"When Goa belonged to Portugal, even the Mughal Empire was not established, and the Indians had no reason to take him away from Portugal." Olivia was indignant and said, "I believe that the British Empire will play a leading role in this matter and defend the legitimate rights and interests of the civilized world of Europe." ”

The benevolent brother probably did not know that the idea of London now abandoning British India had gradually gained the upper hand. Of course, Alan Wilson could not tell the other party, but said, "Goa belonged to Portugal long before the Mughal Empire was established, and all the countries here today know this fact, and we all agree with it." But when it comes to Indians, the issue is more complicated, especially Indians, many Indians say that India has existed since ancient times, and Goa may not be part of the Mughal Empire, but it may be part of the Mauryan Empire. ”

"What kind of logic is this?" Olivia said with indignation on her face, dissatisfied, "Is there a more shameless logic than this, what do those dirty South Asians think?" ”

Alan Wilson was silent, this is nothing more than the Indian version of since ancient times. Since ancient times, this kind of argument has always been self-talking, used to persuade the people of their own country to support it. No matter how, it must be said!

Generally speaking, it is discussed at the point in time when the greatest interests are intercepted, so the Chinese version starts from the largest territory in 1820, although the Western Regions of the Han and Tang Dynasties were also under the control of the central government, but they are rarely promoted, in fact, China also knows that it is too nonsense to take things from one or two thousand years ago.

But India, which is in line with India's national conditions since ancient times, has been a little too shameless, which is simply equivalent to the current Iran, and the Achaemenid dynasty shows that Iran should rule the Middle East.

However, it seems that during the Pahlavi dynasty, Iran did focus on promoting the glory of the Achaemenid dynasty, saying that it was not the same as the Arabs, and that it regarded itself as a proxy of the United States in the Middle East.

Leaving aside the Iranian issue, Olivia made it clear that Portugal's position on the Goa issue would be useful at the Brussels meeting, of course, and after making his position clear, the representatives of various countries expressed their solidarity with Portugal's claim and expressed their firm support for Portugal's claim to overseas territories.

In the final analysis, this is not only a problem faced by Portugal, this is a problem faced by all the countries participating in the conference at this time, the Netherlands, Belgium have expressed their support for Portugal, and even Spain has also expressed their position, and everyone's eyes are focused on the British and French representatives.

Oops! The people's hearts are available! Alan Wilson knew in his heart that the colonial question was the most united issue for the participating countries, but he did not expect such a smooth start.

For a time, Alan Wilson had a sense of déjà vu that the Soviet Union would be punished first, and then the US imperialism would be destroyed, and the British Empire would continue to be great and lead the world for a hundred years.

However, giving Portugal support was beyond Alan Wilson's authority, and he could not give Olivia the support he wanted, and after the meeting was dismissed, he had to get the approval of the foreign secretary and even the prime minister with the secretary of the foreign ministry and the cabinet secretary.

What British India needs now is stability, and anything that undermines the stability of British India must be done with great caution.

"We understand Portugal's claim morally and the support of countries is reassuring." Alan Wilson seemed to be immersed in the banner of united Europe, and said with feeling, "We can't follow the old path of the past, after the two world wars, there was a long-lost unity in Europe, with this unity, I believe that at this critical juncture in history, we will be able to find a way out for Europe to continue to prosper." ”

Warm applause rang out, Alan Wilson took a deep breath, and finally barely passed the test, avoiding the statement of Portuguese Goa, although the Goa issue may still be mentioned, but after this meeting, there is time to discuss, and a response plan can be come up.

Alan Wilson took the initiative to say hello to Olivia, the representative of Portugal, but almost didn't come back, barely after passing the test. Finally ushered in the savior Dutchman.

The representative of the Netherlands, George Almande, actually wanted to be the first to speak, but he did not expect that the politeness of the British representative was seized by the Portuguese representative and the Goa issue was introduced.

The Netherlands had the greatest expectations for this conference than any other country, because Japan had not yet formally surrendered, the Indonesians of the Dutch East Indies had declared their independence, and the Netherlands now urgently needed the support of the countries of the Brussels Conference. At the same time, troops were mobilized to the Dutch East Indies to suppress it.

Soekarno and Hatta signed the Declaration of Independence, proclaiming the establishment of the Republic of Indonesia, and the news reached Europe. On the one hand, George Almande, the representative of the Netherlands, criticized Japan, which had become a defeated country, and on the other hand, he said that the Netherlands would never sit idly by and would certainly guarantee its sacred territorial sovereignty.

