Confronted with Ambassador Thomson's pointed goodwill, Frier easily grasped another layer of meaning in Thomson's words.
That is, after the war, France and East Africa had reached a tacit agreement to jointly address the pressure from the United Kingdom and the United States, considering that both countries are Anglo-Saxon nations, and they have extensive cooperative space.
The United Kingdom is currently the world's overlord, possessing fertile and vast colonies like India, Canada, Australia, and holding financial hegemony worldwide, with a hundred years of accumulated technology and experience. Meanwhile, the United States has a powerful industrial base but lacks the raw materials, markets, and technology of the United Kingdom.
In this situation, France naturally needs to be wary of the British, given that for centuries, the United Kingdom and France have been arch-enemies, although in recent years, attention has been diverted by the Germans.
