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[list][pre]SUPREME COURT OF JAPAN[/pre][/list]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1948604

Rutannia, Saudi Arabiyah, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Tallahan, Provenancia, Maziya, Ma-Li, Zeitenwende

Good Catch

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[list][sup]Yemen Arab Republic

28 February 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]The Captain Hazem al-Awadi ordered a group of his best soldiers in shooting to position themselves and hide on one of the mountain passes leading to the village of the Bakil tribe, they would try to spot the Emir Mohamed bin Hussein and kill him. Indeed, he was spotted in a group of cavalry as they were heading to the village, and the soldiers actually opened fire and shot down four of them. The rest cavalry while fled. When the soldiers examined the dead, the Emir was not among them, but the leader of the Bakil tribe Sadiq al-Gazami loyal to the Emir was among those killed, and the soldiers left to inform their commander.[/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Amsterwald, Osivoii, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Tallahan, Provenancia, Maziya, Ma-Li, Zeitenwende

[pre]FEBRUARY of 1965[/pre]

[list][pre]THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик[/pre][/list]

[pre]FIRST DEPUTY PREMIER KOSYGIN LEADS THE CHARGE ON 1965 ECONOMIC REFORMS, AIMING TO STRENGTHEN SOVIET ECONOMIC SUPREMACY![/pre]

[pre]ПЕРВЫЙ ЗАМЕСТИТЕЛЬ ПРЕМЬЕРА КОСЫГИН РУКОВОДИТ ПРОВЕДЕНИЕ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ РЕФОРМ 1965 ГОДА, НАПРАВЛЕННЫХ НА УКРЕПЛЕНИЕ СОВЕТСКОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО ПРЕВОСХОДСТВА!

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| [sub](MOSCOW, RSFSR) - The elimination of conservative hardliner supporters of Leonid Brezhnev, and the appointment of reform-minded bureaucrats Pyotr Lomako and Andrei Kirilenko, both of whom are closely associated with First Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin, opened the pathway for optimal planners and reformist economists like Kosygin to take the helm of Soviet economic planning policy without interruption. Since the end of Lenin's New Economic Policy under conservative-oriented reforms led by Iosif Stalin, including the collectivization of farms, nationalization of industry, and acceleration of central planning, the Soviet Union has utilized an aggressively centralized method of managing its economy. A single bureaucracy, Gosplan, developed economic plans, assigned workers to jobs, set wages, dictated resource allocation, levels of trade, and planned the course of technological progress. Consumer and wholesale good prices were also fixed with the aim of market clearing, and collective farms paid pre-set prices for necessary supplies. Collectivized farm workers also received wages dependent on operational profitability. While this system has governed the Soviet economic system for many years even since the death of Stalin, the rise of optimal planners and statistical planning would see the growth of interest amongst open-minded bureaucrats in economic reform. This would include things such as the establishment of Nemchinov's Central Economic Mathematical Institute, and the invention of linear programming by Nemchinov, Kantorovich and Novozhilov.[/sub] |

| [sub]The heated debate between traditional and optimal planning would emerge in the 1960s in strength, with conservative hardliners clashing with reformists on whether or not the Soviet economic system needed amending. While the Kremlin regularly issued broadcasts, statements and released reports and numbers that praised the perfect state of the Soviet system, and its supremacy over its Western capitalist equivalents, the accepted truth was that the Soviet economy was lagging behind in terms of growth and productivity compared to the United States, which depended on an ideologically-different form of economic system. The elimination of Brezhnev and other sympathetic, hardliner conservatives within the CPSU opened the pathway for Kosygin and other economic reformists within Gosplan to implement their reforms. In the autumn of 1964, First Deputy Premier and Gosplan chief Alexei Kosygin and Evsei Liberman of the Kharkov Institute of Engineering and Economics presented the following rationale for implementing sweeping reforms to the Soviet economic system in the next year, for implementation during the next Five-Year Plan:[/sub] |

[list][pre]- The existing system of planning does not motivate enterprises to reach high rates of production or to introduce organizational or technical innovations

- Increasing complexity of economic relations reduced the efficacy of economic planning and therefore reduces economic growth

- Social interests could be advanced through careful setting of microeconomic parameters

- "What is profitable for society should be profitable for every enterprise."

- Introduction of rentabelnost ("profitability") and realizastsiya ("sales" as measures of success for enterprises would incentivize efficient operations and higher productivity levels[/pre][/list]

| [sub]The reforms had been discussed within tight circles as early as 1962, but the presence of Brezhnev and other conservative hardliners led to consternation and strong opposition. With them gone, and General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev himself entertaining the possibility of implementing at least "some minor" changes to the Soviet economic system to boost the Warsaw Pact's competitiveness levels with their Western counterparts, Kosygin and other "optimal planners" were able to have free rein to begin planning their changes to the system. Most prominently, the largest reform would be the introduction of rentabelnost ("profitability") and realizastsiya ("sales") as measures of success for enterprises. Under the proposed reforms, some of the profits of enterprises would go to three funds, to reward workers, expand operations, and towards the central budget. To encourage accurate planning, enterprises would be incentivized and heavily encouraged to perform at their planned goal, rather than above or below. Individual enterprises would also, under the plan, be granted more control over investment decisions and modernization plans, though the latter would still remain subject to central approval. Contractors would also receive incentives to follow these new plans. [/sub] |

| [sub]The new reforms, with conservative opposition limited to practically non-existent, would also include shifts in the influence of the sovnarkhozy, or the regional economic councils under the control of the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy. The sovnarkhozy were reported to be sub-par at optimizing overall production chains due to their regional focus, and their authority conflicted heavily with the authority of Gosplan, the government's central planning authority. 1962 changes to consolidate 104 sovnarkhozy into 47 larger jurisdictions would be repealed under these reforms, and the government would clearly outline separation of powers and interests to prevent oversteppings and contradictions in directives from Gosplan and the sovnarkhozy. Gosplan, however, would maintain most of the planning authority, rather than it being handed over to the sovnarkhozy or to the Supreme Soviet of the National Economy, or VSNKh. Central planning would also be refined for more detailed and scientific central planning, to be calculated using computer systems. On the distribution of supplies and products, central planners would allocate scarce and vital goods, while enterprises may form "direct ties" through which they can develop contractual exchange relationships for maximal optimization of operations.[/sub] |

| [sub]In January of 1965, an early proposal for the reforms would be introduced to the Central Committee by First Deputy Premier Kosygin with the backing of Supreme Soviet presidium Pyotr Lomako. The changes would take place gradually, it was argued, with the first stage comprising of "experiments" including hundreds of enterprises to gauge the feasibility and success rate of the reforms. The proposal outlined a timeframe which stated that the new reformed economic model would be implemented in these "experiment" enterprises by early 1966, and the enterprises included in the reforms would be from a diverse range of profitability levels to ensure accurate experimental results. The Eighth Five-Year Plan, for 1966 to 1970, would see the first implementation of some of these reforms, including the transferring of light industry by 1967, and remaining enterprises by 1968. Additional proposals would also be included to prevent confusion and ensure a smooth execution of reform implementation, and the plan would not be implemented, Kosygin said, until the lockstep support of the ministries and bureaucrats would be secured to prevent contradicting directives from being issued.[/sub] |

