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Chapter 12 - New Delhi Conference

Take out the British version of the ten victories and ten defeats theory, let Ali Khan think along his way, Alan Wilson has even thought about the heritage of the Third Reich, after the defeat of the war, the Germans should have a lot of submarines in their hands, right? As long as the Junagadh turkish state has the financial resources to buy, it is also considered to make a continuous contribution to the post-war period.

As for the south side of the Deccan plateau, South India is not weak in the earth state, Mysore earth state, Travancore earth state, Allen Wilson want to contact is more simple, because the special relationship of Hyderabad earth state, he the Hyderabad Commissioner, also with the control of these earth state work.

British India has a characteristic, that is, the north is poor south rich, who let the South India less people, per capita resources far greater than the north, on the contrary, the vast majority of the population is concentrated in the Ganges and Indus River basin of North India, indeed, competitive pressure.

Allen Wilson brought several assistants, respectively, sent to Mysore Tujunga, Travancore Tujunga and other places, is also considered to fulfill their own Hyderabad Commissioner's responsibility to contribute to the British India that did not know when it was gone.

After he really started to be unkind to British India, Allen Wilson realized that there were still a lot of things that could be done. It could not be said that the Congress Party, which now had many supporters, could not unify the country, but it was not difficult to make Nehru take more time to achieve his goal.

"Honorable Maharaja, to be honest you are in the same kind of environment as all the maharajas of the earth states. You have the position to unite these Maharajas because in the eyes of the Congress Party there is only one long-term purpose for all of you Tupacs and that is to make you disappear in a united India, forgive me for being so direct but the truth is so true."

Allen Wilson said with a straight face, "alone the earth state is not able to resist the Congress Party, only a few powerful earth state alliance together, or even all earth state for alliance to ensure your position, I sent a few assistants to visit the southern earth state, also have work in this regard, of course this can not be said publicly, now the Governor General's Office also has to unite the Congress Party. "

"Now the war is not over, the Viceroy and even London still have to maintain the stability of India, we certainly do not want British India to become independent, but in case independence becomes a foregone conclusion, I can only try to help you in private, in a non-public situation, now clear on this point, in terms of strengthening relations with Junagadh Toa, when I return to New Delhi will help you to complete this matter. "

"You have only been here for a month and you are going back to New Delhi?" Ali Khan was a little surprised and had to admit that Alan Wilson was really right in his own taste on the moral level, thinking completely from Hyderabad's point of view, which was not seen in the previous commissioners.

The previous Hyderabad commissioner although there is no shortage of surface work in place, but deep in the middle of the arrogance, or be able to see one or two, but this young man is different, once heard Alan Wilson to return to New Delhi, he actually some do not want to let each other leave the idea.

Alan is certainly different, the former commissioner did not know that British India is likely to soon become independent, he knows. Since he knew that the probability was unstoppable, he didn't hurry to make some money from the world's richest man?

"I'm just going for a routine debriefing, I'm not being transferred, the Maharaja can leave things to my assistants and they will inform me, it's all the same." Allen Wilson nodded with a smile, dispelling Ali Khan's concerns.

This routine meeting, he thought, might have something to do with the ongoing Burma campaign, now that the British-Indian Corps was pounding Burma, and as the richest colony, British India, it was certainly bleeding and sweating. There is a famous saying that the British Empire will never surrender until the blood of the Indians is shed.

This routine meeting was indeed relevant to the current war. In addition to the Burma campaign in front of British India, on the western front of the European theater, the German offensive in the Ardennes counterattack finally stopped, and the Allied forces on the western front breathed a sigh of relief that the scene of being driven down to the sea in 1940 had not been repeated.

The Ardennes counterattack was over and the way was cleared for the Allied forces on the Western Front to attack Germany proper. Of course for British India, the Ardennes counterattack was nothing more than a talking point, and it was the British Indian Corps' attack on Burma that was most important.

"I am really surprised that Nehru gives the Viceroy's Office a hard time every day, but seems to have no opinion about the Burma campaign?" When Commissioner Junagadh ran into Alan Wilson, the two quickly hit it off and talked about the current Burma campaign.

"Maybe it's of the Burma Province of British India? I'm guessing blindly, too." Alan Wilson laughed; British Burma had been governed as a province by British India for a time, until 1937.

In Nehru's eyes, it's possible that Burma was all part of India after independence, but it certainly wouldn't have worked. The British had already gone ahead and separated Burma from the provincial units of British India, regaining independence from India as British Burma. Even if Nehru really had any ideas about Burma, he could only think about it.

"Is the monarch of Junagadh Toa, still satisfied with your work?" Casually muddling through on the issue of Burma, Alan Wilson thought again of his Ali Khan dog-headed military adviser's heavy responsibility, and side-tracked to inquire about the other side's work.

"Fortunately, Salaman Khan is quite cooperative." John said succinctly, "There is no conflict between us."

It was not enough that there was no conflict, and as Alan Wilson was about to speak, the secretary had appeared to let the commissioners of the provinces and native states into the conference room, and everyone got up and entered the room in twos and threes.

The top officials and commissioners of the seventeen provinces of British India, as well as a few prominent native state commissioners, entered the conference room, where Sir Barron was already waiting, and once everyone was seated, the highest meeting of the British civil service began.

In 1945 it was not uncommon to have high ranking Indian civil servants in British India, but British India was a binary administration and this meeting was not attended by people of Indian origin.

Sir Barron began with a joyful note, indicating that after the Ardennes counterattack, Germany had lost its offensive power and it was now only a matter of time before the Allies on the Western Front would invade German territory, even making the optimistic prediction that the war in Europe would be over within a year, which drew a round of applause.

Allen Wilson also followed the applause, he felt that the end of the war in the European theater should be the same as history, at most six months will be over, Sir Barron's prediction has been considered very conservative.

"But we can not be blindly optimistic, in Southeast Asia battlefield fighting continues, the Japanese in Burma is still stubborn resistance." Sir Barron lit a cigarette and took a drag, with a smoky tone, "Now the British and Indian Corps is still in the middle of the battle, and what we do is to ensure the needs of the soldiers as much as possible. That is what everyone is here for, and British India must do all it can to ensure that the expeditionary force is supplied. "