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Region: Commonwealth of Liberty
| NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ZAIRE |
[sub]October, 1950[/sub]
| Walking through the corridors of the National Congress of Zaire, a symbol of growing African and Zairean democracy, would be Marie Izuru. Despite her slim black dress not being outrageously odd amidst the black suits of those around her, the sound of her white high heels would be echoing throughout the corridors. A sound of new for some. A sound of threat approaching for others. With a white handbag swiftly in her hand, a confidence would be omnipresent around her as she made her way towards the office of the second most important figure in the country, the Head of the Finest Assembly.
Appearing by the door, Izuru would take a deep breath and after a few knocks would enter the office. Fabian Nigoye, present in the office wearing a dark navy suit would look up from beneath his eyebrows. The two would look at each other, like two lions ready to jump each other but instead of an outright brawl, fake smiles were thrown. Fabian would get up and nodding at Izuru would gesture her to take a seat. With another fake smile thrown at him like a bullet, she would take a seat, placing her handbag carefully on the floor. Fabian would go back to writing, as Izuru looked at him with contempt. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "It must be a very important document."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "It is."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I can tell. One cannot spare a minute of their time?"[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "I'm listening."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Of that I'm sure."[/list]
| Fabian would look up at her and putting the pen down quickly, he would lean back in his chair lighting a cigarette. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Would you like one?"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I don't smoke."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Pity."[/list]
| Marie would drop her smile and looking at him for a longer while she'd wait as he inhaled. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "I understand that my victory comes as a shock to you."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "The diamond serpent saved you."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Mezeri didn't save me. She just ruined you. She knows where the wind blows."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "I hope you realise that you're simply a breeze."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "A breeze that might just sweep you away."[/list]
| Fabian would look at her for a moment. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "You're going to run? Aren't you? You're going to put your name forward for the Head of the Assembly this year."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I think it only makes sense. My wing has the majority of the seats, and...it needs a leader. This country needs a leader."[/list]
| Fabian would get visibly angry, leaning forward. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Let me remind you that I am the leader. Don't underestimate all that I've done for this country."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I wouldn't dare. In fact, I understand what you done for this country. The economic boom that we are seeing is thanks to you but the problem is...the people. They're not getting much from it."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Nonsense! Utter nonsense! But. But you're not here to speak with me about my policies."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "No. I think that discussion is unnecessary. I just want you to go with dignity. You won't win the next Head elections. And when is that happening? Oh yes, January of next year. Not quite the time scale for you to gather enough support especially after such...humiliating defeat for your wing. But I can offer you a proposal. You don't run, and you remain in the cabinet. My cabinet."[/list]
| Fabian would look at her with disgust before slowly starting to chuckle to himself. He would rise up and make his way towards her before taking a seat on the edge of the desk. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "I imagine you read the newest article about yourself in the Zairean Observer. It's getting into your head. You really think the party will choose a...woman, a woman who was not that long ago destined to work in a diamond mine for the rest of her life? And they'll choose you, as the leading expert of the country? What is it that you bring to the table? How to be a housewife? How to clean after your children? Or maybe, perhaps how to make your husband happy? Hm?"[/list]
| Marie would look at him with steel in her eyes. Fabian would stand above her, with the cigarette in his hand. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "You need to get into your pretty little head that just because Banza is, in quotations, leading the country, it doesn't mean that every freaking woman will. I'm sorry, Marie. But you offer nothing to the party or the country. Maybe, in twenty years time you'll find yourself in my seat. When you matured. When you gained experience and education on my level. But for now, know your goddamn place."[/list]
| Fabian would smile softly at her before making his way back to his chair. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Now, if you excuse me I've got a really important matters to attend here. That allude to running a country, an industry, an economy. Something I'm not quite sure you comprehend just yet."
| Putting his cigarette out, he would begin to write again. Marie would pick up her handbag and getting up she would look at him coldly. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "When I win, next year. I will make sure that your political existence will be erased. For good."[/list]
| Marie would leave off with the door shutting. Fabian would look up at slowly, taking his glasses off and with a slight look of worry forming on his face. |
[spoiler="Uncertainty is in the air about who will win the elections for the Head of the Finest Assembly..."]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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This writers bloc is killing me dammit
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[sub]FOREIGN MINISTRY: ON THE "COUNCIL OF EUROPE" OCTOBER 1950[/sub]
| A statement of the GDR Foreign Ministry on the Council of Europe's Decision 1/50 of the 15th October 1950. |
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1793352
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[B]ဂဠုန်နှင့်ဗညာ: ပထမအကြိမ် ရခိုင်စစ်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှု THE GALON AND THE BYALA: THE FIRST ARAKAN CAMPAIGN
[sub]14th Waxing of Pyatho 1310 ME7th Waning of Tagu 1311 ME | Arakan State, Royal Federation of the Burma Union[/sub]
When the battalions of the 33rd Royal Infantry Division finally reached Pyinmana, two days later, the scene was grim and the smell even worse. Upon approach, the dead body of a rebel defender remained hanging out from the crenel of one of the stockade's wooden battlements, unhealthy amounts of smoke rose from within it's walls, and no flag had been raised to signify it's occupation. Within, there was no Company to relieve of command, as had been expected to be there, and ultimately, no signs of life, only corpses. Unbeknownst to them, a POW mutiny took place against the 4th Battalion's Bamar Company shortly after being stationed behind to keep order in occupation. More than 200 prisoners, already interned inadequately, overwhelmed the unsuspecting 100-man Company, fighting their way to freedom and out into the countryside beyond, leaving only death in their wake as the riots caused immense fires to claim swathes of the fortified town. The bodies and their belongings were collected, accounted, and cremated in ceremony by 33rd Infantry personnel and the site was marked for demolition as Pyinmana, before a growing town centre, stands now as little more than a ruin. Royal Army Corps of Engineers attached to the 33rd Royal Light Infantry Division arrived with Centaur armored bulldozers days later and commenced demolishing the still standing portions of log-wood ramparts constructed by the PVO.
All while, the remaining 4th Battalion, 70th Burma Rifles arrives in Pyay giving chase to the Red Flag Communist Party faction who fled Pyinmana just before it's fall. However, the Red Flag column never stopped there at all, none of the locals had seen anyone, at least, and thus Pyay was declared safe under Union control on 25 December. The next morning, a column of the Royal Army (Tatmadaw Kyee), belonging to the 11th Light Infantry Division arrived from their regional headquarters at Inndine in the south, situated between Pegu and Yangon Regions. At command of the 11th Division's column, Brigadier-General Khin Maung, planned to utilize Pyay as a critical jump point to launch a coordinated campaign into bordering Arakan State, slating the Arakanese village of Yebawgyi, about 100 klicks due west, as the command juncture of the 11th Division's regional field operations given it's close proximity to the Arakan StatePegu Division border. The 11th's motorized infantry were the first to begin the crossing, utilizing the main and only road leading to the Rakhine coastal township of Toungup, in northern Thandway District.
Whilst combined elements of the 11th Light Infantry Division and the 4th Battalion, 70th Burma Rifles begin initial crossings into Rakhine (Arakan) State from the Pegu Region, the Western Regional Military Command fielded the 88th Royal Infantry Division, headquartered out of Magway Region and activated upon order from Office of the Prime Minister earlier in the summer. With the Min BuAnn Road conveniently connecting the two cities, Mack NM and AEC Matador 6×6 lorries ferried seven battalions of the 88th Light Infantry Division across the 104-mile stretch, over five hours of treacherous mud and dirt road. There, the seven battalions of the 88th LID originating from Magway rendezvous with subordinate light infantry battalions stationed in Ann, constituting a total force of 11,000. As general headquarters of the Western Military Command, Ann became principal base of the Tatmadaw's operations within Rakhine State. A Royal Army occupation zone was established, linking the regional headquarters in Ann with the field base in Yebawgyi.
Meanwhile, in the seperatist capital, Saittwe, situated in the north, the White Flag Communist Party was allowed to barrack, operate, and print literature after securing the blessing of Rakhine monk, U Seinda. Posing a worthy socio-political cause alongside Arakan seperatism, the White Flag's ideals appealed to the communists among the local Rakhine populace. Thousands of revolutionary Arakanese youth and communists who formerly had no proper political representation began to flood the White Flag faction's ranks. Rallying in support of Arakanese separation from the Burma Union and further self-determination, the White Flag Communist Party intertwined it's own party lines to include such, and to great effect. Though proper estimates range from 3,000-5,000, the White Flags claim an exorbitant militant figure placed just below 15,000, more reflective as an inclusion of total combined forces with that of those under U Seinda, himself only a figurehead and intermediary of Prince Sein Shwe Aung, Lord of Man Aung (မန်းအောင်) a pretender to the long-defunct Byala Palin of Mrauk-U, Arakan's traditional and historic monarchy ruled by a dynasty dating back as far as the mid-15th century and recognized in the Arakanese Chronicles, both Maha Razawin(p.1840) and Rakhine Razawin Thit, last updated twice in 1931 and 1946, featuring family trees indicating him as an ancestral relative of Chit Hla Shwe, the younger brother, Crown Prince, and Heir-Apparent of Maha Thammada Raza, the last King of Arakan, having ruled for a short period between 1782 and 1785, until the Kingdom's last stand against a much greater Konbaung force at Kyunthaya Island.
The Royal Chronicles of Arakan, at one time thought to have long been destroyed along with several other of it's associated palm leaf manuscript bundles, in the 1785 Burmese sack of Mrauk-U that ensued, were tantalizingly and meticulously pieced together with scratches of known surviving volumes by Saradaw U Seinda, furthering the diligent works applied to Rakhine Razawin Thit by the Ven. Sandamala Linkara, Sayadaw or Chief Abbot, of Dakhina Vihara Rama Monastery in Ranbye Kyun, Rakhine State. This updated version of the Chronicles, regarded as a continuation or sequel, was published in 1946 and is considered to be the most modern edition to date. In it, the Ven. [I]Saradaw U Seinda lays claim through various evidences, findings, and visionary quests achieved through meditation, that Prince Sein Shwe Aung, Lord of Man Aung (မန်းအောင်), is indeed true blood heir of the Mrauk-U Dynasty. This claim to the Byala Palin represented a unique opportunity toward Arakan's self-determination under it's own Monarch, it's own Crown, and under the facets of it's very own governing system, independent from the grip of Burma's twin capitals, Mandalay and Yangon. However, the Prince, Sein Shwe Aung, bears a reluctance towards a crown coronation premature to Rakhine independence, despite what the martikha (မအူရ်တီကာ) court astrologers confered regarding the auspice of the times.
Back within the field, the month of Pyatho wanes to it's closing, and Tabodwe rears, around 10 January, and in-between the enemy situation in the north, three Light Infantry Battalions of the 11th Royal Army Division, comprising 1,500, entered the township of Toungup. Facing no opposition, the town fell without a shot fired, and the Union standard was raised above town square within the hour. It is later reported by locals that the seperatist garrison had marched south three days prior, to Thandway, presumably to lend to the defense of that locale, though knowing the Tatmadaw to be hot on trail, is telling to how the Rakhine forces were very likely outnumbered and opted for strategic withdrawal. The Royal Army occupation now encompassing three principal towns, structured a third field base, along with an SCR-299 mobile communications unit at Toungup, where the 11th Division transmitted a call to Yangon Regional Military Command (RMC) headquarters, located in Yangon Region's township of Mayangone, for assistance with aerial reconnaissance along the southern coast of Arakan. The 11th Division's request was forwarded to Royal Air Base No.501, in Yangon's nearby Hmawbi Township, there received and fulfilled by Lieutenant-General Win Myint Thet of the Royal Burmese Air Force within the Yangon RMC. Early the next morning, 11 January, given favorable flight conditions, the No.501 Royal Air Squadron Group fielded a single Taylorcraft J Auster Mk.5 to the task of observation and reconnaissance along the coastal southernmost locale of Arakan State.
Fitted with a long range fuel tank, the J-model Auster Mk.5 Aerial Observation Post (AOP) nearly boasts the mileage range necessary for the sortie, standing impressively at 460 miles, though still far less than required for the round trip to Thandway, limiting it's safe operating range to the town of Gwa (ဂွမြို့), farther south. A near four hour flight there, Gwa's lush, tropical, white-sanded beachheads came into view. Amongst the scenery, a large column of Rakhine seperatists are filmed trailing the shoreline in single-file, rifles above their heads or straddled from their backs and traveling northward, allowing the crashing waves to erode the tracks after trudging through. The Auster crew pulled slightly inland for a pass over the principal town of Gwa, itself relatively small with an urban population less than 7,000, making note of the lack of any fortified buildup or otherwise large militant presence. Rounding for a second pass, the Auster dropped altitude, obtaining a number of aerial photographs of the town, many of it's critical infrastructures, and proceeded upon its route back to Royal Air Base No.501 in Hmawbi, Yangon Division. The intel provided by the reconnaissance sortie upon return to base provided the brief understanding that Rakhine forces in Gwa plan to bolster the defense in Thandway, leaving behind only a small garrison, largely for local policing, to provide for the defense in the event retreat to Gwa is deemed necessary. Unveiling the opportunity for a key offensive that would inevitably secure most of southern Arakan, the Yangon Regional Military Command delivered the order for activation and mobilization of four battalions and eight light infantry battalions, amounting 8,000, of the 77th Royal Light Infantry Division similarly headquartered in Hmawbi. Telecommunication from Yangon RMC back to Taungop suggested waiting out there for reinforcements from Ann, and for elements of their own forces could mobilize for coordinated strike upon the under-defended Gwa, creating a two-pronged offensive front, from central and south Arakan respectively should Gwa Township fall to the Tatmadaw. Near half the Royal Army forces mustered in Yangon Regional Military Command would complete their mobilization phases by the end of Tabaung, around 7 March, almost two months later, with the remaining portions expected to complete their phases by late-month Tagu, after the Thingyan New Year of 1311. This spares little time, if at all any, before the rainy season begins, when the southwest monsoons strike through the country, and waterlog swathes of land, these conditions do well to bog logistics, as well as severely limit overall mobility and accessibility. The Rakhine seperatists counted on the shifting weather of the coming season when they gambled and left Gwa undermanned to aid and fortify coastal positions in northern-central Thandway District. Yet again, the Union's enemies are allowed respite during the wet months.
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[list][pre]October, 1950 | Gerald Graham International Airport, Port Sudan, Red Sea Province, The Commonwealth Of Sudan[/pre]
THE ASCENT OF SUDAN AIRWAYS[/list]
Within just a year since the establishment of The Transportation Infrastructure Ministry under the Khalil Administration, a new mode of civilian travel had continued to sweep much throughout the world, as globalization and international communion had become ever more prevalent.
With a rising civilian middle-class market in the aftermath of global peace, the airplane is well on its way to overtaking the locomotive as the most popular mode of transportation, especially in regions of the world that are desperate to find transportation methods able to cover much larger distances of land under shorter amounts of time. Since the 1930s the Colonial Government has constructed and established five operational airfields in total across Sudan, with an airfield in the largest city of each region in Sudan. Dongola in the north, Port Sudan in the east, Nyala in the west, Juba in the south, and finally Khartoum acts as the main international hub in the central regions.
But as the war had already proven the use of airplanes vital to liberation efforts by the Allies and massive transportation of goods and troops over land, airplanes had become on their way to being a popular mode of transportation, causing the colonial government then in 1946 to research the established of additional airfields the growing cities of Atbarah, El Obied, Malakal, and Wau. But essentially in the end the construct of the airfields has been primarily established in the mind of the Royal Sudanese Air Force, using each airfield to advance the range of Sudans hurricane fighters.
But with Sudans entry into the realm of nations, having an international airport open to the world and to the officials of foreign governments was deemed necessary to prove the openness of the Sudanese state and its ability to establish communication and cooperation with all. It is with this in mind that both Foreign Secretary Hosni Sayed and Transport Minister Arthur Gaitskell had worked together to deliver a series of drafts to the Sudanese parliament, to convince the Sudanese Government to completely upgrade Khartoums Charles Gordon Memorial Airfield and Gerald Graham Airfield to the status of an International Airport. This essentially boiled down to paving over the dirt airfield with tarmac and expanding the terminals to handle international flights.
Parliament had approved the International Airport Bill shortly after Gaitskells entry to the Transportation Infrastructure Ministry in July, officially marking the Airfield renaming it to Khartoum's Charles Gordon International Airport (KCG) and Gerald Graham International Airport (SGG). Shortly after Gerald Grahams runway had been paved with tarmac, Parliament would approve Minister Gaitskell's petition for the creation of a State-owned airline company that would be named Sudan Airways. And thanks to the help of Foreign Secretary Sayed, the Transportation Infrastructure Ministry would manage to acquire a total of ten Douglas C-54 Skymasters from the Douglas Aircraft Company in the United States, marking the first business interactions between Sudan and one of the global superpowers other than Britain.
Though the first test flight of the C-54 would occur from Port Sudan, Khartoum would be designated as SudanAirs headquarters. Except for the five airports within Sudan and the Asmara airport being serviced by two Skymasters, the remaining right would serve international flights to New Zaire, Pretoria, Cairo, Jeddah, and finally London. Though of course, Khartoum shall now accept international flights, SudanAir would only have flights from those cities. And would look to expand their area of operations across Africa and the Arab world, as well as Asia and the Americas. The Transportation Infrastructure Ministry is currently reviewing the possibility of establishing services to New Delhi, Istanbul, and Casablanca.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Oman The oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world
Part 1: Prehistoric 1856
The history of Oman that began 106,000 years ago, when the first humans lived in what is now Oman. The earliest known city in Oman is Dereaze, which dates back to 9,000 years ago. It was known, according to early Sumerian tablets that Oman was once called Magan and was noted tablets that Magan was the source of copper. From the 6th century BCE and forward, Oman was usually controlled by the great Persian dynasties based in modern Iran. First Persian dynasty that control Oman was the Achaemenids, who may have established a local capital at Sohar; next Persian dynasty was the Parthians; and finally, the final Persian dynasty that control Oman was the Sassanids, who ruled until the rise of Islam in the 7th century CE. It was during those periods from the 2nd half of the 1st millennium BCE, that waves of Semitic speaking peoples migrated from central and western Arabia to the east. The most important of these tribes are known as Azd. Semitic speakers started to appear in central Oman at Samad al-Shan from 100 BC to 300 CE. Oman was exposed to Islam in 630, during the lifetime of the prophet Muhammad, and was one of the first places to accept the new religion when the King of Oman accepted the message of Prophet Muhammed that was delivered to him by Muhammads messenger. Although it took the Ridda Wars in 632 CE for Islam to be consolidated in Oman. Ibadi Islam originated and started in Basra in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) with its founder Abdullah ibn Ibada around the year 650 CE, which the Azd in Iraq followed. Later the Umayyad governor of Iraq, al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, came into conflict with the Ibadis, and forced them out to from Iraq to Oman. Among those who returned to Oman was the scholar Jabir ibn Zayd, an Omani Azdi. His return and the return of many other scholars greatly enhanced the Ibadi movement in Oman and made Oman the only country with a majority Ibadi population.
In 751 CE, the Ibadi Muslims of Oman established the first Imamate with Al-Julanda bin Masud elected as the first Imam of Oman. Despite defending off several Abbasid invasions, Oman was stilled attack and occupied by several foreign powers. First was the Qarmatians who controlled the area between 931-932 CE and then again between 933-934 CE, next was the Iranian Buyyids who controlled the area between 967-1053 CE, finally, the last foreign occupied powers were the Seljuk Empire who controlled the area between 1053-1154 CE. In 1154 CE the indigenous Nabhani dynasty expelled the Seljuks and took control of Oman. The Nabhani rulers were hereditary Malik (King) while the elected Imam was reduced to the role of a spiritual figurehead. The Nabhani kings ruled Oman for 300 years until 1470 when they fell due to the struggle between the Nabhani Kings and the Imams along with the arrival of the Portuguese in the region. On April 1, 1515, the Portuguese took Muscat and they held it until 26 January 1650, although there were times when the Ottomans were in control over Muscat from 1550-1551 and from 1581-1588. In 1600, Nabhani rule was temporarily restored to Oman and their restored rule only lasted to 1624 when they were ousted and replaced with the fifth imamate, also known as the Yarubid Imamate, which was established by the first Yarubid Imam Nasir bin Murshid. The Yarubid Imamate recaptured Muscat from the Portuguese in 1650 and ended their 100 years of colonial presence on the northeastern coast of Oman dating back to 1508.
In the twist of fate, Oman, led by the Yarubid Imams, became a colonial power itself, conquering former Portuguese colonies in east Africa and engaging in the slave trade, centered on the Swahili coast and the island of Zanzibar. This led to the establishment of the Omani Empire. Eventually, the Yarubid dynasty fell due to a civil war between the two major tribes, the Hinawi and the Ghafiri, over the succession of the imam in the early 18th century, which enable the Persian Shah, Nādir Shāh, to invade the country in 1737. Persia had occupied the coast previously, however this intervention on behalf of an unpopular dynasty led by an unpopular ruler brought about a revolt. The revolt was led by the the governor of Suhar, Ahmad bin Said al-Busaidi, who took advantage of the assassination and death of the Persian Shah, Nadir Shah in Khurasan in 1747 which created chaos and instability in the Persian Empire, by expelling the dwindling Persian forces. He then defeated the last Yarubid Imam, Bal'arab bin Himyar, and was elected Sultan of Muscat and imam of Oman in 1749, thus the Al Busaid clan became a royal dynasty. Like its predecessors, Al Busaid dynasty has been plagued by internecine family struggle, fratricide, and usurpation. Apart from threats within the royal family, the Al Busaid Sultans had to deal with frequent challenges from the independent tribes of the interior region. After the death of Ahmad bin Said, the Busaidid dynasty renounced the imamate. The tribes of the Interior region only recognized the imam as the sole legitimate ruler of Oman and they rejected the authority of the sultan, and fought for the restoration of the imamate. During the reign of Oman greatest ruler, Sultan Said ibn Sultan, he built up Omans overseas colonies, profiting from the slave trade and Oman became a great maritime power in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, and East African coast. As a regional commercial power in the 19th century, Oman held the island of Zanzibar on the Swahili Coast, the Zanj region of the East African coast, including Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, and Gwadar. Said ibn Sutan reigned from 1806 until his death in 1856.
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list][pre]ꕦ ꛲ ꕦ ꚿ
A Z A N I A[/pre][sub]Fall 1933[/sub][/list]
GREAT IHAWU UNITED TRIBES OF AZANIA;
[sub]Origins of a People, Part 1[/sub]
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[list][list][sub]However far a stream flows, it doesnt forget its origin Proverb, Ancient South Africans (Pre-History)[/sub]
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[sub][pre]
A half-buried ruin - a huge wreck of stones
On a lone and desolate spot;
A temple - or a tomb for human bones
Left by men to decay and rot.
Rude sculptured blocks from the red sand project,
And shapeless uncouth stones appear,
Some great man's ashes designed to protect,
Buried many a thousand year.
A relic, may be, of a glorious past,
A city once grand and sublime,
Destroyed by earthquake, defaced by the blast,
Swept away by the hand of time.[/pre] Guillermo Farini, 1885[/sub][/list][/list][/list]
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[list]CONFERENCE ROOM, ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND
[sub]JOHANNESBURG, TRANSVAAL PROVINCE, Nonador LATE EVENING[/sub]
[sub]The original copy of William Leonard Hunts journal, was placed at the center of a long polished table beside the box in which it was received from the Royal Geographical Society in London. A Canadian entertainer, inventor and funambulist, the Great Farini as he was known caused a great hullabaloo in academic circles when, in 1885, he became the first westerner to cross the unexplored portion of the Kalahari Desert. Detailing his journey as some great epoch, Hunt dispatched the account across the British Empire where it was featured in newspapers and read aloud before crowded rooms of archaeologists to captivate the audience before the great findings in Egypt were reported. What a time to be alive - Mummys surfacing from beneath the sand dunes of northern Africa, while ruins in Mesopotamia, India and China were being discovered - discoveries which seemed to drown out the possibility of expeditions into Southern Africa, strife with conflict, until now.[/sub]
[sub]Senior members of the South African Anthropological Society and Professors from the University of Witwatersrand gathered in secret to receive a report from the expeditions dispatched a year earlier.[/sub][/list]
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Dr. Y.B. de Lang, Professor | A lot of fuss for a work of fiction..
[list][sub][pre]de Lang, a tenured Professor at the University of 62 years in age, grumbled as he pulled out the seat mid-way down the table from the head where the Dean was seated. The gathering was called together in haste in the middle of the night after a Telegraph was received by the University. The oldest gentleman in the room, de Lang leaned over to the youngest, a 30-year old Dr. Adem Hendricks, who was eager to hear what discoveries the expedition had found.[/pre][/sub][/list]
Dr. Y.B. de Lang, Professor | Best curb your enthusiasm Adem-.. weve spent precious time and resources on one page from the journal of a drunk actor down on his luck.
[list][sub][pre]Hendricks, his eyes fixed upon the box surrounded by aerial photographs and cartography charts littering the table, began.[/pre][/sub][/list]
Dr. Adem Hendricks, Professor | Imagine.. A discovery far greater than the Sphinx, lost to time-.. the last great discovery-.. a city in one of the harshest deserts in the world Call me a school boy, but what if-
Dr. Y.B. de Lang, Professor | ..-Its more likely that the Great Farini stumbled upon volcanic rocks, than a city located in desert where there has not been any reliable source of water for thousands of years let alone, one built by the blacks.
Dr. Adem Hendricks, Professor | Professor I-...
[list][sub][pre]The other seats around the table were filled at last, as the doors into the room swung open and the Expeditions leaders - F. R. Paver and Dr. W. M. Borcherds - descended upon the gathering, as if riding clouds from on high. With them, a group of four men in tattered clothes followed carrying crates which they set in a clearing beside the table, before leaving.[/pre][/sub][/list]
Dr. David Louis Holland, Dean | Mister Paver-.. Dr. Borcherds-.. You have brought us gifts?
[list][sub][pre]Removing from one of the crates a stone in one hand, and in the other, an artifact which shook the room, Dr. Borcherds - wearing khakis, spoke.[/pre][/sub][/list]
Dr. W.M. Borcherds, Expedition Leader & Professor | Dr. Holland-.. Gentleman-.. What we have found may change everything-..
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[list][sub]First, Borcherds placed the stone on the table - which was a piece of black Mudstone shaped in the form of a square panel, apparently for flooring, with a textured pattern on one face that resembled the lines on a Rhinos skin in which gold flakes were littered. Second, F.R. Paver took the second artifact from Dr. W.M. Borcherds and lifted it up for all to see clearly. It was what appeared to be something similar to the Lycurgus - a decorated cup made from dichroic glass believed to have been created during the 4th Century in the Roman Empire. Turning the cup to reveal the bottom, an inscription could be seen with two phrases - one in latin, and another in an unknown script - Filius meus Amor, Kedibonye; translated into English, My Son By Love, Kedibonye.[/sub]
[sub]Fumbling over each other, nearly, to read the inscription - the men, either English or Afrikaans - began shouting in joy and excitement. The implications, and possibilities, captivating their imagination at the discovery. How could it be? A Roman artifact found among this-... rubble of a city, laden with riches-... brought thousands of miles south? Impossible? Who were these people? A Roman Colony? Arabs who ventured inland from their outposts on the Swahili Coast?? Native Setswana-... Bantu migrants-... ?? No- .. not these people![/sub]
[sub]Two were silent as the others clamored and speculated. The School of Anthropologys Dean, and the elder Dr. YB de Lang, who met the others gaze as if communicating telepathically - for a moment - Be Seated Gentlemen!, Dr. Holland commanded. Moments passing before the men took to their seats, and the room became quiet and orderly once more. Standing from his seat, and straightening his suit vest, he would speak.[/sub][/list]
[pre] [/pre]
Dr. David Louis Holland, Dean | Dr. Borcherds-.. I thank-you for what you have presented here tonight, but I fear that what you have-... discovered is the cache of stolen artifacts bound for the Imperial Museum in London
[list][sub][pre]Dr. Adem Hendricks sunk in his seat, as the Expedition Leaders, outraged, began to demand that Dr. Holland recant that charge, and insist on the validity of their discovery. But, Holland was resolute - his demeanor cold and unwavering - as he motioned for the door to have the four men return to remove the crates and artifacts on the table from the room.[/pre][/sub][/list]
Dr. David Louis Holland, Dean | I believe that the time has come for us to accept the fact that Mister Farini mustve been hallucinating during his trek through the desert, or worse, that he took creative license to make his journey seem more . eventful. I will have to confiscate these items, and submit them to the Ministry of the Interior, that they may be returned to London.
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[list][sub]The members of the Anthropological Society remained silent - stoic even - as the artifacts were taken away swiftly and the meeting dismissed. CONSPIRACY! - Dr. Hendricks thought to himself as he feared that the discovery was to be suppressed so as to rob the public of the idea that the uninhabited lands of the Cape were, in actuality, the ancient home of black Africans-... that he and the thousands of Europeans who had come to identify South Africa as their homeland, were an occupying force as native activists were claiming. Plundering Imperialists Racist oppressors instead of noble settlers escaping persecution.[/sub][/list]
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[list]MINISTERs OFFICE, MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR
[sub]CAPE TOWN, CAPE PROVINCE, Nonador LATE EVENING[/sub]
[sub]D.F. Malan, member of the Nationalist Party and Afrikaner Broederbond - the white supremacist organization which would later assassinate Prime Minister Jan Smuts to prevent natives from gaining political power in South Africa - leaned back in his chair on the top floor of the Interior Ministry office in Cape Town. He held a letter which had been delivered to him that morning in his hand, tearing through the emblem of the Broederbond pressed into wax, to read.[/sub]
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[list][list][list][sub][pre]Brother.