| [sub]The largest obstacle to the reforms, initially, was Khrushchev and several other moderate bureaucrats. Concern was expressed that the reforms would begin a chain of events that would see a degradation towards a capitalist system. It would be argued, however, that the reforms were necessary if the Soviets wished to remain at-pace with the Soviet Union's competitors in the capitalist West. After much debate, in February of 1965 the reforms would be tentatively approved by the Central Committee and by Gosplan, the state planning agency, pending the development of a more comprehensive plan for approval by the Supreme Soviet before full implementation within the next sixth months. Kosygin and Lomako were crucial supporters of the proposal, speaking privately with members of the Central Committee and other top bureaucrats to prevent hurdles from weakening or damaging the proposed reforms.[/sub] |

| [sub]General Secretary Khrushchev largely adopted a lukewarm-at-best position on the reforms, favoring some aspects while standing skeptically on others, especially on the introduction of profitability as a factor in performance of enterprise, and Khrushchev would play a big role in establishing the need to ensure the reforms are careful, and implemented in a way that "does not compromise the spirit of socialism and empowers the Soviet people".[/sub] |

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Rutannia, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Osivoii, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Tallahan, Provenancia, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[list]March 1965

[sub]The Gentle President[/sub][/list]

[pre]A S T E A D Y H A N D[/pre]

| Since his election three years ago, Camilo Osias has earned himself the title of the "Gentle President" and the "Steady Hand" of the Philippines. After campaigning on a platform of continuing the broadly popular Magsaysay-era policies which included a mixture of lower taxes and broad social programs especially for rural and agricultural communities, Osias in Malacanang has largely laid low during his first term as president. Amid a boiling situation in Vietnam, he has called for regional peace and security and has taken a more foreign policy-focused administration, assigning most tasks to his Vice President, Ferdinand E. Marcos. Since announcing a "Five Point Plan" to grow the Philippine economy and maintain the levels of economic prosperity during the 1950s under the Magsaysay administration, Osias has managed to successfully pass major agenda points through the Philippine Congress, presently controlled by his own center-right Nacionalista Party. He also adopted a key focus on education, being the president who saw the most schools built during his term (largely via Magsaysay-era programs) and the most pro-teachers president, according to the Alliance of Filipino Teachers (AFT), one of the largest representative bodies for public and private school teachers and educators. |

| The Philippine economy has not grown as significantly and positively as it did under Ramon Magsaysay, but Osias has presided over a period of economic stability for the Philippines despite regional tensions rising in Vietnam and between China and India. Wages have continued to rise, and unemployment and inflation remains at relatively low levels. Annual GDP growth remains one of the highest in the region, though countries like Japan have already started to outpace the Philippines after the country was positioned in a close second behind the Land of the Rising Sun in terms of annual growth in the mid-1950s. Osias has continued to push a "Filipino First" policy agenda on imports-exports, pursuing a campaign of utilizing diplomacy to grow Philippine exports rather than relying on foreign imports. This policy was first implemented under the Magsaysay administration and grown under President Osias, who enacted policies to encourage Filipino farmers to sell their goods not only in the Philippines but also to foreign markets as well. The focus on exports would mean that the Philippines would continue to remain export-focused for the foreseeable future, especially thanks to its strong agricultural and consumer goods manufacturing industries. |

| By and large, as the 1966 elections continue to approach, the role of being the publicly active face of the administration presently sitting in Malacanang went to the affable, charming and charismatic Vice President, Ferdinand Marcos. Formerly a leading Senator for the Nacionalista Party, he helped carry the softspoken Osias to victory in the close 1962 presidential election race against Liberal candidate Elpidio Quirino. Hailing from the northern province of Ilocos Norte and from a decently large political family, Marcos rose the ranks within the Nacionalista Party and is now poised to succeed Osias; a scenario that, by now, is a practical guarantee considering the lack of interest in contesting his leadership, such as from Arturo Tolentino, the Nacionalista House Speaker. |

| As Vice President, Marcos has endeavored to focus on an infrastructure-centered portfolio, announcing large railway and highway programs to be completed through funding regime agreements with partners like the United States and Japan. Plans for subway systems, modern and faster passenger rail, as well as a network of buses and trams to replace the increasingly congested cars that flood the Greater Manila region every weekday have been laid down for the 70s and beyond by Marcos in passionate speeches to citizens. They were enamored, observers say, and Marcos is clearly presenting himself as the next president. Of course, the main question surrounding this possibility remains whether or not Osias intends to run for a second term. With the Liberal Party shoring up support and intending to use Osias' relatively quiet presidency compared to his predecessor to win Malacanang for the first time since Manuel Roxas in 1954, Marcos would be the strongest candidate, pollsters say. The future remains uncertain for now, Marcos told the Manila Daily, but he refuses to rule out a future presidential bid. |

| Meanwhile, quietly but confidently, the Philippines continues to grow. The silent leadership of Camilo Osias has opened up pathways for the Liberal Party, or other parties that are seeking to break through what has become essentially a two-party system between the Liberal and Nacionalista parties, to take charge and potentially end years of Nacionalista dominance thanks to immensely popular policies that began under Ramon Magsaysay. What comes in the future for the country, however, remains to be seen. |

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Rutannia, Paseo, Amsterwald, Nippon-Nihon, Saudi Arabiyah, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1948830

Amsterwald, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Kyntosia, Mutawakkiliti

[list][pre]INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (Japan's Foreign Policy)[/pre][/list]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1746102

Pontianus, New Provenance, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[pre]|1965|[/pre]

[list][list][list][pre]XP ★ XIAOSHUO PUBLISHING

晓说出版社 |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]

THE BIRTH OF THE SOLAR POPULARIS FRANCHISE:

XIAOSHUO PUBLISHING GAINS GOVERNMENTAL APPROVAL TO ESTABLISH INNOVATIVE ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE PEOPLE OF CHINA AND POSSIBLY BEYOND!

广受欢迎的太阳能系列的诞生:

小说出版获得政府批准,为中国人民乃至全世界人民打造创新娱乐!

