Chapter 373 The Excuse for Military Integration

At the subsequent closing ceremony, Prime Minister Attlee delivered a passionate speech. He also said that integrating the market is a prerequisite for avoiding another war in Europe. By leveraging their respective advantages, Europe can quickly recover from the pain of the war. Coming out and finally mentioning U.S. allies is the same sentiment.

The United States' support for European unity is sincere, at least in this era, because Western Europe is now too weakened.

The United States is separated from Europe by the Atlantic Ocean. It is very difficult to fight against the Soviet Union. If Western European countries are unable to recover from the war, wouldn't it mean that the United States is facing the Soviet Union, the army power of Eurasia, across the Atlantic Ocean?

That’s why the Marshall Plan was passed in the United States after the war. Although the Republican Party has always opposed it, in the end they did not succeed.

The first time the United States had mixed feelings about the European Community was after the recovery of European countries in the 1950s. However, it was only after the Vietnam War that we started to seriously be wary of the European Community and find ways to prevent Europe from uniting. Started to impose restrictions on the European Community in a sneaky way.

In this era, the United States would only hope that the European Community would develop well and stand on its own side against the Soviet Union.

After Attlee finished his speech, the entire venue burst into thunderous applause, including Alan Wilson. His happiness was sincere, after all, this was the country he lived in. The most important thing is that he was not British in his previous life.

Even in a sense, his motherland in his previous life was still an enemy of Britain in a sense.

In my previous life, I ridiculed the UK so much that I didn’t even know how many keyboard keys were broken. As a result, I suddenly reached an era where the sun never sets and I am in free fall.

Alan Wilson is different from ordinary British people. He has the legacy of his past life thinking. It is certainly impossible for ordinary British people to think that Britain and the United States are as close as one family. On the contrary, the education he received was contrary to British public opinion. Later generations of British people accepted the self-hypnosis that the sun never sets, which had no effect on him at all.

Then he can only change his way of life. He cannot bear to have his motherland be a vassal. It doesn't matter if he can't be the number one. At least he must be independent. India wants to be a great and powerful country. It is too cheap for Britain to be a vassal.

At least for now, the British Prime Minister's speech at the Brussels meeting and the first consensus involving the integration of the European film market can be regarded as a zero breakthrough. The Brussels Treaty Organization finally began to do other things from its two major roles of colonies and military alliances.

In the visible future, at least it has avoided being humiliated by the United States and France. I really don’t know how the lives of British politicians lived after the Suez Canal War in history. When the British applied to join the European Community, they were kicked in by the Americans. To apply to join the European Community, they needed approval from the French.

The French president at that time was de Gaulle.

How embarrassing would it be to ask the British to beg the French? Moreover, de Gaulle was a standard nationalist and was completely unfriendly to the British. The negotiation process was almost humiliating and he vetoed it twice. The British lost countless smiles and had to wait until de Gaulle stepped down before joining.

If Britain chooses to embrace the United States, it means that as a former world hegemon, it will be transformed into a shit-stirring stick in the hands of the Americans and play the role of messing up Europe. Then it might as well choose to embrace Europe, at least without being pinched.

There is also a psychological advantage when dealing with France. After all, in the past two hundred years, Britain has won more than lost when facing France.

After Prime Minister Attlee finished his speech, the person who took the stage to speak was Robert Schuman, President of the French Council of Ministers. Now the position of the French Prime Minister has been changed. It is consistent with the Soviet title, called President of the Council of Ministers. In fact, the role of the Prime Minister is still the same, but the name has been changed.

Robert Schuman, who is now in power, is the seventh leader of France in more than three years since de Gaulle established the provisional government in 1944. The problems left over from the French Fourth Republic are still there, that is, Changing leaders is faster than changing underpants.

"I don't know him. It was George Pidoul last time." Alan Wilson still didn't know who was on the stage, so he asked his immediate boss, Cabinet Secretary Norman Brooke.

"That was two years ago, when the war budget had just ended." Norman Brooke frowned and muttered, thinking for a moment, "Vincent Auriol? Leon Bloom? Paul Ramadi Eh? Then there’s him. Robert Schuman, the current President of the French Council of Ministers, doesn’t know how many days he can lead France?”

Robert Schumann? Alan Wilson was stunned. It seemed that the prototype of the European Community was called the Schumann Plan? Is it related to this person?

The EU originally originated from the French Foreign Minister's Schuman Plan: to place the steel industries of France and Germany under a supranational organization and completely eliminate the possibility of another war between France and Germany. Since then, it has expanded to the entire Western Europe, and its fields have also expanded to all aspects of economic cooperation. At the same time, borders were eliminated and so on, and the contradiction between France and Germany was suppressed.