Our worst fears have been realized. Borcherds and Paver arrived by plane last night from their campsite in Bechuanaland, and brought with them some disturbing items. A stone inlaid with gold, and a glass cup which appeared to have been brought down from the Roman Empire by a father to his new son-in-law.... We have discovered the location of Hunts lost Kalahari City-... but the public must never know. If they find out, all of our hard work will have been lost. The blacks will know the truth, and will take up arms against us.
Think of our women-.. Children-.. And those in generations to come, who will have to live beneath the boot of some buffoon claiming to be the descendant of an ancient ruler from an empire long-gone. Heaven forbid, we will lose the nation or more, the continent.
I am sending what they found to Whitby House-.. I pray that you are successful in your challenge to Hertzogs leadership in Parliament. We will need the resources of government to suppress all knowledge of that city.. and even destroy whats left of it if we can.
God help us, if we fail.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list][/list]
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[sub]Malan would sit up in his seat, and reach inside his desk for a phone hidden there to make a phone call, as he took a match from his coat pocket and lit the letter ablaze.[/sub]
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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[list]여름 1950 | 1950 August-September
[list][sup]Korea | 한국[/sup][list]
[sup]Battle of the Pusan Perimeter - Korean War Part 3[/sup][/list]
| [sub]UN Forces had been repeatedly pushed back by the advancement of the Korea Peoples Army, on August 1st the Eighth Army issued the order to retreat east of the Naktong River in order to establish a defensive position so UN forces could regather their strength and other troops from La Plata; the Philippines; Canada and others could successfully arrive in the port of Pusan. Bridges along the Naktong were destroyed as the UN forces retreated, resulting in some refugee related casualties as warnings of their impending demolition went unheard. Key to the UN defensive plan was to hold the port of Pusan, where ground supplies and reinforcements were arriving from Japan and the US. Pusan possessed airfields where US combat and cargo aircraft were streaming into Korea with more supplies. During this time the UN organised its highest command under General Douglas MacArthur, who had landed in Korea during its liberation in the Second World War, he was also a close personal friend of South Korean President Syngman Rhee.[/sub] |
| [sub]Meanwhile, despite the massive success the Korean Peoples Army had during the first few months of the war, the KPA was now suffering from over-extended supply lines following their quick march south on the peninsula. In an attempt to recoup some of the losses from the march south the KPA began to conscript southerners in occupied areas resulting in the creation of thirteen new infantry divisions and one armoured division. The KPA was also assisted by the arrival of troops from leftist aligned nations. The KPA had four viable routes in which to break through the Pusan Perimeter; the Naktong Bulge; the City of Masan; through Taegu in the north and Kyongju in the eastern corridor. In late August the KPA pushed a large offensive through all four routes, making the Battle for Pusan four large scale engagements rather than just one single one.[/sub] |
| [sub]At the Naktong Bulge the US troops were spread very thinly, offering a very weak defence, even joined by the Batallón Azul from the Grande Republic, the terrain was a difficult defence. While difficult to defend it was also a difficult offence, the river crossing would be difficult for any KPA infantry, and vehicles would be unable to cross without assistance. On the night of August 5-6 the KPA crossed the river at the Ohang ferry site and began their offensive, the Americans and Granadians were caught by surprise having expected an attack further north, pushing the Americans back the KPA were able to capture their equipment and begin their attack on Yongsan and gain terrain advantage over the American and Granadian units. The 1st Marine Provisional Brigade, in conjunction with Task Force Hill, mounted a massive offensive on Cloverleaf Hill and Obong-ni on August 17; the morale boosted KPA forces managed to hold the marines back; however their counter-offence failed disastrously. By nightfall on the 18th the KPAs 4th division had nearly been annihilated by the 1st Marines and the regrouped Blue Battalion forcing their retreat back across the river leaving much of their equipment including artillery which was used by the Americans and Granadians later on.[/sub] |
| [sub]The terrain along the Eastern Corridor made an attack extremely difficult, the only natural entry through the line was at the town of An'gang-ni, 12 miles west of P'ohang-dong, situated near a valley through the natural rugged terrain to the major rail hub of Kyongju, which was a staging post for moving supplies to Taegu. The area was not well defended with the terrain believed to make the area difficult to mount an attack through. In early August three KPA divisions mounted offences across the three passes in the area, the 8th division attacking Yongchon became grounded for a week thanks to the ROKs own 8th division outflanking them, grounding them out for a week forcing them to wait for reinforcements.[/sub] |
| [sub]The two attacks by the 12th and 5th divisions caught the UN troops by surprise; UN planners had thought the river crossing to be impassable and not suitable for attack leaving it largely undefended so when KPA troops crossed it caught them completely by surprise. The ROK 3rd division along with the La Platan 1st division were engaged in heavy fighting with the KPA 5th division along the coastal road to P'ohang-dong, fighting had centred around the town of Yongdok with the town changing hands several times. The KPA 5th division managed to push the ROK 3rd and La Platan 1st south effectively surrounding them, the two divisions thanks to their numbers managed to force their way south towards the village of Changsa-dong where they were evacuated by amphibious vehicles to join the main force in Yongil Bay. Large KPA forces had become focused on capturing Pohang-dong however were unsuccessful due to US air superiority and naval bombardment of the area, with the KPA supply chain completely breaking down. The UN forces joined by the La Platan 1st Infantry division and the La Platan 7th Mechanised Division managed a counter-offensive pushing the KPA forces back and by August 19th the KPA had completely withdrawn their offensive.[/sub] |
| [sub]The KPA had been pushed to its limits and many of the original units were at much reduced strength and effectiveness by the end of August. Logistical problems were causing issues throughout the KPA, with shortages of food, weapons, equipment and replacement soldiers common. By late August, the UN command had more combat soldiers in Korea than the KPA, and the UN had near-total superiority over the air and sea. The KPA began to restock and prepare for a second offensive to take place in September with North Korean Premier Kang Ryang-uk declaring that the war should be over by September 1st. The Great Naktong Offensive was one of the most brutal fights of the Korean War.The five-prong offensive led to heavy fighting around the entire perimeter. The KPA attacks made appreciable gains and forced the UN troops along the Pusan Perimeter to form a thin line of defence, relying on mobile reserves for the strength to push back KPA attackers. From September 1 8 this fighting was intense and the battle was a very costly deadlock for the two overextended armies. The KPA were initially successful in breaking through UN lines in multiple places and made substantial gains in surrounding and pushing back UN units.[/sub] |
| [sub]The saving grace for the UN troops was the landing of UN troops at Incheon far behind the KPA lines catching them completely unaware, Incheon was a mere 17 miles from the city of Seoul. The KPA forces that had remained following the Incheon landings and battle were forced to retreat in a total rout or face being cut off completely, relieving a great deal of pressure on the UN troops at the perimeter where the situation had become dire. Small pockets of KPA resistance remained, but on September 18th a full-scale breakout offensive began from the perimeter chasing the fleeing KPA units north.[/sub] |
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1793537
Quote this and tell me who you want to win the election. You may or may not be correct.
Ranponian
NEW EDEN PROJECT - MORE LAKES FOR LA PLATA
November 1st 1950
Under Perons most recent push, he has decided to increase the overall water availability of the three constituent parts of La Plata by a rather large amount both through physical building projects and River diversions. The Entire Nation at present possesses 57,200km2 of Lakes which compared to the size of the Country is rather low and contributes massively to the overall dryness of many parts of it. Most of the Rivers in the Country unlike most others do not possess lakes for self regulation, meaning in the event of unusual rainfall or water retention floods occur rather than the filling of reservoirs and lakes. To change this Peron has ordered the Ministry of Construction to work in collaboration with the Ministry for Parks to research plan and enact projects to establish new lakes across all parts of the Nation. These plans require that the two ministries increase the total lake area of La Plata from the current 57,200km2 to 122,000km2 by 1960 and in real terms triple the total amount of water held by lakes (double the area, triple the volume). This will help alleviate the threat of floods and drought from rural areas and create more positive environments for lush territory. Multiple Dams and Dykes have been authorized by the President in order to better facilitate the Projects that are to be completed.
While Conducting Nationwide Research on Depressions and Lake-friendly locations the Ministry for Parks will also work in collaboration with American Oil Companies in order to assess areas for petroleum prior to construction. Overall La Plata possesses the necessary water resources but as mentioned prior with regulation, it flows almost directly into the ocean and thus no proper retention takes place so that when River levels are low water access is equally diminished.
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November,1950
RIOTS IN KAMPUNG HUTAN TERSEMBUNYI!
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With every building having long been cleared out of any weapons and munitions,and all the soldiers have already been interrogated.Many people of the kampung expected the soldiers to depart,but it was decided that the soldiers in the kampung are going to stay under the guidelines that it is too straighten the people of Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi and suppress any MCA and any communist and socialist activities in the area.However due to the [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=49524964]"Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi Massacre"[/URL].Many people of the kampung are on edge that the soldiers are still active in the kampung and after the first few acts of communist and socialist suppression.
The people went into a riot, practically trying to push the soldiers out of the kampung,that was the first riot.The second riot which occured had people waving signs saying "Remove these murderers" and waving flags which showed the Parti Nasional symbol either being ripped or had a big red cross painted on it.This second riot had more people then the last,however this one would also be suppressed without the use of lethal force.The third riot was the same as the second riot but there were more people involved and some could be seen wearing uniforms with the Chinese characters "自由" meaning freedom,on a headband they wore,this time lethal force was authorised as no other previous measures were working to stop the rioting.
The death count was estimated around 64 rioters dead,12 rioters injured and 11 soldiers injured .This event spread through the news like wildfire and was the headline for many newspapers,and radio talk shows.
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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[list][list][list][pre]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Bundesrepublik Deutschland[/pre][/list]
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THE VOLKSWAGEN 'BEETLE' LEADS THE CHARGE TO REVIVE THE GERMAN AUTO INDUSTRY!
[sub]FIRST ADENAUER GOVERNMENT | NOVEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
[sub]| Anton Storch, the Federal Minister of Labour, would stand proudly on the sidelines as Volkswagen corporate executives cut the red ribbon at the company's newest automobile manufacturing plant - just outside the outskirts of Frankfurt, one of the Bundesrepublik's largest cities. Also in attendance was Hans-Christoph Seebohm, the Federal Minister of Transport and one of the leading German government officials who had advocated for cultivating the start of a German auto industry. In his speech before the crowd of Frankfurters, Volkswagen employees and future factory workers, Minister Seebohm discussed the high potential for the German auto industry, and how the opening of the new Volkswagen factory - dedicated primarily to the mass production of the 'Beetle' - the widely popular Volkswagen vehicle in Germany - represents 'the start of an industry that will create millions of jobs and better opportunities for all Germans'. Minister Storch touted the country's strong laws on labour that he said would 'support both business and the worker', and affirmed that the government's economic approach - the brainchild of Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard - would benefit 'all Germans of all ages, of all races, of both genders and from all over our beautiful nation'.[/sub]
[sub]In West Germany, heavy industry had been devastated by the war and the subsequent occupation. As a result of the postwar occupation by the Allied Powers, Germany's industry had been dismantled almost to bare - leaving the industrialized German economy in shambles. With the rise of the Soviet threat and the need to stabilize West Germany not only politically but also economically came a chance in policy, however, when it became clear that industry was necessary to the survival of a modern state, and the Allies could not sustain over 25 million Germans by themselves for the next few decades. The economic and industrial revival of West Germany had surged with the formation of the Federal Republic in 1949, and since then the slow but sure revival of German industry had begun. Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard made it clear that he wished for Volkswagen - one of the few German industrial corporations that had survived the postwar industrial restructuring - to lead the charge to birth a new German auto industry. 'The German auto industry once had potential, once employed thousands - let it be so once more', Erhard had declared to a meeting of the Economics Ministry and the Federal President's economics committee.[/sub]
[sub]In the postwar, Volkswagen had first re-opened thanks to British military intervention. 'Military Beetles' had been produced by the first factory to be reopened in the town of Wolfsburg, where the company was producing cars firs for the British Army. Later, Volkswagen would transition to purely civilian Beetles (in 1947), and the next year, '48, total production would increase to 19,244 cars. When the first Adenauer government took power, one of Erhard and Seebohm's first acts in office was to visit the factory and discuss with Volkswagen executives how they had created such a powerful industrial town so soon after the war and 'in a country in our diplomatic, social and economic state'. The opening of the second Volkswagen factory on the outskirts of Frankfurt made clear the government's commitment to rebuilding Germany's industry - starting with the automobile.[/sub]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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[pre]| NOVEMBER НОЯБРЬ 1950 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
COMECON ESTABLISHED IN MOSCOW :
THE FUTURE OF SOCIALIST COOPERATION SECURED IN RECENT MEETINGS HELD IN MOSCOW BETWEEN THE SOCIALIST NATIONS OF THE WORLD!
СОЗДАНИЕ COMECON В МОСКВЕ:
БУДУЩЕЕ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА ЗАЩИЩЕНО НА НЕДАВНИХ ВСТРЕЧАХ В МОСКВЕ МЕЖДУ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИМИ СТРАНАМИ МИРА
[pre]| Delegates from the Socialist world would fill the streets of Moscow as a new era for cooperation and friendship was soon set to be established to rival the west and its goal to ensure a strangling of the Great Socialist Experiment. General-Secretary Joseph Stalin and the Central Committee would find themselves spending their days in deep talks and debates with other socialist leaders for the necessities of such a organization as the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance to ensure the growth of the socialist world. |[/pre]
[pre]| Meetings would conclude by October 31st with the official establishment of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance would be November 1st, 1950 and include the Socialists states as full members as: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, The German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Peoples Republic of Romania, Workers Socialist Republic of Bulgaria, Hungarian People's Republic, Polish People's Republic, and the Mongolian People's Republic these nations would be considered the Founding members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. There would also be nations in an Observer status in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance which would include: The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, The Republic of Kurdistan, The Spanish Peoples Republic, and The Solomic State of Ethiopia would be the first four Observers of the new organization. |[/pre]
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=mutual_economic_assistance/detail=factbook/id=1773515
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1793478
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
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Post self-deleted by Mutual Economic Assistance.
JAMNIK IN SPAIN AND PITAMIC IN ETHIOPIA: SLOVENE DIPLOMACY, CIVILIAN AND ADMINISTRATIVE
[list][sup]THE SOCIALIST AND THE SPECIALIST
SLOVENIADECEMBER 1950[/sup][/list]
Slovenian socialist Iztok Jamnik, parliamentarian and chairman of the Levica (Left) political front, continued to be the Slovene governments staunchest opponent into the 1950s. An outspoken critic of its restrictions on leftist political activities, Jamnik has been harassed and intimidated at home and in public by the ultranationalist Hervardi Society and the right-wing Styrian Guard militia, both of whom were defenders of the aggressive Slovenification that followed independence and who rejoice in the new conservative government. Though political discourse in Slovenia was largely civil and was predicated on a long democratic tradition, bitter feelings flowed through the hearts of anti-communists against the leftist sentiments of Jamnik and his followers. Memories of the violent Titoist insurgency against the Karadordeviči were still fresh in the minds of the populace, leaving widespread skepticism aimed at Jamnik. Unfazed by this, the chairman has persisted in advocating for rapprochement with Yugoslavia, trade relations with the Soviet Union and a socialist party stewardship of the Slovene government. His largest friends in this effort were abroad; a veteran of a Yugoslav volunteer legion in the Spanish Civil War, he attended the funeral of socialist leader Francisco Caballero in Spain (Bescania) and was received warmly among leftists of all countries. He resolved to return, and so he would.
In December 1950, Jamnik and a small entourage flew to Madrid with the hope of earning more friends in the Spanish Peoples Republic and exchanging ideas for the future of the leftist movement in Europe in the face of the World War. Though Levica gained nearly ten percent of the Slovene vote in the 1946 legislative elections, it barely managed half of that number in the 1950 polls. He needed momentum and ideas, and for that, he turned to Spain. A veteran of the Spanish socialist struggle, as previously mentioned, Jamnik was a long-time admirer of the Spanish pursuit of mass democracy and began his visit with a tour of workers monuments in the city of Madrid. There, he looked in on sessions of the Peoples Assembly and revived his use of Spanish to ask earnest questions on Spains domestic policy. In the days following, he spent an equal amount of time at the headquarters of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party in Seville, where he discussed and debated the merits and faults of Marxism-Caballeroism as a movement and was able to share ideas with the top minds of SSWP policymaking. Altogether, the trip was much more than an escape from the whipping winter winds of Jamniks White Carniolan constituency of Maadan; it was a formative part of Jamniks development as a leftist demagogue.
[list][sub]While we wish the very best to the people of Spain, the world must know that fringe politicians such as Jamnikrabble-rousers who seek to end our nationhooddo not represent the Slovene Republic.
Vesna Lesjak, foreign ministry spokeswoman, December 1950[/sub][/list]
The Slovene Foreign Ministry had much more to say on Minister Leonid Pitamics December trip. A respected and accomplished legal specialist with experience dating back to Versailles, the unaffiliated Pitamic continued his tenure as Foreign Minister in Prime Minister Gosars cabinet after five years in Kreks; now, he took his diplomatic expertise far south to Ethiopia (Alzarikstan). There, Pitamic was treated to a series of elegant meetings with an esteemed array of Ethiopian statesmen: Prime Minister Tafari Benti, Crown Prince Amha Selassie, Prince Makonnen Haile Selassie, Foreign Minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, Economics Minister Abdullahi Issa Mohamud, andmost cruciallyHis Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I. Minister Pitamic treated his hosts with deference, understanding the regal antiquity of the Ethiopian monarchy; they, too, treated him with respect. Pitamic was taken to view the House of Jubileethe Emperors personal residenceas well as the legislature and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.
In spite of the imperial majesty of the capital and the Emperors company, the most tangibly meaningful segment of Pitamics visit came during his private summit with Abdullahi Issa Mohamud; the Ethiopian Economics Minister took the Slovenian diplomat to a construction site of Addis Ababa Ring of Solomon Highway, where the two discussed the practicality of Ethio-Slovenian economic ties. There was much to be said: the Ethiopian Minister proposed a sweeping range of deals sponsored by the Commission for Ethiopian Economic Industrialization & Infrastructure Rejuvenation that would see a series of major commissions from Slovenian companies, including heavy machinery, vehicle, chemical and gas-and-oil infrastructure equipment from Pregelj, Pionir, Litostroj and Slovenopetrol. Issa recommended the creation of a trade agreement to facilitate the proposals, laying the foundations for a compact that would later be fully known as the Ethio-Slovenian Friendship Agreement and Partnership for Joint Industry and Trade. Pitamic was more than pleased with the proposition, and the two ministries negotiations began in earnest upon his return to Ljubljana.
[list][sub]To establish a friendship with the Ethiopian Empire is to establish a friendship with a proud and ancient people. With this partnership, we hope to see both Slovenian and Ethiopian industrial development continue apace.
Leonid Pitamic, Slovene Foreign Minister, December 1950[/sub][/list]
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https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1741150
[sub]I just updated my Economic dispatch to the 50's![/sub]
Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance
[list][list][list][pre]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Bundesrepublik Deutschland[/pre][/list]
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STEELWORKS AND RAILWAYS: THE FIRE OF GERMAN INDUSTRY IS LIT ONCE MORE BY THE RISE OF DEUTSCHE BAHN AND KLOCKNER-STAHLWERK
[sub]FIRST ADENAUER GOVERNMENT | DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
[sub]| Under the firm command of the 'compassionate industrialist' Oskar Schroder, Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railway AG) had been formed in the spring of 1947 in a bid to privately rebuild the damaged railway system of Germany. Schroder - the chief executive and engineer of Schroder-Werke (SchW), a German conglomerate that produced consumer goods to create jobs in an agreement with the former ACC and now the West German government - had produced pots and pans for the German Army during the war and had used his business to protect endangered persons from persecution by the authorities. In the postwar, he has been hailed as a German hero, although he has rejected offers of government positions (Federal Minister of Labour for one) and rewards. In the postwar period Schroder sought instead to expand his business and create new opportunities in the devastated and economically and politically torn country. Using his considerable starting capital and his position as a major factory owner already, he inked deals with Allied authorities and later the federal government to receive contracts to build factories, produce consumer goods, canned goods, foods, clothing, etc. to help start the German economic revival. Deutsche Bahn would be Schroder's second business venture and the first in the postwar, in his bid to unlock the strength of the German railway which had been shuttered off by the devastation of Allied bombing runs during the war.[/sub]
[sub]From 1949, the Federal Ministry of Transport inked several deals with Deutsche Bahn to develop the start of a German civilian railway network. Affirmations to the Allied nations were made, and construction - under Deutsche Bahn contracts - of railway networks to deliver passengers and cargo between Frankfurt and Bonn, two of country's largest cities, began in February 1950. The expansion and development of Germany's railways would, of course, be viewed as a vital component of reviving the German economy and German industry under Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard's direction, and thus Deutsche Bahn would become a close partner of the federal government in railway ventures. Plans to produce locally-built trains primarily for cargo transport uses to benefit the economy and provide returns on the government-issued subsidies would be made, and Deutsche Bahn's engineers would head to the drawing board starting in the spring of 1950.[/sub]
[sub]Another key former industry of Germany was steel. Germany produced immense amounts of steel and other raw components for the German war machine during the war, however most of this crucial industry had been devastated with the German defeat and the arrival of the liberating Allied Forces. A new venture between various manufacturing corporations headed by Wernhard Klockner, a former Army officer in the interwar and an industrialist himself, was formed by the name of Klockner-Stahlwerk (Klockner Steel Works) in mid-1949, to begin exploration into Germany's steel reserves. In November of 1950, a deal would be inked between the federal government and Klockner for the construction of two steel mills and a steel refinery in Dulsberg and Bremen respectively. The intention for the Klockner deal - and the Deutsche Bahn agreements - would be to support job growth in the country while contributing heavily towards rebuilding the industries that kept Germany alive.[/sub]
[sub]Eyes would also turn to the export market in the wake of supply shortages and complications due to the Korean War. It was known that Germany was fairly minerally wealthy, and if played right by both the government and private industry players, profit could be made and German industry could potentially boom once more. However, baby steps would have to be made first, and the Adenauer government made these steps with the deals inked with Deutsche Bahn for railway development and Klockner-Stahlwerk for the redevelopment of the German steel industry.[/sub]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Ubertica
[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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TAFARI BENTI APPOINTED PRIME MINISTER & ETHIOPIAN RENAISSANCE BEGINS
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
Emperor Haile Selassie I:
[list][sub]"Mr. Benti....I chose you to become Prime Minister because I believe in your hard work and determination to fulfill the next stage in our civilization's life. The people are awaiting our arrival on the balcony....we should provide them what they seek but surely do remember Mr. Benti, power is the most addicting drug and can be the strongest violation to a life of service if you allow yourself to fall victim to the human condition. No excuses shall be made. The only requirement that I have is purity in work and intention. If this can be guaranteed to me, may your reign last for as long as I have breath in my lungs."[/sub][/list]
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Addis Ababa. The seat of power for the Patriarch of the Solomonic Dynasty and the capital of the world's second oldest Christian state behind Armenia. One of great cultural richness and fierce independence, the Solomonic State of Ethiopia has been tested significantly since the beginning of the century; however, as its neighbors continuously fell to colonial imperialism, Ethiopia fought with hearts and minds and the spilling of blood across generations to remain free and independent in thought, identity, and governance. His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I is the only ruling Emperor on the African continent in an increasingly growing geostrategic position on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean. For Haile, the permanence of his empire counted on the integration of Ethiopia into the growing maritime economy, integrating domestic cohesion, and sculpting a government that not only reinforces his authority as Emperor but to serve as a mechanism to produce an Ethiopian Renaissance.
At the House of Jubilee, the residency of the Emperor, the commencement and swearing of the oath ceremony for Tafari Benti was ready to officially begin. Across the estate would be gold flagpoles with the Ethiopian flag and another flag with the Solomonic Coat of Arms. As the crowd continued to gather in the garden directly facing the palace's balcony, a ceremonial orchestra would play traditional Ethiopian music prior to a religious service commencing. In the Solomonic State, there is no separation between Church and State as the Emperor stems from the Solomon Dynasty, originating from Menelik I, the son of the biblical King Solomon of ancient Israel and of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba. As the religious ceremony would come to a close, a beautiful silence occurred slightly as the national anthem of Ethiopia began to play for the arrival of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I and appointed Prime Minister Tafari Benti onto the balcony. The sight of Haile was always deemed a privilege by the common populace as he is a living descendant of Menelik I. As the Emperor waved and flashed his smile to the observing crowds before, the people would bow, applaud, and others would come to tears. Tafari Benti would be wearing his Solomonic Coalition for Black Progress (SCBP) uniform as he waved but also raised the clenched fist, replacing the Roman salute, as a symbol of black empowerment and authority. While Haile would take his seat on a throne and got comfortable, Tafari Benti would approach a podium with his prepared speech. Before he began, he would continue to feed off the energy of the crowd as he would raise his clenched black first in the air to observe the crowd reciprocate the gesture. Bringing his fist down, Benti would begin:
Prime Minister Tafari Benti:
[list][sub]"The Solomonic State, perfectly blessed and protected by the Good Graces and Mercy of God and our people kissed directly from the lips of the Sun, is rising from the ashes of uncertainty and progressive paralysis. According to the Kebra Nagast, Menelik I founded the Ethiopian empire in the 10th century BC. In the 4th century, under King Ezana of Axum, the kingdom adopted Christianity as the state religion that evolved into the Orthodox Tewahedo denominational Church. This is a tradition that spans over 3,000 years for this dynasty but our civilization...our people are as old and precious as they come. We are the oldest independent nation on Mother Africa and we ought to take pride in this significant feat! No other nation can truly achieve this accomplish except for us and that is due to sheer ingenuity but also God's design. By this same design and with the trust of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I, we are gathered here today for the beginning of a new era under a new government intended to bring growth and prosperity to our historic, unique civilization. Here on out, our responsibility is to rally and lead the entire people of the Solomonic State in taking on this task and continuing to pursue the goal of the rejuvenation of the Ethiopian nation, so that Addis Ababa can stand firmer and stronger to become a leading force among the world's nations, and make a new and greater contribution to Africa. As my Deputy Prime Minister alluded to earlier, We, The Solomonic Coalition for Black Progress (SCBP), has a priority to Ethiopians first and the continent second! We must build our character first before we decide to sacrifice for a continent! We must be willing to shed tears and blood for each other first before we send our sons and daughters beyond our borders for the stability of the continent! The new government in Addis Ababa serves God, Haile, the People of Solomon, and the Motherland of Africa in that order! We serve God the Creator, Haile the Lion of Judah, the People of the Solomonic State, and the Continent that we inhabit and respect! The 1950s is the beginning of the Renaissance in which all Ethiopians will gather hand by hand to mold our future of progress and prosperity for our children and theirs to come![/sub][/list]
[list][sub]Under my administration, a new system shall arise with the help of the SCBP. This system integrates our fundamental political system, the basic political system, the basic economic system, and other systems and mechanisms that align with our conditions. It combines national and local democratic systems, the Party's leadership, the position of the people as masters of the country, and law-based governance. This system conforms to the national conditions in our State, showcase the special traits and strengths of our system and society, and provides a fundamental systemic guarantee for Ethiopia's development. Our overall plan is to seek economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological progress, and that its main objective is to achieve modernization and rejuvenation of the Ethiopian nation first and foremost. We must always bear it in mind and promote reform and development in all respects on the basis of this very reality. It is imperative not only in accelerating the economy, but also in speeding up political, cultural, social and ecological development; not only when our economy is small, but also when it is large; and not only when planning long-term development, but also during daily work. We must endure through a struggle unseen but it is not a violent struggle. It is a struggle of sacrifice for our own improvement and development so that we may ensure the future remains bright and the doors of independence always remains open. We must move forward together and together only. No Ethiopian shall ever doubt the genuineness of our policy nor the authenticity of our combined character. One person left behind is the indication of a whole structural failure and that is not a reality I wish to entertain! This Renaissance has no expiration date but it shall surely start today!"[/sub][/list]
Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica
[list][list]DECEMBER 1950
[sub]Help Each Other[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub][pre] C I V I L D E F E N C E [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]I see to every wind unfurled
The flag that bears the Maple Wreath;
Thy swift keels furrow round the world
Its blood-red folds beneath.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
WASHINGTON D.C., Paramountica AFTERNOON
[sub]OLD STATE DEPT. BUILDING, BALCONIED ROOM[/sub]
| In both Canada and the United States, almost everyone was talking about civil defense, but no one did anything about it. In the old State Department building, twelve Canadian and American civil defense planners gathered to put this into action. Both sides had their leadership, on the Canadian side, the Canadas Coordinator of Civil Defense, Major General FREDERICK WORTHINGTON and on the American side, U.S. Acting Civil Defense Director, JAMES WADSWORTH, were all working out a program. At the meeting, a scheme was drawn up for the creation of a civil defense group to benefit both countries. Air-raid signals will be the same for the U.S. and Canada. U.S. ambulances, fire engines, civil defense workers and doctors will be able to move freely between the two countries to provide care in the event of an enemy attack. |
[list]| JAMES WADSWORTH, [sub] US | Acting Civil Defense Director[/sub] | The two countries helped each other in every possible way.[/list]
| Canadians praised U.S.-Canada cooperation but they were getting too close. The Ottawa Citizen released a U.S. defense map showing Newfoundland and a large part of northeastern Canada as part of the U.S. Northeast Command. At a news conference, External Affairs Chief LESTER B. PEARSON announced that Canadas Ambassador to the U.S. has been asked to send a note to the U.S. Department of State requesting no further fantasies of this kind. The U.S Air Force placed the blame on a mapmaker who was locating U.S. bases in Newfoundland and U.S. weather and communications units in northern Canada. Said the Air Force: Any indication that the U.S. has jurisdiction over a particular area is incorrect. |
Paseo, Amsterwald, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica
[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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NATIONAL DELIBERATIVE COUNCIL PASSES NEW TAX AND FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1794971
Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Otsla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica, Canada Leaf
[list][list]DECEMBER 1950
[sub]Bargain[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub][pre] C A N A D I A N P O L I C Y [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]I see to every wind unfurled
The flag that bears the Maple Wreath;
Thy swift keels furrow round the world
Its blood-red folds beneath.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
OTTAWA, ONTARIO PROVINCE AFTERNOON
[sub]THE DOMINION OF Canada Leaf[/sub]
| As negotiations between Washington and London continue, Canada sets its policy towards Asia. This policy appeared to be the same as that of the British. Canadian leaders feared that the West was involved in a foolish and harmful war, but what London offered was something that seemed to involve peace. Canadas policy was presented in a very different light from that of the British. Once stated by External Affairs Chief LESTER BOWLES PEARSON, and discussed with senior officials in Ottawa, Canadas view was as follows: |
[list][list]
▌[sub]A war with China is out of the question; it would be a way of diverting the West from defending Europe.[/sub]
▌[sub]The West should focus on seeking a ceasefire with Korea and then negotiating a deal with Mao Tse-tungs China.[/sub]
▌[sub]The West can still focus on accelerated rearmament and securing assistance to peoples in need, as the Russians are not yet ready for total war.[/sub][/list][/list]
| The proposals themselves were not specific. But in general, Canada is in favor of a deal with Mao, in which he would withdraw his troops from Korea in exchange for Western concessions presumably accepting Communist China at the U.N. and abandoning Formosa. |
[list]| LESTER B. PEARSON, [sub] External Affairs Chief[/sub] | I know very well that some people have called it appeasement . . . Lets not be afraid of words.[/list]
| Pearsons word: Accommodations. Given all this, there was no doubt in Ottawa that Canada would be on the U.S. side if total war ended in a terrible outcome. When the U.S. announced that it would embargo Communist China, the Dominion followed his neighbors example. |
Amsterwald, Ranponian, New Provenance
THE CHITIMUKULU DECLARES AGRICULTURAL TRIBUTE FROM THE NORTH TO BE PAID AS EARLY AS 1953
[list][sup]FRUITS FROM THE THE FERTILE HIGHLANDS
BEMBALANDDECEMBER 1950[/sup][/list]
The Chitimukuluparamount chief of all Bembahas long demanded tribute from the lesser chiefs and the headmen of their subject villages. Cattle, pelts, metal, rosewood, and tools have traditionally been among the goods demanded by the royal court. Now, however, Chilyamafwa II pivoted against the tribute-goods of the past centuries. Wielding his missionary education and the advice of Sir Stewart Gore-Browne, changes were to be made in the interest of his chiefdom. Chilyamafwa had already institutionalized the traditional circles of education, aiming to convince the whole of UluBemba that each culture withinincluding the Namwanga, Tumbuki and Mambwewere merely offshoots of a greater pan-Bemba culture. Now, he would need to leverage that knowledge to convince the common people of labor in the national interest. The northfrom Ngolo to Mbala, Kalabwe to Isokais blessed with the earth and rain to feed the whole of AbaBemba, he declared to his councilors at the KuluBemba. We must pivot these villages away from their hunting and their gatheringlong have they cultivated, but they must now cultivate for theirs and others whole subsistence.