[sub]What is this? Solar Popularis is a collaborative writing project and what I hope to be a very fun project for me and hopefully a group of writers from the CoL. The SP will be a Book and Comic series from the CoL Roleplay Universe. This has no effect on the rp world. This is a project to build an in-depth sci-fi universe. Right now it is just me world building but I am hopefully some of my creative friends will make their mark on this world by either world building alongside me or writing stories that take place in this sci-fi franchise. DM’s are open for anyone interested in joining this project for however long you want. Thanks for reading![/sub]

[pre]| Xuan Shun stood in the rain outsid e the rundown offices that will become the Headquarters of Xiashuo Publishing. Nestled in a cramped alleyway of Shanghai the rain pummeled above the doorway as he walked inside. Xuan grew up in Chengdu to a family of Revolutionaries, held up very highly by the local community and earned him many privileges allowing him to focus on his passion of Literature and Journalism. He studied Literature and Journalism at Peking University and even served the party in providing propaganda writings and reports from the frontlines of Aksai Chin. This service gained him the CCPs trust to begin Xiashou Publishing and provide a new source of entertainment for the Chinese society. Now all he had to do was begin his life’s work. |[/pre]

[pre]| Xiashou Publishing would not only be the publisher of fictional entertainment for the Chinese people and countries who would allow its import, but would also be home to Xuan's dream of creating a Science Fiction Universe known to him only in his head as Solar Popularis. He also sought to fill the offices of Xiashou Publishing with some of the most creative minds in China and bring a new standard to Chinese entertainment. Solar Popularis would be a collaborative work between those who work in the offices of XP. |[/pre]

[pre]| Xiashou Publishing would be a small publishing house attached to China Publishing Group with Xuan Shun as Director of XP. The formation of Xiashou Publishing would be finalized on March 16th, 1965 by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China under the authority of Minister of Culture Mao Dun. |[/pre]

[list][list][pre]SERVE IMAGINATION![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]服务想象力![/pre][/list][/list]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

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Rutannia, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[list]1965년 3월 14일

[sub]Japan and Korea[/sub][/list]

[list][sub]Park’s Government Seeks Reconciliation with Japan[/sub][/list]

[sub]SEOUL, Rutannia — EVENING[/sub]

| The mornings had begun to warm as spring approached quickly, for many it was a marker of change as new flowers began to slowly bloom; birds made their nests; and the trees regained their leaves. For Prime Minister Park spring too would be a time of change, he had been re-elected barely a month earlier and was on his way to meet the King for their weekly official meeting. The meeting had become a matter of formality given the pair were in almost daily contact, off the record at least. |

[list][sub]PM. Park: “Your majesty, I know we often discuss things off the record, but I thought this was perhaps best discussed in person.”[/sub]

[sub]King Haneul: “Sounds serious. You never talk to me formally normally. What are you proposing? I be abolished? We give in to the demands of the Communists?”[/sub][/list]

| The tone of the King’s questioning put a small smirk on the Prime Minister's face. The King had the ability to make any serious matter light-hearted, just to ease the tension brewing in any meeting. The two men would take their usual seats in the meeting room, Park placing a cigar in his mouth while the King pulled out a packet of Raison cigarettes and a box of matches, tossing them over to Park once he’d lit his cigarette.|[list]

[sub]PM. Park: “Nothing like that at all. The October summit last year with Japan was successful in normalising relations. I want to go further. We need to establish basic relations, our exclusion from the Treaty of San Francisco means we’ve lost out. Getting friendly with the Japanese is key to achieving economic growth and Asian stability.”[/sub]

[sub]King Haneul: “Whilst I hold my reservations about Japan and whether it truly has changed, acting like they don’t exist is only detrimental to us. Plus I do owe them some favours for a coverup or two.”[/sub]

[sub]PM. Park: “How many people have you killed in Japan?”[/sub]

[sub]King Haneul: “Only one, that being my brother. The other stuff is only minor embezzlement.”[/sub][/list]

| The King would speak casually waving his hands dismissing the second issue, the pair would look at each other chuckling as if this was a normal and everyday conversation for the two men. |[list]

[sub]PM. Park: “So problem with a series of summits?”[/sub]

[sub]King Haneul: “Of course not, I know you’ll have trouble within your party over it, but I assume you’ve already calculated that risk?”[/sub][/list]

| Park would merely smirk in response and the two would carry on chatting for sometime afterwards. The next day journalists would be called to a press conference hosted by Park where he would announce his intention to hold a joint summit with the Prime Minister of Nippon-Nihon should they accept, and stated that it was time Korea and Japan put their issues aside and forge a new future. |

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

Early Guirmanomics (1965-1969):

The end of the French Empire drastically left a massive void in the public civil service. Around 48,000 French citizens departed from the region, leaving Mali deficient, with a largely illiterate population.

Low tech agriculture made up the vast majority of agricultural activities during the time period, with Mali and Upper Volta being self sufficient in rice and grains, up until the Great Sahel Drought and the major reorganizations that followed.

Prime Minister Dick Guirma would set out the beginnings of an economic policy later known as Guirmanomics. The term was eventually pinned to Guirma’s policies due to his close association politically with the future U.S. president.

Guirma’s Great Experiment: Collectivization 1965-1969

The 1st Dia Economic Plan would be a period of policy experimentations. As villigization was on the rise, the government had refused to forcefully collectivize agriculture like other nations like Tanzania had. Instead within the new villages the government would experiment with voluntary pilot programs for Agricultural Cooperatives. Numerous types would be developed including some communal farms where profits would be split afterwards, marketing cooperatives, where all products would be sold as one collective village unit and the profits split, and finally the model that would truly change Malian farming, the supply cooperatives. These cooperatives would see village units share the cost of purchasing and upkeep of seeds, and machinery. This last model would be the only of the 3 to see any widespread success and soon would be commonplace in many Malian villages.

The pace of industrialization would be entirely guided by, and generally benefitting the Malian government. Private sector industrialization during this early period remained small, and largely concentrated in Dakar. These industries would be apart of the Malian experiment in state-led input substitution. While effective in reducing some Malian reliance on foreign imports, these would do little in the way of satisfying the desperately needed job opportunities in the growing cities of Bamako, Dakar, Conakry, Ouagadougou, and Banjul. Instead capital accumulation and investment would largely be the main driver of economic growth during this period at around 60% of all gdp growth.

Investments went into large capital intensive projects like a half dozen ore refineries and steel mills, oil refineries, automobile assembly plants, food processing plants, tractor factories, and textile plants. It should be noted; however, that these investments despite sucking up large amounts of government investment did not enough to stem the tide of growing unemployment and poverty. Nonetheless these would lay the groundwork for what would become the Malian economy.

Mamadou Dia Reenters the Scene

State-led industrialization would be overseen by Mamadou Dia. Largely relegated to the background as Guirma took center stage, Dia would re-emerge with the planned economic transformations.

The Economic Development Board ran by Dia would be responsible for creating and running the new state owned enterprises in Mali. But the new state built industries would not only be owned by the state. Other sites would be sold off to private companies with the government being granted a 10-15% stake in these new private businesses. Several smaller companies that did exist would also experience investments as Dia bought up a portion of their shares.

The Economic Development Board would also function as an industrial bank offering loans to Malian entrepreneurs and companies at reasonable interest rates. This would make the EDB critical in the development of the early Malian economy.

