it on the gold trading market to deceive vulnerable groups like us.
Alan Wilson and the respected gentleman Mr. Victor, the Soviet ambassador, were on the seaside and looked up into the distance. Not far away was a giant ship leaving the port, and its destination was naturally Leningrad. Of course, the British sometimes still call it St. Petersburg by its old name.
The sea is ever-changing, with one scene every day, and rarely the same. Besides, this sea is far different from what we saw in Malaya. Perhaps it is spring time, and there are often storms; perhaps, even though they belong to the same ocean, the climate is different, so it is even more different. Because of the change, the seaside in this area has lost its lazy, foggy, and weak sea surface.
"If we had known that food prices would rise as a result, we might not have signed the contract so early. In fact, I might even bear some responsibility for it."
Alan Wilson made a grimace to win sympathy. Although Britain got 220 tons of gold, the Soviets got precious food. It is impossible for people not to eat. Life is priceless, especially the life of the Soviet people.
As for Africa and the Far East, life is naturally not in the priceless category. Everything has a price.
While Alan Wilson was talking to half the world's leaders, the Japanese endured smaller lunch boxes, Korean women looked at the latest food prices with helpless babies in their arms, and martial law tightened on Scam Island.
But what does any of this have to do with him? There are so many miserable places in the world, how much does he, as the Secretary-General of the British Cabinet, have to do? It is the Soviet Union, not the United Kingdom, that wants to liberate the world.
Alan Wilson had a flexible and unfathomable bottom line, and no one understood strategic determination better than him. If you think about it carefully, even if famine did break out, it would not affect European and American countries, but if the Soviets were so hungry that they would cause trouble in Europe, then But that's not good.
Excluding the military orders from India and Arab countries, as well as the 220 tons of gold from the Soviet Union, the economic situation in the UK is so difficult. It is so difficult that the Secretary-General of the Cabinet does not know where the difficulty is, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer is stumped. Grand blueprint.
The Soviet ambassador did not know all this suffering, and the Soviet people did not know how many farmers in the colonies had to sweat and pay in order to sell a little grain. How can the leading countries in half the world realize this?
With an extremely sincere attitude, Alan Wilson finally fooled the Soviet ambassador, and then fiercely attacked the Sukarno government in Indonesia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accusing the dictator's Greater Indonesianism of destroying regional prosperity and stability.
At a time when public opinion is paying attention to food and gold, it seems inappropriate to criticize the Sukarno regime in Indonesia, but this is a very clear signal to take action. If the cultural czar in Moscow pays attention to this report, he will know that the cabinet secretary who is true to his words will do so. Sir, it’s time to fulfill your promise.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! If you are not determined to push Indonesia into the Soviet bloc, given the current situation, it is really a good opportunity. Kennedy will be happy this year, and there will be food shortages in the Soviet Union Having no time to take care of itself, Britain had no chance of winning if it wanted to kill the Sukarno regime.
But who wants that kind of odds? In some cases, winning means losing, and losing means winning. It’s like Kennedy thought he had defeated the three major grain merchants in the United States. He won, but it only added another important factor to the already huge opposition force.
pound member.
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy's approval rating was quite high, changing his previous image of a weak president. If nothing else, there would be no problem whether it was a mid-term election or re-election.
You have accomplished so many things in just three years of power. If you have been president for eight years, wouldn't it mean that the citizens of the world, who have finally waited for Roosevelt and Roosevelt to die, will once again face the darkest moment?
In particular, the silver bill, which is in name only, actually comes into play. It is like digging up the ancestral graves of citizens of the world. Compared with the British side that just swallowed three to four hundred tons of Soviet gold, Wall Street has never felt so uncomfortable, but
One thing is the consensus of all countries in the world, and that is to fight against foreign aggression without first settling at home.
How do all the people who think that the president is very good know this? Ordinary people only talk about the preview of the upcoming epic blockbuster Cleopatra, the three-year filming cycle and the scandal between the male and female protagonists, and they talk about it with great enthusiasm.
In the UK, Princess Margaret met Turing once, and she frankly expressed her appreciation for Turing's talent. The pressure from the Queen's sister and mother finally allowed Her Royal Highness, who is over 30 years old, to experience the real world.
cruel.
Turing, who has just been promoted to the president of the Royal Interstellar Society and has made unique achievements in scientific research, will definitely not satisfy Her Majesty the Queen. However, the long-term tug-of-war with her sister over emotional issues has finally made the Queen feel tired and unwilling to continue to push her.
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With the Queen's acquiescence, other than Turing's age, there were no other obstacles.
"Her Royal Highness the Princess's marriage issue really shouldn't be delayed any longer." Alan Wilson, who came to visit his sister-in-law, put himself in her shoes and expressed concern.
"Put on your pants, your words will be more convincing." Princess Margaret turned back and rolled her eyes at the Cabinet Secretary, and did not forget to add, "You must not forget my sacrifice for you."
The cabinet secretary swore that he would serve the royal family wholeheartedly throughout his life and be the pillar of Britain.
He has always done this, and no one can find anything wrong with him. He has always served Britain wholeheartedly. Although sometimes the methods may be questionable, the original intention is good.
I heard that there was a famine in Southern Rhodesia? So what if there was a famine in that part of Africa? Isn’t that normal?
The High Commissioner of Southern Rhodesia already said in the telegram, "The problem is not serious and can be prevented and controlled."
Prime Minister Eden even regretted that he should have held an election only after the news about doing business with the Soviet Union spread.
For this reason, he also expressed his apology to the Conservative ministers at the cabinet meeting by punishing himself with three glasses of wine. After that, he naturally said that this page has passed and cannot be mentioned again in the future.
In the field of diplomacy, Alan Wilson, who is currently the Executive Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continues to implement the core diplomatic concept of trying to suppress France and informs the United States through the united Five Eyes Alliance that France is disloyal and is secretly communicating with a certain Eastern power.
I hope that the free world's well-deserved beacon can stop the disunity of the French.
The reasons put forward include but are not limited to, a certain big country is anti-imperialist and anti-feudal, France is a colonial country that actually occupies Algeria, and it should not engage in such politically incorrect diplomacy, etc...
What? The UK is also a colonial country? The UK has not established diplomatic relations with any major country. It has always been loyal to the free world.