Chilyamafwa declared that, beginning two years from nowin the rainy season of 195354Kasama would begin to collect tribute in the form of manioc, sugar plum, finger millet, Kaffir corn, rivermelon¹, cassava and other crops to verify agricultural output in the northern regions. Large villages would be aided by military jeeps in transporting their goods to market, hoping that their production could help a small shift in other areas of the country to non-agricultural fields. Annual tribute would be paused for northern villages in the wet months of 195253 and 195354hoping to ease the shift to permanent agricultureand the Chitimukulu would openly subsidize instructors to ensure the practice of chitemene, a locally developed variant of slash-and-burn agriculture, was known there. A few years following, Chilyamafwa planned for products of animal husbandrybeef, leather, pork, eggs and moreto be demanded in the lowlands, though a longer period of instruction was likely needed for this. Regardless, now marked the turn of Bembaland toward secondary industry. In his people, Chilyamafwa saw great potential; iron-smiths from all LuBemba who had worked for centuries making and repairing tools could be joined by new apprentices who could make nails or machine parts for export; a new generation of woodworkers could see permanent furniture and wood implements spread throughout Bembaland, and then into markets abroad; the youth could visit the Lubwa Missionary School or the planned institute in Kasama, gaining skills as mechanics or builders. Given the weight of these things, the Chitimukulu was fighting for a new Bembaland.
[list][sup]¹ A fictional pale purple melon found in my allohistorical plants document (https://tinyurl.com/alloplants) from some time ago.[/sup][/list]
New Provenance, Ubertica, Canada Leaf
| ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
[sub]December, 1950[/sub]
| Arriving on 19th of December, 1950, in Addis Ababa, Gloria Banza would depart from her airplane with dignity and a colorful smile on her face. Wearing a blue navy dress with white high heels, Mrs Banza would make her way towards whoever was to greet her. Smiling and waving at the press, it was a much more warmer greeting than she had a few months prior when she visited Ethiopia as part of her world tour. Escorted by her guards, Mrs Banza would make sure to be captured by photographers from around Africa as she made her way forward. |
Alzarikstan
*skip to meeting
HOUSE OF JUBILEE
ADDIS ABABA, SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
Emperor Haile Selassie I:
[list][sub]"Madam Gloria Banza. I am grateful to have you here with me. I understand per my secretaries this pertains to the recent sudden change in policy of Ethiopia regarding cooperation with the other African nations. Prime Minister Benti has my full confidence in his decision to be hesitant with providing official signatures and coat of arm seals on very binding documents and initiatives such as this."[/sub][/list]
Haile Selassie would be wearing an all white royal uniform with his military medals and ribbons while sitting his the same throne chair Menelik II used. Haile gave the feeling of an understanding, all knowing grandfather who only wanted best. His calm demeanor did come with a mean streak but it was always controlled for the sake of peace and conflict resolution. Breathing calmly and with much ease, Haile would await Banza's response. Next to Haile would be recently appointed Prime Minister Benti, wearing his military uniform from the Abyssinian Italian War in addition to political leadership pins from the SCBP.
Paseo
| Smiling at the two softly, Banza after her ten year rule would now be far more accustomed to diplomatic missions than before. Looking directly at the Emperor, she would nod in slow understanding. |
[list][ GLORIA BANZA ]: "Your Majesty, Mr Benti. I understand that what the rest of Africa, free Africa, is trying to achieve is rather daunting. It is history in the making but Ethiopia had made history for thousands of years. You were always an inspiration to the rest of Africa, on how you managed to keep your integrity, stability and freedom above all in times of rampant colonialism and exploitism. I, just as much as the rest of Africa, count on Ethiopia on being a history maker in the modern age. Signing the document that is bound to make history and bring Africa closer than ever before in its history, is a step that we should cherish. What is it, Mr Benti, that raises issues for you about the document, if I may know?"
Prime Minister Benti would remove his beret and fix his glasses while he cleared his throat before speaking.
Prime Minister Benti:
[list][sub]"It is the sacrifice of portions of Ethiopian national sovereignty for the benefit of a collective that does not share the same plight nor internal difficulties as Ethiopia. My administration wishes not to become intertwined into the internal turmoil and potential political paralysis of other nations if we have our own responsibilities to address and resolve for the continual survival of our people. We made a promise to our people. Not to Africa as a whole. Yes, His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie has been a major figure and model that we all look up to but Emperor Haile always puts his people and his legacy as the Patriarch of the Solomonic Dynasty to the forefront of any and all things he seeks to do and achieve. I do the same for the people of Ethiopia. Ethiopia remained free since its inception in 10th century BCE because we put our people first. We put our development first. We cares for our own. We did not get carried away with becoming bogged down by the squabbles of others or to succumb to the political intrigues and interests of others. These documents may promise something grandeur but there is no clear indication it will ensure the respect of Ethiopia, the acknowledgment of our sovereignty, and the clear understanding that one shoe size does not fit all. We are here to preserve the Ethiopian identity...our legacy...our ancient civilization. By signing this document, we are agreeing to the notion that our historical identity means nothing....that our unique traits and characteristics mean nothing and we are exchanging in all that God has given us in the beauty of African diversity for a generalized blanketed interpretation of what it means to be African dictated by the philosophy of a non-Ethiopian who did not acquire the input of Ethiopians to my knowledge? I think not."[/sub][/list]
Prime Minister Benti's intensity would pick up slightly.
Paseo
| Looking at Mr Benti with slight smile, Mrs Banza would lean forward slightly. |
[list][ GLORIA BANZA ]: "Mr Benti, I disagree wholeheartedly. The treaty, the document, was written by a collective of nations and its representatives that come from many ideological, social, educational and most importantly ethnicly varied stances. Yes, putting your people first is a must. Something I do myself, something Zaire does itself. But when your neighbours are struggling with rampant growing and potential exploitisim, we cannot look and ignore it because sooner or later it will bite us just like it did Ethiopia when Italians attacked. I respect your dedication to your people as I share one just like that. Your identity and your beliefs will be protected, more than that. They will be able to shape the future of Africa in a way never seen before. Ethiopia will be at the centre of decision making for Africa, with Africa. You will not be on the sidelines, ignored or worse trying to be outmanouvered or push around. You will be making decisions just as the rest of Africa will do too. Proud in your roots, identity and with a strong belief that despite your true friendship to all others, your people come first. People that make up Africa. People that the rest of Africa wants to discover."
ANTI-TOLERANCE LEAGUE, DEATH TO DRUGS
December 13th 1950
Under Perons partnership with the more socially conservative religious members of his Government he has instituted the Anti-Tolerance movement which has upped the penalties for Drug Smuggling and Selling from 10 years to Death. Farmers who are found to be growing the illegal drug crops will have their land seized without appeal. The new law would stamp out the Drug trade and introduce a no tolerance policy for those that perpetuate the problem. Additionally vast measures of support and reward for Farmers who resist and oust fellow farmers or perpetrators to the Government will provide financial aid to those who otherwise might feel pressured to assist in this illegal trade. Peron and his Armed Forces supporters are further to introduce harsh import/export fines upon those trying to illegally move them in and out of the country, and those found guilty of personally bringing drugs into the Country may face the same death penalty as those growing and selling it internally. La Plata will act harshly to enforce this hostility to drugs across Southern America as under the "no step back" policy of Peron, one country which embraces liberalism on drugs would pose a "foot in the door" for drugs across all other Nations.
One proposed change which would only be enforced from 1952 onwards is that individuals found guilty of trafficking Drugs would have their entire wealth and assets seized by the Government for usage in anti-drug campaigns. This would be difficult with foreign Citizens but would be nonetheless attempted.
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[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Paramountica, New Provenance, Canada Leaf
Prime Minister Benti
[list][sub]"But even that is not a guarantee Mrs. Banza. Ethiopia is not Azania. Ethiopia is not Egypt. Ethiopia is not Zaire. We are not as developed as you all. We have simply survived for more than 3,000 years because we adapt to situations. Not because we relied on the aid and charity of others. It is simple that if Ethiopia were to partake in any sort of Pan-Africa institution, our voice does not hold weight as the clear powers already present such as yourself, Azania, and Egypt. We are simply not in the pos-"[/sub][/list]
Calmly and with grace, Emperor Haile would raise his hand for silence. Prime Minister Benti would stop. Haile would begin speaking in a very soft, soothing voice but a powerful undertone.
Emperor Haile Selassie I:
[list][sub]"Mrs. Banza. You must care much of Ethiopia and its position to come here and speak to gain clarity. For that I respect you deeply for that. As I am sure you can understand, we still have many vulnerabilities and clear struggles and weakness since the Italian invasion. There are many social afflictions that are being discovered daily. My hesitancy to provide a signature to these initiative is based in the reality of our current social afflictions. Now I do understand what you are saying. I do but even off of a purely economic look, based on our current situation, Ethiopia would be crushed under the combined political and economic weight of the other free African nations. This would instigate brittle socioeconomic structures that may then cause grave threat to my rule. It may cause social harm especially to our cultural preservation. I do support African coordination for each other and globally advocating the African plight but is this decision truly reasonable understanding Ethiopia is not supported deeply by major powers overseas such as yourself and Azania. We are figuring things out ourselves."[/sub][/list]
Paseo, Ranponian, African Union Au
[B]| Turning her attention towards the Emperor, she would raise her head slightly before looking directly into the Emperor's eyes.
[B][ GLORIA BANZA ] "Your Majesty, you're the Emperor of Ethiopia. One of the longest dynasties and monarchies in world history. You have survived many problems, larger and smaller . I have taken the liberty of studying your history before coming and I know the issues that pertained to you and that are present now. But believe me that I wouldn't be here if I wasn't confident in your ability to take on any issue or situation. Your leadership and the current directions that Mr Benti is taking are a sign to me that you're capable of handling anything. Yes, this document brings with itself challenges that Zaire, Azania and the rest of us will have to face but the rewards. The rewards! Your Majesty. They will come in ten folds over the years. The process will be slow and it will be highly calculated to not destroy social and economic orders instead it will be a process that is bound to enhance the strong points of nations involved not ruin them. You have taken risk after risk during your reign, just as much as i have. Yes, some pay off and some don't but by God can we only succeed by taking risks. Reave the rewards and look upon ourselves in couple of years to say Yes, I have done the right thing."
Ranponian
Emperor Haile would flash a soft smirk before interlocking his fingers on his lap.
Emperor Haile Selassie I:
[list][sub]"You flatter me Madam Banza. You make good points as have Prime Minister Benti. I personally do believe that Ethiopia should take risks but also be careful as Prime Minister Benti is very concerned with and that is one of the reasons I have appointed him to Prime Minister. He loves his country, people, and God almost just as much as I do."[/sub][/list]
Haile would flash a smile to Benti and Banza. Another a momentary pause, Haile would nod his head to his thoughts.
Emperor Haile Selassie I:
[list][sub]"Ethiopia will sign this document with the understanding that we are viewed and valued as an equal. But I wish to make this clear: the very moment that Ethiopia is undermined, isolated, or there are attempts to subjugate and violate our sovereignty for the benefit of others, Ethiopia will re-evaluate its role and may opt to exit. We must always put our people first in all things...that includes foreigners...and that includes fellow Africans. I hope that is crystal clear Madam Banza."[/sub][/list]
Haile's glare would become serious as his demeanor slightly shifted.
Paseo, Ranponian, African Union Au
[B]| Mrs Banzas smile would turn into quick seriousness before nodding in agreement. |
[B][ GLORIA BANZA ][/B] "Your Majesty, that's very reasonable and I respect that. I am thrilled and honoured to have you on board. To have Ethiopia on board."
Alzarikstan, Ranponian, African Union Au
THE PRIDE OF THE ALPINE SLAVS: THE SLOVENIAN MILITARY AND NATION AT 1950S END
[list][sup]THE GLEAMING SILVER SWORD OF CARNIOLA
SLOVENIADECEMBER 1950 [/sup][/list]
Tables groaned under the weight of the fruit, cheese, and meat, wine flowing liberally as a crowd of immaculately dressed military officers milled about the snowy courtyard of Ljubljana Castle on the fifth anniversary of the Slovene military. The light blue uniforms of the Slovenian Armed Forces complemented the deep navy of the Slovene banner, the white crescent and three stars of Celje smiling down upon the little Alpine countrys firelit martial staff. The last five years had been, without dispute, tremendously successful. An educated, passionate young populace had indeed risen to the challenge of building a Republic; a vibrant democracy now ruled in Ljubljana, though some of the further left might disagree. Regardless, new national parks, ancient viticulture, triumphs of chemistry, glittering stars, old gods, medieval cities, and bustling factories adorned a nation younger than most primary school students. Electrified train lines enabled the tantalizing prospect of fulfilling a days work in Ljubljana and spending the evening relaxing at a beachside restaurant in Trst. Slovenes who had long lived abroad returned home to inhabit the empty villages abandoned by Italian and German occupiers. It was finally a good, untroubled time to speak Slovene, worship in Slovenian cathedrals, labor in Slovenian cities, and eat from Slovenian tables.
Guarding this nascent nation were the stalwart Armed Forces officially inaugurated in the winter of 194546. Spared the horror of the World War, thousands of young Slovenians flowed into a robust economy; many others, however, jostled to join the new military of their endangered nation or the militias that undergirded it. Pleasantly surprised by the wealth of enlisteesenough to answer all of the new martial needsthe Slovenian Armed Forces dispatched a volunteer-only Koroki bataljon (Carinthian battalion) to join in the anti-communist efforts of the Republic of Korea. At home, growing enterprises spawned by a long industrial tradition and pushed forward by Marshall Plan aid and corporate welfare met the material needs of the military beyond its inherited supplies and overseas purchases. The equipment list now featured the Slovenian-built Pionir Osliček utility truck, Čebela Č7 fighter, Učka Galeb utility helicopter and Zlatorog M1949 sniper rifle. The Air Fleet also benefitted from the Marshall Plan with the 1950 construction of an airfield in the Istrian town of Pulj to serve as a base for the fighter squadron and a training and research facility for the branch. With regard to permanent installations, news was indeed optimisticwork on underground military storage and outpost facilities in Alpine mountains was beginning, just as five years of work on the Marčičevo linijo (Marčič Line) along the Hungarian and Yugoslav borders was finishing.
The successes of the new military were not only martial, however; in a time of strained budgets and ambitious goals, they had also been employed in civilian projects. The Slovenian Air Fleet worked with the government to establish a national network of radio beacons and airfields for civilian aircraft, a crucial development for a small nation of hidden valleys, rivers, and forests. Home Guard members had built several roads and bridges in newly recovered Koroka, symbolically re-graveling country roads with the destroyed statues of Karadordeviči. The Army had been placed at the disposal of the Ministry of Infrastructure for the transport of steel pipes, timber, and other construction materials, saving the government money and hastening the pace of construction. It had even helped the Ministry of Interior in early years to monitor environmental pollution and contraband, patrol the forests and rivers, and perform other duties traditionally handled by the police. All of this work had, however, been conducted in the shadow of the Cold War to the Armys peril. The Marshall Plan had, of course, brought with it deep suspicion from the East, not to mention the daily threats of the Yugoslav leadership. Each time detachments of the Slovene military were commissioned for work on a new radio tower or stretch of rail, a weak point was left open for enemies of the Republic. At this five-year anniversary conference, General Karel Marčič announced that the Slovene military would make gradual reductionsbut not eliminationsto its civilian operations in the coming years.
[list][sub]When you prop up the iron curtain between two worlds, you must be prepared for the day that they clash.
General Karel Marčič, Commander-in-Chief of the Slovenian Armed Forces, December 1950[/sub][/list]
Paramountica, Arcanda, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica
[list][list][pre]Prague, Czechia, Third Republic of Czechoslovakia
FEBRUARY 1950 - CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT COLLAPSES AS ALL EYES ON PRAGUE[/pre]
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| The month of February has been tense for the bi-ethnic republic, as its government and subsequent institutions, that have recently pulled the nation from the brink of collapse, have seemed to be collapsing themselves. The newly born, heavy-handed Czechoslovak national government has pulled the war-torn nation from its knees following the war. Through public jobs programs from re-construction, reorganization of the nation's healthcare system from the ground up, and the connection of the more populous Czechia to more rural-inhabited Slovak regions, the nation's central government has acted in a savior to the nation, ran by the people themselves. Now, the odd "socialist state within a liberal republic" has seemingly had its mask "pulled off", with inner conflicts between the communist KSČ and the rest of the non-radically aligned socialist parties of the National Front. Recently, the entirety of the non-communist members of the Executive Cabinet had threatened the government with mass resignation in protest of the actions of several KSČ members within the cabinet. Backed by all non-communist parties, the National Social ministers said that the communists were using the Ministry of Interior's police and security forces to suppress non-communists, and demanded a halt to this. Prime Minister Gottwald, however, repeatedly forestalled discussion of the police issue. Now, the threats have come to harvest. |
| On 21 February, National Socialists resigned from the cabinet in protest. The Catholic People's Party and the Slovak Democratic Party followed suit. Most of the ministers remained at their posts, with Social Democratic leader Zdeněk Fierlinger making no secret of his support for the Communists. The non-Communists assumed that Bene would refuse to accept their resignations, keeping them in a caretaker government and in the process embarrassing the Communists enough to make them yield. President Bene, until recently, has insisted that no new government could be formed which did not include ministers from the non-Communist parties. However, the mounting political-pressure from the following week of political stalling, has ostensibly led the entire of the national government to utter collapse and services at a standstill. t the same time, the non-Communist ministers seemed to behave as if this was just an old-fashioned pre-1939 governmental crisis. They did not know that the Communists were mobilizing from below in an attempt to take complete power. Communist "Action Committees" and trade union militias were quickly set up, armed, and sent into the streets, as well as being prepared to carry through a purge of anti-Communists. In a speech before 100,000 of these people and other party members, Gottwald has threatened a general strike. |
| Civilian rumors have spread that the Soviet representative to Czechoslovakia, Valerian Zorin, has offered the services of the Red Army, camped on the country's borders. However, Gottwald has been rumored to openly decline the offer, believing that only the threat of violence combined with heavy political pressure would be enough to force Bene to surrender. A uniquely non-violet putsch is seemingly brewing in Central Europe, and the entire nation's eyes are on Prague. |
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Ranponian, New Provenance, Mutual Economic Assistance
[list][list][pre]الاتحاد الافريقي
የአፍሪካ ህብረት
ꗤꕎ ꕦꛭ꘥ꗏꚩꕦ ꕑꚿꕦ
De Afrikaanse Unie
Umoja wa Afrika
T H E A F R I C A N U N I O N[/pre][sub]WINTER 1950[/sub][/list]
HEART OF CIVILIZATION THE AFRICAN UNION;
[sub]Treaty of Alexandria Signed[/sub]
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[list][list][sub]...Your success will inspire and speed up the freedom and total independence
of the African continent and eradicate imperialism and colonialism from the continent
and eventually neo-colonialism from the globe
Your failure, which no true African in Africa is praying for,
will prolong our struggle with bitterness and disappointment Alieu Ebrima Cham Joof, PAN-AFRICAN & POET[/sub]
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[pre] [/pre]
[list]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; Independent States of Africa forge new Economic, Political, and Social Union NOON
[sub]Traditional dancers from across the continent performed celebratory ceremonies to the beat of drums; poets rhythmically set the occasion; and academics penned analysis and histories, which untold generations shall mark as the fulcrum moment in the great epoch of Africa. For on this day, the leaders of the continents independent nations gathered to sign the Treaty of Alexandria, and fundamentally alter the course of the continents destiny for the better. Sovereign states, many of whom are less than 20 years old in their present form, are the inheritors of a great legacy which predates the the dawn of modern civilization in Mesopotamia. Nations, bound together by the tragedy of Imperialism and Colonialism; determined to unite their resources and efforts towards the collective uplift of Africas millions of citizens.[/sub]
[sub]Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, once the sole voice crying loud in the wilderness for Liberation when the rest of the continent fell to Imperialism, was the first to sign the document, followed by his modern contemporaries who were the chief architects of the accord. Prime Minister Engameli Zwane of Azania, First Minister Gloria Banza of Zaire, and King Farouk the First of Egypt - leaders of the big three of Africa, who went to great lengths to ensure that this agreement, this organization, would be the great equalizer of Africas independent states. Every nation is the holder of one vote, the user of microphones with the same volume level, and holders of seats set upon an equal platform. This principle of equality among members was key to the successful negotiation of the Treaty, whose ambition was to thread the needle of continental unification despite all, then-prospective members, being at different levels of development, with needs as diverse as the cultures over which they govern. Yet, this accord was a victory for diplomacy, and empowers even the 'smallest' state of Africa, by providing a forum to solve continental disputes, coordinate resources towards common goals, and to synchronize economic, social and political development; such that the continent at-large can gain its rightful position as a viable and equal player on the world stage.[/sub]
[sub]Central to the African Unions mission, eight primary aims are the markers of success to which each member has committed itself.[/sub]
[list][sub]A) To co-ordinate and intensify the co-operation of African states in order to achieve a better life for the people of Africa;
B) To promote the advancement of human society in Africa and her diaspora;
C) To protect the rights and liberties of Africans;
D) To promote stability and peace in Africa and provide a forum to settle disputes;
E) To promote the immediate and permanent end of imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism in Africa and her diaspora;
F) To maintain continental institutions to promote economic, industrial, technological, scientific, social, and cultural development in Africa and her diaspora;
G) To uphold the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of member states;
H) To establish the necessary conditions which enable the continent to play its rightful role in the global economy and in international negotiations.[/sub][/list]
[sub]With these aims in mind, the member-states of Africa (and her diaspora) strive to advance the cause of humanity, combat colonialism and neocolonialism; while embodying the standard of peaceful coexistence among diverse peoples. Truly, this is the humble beginning of one of the worlds greatest alliances.[/sub]
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Nonador, Paramountica, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, New Provenance
[list][pre]Právo Paper
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Prague, Czechia, Third Republic of Czechoslovakia[/pre][/list]
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26 FEBRAURY 1950 - [sub]One Czechoslovak Koruna[/sub]
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[list][list]PRESIDENT BENES CAPITUALTES TO COMMUNIST PRESSURE, PARTY OFFICIALLY COUPS GOVERNMENT! [/list][/list]
| The month of February has been one of turmoil, unrest, and uncertainty for our small republic. A restless government embroiled in newly-revealed tensions between non-communist parties in the National Front coalition, and the aspirations of the communist party KSČ to transform the government. Already, numerous socialist public policies, legislation, and organization of government have taken root in the nation's national government, completely changing how it operates within the country. Czechoslovakia esentially operates a socialist government within the framekwork of a liberal democracy. Now, that tense and seemingly-uneasy combination has met its demise under its own weight, with pressure mounting from the mass resignation of all non-communist executive ministers, and the ralleying of KSČ members across local government entities and organizations. Recently, President Bene has shunned the non-Communist ministers to avoid accusation of collusion. Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk has repeatedly told press that even he has yet to make contact with the president as a netural party between the ever-tense non-communists and the KSČ. |
| During this confusion, the communists have been rallying their support and base across the nation and in important political strongholds and ministries. The National Assembly-controlled Ministry of Interior deployed police regiments to sensitive areas and equipped a workers' militia. The communist-controlled Ministry of Information refused broadcasting time to noncommunist officials. Ministries held by noncommunist parties were secured by communist "action committees." The action committees also purged all governmental and political party organs of unreliable elements. Gottwald threatened to call a general strike unless Bene appointed a new, Communist-dominated government. This demand has come to fruition: Today this morning, 26 February, Bene, publicly fearing civil war or Soviet intervention, capitulated. He has accepted the resignations of the dissident ministers and appointed a new cabinet from a list submitted by Prime Minister Gottwald and hand-picked by the Communist Party. The new Executive Cabinet has been subsequentially now domianted by Communists and pro-Soviet Social Democrats. Members of the People's, National Socialist and Czech Democratic parties were also included, so the government was still nominally a coalition. However, the ministers using those labels were fellow travellers working hand in glove with the Communists. Some of the new Executive Ministers include: Minister of the Interior Rudolf Slánský, Prime Minister Antonín Zápotocký and Deputy PM Antonín Josef Novotný, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, and Minister of Culture and Religion Zdeněk Fierlinger. Deputy Jaroslav Haek has otped out of recieving an executive appointment and now occupies Chairman of the National Assembly. |
| To many, this has marked the onset of out-and-out Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Following the coup, the Communists moved quickly to consolidate their power. Thousands have recently been fired from government or civil positions, and hundreds have been arrested, some apparently temporarily and released. The National Assembly, freely elected two years earlier, quickly fell into line thanks to its domination by more radically socialist-aligned members, and gave Gottwald's revamped government a vote of confidence in the following week in March. Though obstenstibly, the government seems to be undergoing a massive overhaul in the following months once again, the National Assembly seems to be staying in place apart of the new Communist government. This is a developing story!. |
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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU
DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS
ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA
THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]
24 December 1950[/pre]
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[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]
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[pre]AZANIA JOINS THE AFRICAN UNION, PLEDGES DIRECT SUPPORT TO CERTAIN MEMBERS AS DEMONSTRATION OF COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]| PRETORIA Members of the public and Press Corps gathered on the mall of the Union Buildings where Prime Minister Zwane delivered remarks upon his return from the signing ceremony at Alexandria, Egypt. There, the Prime Minister, riding the wave of diplomatic success abroad, relayed to his people a resolute and hopeful vision for the continent.[/sub]
[list][pre]Today, we have made proud the spirit of our ancestors whose endurance in hardship made this act of unity possible Tomorrow, we continue the work of development as one great African family.[/pre][sub] Engameli Zwane, Prime Minister and Leader of the African National Congress[/sub][/list]
[sub]The success at Alexandria was a triumph for the diplomatic corps of all nations involved, but especially so that of Zaire who, then a fault line began to develop in the 11th hour, engaged in emergency talks in Addis Ababa to bring back to the table, the eternal flame of liberation, the Empire of Ethiopia. Concern was expressed by the new government in Ethiopia that their participation in the African Union would permanently relegate the East African state to secondary-power status after a difficult recovery in the wake of the second Great War. However, the message personally delivered by First Minister Gloria Banza of Zaire to the Emperor Selassie, and Prime Minister Tafari Benti echoed the sentiments of the other big powers of Africa. We are committed to equality among states, regardless of size or capability. This was a principle forever ingrained into the core of Azanian foreign policy, especially on the continent. Whereas the Treaty of Alexandria was the great equalizer, Imperialism and Colonialism was wrought with disproportionate levels of investment and development from the European powers. Even within the British realm, where the mineral wealth of diamonds, gold, and coal positioned Azania to be an economic giant within the Empire - other realms such as Tanganyika saw levels of investment which paled in comparison. It was no secret that some of the independent states of Africa maintained an economic, social and even military advantage over the others, however, it was their commitment to this African project that eased the concerns of most - to include UluBemba, the smallest nation within the AU, and the Commonwealth of Sudan, the continents youngest.[/sub]
[sub]However, the concerns of Ethiopian leaders did not fall upon deaf ears in Pretoria who, while not tapped to directly communicate with Addis Ababa to get the back to the table, worked diligently behind the scenes to craft a proposal which would demonstrate the United Tribes commitment to uplifting the so-called least among us.[/sub]
[sub]During his remarks, Prime Minister Zwane announced that the United Tribes would foot the bill for the infrastructure (and headquarters itself) required for the Division of Culture and Arts to be hosted in Kassama, the capital city of UluBemba (Ababemba). This, the Prime Minister expressed, would allow UluBemba to take its proper place as a key pillar to the African Union.[/sub]
[sub]To rousing applause, the Prime Minister further announced that he - with the approval of Parliament - would extend to Addis Ababa (Alzarikstan) an offer to take on their national debt (estimated to be around $11 million USD [1950]), such to allow them to apply as much funds as possible to their economic and social development. Further, the Prime Minister announced that the United Tribes would be willing to extend to Addis Ababa, an offer of interest-free loans to support their recovery from the damages wrought by the war. The Prime Minister expressed hope that these measures, and others to come, solidify the bonds between both nations.[/sub]
[list][pre]Dr. Charles Negele teaches through Usaphism, that our success as a people rest not only on the production lines of Azania, nor in our mines but in the oil fields of Egypt, the booming industry of Zaire, in the reminders of our ancestry through the cultural exports of Bembaland, and the transformative efforts of Sudan and Ethiopia Every African is a member of our Usapho.. Our family.. and we owe to them our devotion, friendship, and brotherhood.[/pre][sub] Engameli Zwane, Prime Minister and Leader of the African National Congress[/sub][/list]
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SOUTH AMERICAN OCEAN SECURITY ARRANGEMENT - LA PLATAN VESSELS TO PATROL THE CONTINTENTS OCEAN FRONTIER
December 20th 1950
With the signing of the Andean Pact this week between Peru-Bolivia, La Plata and Nueva Granada it was separately negotiated that La Plata should gain the ability for its Naval Vessels to refuel and restock in the Ports of both Peru-Bolivia and Nueva Granada as part of the "SOUTH AMERICAN OCEAN SECURITY ARRANGEMENT". Under the Agreement the La Platan Navy would conduct patrols to ensure the free transit of South American Ships in International Waters surrounding the Continent. While La Plata was capable of conducting these Patrols prior they required sea-borne resupply which is more costly than local alternatives. It was agreed that a small fee would additionally be paid to each government upon each Vessel docking. This would reduce the need for Nueva Granada and Peru-Bolivia to have overactive Patrols underway and somewhat outsource the obligation to maintain a presence to La Plata. A great diplomatic feat for La Plata, it makes it easier for their Navy to project influence around the Continent while not inherently creating more obligations.