Rutannia, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

Royal Parcel, Arrived

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[list][sup]Yemen Arab Republic

13 March 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]After the killing of Sadiq al-Gazami, the leader of the Bakil tribe, his brother Qasim became the leader of the tribe. Qasim was against his brother’s support for the rebellion of Emir Mohamed bin Hussein, the King, and he saw that this would harm the tribe, and Emir was not qualified to be king, so he decided secretly, with the help of a group of tribesmen, to They arrest the Emir without warning and send him to Sanaa, as an expression of good faith and so that the tribe is not harmed or ostracized.[/sup]

[sup]As soon as the Emir arrived in Sanaa, he was taken to prison. It was announced that the Revolutionary Court would soon be held to try both Emir Mohamed bin Hussein, the former viceroy, and Emir Hassan bin Yahya, the former prime minister.

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Ma-Li

[list][PRE]March 1965[/pre][/list]

[list][list][list][list][pre]Prime Minister Herrera's Latin American Mission[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre] P L U S - U L T R A[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][I]Madrid Spainard

[sub][I]THE SPANISH KINGDOM OF SPAIN[/I][/sub][/list]

[list]|[sub] In the continued effort to further explore the profound economic and political opportunity of Latin America, Prime Minister Luis Herrera and his wife Renata Herrera set a voyage for Bogotá. Before leaving Madrid, Herrera spoke highly of the visit to Colombia saying the two mutual understanding for continued growth economically pivots above all cynical retributes and set a divine course of optimism and unwavering support. Both foreign offices of Colombia and Spain drafted a common and fair trade agreement that will serve as a reciprocal effort to enhance transatlantic trade for many decades to come.[/sub]

[sub]The Press Secretary reiterated Spain’s commitment to Latin America of which he had described as “Un faro de importancia para las generaciones venideras”. [/sub]

[sub]Foreign Minister Calvo-Sotelo |- “Nuestra historia, lengua y cultura compartidas nos sirven de faro de gradación y determinación mutua. España comparte la responsabilidad y el mérito de mantener nuestra cultura común por encima de todo, y de poner nuestras manos a los pies de Dios, para lo cual pedimos su guía para forjar nuestros caminos durante muchos años.”[/sub]

[sub]Herrera will meet with the delegation in Colombia before traveling further south to Argentina where he and his wife will meet with the Argentine President Arturo Frondizi on similar matters. Talks between Argentina and Spain had intensified over a period of months after negotiations of a common trade agreement that would benefit both agricultural markets amongst many.[/sub]

[sub]Argentina and Spain will continue to explore military cooperation as the years move on.[/sub]

[sub]Prime Minister Luis Herrera |[/sub] - [sub]“Es de gran importancia que España, y todo el mundo reconozca a Argentina como una noble y notable potencia regional. Ustedes, el pueblo argentino, son el faro de inspiración para los pueblos de América Latina. España les ofrece su apoyo incondicional en su camino de crecimiento y les tiende la mano no sólo a Argentina, sino a toda la Hispanidad.”[/sub]

[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler][/list][/list]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, Rio De La Plata Argentina, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

A Hopeful Future?

[B]Stanelyville, March 1965[/B]

After a Hot and Contentious 1964 Election the Victorius President Jolan Van Caemelbeke stands outside the Presidental Palace at Stanelyville gazing down at the Croud. Jolan is a member of the Équateur en avant a recently founded political party as a response to the chaotic events of the Late 50's and Early 60's The Party desires to ensure peaceful desegregation and expand the rights of the native Africans. As he approaches the podium the new president begains to speak, "Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed citizens of Equatoria,

Today marks a pivotal moment in the history of our great nation, Equatoria. As we gather here to witness the inauguration of a new era, I am humbled by the trust and confidence you have placed in me to lead our country forward. I stand before you as the President of Equatoria, fully committed to unity, equality, and the progress of our nation.

The pages of our history are not without blemishes, for we have faced challenges that tested the very core of our identity as a nation. In the 1950s and early 60s, political chaos and ethnic tensions divided us. But let us remember that it is through adversity that we find the strength to rise, to evolve, and to come together as one people, united by a common purpose.

Today, we declare that the divisive forces of the past shall not define our future. We reject the notion that ethnicity should ever be a source of division. Instead, we embrace the diversity that is Equatoria's strength. Our unity lies in our rich tapestry of cultures, languages, and traditions. Together, we are a nation whose greatness knows no bounds.

I pledge to you, the people of Equatoria, that my administration will be guided by the principles of justice, equality, and inclusivity. It is time to set aside the scars of the past and build a future where every citizen is treated with dignity and respect, regardless of their race or ethnicity. Our nation will thrive only when all its people are given the same opportunities to prosper and fulfill their dreams. God Bless Our Nation". As the president goes inside the majority white crowd erupts into clapping a cheer of joy while many of the native Africans forced behind a fence and to watch from afar remain skeptical over the country's future

[spoiler=Mentions:]

Paseo

Paramountica

Nileia[/spoiler]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Ma-Li

MARCH , 1965

Tutong Arsenal: The Government Owned Company

| The pegawai of security Adam Danish, would meet with the president, to discuss an idea of Adams with the president. To then receive the president approval, to go ahead with his idea. |

| [B]Adams idea is for a;

[List][I]" location of military equipment production, that is state owned. "[/I][/list]

While the president was a bit sceptical on, why Adam wants something like that, that is state owned. Adam would elaborate why he came up with the idea:

[List][I]" Company's that have an association with military equipment, production and designing. Would often keep secrets from military officials when presenting their firearms design, in hope of getting a military contract. Meanwhile, if we have a state owned, military equipment production and designing location. We would be able to have access to all information relating to a specific model of equipment, and it allows us to skip the equipment presentation phase and go straight into production. "[/I][/list]

The president would sit there, and decide that it is a good idea. Then gifting a sum of funds, to Adam so he could push out his idea into reality. |

| Using the funds gifted to him. Adam would meet with Loke Bao Yi, so that Adam [I](as the government)[/I] could purchase one of Loke Senjata minor factories. A deal was settled on that, Adam would purchase a small factory in the district of Ukong, in [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=52786746]Bandar Tutong[/URL]. |

| Along with the purchase of the factory, came with the buying out of all of the factory staff contracts. Adam would then travel towards the location of the factory, to take a look at it. The factory was in a poor conditioning, and needed renovations but the equipment within the factory were still in good conditioning, so renovations could wait. The factory entrance had a sign that is read as;

[List]" Loke Ukong Arsenal "[/list]

Which inspires Adam, as he makes a new name for the factory, and his company. Meanwhile Adam was funding an expansion of the factory which is expected to be completed in 1969. |

| The factory would be publicised in the newspapers, with the story title of;

[List]" Tutong Arsenal, The Government Owned Military Production Company "[/list]

As Adam is looking for any potential new employees, and to establish his goal with the company publicly. With this goal being;

[List][I]" To provide efficient supply of effective weapons to aid in national defence, under the current period of instability. "[/I][/list]

Along with that, Adam would also publicise in the story;

[List]" Brunei Next Generation Sidearms Design Competition "[/list]

Which accepts both independent designers, who have no affiliation with any company's, and designers who are affiliated with a company. |

______________________________________________

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[sub]☭ REPÚBLICA REVOLUCIONARIA CUBANA ☭[/sub]

[list][list][list][sub]"A revolution is a struggle to the death

between the future and the past.”[/sub][/list][/list][/list]

[sub] || LA HABANA - FEB 1965 || [/sub]

[list][sub][sup]V O L U M E ⠀2[/sub][/sup][/list]

[list][sup][sub]C H A P T E R ⠀3 :[/sub][/sup][/list]

[list][sup]CHECK M ATE[/sup][/list]

[list][list][list][sub]

"No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!"

