"No problem." Many senior commissioners said one after another, "Deputy Secretary-General, in fact, your actions have been slow."
"It can't be helped. Malaya has been built once before by Japanese prisoners of war. This time it is considered a renovation. But, if it is considered a major construction project in British India, I started it earlier than you."
Alan Wilson boasted with a smile on his face, "So, isn't this the joy of sharing labor with colleagues?"
Labor can also be very happy. Real estate is not a very technical job, but it is enough to meet the needs of the colony, and it will also drive the sales of steel, cement, ships and cars. The former is necessary, and the latter transports raw materials.
It can't be carried on someone's back.
Moreover, the advantage of building a colony is that you can do it boldly. If there is a thunderstorm in the end, the colony will be independent at worst.
These landmines have no impact on the mainland. They only cause losses to the nationalized enterprises where the colonies are located. The risk is not completely controllable, but it can be said to be basically non-existent.
It promoted sales in the British shipbuilding and automobile industries, and also allowed the Malayan colonies to increase production capacity.
Washington, who had one eye on the Soviet Union and one eye on Britain and France, was certainly aware of Britain's large-scale construction in the major colonies, but there was a precedent for British India. Washington's judgment was that Britain would have to leave again before it left.
Scrape the ground.
Who was too impressed by the large-scale construction projects of British India before? Until now, completing the follow-up projects of the Calcutta Industrial Zone has been the main content of Nehru's request for assistance.
The frequency was so high that even the Americans noticed it. Now that we review the original British construction plan in British India, we can gain insight into the consequences of the failure of the British construction plan.
The reason why Washington has noticed that Britain is repeating its old tricks is because the United States is also undergoing large-scale construction, or is it promoted by current President Eisenhower? If they don't use a few examples as evidence, wouldn't it be remiss of so many think tanks?
Because of the short distance in time, the last industrial area of Calcutta in British India was built, making it a perfect comparison object.
This time, the urban construction of major colonies was also regarded by the United States as a repeat of the British old trick, leaving reinforced concrete and concrete to the colonies, while itself had to run away with the wealth of the colonies.
The United States doesn't care what happens to Africa, but it does want Britain to withdraw, so it won't say anything on the surface.
Britain is currently carrying out large-scale construction through its colonial and protectorate commissioners, as well as the airport in the Persian Gulf and part of the Aswan Dam project. In the past three hundred years, except in the colonies dominated by white people, Britain has never been so conscientious.
Pass.
Because it covers such a vast area, this wave of construction will definitely not be completed within ten years.
The highlight of urban construction in Africa was not the larger East African colonies, but the densely populated British West Africa.
The Gold Coast is very important because of gold production, and Nigeria is also valued because of its sufficient population. It is now the main profit point of this wave of construction.
Urban construction in West Africa can provide some experience for Malaya. A big purpose of this meeting of colonial commissioners was that Alan Wilson wanted to mobilize resources to start urban construction in Malaya.
Other colonies can grow wildly, and in the worst case they will become independent in the future, and they will have to bear all the negative consequences themselves.
But it was different here. He never had any intention of letting the Malayan colonies become independent.
The large-scale construction of African colonies is just because the people in the colonies feel very conscientious, because Britain has never been so concerned about building infrastructure for a long time. In Malaya, this is not about feeling, but about being really conscientious.
"Dear gentlemen, the urban construction in Malaya will start in the next year, that is, in 1956." When Alan Wilson said this, he glanced at Isaiah for no reason. He still couldn't put it aside.
The number six is separate from Egypt.
This made Isaid very strange, but these few days of listening also allowed him to see the strength of the British Empire to a certain extent, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart and did not ask about the meaning of the look just now.
"The five-year goal of the Malayan colony is to build four cities with a population of one million. Malaya can handle the raw materials itself. The urban design has planners from London. I believe that this urban construction can promote local automobiles and machinery.
Exit. Of course you have all experienced similar things, so I don’t need to say more."
"Send the most professional people over to ensure that this urban construction can be used as a model project. It also shows Nehru that we can't run the colony well. The mess in India is obviously the problem of the Indians. We have never
no problem."
"Yes, we never had a problem, it was these savages who had a problem."
The conference room was suddenly filled with people. The colonial commissioners in recent years have all become rich and have a good impression of Alan Wilson, their immediate boss. Although everyone's immediate boss sits in Whitehall, the person who often interferes is not the high-ranking cabinet secretary.
, but the deputy secretary-general in front of him, everyone respects Alan Wilson.
