Then there was a lot of rhetoric about blood being thicker than water, and Australians believed this and were willing to work hard for it.
With the PPT aircraft carrier plan in hand, Alan Wilson began to introduce it emphatically, and connected the basic facts of its blockade of Indonesia, saying that Britain very much hopes that Australia can shoulder the responsibility of the protector of the South Pacific.
Menzies nodded frequently. This is also the general public opinion in Australia. The British still understand Australia very well. The person who doesn't understand has just resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and gone away.
Menzies is of course very willing to accept Britain's latest aircraft carrier. First of all, Australia really needs it. Australia, which occupies a continent to itself, actually has a similar geographical environment to Britain.
It can even be said to be even worse. The population of European countries is about the same as that of the United Kingdom, while the population of Indonesia is almost ten times that of Australia. The two sides are so close, Australia wants to sleep with one eye open and stare at Jakarta.
As Alan Wilson said, the Bamboo Curtain in the eyes of the United States and the Bamboo Curtain in the eyes of Australia are not the same country at all.
"Australia is also very worried about the spread of bamboo screens." Menzies said with a pun.
"As the minister in the cabinet who supports arms sales said, Australia should have enough maritime power to protect itself." Alan Wilson did not worry about who the other party was referring to, and continued, "But dear Prime Minister,
There are some reasons why neither the Foreign Secretary nor the Permanent Secretary came here this time, but I was entrusted to talk to myself."
"Oh? Commissioner Wilson, can you tell me directly?" Menzies was very interested. In fact, it was not common sense for Alan Wilson to talk to him himself. The reason why Menzies was willing to meet was really because of Governor Slim and Margery.
In the face of the special princess.
"That's right, because the UK currently has a plan to sell aircraft carriers to India." Alan Wilson began to explain that if the latest aircraft carrier to be built is publicly sold to Australia, it may have a negative impact on the sale of aircraft carriers to India.
Things had an impact, and then it was logical to start promoting the buy one get one free thing.
The United Kingdom will select a Tejas-class aircraft carrier and sell it to Australia. Of course, the sale is only in name. In fact, the United Kingdom will send the Tejas-class aircraft carrier as long as Australia pays for the modification.
Although the Tejas-class aircraft carrier is larger than the Giant-class aircraft carrier to be sold to India, it will not cause a gap for the Indians. It is essentially the same generation of aircraft carriers, only larger.
Now the cva01 aircraft carrier, which is almost a PPT, is hidden under the Tejas-class aircraft carrier and is being carried out in secret. The United Kingdom and Australia must keep the sale plan of the new aircraft carrier secret.
"Dear Prime Minister, there are currently a large number of aircraft carriers in the Royal Navy that have not yet found a seller. If potential sellers feel that the UK favors one over another, it may affect the sale plan." Alan Wilson explained solemnly, "And new aircraft carriers must have one
The construction period is set, and it will be delivered naturally after the construction is completed."
"So that's it." Menzies accepted this explanation. After the war, Britain was indeed constantly looking for sellers to sell its aircraft carriers. This was not the first time that Britain had done this. At the end of World War I, Britain was selling its aircraft carriers.
Battleship.
Now, of course, Britain also wants to sell its battleships with huge maintenance costs, but the key is that no one buys them.
Who doesn't know that the era of battleships has passed. The role of battleships in Britain is limited to threatening colonies and coastal island countries, and they are even more useless against other countries.
Menzies promised to keep this arms sale top secret, and it was worth it. Australia can rebel against other countries, but it will never do so against the United Kingdom and the United States, and the United Kingdom is Australia's largest investor.
In fact, since 1945, the UK has been the world's largest investor every year. It is true that the British government has no money, but it does not mean that there are no beneficiaries of the UK's hundreds of years of world hegemony.
Pamela Mountbatten dug a large iron ore in Australia when she went to sea. She suddenly became a millionaire, and then she became unstoppable. The Mountbatten Group rose like a comet, which naturally attracted British capital to swarm in and invest in large quantities.
Australia, this seemingly desolate and wild land.
And American capital has reaped such huge dividends from World War II, and the U.S. economy has been bullish after the war. Staying in the United States is the biggest benefit. Naturally, it has no interest in going overseas. Now Eisenhower has started to build infrastructure again. If this wave of dividends is not used up, the United States will
Capital will not leave the country on a large scale.
Endorsing Britain's actions after World War I, Menzies certainly believed Britain's rhetoric about selling aircraft carriers to India.
The first logical chain is established, and the rest will naturally be believed.
Moreover, compared with India, Britain is selling a new aircraft carrier that is about to be built. This result is enough to satisfy him. His happiness comes from comparison.
As far as Menzies is concerned, this arms sale has been approved, but it has to go through parliamentary appropriation. Fortunately, Alan Wilson has come up with a solution to cover the de facto arms sales in the name of Glory-class aircraft carrier modification.