~ Fidel Castro[/sub][/list][/list][/list]

[sub][pre]The Escambray rebellion had proved to be a formidable insurgency in the years after the Cuban Revolution, nonetheless, the guirella tactics which brought Castro to power, were not to be used to make him fall from it. Thanks to a large scale military operation, titled 'Lucha contra Bandidos' (Struggle Against Bandits), this rebellion soon faltered, and Commandante Castro proudly announced the success of his military operation against the so-called interventionists. In a speech to the Assembly of People's Power, Castro remarked that 'guirella warfare was only effective against dictatorial governments and imperialists; but not against a government of the people'.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]While celeberations and high spirits gripped the Cuban government in general and the Partido Democrático Revolucionario in specific, this did not reflect behind the scenes, where the leadership of the PDR, composed complex alliances and differing ideological views, began a struggle against one another in a bid for the ultimate control over the party apparatus, which had slowly began to integrate and institutionalize itself within Cuban society in a similair manner to what the Communist Parties of the Eastern European countries had done in the beginning.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]While the purge of the conservative faction in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the institution of new moderate reforms would have had an effect of strengthening the right wing in most socialist countries, in Cuba it had the opposite effects, as the sour taste of Khrushchev's betrayal in the Caribbean crisis remained. Indeed, it seems that if anything, the purging of the conservative faction has had an emboldening effect on Guevara, the current Party-Secretary, who together with Raul Castro have begun a dangerous chess game to eliminate the opposition.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Guevara and Raul form a minority within the Central Committee of the P.D.R, however what they lack in number they make up in revolutionary credentials and legitimacy, a fact that had so far given them the upper hand in dictating the party's policy. In fact, it is this advantage that has allowed Guevara to launch several attacks on the party's moderate wing. Launching scathing criticisms, and criticizing the rise of what he has called 'the disease of liberalism' in the party.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]What has helped the hardliners so far, beyond just the events in the Soviet Union, has been the relative inefficiency of the moderates to rally mass public support. The Partido Democrático Revolucionario has been the work of Guevara, and a short experiment with liberalising the political system led to the Escalante Affair, which necessitated the elimination of a reactionary microfaction within the Cuban socialist parties. Furthermore, Guevara's increasingly Maoist-laced rhetoric has proven to be more popular to the Cuban masses who like China, are composed mostly of the peasantry. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Taking advantage of this, Guevara has begun launching even more attacks against the rival moderate faction through government ran newspapers (with the aid of Jorge Masetti), as well as pulling strings behind the scenes to move members of the moderate wing from high positions, such as the removal of Faustino Perez, a high profile member of the moderate wing, from the leadership of the Agrarian Reform Institute to which he has been chairing for a number of years. It seems its a matter of time before Guevara consolidates his power.[/pre][/sub]

[/LIST]

______________________________

[pre]

VIVA CUBA!

VIVA CHE!

VIVA FIDEL![/pre]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

[list][pre]T H E S L O V E N E R E P U B L I C • S L O V E N S K A R E P U B L I K A[/pre][/list]

NORMAN BORLAUG SPEAKS AT SLOVENIAN AGRICULTURAL CONGRESS, TOURS SLOVENIAN FARMLAND

[list][sup]GOLDEN FIELDS, GOLDEN HORNS

MARCH 1965[/sup][/list]

Agrarianism had always been a key political movement in Slovenia. Wherever it threw its weight—politically, socially, or economically—it had made a deep impression. This was inevitably so; Slovenian culture had long been intertwined with agriculture and the romantic repose of rural life. The kozolec—an artistically designed rack for drying hay and other products—was a hallmark of the nation’s rural folkways and had been elevated to a national symbol. Increasingly, however, the political voice of agrarians quieted against the roar of the great parties; the latter half of the twentieth century, in that respect, marked the end of an era. Though Slovenia’s breakneck postwar industrialization had begun in the 1940s under Boris Furlan, its effects were being most severely felt under President Božidar Jakac, by whose presidency flocks of young Slovenes had left their villages for corporate job openings and Slovenia’s manufacturing and engineering fields were in full motion. Indeed, Slovenia’s village culture could never truly die—the small, intricately connected nature of the country enshrined villages as easily commutable homes within a few minutes’ train ride from the nearest large town—but the workforce in these regions thinned as they elected to commute instead to larger cities. This was motivated by—and likewise motivating—a governmental push to mechanize agriculture and lessen the need for workers to concentrate in the countryside.

However, even with the waning of agrarian power, President Jakac would be foolish to ignore the influence that rural Slovenes would have on the upcoming autumn 1965 presidential election. Besides, Slovenia’s extremely fertile soil meant that any ruling government benefited from recognizing the potential for economic value in agriculture. Making the most of Slovenian farmland was thus made a top priority of the Jakac government in early 1965. The methods for this were various. Talks with Slovenian vehicle manufacturer Larus negotiated the opening of a tractor production wing within the company by the decade’s end; distinguished American agronomist Norman Borlaug was paid with Jakac’s private funds to embark on a speaking tour in Slovenia, addressing an annual agricultural congress in Ljubljana and visiting various farms throughout the country to survey progress in mechanization as well as the introduction of new high-yield crop specimens and irrigation methods. Though meaning a brief departure from Borlaug’s increasing involvement in the third world, the tour was ostensibly a successful bid by Jakac for support from Slovenian farmers, and excited questions from Slovenian agriculturalists and farm-workers alike surrounded Borlaug during his time in the country.

Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

[list][list]SHOWA 40 | MARCH 1965[/list]

[list][list]トヨタがアフリカ諸国と交渉

[pre]TOYOTA NEGOTIATES WITH AFRICAN COUNTRIES[/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] T O Y O T A I N A F R I C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre] オー・スネイル 富士山に登ろう でも、ゆっくり、ゆっくり

O Snail; Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly![/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

TOKYO, TOKYO BAY — AFTERNOON

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

| In Tokyo, five Japanese men wearing French brand suits, away from journalists, in a private room, sit with representatives of the governments of the three African nations. Reason: Toyota wants to expand its business in Africa. The countries are Ganda, Sudan, and Zaire, the construction cost will be fully paid by the company, it will generate jobs, benefiting the local economy. Toyota hopes to be successful in Africa by selling cheaper cars to the lower-class population and more expensive cars to the local middle and rich classes. But not only cars will be manufactured, but also trucks, pickup trucks, and buses. The cars will be redesigned for the Sudanese, Zairean, and Gandan markets. Negotiations were successful; Days after the meeting, a press conference was organized by Toyota President FUKIO NAKAGAWA, announcing that the company would be expanding its Empire. The first factory will be built in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and will begin construction in June this year, the second factory will begin construction in February 1968 in Kampala, the capital of Ganda, and the third factory is scheduled to begin construction built in March 1971 in Nouveau Zaïre, the capital of Zaire. |

[list]| FUKIO NAKAGAWA, [sub]Toyota President[/sub] | “Every dollar invested in the markets of African countries is not wasted money, in the future we will receive twice as much.”[/list]

[list][list]アフリカ諸国の市場に投資された1ドルは無駄ではなく、将来的には2倍の金額を受け取ることになります。[/list][/list]

| Each factory will generate 1,200 jobs. However, the idea of expanding Toyota’s empire to three African nations did not come from Toyota’s president but from Prime Minister EISAKU SATO. In December 1964, Toyota’s president met with Japan’s head of government and SATO asked Toyota to expand its factories to three African nations, to improve the country’s image further. NAKAGAWA accepted the Prime Minister’s proposal. This is an opportunity further to strengthen the Japanese automotive industry on the African continent. Toyota wants to lead the automobile industry in Sudan, Zaire, and Ganda. |

New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Edwardia, Mutawakkiliti

Post self-deleted by Nippon-Nihon.

[pre]| MARCH - 行进 - 1965|[/pre]

[list][list][list][pre]PRC ★ PEOPLES’ REPUBLIC OF CHINA

中华人民共和国 |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]

CHINA SEEKS TO GROW RELATIONS WITH EASTERN BLOC NATIONS:

BEIJING CONTINUES TALKS WITH KURDISTAN AND YUGOSLAVIA IN SPITE OF THE MOSCOW-BEIJING SPLIT!

中国寻求发展与东方集团国家的关系:

尽管莫斯科与北京之间存在分歧,北京仍继续与库尔德斯坦和南斯拉夫进行谈判!

[sub]”Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. - 一 被动对我们来说是致命的。我们的目标是让敌人陷入被动。” - Mao Tse-tung[/sub]

[pre]| Even as Comrade Mao and Revisionist Khrushchev continued to deepen tensions between the two largest Communist Nations, the Chinese Communist Party sought to grow its relations with Soviet allies. Yugoslavia stood as a prime target for growing relations as it held the most separate foreign policy from Moscow allowing deeper ties to be formed by Beijing and Belgrade. Kurdistan was also a target to grow relations with to grow Chinese interests in the Middle East. Beijing sought to disrupt the Moscow Social Imperialism across the Communist world and would continue to chip away at Moscow’s power. |[/pre]

[pre]| Yugoslavia welcomed extensive trade with the People’s Republic of China including these goods:[/pre]

Chinese exports to Yugoslavia

[sub]Wooden furniture[/sub]

[sub]basic kitchen goods[/sub]

[sub]cotton[/sub]

[sub]Clothing[/sub]

Yugoslav exports to China

[sub]Trucks[/sub]

[sub]Buses[/sub]

[sub]Tractors[/sub]

[sub]Miscellaneous Machinery[/sub]

[pre]This exchange of goods would benefit the economies of both nations and set down the path for further partnering. This partnering would also allow the growth of Chinese trade in the Balkan Market. |[/pre]

[pre]————[/pre]

[pre]| Ties with Kurdistan would come in a more diplomatic and military stance as China let it be known that like its Rival also supports the independence and current borders of the Kurdish state and will help it defend its border within China’s means to do so. Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Ji Pengfei was tasked with conducting a meeting in Kurdistan to establish a permanent diplomatic mission to Kurdistan. Agricultural and Arms trade would also be discussed in these meetings to show China’s commitment to upholding Kurdish sovereignty. |[/pre]

[list][list][pre]SERVE THE PEOPLE![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]为人民服务![/pre][/list][/list]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Kyntosia, Mutawakkiliti

[list][pre]日本経済 (Japanese Economy)[/pre][/list]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1746127

New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

PROPOSAL OF A TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT

DETERMINED to consolidate and to extend economic and trade relations between the Euro­pean Economic Community and the Arab Republic of Egypt,

RECOGNIZING the importance of the harmonious development of trade between the Con­tracting Parties,

DESIRING to establish the basis for a progressive expansion of trade with one another,

CONSIDERING that the European Economic Community is anxious to develop economic and trade relations with the countries bordering on the Mediterranean,

Article 1:

The U.A.R commits to lowering tariffs on the import of products and commodities from member-states of the European Economic Community listed in annex 1.

Article 2:

The European Community shall grant, duty free, a contingent of 200 000 metric tons annually of the products listed in annex 2. The contingent shall be increased by 5% annually until 1975.

The European Community shall apply a reduced rate for the products listed in annex 3.

Article 3:

The U.A.R to bring itself in accordance with the standards and expectations of the European community, henceforth agrees to begin a program of minor economic liberalization to create an atmosphere of confidence and trust in the U.A.R’s market. These measures for example can include creating a framework for establishing free zones, standardizing quality across sectors, and creating an independent authority for managing investments.

Article 4:

The United Arab Republic agrees to designate Port Said, Benghazi, Sirte, Alexandria, and Ain Sokhna as ‘Special Zones’ for enterprises, public or private, that are established in member-states of the European Economic Community.

Article 5:

The European Economic Community agrees to grant preferential treatment for Egyptian raw cotton, and textile exports in the form of lower tariffs, and preference against competitor products as examples.

Article 6:

Any internal fiscal measure or practice giving rise, directly or indirectly, to discrimination between the products of one Contracting Party and like products of the other Contracting Party shall be prohibited.

Such products will be listed in annex 1.

Article 7

The Agreement shall not preclude prohibitions or restrictions on imports, exports or goods in transit justified on grounds of public morality, public policy or public security, the protection of health and life of humans, animals or plants; the protection of national treasures possessing artistic, historic or archaeological value; or the protection of industrial and commercial property. Such prohibitions or restrictions shall not, however, constitute a means of arbitrary discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade.

Annex 1

The listed products shall receive a tariff of X % :

Industrial and mining equipment

Food products

Consumer electronics

Annex 2

The listed products shall be imported into the community free of duty (0%) :

Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing not less than 70 % by weight of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations:

A. Light oils:

III . For other purposes

B. Medium oils:

III. For other purposes

C. Heavy oils:

I. II. III .

Gas oil:

c) For other purposes Fuel oil:

c) For other purposes

Lubricating oils ; other oils :

c) To be mixed in accordance with the terms of Additional Note 7 to this Chapter (a)

d) For other purposes

27.11 Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons: B. Other:

I. Commercial propane and commercial butane: c) For other purposes

Annex 3

Food products from the sea….12%

Fresh fruits and dried fruits ….12%

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[list][pre]国立博物館 (National Museum)[/pre][/list]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1746130

New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

★ UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC ★

[list][list][list][pre]

"Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero.