Of course, I respect them. Alan Wilson even solved the problem of physiological needs for the arrival of these colleagues and specially selected a group of foreigners who went to Nanyang to earn foreign exchange to increase this respect.
As for a hard-working person like him, of course he disdains joining the others and can only work hard for some movie queen or some pretty girl, which cannot be compared with the high-quality life of these gentlemen.
At the end of the meeting, Alan Wilson said in a Versailles-like manner, "I hope that in a few years, the scale of assets under the name of our Overseas Asset Management Committee will reach tens of billions of pounds. This requires demand. If there is no demand, demand will be created. In fact, through
Dajian can see that as long as we are good at using our brains, there are still many opportunities for the vast colonies."
"It's like Africans always hang fancy things around their necks. You can try to get jade to Africa to sell. Anyway, there are plenty of jade in Myanmar. It doesn't matter if you don't succeed. If you succeed, it will be another profit point." Ai
Len Wilson pointed at Ingram and told Ingram about the raw materials of his Jade House. Many British people have seen it, but Africans have not seen it.
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In the past, it was unthinkable to start construction of aircraft carriers, but now we have started construction of four more.
"Then come here, Richard, tell your colleagues the location of today's arrangement, and I'll leave first." Alan Wilson asked Richard to arrange the nightlife of the colonial commissioners, and he was ready to grease the soles of his feet.
Around Christmas is his busiest time, and his colleagues are still not satisfied with it. They have experienced the exotic customs in Malaya. Unlike him, he has to deal with several tigresses every day.
If he hadn't still had his career ambitions, like Ingrid Bergman's suggestion of taking turns living here with him, not only did he not feel the slightest honor, but he felt a thump in his heart. Fortunately, it was just a joke.
After Christmas, these colonial commissioners all left Kuala Lumpur, either returning to their own jurisdictions or returning to London to celebrate the New Year. Alan Wilson stayed put and gathered friends to celebrate the New Year.
Ms. Pokina was welcomed to visit her sister, as well as good friends from the Golden Zodiac. It is said that these good friends came to reminisce with Vivien Leigh, including Katherine Hepburn.
The Hollywood awards ceiling solved his big problem. Because she was there, Alan Wilson had a moment of rest, but on some occasions, Katharine Hepburn asked intentionally or unintentionally, "I am very strange, Heidi and Inger
Li, it doesn’t seem like she has traveled here, she seems very familiar with this place.”
"Oh, that's right." Looking back from Yingying Yanyan in the apartment, Ellen Wilson said with a clear conscience, "Miss Catherine, you and Vivian are friends. In fact, everyone here is your friend.
, it’s enough that everyone gets along happily. Look, they laugh so happily.”
"Maybe." Katharine Hepburn looked at the smiles of many actresses and said lightly, "You can't be friends. I think they all like you very much."
"Oh!?" Alan Wilson straightened his back and cursed in his heart, "Who asked me to give more."
Except for Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn in front of him, he almost never met anyone he couldn't handle.
There are advantages to having a lot of talkative people. A few ladies with the same status as my wife mingled among them, and all of a sudden everyone started to look like a lady.
This gives him ample strategic space in time management. He can flirt with Joan Crawford when he has nothing to do, and ask Bette Davis about the American acting career, Lana Turner, and Joan Bennett.
Special, he doesn't refuse anyone who comes, he is everyone's friend anyway, there is no need to be taboo about the man behind the great British treasure.
Time came so ruthlessly to 1956. Isaiah De left a few days later than the colonial commissioner, and he also took Alan Wilson with him to instill in him that an aircraft carrier is a symbol of a powerful country, and if he misses it, he will not have the chance.
I don’t know if Egypt will show a tough style and whether Farouk I has the ambition of Ali Pasha. It depends on whether it will propose the purchase of aircraft carriers. If it is proposed, it may lead to a wave of inventory clearance.
At the working meeting at the beginning of the year, Alan Wilson formally proposed the start of urban construction, "Many of my colleagues came directly from British India to work in the Malayan colony, and even your family members lived here. It was not long before we left South Asia in despair.
It seems that a long time has passed, and that impressive leader of a great country seems to be very complacent."
"It's time to issue a proclamation and announce the urban construction plan. We must pay for the Calcutta Industrial Zone plan that year. What we want to prove this time is that the reason for the failure of British India's construction is entirely India's own problem. Indians cannot do it.
.This time the urban construction in Malaya will definitely be successful."
In January 1956, the Malayan Administrative Office announced that it would launch urban construction plans for Penang, Malacca, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore this year. It is expected to build four cities with a population of one million. Once the news was announced, it quickly spread in Malaya.