Patrols would not be conducted within the national waters of any South American State but would however be undertaken in the entire International Water zones surrounding the whole South American Continent to ensure universal support and aid for all of its Nations and their trade vessels. The La Platan Navy has advertised that its Vessels will be proactive in responding to Vessels in distress as well as detecting and responding to unwanted outside influences. Upon detecting such an influence while action would be taken, information of this influence would be given to the Nation closest to the Vessel in question along with to the United States as part of the OAS. The overall Operation coined "Latin Shield" by the Navy will work wherever possible with the US Navy
* While any signature of the agreement may at any time withdraw, since patrols are in International waters they would continue however with ocean borne resupply rather than localized resupply.
Vessels assigned by the Navy to the South American Ocean Security Arrangement :
- 2x Catamarca-class destroyer
- 2x La Plata class destroyer
- 2x Churruca-class destroyer
- 4x Mendoza-class destroyer
- 8x Serrano-class destroyer
- 1x ARA La Argentina Light Cruiser
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JAPANESE-LA PLATAN NAVAL ARRANGEMENT
December 3rd 1950
In a rather unique deal reached between Japan and La Plata, Japan would construct 16 modernized Akizuki-class destroyer Hulls void of weaponry and electronics by 1953, these would then be transported onwards to America where these lacking features would be mounted (to maintain that Japan had not produced armed vessels) and as a result "San Martin" class destroyers would be created. These would be vastly more modern than the majority of Destroyers that La Plata had just placed into Mothball, and thanks to the overall improved armaments and electronic complement a globally competitive Type. The San Martin, would at completion of the project, become the mainstay of the La Platan Destroyer Force. Under Perons 5 year plan La Plata would require, by 1955, a total of 80 Destroyers (of which it already possesses 34 not counting the 16 in this deal) and the San Martin was an important step in achieving this. While further arrangements are underway between La Plata, the United States and United Kingdom the fact that the first is such a large one was indeed a great feat that was a testament to relations between La Plata and Japan.
[spoiler=San Martin Class Destroyer]
Displacement - 2,164 long tons
Length - 134m
Beam - 11.6m
Draught - 6m
Propulsion - 3 × Ro-Gō Kampon water tube boilers + 2 × Kampon impulse geared turbines + 2 shafts, 52,000 shp (39 MW)
Speed - 33 kn (38 mph; 61 km/h)
Range - 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h)
Complement - 315
Armament - 4x2 5-inch/38-caliber gun, 6x 40mm Bofors, 42x 20mm Oerlikon, 1x4 Mark 17 torpedo tubes, 56x depth charges
Sensors - Mk37 GFCS + SC surveillance radar + SG air-search radar
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[list][list]OCTOBER 1950
[sub]The President-Elect[/sub]
[sub][pre] L A N D S L I D E V I C T O R Y [/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]The workers want Getúlio.[/pre][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, CATETE PALACE MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| GETÚLIO DORNELLES VARGAS won the elections and is now PRESIDENT-ELECT OF BRAZIL. With three-quarters of the votes counted, there is no longer any doubt that the ex-dictator won a landslide victory. Before the final count, President Dutra told Vargas that the Government will not tolerate any coups between now and Vargas inaugural next January 31. In Rio Grande do Sul, Getúlio made his first post-election statement: |
[list]| GETÚLIO VARGAS, [sub]THE PRESIDENT-ELECT[/sub] | I return to Catete with a heart clean of hate and resentment . . . This position has been less mine than that of the Brazilian people.[/list]
| Vargas also spoke of forming a coalition or perhaps a British-style labor government. GETÚLIO VARGAS, dictator-President of Brazil from 1930 to 1945, was not an unknown man. His political career began in Rio Grande do Sul. He was always a man of action. Counted out at the polls by the old-guard regime, he went to Rio and assumed the presidency. He has proven himself to be a skilled man a dictator who compromises, a Strong Man always doing everything he can to stay in power. He reorganized the courts. He gave Brazilian workers a 48-hour workday, a minimum wage, pensions, paid vacations. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress, and created the Estado Novo, an authoritarian democracy with a fascist-type constitution and press censorship. Vargas was always on the side of the poor, but at the end of the war the Estado Novo lost strength. The army forced Vargas to resign, and he went into self-exile at his Rio Grande do Sul ranch. Vargas is back at 67, but as a democratically elected President, not a dictator. |
Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance
[list]December 1950
[sub]Loyalty of the Eye, Pt. 1[/sub][/list]
[pre]W A S H I N G T H E R E D A W A Y[/pre]
OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]COVERT MEETING OF TOP MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL CABINET, OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR, DRAWING ROOM[/sub]
| The OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR was a newly constructed, rather inconspicuous building in downtown Bonn, just a few blocks and a walking distance away from the offices of the Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs. It had been completed in the summer of 1950, and Chancellor KONRAD ADENAUER had moved into the new offices along with his executive staff in August. The building was simply decorated, and functioned solely as the primary office of the Federal Chancellor, the meeting place of the Federal Cabinet, and the home of the Federal Chancellor however, it was extremely heavily guarded. One would expect that it would be due to the presence of the most powerful man in the Federal Republic, however the truth would be much more sinister than one would expect. |
[list][sub]| WALTER SETTENBOHM, Chief Architect of Settenbohm and Co. |[/sub] "Often, the inconspicuous are those that carry the most secrets to uncover."[/list]
| Within one of the many rooms of the Office, wafty smoke from cigarettes floated about as a group of six or so men sat around a table, all dressed in smart suits, buttoned up well and ironed, and all with dreadful expressions on their faces. At the head of the table, his posture and voice commanding the entire room, was the Chancellor himself Konrad Adenauer. Thomas Dehler, MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, Hans Schuberth, MINISTER FOR POST AND COMMUNICATIONS, Ludwig Erhard, MINISTER FOR ECONOMICS, Jakob Kaiser, MINISTER FOR ALL-GERMAN AFFAIRS, Gustav Heinemann, MINISTER FOR THE INTERIOR, were all present as well. In the corner of the room, a heavy-coated man with a fedora covering the entirety of his face was seated. A pipe in his mouth, it looked as if he had emerged from one of the black and white films from the THIRTIES. |
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] ". . . It is solidly clear what we must do now. The Communists and insidious insurgents within the Czechoslovak government of the President [Benes] has been overthrown, and we cannot allow the red infestation to spread further west. Nor can we allow the infestation of the past that continues to haunt our nation to this very day to continue to haunt us any longer."[/list]
[list][sub]| THOMAS DEHLER, Federal Minister for Justice |[/sub] "Mein Kanzler, what you are suggesting would require a massive amount of manpower - not to even mention the cover-ups necessary for such a process."[/list]
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] "Then they shall not be taken through the federal justice system. To the world, to the public, the Org does not exist. Reinhard Gehlen died in 1945 for what the public knows. We must keep it that way, lest we trigger instability in a country as stable as ours."[/list]
[list][sub]| JAKOB KAISER, Federal Minister for All-German Affairs |[/sub] "And what of the Americans [CIA]? They have defended the existence of the Org for so long, who's to say they will not do so now? We depend on them essentially for survival, to alienate them now would be suicide."[/list]
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] "The CIA understands clearly the threat posed by Communism - and the threat posed by the existence of dark remnants within our government, public or private. It is in our best interests that action be taken to prevent Gehlen from gathering too much influence and potentially taking inspiration from the socialist coup in Prague. We must prevent communism, but also a revival of the past."[/list]
| From the corner, the man in the fedora raised his hat to reveal his steel-rimmed glasses, and pulled his pipe out before laying it down on the table next to him. He tapped his shoe on the floor once, commanding the attention of the room immediately. |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "Gentlemen, stability is necessary at all costs. Blood will inevitably be spilled, threats to our newfound democracy will disappear into the shadows - if you must complain about that, go ahead, but I have been in this field for long enough to realize that nothing comes easy. These men handle majority of our intelligence, and they provide vital support to the CIA as well - it is imperative the Org is in hands we can trust. Not hands who used to represent ideals we fought against. It's time to wash the red away, gentlemen."[/list]
[list][sub]| THOMAS DEHLER, Federal Minister for Justice |[/sub] "But imagine the effect- The effect if this were to go public. That our government employs Volkists knowingly."[/list]
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] "Imagine the effect if the public were to know we took no action against them?"[/list]
| The room fell silent. |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "It is clear. Reinhard Gehlen is equally as capable of carrying out a silent coup just like what the Communists inflicted on the government in Prague. We cannot let that happen at whatever cost. What must be done is obvious."[/list]
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] "Then let it be so. If there are no objections?"[/list]
| Silence. Adenauer promptly nodded at BRUNER, who stood up at placed his fedora on. |
[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, The Federal Chancellor |[/sub] "Make contact with Black Eye immediately, Herr Bruner. Do what needs to be done."[/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Oman The oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world
Part 2: 1856 November 1950
When Sultan Said ibn Sutan died in 1856, his sons quarrelled with each other over who should succeed their father as the new sultan. As a result of this struggle, the Omani Empirethrough the mediation of Britain under the Canning Award was divided in 1861 into two separate sultanates: the Zanzibar Sultanate (with its African Great Lakes dependencies) ruled by Said sixth son, Sultan Majid bin Said, and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (with its Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean dependencies) ruled by Said third sin, Sultan Thuwaini bin Said. Zanzibar has to and still continuing to paid an annual subsidy to Muscat and Oman. Said ib Sutan death divided the country even further division in Muscat and Oman. The Qais branch of the Al Busaid dynasty decided to intermittently allied itself with the ulama to restore imamate legitimacy to Oman. In 1868, Azzan bin Qais Al-Busaid defeated and deposed his distant relative, Sultan Salim bin Thuwaini, and emerged as self-declared imam and made Muscat and Oman an Imamate again. Although a significant number of Hinawi tribes recognized him as imam, the public neither elected him nor acclaimed him as such. Imam Azzan realized and understood that in order to unify the country a strong, central authority need to be established with total control over the tribes of the interior region of Oman. Azzan rule was threatened and jeopardized by the British, who believed that his policy of bringing the interior tribes under control of the central government as a threat against their established order. In resorting to military means to unify Muscat and Oman, Imam Azzan alienated many members of the Ghafiri tribes, who decided to revolt against him from 1870 to 1871. The British gave financial and political support to Imam Azzan's rival, Turki bin Said Al-Busaid, in exchange of controlling the area. In the Battle of Dhank, Turki bin Said defeated the forces of Imam Azzan, who was killed in battle outside Muttrah in January 1871. Muscat and Oman was then reverted back into being a Sultanate.
Muscat and Oman was the object of rivalry between France and the United Kingdom throughout the 18th century. During the 19th century, Muscat and Oman and the United Kingdom concluded several treaties of commerce which benefit the British the most. In 1908, Muscat and Oman entered into an agreement with United Kingdom which made the Sultanate into a British protectorate. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were tensions between the sultan in Muscat and the Ibadi Imam in Nizwa. These tensions led to tribal attacks in the name of the imam on the Sultanate in 1895 and 1915. This conflict between the sultan in Muscat and the Ibadi Imam in Nizwa was temporarily resolved by the Treaty of Seeb, in which the sultan in Muscat granted autonomy in the interior region as Imamate of Oman with Imam as its ruler, in exchange the Imam recognize the sovereignty of the sultan in Muscat and its surroundings. However, this peace would not last long as in 1945, the conflict flares up again when the sultan broke the Treaty of Seeb after oil was discovered in the land of the Imamate. This conflict became known as the Jebel Akhdar War when the new Imam, Ghalib al-Hinai, led the Imamate into a 5-year rebellion against the attack by the Sultanate.
The Imamate was supported by Saudi Arabia while the Sultanate was supported by the United Kingdom and its colonial forces and the Shah of Iran. The war ended in 1950 in which the Sultanate and its allies forces defeated the Imamate forces and took full control of the interior region. Imam Ghalib and his supporters was exiled to Saudi Arabia. After the war Sultan Said bin Taimur reorganized and divided the newly conquer interior region into two new governorates, the Dakhiliyah Governorate, with the provincial capital being Nizwa, and the Ad Dhahirah Governorate, with the provincial capital being Ibri. The sultan allows the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) and its associate company, the Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Ltd, began mining the Interior in search of undiscovered oil wells. Soon the IPC discovered tons of oil wells, making the interior one of the places in the Middle East with a ton of oils to be mined. As in agreement with Sultan Said bin Taimur the IPC is allowed to mine the oils in the Sultanate in exchange, the Sultan will receive a very generous and sizable signature bonus. both British and Sultanate forces maintain their presence in the Interior to maintain order and stability and respond to any attack by small pockets of resistance from the disbanded Imamate army. Between October 4 to October 14, 1950, Sultan Said bin Taimur hold a ten-day meeting between the himself, the Ibadi Ulama, consisting of both people from the coastal and interior, and both the Hinawi tribes and Ghafiri tribes. All the Ulama members and the members of the Hinawi tribes and Ghafiri tribes decided to depose Ghalib al-Hinai and voted to recognize Sultan Said as the new Imam. Although some members of the Ulama, mainly those from the interior regions, and the Hinawi tribes and Ghafiri tribes were reluctant to agree to this decision.
Although Said ibn Taimur finally brought the interior region under the central authority of the Sultanate, his despotic and backward rule were unpopular with many people, including his 17 years old son, Qaboos bin Said.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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DR. DRAGAN ANDA LAYS CLAIM TO YUGOSLAVIAS FALSE CROATS NORTH OF THE KOLPA RIVER
[list][sup]SLOVENIANS IN THE STRICTEST SENSE
SLOVENIADECEMBER 1950[/sup][/list]
Kajkavčinathe Kajkavian regiolectcomprises the tongue of the northwesternmost tracts of what is now Yugoslavia. Entirely intelligible with the Prekmurje dialect of Slovene, which is spoken in northeastern Slovenia and the Hungarian concession, Kajkavian has long been a sore spot for Slovenias zealous nationalists. The right wing in the Republic has branded it a regional variety of Slovene, and thus every Croat north of the Kolpa would indeed be a misnamed Slovene. Zagreb would be a Slovenian city in every sense, joining Ljubljana, Trst and Gradec as jewels in the Slovenian crown. Slovenia would take a new million into its fold, coupled with the fertile farmland they inhabit and the hydroelectric dams that power their lights. It was an issue that even Prime Minister Andrej Gosar once touched upon, calling the Croats just over the borders lost brethren, held under the boot of godless hate. The Styrian Guard, a prominent ultranationalist group in eastern Slovenia, loved to provoke this sentiment; in border-towns, rallies and marches were often followed by blatant provocations of border personnel, who were made to endure the earnest cries of armed militiamen for the consummation of the true Slovenian nation.
[list][sub]. . . provincial Croats must not be allowed to become Croats. They are Slovenians in the strictest sense of the word.
Jernej Kopitar (17801844), conservative Slovene linguist and reformer[/sub][/list]
In December 1950, the issue was stoked by 69-year-old nationalist author Dr. Dragan anda, a hero of Slovenian conservatism and a darling of the new government. In his newly published book, Slovencem (Slovenians), Dr. anda proclaimed the unconditional closeness of Kajkavians and Slovenes. Quoting seminal Slovenian linguist Jernej Kopitar, the author built his arguments with clear eloquence; no doubt could be cast on his articulation. He outlined a range of historical Slovenes and their descendants, tracking Slovene and Slovenesque languages even to Dalmatia. He blamed their demise on the Turkish incursions, which also allegedly drove the Bezjaka Slovenes north of the Kolpa river, where they live today in Zagreb and its environs. Altogether, anda painted a historical Slovenia stretching from Venice to Podgoricait was an intoxicating idea for Slovenian nationalists, and the reception of the book saw a frenzy of right-wing activity. Maps printed by the Hervardi society displayed a Slovenia stretching from Italy to Albania, restoring millions to true Slovenialex anda had taken the political stage. A legislative subcommittee on language and culturechaired, conveniently, by a member of the Slovene nationalist partywrote a public endorsement praising the author for his valiant effort in the proud pursuit of truth.
[list][sub]There is no more important task for Slovenes than to preserve their culture; the future of Slovenians is expressed in culture or not at all according to human judgment. If we want to achieve our national purpose through educational reform, we must . . . adopt an absolutely non-German point of view, as if we had never known German and Austrian school types that were adapted to a foreign spirit. . . . Our education should arise from a specifically Slovenian mentality, i.e. it should be suitable for the Slovenian national character, Slovenian capabilities, Slovenian needs, traditions and national ideals, which, however, do not overlap with Croatian and Serbian ones. Our education must follow completely different guidelines than that in the fraternal Serbian and partly Croatian territory, because the entire character of the nations is different.
Dr. Dragan anda, Slovenian nationalist author, in Slovencem (1950)[/sub][/list]
With time, however, Dr. andas acts grew too uncomfortable to ignore. Unsurprisingly, he took his argument to the public in a speech at Trst in late December. Before a receptive audience of Slovene conservatives, he quietly reveled in the confidence of the Slovenian right. Carefully and academically, anda denounced the strategic misinformation of the Serbo-Croatians in convincing Kajkavians that they were false Croats, going on further to accuse the newly formed COMECON of pouring liquid Marxism into the Slavic shores of the Kvarner in order to bake it into bricks for the Red Castle in Moscow. He reiterated the Slovenian claim to Zagreb and proposed holding elections in Kajkavia with the aim of reuniting Slovenia. By his Trst speech, questions to his claims among academia and Slovenias left were mounting; the similarities between Slovenian and Kajkavian were indisputable, but what were the ethical and political consequences of demanding its incorporation into Slovenia? andas calls for the restoration of Slovenian unity were on the lips of only his most zealous compatriots. His works had received plaudits from Slovenias prominent nationalist figures alone. Hed garnered praise and acknowledgment from the likes of former Vice President Emil Avbeljwhose hometown of Kidriče stood to benefit enormously from crowning a thalassocratic empirebut Furlan, Krek, Gosar and Tomič were silent. Indeed, there may well come a time when the Slovene nationalists desire for glory would have to manifest itself instead of merely crying for action.
[list][spoiler=OOC Note]The above quotations are, incredibly, actual selections taken from Slovenian nationalist worksDr. andas were published posthumously, however, for obvious political implications under Yugoslav rule.[/spoiler]
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[list][list][pre]LABAN, PILIPINAS!
FIGHT, PHILIPPINES![/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]| 'THE BASTION OF ASIAN DEMOCRACY': PRESIDENT MANUEL ROXAS ENDEAVORS TO RAISE THE 'PHILIPPINE STANDARD'[/pre]
[sub]MANILA - Despite concerns about his health, President Manuel Roxas declared in a speech to a joint session of the Philippine Congress that he intended to 'establish for our country a standard, a bastion for Asian democracy'. With the advent of communist unity in the form of COMECON in Eastern Europe, Roxas understood that a 'matched response' was necessary among Western nations. With Vietnam still divided between Communist North and capitalist South, and multiple Southeast Asian nations still facing communist threats at home, and the Philippines itself having persons with communist ties in government, whether past or present. To his Cabinet in November of 1950, President Roxas asserted that 'communism is a virus that must be stopped at all costs'. His speech before the joint session in December, shortly before the planned winter legislative break, affirmed the Philippines' continuing commitment to the ROK as the war on the Korean peninsula continues. He furthermore urged the need for fellow Southeast Asian nations to 'unite diplomatically and establish a common forum through which our problems can be solved swiftly and peacefully'.[/sub]
[sub]His speech to the joint session would also establish the 'Philippine Standard' policy. Affirming that a stable and prosperous society that represented 'all corners of the free and democratic Philippines', Roxas firmly believed that raising the Philippine standard of living would be as paramount to preventing a communist insurgency as maintaining a strong defense and security force to deter communist aggression, especially from the north where in China the communist Mao Tse-Tung has secured victory over the Kuomintang nationalist forces. Since the start of his term earlier this year, Roxas had endeavored to work with legislative allies and his Liberal Party (LP) majority to pass social welfare legislation that would focus on providing aid to those still affected by the economic and physical damage inflicted by the Second World War and bombing raids from both sides. Minor legislative achievements had been made in the form of legislation dedicated towards tax cuts for the impoverished, low-cost housing development, and restructuring of the judiciary to cut red tape bureaucracy in the process of trying criminals. Minor achievements, but achievements nonetheless.[/sub]
[sub]In his Philippine Standard policy, Roxas pledged to 'work towards building one home for each Filipino family' and 'ensure peace, law and order on the streets'. He laid down the initial groundwork for a Philippine social welfare program that would guarantee education for the future generations of the country, and announced that he would be prioritizing the development of specialty hospitals and expanding the reach of public schools and expand university and higher education access as well. The President's planned programs would receive broad support from across the aisle as well, with several Nacionalista representatives and senators voicing assent to the President's plans. While a substantial amount of people still viewed the President's extremely strong pro-US opinion, most specially his vice president, Elpidio Quirino, who quietly supported a 'Filipino First' approach to the economy especially.[/sub]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list]SEPTEMBER 1949
[sub]Persian Gulf Petroleum[/sub][/list]
[sup]A Signular¹[/sup][sub][pre] G U L F A F F A R I S [/pre][/sub]
[pre] A D V E N T U R E R E V E N U E [/pre]
[list][list][sub][pre]
King George VI
From Canada to the Australia,
from Singapore to Nigeria, from
the Caribbean to East Africa
H.R.H. reigns united an Empire,
Commonwealth, & Postwar Effort.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
FINSBURY CIRCUS, CITY OF LONDON EVENING
[sub]LONDON, ENGLAND, Great Britain Gb[/sub]
[list][list][sub]It was the companys 40th, off Finsbury Circus the headquarters of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company LTD. was located in that Edwin L. Lutynes architectural edifice, Britannic House. Named after White Star Lines H.M.H.S. Britannic, Anglo-Iranian enjoyed residency within the City of London, the financial epicenter of Britain and her Empire.[/sub][/list][/list]
| And for that 40th, the Board of Directors had gathered in the eggshell-walled board room, seated around that oval mahogany that had been present to all of the Anglo-Iranians previous 39th annuals. The table however vast pailed in comparison to the massive globe suspended from the high vault ceilings displaying the Companys areas of worldwide operations. At the head of these vast operations was Sir WILLIAM ERASER, a Scotman whod helemed Anglo-Iranian for the last 8 years. With grey scottish hair, he was gaunt and a representation of the companys singular aim. Anglo-Iranian finished the year 48 with £50.7 million profit before taxation, thats $204 million in American dollars of the same year. It was without question, the largest revenue year of the companys history . . . For all its governmental ownership, that being nearly 53% of the market stock, Anglo-Iranian ran its practices very much in a capitalistic manner, and in some ways sustained itself as a health of prosperity amid Great Britain's economic woes. |
| Since the day in 1909 when it bought the lucrative Persian oil concession that a wandering Englishman named WILLIAM KNOX DARCY had purchased for just $20,000, the corporation has actually never stopped prospering. The incredible wealth of Anglo-Iranian fields, in Persia and nearby Iraq, has been the subject of nearly never-ending deadly battles. Both the Panzer-leading Rommel in 1942 and the eastward-moving Kaiser in 1915 desired them. Threats such as the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and tribal uprisings sparked by Soviet Russia have existed before and since. Britain and Anglo-Iranian have maintained control throughout it all, bending but never breaking amid the maelstrom. With assets of £76,753,472 (49), Anglo-Iranian is currently the third-largest crude oil producer in the world, behind only Standard Oil Co. (NJ) and Royal Dutch-Shell. Discreet Partner Sir FRASER is without a doubt in charge of all business-related affairs at Anglo-Iranian; only in areas of strategy may he be overruled by Lord ALANBROOKE, the government's representative on the board of Anglo-Iranian and the wartime Chief of the Imperial General Staff. |
| At Glasgow's Royal Technical College, Sir FRASER studied oil chemistry and worked as an office boy for his father's oil shale business. Willie "came with the shale" when Anglo-Iranian (then known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.) took over his father's business in 1919. He advanced to the position of director before being named vice chairman of Anglo-Iranian. To promote Anglo-Iranian and Shell products in Britain, he helped establish Shell-Mex & B.P., Ltd. in 1931. He also established the Consolidated Refineries, Ltd. subsidiary, which developed such massive Anglo-Iranian installations as the refinery at Haifa, Israelli. When Sir JOHN CADMAN passed away in 1941, Sir FRASER took over the senior position. There is trouble brewing for Sir FRASER and Anglo-Iranian at all times. They lost 44 of their 93 ships during World War II, and they lost control of the Haifa refinery during the war in the Mandate. But Sir FRASER quickly regained control of the refinery, and he enlarged the tanker fleet to a record-breaking 121 ships. He has contributed to the increase in Anglo-Iranian crude oil output since the war, from 16.8 million tons in 1945 to 28 million tons in 1948 . . . Since the United States began to enter the Middle Eastern oil market, Anglo-Iranian relations have ceased to be the only determinant of policy in areas like royalties to Middle Eastern shahs and potentates. Two independent U.S. oil companies have agreed to pay royalties that are significantly greater than those paid in the past in exchange for concessions in Kuwait's "neutral zone" and sheikdom within the next year. Knowing that Iran would soon be at his door as a result, Sir FRASER promptly took the initiative himself. However, Anglo-Iranian had agreed to increase its royalties to Persia from four to six shillings per ton, according to Sir FRASER. With its partners in the Iraq Petroleum Co., Royal Dutch-Shell, Jersey Standard, Socony-Vacuum, Compagnie Française des Petroles, and C. S. Gulbenkian, Anglo-Iranian is the sole owner of the Mosul fields in Iraq. |
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[sub]¹ A Singular: being a one of one post on a matter, expanded upon possibly at a later date without a pre-drafted connection.[/sub]
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| NATIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ESTABLISHED IN ZAIRE |
[sub]2nd of December, 1950[/sub]
| The National Healthcare Act has been passed by the National Congress on the 1st of December, and on the 2nd of December due to an overwhelm of the Central Wing experts it had passed through the Assembly of Experts. On the 2nd of December, the act was signed by the First Representative of Zaire, Gloria Banza which has brought the healthcare system of Zaire into motion.
The new Healthcare System of Zaire has been carefully constructed by Zairean medical and social experts alongside their Norden counterparts, with the Nordic Union aiding Zaire in creation of the new healthcare system. The Zairean Healthcare System will is based upon the principles of FREE FOR ALL, AID FOR ALL, SUPPORT FOR ALL. The system will be constructed upon the principle of taxation and government funds being the main funding source of the new system. Each citizen that pays taxes over the age of 18, will be from now on compulsory signed onto the NATIONAL CITIZEN INSURANCE which they will pay to a set percentage of their wage towards. Alongside that, the government of Zaire will allocate 13% of its government budget towards Healthcare.
The NCI will cover the costs of free medical healthcare in clinic appointments, healthcare institutions, hospitals and will cover for all emergencies that arise due to medical reasons. The costs of being seen by a doctor, getting a vaccine, being treated for all medical reasons within the healthcare facilities of the country will be covered fully, enabling the people of Zaire free access to a doctor and healthcare support. In addition to that, the new healthcare system will seek that all children and adults will be given compulsory vaccination for all current and potentially future diseases known to man. The vaccination will be free and compulsory for all in Zaire.
