Murphy's Law says that the more you don't want something to happen, the more it will happen. Out of long-term caution, Alan Wilson chose to believe in this unwarranted law.
While communicating with Governor Philip Mitchell in Nairobi, the capital of British East Africa, Alan Wilson did not forget to maximize the benefits of this inspection and asked the Commissioner of Zanzibar to guide Khalifa Sultan to visit Cairo.
At the same time, it also paved the way for the next stage of his journey. The work of a paper framer in British Africa was just a pleasure. The really terrible thing is that black Africa is not ranked. No matter from any perspective, Africa belongs to the world map.
The cheapest place.
Whether you admit this or not, this is the fact. Britain's positioning of the origin of raw materials in Africa is reasonable, and later powerful countries also inherited this point.
Alan Wilson needs to judge what Kenya, the core of British East Africa, was like in the 1950s.
This depends on the judgment of future planning. In fact, the British designated Kenya as the core of British East Africa. There are only two reasons. The first is that the location is good, and the second is that it is sufficiently backward.
British East Africa's Tanzania was originally a German colony, and it fell into British hands after World War I. This was excluded. Before the British ruled Kenya, in fact, the inland Uganda was far more civilized than Kenya.
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East Africa is different from West Africa. It has not been affected by the triangular trade of slaves. It can be determined that the civilization level of East African countries is higher than that of West Africa. At the same time, East African colonies were only divided up in the late colonial era, whether it was Britain, France, Germany or Belgium.
After the Berlin Conference of 1884 and after going deep into Africa, we were surprised to find that black Africans actually had the concept of a nation.
To be precise, Africa except West Africa has a good level of civilization, which is completely different from the Africa in the impression of European countries. Because of the slave trade, Africa has not been torn apart by Europe, and is generally concentrated in the interior.
To put it simply, West Africa is less civilized than East Africa, and the most advanced places in East Africa are not the coastal areas, but inland countries like Uganda, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.
Landlocked countries have maintained more traditions because colonists penetrated deep into the interior of Africa very late.
This is why there are still many kingdoms in Uganda. As for Kennedy, before it became a British colony, there was no national organization in the interior of Kenya and it was still in the primitive commune stage. However, among the Kikuyu people, the phenomenon of private ownership of land
Already produced, part of the land that was originally shared by the patriarchal family - the "Mbali" - has become individually owned, and a preliminary form of land renting has emerged.
There are white communities in Kenya. Currently, the situation in Kenya is generally stable. After all, as the core of British East Africa, the British power there is relatively strong compared to other places.
Alan Wilson decided to walk around Kennedy to get a sense of the extent of British control over Kenya.
Of course, he wanted to take Joan Bennett around, and he had the idea of showing off to show the American actress the vastness of the British Empire. At least so far, the land controlled by the British was still relatively large.
American big.
Who knows how long it will last? So there is no such shop after passing this village. It is more serious to cash in as soon as possible while there is still one. Mombasa is the largest port in British East Africa, and it is responsible for a large amount of British food.
share.
In Africa's real estate development strategy, Kenya's Nairobi and Mombasa are among them. Kenya will also become an important stop for British Malaya to import industrial products to British East Africa.
The dock area gradually emptied out. People left in pairs holding umbrellas. The street lights all around were already on, and circles of light illuminated the paintings on the cement floor, one in the east and one in the west.
Alan Wilson had spent the last few hours jostling, walking through the crowd, craning his neck to find Joan Bennett. At this moment, he was tired from standing for too long, but still hoped that she would show up soon. He sat
A cylindrical travel bag is waiting for her.
Five minutes passed, then another five minutes passed, and then another ten minutes passed. The rain had stopped for a while, but the sky was still hazy. Small puddles were formed everywhere on the big map, and the lights and puddles alternated.
He saw that the dancing lights were hidden due to the heavy rain, and the drops of rain gently caused some ripples on the water.
Alan Wilson raised the cloak around his neck and considered taking the cloak out of the duffel bag, but decided it wasn't worth the try.
He yawned and blinked his eyes, which were sore from fatigue. He scanned the roads beside the pier, imagining Joan Bennett running towards him with arms outstretched. Had he missed her in the earlier bustling crowd?
He shook his head. Of course, if she couldn't find him, she would wait. He tried to think of a good reason why she hadn't come yet, but the options available were so confusing that it was very worrying. Not within a second or two
You can think it through clearly.