Sovereignty? Alan Wilson almost burst out laughing, he had the impression that European countries were talking about human rights. In this era, European countries used to talk about sovereignty, which is sacrosanct.

After George Almande's speech, it was the representative of Belgium, speaking as host, who called for some solidarity and gave an introduction to the situation in the Belgian Congo, the only important Belgian colony.

Belgium's colonial path was particularly late, and Belgian colonization of the Congo began at the end of the 19th century. King Leopold II of Belgium tried to persuade the Belgian government to support the colonial expansion of the Congo at that time.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the violence of the local indigenous people led to many revolts due to the violent exploitation of foreign colonizers. The Belgian government then established formal colonial rule and exercised effective control over the Congolese region.

Alan Wilson's impression of the Congo is that Belgium has the punishment of cutting off hands, which has created more than 10 million disabled people in the Congo, which shows that the smaller the country, once there is a chance for chickens and dogs to ascend to heaven, the more they will leave no room for it.

But the Belgian government has stripped the king of the power to kill the Congo, and the severance of the hands was decades ago, and the evils of colonization are being diluted by time. Behind the independence of the Congo, there are the shadows of the United States and the Soviet Union, but for the struggle for the Congo, it is obviously the United States that is superior in technology.

And now the British Empire's inner thinking is that the six countries participating in the Brussels Conference will be able to clarify their own scope of operation, and to a certain extent, give support to other friendly allies that can be taken care of.

Although the British and French delegates at the meeting did not mention the ambiguous relationship between General Franco and Germany and Italy during the war, the Spanish delegates knew very well that not mentioning it did not mean that something had not happened.

On the contrary, Britain and France only felt that there was no need for an attack now, so the Spanish representative first expressed his goodwill to Britain and France, and Spain is indeed walking on thin ice now, not to mention the attitude of Britain and France, the United States has the intention of killing Spain.

And the Soviet Union, the opponent of the United States, like the United States, was eager to eat Spain.

Spain even came close to joining the Axis powers in World War II. In order to win over Spain, the United States satisfied Spain's appetite and gave Spain huge aid in exchange for Spain's neutrality.

But after World War II, the United States naturally couldn't swallow this bad breath, and wanted to settle accounts with Spain and prepare to clean up Spain.

There is also a private reason, the Catholic faction in Spain is not only hostile to the Republicans, but also hostile to the Protestants, which makes the Protestant-dominated United States, especially President Truman, very angry.

As for the Soviet side, Spain sent tens of thousands of volunteers to form the Blue Division during the war, and Spanish soldiers wore German uniforms to follow the German army in its invasion of the Soviet Union. The Blue Division is an elite selected from the Spanish army, and they are all veterans with rich combat experience, and they have a deep blood feud with the Soviet Union.

This time, Spain's participation in the Brussels Conference was vigorously promoted by Britain, France is still closing its border with Spain, and Spain is not among the European donors in the historical Marshall Plan, and Spain has also aroused fierce opposition from the Soviet Union when it joined the United Nations.

If it weren't for the Brussels Conference, which had to convene the few remaining colonial powers in Europe, Britain would not have had a good face for Spain.

Franco was simply Cardazo's predecessor, and in 1945, at the same time, he made Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France unhappy, and even retreated to protect the interests of Spain.

After the representatives of the countries had expounded their views on the protection of the interests of the colonies, the time had already come in the afternoon.

On the afternoon of 14 September, the talks on the reconstruction of the European economy at the Brussels meeting appeared in Belgian newspapers and was quickly picked up by the participating countries.

In the eyes of the citizens of the conference, it was a meeting between Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain to discuss post-war reconstruction and economic recovery.

But the delegates at the conference, who were all talking about the colonies, the post-war reconstruction and economic recovery, were limited to the speech of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevan at the beginning of the conference on the first day of the conference.

On the first day of the meeting, which gave the countries some idea of each other's attitudes, Alan Wilson immediately left to report to Alexander Cadogan, and together they relayed the meeting to Cabinet Secretary Edward Bridges, and gave clear replies to many questions.

"We just got the news that the Soviet Union has announced the start of post-war reconstruction." Edward Bridges said slowly, "It seems that we are both aiming to recover from the wounds of war first. ”

After saying this for no reason, Edward Bridges added, "The Prime Minister has already said that he is very interested in the military action of the Netherlands. ”