Furthermore, the government will build twenty-three new hospitals around the country by 1952, forty-one new clinics around the country and ten new maternity special care units around the country. Doctors will be allocated their clinic practices by start of 1951, and nurses will be following suit by mid of 1951. In addition to that, the Union of Nurses and the Union of Doctors and Surgeons has been established which will represent the new generation of healthcare professionals in Zaire.
The INSTITUTE FOR VACCINATION, DISEASES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES has been established which will seek to operate, create and be driving the scientific and healthcare experts of the country towards discovering new vaccines, creation of support for new sciences within the fields of healthcare, adaption and creation of new medical technologies and supervision of any new arising diseases that may occur in the future. The Institute will be allocated a great sum of money from the government each year to make sure that Zaire is protected from disease.
The SEX AND SAFE CONTROL INSTITUTE has been created which will oversee healthcare expertise to couples and indivduals on practicing safe sexual intercourse and distribution of protection. The SSC Institute will establish twenty new clinics around Zaire by the end of 1951, in order to push Zaireans into a new way of thinking about family and safe practices.
The DENTISTRY ASSOCIATION has been created and will overlook the creation of forty new dentist clinics to be created around the country. The clinics will be paid for, and will not fall under the free healthcare unless an individual is below the ages of 24 or above the ages of 70. Should that be the case, they shall gain free dentistry. However, Zaireans that are full-time workers will gain the DENTIST BOND from the government which will lower the price of a visit or procedure at the dentist by up to half the price.
The OPTICIANS ASSOCIATION has been created and will overlook the creation of thirty new clinics around the country. Just like the Dentists, the Opticians will be private but should an individual be below the age of 24 or above the age of 65, they shall receive free aid. Full time workers will also be able to gain the OPTICIAN BOND which will lower the price of a visit or procedure by half the price.
The PHARMACY ASSOCIATION has been created and will overlook the creation of forty-two new pharmacy clinics around the country. However, pharmacy goods will be free for all should they be prescribed by the doctor. Any other needed pharmacy goods will be private and will be bought by the citizen themselves.
The universities and career schools are seeing an influx of citizens wanting to become doctors, surgeons and nurses and that is bound to boost the new Healthcare System of the country. The Healthcare Act has been dubbed by the media as the most progressive and groundbreaking act of Zaire since the country's independence. The act, interestingly enough has been ready since March of 1950, but was blocked by NIGOYE who claims that the country cannot afford to support such a system, and that the people of the country should not be mothered, instead they should be pushed towards independence. However, it was IZURU that brought the act to light in the National Congress and pushed for the act to be passed with her Left Wing majority. Marie Izuru has hit back against criticism of the new Healthcare System being too Socialistic, Leftist and progressive by saying;
[list][ MARIE IZURU ]: "What we cannot afford is not supporting such a system. The people of Zaire deserve the right to free healthcare, to free support and to free aid. We are becoming more and more lucrative in our business with the world. I have seen how much money we are making as a country and how much we are predicted to make. How could I look into the face of the disabled, of single mothers, of those that are in dire need of medical support. We are making the right choice in creating a system that will support our people. Let me remind Mr Nigoye, that it is not socialistic, leftist or progressive to care about ones people. It's just common decency."[/list]
[spoiler="I am very pleased that the people of my country will be able to gain free access to the medical support they require..." - Gloria Banza]Adriatican Islands
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TRADE & ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795462
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[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - SLOVENIA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795484
Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Ranponian
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795483
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795233
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795221
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[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - USSR ENERGY ADVISORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, DECEMBER 1950[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795521
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[list][sub]𝚅𝙸𝙸𝙸.1949[/sub]
[sub]LA STRADA DELLA RICOSTRUZIONE II[/sub]
THE ROAD TO RECONSTRUCTION II
[/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub]
| In the heat of the summer of '49, two more major reforms would take place, guided by the stabilizing hand of the De Gasperi coalition. The first would be the pressing matter of infrastructure, specifically housing, as the wartime bombardments, combined with a growing population and the high cost of life, have made it ever more difficult for working-class Italians to afford a home. The INA-Casa Plan, formulated in the first half of the year by Labor Minister Amintore Fanfani, is an ambitious seven-year plan aimed at the large-scale construction of affordable housing, with the side-effect of creating jobs and mitigating unemployment perhaps just as important as its main purpose. With a budget of 335 million lire, the set target is the construction of 735,000 individual rooms, or nearly 150,000 apartments, by 1956. An estimated 40,000 laborers will be hired each year on the INA-Casa construction sites, where great detail has been paid to organization, in order to make the process a lean and efficient one, whereby, once operational, an average of 2,800 units will be finished each week, enabling a delivery of about 550 weekly to the assigned families. |
| The style and design of the new buildings are set to follow precise directives; they will incorporate a good balance of tradition and modernity, called "Neorealismo Italiano": A reinterpretation of the pre-war Razionalismo Italiano, stripped of its imposing Fascist connotations, and with greater detail on harmonious insertion in the built environment, the compositional coherence of materials used, and the inclusion of nature and greenery, as well as the sociological impact borne out of those elements. Although some unity of style will prevail across the country, specific deviations to fit local tradition will be allowed; in the same spirit, all developements will be constructed at human scale, comprising no more than three-to-four stories, unless local, specific needs dictate bigger buildings. Leading architects and designers from around the country have been hired to oversee the projects, among whom leading modernist Adalberto Libera and Giuliana Genta will lead the project. Polychrome, ceramic plaques made by respected artists will be apposed on each building, where they will reference the particular theme of each. In order to encourage local growth, all construction sites will deal with small and medium private entreprises to source materials when possible; local artisans will also be hired. The Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, or INA, the state-owned life insurance company, will provide funding through a dedicated housing fund. Alongside the INA-Casa Plan, tax exemptions up to 30% and subsidies will be offered to any new private construction of affordable housing. |
| Also during the first half of the year, the De Gasperi government would enact a series of reforms aimed at the betterment of social security, with an eye to unemployment insurance and labor policy. The Central Commission for Work Training and Assistance for the Unemployed, along with regional Offices for Labor and Full Employment have been set up, in order to track, train and ultimately provide a job to contless unemployed, following rigorous planning. Training will be financed by the Fund for Professional Training of Workers. Meanwhile, unemployment benefits have been raised to 200 Lire a month, or roughly 20% of the average industrial wage as of 1948. This comes on the heels of numerous reforms over the past few months: The creation of two National Institutes, respectively for orphans and pensioners, which, along with the reorganization of healthcare organized by the previous governments in '46 and '47, together gives Italy a modern and compassionate approach to the difficulties of life and work. While providing for the destitute and the weak was already a priority before the war, doing so today could not be more urgent, as the hardships brought by the war are no less serious than those brought by the Depression of '29 And today, in the eyes of the ruling coalition, such measures were especially needed to fend off the Communists. |
[list][spoiler=[sub]Evviva l'Italia![/sub]]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Afghanistaan[/nation]
[nation]Alaroth[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Annyeong Korea[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Astarina[/nation]
[nation]Bayside[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]Finlandee[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Jersey Republic[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Irelaand[/nation]
[nation]Islahh[/nation]
[nation]Philanialle[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Somerania[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Confederate Prussian Empire[/nation]
[nation]Tallahan[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation][/spoiler][/list]
Nonador, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica
[list][sub]1950 Omani coup d'état.[/sub][/list]
November 10: Events leading up to the coup
[sub]Under Sultan Said bin Taimur's rule, Muscat and Oman has become increasingly isolationist and underdeveloped. He bans many western and modern stuffs, such as it was forbidden to smoke in public, to play football, to wear sunglasses or to speak to anyone for more than 15 minutes. Sultan Said bin Taimur has become increasingly reliant on the British to maintain control in his own country, in which he refused to rule in a modern manner. All of the country's only major source of revenue, petrodollars, was going to into the sultan's coffers and not used to modernize the sultanate. Because of Saids backwards policies, Muscat and Oman is currently under 5 mortality rates of around 25%. Trachoma, venereal disease, and malnutrition are widespread. There are only three schools in the whole country, the literacy rate is 5%, and there are only 10 kilometres (6 mi) of paved roads. Sultan Said bin Taimur's poor leadership of the country and his overreliance on British military support aggravated the British government, who begin to view Taimur's deposition as the only viable way for Muscat and Oman's to modernized and developed. British officials secretly contacted the Sultan's western-educated son, Qaboos bin Said al Said, and informed him of the plan the government was concocting to topple his father. Despite being 17 years old, Qaboos bin Said is considered a prodigy ever since he was a child and graduated from Sandhurst at the age of 16. Unlike his father, he desires to see reforms and modernization for his country. Qaboos agreed to the plan and the operation proceeded.[/sub]
November 31: The coup d'état
[sub]On the morning of the 31st of November 1950, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Sultan Said's 17-year-old son and graduate of Sandhurst, informed British commanders of his intention to overthrow his father. However, he did not know that the planning for the coup had already been in motion for several weeks before that and British-led military units are being put into position in order to topple the Sultan. Major General Graham convened the top Arab commanders of the main Omani unit, the Desert Regiment, that would carry out the coup, and informed them of the letter that was sent to them by Qaboos which "commanded" the British officers to carry out the coup against the Sultan. The meeting successfully secured their loyalty and cooperation. The regiment troops arrived at the al-Husn palace in Salalah, Dhofar Governorate, where Sultan Said bin Taimur is currently staying, and they met no resistance there. This was due to the British successfully persuaded the tribal sheikh of the five hundred guardsmen that was entrusted to defend the palace's exterior to order his men to stand down prior to the coup. The remainder of the coup was carried out predominantly by Arab troops in order to conceal British involvement in the operation. During the coup, Sultan Said bin Taimur shot the son of a prominent Omani governor and a coup plotter, Sheikh Braik Al Ghafri, in the stomach before shooting himself in the foot by accident as he cocked his pistol. The sultan and a few confidantes and bodyguards managed to briefly escape down a series of hidden passageways and tunnels underneath the palace but was recaptured quickly. Sultan Said bin Taimur, who was wounded, urged his advisers to send an urgent message to Colonel Oldman, who is the Secretary for Defence, to inform him about the events that had transpired, which Oldman being a coup planner ignored. With no other choice, Said bin Taimur signed a document of abdication, and he handed over the controls of the country to his son, Qaboos.[/sub]
[sub]The coup has ended successfully and Said Bin Taimur is now being taken away to be flown out of the country on a RAF Bristol Britannia to Bahrain temporarily for medical treatment and when he is heal, he would be flown to London where he will live the rest of his life in exiled.[/sub]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica
[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, Greek Expeditionary Force Sent to Korea : Greece Answers the UN Call for Aid to South Korea!, November - December 1950
Το Βασίλειο της Ελλάδας, Ελληνικό Εκστρατευτικό Σώμα αποστέλλεται στην Κορέα : Η Ελλάδα απαντά στην έκκληση του ΟΗΕ για βοήθεια προς τη Νότια Κορέα!, Νοέμβριος - Δεκέμβριος 1950
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[list][list][list]Adriatican Islands, Rutannia - The Greek Armed Forces, 355th Transport Squadron, 15th Infantry Regiment! - Ελληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις, 355η Μοίρα Μεταφορών, 15ο Σύνταγμα Πεζικού![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]| THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ATHENS, GREECE, SOUTHERN BALKANS: | ΤΟ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΥΤΙΚΌ ΣΏΜΑ, ΑΘΉΝΑ, ΕΛΛΆΔΑ, ΝΌΤΙΑ ΒΑΛΚΆΝΙΑ: |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| In the Korean Peninsula, war has erupted once more. With the North Korean invasion of South Korea, and the pleas for help from the South Korean Government, the people, the UN, and other nations such as the Philippines called on for international aid - the Kingdom of Greece has finally answered the call. The Greek Government officially gave the green light to organize an expeditionary force on the 1st of November. A Greek Land Expeditionary Force, comprising the Greek 355th Transport Squadron and the 15th Infantry Regiment, totaling 1,000 men was organized following orders. Along with this, planes of the Greek Air Force, primarily transport planes, would be sent. However, Greece's main strength in the intervention would be her navy. The war fleet sent to Korea was the reorganized Greek Ionian Fleet, comprising of the RHMS battlecruiser Salamis, the battleship Leon, light cruiser Naxos, two (2) Thiria-class destroyers, two (2) Kountouriotis-class destroyers, three (3) Hunt-class destroyers, and six (6) Coastal Patrol Vessels. |[/list]
[list]| The Fleet, now with troop transports, along with the air fleet, left Greece on the 11th of November, arriving on the Korean Peninsula on the 9th of December at Busan. |[/list]
[list][list][pre]| GREEKS IN KOREA, BUSAN, KOREA, EAST ASIA: | ΈΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΡΈΑ, ΜΠΟΥΣΆΝ, ΚΟΡΈΑ, ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΚΉ ΑΣΊΑ: | [/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| Arriving at Busan, the Greeks were immediately attached to the United States 1st Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division, the Battalion then being reorganized, the unit now being under the name Sparta Battalion. Their commanders were Lieutenant Colonel Dionysios Arbouzis and Lieutenant Colonel Georgios Koumanakos. Being relocated to Suwon, the Greek Forces in Korea were now prepared for action. Meanwhile on the seas, the Greek Ionian Fleet, now temporarily renamed the Greek Fleet in Korea, worked with the US 7th Fleet, bombarding coastlines and aiding with operations. |[/list]
[list][list][pre]"Greece is prepared for intervention, protection, and the liberation of the people of South Korea. These men are ready to fight for South Korea, and aid her and their allies in their aid to combat the Northern Menace."[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]- Lieutenant Colonel Georgios Koumanakos[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance, Brazil Toucan
[list]December 1950
[sub]Loyalty of the Eye, Pt. 2[/sub][/list]
[sub]Previously;
Part 1 - Washing the Red Away[/sub]
[pre]D E L I V E R I N G A B L A C K E Y E[/pre]
VALLEY PARK, HAUPSTRABE, SIEGBURG, 12 KM NORTHEAST OF BONN, New Provenance
[sub]RENDEZVOUS, VALLEY PARK SIEGSBURG, BONN[/sub]
| The harsh winter breeze had required most Bonners, as the citizens of Bonn lovingly called themselves, to wear heavy trench coats for the men, and fur coats for the women. Despite the economy being in a sensitive and fragile state, life was beginning to return back to normal. Indeed, one would question whether the town of Siegburg could be considered a part of Bonn. Sitting just north of the Rhine, and about 12 kilometers northeast from Bonn, the small town of a few thousand was a quaint little getaway spot for urban Germans seeking to get a glimpse of the countryside. Indeed, the quiet and inconspicuous nature of the town also made it the headquarters of a certain intelligence organization whose existence has not been acknowledged by any foreign entity. Positioned within driving distance from the administrative capital of the Federal Republic, and just far enough so as to remain out of the eye of the public - or any unwanted attention - Siegburg was perfect for a hiding spot. |
| Adjusting his fedora to properly cover his face just right as a mother strolled buy carrying a basket of vegetables from the local market nearby, a young man in a deep blue trench coat glanced upward and looked across the road - There, a gentleman, himself in a fedora, gripping a newspaper in one hand and what appeared to be a pistol in the other. Naturally, openly holding loaded firearms would be an arrestable offense, but the small scale of the town they were in also translated to a small police force. Thus, there was nobody around as the two converged behind an oak tree. |
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "And what is it you are doing in a place like this? I doubt you came all the way out here to ask about Sophie."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "Well, of course not. We can certainly save that for another time. In the meanwhile, we have much more pressing matters to deal with-"[/list]
| BRUNER would thrust an inconspicuous brown envelope into TELLERMANN's hands. He would glance around, checking for any observers, before opening it and reading the paper inside. On it was a freshly typed document using a high-grade typewriter. |
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "The bureaucrats finally caught on. I've been trying to get their attention for months now."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "The coup in Prague made them think."[/list]
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "Think what?"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "That something similar might happen here, in Germany. We need stability here, they said. And a certain organization is posing a potential threat to that. Maybe not now, but it may potentially occur in the future."[/list]
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "But has Gehlen not proven his loyalty to the Bundesrepublik already?"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "I'm sure that's what President Benes thought of the Czechoslovak military two weeks ago. Then this happened."[/list]
| Tellermann glanced at Bruner, sighing deeply. |
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "Well, more danger for us soon, no? More gunfights and hidden operations."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "That's the job of a spy, old friend."[/list]
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "Putting oneself at risk?"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "-And doing so in secret. That's our job. We work in the shadows to keep the peace. We're not here because spying and espionage is cool. We're here because we need it. We can't allow a war between East and West, or humanity goes extinct. We're just doing our best so we - our children, and our grandchildren, too - can live in a world where children do not have to cry."[/list]
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "Since when did you get so poetic? I think Maria's having an effect on you."[/list]
| The two men would chuckle heartily, before Bruner turns to his wristwatch. |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "Let us go and get this done, once and for all. It's time to deliver a black eye."[/list]
[list][sub]| ARMAND TELLERMANN, 'Black Eye' |[/sub] "Without incurring ones ourselves, I hope."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, 'White Eye' |[/sub] "That's the spirit."[/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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Central Arstotzka, Arcanda, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr
[list][list]JANUARY 1951
[sub]Put Vargas Portrait Back[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] H I S S M I L E S E N D U S B A C K T O W O R K [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, CATETE PALACE AFTERNOON
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| The U.S. is investing nearly $800,000 through the Point Four program in Brazil. This U.S. money will be used to increase hydropower potential, improve agriculture and the transportation system, thus speeding shipment of cargoes scarce manganese and iron ore to market. The appropriation is more important than the small sum would indicate, in part because it only covers operations through June; after that, larger sums will be required. But for Brazilians who for a long time felt that the Americans were turning their backs on Brazil, this announcement was important for diplomatic relations between the two countries. Foreign Minister RAUL FERNANDES had worked six months for this program. Both he and President EURICO GASPAR DUTRA considered making the Point Four spending program an achievement of their government before they hand over the government to GETÚLIO VARGAS. |
| For 15 years, Vargas portrait was hung in all public buildings, offices and stores in Brazil. This portrait was the symbol of the Estado Novo. When his reign fell, so did his portrait. In Rio, the Supreme Court, acting as Brazils Supreme Electoral Tribunal, declared that Vargas won the presidential election. The official count: Vargas, 3,820,560; Eduardo Gomes, 2,288,105; Cristiano Machado, 1,653,521. From his ranch in the south, Getúlio went to Rio, where he would assume the presidency on January 31. When he met with São Paulos governor ADHEMAR DE BARROS to discuss the formation of the new Cabinet, many allies spoke with him privately. Many politicians organized banquets to celebrate Getúlios victory. Cardinal Dom JAIME CÂMARA announced a special mass commemorating the election of Vargas, although the church press had supported the Brigadeiro. The Jockey Club said it would revive its annual Prix Getulio Vargas, which was dropped from the racing calendar in 1946. A new samba was becoming very popular in the country: |
[list][pre]Put that portrait of the old man back, Put it back where it was; The smile of the little old man Sends us back to work.[/pre][/list]
Nonador, Central Arstotzka, Nosautempopulus, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, New Provenance, Adriatican Islands
[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - NEW GRENADA ENERGY ADVISORY DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 1951[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795932
Nonador, Central Arstotzka, Nosautempopulus, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, New Provenance, La Granadinas, Brazil Toucan
[list][list][pre]Prague, Czechia, Third Republic of Czechoslovakia
9TH OF MAY, 1950 - CZECHOSLOVAK COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT SIGNS A NEW CONSTITUTION, AFFIRMING LEFTIST RULE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE[/pre][pre]ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ KOMUNISTICKÁ VLÁDA PODEPSALA NOVOU ÚSTAVU, KTERÁ V DOHLEDNÉ DOBĚ POTVRDÍ LEVICOVOU VLÁDU [/pre]________________________________________________[/list][/list]
| The communist coup has left surprising ripples of support or disapproval throughout the bi-ethnic republic for the previous several months. The so-called nominal "coalition government", now led by the communist KSČ party, has let no time waste in re-structuring the former liberal republic into a functioning soviet-socialist state. While public support has undoubtedly even been high in support for the takeover, the communists have begun quickly to consolidate their power. Thousands fired and hundreds have been arrested in so-called "crimes against the population and/or people's state". While rumors and discussions emerged of many of these accusations being "trumped up", many of those arrested were previously involved in the former government including several charged with corruption penalties. In the following wake, thousands fled the country to avoid living under Communism fearing what social repercussions could come as a result of rumors and/or information spread amongst the civilian population about its neighboring communist states. As such the new communist government and Ministry of Defense, headed by the legendary Defence Minister Ludvík Svoboda, who was formally non-partisan but had facilitated Communist infiltration into the officer corps, has led to fortifying the Western borders with nations of Austria, New Provenance, and so on. Czechoslovakia began to lay itself out as the final piece of the so-called "iron curtain". |
| With the communist coup came the matter of embedding the new government into writing. The ease of this process came with the entire National Assembly falling into line, as its members did in 1948 following the elimination of the Senate and enlarging the lower house of the legislature. A new constitution, which was approved by the parliament, purged of dissidents, and declared Czechoslovakia a "people's democratic state", has been signed on May 9th this year. Although it was not a completely Communist document (indeed, the KSČ was not even mentioned), it was superficially similar to its predecessor; it was true, several provisions were directly carried over from the earlier constitution. However, it contained several elements borrowed from the "Stalin Constitution" of the Soviet Union, concerning a nationalized-basis of the entire economy and it did declare that Czechoslovakia had embarked on a "national and democratic revolution" that it intended to defend against "domestic and foreign reaction." Indeed, the government sector was declared the basis of the economy, but it protected the private sector and cooperatives as well. Unlike most Communist constitutions, the Ninth-of-May Constitution did not replace the presidency with a collective body. It also afforded protections against arbitrary arrest; no one could be taken into custody without a warrant. But, importantly, in writing and practice, the constitution did not organize government administration under the Leninist principle of democratic centralism, keeping Czechoslovakia's unique form of legislating and governing, something the public would confirm by ratifying the elections later in the same month. |
| Later in the month of May, snap elections occurred under the new Communist regime, holding true to promises of democratic participation. At the 30 May elections, voters were presented with a single list from the National Front, which officially won 89.2% of the vote; within the National Front list, the Communists had an absolute majority of 214 seats (160 for the main party and 54 for the Slovak branch). The National Front, the former governing coalition which was now a broad patriotic organization under Communist control, which was written into the constitution unlike the communist party itself. President Bene subsequently resigned on the last day of the month, and now Klement Gottwald has become President-Elect days later following the election results. President-Elect Gottwald gave his public victory speech in a small square in an outer neighborhood of Prague, saying: |
[list]"... [Bene] knows what strength is, and this led him to evaluate this [situation] realistically. I commend him for his graceful transfer of power and wish his retirement well. Now myself, and my fellow new-government, have work to do, for the Czechoslovak peoples of course. Back to work, I suppose, for us!"[/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
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Nonador, Arcanda, Nosautempopulus, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Ubertica, Brazil Toucan
| NIGOYE DETHRONED, IZURU WINS |
[sub]2nd of January, 1951[/sub]
| After ten long years as the Head of the Finest Assembly, the leading governing body of the country, Fabian Nigoye has lost the elections and was forced to step down. The National Congress chose the Head of the Finest Assembly on the 1st of January, 1951. Whereas the situation was tense even though the Left Wing held the majority, it just wasn't enough for Nigoye to gain the Liberal Votes and the Christian-Democrat votes. Nigoye lost the battle in the first voting session, ending his ten year tenure as the leading expert of the country.
[list]HEAD OF THE FINEST ASSEMBLY ELECTION RESULTS;
MARIE IZURU gained 85 Votes from the National Congress ( 78 from the LEFT WING and 7 from the CENTRAL WING ).
FABIAN NIGOYE gained 63 Votes from the National Congress ( 54 from the LIBERAL WING and 9 from the CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING ).[/list]
Nigoye's ten years in office had been characterized with Nigoye's Economic Plan, strong support and strive for Banza's post colonial reformation, creation of opportunities for the people economically, creation of a strong and stable capitalistic and state-owned market, creation of important deals with major world powers and what is now being observed as a growing economic boom of the Zairean economy. However, despite all this, Nigoye has failed to push the Liberal Wing into victory in the last year National Congress elections, and according to some sealed his own fate by doing so. From the official published list of experts within the cabinet of Marie Izuru, Fabian Nigoye is not present.
THE FINEST ASSEMBLY OF ZAIRE EXPERTS 1951 to 1956
[list]AGRICULTURAL; Oscar Lubudi ( CENTRAL WING )
SOCIAL WELFARE; Amelie Hudsi ( LEFT WING )
HEALTHCARE; Jean Okani ( LEFT WING )
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - WORLD; Gaspard Kamba ( LEFT WING )
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - AFRICA; Celine Mezeri ( CENTRAL WING )
EDUCATION; Rolande Usudi ( LEFT WING )
MILITARY; Charles Lutke ( INDEPENDENT )
ECONOMY - INVESTMENTS & GROWTH; Michel Ebata ( INDEPENDENT )
ECONOMY - STATE OWNED COMPANIES MANAGEMENT; Catharine Landry ( LEFT WING )
CULTURE - MODERNITY & INNOVATION; Margot Okombi ( CENTRAL WING )
TRIBE MATTERS; Lance Ubuki ( INDEPENDENT )
JUSTICE; Hamelin Kutur ( INDEPENDENT )
MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; Ansel Sylla ( CENTRAL WING )
ENERGY; Roch Boso ( LEFT WING )
WOMEN ADVANCEMENT; Sabine Turui ( LEFT WING )[/list]
Marie Izuru has been honoured with being granted permission by the First Representative of Zaire to officially begin her rule as of the 2nd of January, 1951. Marie Izuru has stated in her speech to the National Congress that Social Welfare, Economic Boom and Zairean Voice in Africa are the most important things for her in her upcoming five year rule. Marie Izuru is the first official Left Wing leader in Zaire. However, major controversies have already arisen with Izuru cutting the cabinet ministries substantially and removing the Faith Expert from the overall Assembly, making the Zairean Church go into uproar.
[list][ MARIE IZURU, Head of the Finest Assembly ( Translated to English ); "The time has come ladies and gentlemen to truly bring the goods of this country to its people. With our astonishingly great rising economy, and the lucrative deals we have made and are bound to make, the riches of the country has to reach its people quickly and effectively. We must enrich each and every Zairean before the start of 1955, each and every Zairean will be able to afford a television set, own a car and find themselves a holiday before the end of my five year rule. Secondly, we must continue with our economic growth that is vital to the survival of our people. An economic growth that has never been seen in this country before, and for that we must thank Mr Nigoye. His hard work within the spheres of economics has not been wasted, but now is the time for us to bring that energy and direct it towards the people. Thirdly, the voice of Zaire must be one of the loudest of Africa. An Africa that is starting to free itself, an Africa that is open and welcoming, an Africa ready for real business with real players of the international arena. I want to tell each and every Zairean right now, from this podium of our symbol of democracy and freedom, you will be rich by the end of my tenure. In every meaning of that word."[/list]
[spoiler="I congratulate Mrs Izuru sincerely on her victory, and I wish to thank Mr Nigoye for his hard work, dedication and determination over the years. You have served this country proud." - Gloria Banza]Adriatican Islands
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January, 1951
[sub]Anti-Saudi-Wahhabi Omani tribes attacked and sack several villages of pro-Saudi tribe and villages at the border of Arabia.[/sub]
[sub]Due to the situation and growing power of Saudi Arabia, several of the Omani tribes, mainly under the leadership of the Hinawi tribes, in the interiors and the costal region, who are anti-Saudi and anti-Wahhabists, have raided several villages of the Sunni Wahabbist Ghafiri tribes and their allies in the Sultanate. However some went even further and raided several villages in the kingdom and taken with them many captives back to their tribes. The new Sultan, Qaboos bin Said and the Omani Government, while disapproved of the raid within the sultanate of tribes aganist tribes, made no comment on the situation as it might have to do with the Sultan's personal beliefs on the Saudis and the Wahhabism.[/sub]
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THE QUEST TO SUBDUE THE INVADING TRIBES
Just having executed the coup and consolidated the throne, Ibn Saud would have one last crisis in front of him: the Omani border. It was clear to him and the rest of the Saud family that the Omani government was not capable of controlling their own populace. Already having a large portion of the military mobilized due to the coup, Ibn Saud would redirect a fraction to Oman, but would still keep a large number of troops at home to prevent any counter-coup from occurring.
The following units would be mobilized on the Omani border:
60 x M3 Lee medium tanks
15 x M4 Sherman medium tanks
250 x M3 Half-Track armored personnel carriers
Supporting this deployment would be a part of the Air Force:
10 x B-25 Mitchell Medium Bombers
5 x A-26 Invader Light Bombers
15 x P-38 Lightning Fighter-Bombers
However, already on call were tribal militias, from which 2 units would be organized, consisting of 30,000 men in total. They were to find and pacify the invading tribes, and bring the Hinawi chieftain to justice in Riyadh, where he would face Sharia law. The units are mostly cavalry armed with modern rifles, as to travel across rough desert terrain with efficiency.
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THE ATTEMPTING TO PUT UP SOME RESISTENCES AGAINST THE INVASION
With the Saudi invading the Sultanate, Sultan Qaboos orders the royal army to be station in all fortications throughout in the country. The Omani army doesn't have any tanks with them, they own weaponry from WWII that was used in the Jebel Akhdar War. While the other weapons are early 20th century era. despite weaponry inferiority the Omani will put up resistance as much as they can against the invasion.
Nosautempopulus, Ranponian
WAR WITH THE OMANI GOVERNMENT
Even though the forces were initially intended to pacify aggressive tribes in the interior, the Omani attempt to defend these invading tribes gave Ibn Saud enough warrants to justify a full invasion of the country. The armored group would be split into 3 groups, and they would advance into Al Jibal, Fahud, and Al Ghubr, respectively. Meanwhile, the tribal forces would begin wreaking havoc and exacting revenge on any encampment they saw, in order to expedite the process of bringing the Hinawi chief to justice.
