Taking out the British version of the ten victories and ten defeats theory and letting Ali Khan think along with his thoughts, Alan Wilson even thought about the legacy of the Third Reich, there should be quite a few submarines in the hands of the Germans after the defeat, right?As long as the Junagadh Turks had the financial resources to buy them, it would be a contribution to post-war continuity.
As for itself on the south side of the Deccan Plateau, the strength of South India is not weak soil state, Mysore soil state, Travancore soil state, Alan Wilson wants to contact is even easier, because of the special relationship of Hyderabad soil state, he is the Commissioner of Hyderabad, but also the control of these soil state work.
British India has a characteristic, that is, the north poor south rich, the people of South India less, per capita resources are far greater than the north it, on the contrary, the vast majority of the population are concentrated in the Ganges River and the Indus River Basin of North India, in fact, the pressure of competition is very large.
Alan Wilson brought a few assistants, were sent to Mysore Prince stateg, Travancore Prince stateg and other places, but also to fulfill their Hyderabad Commissioner's responsibility, for do not know when there is no British India to make an effort.
Really began to British India after the unkindness, Alan Wilson realized that there are still a lot of places that can be done, can not say that let the Congress Party, which now has a lot of supporters can not be united in the country, but let Nehru to spend more time to achieve the purpose is not difficult.
"Honorable Maharaja, to be honest you are in the same kind of situation as all the Maharajas of Tupang, you are in a position to unite these Maharajas because in the eyes of the Congress Party there is only one long term purpose for all you Tupangs and that is to make you disappear in a united India, forgive me for being so direct but the truth is so true."
Alan Wilson said with a straight face, "Individual native states do not have the ability to resist the Congress Party, only a few powerful native states allied together, or even all of them to carry out an alliance to secure your position, I have sent a few assistants to visit the southern native states, there is also this aspect of the work, of course this cannot be said openly, and now the Governor General's Office will also have to unite the Congress Party".
"Now that the war is not over, the Viceroy's Office and even London have to keep India stable, we certainly don't want British India to become independent, but if independence becomes a foregone conclusion, I can only try to help you privately, in a non-public situation, and now that this is clear, in terms of strengthening relations with the Junagadh Tuktuk, I will help you with that when I get back to New Delhi."
"You've only been here a month and you're already going back to Delhi?"Ali Khan was a bit surprised and had to admit that Alan Wilson was really to his liking on a moral level, completely from Hyderabad's point of view, which could not be seen in the previous commissioner.
The former Hyderabad Commissioner, although there is no lack of surface work to the people, but hidden in the middle of the arrogance, can still see one or two, but this young man is different, as soon as he heard that Alan Wilson to return to New Delhi, he actually did not want to let the other side of the idea of leaving.
Alan of course different, the former commissioner did not know that British India is likely to soon become independent, but he is aware of it.Now that he knew that the probability was unstoppable, why not make some money from the richest man in the world?
"I'm just going for a routine debriefing, I'm not being transferred, the Maharaja can leave everything to my assistants, they'll notify me, it's all the same," Allen Wilson nodded with a smile, assuaging Ali Khan's concerns.
This routine meeting, he felt, might have something to do with the ongoing Burma campaign, now that the British and Indian Corps was pounding away at Burma, as the richest colony, British India, was sure to bleed and sweat.There is a famous saying that the British Empire will never surrender until the blood of the Indians has been drained.
This routine meeting, in fact, is closely related to the current war, in addition to the Burma campaign before British India, in the western front of the European theater, the Ardennes counterattack German offensive finally stopped, the Allied forces on the western front breathed a sigh of relief, did not let the scene of 1940 was driven into the sea to repeat.
The Ardennes counterattack is over, and the way has been cleared for the Allied forces on the Western Front to attack Germany itself, but for British India, of course, the Ardennes counterattack is nothing more than a talking point, and the British and Indian Army's attack on Burma is of the utmost importance.
"How strange it is to me that Nehru, who gives the Viceroy a hard time every day, seems to have no opinion on the Burma campaign."When Commissioner Junagadh met Alan Wilson, the two men quickly hit it off and also talked about the current Burma campaign.
"Maybe it's the British Indian Province of Burma? That's a wild guess on my part."Alan Wilson laughed; British Burma had been a province of British India for a time, until 1937.
In Nehru's eyes, there was no chance that Burma would even be part of India after independence, but it certainly wouldn't work.Britain had already gone ahead and separated Burma from the provincial units of British India and re-established it as British Burma, independent of India.Nehru, if he had any thoughts about Burma, could only think about them.
"Is the monarch of Junagadh, Tupa, still satisfied with your work?"Allen Wilson, casually fumbling through the Burma question, remembering his heavy responsibility as Ali Khan's dog-head, stepped aside to inquire about the other side's work.
"Fortunately, Salaman Khan has been cooperative," John said succinctly, "there is no conflict between us."
As if no conflict was not enough, Alan Wilson was about to open his mouth, the secretary appeared to let the provincial and native commissioners enter the conference room, and they all stood up and entered the conference room in twos and threes.
The high officials and commissioners of the seventeen provinces of British India, as well as the commissioners of several prominent native states, entered the conference room where Sir Barron was already waiting, and after everyone had taken their seats, this supreme meeting on behalf of the British Civil Service began.
In 1945 it was not unusual to find a senior Indian official in British India, but British India was a dualist administration and there were no Indians present at this meeting.
Sir Barron began in a cheerful tone, pointing out that Germany had lost its offensive power after the Ardennes counter-attack, and that it was only a matter of time before the Allies attacked German territory on the Western Front, and even optimistically predicted that the war in Europe would be over within a year, which drew a round of applause.
Alan Wilson also followed the applause, he felt that the war in the European theater should end in the same time as history, at most it will be half a year before the end of the war, Sir Barron's prediction is already considered very conservative.
"But we can't be blindly optimistic, in the Southeast Asian battlefield, the fighting is still going on, the Japanese army in Burma is still putting up a stubborn resistance," Sir Barron lit a cigarette and took a drag on it with a smoky air, "Right now, the British Indian Corps is still in the middle of the fighting, and all we're doing is making sure that the soldiers' needs are met as much as possible, that's what everyone is here for, British India has to do everything it can to keep the expeditionary force supplied."
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