The rain fell harder and harder, and he felt the rain soaking through his uniform and seeping into his bones. He stood up, it was time to move around. If she showed up, she knew where to find him. He was gone
For many days and nights, there was always heavy rain around him. He stared at the sky, waiting for the storm to stop and for the inspection to end. What he wanted to do now was to return home, go indoors, and enjoy its dryness and warmth.
In the neighboring area on the other side of the port, there were all the reunited people in pairs. They walked arm in arm through the streets, hugging and kissing. Alan Wilson was so helpless with disappointment that he put his travel bag on his shoulder weakly.
He walked up the steep hill, sidestepping the happy men and women who ignored everything and no one but each other.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! A hand gently patted Alan Wilson's shoulder from behind, and Joan Bennett pushed up the big sunglasses on her face, "Alan
, I didn’t expect you to be so patient. To be honest, it’s hard not to be tempted. If you meet a girl in her twenties, most of them will choose to marry you.”
"I'm afraid you'll lose it. An American star disappears in a British colony. Although it's not a big deal, it's not a small matter either." Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief and directly grabbed Joan Bennett's hand.
Hands felt relieved and said, "The key is that I don't like to let women face danger."
"Then I'm really honored. Now I understand very well why they like to be friends with you." Joan Bennett walked side by side with the man and said with a smile, "I don't know when your inspection tour will be.
Where is the end?"
"Thank you very much for your recent companionship. The last stop in Africa is Egypt. When you arrive in Cairo, you can return to Europe." Alan Wilson seems calm and relaxed, but he always feels that things will be quite difficult when arriving in Egypt.
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The reason why he asked the Sultan of Sannibal to go to Cairo was just to divert attention. Although he did not arrive in Cairo, he kept in touch with Cairo through telegrams. He asked about the Free Officers organization, but there has been no clear answer yet.
The lack of a reply does not mean that there is no danger. Alan Wilson is more inclined to believe that MI6 is in vain. It really has not found out anything about the Free Officers Organization and Nasser.
What he himself hopes more is that Murphy's Law will come true. When he happens to be on patrol in Africa, he can quickly jump out of his own trap and use one African patrol to eliminate all short-term dangers.
So why did he tie up Grace and accompany him? He just hoped that the future leader of Chetnik would be by his side. If something happened, he might be rescued by Mikhailovich.
If an outcome beneficial to the UK can be achieved through manipulation, Alan Wilson hopes even more that this wave of conflicts will break out in a concentrated manner. Whether the UK can survive the short-term crisis safely depends on this one-off deal.
Therefore, he hoped that Nasser would take action according to the original historical time. At the same time, he would also promote reconciliation with Iran and kill Kwame Nkrumah of the Gold Coast, the standard-bearer of Pan-Africanism.
Alan Wilson does not have much time this time. After all, touring African industries as the deputy secretary-general of the Overseas Assets Management Committee is a short-term part-time job. He still has to return to Kuala Lumpur to continue working as a commissioner.
Whether these things can all appear and be resolved during his inspection cannot be too wishful thinking. This requires Nasser's cooperation.
In recent days, Alan Wilson has been thinking, how can we get Nasser to launch a coup in accordance with the actions of the same period in history?
In fact, Alan Wilson's dissatisfaction with MI6 is that the Free Officers Organization should have been around for many years. Farouk I may have known about the existence of this organization, but he still didn't know how powerful this organization was. The British did not know this.
It just doesn’t make sense.
In other words, the United Kingdom also knows about the Free Officers Organization, but feels that there is no threat. If this speculation is true, then Alan Wilson can only say that the level of MI6 is not as good as that thief Farooq I.
No matter what, he must go to Egypt. It would be best if he could just stop Nasser's coup.
At the end of May, Alan Wilson, who had collected a bunch of first-hand information on British Africa, started the second phase of the mission and secretly arrived in Egypt. On the first day, he met Sultan Khalifa of Sannibar who was also visiting Cairo.
As an island country too close to Africa, Sultan Khalifa is of course very interested in visiting powerful countries in the Arab world, and is very grateful to the United Kingdom for facilitating this matter.
"Dear Sultan, can you ask for me if His Majesty Farouk knows about the Free Officers organization? This is very important to me!" Alan Wilson took the initiative to speak, "I can't come forward directly. If the Sudan can help the British to put this organization
Once the matter is clarified, I believe it will further consolidate the traditional friendship between us."