The air force would be fully deployed, and begin bombing operations both in the desert and along the coast. 5 bombers would be deployed to support the military advance into Oman, but 25 bombers would be sent to begin carpet bombing Muscat, in an attempt to get the Sultan to surrender without much bloodshed, considering the Omanis lacked much of an airforce.
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[sub]Oman surrender. The sultan and his family leave into exiles.[/sub]
[sub]Despite putting up resistance, the Omani Army was no matched against the more modernized Saudi forces. As the Saudi army were closing in on Muscat, Sultan Qaboos and his family left the country and went into exiles in England. Few days later the Saudi army enter into Muscat and capture the capital. The remaining ministers said a declaration of unconditional surrender leaving Oman becoming part of Arabia. The glory days of Oman is gone and the nation is no longer existed.[/sub]
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SAUDI VENGEANCE
The Omani Royal family had barely fled the country in time for the armed forces to get to them. Meanwhile, tribal forces had captured the chieftain, and he was scheduled to be executed publically in Riyadh for his violation of Islamic law. The country was not jubilant, as this was only the beginning of the Saud consolidation, in a period of instability for the peninsula. Oman would face the wrath of the former Ikhwan members, now called the White Army, who would exact revenge on the anti-Wahhabists. The Saud administration would immediately begin integrating Oman into the Kingdom in the midst of the chaos. The war would not be without blood.
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[list]January 1951
[sub]Loyalty of the Eye, Pt. 3[/sub][/list]
[sub]Previously;
Part 1 - Washing the Red Away
Part 2 - Delivering a Black Eye[/sub]
[pre]R E M N A N T B R E A K S[/pre]
14 DANZIGER STREET, SANKT AUGUSTIN, 5KM NORTHEAST OF BONN, New Provenance
[sub]COVERT OUTPOST OF THE BONN SPECIAL LIASIONS OFFICE, SANKT AUGUSTIN, GERMANY[/sub]
| The blinds were drawn closed, and a singular lamp in the corner lit the ornately-decorated room. Prior to the war, it had been home to a businessman and his wife, but it had been sold off to the ABWEHR, the German Army's intelligence agency. It was subsequently transformed into a base of operations for intelligence missions in the Bonn area, where young university students were particularly restless. With the end of the war, the resistance forces took over the residence before handing it over to the American authorities. It would be briefly transformed into an American intelligence office, before its handover to the German authorities in November 1949 under the Bonn SPECIAL LIASIONS OFFICE (Büro für besondere Verbindungen, or BfbV), the federal government's private equivalent to the Gehlen Organization, or the Org. Now, it was operated by the BfbV as an office to monitor any potential 'resurgences' in the area - referring to potential return of Volkist remnants. The office would be fulfilling its role this evening, as HEINRICH BRUNER, an officer for the BfbV, sat across a tea table from REINHARD GEHLEN, the chief officer of the Org - and a former Volkist intelligence officer. |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "Reinhard."[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "No. I will not. I'm loyal-"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "To the Bundesrepublik. Loyal to the Bundesrepublik. Loyal to freedom, to the German people."[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "To my friends and partners."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "No. Today, we're speaking 'country over party'. You have to understand the . . . risks of your job. The risks of your . . . history. It's time for you to leave quietly, Reinhard."[/list]
| Gehlen shook his head, and Bruner groaned. |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "Look, I have my orders. You have to leave quietly."[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "I'm not leaving my job, Herr Bruner."[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "Then we will be forced to take it from you. This world is quickly changing. We're ready to move on, but we can't. Not if . . . there are risks that remain."[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "So a purge? You're purging your opponents?"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "No. We're doing this for Germany."[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "WHAT GERMANY-?!"[/list]
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "You must breathe, Reinhard. If not-"[/list]
[list][sub]| REINHARD GEHLEN, Head of 'The Org' |[/sub] "You will kill me. I am well aware, I am a spy just like you."[/list]
| Bruner stood up, sighing once more. He locked eyes with Reinhard, his eyes sullen with exhaustion. Pulling on his gloves and placing on his fedora. Stopping right in front of the door, Bruner would turn halfway- |
[list][sub]| HEINRICH BRUNER, BfbV Agent |[/sub] "It's over."[/list]
| Walking out and pulling the door closed, Bruner would nod to the agent guarding the door as a silenced noise would emerge from the room. Understanding the situation, the agent winced as he walked out and to the waiting car, his shadow following him closely in the night. Above, the moon shined brightly, before fainting a little thanks to a cloud - perhaps it had observed what had just taken place. |
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THE KONGREGACIJA SVETEGA JURIJA AND THE CURIOUS CASE FOR SLOVENE MONARCHISM
[list][sup]CONQUERORS OF A MILLENIUM PAST
SLOVENIAJANUARY 1951[/sup][/list]
Nestled among the ornate, pristine buildings that inhabit the cobblestone streets of Ljubljana were many buildings of eccentric purpose. Not the least of these was the Kongregacija Svetega Jurija (Congregation of St. George), whose polished wooden first-floor façade was regally inlaid with the gilded letters of its name: founded in 1945, the Congregation was the product of the excitement of independence during which political ideologies for the shaping of the new state emerged, lived, and died in the coffeehouses and streetside cafés of Ljubljana. Slovenias old money had long been a source of mystery and inquiry; those ancient Slovene houses which were among the few to survive the medieval age intact had become proud and austere benefactors of masterful works of art, architecture and ceremony as they patronized cultural works, graced banquets and courted visiting leaders. Chiefest among them was the House of Koceljič, heirs to the ancient Kocelj Svetli (Kocelj the Bright) who had seized the Holy Union of Carantania and Carniola for his own Duchy of the Wends in the ninth century.
Since the days of their venerable patriarch, the House of Koceljič dwelled in Carniola, where they participated in the aristocracies of fleeting empires and conquerors. Their wealth never diminished, replenishing by centuries of clever governance and shrewd financing. Their only rival in status among the traditional Slovenian nobility was the House of Ostrovrhar, the head of whichDomislav IIrecently patronized the puristic Anton Breznik Society. Indeed, the wealth and prestige of the Slovenian aristocracy had largely eroded throughout centuries of Habsburg rule and decades under Serbs; still, those houses with wise industrial and economic investments remained. The Houses of Koceljič, Ostrovrhar, Pretnar and Raječe still owned sprawling estates, endearing themselves to the public eye with grants and projects that seemed suspiciously like pacifications to prevent excessive taxation of their wealth by the Slovene government. Regardless, the Koceljič dynasty occupied a sincerely monumental place in Slovene history and gathered a surprising following in the era of the Slovene Rising that culminated in independence. Excitement around its survival and the idea of its endurance as a national symbol was enough to leverage some small support among the Slovene population.
In the end, though, representative democracy prevailed. Slender, scholarly 57-year-old Stojan Koceljič was not King Stojan I. Still, some did seek it. The advent of the Congregation of St. George stirred the dynastic appetites of many, and by 1946 more than a hundred letters had reached the office of Prime Minister Miha Krek inquiring about the restoration of the Koceljič dynasty. Krek, though he conceded that the family was a veritable heirloom of Slovenian history, denied the possibility but failed to properly halt the movement. Even in 1951, the Congregation claims a membership of several hundred and denies any financial support from the traditional Slovene nobility. It operates instead on a tax-exempt status is due to its purported focus on cultural and historical research and continues to find adequate funds for its modest office and library; its activities remain as lively as ever, especially as Slovene exceptionalism rises. The House of Koceljič has never directly affiliated with the Congregation, though this has not deterred it: a regal portrait of Stojan I Koceljič hangs proudly in the main room of the Congregations office, flanked by an impressive collection of ancient weaponry and armor.
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[list][pre]January, 1951 | Jebel Aulia, White Nile Province, The Commonwealth Of Sudan[/pre]
THE JEBEL AULIA DAM[/list]
As a side effect of the great industrial revolution that has greatly altered the urban landscape of the Sudanese towns and cities, the demand for greater electric and energy consumption had put a heavy strain on the nations pre-existing energy infrastructures established coal power plants in Nyala, Malakal, Khartoum, Port Sudan, and Atbarah, that had so far employed the importation of British coal in the exchange of goods produced by the Sudanese factories that those very power plants provide energy to from across the nations industrial cities.
However, with rising consumption demand by both a growing population and growing urban centers sprawling across Sudan, the Khalil government had sought a more efficient and domestic form of energy production that did not require the expensive, inefficient, and long exportation of coal from abroad to Sudans power plants and cities. In 1947 The eyes of the colonial administration had been refocused on Sudan's only standing hydro dam that sits south of the township of Sennar, the medieval capital of the prominent Funj Sultanate.
The Sennar Dam, which had completed construction in 1925 right before the Khartoum revolt, was essentially constructed towards storing a maximum capacity of 930 million cubic meters of water in the Sennar reservoir. That reservoir is responsible for feeding the water into a series of long and winding canals running across the cotton and crops farmlands, providing irrigation and fertility to the region. However, industrial demands in the growing urban cotton cities of Wad Medani, Sennar, and Al-Manaqil during the war had given the colonial government the push needed towards transforming and refitting the dam into a hydroelectric dam to generate up to 15 megawatts of electricity, distributed amongst the cities listed according to their population and industrial value.
With the independence of the young nation, the Khalil Administration was determined to abandon its heavy dependency on the British Empire. Despite Sudans standing within the commonwealth, Khalil had stressed that a nation must have the ability to seek alternative plans for their national security and not be dependent on others. Since 1936 the colonial government and officials from Egypt had looked over the possibility of building yet another dam near the town of Jebel Aulia on the border between Khartoum and White Province. The dam originally was planned for the same purposes as the Sennar Dam, to accumulate a reservoir capable of distributing the white Nile waters into the fertile waterways of Gezira and the White Nile Provinces.
However, three years later the world would be thrown into war and eight years after in 1947, the colonial government faced economic limitations allowing it to only transform the Sennar dam into a hydroelectric one. But now with the help of Khalils Transportation Infrastructure Ministry and Foreign Office, which has employed the use of Egyptian Union Construction, Azanian firms, and Sudanese corporations working together in a joint investment project with the use of Sudans School of Civil Engineering and Manufacturing in the University of the Nile in Khartoum as well as hydroelectric engineers from across the Commonwealth and Africa, Parliament would finally give the Khalil administration the go-ahead for beginning project JAD, which stands for the Jebel Aulia Dam.
The Jebel Aulia Dam will be constructed on the White Nile, 27 miles south of the capital Khartoum where it shall stand at a height of 22 meters and hold a capacity of 3,5 million cubic meters with an estimate to generate electricity from the dam up to 20 megawatts. Water levels in the areas in front of and behind the dam would be raised so that the pumps could irrigate the White Nile agricultural projects in Abu Quota, Al Fatisa, Al Hashaba, Umm Jarr, and Al Duwaim areas. The Jebel Aulia dam and reservoir shall help provide water for sugar and agricultural projects to revitalize the economic and social life in the Jebel Aulia region, south of Khartoum. While also providing a greater pool of electric capabilities to cities west of the Nile like Kadugli and El Obied.
Sudan plans to take advantage of its great and vast water resource as it finds itself within a strategic position within the Nile valley and the flow of river Nile which mostly flows through Sudan. Other hydroelectric capabilities are being explored on the Gash River, Atbarah River, and the Sobat. The Sudanese Foreign Office and Transportation Infrastructure Ministry have also eagerly announced that further plans and projects are being made with Sudanese corporations and the Azanian government and several firms towards an expansion project in Sudans only high-capacity harbor and second largest city, Port Sudan. The project announcement is expected to come in the coming months in a joint venture between Khartoum and Cape Town.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
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| MRS BANZA BRINGS MONEY |
[sub]1st of January, 1951[/sub]
| Mrs Banza last year world tour has been highly viewed and celebrated but questions arose about whether the tour will bring any lucrative deals for Zaire in the long run and whether it wasn't a waste of public money. The commentators were proven wrong harshly when on the 1st of January, the Zairean government announced that Zaire has made lucrative partnerships with the United Kingdom and the United States of America, partnerships that strengthen the ties between those states.
[list]ZAIREAN - BRITISH PARTNERSHIP PACT
- Expansion of Trade between Zaire and the United Kingdom ( With Special Emphasis on Zairean Resources reaching United Kingdom and the British goods and technologies reaching Zaire. )
- Investments from the British into Zaire, and from British companies onto the Zairean markets.
- Creation of the Zairean-British Cooperation Pact upon which the two states declare cooperation in Africa on the basis of keeping peace and stability of the region and its borders.
- Larger Expansion of Zairean infrastructure with British colonies still remaining in Africa, and on creation of more sophisticated trade routes between Zaire and the United Kingdom.
- Zaire becomes a client of the British military goods.
- Cultural Exchange between Zaire and the United Kingdom.
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ZAIREAN - AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP PACT
- Expansion of Trade Relations between Zaire and the United States of America ( With Emphasis on larger Zairean resources reaching United States and a larger increase in American goods and technologies reaching Zaire. )
- Larger Influx of American investments into Zaire, and of American companies into Zairean markets.
- Larger opening of Zairean markets for American goods and companies.
- ZAIRE - USA Technological & Cooperation Pact ( USA and Zaire will cooperate within the spheres of peace, stability and prosperity within Africa, with USA aiding Zaire in developing necessary technologies. )
- Zairean-American Cultural Exchange between the two states.[/list]
With strongly growing relations between Zaire, United States and the United Kingdom, Mrs Banza has been celebrated for her diplomacy. The deals with the Americans and the British are said to bring incredible boost to the rising economy, and to markets of Zaire. The deals go into effect from the 2nd of January, 1951, and are bound to bring the states together. Zaire has now find its economic feet, and its deals with two of the most powerful economies of the world is a sign of that. |
[list][ GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire ]: "Les Britanniques et les Américains sont des amis du Zaïre, des amis de plus en plus forts. Mes visites à Londres et à New York m'ont montré ce que le travail acharné, le dévouement et la prospérité font à un pays et le Zaïre est sur la même voie. Avoir des amis solides en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis est une chose pour laquelle j'ai travaillé très dur, et je suis heureux d'annoncer que les fruits en sortent pour le Zaïre. Londres, New York et Noveu Zaïre. Les trois capitales de la coopération, de l'amitié et des opportunités."
[spoiler="London, New York, Noveu Zaire. The three capitals of cooperation, friendship and opportunity." - Gloria Banza]Adriatican Islands
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MARSHAL TITO BRINGS US INTO THE FUTURE!
January 11th 1951
https://youtu.be/XLlF6EByEyw
Despite both its size position within the Eastern Bloc Yugoslavia has, since the end of the Second World War, been slowly falling behind its competitors in both Slovenia and Yugoslavia due to its large focus on the Armed Forces. Being Bordered by so many hostile states while it is certainly a necessity it means neglecting other parts of the Economy for short term military growth. While it cant be fully halted due to these many threats, Marshal Tito has vowed to conduct many programs of economic growth beginning with the construction of a large dam between Serbia and Romania (IRL the Iron Gate Hydroelectric Power Station) which would be capable of generating many Terawatts of Energy for both Yugoslavs and Romanians. Being so large Construction would undoubtedly take around a decade to complete but as a result it would be one of the largest Hydroelectric dams in the entirety of Europe. Tens of smaller dams were also announced but while they would no doubt help economically it was the Iron Gate Dam which was the "face" of the economic push. Ultimately much of the plan relied on assistance and cooperation with the U.S.S.R with which Yugoslavia has shared close relations since the end of the war. This would consist of help in building and acquiring the tooling and machinery for Factories that would enable further growth through the production of Tractors, Trucks and Buses.
The loss of Slovenia even today had wide implications, as the largest Automobile manufactory in Yugoslavia before the war was located there, and many of the Industries necessary to facilitate economic growth were within that region since the time of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. While optimistic in the long term over its re-acquisition, in the short term Marshal Tito had set his sights on achieving a form of peaceful integration with Albania which itself could supply a larger workforce and generous raw materials. Such an acquisition would no doubt further endear Yugoslavia to the U.S.S.R as well and as a result perhaps increase aid from there. Perhaps one of the more important resources they possess being their Petroleum reserves which have made it a net exporter since the mid 20s.
Overall the Marshal intended the following aims by 1955 :
- The construction of 12 smaller Dams and Dykes across Yugoslavia to promote energy intensive production facilities
- Modernization of the vastly outdated rail links with Romania and Hungary, as well as purchasing modern Locomotives
- Acquisition of modern Cranes for the main Ports at Zadar, Dubrovnik and Split
- Construction of a Government owned Plant at ibenik to produce Zis-150 Trucks for Military and Civilian use
- Expansion of the Belgrade Tank Plant & Kragujevac Arms Plant to double their capacity
- Acquisition of large amounts of modern tractors for Farming cooperatives
- Increased hours in the workweek from 48 to 50 hours to promote production
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EXPANSIONS TO CARNIOLAN, CARINTHIAN AND STYRIAN STEELWORKS ACCENT A LONG METALLURGICAL HISTORY
[list][sup]THE NATION OF STEEL AND DAFFODILS
SLOVENIAJANUARY 1951[/sup][/list]
Vigilant on Carniolan hills or nestled in Styrian valleys, the heat of furnaces have warmed Slovenia since antiquityin truth, the smelting and purification of metal has become as much Slovenian heritage as Carantania or the Slovene Rising. Small local smelters throughout the country have operated since medieval times, and some large furnaces have survived from the early 16th century; before Slovenia was yet Slovenia, the Slovenes smelted and worked metal. In the new Republic, four bastions of this legacy now form the foundation for growing manufacturing industries: the Carinthian town of Gutanjsoon to be renamed Ravne na Korokemthe Upper Carniolan town of Jesenice, and the Styrian towns of Mislinja and tore. Jesenice was the birthplace of the third joint-stock company in Carniola: the Kranjska industrijska druba (Carniolan Industrial Company, KID), founded in 1869 and eventually encompassing nineteen plants in twelve cities before its closure at the end of the century. Forges and nail shops have flourished along the Mea river at Gutanj since 1774, the products of which have found homes in Greece, Turkey, Italy, Syria, Egypt, Brazil and elsewhere, especially as finished products entered production during the interwar period. Mislinja has been home to a blast furnace since 1723, when Ernst Joef Hanič along the Mislinja River; it was later bought by iga Zois and coupled with a glass factory. tore became the site of a flourishing steel mill in the nineteenth century after the discovery of abundant coal in its surrounding Styrian hills; now, in the swing of an industrial boom, it is on the path to making hot rolled steel with the aim of manufacturing tractors by the decades end.
With millions of tons of coal flowing into these plants from Medimurje each year and the favoritism of the Slovene government, these steel mills are forming an ever-more-crucial component of Slovene manufacturing. The Marshall Plan paved the way with several multimillion-dollar plans for Slovene industrial expansion; projects have since begun in earnest, especially in Gutanj and Mislinja, where production is now ramping up to produce as much as several tons of crude steel an hour. So strong is the heat that a single worker is not enough to monitor the furnace; instead, a team of four is needed. In steel repurposing plants, coal from Styria and Medimurje is fed in, mixed with scrap steel, and heated until it melts. Loud gurgling erupts again, accompanied by the hiss of steel cooling in black, ominous metal shower heads. Ljubljana-educated experts supervise the smelting process in Gutanj, where an expansion has begun that should see the production of hot carbon steel ingots within the year. Jesenice, meanwhile, focuses particularly on devoting its thousands of workers to a diverse range of products: tinplate, railroad spikes, pipes and other materials and components. The plantsoften nothing more than humble rectangular concrete structures with a few windows and a corrugated metal roofsteadily rumble away, mixing metals and minerals for ever-hungrier industries.
The destination of the mills products is changing, too. While nearly all of the demands of Slovene railways have been answered, calls are now coming in from newborn Slovene manufacturers; the appliances and electronics of Gorenje and Iskra, the heavy machinery of Litostroj, the shipbuilding of Maera, the automobiles and rockets of Pionir and Potočnik, the motorcycles and bikes of Puh, and the rotorcraft of Učka are all now making growing demands of Slovene metalworkers, preferringin line with Slovenias patriotic economicsto buy from home before going abroad. Still, for each glossy new Pionir bus, Gorenje stove or Iskra radio that leaves the assembly line, a complex supply line of coal, metals and forging is demanded of it. These factories, before loading trucks and trains with metal and raw materials, must make considerable steps to ensure that resources are properly processed before they leave Slovenia; newly trained workers ensure that the blast furnaces are heated to the proper temperature and duly monitored by teams of tuners. Centuries of experience increasingly honed by intense competition are fostering a high standard among Slovene manufacturers, and the government retains an incessant optimism that made in Slovenia would be a mark of pride.
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[pre]| JANUARY ЯНВАРЬ 1951 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
PLOČE-ZLATA NAVAL Base ENTERS ITS FINAL PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION:
A SIGN OF ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN YUGOSLAVIA AND THE SOVIET UNION BEGINS ITS FINAL CONSTRUCTION PHASE!
ВОЕННО-МОРСКАЯ БАЗА ПЛОЧЕ-ЗЛАТА ВХОДИТ В ЗАВЕРШАЮЩУЮ ФАЗА СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВА:
ЗНАК ВЕЧНОЙ ДРУЖБЫ МЕЖДУ ЮГОСЛАВИИ И СОВЕТСКИМ СОЮЗОМ НАЧИНАЕТ ЭТАП СТРОИТЕЛЬСТВА!!
[pre]| The need for a Soviet-Yugo partnership was very evident to both of the Socialist nations making positive productive actions between the two a great necessity. Due to western aggression in the Slovenian Issue the Soviets presented a case to the Yugoslavian delegates in Moscow in 1948 for the necessity of a Soviet Naval Facility to deter and prevent further western aggression against the younger socialist state which it helped liberate during Operation Zlata of the Great Patriotic War. The Site of this Naval Base would be in the Croat coastal town of Ploče and receive the full name of The Ploče-Zlata Naval Base. Soviet construction advisors say the project will be fully functional next year this time and would boast a docking port for a potential Soviet Adriatic Flotilla and a small detachment of Red Army soldiers along with the 99th PDSS detachment of 100 Combat divers to ensure manned protection of the facilities in the Naval Base. The Naval Base would be able to host larger ships and submarines in cliffside submarine hangers with the main emphasis on this Naval base being the housing of Submarines.|[/pre]
[list]| Units and Equipment Stationed at Ploče-Zlata Naval Base - Части, дислоцированные на военно-морской базе Плоче-Злата |[/list]
[pre]- 99th PDSS Detachment [100 Сombat swimmers][/pre]
[pre]- 1,000X Red Army Soldiers[/pre]
[pre]- 15X BTR-40s[/pre]
[pre]- 10X PT-70[/pre]
[Pre]- 10X T-54[/pre]
[pre]- Numerous Anti-Air Stations [21-K, ZPU anti-aircraft gun][/pre]
[pre]- 3 Naval Artillery stations[/pre]
[pre]|Map of defense placements to be made later|[/pre]
[list]| Ships and Submarines stationed in Ploče-Zlata - Корабли и подводные лодки, дислоцированные в Плоче-Злата |[/list]
[pre]- 3X K-Class Submarines[/pre]
[pre]- 2X S-Class Submarines[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Giullio Cesare Class [Novorossiysk][/pre]
[pre]|Initial Ships to be stationed in Ploče-Zlata for a temporary period.|[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list]January 1951
[sub]The Next Chapter - Part 2 [/sub][/list]
PALACIO DE VILLAMEJOR, MADRID, (Bescania) NIGHT
| Following the death of former Prime Minister FRANCISCO LARGO CABALLERO, and his subsequent funeral in October, a new President of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party was duly elected, INDALECIO PRIETO. The former Minister for Finance, and Public Works, was overwhelmingly elected in the party leadership election, achieving 71.3% of the total vote share. Prieto, however, was no admirer of the former Prime Minister. In fact, Prieto was opposed to the late Prime Minister's former line of partial collaboration with the dictatorship of MIGUEL PRIMO DE RIVERA (Former Prime Minister of Spain) during the years 1923 to 1930 and had bitter confrontations with both Caballero and Rivera. Instead, Prieto was seen as more AND less radical than Caballero depending on who you asked. For instance, Prieto was a more ruthless strongman than the (usually) soft-spoken former Prime Minister, but ideologically, the incoming SSWP leader was more moderate. Prieto supports a socialism with Spanish characteristics, moving toward a more mixed economy with Keynesian measures to develop the country's domestic market. Prieto is also generally a supporter of European integration if such integration was to the benefit of the European people rather than corporations. In this regard, Prieto will temporarily sustain Spanish observation of the Comecon but reserves his right to revoke Spain from the organisation. Moreover, the new leader of the SSWP is extremely supportive of the notion of further devolution to the Basque Provinces and Navarra. He is greatly opposed to separatism as well as towards the plans of the Basque nationalists in the draft of the Estatuto de Autonomía del País Vasco de 1936, fearing the prospect of the territory becoming a "reactionary Gibraltar and a clerical stronghold". The new Prime Minister can be described through his actions of Moderation, discipline and the disregarding of revolutionary excesses, making the Peoples Republic of Spain a legitimate democratic socialist actor in European politics. Of the first initial diplomatic correspondence by Prime Minister Prieto to states across the globe, these are the nations which are within Prime Minister Prietos priority : |
[list][list][sub]HENRY WALLACE, President of the United States of America
JOSIP BROZ TITO, Prime Minister of FPR Yugoslavia
VINCENT AUROIL, President of the French Republic
FURTHER STATES ARE PRIORITY FOR SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE (MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE): [/sub]
[sub]FINLAND
SCANDINAVIA
UNITED KINGDOM
GERMANY
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
SLOVENIA
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Paseo, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Osivoii, Otsla, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Brazil Toucan
[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - CZECHOSLOVAK INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND ARMS PRODUCTION AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 1951[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1796655
Nonador, Arcanda, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Osivoii, Otsla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, Ubertica, Cambodiia, Brazil Toucan
[list]여름 1950 | 1950 Early September
[list][sup]Seoul | 한성[/sup]
[list][sup]Korea | 한국[/sup][list]
[sup]Meeting of Minds - Royals under the DPRK[/sup][/list]
| [sub]Since 1945 the royals had been out of power; their previous funds had dried up, no longer receiving state subsidies. The heir to the House, Prince Haneul, had been minded to secure their economic future using his status as not only a Prince, but a prominent independence activist in the latter half of the World War. The limited funds they had were promptly invested into several start-up businesses that had begun to spring up following the liberation of Korea. Property had also become a large part of the focus; opening up many of the Palaces outside of Seoul and turning them into National Parks with a small charge for entry.[/sub] |
| [sub]Although Koreas economy had not boomed like promised by President Rhee, the Royal Household had the desired economic stability they needed in order to preserve themselves. Although no longer officials under or leading the Korean Government, they had by no means disappeared off the face of the Earth, they kept up public appearances at fund-raisers or hosting dinners, even just mingling with the locals in Seoul when they went out shopping for supplies (having concluded having a team of servants was too expensive). When President Rhee attempted to remove their entire property portfolio and confiscate their funds as reparations for the treaties signed with Japan in the beginning of the 20th century; a series of protests broke out in support of the monarchy. Rhees idea was popular in the 1930s, but by the 1940s the Royals that remained in Korea, in the eyes of the public, had fought for Korea against Japan and risked their lives. Rhees policy was abandoned eventually, although it quickly set the royals and President on an unavoidable collision course for the next decade.[/sub] |
| [sub]Now Seoul and the Palace were under northern occupation, the royals had largely been left alone, their status as royals was despised by the DPRK leadership, but their position as freedom fighters had given them a position of respect by many of those in the top circles of the DPRK government. As the war progressed and the DPRK was pushed into retreat by the end of September, combined with the landings at Incheon, a familiar figure paid a visit to discuss Koreas future.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Prince Haneul: Ah, General Secretary Kim, I was expecting a visit. I thought you'd be back in Pyongyang already?[/sub]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: I leave this evening, my visit here isnt on my schedule, but I feel now may be our only chance for the next few years.[/sub][/list]
| [sub]An older figure would emerge from the outside corridor into the room the two men were in, walking in with a cane hed give a respectful bow to Kim, which was returned by Kim himself.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Prince Imperial Uihwa: Nice to finally meet you in person General Secretary, I assume you are to inform us of your withdrawal?[/sub]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: Not yet, I am here to discuss the future of Korea. A Korea without Rhee, united as one. The north is on the backfoot, there is a possible future with Rhee at the helm of a united Korea, so now might be the apt time to meet my potential future allies against him.[/sub][/list]
| [sub]The two royals would look to one another before giving a small nod; inviting Kim to take a seat with them in one of the more private rooms of the complex, still overshadowed by the former Japanese Colonial Government Building built in its grounds.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Prince Haneul: The first step is to recognise that Rhee only desires power; our economy has tanked and public health has barely climbed since the occupation. People still love him, and we have to accept that, we have to wait for him to trip himself up first.[/sub]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: At some point he will likely overestimate his capabilities or popularity; much like he did in attempting to seize your wealth and properties. News of the move reached us in the north fairly quickly. Once the people are against him the opportunity must be seized through force or other means.[/sub][/list]
| [sub]Following roughly half an hour of discussions between the Princes and General Secretary no formal agreement was reached on paper; but the three had a pact. If Korea had the chance to remove Rhee, the three would act to seize power from him, uniting Korea under more democratic leadership. Prince Imperial Uihwa posed one last, more fundamental question.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Uihwa: Mr. General Secretary, not to sound doubtful, but given your ideology how can you expect us to trust you fully in not removing us and having us disposed of in the name of the revolution?[/sub][/list]
| [sub]Kim sat silently for what felt like an eternity, before giving a small and brief smile.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: Mutual respect. We all fought to see Korea free from Japanese rule; and the reign of King Geon. We fought for different visions of Korea, but at the heart of it all of them sought a free Korea. The people respect that you went against your own family to ensure that vision. If Rhee faced protests against his attempts to rip you from your home; imagine what Id face if I tried to rip you from Korea itself.[/sub][/list]
| [sub]Uihwa would give a small nod to Kim, having no doubts he meant those words. The three would bid farewell to one another; interlinked in their new mission, no longer to free Korea from Japan, but now to free Korea from President Rhee.[/sub] |
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
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[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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ETHIOPIA - GREEK BILATERAL DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 1951[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1796669
Nonador, Paseo, Amsterwald, Osivoii, Otsla, Pontianus, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan
[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES[/pre][/list]
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FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTRY: EUROPE ON THE RISE AND CONSOLIDATION OF FRIENDSHIPS IN AFRICA
[sub]IVTH FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, JANUARY 1951 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF DIPLOMACY, MINISTÈRE DES AFFAIRES ÉTRANGÈRES - | The European community has remained hard at work to ensure a safer and prosperous future for all Europeans collectively. The creation of the European Steel and Coal Community has paved the way towards greater cooperation and is but a mere stepping stone towards what France hopes will become the desired tripolarity with the United States and USSR. Prime Minister René Pleven pressured President Vincent Auriol to sign the Treaty of Paris, which would officially make France a full member of the bloc. On January 15th the President, with assurances from the Prime Minister signed the treaty.[/sub]
[sub]Shortly thereafter, President Auriol, having heard of the election news in Spain declared his support for the more moderate Indalecio Prieto whom had just been elected the new Prime Minister of the Spanish People's Republic. Despite Spain's shift towards socialism before and during the Second Great War, the French Government has and still holds cooperation and friendship with Spain as an utmost priority. The Republic of France is even supportive of Spain potentially joining the ECSC and cooperating with the rest of Western Europe, however the Spanish People's Republic continues to oblige it's status in Comecon and thus the rest of Western Europe remains hesitant to say the least on allowing Spain into the fold. France hopes the Spanish Government will prioritize some sort of Westernization policies in the future, enabling them to embark on the same path as the rest of the European Community. [/sub]
[sub]Meanwhile the French Republic has began it's Grande Rénovation Africaine and in doing so has granted assurances to Ethiopia that it shall gain Djibouti no later than 1977 which is when France aims to relinquish control of all African colonial possessions by that time. Additionally a French delegation is set to attend a conference with the Zairian Government with Mrs. Gloria Banza and Marie Izuru in attendance regarding the future of Zaire and central Africa which will undoubtedly mark historic cooperation between the two states which will ultimately usher in an era of Zairian and indeed central African prosperity. Being the benevolent colonial power in Africa, the French Government has ordered the privatization of a number of industries in Africa to include mining and the exploitation of natural resources. The Trans-Saharan Railroad and Central African Railroad are also to become privately owned. Meanwhile thousands of French investors are preparing to invest in a number of new startup companies and Africa's future. | [/sub]
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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LEMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌
𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
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| NOUVEAU ZAIRE, ZAIRE |
[sub]10th of February, 1951[/sub]
| ZAIRIAN-FRENCH CONFERENCE |
| On the 10th of February, 1951, the French delegation arrived in the capital of the United People of Zaire, marking a historic moment with the Zairian-French Conference - so called The February Conference - opening. The conference is bound to be historic due to its nature and what it entails. Press from all around the world have made their way to attend the four day conference upon which Zaire and France will draw upon new African borders in regards to Zaire and the French Colonies. However, no specific details have been released to the public about what the border changes entail.
