At the subsequent closing ceremony, Prime Minister Attlee delivered a passionate speech. He also said that integrating the market is the prerequisite for avoiding another war in Europe. By leveraging their respective advantages, Europe can quickly recover from the pain of the war.
Coming out, the last mention of U.S. allies is also the same view.
The United States' support for European unity is sincere, at least in this era, because Western Europe is now too weakened.
The United States is separated from Europe by the Atlantic Ocean. It is very difficult to fight against the Soviet Union. If Western European countries are unable to recover from the war, wouldn't it mean that the United States is facing the Soviet Union, the army power of Eurasia, across the Atlantic Ocean?
That's why the Marshall Plan was passed in the United States after the war. Although the Republican Party has always opposed it, in the end, it did not succeed.
The first time the United States had mixed feelings about the European Community was after the recovery of European countries in the 1950s. However, it started to be wary of the European Community seriously and tried to find ways to prevent Europe from uniting. It was after the Vietnam War that it started to be secretive.
impose restrictions on the European Community.
In this era, the United States would only hope that the European Community would develop well and stand on its own side against the Soviet Union.
After Attlee finished his speech, the entire venue burst into thunderous applause, including Alan Wilson. His happiness was sincere. After all, this was the country he lived in. The most important thing was that he was not an Englishman in his previous life.
Even in a sense, his motherland in his previous life was still an enemy of Britain in a sense.
In my previous life, I ridiculed Britain so much that I didn’t even know how many keyboard keys were broken. As a result, I suddenly entered an era where the sun never sets.
Alan Wilson is different from ordinary British people. He has the legacy of previous life thinking. It is certainly impossible for ordinary British people to think that Britain and the United States are as close as one family. On the contrary, the education he received is contrary to British public opinion.
Later generations of British people accepted self-hypnosis that the sun would never set, but it had no effect on him.
Then he can only change his way of life. He cannot bear to have his motherland be a vassal. It doesn't matter if he cannot be the number one. At least he must be independent. India wants to be a great and powerful country. It is too cheap for Britain to be a vassal.
At least for now, the British Prime Minister's speech at the Brussels Conference and the first consensus involving the integration of the European film market can be regarded as a breakthrough. The Brussels Treaty Organization has finally emerged from its two major roles of colonial and military alliance.
, and started doing other things.
In the visible future, at least we have avoided being humiliated by the United States and France. I really don’t know how British politicians lived after the Suez Canal War in history. When the British applied to join the European Community, they were kicked in by the Americans.
Yes, applying to join the European Community requires French approval.
At that time, the French president was Charles de Gaulle. How embarrassing would it be to ask the British to ask the French?
Moreover, De Gaulle was a standard nationalist and was completely unfriendly to Britain. The negotiation process was almost humiliating. He also vetoed the British request twice. Britain lost countless smiles and had to wait until De Gaulle stepped down before joining.
If Britain chooses to embrace the United States, it means that as a former world hegemon, it will be transformed into a shit-stirring stick in the hands of the Americans and play the role of messing up Europe. Then it might as well choose to embrace Europe, at least without being pinched.
There is also a psychological advantage when dealing with France. After all, in the past two hundred years, Britain has won more than it lost against France.
After Prime Minister Attlee finished speaking, Robert Schuman, the President of the French Council of Ministers, came to the stage to speak. Now the position of the French Prime Minister has been changed. It is consistent with the title of the Soviet Union, and is called President of the Council of Ministers.
In fact, the role of Prime Minister is still the same, but the name is changed to be similar to the Soviet position.
Robert Schuman, who is now in power, is the seventh leader of France in more than three years since de Gaulle established the provisional government in 1944. The problems left over from the French Fourth Republic are still there, that is,
Changing leaders is faster than changing underpants.
"I don't know him. It was George Pidgeot last time." Alan Wilson still didn't know who was on the stage, so he asked his immediate boss, Cabinet Secretary Norman Brooke.
"That was two years ago, when the war had just ended." Norman Brooke frowned and muttered, thinking for a moment, "Vincent Auriol? Leon Bloom? Paul Ramadi
Eh? Then there’s him. The current President of the French Council of Ministers, Robert Schuman, doesn’t know how many days he can lead France?”
Robert Schumann? Alan Wilson was stunned. It seemed that the prototype of the European Community was called the Schumann Plan? Is it related to this person?
The EU originally originated from the French Foreign Minister's Schuman Plan: to place the steel industries of France and Germany under a supranational organization to completely eliminate the possibility of another war between France and Germany.
