My dear grandson,
There will be a time when I won't be able to protect you anymore, perhaps sooner than any of us wishes. There are plenty of war hawks in my court, just as I would expect there are in yours. When I'm gone, who's to say they won't get a free reign?
You've always had a strong mind of your own, and that's usually good, but I beg you, please, that you begin to pursue a more careful foreign policy. Let's take this whole Bulgarian nonsense, for example. Weather it was a pro-communist or an anti-communist intervention, or neither, it was so very unnecessary. So just stop it. We are not amused.
Love, Granny V.
P.S: How is your lovely wife, Augusta Victoria, and your children? I hope they are well. Tell them I said hi. You all ought to come over for tea some time. That would be most pleasant.
After signing the letter to Kaiser Wilhelm, Queen Victoria wrote to the king of Greece that Britain accepted his offer of an alliance. She also presented the idea of an anti-communist bloc to the Iberian Empire, and the PSA. It seemed most nations were on the same page as Britain, and that strengthened her in her belief that she was doing the right thing.
In the meantime, her prime minister didn't let the pen rest either...
To: His Majesty Emperor Meiji
From: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Greetings,
As it would turn out, we have similar goals. I would assume that from your point of view, the Soviet Union is also a European power, and if so, we are in complete agreement that their influence should be hindered.
However, as you very well know, the British Empire owns a substantial part of Asian territory. If our two empires are to form a pact that will last in the long run, that must be acknowledged, even if we wholeheartedly support the idea to not let other European powers expand in Asia. I'm sure this will be part of the negotiations during the conference which we'll be happy to attend to, but nevertheless I'd like to state the following, so that we have all the cards on the table.
1.) Asian territories currently under the British Crown will remain so also in the future.
2.) Britain will however not actively pursue a policy of acquiring any more land in Asia.
If that's acceptable, then I see no reason why we can't work together.
Signed,
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, P.M.
In Africa, trouble was brewing. The boers were rebelling in South Africa, but if they thought they could get away with it just because they were white, then they were wrong, and had learned nothing from the experiences of the Irish.
Lord Kitchener led the redcoats against the agitated Afrikaaners, and he would soon recieve reinforcements from India (including captains Blackadder and Harkness, as well as sergeant Jack Tanner), but it would be quite helpful if the Union to the north also assisted in the Anglo-African advance. His superiors agreed to his idea, and sent a formal request to Korfa Bule.