The French delegation was met with a grand opening, with key members of the French government attending the conference. From Zairean side, the First Representative of Zaire, Gloria Banza, The Head of the Finest Assembly, Marie Izuru, the Expert to Foreign Affairs, Celine Mezeri alongside prominent business people of Zaire and other vice-Experts from other ministries attending the conference. The Conference will last four days but as of 10th of February, the talks have began.
The change to borders has been discussed since the early 1940, but due to the war break out, the French and the Zairean governments had not managed to speak about it. In 1947, the first signs of reopening the conversations began, which concluded in May of 1949. Many thought that the conversation has been dropped, but during her visit in Paris in 1950 as part of her world tour, Mrs Banza apparently spoke about the topic with both Mr De Gaulle and the French President. By November of 1950, both governments rekindled the talks with plans for the conference being set up by the end of November.
The Conference to many is bound to bring a new historic decision for Africa and Europe. With the French government investing far more than expected into its African colonies and creating prosperity around Central and Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Zairean government leading its country into prosperity, it is bound that the two states find a common ground on the topic of the conference. Others, however, are less optimistic, viewing the Conference as a staged performance of the French government to appeal to the free African states and for Marie Izuru to come out as a diplomatic genius. Either way, the Conference has started and by 14th of February, final decisions will be announced. In her speech to the press, Mrs Banza stated that;
[list][ GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire ]: "I find it very exciting that the Conference is happening, and I would advise you to be too. The French government and the Zairean government are friends, and we are continuing with our great bond. However, the February Conference goes beyond that as it a prelude to a historic decision that I hope will be made. I'm very pleased to say that the French government has positively surprised me with their willingness to talk and most importantly at their large investments into Africa, as to make sure that the African people of the new Africa are enriched culturally, socially and economically. I hope that in four days I will be able to provide good news to you all."[/list]
[spoiler="It is important to understand who our friends and allies are, and I believe that France is becoming both." - Marie Izuru]Adriatican Islands
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[sub]LEAVE NO TRACE: PART I FEBRUARY 1951[/sub]
| Hans-Dieter Mundt is called to the scene of a dead western journalist. |
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1797059
[spoiler=[sub]𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
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[list][list][list][pre]THE SOLOMONIC STATE OF ETHIOPIA
የኢትዮጵያ ሰለሞናዊ ግዛት
Yeītiyopiya Selemonawī Gizati[/pre][/list]
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POLITICAL CENTRALIZATION OF STATE AUTHORITY INTO THE EMPEROR!
[sub]TAFARI BENTI ADMINISTRATION | ADDIS ABABA, FEBRUARY 1951[/sub][/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1797271
Paramountica, Paseo, Osivoii, Otsla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Brazil Toucan
THE AZANIAN EFFORT TO GLOBALIZE KASAMA BEGINS: THE FIRST ENGINEERS ARRIVE
[list][sup]THE DEMANDS OF THE UNION
BEMBALANDFEBRUARY 1951[/sup][/list]
In an unusual reprieve from rain during the wet season, the first Azanian (Nonador) planes to reach UluBemba touched down on Kasamas earthen airstrip in February 1951. Their purpose was pivotal; just months after becoming a founding signatory of the African Union, UluBemba had been designated for an overhaul in infrastructure and development by the Azanian government, aiming to enable the young Sub-Saharan nation to host the Unions Division of Culture and Arts. Prime Minister Engameli Zwane committed to this purpose to the boundless gratitude of the Chitimukulu; Chilyamafwa II issued a rare statement of personal indebtedness to Zwane, proclaiming him to be a true umwina Afrika, or man of Africa. Zwanes aims were ambitiously high. Government-commissioned Azanian engineers would see to the paving of Kazamas aerial runway and the construction of high-capacity hangers at the airport, aiming to make it truly capable of facilitating international traffic; the surveying and laying of a cargo and passenger rail track to Élisabethville in Zaire (Paseo) and thereby to Luanda in Azania; a local bus depot and garage to facilitate transport from the airport to the African Union office and other destinations; and the office itself, complete with an archive and electric power from an on-site generation facility. Azanian experts would also be employed to investigate hydroelectric opportunities at Chisimba Falls for a more sustainable power source; early estimates have put the power output of such a station at 70 GWh, far beyond the present consumption of electricity in the country.
On the Bemba side of this operation was 37-year-old Chola Katilungu, an advisor to the Chitimukulu inextricably involved with managing labor in the capital. A self-proclaimed socialist reformer with deep interests in the Marxist philosophies of the Soviet Union (Osivoii), he was instrumental in the mass mobilization of a workforce to support the construction effort, aiming for Kasama to be the flashpoint of the larger industrialization of the now antique, traditional Bembaland. It was Katilungus vision that would shape the first years of the project as he recruited over a thousand of the citys residents to help in the Azanian-led projects. Still, the project was a monumental one, and it was not without its casualties. Equipment had to be flown or airlifted in and assembled locally, limiting the equipment used. The first major accident occurred during the summer at the construction site of the bus depot and garage, which was managed by Katilungu. A large crane was brought in to lift the roofing material onto the buildinghowever, it was not properly secured, and it collapsed, killing six workers and injuring at least a dozen more. Despite the accident, the construction team pressed on, and Katilungu ensured that the families of those who perished were taken care of. Sweat and blood would be sacrificed in the pursuit of advancement, and Katilungu knew this well.
[list][sup]¹ A semi-noble labor organizer known as Lawrence Katilungu in OT but a member of the royal court in this timeline.[/sup][/list]
Nonador, Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Osivoii, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Ubertica, Brazil Toucan
YUGOSLAV NAVY - IT FLOATS, SORT OF
February 9th 1951
While the Air Force and Army are certainly at an acceptable level, though the technological gap between Propeller driven Yugoslav Fighters and Slovene Jets is immense, leaves a humiliating mess in the form of the Navy. Consisting currently of one Domestically built destroyer (Destroyer Split), four Torpedo Boats acquired from the post war Italian reparations and two submarines (one of which is immobilized as a hulk as it cannot dive) the Navy is one of Europe's smallest and weakest despite its smaller Slovene Neighbor possessing a much more formidable force. One of the measures Tito had taken to ensure Naval Parity was to allow Soviet Bases to be built along the Yugoslav Coast, however even this was little replacement for a proper and prestigious Navy for the biggest Peoples Republic in the Balkans.
Aiming to re-establish the Yugoslav Navy in a proper fashion and doing so cost effectively, Marshal Tito has opened communications with Moscow about the possible acquisition of "hand-me-down" Vessels which are especially relevant as the U.S.S.R already possesses the largest European Navy while its quickly replacing Vessels with newer types. Those Ships being replaced could perhaps be cheaply acquired in order to achieve the goals of parity for the Navy which consists of a fleet larger than Slovenia and large enough to provide minimum security against a resurgent Italy. The issue of training and of existing spares was considered, and the resulting decision was that all ships of the Fleet would be scrapped after acquiring such vessels from the U.S.S.R. Training would then ideally be provided with Soviet assistance.
Total Ships sought by Yugoslavia (older types in general that are set to be replaced in the U.S.S.R within the next 5 years) :
- 1x Kirov-class cruiser (Intended as Flagship)
- 3x Leningrad-class destroyer (Intended for Escorts to the Kirov-class cruiser)
- 8x Uragan-class guard ship (Intended for Adriatic Service)
- 32x G-5-class motor torpedo boat (Intended for Patrol and shoreline defense & 4x for Danube River Patrols)
The acquisition of these ships would once again restore the Naval prestige of Yugoslavia, which since the end of the last conflict has been left with the "naval dregs" of the axis consisting mainly of half-working vessels and sub-par equipment. It would further push it forward as a minor player in the Mediterranean rather than a non existent one.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
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Post self-deleted by Alzarikstan.
[B]ဂဠုန်နှင့်ဗညာ: ပထမအကြိမ် ရခိုင်စစ်ရေးလှုပ်ရှားမှုခြောက်သွေ့ရာသီ ထိုးစစ် THE GALON AND THE BYALA: THE FIRST ARAKAN CAMPAIGNDRY SEASON OFFENSIVES
[sub]| Full Moon of Tazaungmon 131114th Waning of Kason 1312 ME | Arakan State, Royal Federation of the Burma Union |[/sub]
Nearing the rainy season's end, more than 8,000 personnel activated by the 77th Royal Army Division out of Yangon Regional Military Command had now been fully mobilized as early as late Tagu, though had waited out the wet months on base in Yangon. With attached artillery and armored battalions comprising four Daimler Mk.II Armoured Cars, several Ordnance QF 25-lb field guns, and their accompanying infantry, the combined unit organizational make-up of the Royal Army would be directly put to test. Until this point, success has mainly come through the use of specialized, independent battalions largely organized, trained, and honed under British command, both before and throughout the Second World War. Contrarily, the roles of the Tatmadaw in the campaigns thus far are more as a blanket, occupation force to cover swathes of land in minimal time due in large part to the high mobility structure of it's light infantry units.
Around 15 November, these mixed-unit battalions of the 77th Infantry Division make their way northwest, via the Yangon-Pathein Road, connecting the Administrative Capital with the Rakhine State border and beyond, shuttling infantry aboard several examples of the M7 'Kangaroo' and the Lloyd Universal Carrier. Chugging in tow, Albion CX22S artillery tractors pull field guns along with the convoy, the artillery crew occupying the bench seating within the bed section. After five hours, the Royal Army column belonging to the 77th Division reached the outskirts of Gwa Township, building several Ordnance QF 25-lb howitzers into a lightly entrenched firing position within a 7-mile operational range of the principal town. Royal infantry proceed towards Gwa on foot, the stretch of land between a densely vegetated area proving improper for motorized units. Less than 3 miles outside of town, rising out into a lush grass field from a dense coconut palm treeline, the subordinate infantry battalions of the 77th Division are surprise engaged by Rakhine forces on a patch of what appeared as serene farmland with cattle grazing leisurely, and are subsequently dealt their first casualties while undertaking heavy fire, both from a few cloistered huts and the opposing treeline. Bodies of the wounded are hastily dragged back through the trees, falling back within to limit exposure to enemy suppression as bullets pop and crack against palm trunks. Utilizing a Wireless Set No. 18 portable HF radio, a Royal Army signals unit at the command of a direct field superior, transmitted their coordinates to the artillery positions and continued their strategic withdrawal out of firing range.
Before long, the first 88x292mmR HE shells began plummeting from the sky, with the distant sound of the ignition blasts heard only moments before shell impact. In no time at all, the expanse of farmland and the surrounding treeline were absolutely flattened by the artillery bombardment, seeing no relent for almost 18 minutes. When elements of the Royal Army advanced once more, the farmland was reduced to a field of craters and large portions of coconut palm treeline were reduced to stumps. In between the extensive environmental damage, charred remains dot the site, with 77th Division personnel officially reporting 39 purported seperatists and several steer carcasses among those killed. The success of the barrage leaves the town in a vulnerable state, the seperatist garrison in full retreat after being decimated by well-coordinated Royal artillery, most injured or in shock. Devoid of helmets or any real ballistic protection whatsoever, surviving rebels clenched bloodied ears, drums blown from primary blast waves, others suffering severe concussion or blast lung, with more than a hundred seperatists in need of medical attention and rendering most unfit for combat upon return from the outskirts of town. Itself merely a large quaint village nestled amongst dense overgrowth of coconut palm, Gwa bore little in the line of natural defenses, stockades, or even adequate firing positions, backed against the sea. Much like in 1785, during the Burmese conquest of Mrauk-U, it was among those first to fall, providing base for King Bodawpaya's armies to secure the remainder of southern Arakan.
Once the Rakhine defenders made their return, the local civil populace began to deliver medical aid in any way possible. Though, with what little first aid supplies available, find themselves wholely unprepared for the scale of those in need of critical treatment. As the Royal Army begins it's advance once more, this time the infantry are led by two Daimler MkII Armored Cars able to maneuver through the clearings created by the artillery fire. As the Tatmadaw encroached less than a mile from Gwa, the seperatists urged women and children to seek shelter in the town monastery, while able townsmen are desperately conscripted to the defence, many unwillingly, with very few provided weaponry. When within range, the two Daimler MkII light armored cars stopped just outside of town and began to provide suppressing coaxial 7.92mm Besa MMG fire against seperatist lines opening up return fire from within the palm-shrouded town, all while the light infantry units continue advancing onwards onto the town village, equipped largely with a variety of the Lee-Enfield SMLE MkIII, M1 Carbine, Sten Mk V, and the M1919A6 Browning .30 cal. In the cluster of overlapping fire, unarmed enemy combatants forced to frontal positions bore the brunt of the Royal Army's offensive fire, as the Daimler cars spent a quarter of a thousand rounds before requiring reload and barrel cooldown. During this interval, the Army infantry spring into action, advancing with their own cluster of fire to suppress enemy positions. As the soldiers rush toward Gwa, a nearby hut is exploded by a 40mm HE shell from one of the Daimler light cars, egging the second to follow suit upon another position, leveling a traditional palm longhouse further in town.
Throughout the course of this time, much of the day had passed and daylight began waning thin during the course of the Tatmadaw advance. Royal soldiers put illumination flares to the dimming sky as the evening eventually fell dark, lighting up Rakhine seperatists and forces alike, many lost in the confusion of the dark, unknowingly mere feet away from one another until a flare could brighten up the night sky, and slowly transfer luminescence across the frantic battleground below. Unable to accurately fire without possibly hitting friendly forces, the Daimler Armored Cars pull back from Gwa, and after hours of combat in the pitch dark of night, tirelessly fighting in-between flare rotations, 77th personnel have become exhausted and disoriented. Just after 15:00 hours, a red flare lit up the sky above Gwa, relieving the troops there from their positions by signaling a Tatmadaw withdrawal from the area to wait out the remainder of the night and press for another assault at first light. At dawn, 16 November, a force of fresh troops were readied to relieve those that endured the initial assault, beginning their few-miles march back to Gwa. As they arrive, natural light reveals the true scale of atrocity dealt during the night skirmish, the main clearing used for the initial assault on Gwa resembled a mass grave, littered with bodies, many uniformed, though most not. The fresh Royal infantry units marching in are brutalized and benumbed at the sight of their slaughtered comrades, and belaying command even, they are out for blood. Storming through to the town, these elements of the 77th Division, roughly at a strength of 2,500, comprise a single infantry battalion and three light infantry battalions, this time, however, supported by all four Daimler Mk II Armored Cars attached to the subordinate infantry units. Each light infantry battalion closes in from separate flanks, assaulting the town from three points while the main, larger infantry battalion closes the kettle from the beach, effectively encircling the town. From Gwa's very own white-sand beachheads, Royal infantrymen utilize Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III grenade discharger rifles as short-range mortars, indiscriminately launching Mills Bomb-type explosives into seperatist positions from a little over 100yds, proving to be surprisingly quite effective a method to clear out stubborn enemy pockets without facing direct engagement. While the rebels begin to feel the pressure of their encirclement, fire overlaps from all sides, fragmentation grenades land from the air, and the four Daimler armored car's 40mm shells tear through the town, though being sure to carefully avoid the Monastery, knowing this to be a grave sin to attack a holy pagoda.
Less than three hours later, around 07:49, hundreds of local Rakhine men taken as conscripts by the seperatists began to surrender across town, simply longing return to the families they were torn away from by seperatist radicals they so-call their countrymen. These men, all locals of Gwa, are taken as prisoners of war, temporarily interned at the Monastery. Contrarily, the seperatists, refusing to lay down their arms, are summarily rooted to the last man. By the afternoon, the final pockets of resistance had been snuffed out in a tenacious Army mop-up onslaught, ending in the last remaining seperatists lined and put to the firing squad along the beachhead, backs against the crashing waves. Following the martial executions, the tattered red-white Byala Standard, representing Rakhine seperatism, was officially lowered, folded, sent back to the 77th LID's forward camp to the highest-ranking field officer, Bo Saw Tun, and raised the Union Banner in it's place.
Throughout the next five months that consist the remaining dry season, similar coordinated offensives were launched by combined units from both the 11th and 88th Light Infantry Divisions, stationed in Ann and Toungup, respectively, against Ranbye Kyun, better known as Ramree. The Royal Army campaigns on the island reaped similar devastations against the local environment and population, with the seperatists making their desperate last stand at Kyaukpyu, situated on the northern tip of Ramree. Unlike the situation in Gwa, however, extrajudicial executions by the Royal Army on Ramree were not organized, but rather took place sporadically, most of these being isolated instances, and largely under varying circumstances. Royal Army personnel would later reported death counts, eventually published into public record. "Almost 2,000 killed in armed confrontations across Arakan State!", newspaper headlines read across the Union after scraping together bits of different field reports to cite. Though combat photographs from the front were not released to the public, they are, however, carefully reviewed by Thathanabaing, U Nārada, appointed in 1948 after the position was reinstated by His Excellency, Agzawthawda Min. Sharing his findings with the Sangha, or "order of monks", it was deemed a collective obligation to implore peace in Arakan State and, most importantly, peace among Buddhists on behalf of the Union's community of ecclesiasticals. Several members of the Sangha, in support behind their Thathanapaing, beseech the Throne to intervene politically and broker peace, with the Crown and the Faith intertwined as twin pillars of the nation. Born 1868, the 82-year old Mingun Jetavana Sayādaw U Nārada prepares his student, Mahasi Sayadaw, for the responsibilities of chief abbotship, for in his teacher's waning years are the opportunities to reap peace and sow tranquility for the future generation.
[list][spoiler=[sub]KABA MA KYEI! TILL THE END OF THE WORLD![/sub]]
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[list][list][list][pre]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
Bundesrepublik Deutschland[/pre][/list]
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ADENAUER COMMITS TO A NEW VISION OF EUROPE AND GERMANY, HAILING ECSC TREATY TALKS AND OUTLINING GERMANY'S FOREIGN POLICY
[sub]FIRST ADENAUER GOVERNMENT | FEBRUARY 1951[/sub][/list]
[sub]| With Germany further solidifying its slow but steady integration into Western Europe and her fellow regional partners, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would hail the treaty talks over the establishment of the imminent European Coal and Steal Community (ECSC), calling it 'another symbol of the path towards progress, growth, prosperity and unity that Europe is seeking today to rebuild itself and create a society that stands for all of us, together, arm in arm'. As talks with other like-minded European nations continue, Adenauer's government had been moving on domestically with regards to passing legislation through the Bundestag to boost economic output and continue programmes and initiatives to ensure continued growth and recovery. A close emphasis was placed on stronger ties with the United States, who would be a key provider of monetary and physical aid to Germany in its effort to rebuild and continue growing. By January 1951, the economic report received by the Chancellor would show that with the restarting of key industries, this had been achieved to some effect. With domestic matters calming down considerably, aside from a certain covert intelligence issue with a former Volkist official by the name of Reinhard Gehlen, Adenauer turned his eyes to outside of Germany.[/sub]
[sub]The world at large was rapidly fortifying itself, politically and socially. The rise of NATO and COMECON further solidified the West-East divisions, and the Bundesrepublik would be clear on its strong anti-communist stance. Generally, Bonn pursued a vague policy of opposing communism and working closely with key partners and allies to achieve this goal, however in practice it would not be pursued all the way considering the fragile state of West Germany's present existence. However, as the communist forces to the East would continue to solidify themselves, as was the West, Adenauer would decide to make a firm decision - choosing to stand with the West, who had so far provided the aid necessary to continue along the path of Germany's economic revival.[/sub]
[sub]Seeking to secure the votes necessary to ratify the Treaty of Paris, currently in the process of final negotiations, for the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community, Adenauer and his governing coalition, the CDU/CSU-FDP-KON coalition, would seek to gather sufficient votes to ratify the treaty once it would be formally signed. Generally, legislative support for European integration of Germany would be fairly high especially among members of the center-right coalition. The only firm opposition to integration would be the further left elements of the Social Democrats (SDP) of the elder statesman and social democrat Kurt Schumacher, who himself would be fairly supportive of European integration, having warmed up to the idea of close ties with the West - a potential sign of the restructuring his party was fighting to undergo.[/sub]
[sub]In his effort to secure the votes for 'general European integration and the pursuing of closer ties with partner nations', Adenauer laid down in a Bundestag speech on 2 February 1951 his foreign policy plans for the Bundesrepublik:[/sub]
[list][pre]"In this divided world, it is perhaps now necessary - vital - to our existence that we stand together with like-minded nation to achieve common aims and goals. To fix problems and issues facing the world at large, and to fight to make the world a better place. Threats exist, and major ones at that. However, I stand here today pledging solemnly to support all like-minded efforts to solve these issues and quell these threats, for a world in which we are able to say - "Peace has been achieved.". The centuries of disagreement, disapproval, factionalism and division must end. Together with other European and like-minded nations for liberty and democracy, we will fight firmly for these ideals at home and abroad, while at the same time strengthening our diplomatic prowess to develop the German export economy that Minister [Ludwig] Erhard himself has drafted out so meticulously. Today, gentlemen, marks the start of a new period in the history of Germany, and indeed the rest of Europe. I ask that we stand with freedom, with the ideals this Republic was so founded on, so that the future generations may live a free, prosperous and independent life, in which they are able to avail of the opportunities of a friendly and kindhearted society. It is our duty today to prepare that society to the best of our abilities for them."[/pre][/list]
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| FEBRUARY CONFERENCE BRINGS FORTH A HISTORIC DECISION |
[sub]16th of February, 1951[/sub]
| The Conference was set to last four days, instead it prolonged for six days. However, it had brought forth a historic decision for Africa, Zaire and France. The conference started on the 10th of February, in the capital of Zaire in which attendance were prominent members of the the French and Zairean governments. The two delegations were discussing the 1940 New Africa Proposal, of which both Zaire and the French Colonies would be affected. Many commentators stated that the discussions will not bring much results in regards to the proposals. But, the results are proven otherwise.
As in midday hours of local time, Mrs Gloria Banza accompanied by the French Prime Minister stepped out onto the podium to speak to the international press gathered. It had been announced by both parties that the February Conference has ended in upmost success and that the FEBRUARY AGREEMENT has been created and will go into effect with immediate action.
[list]FEBRUARY AGREEMENT
- The French Republic and the United People of Zaire agree upon the changes to borders within the February Agreement arrangement.
- The border changes will seek the following provinces of the French Gabon and the French Congo be moved to Zaire;
[list] French Gabon: Nygana, Ogooue-Martime, Ngounie, Oogue Lolo, Haut Oguue, Plateaux.
French Congo: Brazzaville, Pool, Bouneza, Niari, Lekoumu, Kouilou.[/list]
- The Zairean Provinces of - Equateur, Mai Ndombe, Tshuapa, Sankuru, Tshopo, Mongala, Sud Ubangi, Nord Ubangi, Bas Uele, Haut Uele,
Ituri - will form a new independent nation north of Zaire, south of the French Central African Colonies.
- TThe Zairean and French governments commit to protecting the sovereignty and stability of the newly created nation within Africa, to protecting peace and prosperity within Africa.
- The French and Zairean governments agree to respect the new borders that have been formed by the two states for the decades to come.
- The French and Zairean governments agree to expand their trade with each other and create larger trading infrastructure between the two states.
- https://i.imgur.com/7tnrsnv.png ( Both France and Zaire recongise the following map as the new borders of Zaire and the French Colonies. )
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One the map was shown, the room went into silence before the sound of flashes and questions firing away in the room. A historic decision was made, upon which the people of Zaire have now untied fully. The French have shown that their true care for African prosperity and forward thinking is true to its core as France seeks to repent for the sins committed before upon Africa. A truly beautiful symbol of the past teaching the present and the present creating the future. Mrs Gloria Banza, responded to a question from one of the reporters who asked her about whether or not she is collaborating with a colonial power . Her response was quick.
[list][ GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire ]: "We are not a colonial government that collaborates with its overlord. We are equals through and through, and I think that this conference has shown that. More than that. This conference , this historic decision has shown that France is repenting for its mistakes in the past, mistakes upon they have learned and and now are doing something about it. Their incredible and vast investments into Africa and its people is truly remarkable . Their willigness to sit with an equal African partner is a symbol of change, upon which we build the new Africa. The French government has came through, and they have shown that they are truly an ally of Africa , a friend of Africa. Zairean new borders mean that we are bound to a greater economic rise, and to truly fulfill the potential that Banzaism brings upon its people. I am excited to welcome new Zaireans to their new home, and bring them to a true African prosperity."[/list]
[spoiler="I am happy to say that France has changed, and their contributions to the people of Africa finally give us hope that a new Europe is possible. France is the symbol of a reformed Europe, a true leading figure of it." - Marie Izuru]
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STATE ATHEISM EXPANDS TO BECOME UNIVERSAL
February 21st 1951
State Atheism, established at the same time as the establishment of the Yugoslav Peoples Republic had long stalled on introducing many restrictions to enforce if in an official capacity. Finally however in a move to cement the status of Religion over 200 remaining Churches and Mosques will be shut down along with a total ban on all forms of religious sacrifice on Animals. This decision will certainly see an uptick in the consumption of Fish and other seafood for the religiously minded Bosniaks as it can be consumed without any religious ritual. While overall Jews and Muslims are most affected there are also numerous smaller denominations of Christians who would have to halt their religious undertakings regarding sacrifices. Former religious Buildings shall be used for various Government purposes from storage to being converted into Barracks, their internal assets being absorbed into the pool of Government resources.
Vast fines and prison time have been introduced to punish those that go against the National decision, though prayer in the privacy of ones own Home remains perfectly legal. Associated changes to the Constitution also had to be made, as the initial publications after the war included statements that Religion and State were separate, though now no mention of it takes place at all. To ensure equality enforcement had to be conducted regardless of faith or political power, and as a result special memorandums accompanied the change in law stating that any Individual found to be breaching these laws regardless of their position on the State Ladder of Leadership would face the same punishment as those at the bottom.
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[list][sub]18.𝙸𝚅.1951[/sub]
[sub]LA NUOVA EUROPA[/sub]
THE NEW EUROPE
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ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub]
| With the signature of the Treaty of Paris by the Italian delegation in the footsteps of France and Germany, a new step has been taken on the path of rebuilding trust and normalizing relations. It would be the second time that Italian diplomats would visit Paris in four years The first time had been in 1947, when the peace treaty between Italy and the Allies had been signed in the same city, without solving the thorny Istrian Question. It would also be a step toward economic integration with Europe, after military integration with the Western Allies was enshrined in '49 with the Italian membership in NATO, sanctioned at home by the overwhelming centrist victory a year before. Today, Communist opposition to the European Coal and Steel Community was less ardent, but fierce nonetheless, and Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi carried on with his agenda of peaceful economic integration and rebuilding Italy's authority and trust with its neighbors. Such has been deemed vital to the Kingdom's future, in spite of the lingering diplomatic issue with its Alpine neighbor. |
| Economically, the free-trade area to be implemented for steel and coal is expected to deliver a boost to the renascent steel industry, as well as facilitate Italian exports, in continuation with the government's aim of rebuilding the country as an industrial nation. The ratification of the Treaty is expected to be fastidious in Parliament, owing to recent squabbles within the DC's center-right coalition. Dissent will be more about form than function, however, as the Treaty does not involve Slovenia and therefore will most likely gather a majority of votes after the usual horse-trading between parties. |
[list][spoiler=[sub]OOC Note[/sub]]Two important events NATO membership and the new Italian constitution have been omitted from RP respectively in 1949 and 1948 due to a lack of time on my end. The Constitution, which is a modernized version of the original one retaining the Monarchy in a strictly constitutional and parliamentary context, will be developed on later.
