For the current Malaya, it is very normal for Alan Wilson, as the chief executive, to pay attention to potential competitors. In addition to Japan, there is also the Philippines that is right in front of us.
After the Philippines became independent, the Americans did not leave the Philippines alone. After all, the Philippines and the United States had a special relationship.
The United States not only provided a large amount of aid to the Philippines, but also made huge investments in the Philippines. Americans invested in and opened a large number of factories in the Philippines.
In fact, Alan Wilson still has a certain degree of confidence in dealing with the Philippines. And he still remembers one thing, that is, Japan actually tried every means to avoid compensation for World War II, but the Philippines' compensation was not ignored.
This is the benefit of the special relationship between the Philippines and the United States. On the issue of compensation to Japan, Alan Wilson can even be a good friend of the Filipino people. Anyway, he was already an old friend of the Indian people before, and he is no less a Filipino.
Although he was not a chief executive who knew much about industry, Alan Wilson still knew that he had to eat his meal one bite at a time. If time was not urgent, he would not be so eager.
But he knew that British Malaya and Japan were simply incomparable in terms of population, so he formulated a very bold development plan. He tried his best to realize the remaining British influence in Asia.
After the formal meeting, Alan Wilson invited representatives from India, Burma, and Ceylon in a private setting.
He said that on the issue of nationalization, the UK could not express support at formal meetings due to the attitudes of Canada and Australia.
However, Britain actually does not reject the nationalization-led industrialization that Myanmar and India have begun to do. It also hopes that India and Myanmar can appropriately help the development of British Malaya.
As for Ceylon, Britain stated that Ceylon's independent status would not be disturbed by external forces, and was happy to see Ceylon and Myanmar develop relations. This was a complete statement. Ceylon has a British naval base.
The successive victories of the United States did not have any impact on Southeast Asia, at least not on Alan Wilson.
But he didn't know that the expansion of the war would have another negative impact on the United States in the next six months. That was the Mysore iron ore he sold to the United States before leaving.
But now, he was in a state of excitement about the development of Malaya, so he collected intelligence about the Philippines during his free time. Then he discovered that the two places had something in common. It turned out that using prisoners of war to threaten Japan with compensation was not just about AI.
Len Wilson thinks so.
The Philippines has publicly stated several times that if Japan does not compensate the Philippines for its losses during the war, it will kill all the hundreds of thousands of Filipino prisoners of war.
"It's really a hero's common understanding!" Alan Wilson picked up the phone and said, "Being able to show Mr. Elpidio Quirino through some unobtrusive channels that in British Malaya on the issue of compensation
, we stand together with the Philippines. I believe there must be such a channel."
Alan Wilson put down the phone and felt that he could do some public opinion manipulation on the issue of military prostitutes. He could even bring Australia and the Netherlands together. After all, these two countries are victimized countries.
Although rubbing salt into the wound on women's issues is a bit unethical and completely inconsistent with his demeanor on the streets of Paris a few years ago.
But at this point, we can no longer care about so much. As a gentleman of the British Empire, you should have a flexible moral bottom line.
Japan must not be allowed to go into battle lightly. He even wanted to make Japanese prisoners of war disabled before sending them back. Moreover, cultivating an anti-Japanese environment was an important part of the development of British Malaya, and it could be considered a public-private consideration.
With the future clear, Alan Wilson became full of energy, as if he had suddenly returned to New Delhi after the end of World War II, with endless thoughts and endless energy, except that the target was changed from British India to Japan.
And the difficulty is not the same. Although British India has a larger population, Britain is a direct colonial government. It is the United States, not the United Kingdom, that has this status in Japan.
Hatred will never be forgotten as long as someone keeps mentioning it, but once no one mentions it, it will be forgotten very quickly.
For public opinion manipulation, especially for Australia, Alan Wilson needed the help of Pamela Mountbatten, and Pamela Mountbatten, who was conducting a new round of financing with the help of her mother, immediately agreed. What also agreed was that she sent a
The exploration team arrived in British Malaya to search for oil and gas resources near Brunei.
Regarding the two main helpers of the United States in Asia, Alan Wilson does not feel that he cannot compete with the Philippines, but Japan is indeed a difficult opponent to deal with. So since the Philippines bites Japan because of the issue of compensation, then the Philippines at this time
There is definitely a great need for someone who can uphold justice to help.
Although he couldn't help openly, Alan Wilson also didn't want to appear in the public eye. Traditionally, good deeds were done anonymously.