"Dear Prime Minister, there are also matters related to uranium mines, entrusted by the cabinet, and the relationship between my wife Pamela. Regarding the mining and ownership of uranium mines." Alan Wilson paused at this point, waiting for Menzies.
The answer is that he has not forgotten the purpose of coming to Australia in the first place.
"The previous exploration contract signed by the government and the Mountbatten Group is of course valid. And Britain needs uranium mines to strengthen the power of the free world, and of course we will not object." Menzies reiterated that he would not set any limits on the issue of uranium mines.
Obstacles, especially to the UK, would allow both parties to sign a contract immediately.
Alan Wilson breathed a sigh of relief. As for arms sales, of course he knew that such arms sales were not decided by Menzies alone, and Australia was not his own, so he calmed down and left the Prime Minister's residence to wait for the good news.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! He thinks it is not a problem. Australians are a poor version of American thinking, and external threats are greater. In particular, they need the support of countries with the same culture and race. Today, the United Kingdom still retains Asian colonies.
It is also someone that Australia really wants to win over.
"It looks like the talks were going well." When Pamela Mountbatten saw her husband coming back, she immediately asked how it was going.
"Menzies' attitude relaxed when the Bamboo Curtain threat was mentioned." Alan Wilson chuckled. Security issues are Australia's top priority, especially when many minerals are discovered one after another.
"Bamboo Curtain, China can't reach Australia at all." Princess Margaret joined the conversation and wanted to talk to her brother-in-law.
"The Bamboo Curtain in the eyes of Australians is not the country you are talking about. There is a much closer one." Alan Wilson corrected, and then emphasized, "Also, it is best for us not to conflict with China. I don't want to colonize Malaya.
It’s unstable. Australians think that blood is thicker than water. Don’t think that the Chinese don’t have similar thoughts.”
"I know." Princess Margaret replied in a low voice, "For the stability of Malaya. You seem to be very afraid of China."
Alan Wilson answered this question from the side, "Our conflict with China is not as simple as it seems. Don't think that in the war a hundred years ago, the expeditionary force came to have an armed parade."
According to British statistics, the expeditionary force fought the Qing army more than a dozen times and won the entire war with the death of sixty or seventy people. It left East Asia with almost no damage.
But in the Opium War, the British troops marched without damage, so why did they keep asking the Qing Dynasty to negotiate? They all came across the sea to fight, and they went from one victory to another. How could they be more proactive than the Qing Dynasty in seeking peace?
The British death statistics are indeed only sixty or seventy, but the expeditionary force reported more than two thousand losses in the category of deaths from illness and shipwrecks.
This is very spiritual. The British Expeditionary Force did not go deep into the inland at all. The battle location was either Guangzhou or Zhenhai, not a small place. Is it possible that plague broke out in all major cities in the Qing Dynasty at that time? Or was it the biochemical weapons per capita of our Qing Dynasty?
Take the US military as a comparison. The US military has very strict standards for soldiers killed in action. First of all, soldiers killed in action must have identification, such as corpses, important items marked with their names, etc. This makes many US soldiers engrave their names on their helmets and military boots.
or rifle to avoid being treated as missing.
In addition, the soldier must die on-site. If he dies in a field hospital, it will be regarded as an accidental death or death after injury. It is not related to the death in battle, and naturally he will not receive full pension.
In the US military, only those killed in action will receive pensions distributed by the military, while the remaining deceased can only receive compensation from commercial insurance companies.
Lieutenant General Walker of the U.S. Army overturned his car on the road during the retreat and died. In the end, he was not included in the list of U.S. military casualties, but was counted separately as "traffic accident deaths." The son of U.S. Army General Van Fleet was shot down in an air battle, and he was eventually included in the death list.
Missing statistics.
There is no doubt that the British army won the Opium War, but sixty people were killed in battle and more than two thousand people died of illness? They went to the African rainforest?
However, in front of Princess Margaret, Alan Wilson did not question the glorious achievements of Great Britain, and treated them all as if they all died of illness. It may be that the Europeans who carried the virus and infected the Indians encountered an indescribable virus in East Asia.
After waiting for two days, the matter of uranium mines first came to light. This was originally the purpose of his coming to Australia, to find the cheapest uranium mines for the UK, so that the UK could save costs as much as possible when expanding its nuclear arsenal.
It was just that the uranium mine had not yet begun in-depth discussions, which led to the sale of the aircraft carrier, so he hurriedly returned to London. When he returned to London, Pamela Mountbatten was still in communication with the Australian government.
When Alan Wilson came back and settled the matter on behalf of the British government, together with the Mountbatten Group and the Australian government, his original purpose of coming to Australia was achieved.