Unexpectedly, Robert Schuman, who later became the French Foreign Minister, was now the President of the Council of Ministers leading France. So it seems that Robert Schumann was later demoted and retained?

The Schumann Plan advocated uniting the coal and steel industry sectors of Western European countries based on the coal and steel industries of France and the Federal Republic of Germany, and jointly managing the "joint venture" by a supranational high-level agency.

In order to strengthen its control over Western Europe to counter the Soviet Union, the United States has always advocated the Western European integration movement and advocated "political unification", "military unification" and "economic unification". Therefore, it also agreed with the Schuman Plan. According to this plan, France and the Federal Republic of Germany Representatives of the six governments of Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg held negotiations in Paris for nearly a year and signed the European Coal and Steel Pool Treaty in 1951.

Why did France not begin to promote the emergence of the European Coal and Steel Association Treaty until 1951, because the effort to annex the Saarland failed. There is another important factor, lack of money.

The failure to annex the Saarland and the aid from the Marshall Plan caused the French to change their thinking, which led to the emergence of the European Coal and Steel Association Treaty.

Originally, the earliest efforts of the European Community had nothing to do with France, but three small countries. After the aid funds from the Marshall Plan arrived, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg established a common market in 1948, which was established to achieve Tariff exemptions, free movement of goods markets and people, promote close economic ties between the three member countries.

The economic union of three small countries is regarded as the prototype of the European Community and the beginning of Europe's post-war unity.

France was not interested at first, but in the end its efforts to annex Germany's Saarland region failed, so it retreated to the next best option and pulled Germany to join a group of three small countries to keep warm.

The current Brussels Treaty Organization is of course completely inconsistent with the original establishment of the European Community in history.

It was the colonial countries that joined the group to keep warm, but there was still no difference in the general environment in Europe. The United States still hopes that Western Europe can be a boost and not let the United States lead a bunch of poor and begging countries to fight against the Soviet Union. There are many pro-Soviet parties in these countries. Didn't you see that France changed the prime minister to the chairman of the Council of Ministers? ?

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the mentality of the United States now is similar to what Wang Dong advocated when he was president. European countries must become self-reliant and self-reliant. Don't rely solely on the United States to fight the Soviet Union. The landlords have no surplus food.

The only difference is that the current United States has not adjusted its mentality at all, and has no psychological confidence at all in confronting the Soviet Union. It expects the old imperialist countries to regain their blood and stand with itself. There is no problem with the financial and national strength of the United States, but there are some psychological problems.

In the 21st century, the United States under the rule of Wang Qing is entirely because the landlords are really starting to run out of money, and the landlords are really running out of food.

The Brussels Conference ended successfully with the emergence of the Common Market for Film. Although it has nothing to do with important industries such as steel and coal, it is gratifying to break through from zero to one. As long as it starts, there are infinite possibilities.

There is still some time left for the Paris Conference to be held next month. Prime Minister Attlee has to return to China to prepare. And the biggest thing in the UK right now is the wedding of Crown Prince Elizabeth.

This is a great event for the British royal family after the war, and Attlee, as Prime Minister, cannot be absent.

As for Alan Wilson, he has to return to London. His coming to Europe from London is itself a temporary mission. Talking about the engine with the Soviets has now been completed. Of course, he will return victoriously.

On the plane back home, Norman Brooke also praised Alan Wilson about the Rolls-Royce engine, saying that the negotiation was very successful. Not only did the orders greatly increase, but it also opened up the rubber and tin ore markets.

"The distinguished cabinet secretary is too complimentary." Alan Wilson said very modestly, "In fact, as long as you are good at discovering opportunities, many things can have different results."

"You are indeed a person who is good at discovering opportunities, that's what Edward said. You are especially good at solving financial problems. However, things in the country are not the same as in the colonies." Norman Brook nodded with a pun. Not only did he affirm his contribution to the expansion of financial resources in British India, but he also named Alan Wilson's clever method of amassing wealth in the British Indian colonies.

"Norman, what are you talking about? Are you discussing financial issues?" Prime Minister Attlee just came out of his cabin and heard the conversation between the two. You can ignore other things. He was almost going crazy thinking about money. .

Alan Wilson responded quickly to Prime Minister Attlee's words, "This is the Prime Minister. If the troops of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are stationed in the British-occupied areas, it is best to unify the armaments of the British troops stationed in Germany, so as to maximize the To exert combat effectiveness, this is the military integration of the Brussels Treaty Organization. I believe that as long as the assistance from the Americans is in place, it will be much easier to negotiate this matter, and we can also increase some revenue through arms purchases."