After flipping through the telegrams a few times, Pamela Mountbatten pulled out a few of them, picked up the phone, waited for a while and said, "Marina, Zakharova, come here, it's Ellen who has a report on island animals.
For an article on evolution, please help me make a trip and submit it to Nature magazine."
"Did he really write it?" Seeing Pamela Mountbatten's eyes roll, Princess Margaret changed her words, "I mean, his hobbies are really wide-ranging. But those two women of unknown origin seem a bit vicious.
ah."
"They are a bit difficult to mess with, but they are not of unknown origin." Pamela Mountbatten replied disapprovingly, "The two of them are from Northern Rhodesia and came here specifically to protect me."
Isn't it surveillance? Princess Margaret wanted to say this, but as soon as Pamela Mountbatten finished speaking, her eyes fell on Princess Margaret again, as if she was waiting for something.
As a result, the whole room was as quiet as a chicken until two tall women with cold faces came to the door. After Marina came in, she said directly, "Miss Pamela, where are the documents?"
"That's it! It's okay to go by yourself. Zakharova and I will go to the medical company." Pamela Mountbatten dressed while talking, and then looked at Princess Margaret as if she remembered something, "Marg
Li Te, are you going?"
"It's okay anyway!" Princess Margaret was a little embarrassed and expressed her desire to follow.
"This is today's schedule!" Pamela Mountbatten had finished dressing and gave Zakharova a form. "The list of mergers and acquisitions for the privatization of arsenals is the main agenda in China recently. The shipbuilding industry is currently booming.
During this period, it is not easy to make mergers and acquisitions. Let’s put one side aside first, and the information of the military industrial enterprises to be merged and acquired must be reviewed. This is what we are most concerned about, and we also include Mr. Mihajlovic.”
"Miss Pamela, I understand." Zakharova looked at the schedule, "About the trip to Libya?"
"The exploration team has already gone. I don't necessarily have to go there in person. The place worth going to in person recently is New Delhi. The medical company has been integrated and a series of preparations should have been made. By the way,
Those of you who went to Northern Rhodesia shouldn't be at odds with the Germans, right?"
Seeing Zakharova smiling, Pamela Mountbatten also smiled back, "It seems I was right. But thanks to Northern Rhodesia for the Comet airliner order, I know that without your strong support, the light
It is the Northern Rhodesia Commissioner who cannot accomplish this."
Of course, the most urgent thing for Pamela Mountbatten now is that Charles Brooke can get his former sovereignty over Sarawak back from the Colonial Office. She hopes to get this done before going to New Delhi.
Long nights and many dreams.
At this moment, after Alan Wilson had finished writing the necessary report on Whitehall, he boarded the plane accompanied by Grace and headed to the capital of Northern Rhodesia. This was a temporary trip.
When I came to Cairo this time, I didn't expect to go to Northern Rhodesia, but Grace came to Cairo and took the initiative to invite me. Alan Wilson thought that he had indeed promised to come to Northern Rhodesia, so he accepted the invitation as a guest.
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The appearance of Hedy Lamarr surprised Grace very much, but Alan Wilson did not meet with Grace and mentioned that he hoped to find some assistants for Vivien Leigh.
"Uh, do you need someone reliable?" Grace pondered for a moment, focusing on Hedy Lamarr for a moment and continued, "Mr. Allen, I think a few may not be enough. How many female assistants are needed?
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"French Woodpecker Pictures, the United States only needs Vivian, that's all for the time being." Alan Wilson was not embarrassed at all, he just wanted a few assistants and bodyguards, these Balkan fish who slipped through the net, wanted
It's a colony covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.
"But I heard that you have some misunderstandings with Southern Rhodesia?" Alan Wilson was unwilling to talk more about this issue, and instead asked about the recent mutual accusations between Northern and Southern Rhodesia and what was going on.
The origins of Rhodesia date back to the Victorian period. Cecil John Rhodes was the son of a sickly clergyman from Hertfordshire. His mind was filled with ideas about Britain's responsibility to lead the world and his bank account was filled with money.
The South African gold rush brought huge gold mining profits.
Using diplomacy and bribery, threats and intrigue, Rhodes created a company to obtain concessions in the heart of Africa, far north of the British Cape Province of Good Hope. The area was then called Zambezia.
Rhodesia is named after him. The British government never directly controlled the region. Instead, it allowed Rhodes' company to maintain a high degree of autonomy and supported it with British troops from outside the region. Mainly from the British and
South Africa's white settlers would first profit from agricultural and mining concessions, and later gain complete political control over this vast, fertile and mineral-rich land.