Also of note is the Peace Treaty, which I mentioned in 1947 without further elaboration. Note that Italy has not surrendered its claims to Istria in this timeline.[/spoiler][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]Evviva l'Italia![/sub]]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Afghanistaan[/nation]
[nation]Alaroth[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Annyeong Korea[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Astarina[/nation]
[nation]Bayside[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]Finlandee[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Jersey Republic[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Irelaand[/nation]
[nation]Islahh[/nation]
[nation]Philanialle[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Somerania[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Confederate Prussian Empire[/nation]
[nation]Tallahan[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation][/spoiler][/list]
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SLOVENIAN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC CREATED IN EXILE
February 25th 1951
As a ploy to undermine the legitimacy of the Slovene State, under the direction of Marshal Tito roughly the (Yugoslav) Nations Slovene Communist Population which either refused or chose not to return to Slovenia after the war have been included in a self-declared Exile-Government in the form of the "Slovene Peoples Government" based in the Croatian town of Kutina. This Exile Government has denounced all of the actions taken by Slovenia after the breaking away from Yugoslavia, and due to being made up of almost hand-picked pro Yugoslav Slovenes denounces the persistence of Slovenia in refusing to rejoin with Yugoslavia. They claim that the National Government within Slovenia was long ago corrupted by western influences which to this day suppress the true feelings and wishes of the Slovenian Peoples.
Possessing their own flag and singing the Slovenian version of the Yugoslav Anthem for Marshal Tito internally it has worked quite well to convince many of the other peoples within the Republic that they are indeed the legitimate exile Government, though naturally there exists no foreign recognition for them as of yet. There have been secretive discussions about perhaps a miniscule corridor between Slovenia and the Croatian Regional Government that could accommodate the estimated 30,000 Slovenes within Yugoslavia as part of an internally constructed Slovene Peoples Republic. This suggestion would at least give further reason for many within Yugoslavia to support the Governments position that they are indeed the legitimate Slovene Power.
Led by the Slovene Peoples Council they have no central figure at present time although there is a fierce search underway in order to find a possible figurehead for the movement and thus a stable and rallying presence. For the moment at least Marshal Tito has ordered the erection of Slovene Peoples Republic Flags across all crossing points of the border, with the statement "True Slovenia lives on!"
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SLOVENIAN MILITARY MAKES PHASED ARRAY AND NAVAL ENDEAVORS IN LIGHT OF YUGOSLAV MILITARIZATION
[list][sup]TO BE A WATCHFUL NEIGHBOR
SLOVENIAMARCH 1951[/sup][/list]
Government and military officials of the Republic of Slovenia shared the habit of using ogroena (under threat, endangered) in reference to the young Slovene nation. Slovenes were an ogroeno ljudstvo (endangered people), Slovene an ogroen jezik (endangered language), and Slovenia an ogroena republika (endangered republic)indeed, socialist Yugoslavia was a proverbial sword of Damocles, haunting political discourse in Slovenia and almost single-handedly responsible for the elevated importance placed on military development, straining the national budget in a Republic desperately trying to advance its civilian life. The Slovene Armed Forces were becoming almost disproportionate to the five-million-strong Slovene population, lacking nothing but state-of-the-art tanks and assault rifles; still, even those were in the sights of its procurement officers. But in the face of Marshal Josip Broz Tito, it was never enough. The Soviet Union was eternally keen to furnish the Yugoslavs with ships and embolden their attacks on religious life. Now, a Soviet naval base disfigured the pristine Adriatic coast. Indeed, each time Yugoslavia enacted some aggressive new policy in the erosion of Slavic individuality, independence or faith, the word ogroena appeared anew in Slovene political life, and the military was set forth on some new program of improvement. Slovenia and Yugoslavia had embarked on a veritable arms race.
In one field especially, the Slovene defense staff imagined that the Republic could develop a particularly dramatic lead: indeed, Slovenia altogether had a heritage in radio technologies. The Slovene Albin Belar had invented the pocket radio, and IskraSlovenias leading technology firmhad its origin in manufacturing radio receivers for years. Its founder, Dr. Mirjan Gruden, was now a full-time electronics professor at the University of Ljubljana, and dozens of his students had already entered work in Iskras design department; Iskra was a lively company, and the Slovenian Armed Forces tapped it in February 1950. Ahead of the inauguration of the Domale radio transmitterwhich would become the seat of Radiotelevizija SlovenijaIskra was commissioned to endeavor to build autochthonic phased array radars for a new line monitoring stations at several strategic points: one on a hilltop south of Ljuboina, one protruding from a forest east of Dol, one uphill from Rogatec, and one on an elevated riverbank at Ormo, all stringing the Yugoslav border. Strategic radio receivers at these points would be installed to complement the stations abilities to intercept military intelligence; altogether, the four stationscolloquially known as Grudnova linija (Grudens line)would largely cover the eastern border, enabling Slovenia to monitor the radio transmissions and movements of the Yugoslav air force and their new Soviet aid. Surveying of the sites began in earnest that March, with optimistic completion dates by the years end. The project was never officially revealed to the public, and Iskra employees were held under strict secrecy.
[list][sub]. . . so-called Yugoslavs . . . are gathered at our borders and conspire with the nations around us to destroy Slovenia. The powerful nations of Europe, the peers and protégés of Slovenia, must defend and provide for safety on the European continent; this means defending Slovenia and her territorial integrity.
Borut Blatnik, assemblyman of the Slovene National Party, 1951 (Greater Kurdistane)[/sub][/list]
As ever, debates on military spending rocked the National Assembly. Each glistening Firewasp fighter or rugged Osliček utility truck was commissioned and manned with taxpayer money, even with the good-faith discounts of Čebela and Pionir. Prison labor as a means of cost-cutting was accepted by the conservative Slovene Peoples Party, but Iztok Jamniks Levicamany of whose supporters had become prisoners during the Kopinič trialswere fain to publicly lambast it. Can we not join Yugoslavia, Spain and the Soviet Union in the spirit of international friendship? pleaded chairman Iztok Jamnik in one National Assembly; though the notion of friendship had seemingly been crushed by the Yugoslav formation of a Slovene pretender government in February, not all ears were deaf to this. Several Slovene companies were flourishing atop the nations industrial legacy, but for each that launched, three or more foundered. Many in the Assembly felt strongly that military spending would fail to maximize growth in such a productive era. Prime Minister Andrej Gosar, however, rebuked these claims, rightly observing that integrated trade with continental Europe, a sturdy, centuries-long heritage of manufacturing and a robust arms manufacturing complex meant that security and economics could go hand in hand while also keeping a watchful eye on Yugoslavia. This opinionbolstered by the hanging shadow of the Yugoslav socialistsgained the most ground, and legislation continued to be made permitting the military to continue its expansion almost unhindered.
Expand it would. In 1951, the Ladjedelnica Kraljevica (Kraljevica shipyards)the oldest on the Adriatic, founded in the 1720swere set to work on the newest muscle of the Slovene Navy. Between 1951 and 1954, they were to construct a demanding series of twelve Kraljevica-class patrol boats: 41-meter, six-gunned crafts meant to weld the Slovene coast tight against incursions by sea. Iskra would complete Grudens line shy of the planned timetable, and despite the time, money and math expended in the process, its directors seemed sure that they could deliver new phased array systems to Ljubljana, Maribor, Gradec, Celovec, and even, as a promotional measure and precaution, to Trst, in short order. The funds were eventually directed elsewhere, though, with the high command evidently satisfied by the eastern radio installations and not desiring to spend further money provoking Italy. Slovenias attention rested solely on what radical parliamentarian Borut Blatnik had called genocidal Marxist Serbian fascistssocialist Yugoslavia. Measures such as their recent enforcement of state atheism continued prodding Slovene military projects along. Munitions and small arms manufacturer Zlatorog had produced two unsuccessful attempts at a domestic battle rifle in 1949, but a new select-fire rifle constructed by celebrated Beljak designer and gunsmith Truden Glavač was looking increasingly promising in the eyes of Slovenias military procurement office. Still, Slovenia could not do everything at home. A tank deal was allegedly at work at the Greek embassy, and the bulk of the Slovene air force would undoubtedly be American for the immediate years to come. Still, with ancient gunsmiths in the Alps, generational industrialists in its heart and some of Europes oldest and largest shipyards filling Trst and lining its coast, Slovenia was content to pour everything into its unconditional defense.
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[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, Greek Ascension Into NATO : Greek Communist Party Left Feeling Betrayed!, January 1951
Το Βασίλειο της Ελλάδος, Ένταξη της Ελλάδος στο ΝΑΤΟ : Η Αριστερά του Ελληνικού Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος προδόθηκε!, Ιανουάριος 1951[/list][/list]
[list][list][list]Adriatican Islands - The Greek Armed Forces and The Greek Government! - Οι Ελληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις και η Ελληνική Κυβέρνηση ![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]| NATO PROTECTION, ATHENS, GREECE, SOUTHERN BALKANS: | ΠΡΟΣΤΑΣΊΑ ΤΟΥ ΝΑΤΟ, ΑΘΉΝΑ, ΕΛΛΆΔΑ, ΝΌΤΙΑ ΒΑΛΚΆΝΙΑ: |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| On a cold winter morning on the 30th of December, 1950, an official telegram was received by both His Majesty Pavlos I and Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Tsaldaris. An official invitation, for the Kingdom of Greece, to join the newly formed North Atlantic Treaty Organization - NATO. The telegram was passed onto the Greek parliament, where an official meeting was held, to decide the fate of Greece. While NATO would bring Greece a large number of arms, and lasting protection, it would also upset Greeces northern neighbors, which whom Greece had worked so hard to establish relations. At this point, the Peoples Party was sick of Tsaldaris incompetence, and the betrayal of Greek and Party principles deeply urged Tsaldaris to sign. Faced with pressure from the party, along with the people, the document was signed on the 3rd of January, 1951, followed by the Kings signature shortly after. |[/list]
[list]| As the King put down his pen, Greece gave out the official telegram to NATO. Greece had joined the alliance. Greece's membership in NATO was a security guarantee, putting up a strong, viable manageable, and international defense against any outside threats against the Kingdom of Greece. Greek security at this point was a must, with the 1,300 km long border with Communist Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and now with support from NATO, this northern frontier is protected. Greeces new allies meant that Greeces international position was cemented, a Pro-Western nation, a nation whose allies could defend Greece united, and continue good will with nations in the alliance. |[/list]
[list][list][pre] We are equally convinced that the organization of a truly efficient system of collective security constitutes the best means of persevering peace and ensuring justice and liberty in fulfillment of the most ardent aspirations of the Greek Nation.[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]- Greek Politician, Sophocles Venizelos[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[list]| Back on the streets of Greece, the joining of the alliance was met with a rather positive reaction from most of the population. However, when the news hit the communists in Nea Ionia, it was met with dismay. The man the Communist Party of Greece could trust, Prime Minister Tsaldaris himself, had essentially betrayed the trust that the two parties shared. The long relationship of support from Tsaldaris himself to clear the names of the Communist Party during the Xenon Incident in September 1949, severed. |[/list]
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NECK-DEEP IN A HEAVING SEA OF ENEMIES: SLOVENIAS DIPLOMATIC SITUATION AFTER SIX YEARS
[list][sup]THERE IS NO HELP BUT THAT WHICH WE GIVE OURSELVES
SLOVENIAAPRIL 1951[/sup][/list]
Six years after Slovenia declared itself alive on JurjevoSt. Georges Daythe optimism of the new Republic had been somewhat blunted on the stony walls of its neighbors. In truth, the only thing that political analysts felt had spared Slovenia of outright invasion were the three permanent American and British military installations in the country at Reka, Maribor and Gradec. Even these permanent bases were fleeting, however: their leases were expected to expire in 1955 pending negotiations, leaving the Slovene Republic stranded between the indignant Kingdom of Italy and the bellicose socialist Yugoslav dictatorship. On every side, Slovenia was treacherously surrounded by nations from which it had demanded concessions after the Second World War. A nation of five million had been born from lands once belonging to Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslavia. The Slovene government found their indignance to this matter insulting, feeling that the concessions were well in line with those given after criminal wars. President Tomič herself scornfully declared at a Jurjevo independence speech that those who tried to wipe us and others from this earth can say nothing of our fates after their defeat; Italy, she specified, who violently failed to establish themselves as the dominant race in southern Europe, now presumes to tell us that we cannot live in our native citieswe in Slovenia find that to be a hypocrisy, crime and insult of the greatest order. They never met us in battleonly callously violating slaying civilians in Trst and elsewherebut they who did, the Serb nationalists who cower under the name Yugoslav, deserve even less in defining what Slovenia is and should be. In truth, I have begun to see the correctness in Dr. andas claim: our lost Kajkavian brethrenSlovenes alllie right across the border from us, crying for freedom.
Relations with Yugoslavia (Ranponian) were indeed icy. The term Kajkaviana linguistic marker for a group of northern Croats who speak a language entirely intelligible with Prekmurje Slovenewas introduced to the wider public by a recent inflammatory text by nationalist author Dragan anda which claimed that some one million people speaking this variety in Yugoslavia were, in truth, Slovenes that had been misnamed for political interests. His argument had great merit, admittedly; pioneering nineteenth-century philologists Franc Mikloič and Jernej Kopitar had felt identically when the ethnology of the Balkans was being first investigated under rigorous scholarship. One major Kajkavian city, Varadin, had been incorporated into the new Republic in 1945 and had seen no unrest. People formerly called Croats now lived as Slovenes, their language, custom and religion entirely unchangedonly reclassified to lie at the Prekmurje end of Slovenes dialect spectrum. Misnamed Croats were now Slovenes. Though only popular among the ultraconservative community at first, andas arguments quickly spread as such policies as state atheism descended on the Kajkavians; by April, talk of the izgubljeni milijon (lost million) permeated Slovenian politics: a million Croats, truly Slovenians, awaited liberation in Yugoslavia. Zagreb was, in truth, a Slovene city. Increasingly, the lost million infiltrated Slovenias national consciousness, becoming one of many quarrels with Yugoslavia aggravated by a growing arms race and endless ideological differences.
[list][sub]In v resnici je poleg ljubezni, ki je nedvomno prva, plemeniti upor proti krivični stvarnosti največ, kar lahko prispevamo za reitev človekega dostojanstva.
And in fact, aside from lovewhich is undoubtedly the foremosta noble rebellion against an unjust reality is the best that we can contribute to the salvation of human dignity.
Boris Pahor, Trst native and author on Italianization in a novel draft[/sub][/list]
Relations with Italy (Arcanda) were only scarcely better. Their refusal to recognize Slovenian jurisdiction over Istria and other lost Italian lands was a bitter sticking point, easily lambasted as a miserable artifact of fascism by virtually every aspect of the Slovene political spectrum. To the Slovenes, memories of graphic murders committed by Italian fascists against ethnic Slovenes, the burning of Slovene schools and the closure of Slovene societies were close at hand. To relinquish Trst (Italian Trieste), Videm (Italian Udine), Trič (Italian Monfalcone) and elsewhere would be to voluntarily give in to a people who had seemingly taken joy in oppressing and recreationally killing persons of the Slovene minority in Italy for decades. Former President Boris Furlan, a native of Trst, made a habit of calling the Italian government a den of sadists at every opportunity, and the unconditional liberation of Slovene-inhabited areas had been one of his terms in collaborating with the western Allies. Incumbent President Vida Tomič was at least marginally kinderat least occasionally expressing wishes to work as equals with Italybut diplomacy between the two countries seemed to have altogether stalled pending Italian recognition of Slovene jurisdiction or the Slovene abandonment of its western and southern lands. Neither seemed immediately likely. The debacle was continually stalling Slovenias accession to NATO, which it refused to do until Italy recognized its authority.
In spite of the tense border relationships, progress had undoubtedly been made in Slovene diplomacy over the last few years. International warmth lay between Slovenia and several partnered allies, including Greece (Adriatican Islands), with whom military and financial partnerships have created a robust friendship; France (Metropolitan Francais), whose Vincent Auriol visited just over four years ago; Zaire (Paseo), a distant nation which unexpectedly showed compassion during the Slovene Rising and has displayed goodwill since; and Ethiopia (Alzarikstan), which has pursued several business deals with Slovenia, though its relationship may be quickly jeopardized by its dealings with the Eastern world. Though somewhat detached, the United States and United Kingdom have shown themselves to be proven benefactors, having been the first to secure Slovene independence and furnish the Republic with weapons. Regardless, the Slovene Foreign Ministry and its calculated Minister Leonid Pitamic saw opportunities everywhere; in West Germany (New Provenance) the Slovenes saw a European ally with great potential; in Azania (Nonador), they imagined a stalwart friend in Africa which was also endeavoring to throw off decades of cultural erasure; and in the rising Asian states of Burma (Ubertica), the Philippines (Provenancia) and Japan (Nippon-Nihon), all recovering from the wreckage of war and colonization, Pitamic viewed future industrial partners. There was much work to be done, indeedbut the Slovenes were willing to do it.
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[sub]Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados)[/sub]
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[list][list][list][pre]AFGHANISTAN ☪ Dǝ Afġānistān ahi Dawlat
THE ENCROACHMENT OF A NEW ERA[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[sup]The experience of the recent tribal revolts had been eye-opening toward the weaknesses and deficiencies of Kabul's ability to maintain control over Afghanistan. The war against the tribes significantly reinforced the need for a strong centralized government. The instrument which would build said centralized government was the military. Despite the military successfully putting down the revolt of 44 and other previous ones from the 30s, the military still required further modernization efforts. The standard equipment of the infantry was old, the army's logistical ability was severely lacking, the officer core required revamping, and most importantly, a modern air force. The need for a modern state and army had been especially pushed to the forefront of national dialogue when in August 1947, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was born. The reaction of Afghanistan was adverse for two main reasons; first, the pressing issue of the Durand Line, and second, the Pashtun tribes within Pakistan that were separated by the said border. The Durand Line border was established after the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between Mortimer Durand of colonial British India and Amir Abdur Rahman Khan of Afghanistan to fix the limit of their respective spheres of influence. The single-page agreement, which contained seven short articles, was signed by Durand and Khan, agreeing not to exercise political interference beyond the frontier line between Afghanistan and what was then the British Indian Empire. This split severed Afghanistan from the Pashtun tribes. It manifested when prominent Pashtun nationalists, such as Abdul Ghaffar, advocated for unity with the Dominion of India and not with Afghanistan. This erosion of Pashtun self-identification with Afghanistan resulted in most Pashtuns advocating for joining Pakistan when the time for independence came. When Pakistan became independent, they inherited the border; however, Kabul did not acknowledge this, stating the Durand Line was a British agreement, not a Pakistani one. The Afghan intelligentsia, Wikh Zalmiyan, was especially vocal about the issue; if Afghanistan were ever to ratify the agreement, then an estimated 50 million Pashtuns would forever be divided. Much pressure would be placed on the monarchy to take action. Zahir Shah seeing it as an opportunity to boast his image and support gave a fiery anti-Pakistan speech via national radio condemned by Pakistan's Liaquat Ali Khan. Another unspoken reason for Kabul's pursuit of the Pashtunistan issue is that Pakistan served as the main trade route between Afghanistan and South Asia. This was especially concerning as it made Kabul dependent on Pakistan to keep the border open for trade. Thus, to many, it would be better to see the Afghan flag fly over the shores of the Arabian sea.[/sup]
[sup]Afghan prime minister, Shah Mahmud Khan, would enact a two-fold policy against Pakistan. The first being to destabilize Pakistan's Pashtun majority frontier regions by funding and supporting secessionist movements. This was believed by members of the Afghan Intelligence, or (Istikhbarat), to be an effective method since post-Independence Pakistani politics proved unstable. The Punjabi's of Pakistan held a monopoly on governmental power, alienating non-Punjabi groups such as the Pashtuns. Secondly, to strengthen relations with Pakistan's local rivals, such as India and the CCCP. This foreign policy shift earned some criticism within the government and abroad; many conservatives were against cooperating with the Soviet Union on principle, and political Islamic groups viewed the government's friendliness with Moscow and Delhi as anti-Islamic. Despite all these actions by the prime minister, Mahmud would be put on the firing line by the intelligentsia for a serious incident on September 30th, 1950. Pakistan claimed Afghan troops had crossed into their territory near the Bogra Pass as a low-scale invasion. The Afghan government denied involvement, saying they were pro-Pashtunistan tribesmen. However, under Shah Mahmud Khan, the Ministry of Defense had allowed low-scale operations to prod at the Pakistani border. Kabul had played with the idea of invading Pakistan but was deterred by the risk of facing diplomatic consequences by the international community and the reality that the Afghan Royal Army was not up to par to face the Pakistani Army. Since the end of WW2 and the Tribal Revolts, the army had cut down on its manpower to save costs for the government; at peak, the military neared a 100,000-strong army, but now a mere 60,000 as of 1950. Since 1948, Afghanistan has begun procuring Soviet military equipment to bolster its military. Most being infantry weapons, T-34 and Iosif Stalin tanks, SU-76 self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks of jeep class (in many versions), Katyusha rocket launchers, and various small piece artillery. With plans to potentially acquire Soviet aircraft in the future.[/sup]
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[list]March 1951
[sub]Hohenlohe By-Election[/sub][/list]
[pre]H O H E N L O H E B Y - E L E C T I O N[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Hohenlohe district is a local governmental
constituency and district in northern Baden-Wurttemburg,
north of Stuttgart. Currently represented by Johann Klauschen,
of the CDU/CSU.[/pre][/sub][/list]
HOHENLOHE DISTRICT, BADEN-WURTTEMBURG, New Provenance
[sub]THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| Künzelsau 37 km (23 mi) northeast of Heilbronn served as the administrative district of Hohenlohe, one of the constituencies represented in the Bundestag. The small district was home to more or less 30,000 people, and was home to a quaint little company called Allgemein ("Universal" in English), that produced shoes, boots and clothing. Beyond that, it was of no significant importance, really, and its citizens lived in quiet and peace. The economic growth of the new Federal Republic had yet to reach them and provide to them its positive effects, but the district had voted in a CDU/CSU representative nonetheless in the 1949 election, by the name of Johann Klauschen Klauschen had defeated his SPD opponent by a margin of 3.1 percentage points. In late February, the representative was involved in a car accident that killed him and his wife. The district mourned his death, and together with federal election authorities the local government began planning for a by-election to replace him, with the next federal election cycle still over two years away. In the Hohenlohe Chronicle, it reported potential candidates |
[list][pre]HOHENLOHE CHRONICLE (FEB 1951) [...] A by-election to have a new representative succeed the late Herr Klauschen will be called within the next few weeks, and it is expected that several candidates will appear from the previous election in our district. Hans Holler, for one, is likely to stand for the SPD as he did in the last election. Fritz Baade, a local councilman for the CDU/CSU, is expected to run to represent the party Klauschen represented in the Bundestag.[/pre][/list]
| Holler would announce his bid to stand for election, as would Fritz Baade. However, an Independent candidate would appear Sophie Scholl. A former resistance leader and a storied hero of the German resistance, Scholl had been rescued by the Blue Flower Movement from execution during the war and had moved to lead the German resistance against the Volkist government in the latter stage of the war. Under her leadership alongside the Tellermanns and her brother, Scholl helped provide humanitarian support when the Blue Flower Movement turned into a humanitarian organization in the postwar occupation period. Scholl had retired to her hometown to rest in 1948. |
| Announcing her candidacy on 3 March with her brother and government agent Armand Tellermann by her said, Scholl would run for her native constituency's seat in the Bundestag as an Independent. Local leaders - comprising a small CDU/CSU majority with the opposition represented by SPD and Independents - dismissed her candidacy as a weak one, and no effort was made on their part to petition the larger party apparatus for support. With control of the government by the CDU/CSU down to less than 30 seats, any seat gained by the opposition could be a serious blow to government agendas, especially with German politics particularly fluid and nonpartisan. Scholl emphasized her history as a storied resistance leader and a youthful nonpartisan member of the community. Holler pitched regulations on the free market and left-leaning ideologies, while Baade attempted to distinguish himself from his party by declaring himself to be a 'nonpartisan centrist'. All three candidates were attempting to court a key group of voters - swing independents, who generally voted independent or for the SPD. |
| On Election Day, all three candidates would head to their polling stations along with the rest of the voting community in the HOHENLOHE BY-ELECTION, which would take place on 24 March organized swiftly by federal election authorities thanks to the relatively small size of the constituency. Election results would be announced a little over a day later, after the votes would be counted meticulously at the local school in Künzelsau. |
[list][pre]HOHENLOHE BY-ELECTION, MARCH OF 1951[/pre]
[pre]SCHOLL, SOPHIE (Ind.) - 45.66 % - 12,551 votes (+630)[/pre]
[pre]Baade, Fritz (CDU/CSU) - 43.37 % - 11,921 votes
Holler, Hans (SPD) - 10.97 % - 3,015 votes[/pre][/list]
| By a 630-vote lead, Scholl would be elected to the Bundestag to represent the Hohenlohe constituency for the remaining period of the late Johann Klauschen, at which point she would need to stand for re-election. Becoming the fourth independent in the Bundestag, Scholl would be sworn in by Erich Kohler, the President of the Bundestag, and member of the CDU/CSU, on 31 March 1951. |
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[list]March 1951
[sub]Was the King of the Belgians a traitor ?[/sub][/list]
[pre]CAN LEOPOLD III HOLD ON TO THE THRONE[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]As talks of a Union of Benelux intensifies, Belgium
is facing a royal crisis of its kind.[/pre][/sub][/list]
BRUSSELS, Bayern Kahla
[sub]THE KINGDOM OF BELGIUM[/sub]
|While many other monarchs left their respective countries during the German occupation, King Leopold III remained. This decision was heavily criticised. Worse, it became a suject of controversy as the country was liberated. He even met the Fürher in 1944. And, for the most conservative branches of the people, his remarrying was also another layer of scandal.
The conflict between Leopolodists and Anti-Leopolodists is intensifying day by day as the Benelux question raises. Leopolod is facing destiny. He has also been more skeptical of the Union and has shown it in the press.
The instability in Belgium is also worrying the Netherlands and Luxembourg who may believe Belgium to be unreliable for a Union. It also shadows the future talks of the European Community project. The Prime Minister of Belgium made no comments on what he considers to be a "royal matter".|
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[list][list][pre]ꕦ ꛲ ꕦ ꚿ
A Z A N I A[/pre][sub]01 March 1951[/sub][/list]
GREAT IHAWU UNITED TRIBES OF AZANIA;
[sub]Foreign Affairs[/sub]
[list][sub][pre]
The years 1949 thru 1951 were noticeably a time of great flux within the international community. By and large, most nations had recovered from the immediate scourge of war, such that once silent nations on the diplomatic scene, have begun to become more vocal again through the formation of new, great, alliances and unions. In Africa, the independent nations of the continent joined together in the formation of a economic, social, and political African Union with the express goal of coordinating development on the continent, and developing common policies to address threats to the independence of Africans and to expedite the decolonization process. In Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was formed by the western nations as a defensive pact in 1949 - with the European Economic Community being formed shortly thereafter in 1950. In East, COMECON was formed that same year, to coordinate efforts among socialist and communist nations around the globe. In Cape Town, Parliamentarians wrestled with the formation of COMECON - especially in the context of other African nations joining that organization - albeit as observers - and the implications of such a move for the hard fought peace in Africa. Policy makers were concerned that the presence of COMECON could invite tensions and instability to the continent through Proxy conflicts with the West, as we see playing out in Korea. So, when a message was received from the East German Foreign Office concerning an invitation to observer status in COMECON, it was initially received with great trepidation, expressed via telegraph. The United Tribes, for all intents and purposes, was Western but Neutral in the developing "Cold War" - and did not want to threaten it's relationships with the West - however, the Zwane Government was at least willing to hear from the East Germans, and to likewise make the position of Azania clear regarding Eastern expansion into the continent.[/pre][/sub][/list]
[list][pre]UNION BUILDINGS' GARDEN, PRETORIA, CAPITOL OF THE UNITED TRIBES;[/pre][/list]
[sub]For this high profile meeting, the East German Delegation would be received at the Pretoria Metropolitan Airport by members of the Royal Azanian Guards and the Ministry of External Affairs in full view of curious onlookers. It was not the crowd typical of most other state visits, as many could not distinguish the East Germans from those of Volkist Germany, much less, were many comfortable with their presence in Azania for concern of what the West's response would be. Yet, on part of the government, no expense was spared and no ceremony curtailed which would make the delegation feel any less than welcomed. Traditional dancers and singers performed their ceremonial welcome presentations, before the delegates were transported by limosene to the Union Buildings - the heart of the Executive Branch of the United Tribes, where the Prime Minister was waiting in the Gardens for the senior negotiator.[/sub]
[sub]At the entrance of the Gardens, the Prime Minister would wait for his counterpart, dressed in an all-white Dashiki suit, with gold trim, received as a gift from travels in Kenya. The tall, proud man, would greet them with a smile.[/sub]
[list]ENGAMELI ZWANE, Prime Minister-UT; Friends! Welcome to Azania
| He said leaning in to embrace them warmly with a respectable, and traditional, kiss on either cheek. |[/list]
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