Since then, it has expanded to the entire Western Europe, and the field has also expanded to all aspects of economic cooperation. At the same time, borders have been eliminated, etc., and the contradiction between France and Germany has been suppressed.
Unexpectedly, Robert Schuman, who later became the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, is now the Chairman of the Council of Ministers leading France. So it seems that Robert Schuman was later demoted and retained?
The Schumann Plan advocated uniting the coal and steel industry sectors of Western European countries based on the coal and steel industries of France and the Federal Republic of Germany, and jointly managing the "joint venture" by a supranational high-level agency.
In order to strengthen its control over Western Europe to counter the Soviet Union, the United States has always encouraged the Western European integration movement and advocated "political unification", "military unification" and "economic unification", and therefore also agreed with the Schuman Plan.
According to this plan, representatives of the six governments of France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg held consultations in Paris for nearly a year and signed the European Coal and Steel Pool Treaty in 1951.
Why did France not start promoting the emergence of the European Coal and Steel Association Treaty until 1951? It was because its efforts to annex the Saarland failed. There was another important factor, lack of money.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The failure to annex the Saarland and the aid from the Marshall Plan made the French change their thinking, which led to the emergence of the European Coal and Steel Pool Treaty.
Originally, the earliest efforts of the European Community had nothing to do with France, but three small countries. After the aid funds from the Marshall Plan arrived, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg established a common market in 1948, which was established to achieve
Tariff exemptions, free movement of goods markets and people promote close economic ties between the three member states.
The economic union of three small countries is regarded as the prototype of the European Community and the beginning of Europe's post-war unity.
France was not interested at first, but in the end its efforts to annex Germany's Saarland region failed, so it retreated to the next best option and pulled Germany into joining a group of three small countries to keep warm.
The current Brussels Treaty Organization is of course completely inconsistent with the original establishment of the European Community in history.
It is the colonial countries that join forces to keep warm, but there is still no difference in the overall environment in Europe. The United States still hopes that Western Europe can be a booster, and does not let the United States lead a bunch of poor and begging countries to fight against the Soviet Union, and there are many inside these countries.
Pro-Soviet parties, haven’t you seen that France changed the Prime Minister to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers?
The only difference is that the current United States has not adjusted its mentality at all, and has no psychological confidence at all in confronting the Soviet Union. It is counting on the old imperialist countries to regain their blood and stand with itself.
There is no problem with the financial and national strength of the United States, but there are some psychological problems.
The Brussels Conference ended successfully with the resolution of the Common Market for Film. Although it has nothing to do with important industries such as steel and coal, it is gratifying to break through from zero to one. As long as it starts, there are infinite possibilities.
There is still some time before the Paris Conference to be held next month, and Prime Minister Attlee has to return to China to prepare for the biggest event in the country.
This is a great event for the British royal family after the war, and Attlee, as Prime Minister, naturally cannot miss it.
As for Alan Wilson, he also needs to return to London. His coming to Europe from London is itself a temporary mission. Talking about the engine with the Soviets has now been completed. Of course, he will return victoriously.
On the plane back home, Norman Brooke also praised Alan Wilson about the Rolls-Royce engine, saying that the negotiation was very successful. Not only did the orders greatly increase, but it also opened up the rubber and tin ore markets.
"The distinguished cabinet secretary is too complimentary." Alan Wilson said very modestly, "In fact, as long as you are good at discovering opportunities, many things can have different results."
"You are indeed a person who is good at discovering opportunities, that's what Edward said. You are especially good at solving financial problems. However, things in the country are not the same as in the colonies."
Norman Brooke nodded with a double entendre. Not only did he affirm his contribution to the expansion of financial resources in British India, he also pointed out that Alan Wilson's methods of amassing wealth in the British Indian colonies were very clever.
"Norman, what are you talking about? Are you discussing financial issues?" Prime Minister Attlee just came out of his cabin and heard the conversation between the two. You can ignore other things. He was almost going crazy thinking about money.
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Alan Wilson thought quickly and directly answered Prime Minister Attlee's words, "This is the Prime Minister. If the troops of Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg are stationed in the British-occupied areas, it is best to unify the armaments of the British troops stationed in Germany. This can maximize the
This is the military integration of the Brussels Treaty Organization. I believe that as long as the aid funds from the Americans are in place, it will be much easier to discuss this matter, and we can also increase some revenue through arms purchases."