This was all to defend against the United States. Historically, the United States took two measures in response to the Colombo Plan. One was to lead the formation of the organization. The form, function, and nature of the organization were basically consistent with the United States' propositions.
Second, it contributed to its evolution according to the wishes of the United States, turning it from a Commonwealth organization initially led by the United Kingdom into a non-Commonwealth organization led by the United States.
Eventually, the United Kingdom lost control of the Colombo Plan, and the United States' penetration of the Colombo Plan was mainly accomplished through Japan and the Philippines.
Under the premise that the Philippines is currently clinging to Japan, Alan Wilson must take the initiative and do everything before Japan.
When the United States began to shift its textile industry, Japan actually did not take off very much. After all, the profits of the textile industry were really hard to come by. Japan really started to take off five years later, around 1956, after the accumulation of the textile industry.
Begins to enter a high-level development stage.
Therefore, the plan for British Malaya was to develop the steel industry first with the support of Australia, and at the same time seize the textile industry, because the former can easily create jobs. At the same time, it would bite Japan's compensation issue and delay Japan's entry into Southeast Asia.
This issue can support the Philippines' claim. If the compensation issue still cannot stop Japan, let's take Japan's tariff barriers as an example. Japan, like South Korea, relied on tariff barriers in its early stages of development to only export and not import.
If British Malaya can get ahead of Japan, it must bite the tariff barrier. Once Japan opens the tariff barrier, it will use the industries that Malaya already has by then to dump Japan.
Together with the 16 million pounds allocated by the Kuala Lumpur Conference in the name of the Commonwealth, Alan Wilson used the bulk to place orders for the British steel and textile industries. As for the steelmaking equipment that Pamela Mountbatten previously said was purchased in the United States, at this time
All have passed through Guam.
The remaining money was used as a reserve fund for British Malaya and served as an anchor for the Asian pound.
After the war, the Japanese government focused on supporting development, restricting companies to purchase coal and steel at low prices, and the government subsidized the price difference. This subsidy was very large, even accounting for a quarter of the fiscal budget.
Such policies drove the development of the coal and steel industries. In addition, Japan's factories and social infrastructure were completely destroyed during the war, allowing factories to quickly introduce the most advanced production equipment at the time and improve production efficiency. Japan's heavy chemical industry was able to
develop.
Alan Wilson did the same thing, except that it was directly supported by the current pro-British Prime Minister of Australia and the high-quality iron ore that Pamela Mountbatten already controlled. This did not require financial subsidies from Malaya and avoided the resulting
financial pressure.
I have to mention the role of India here. The textile industry center of British India was in the Bengal region with the Calcutta Industrial Area as its core. Since the partition of India and Pakistan, it has belonged to India and Pakistan respectively.
Among them, East Pakistan, which later became Bangladesh, was the production base of the textile industry. What is the current relationship between India and Pakistan?
Alan Wilson opened the Malayan Commissioner Radio and began to copy the broadcasts in Newfoundland, explaining the support of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth to British Malaya. He mentioned the help of Canada and Australia, which was a very technical expression,
The British Empire is still a great empire that has survived two world wars.
From financial support to industrial support, as well as the resources and climate of British Malaya itself, the development policies for the textile industry and steel industry were formally determined. As for its own advantageous industries, free competition was adopted, but the tin ore and rubber industries could not
higher than the London government's purchase price.
"It's hard to say that Malayan citizens have the foundation to accept these industries. The British Empire is ready to help Malaya, but whether Malaya can take over is also a matter worth studying. Malayan Ten Million
Subjects of the British Empire must accept the guidance of the government from now on, put aside trivial matters, and become part of modern civilization."
At the same time as the agricultural and animal husbandry seeds arrived in Malaya, construction began on Alan Wilson's first big project, a large fertilizer factory.
While the high commissioner arrived at the site to indicate that he was going to break ground, the smug MacArthur took the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces and docked at the island in the Pacific where he met with the president. Here he, President Truman, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Bradley
They jointly discussed the situation of the Peninsular War. After ensuring that everything went smoothly, he confidently said in a speech: "The war currently taking place has actually been won, and the official resistance of the entire peninsula will end before Thanksgiving."
The next day, Alan Wilson, who was holding a newspaper about the MacArthur Declaration, flew to East Malaysia's port in Sarawak to preside over the ground-breaking ceremony of the steel factory building. A week later, he took Penang Commissioner Everett to the Penang port.
Germany, receiving textile machinery that had been floating at sea for several months.