As for Northern Rhodesia, it was later discovered that there was a huge copper mine, but the local population was not large. Alan Wilson wondered whether it was because of a conflict over the ownership of the copper mine.
Grace shook her head and explained directly, "It was the southerners who were smuggling drugs to Northern Rhodesia, and we discovered them."
"What's this?" Alan Wilson frowned, this was considered a big deal.
"This will protect the lives of the indigenous people. After we arrived in Northern Rhodesia, we were naturally interested in Southern Rhodesia, which was developed earlier. We hope to sort out this southern neighbor from its history and see if there is any experience we can learn from.
." Grace paused at this point and said, "Naturally we started studying Rhodesia's land allocation bill."
Alan Wilson nodded. He knew about this bill. This bill divided the land in Rhodesia equally between the tribesmen and colonists, of which 40% was owned by the tribes, 40% was private farms of the colonists, and 100% was owned by the colonists.
Five percent can be purchased and managed by tribal people, while the remaining 15 percent can be used as a nature reserve.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The bill stipulates that colonists are not allowed to enter the tribal lands and are not allowed to interfere in the internal affairs of the tribes. The tribes must also respect the colonists’ private ownership of the land. Tribal people can come to colonize
They worked on private farms, went to school, traded with colonists, and obtained supplies needed by the tribes. Some tribesmen also stayed on the colonists' lands, settled down, and integrated into the capitalist production system.
"We found that after the Southern Rhodesia Land Allocation Act came into being, the local indigenous population has tripled. You have to remember that this was a 1930 act, and it is only twenty years ago." Grace explained.
, "In addition to the power of fertility, there is also modern medical treatment, which has saved many indigenous lives and allowed them to escape from the laws of nature. So starting two years ago, my father and the leader of the Ustasha decided,
It is everyone's duty to ban foreign drugs from entering Northern Rhodesia."
This is called professionalism! Alan Wilson's eyes widened a little, and he had to express his admiration. He was indeed a person from the Balkans. Needless to say, the scarcity of medicines must have created demand, and business opportunities were discovered in Southern Rhodesia.
This led to mutual accusations and confrontation.
"What are you talking about?" Hedy Lamarr woke up faintly and yawned. She had lived a very fulfilling life recently, and her whole person had a lazy attitude. Compared with the energetic look of the men, she always
Sleepy.
"It's nothing. Grace said that she would take us to Victoria Falls if she had the opportunity." Alan Wilson looked gentle and did not bother to tell Hedy Lamarr about the local conflicts. The other party was not suitable to hear this.
These Slavs believe that enacting a seemingly fair land distribution bill, like the one in Southern Rhodesia, will overturn sooner or later due to the growth of the indigenous population, but these Slavs do not have a large population.
At this point, Alan Wilson could imagine that Mikhailovich and others might think of a solution from Europe. They might send people to encourage anti-Titoto people who don't like the current government to cross the border, but this kind of effort can only be said to be better than nothing.
After all, as a socialist country, management is still very strict.
Even if Mikhailovich targets the entire Eastern European countries and infiltrates everywhere to organize smuggling, he may not be able to quickly enrich the white people in Northern Rhodesia.
Finally, the plane landed from Lusaka, currently the most important city in Northern Rhodesia. Later, Lusaka was also the industrial and commercial center of Zambia and an important distribution center for agricultural products. It was surrounded by the country's main production areas of corn, cotton, tobacco and other crops and large pastures.
The Northern Rhodesian Colonial Government was also here. After leaving the airport, Alan Wilson found that Lusaka still had a decent appearance. Looking at the appearance, he thought it was an honest European city. Of course, it was expected that it would not be large in scale.
Just because of the language spoken here, it's hard to imagine that this is a British colony.
"We are also learning English, which has been included in the textbooks for minors. As for adults, it is more difficult to learn now." Grace pointed to a sign in multiple languages and said, "There are two types of English.
The languages are Croatian and Serbian respectively. In fact, I wanted to add Russian at first, but later I felt it was not necessary. However, the final decision is still under discussion. We already know that many Germanic people have been imported from Eastern Europe.
Expulsion, these people should understand Russian."
"You are still thinking about the Germanic people in Eastern Europe?" Alan Wilson laughed out loud in surprise, "Anyway, if you are not an indigenous black person, you can accept anyone, right?"
"In principle, that's the case, Commissioner Allen, you know us!" Grace said very frankly, "We need to help each other, that's what you said."