For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to

take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life"

[/pre][/list][/list][/list]

_________________

[list][sub]BALANCING THE SCALES[/sub]

[sub][sup] MAR 1965 - ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT[/sub][/sup]

[sub][pre]The rapid expansion of the Hashemite armed forces sent shockwaves in Cairo, while too focused on dealing with the Zionist occupation of Palestine, and the reactionary threat of the Arabian illegitimate monarchy, the military leadership in the United Arab Republic had failed to pay attention to the glaring threat of the Western-backed Hashemites who have taken advantage of this lapse to strengthen their position against the forces of revolutionary Socialism and Arabism in the Arab world. The failure to pay attention to the Hashemites proved to be a blow for the military leadership, which promptly sought to rectify this.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Towards this goal, General Muhammed Fawzi and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer travelled to the Soviet Moscow to counter-act the military threat of the Iraqi-Jordanian monarchy. Long negotiations eventually gave way to one of the biggest arms deals since the 1955 Czechslovak Arms Deal. Aiming to counter the enemies' advantage in tanks, and open the way for any possible counter-invasion in case of a Hashemite aggression against the United Arab Republic, the military leaders sought the latest weaponry to address its weaknesses. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]The first and most important purchase was the acquisition of 700 9M14 Malyutka Anti-Tank Missiles which are said to be effective against most tanks, with a 60% to 90% success rate. Despite its short range, and the need for extensive training, the Malytuka's have equalised the stakes, with Egyptian troops now confidently being able to counter the superior British-made Centurion tanks that are in the possession of the Hashemites, the Malytuka also means that Egyptian troops can pursue a strategy of defense that is more confident in case of a land invasion, as they can set up anti-tank ambushes.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]In another component, the Egyptian military leaders sought out weapons to help in case of the need of an airborne military operation over the Hashemites, as the United Arab Republic and Iraq do not share a land border. To this end, the Egyptian leaders sought out the ASU-85, a specialized airborne artillery that will replace the ASU-57 which is currently operational in the Egyptian arsenal. The ASU-85s specialized nature means that they will be perfect in supporting infantry assaults and providing artillery cover against enemy positions, as well as provide limited anti-tank cover to compliment the Malytuka. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Finally, the question of troop transportation also came in mind. The current Armored Personnel Carriers in use were the BTR-152 and BTR-40, both of whom had low combat value and had historically shameful performances during the Suez Crisis. A fact also observed by the Soviet Union in its various usage of those APCs. Like the Soviet Union, the United Arab Republic has sought out the new APCs to compliment their motorized nature of their infantry brigades and to have a more effective armored presence in the field. To this end, a deal for 400 BTR-60s were inked alongside the other deals.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]The weapons are expected to be transported to Egypt across the timespan of at least 5 years, due to the large amount and general logistical difficulties. However the military buildup of the Hashemite is predicted by Egyptian intelligence to be gradual rather than immediate and as such this fact will not annoy the military leadership of Egypt so much. While questions may be raised on the logic of expanding militarily while the country is undergoing economic difficulties, the payment in raw materials (mainly cotton) indicates that the purchase is not taking a chunk out of the state coffers, to the relieve of many.[/pre][/sub]

[/list]

Arcanda, Amsterwald, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

Post self-deleted by Saudi Arabiyah.

11/4/1965 | The United Republic of Tanzania

PM Julius Nyerere talks on coming election and what the CCM aims to do

The first elections of Tanzania will be held later this year in September. Earlier at 13:00 GMT+3 current PM Julius Nyerere held a press conference regarding the topic, wherein he stated "This election will be a deciding factor for the future of Tanzania as a nation. I have full confidence that the people of our nation will choose the right decision and vote for a stable, free, and united Tanzania with the CCM". In recent polls the CCM has had as high as a 96% approval rate and it is very likely if not inevitable that in the coming weeks on the day of the election Nyerere will be elected president. Some of the main talking points and goals of the CCM are :

Socialism and Self Reliance :

The Party aims to transform Tanzania into a self reliant nation through the means of Socialism. They advocate for a Nationalization of all Major Industries and the use of these industries not just for profit but first and foremost for the benifit of the Tanzanian People. Along with this they plan to slowly reduce economic inequality through collectivization.

Political Stability and Unity :

The Party has highlighted that it is important to uphold peace within the nation and foster unity between the people, especially with the relatively recent inclusion of Zanzibar. They believe to acheive meaningful social and economic progress political stability is a key factor.

Social Services and Welfare :

If the CCM end up in power after the election they have vowed to give the Tanzanian people basic needs such as Universal Healthcare and Education, and later on eventually housing. Besides this they also plan to start construction on infrastructure projects around the country to boost industrialization and economic progress.

Economic Development :

The party hopes to foster rural development by redistribution of land and building much needed infrastructure in rural areas. Besides that the party also has stated their interest in difersifying the economy of Tanzania and eventually becoming more industrialized and less of an agrarian nation.

Pan Africanism :

Another talking point of the CCM is African Unity and the importance of African independence from imperial powers both west and east. Soon after election they hope to join the African Union and cement themselves as a leading nation in African Politics "No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people" - Julius Nyerere.

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[list]March 14, 1965

[sub]King Faisal intervene in Yemeni affairs to save the royal family.[/sub][/list]

[sub]While Yemen and Saudi Arabia didn’t have a particularly good relationships, they were both Monarchy and share a same goal of preserving their kingdom from threat of revolutions. While Saudi Arabia managed to successfully stop any attempt to overthrow the monarchy, Yemen, did not have that good fortune, as in August 1964, Major General Hassan al-Zaidi betray his king and country and stage a revolution against the Yemeni monarchy resulting with the death of King Muhammad al-Badr and the end of the Kingdom of Yemen. Ever since, King Faisal bin Abdulaziz kept watch over the situation in Yemen trying to find the right time to intervene to save the remaining Yemeni Royal Family until he receive a letter from Laila bint Hassan with a plead for help:[/sub]

[list][B]Laila bint Hassan, Princess:[/B] [sub]”I ask your Excellency, to mediate with the Revolutionary Command Council in Yemen to release my parents, Emir Hassan, Prime Minister of Yemen. he is old and sick, and now he is threatened with execution.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]With this letter, King Faisal now has a reason to intervene in Yemeni Affairs. He sends his envoys to the Yemeni capital of Sana'a to Major General Hassan al-Zaidi with a message stating that he must end all persecutions against the Yemeni Royal Family for good and if he doesn’t, Saudi Arabia will immediately embargo Yemen and prevent it ships, planes, and traders from traveling and trading with the outside world. Now it up to Major General Hassan al-Zaidi and the Revolutionary Council to see if they will comply with King Faisal demand of ending their persecutions against the Yemeni Royal Family or keep on persecuting them and risk having Saudi Arabia embargoing them.[/sub]

[spoiler=[sub]"There is no power and no strength save in God.”

— Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, Founder of the Third Saudi State[/sub]

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Under The Table Deal

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[list][sup]Al-Hudaydah, Yemen Arab Republic

11 April 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]Shawqi al-Khudari stood on the balcony of his luxury villa in the city of Al-Hudaydah overlooking the Red Sea. The sun was dipping into the sea and was about to set, while he saw three luxury black cars. Shawqi hurried to receive the arrival, who was Major General Hamoud al-Jaifi, the Yemeni Minister of Security. Hamoud got out and was wearing his military uniform. And there were armed guards around him. Shawqi came and shook his hand and took him inside the villa, where there was a party near the swimming pool, and there was a group of businessmen and merchants drinking alcoholic drinks and smoking hashish, while there were women hosting with lewd and revealing clothes.[/sup]

[sup]After about an hour, while Major General Hamoud al-Jaifi was smoking hashish with a promiscuous girl next to him and talking to her, Shawqi came and asked to talk to Hamoud about work. Here Hamoud motioned for the girl to leave and Shawqi started talking.[/sup]

[list][sup]Shawqi: Sir, I need a service and I hope you can help me with it.

Hamoud: What do you need, Shawqi?

Shawqi: As you know, Your Excellency, I import a lot of goods through the port of Al-Hudaydah. All I need is to facilitate the transit of shipments, or more accurately, reduce customs expenses somewhat.

Hamoud: What is the return, Shawqi?

Shawqi: Whatever you order, sir.

Hamoud smiles: No problem. I will arrange with customs officers and customs expenses will be facilitated, but I will get 25% of the profits from these shipments.

Shawqi: As you wish, sir.

Hamoud: Now, call this girl, I need aunther cup.

Shawqi smiles and calls the girl: “She will bring you aunther cup and do anything you want, sir,” he said with a wink.[/list][/sup]

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[list]Prime Minister Shastri Maneuvers Amid Political Chaos, Hopes The Swatantras Negotiate

[list][pre]Idealism is often superseded by realism..[/pre][/list]

[list][sup]April 1965[/sup][/list]

[sub] | With the death of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, the political atmosphere in India was ripe for reform. Indeed, many within the Indian National Congress were clamoring for a change in direction, especially in the aftermath of India's recent loss in the Sino-Indian War of 1962. The theft of Aksai-Chin had dealt a serious blow to the old Gandhi-Nehru way of doing things. Even in the last few years of his premiership, Nehru sought to appease the growing resentment toward his vision by shifting to the right, courting political-right to avoid the rising threat of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and other like-minded pro-Hindu nationalist movements. The BJS has been hard at work turning the vice that is their growing propaganda network against Congress, accusing them of morally bankrupting the nation, humiliating it on the world stage, and economically driving India to ruin. If the INC was to survive this onslaught, it would have to reform further, lest it risk losing its mandate in an election or two. The 1967 general election is just around the corner, and with the stakes so high, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri has no choice but to send overtures to the Swatanras, INC's old rivals. |[/sub]

[sub] | Led by Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, the Swatantra Party was formed in 1959 in the aftermath of the breakdown of negotiations between the left-leaning Nehruists and the right-wingers of the INC who advocated for a more market-based economy. With Nehru's shift right shortly before his death and the slate wiped clean with the passing of the old guard, Shastri believes Chakravarti and his cohorts can be reasoned with. As it stands, the Prime Minister is willing to compromise if it means gaining the support of the reformers to curb the growing tide that is the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the ever-charismatic Deendayal Upadhyaya. |[/sub]

[list][sub]"I have no choice in what I do. The Indian National Congress is under siege, and for us to survive and keep our mandate, we must reform. Nehru started it, and I hope to finish it. The truth of the matter is, the resentment of our political enemies is very real, Upadhyaya's cause is growing, and we must stop him at all costs, even if it means going against what Shri Gandhi-ji and Shri Nehru-ji stood for."[/sub]

[sub]—Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Prime Minister of India[/sub][/list]

[sub]| With the Indian National Congress' leadership in total lockstep, Kumaraswami Kamaraj, the INC's President, sent overtures to the old guard of the Swatandras, suggesting a meeting to negotiate their return to Congress. To achieve this, Shastri, Kamaraj, and the rest of the INC are ready to give major concessions in terms of the economy, specifically License Raj. Only time will tell whether or not Rajagoalachari and his supporters would be willing to even entertain such negotiations. The mere fact that the INC has to come to them, could mean that the negotiations could go on for a while, with the Swatantras having the upper hand as the prize in Congress' eye. |[/sub]

[spoiler=[sub]"Vande Mataram”

—Lal Bahadur Shastri[/sub]]

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[spoiler=PLAY ME FOR AMBIENCE: Bugandan Special]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLCHxsdgcw[/spoiler]

[sup]Independence Period: 1960 to 1963[/sup]

[pre]𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐊𝐄[/pre][sup][pre] | BUGANDA, KAMPALA[/pre][/sup]

[sup]Having landed himself a great political victory over Sir Cohen and his political rivals the Bugandan Democratic Party, Muteesa II and his KY would now set the tone of Bugandan Independence. However, not all was well within the Bugandan Dominion. The emergence of the Kabaka as a political force provoked immediate hostility from the smaller Bantu Kingdoms of Bunyoro, Tooro, Rwenzururu, and Ankole. The four smaller kingdoms felt that a single unitary state with Buganda would diminish their political autonomy. Thus, in 1959, the four kingdoms would form the United Tribes Congress to resist as a coalition of all those outside the Roman Catholic-dominated BDP who opposed Buganda hegemony. Despite this seemingly united front, the UTC was plagued with infighting, as each kingdom had its own aspirations that conflicted with each other. Ankole and Tooro wished to retain their colonial status, while Bunyoro and Rwenzururu both wanted to become their own independent countries. This lack of coherence would cost the UTC the political struggle as they remained an ineffective political counter to the KY and BDP leading up to independence. At the London Conference of 1960, the foundations for a unitary government were agreed upon by the KY and BDP with mediation from Sir Cohen, however the UTC was not invited for this critical moment in the Independence process. The reason being that Muteesa II threatened to boycott the conference if the UTC was involved. The British announced that elections would be held in March 1961 for “responsible government”, the next-to-last stage of preparation before the formal granting of independence.[/sup]

[sup]leading up to march, Buganda would enter a race to elect 26 National Assembly members. The result of the election favoring the KY by a majority, while BDP were the minority. In the aftermath of the final elections in April 1962, Buganda's National Assembly consisted of 15 KY members, 9 BDP members and 2 UTC members. The new KY led assembly would lead Buganda into Independence on the 9th of October 1962. The British protectorate flag would fly one last time over the National Assembly, before being lowered and replace with the Bugandan blue tricolor. Michael Kintu would become the first Prime Minister of Buganda, and a year later Freddie Muteesa II as King of Buganda. The reaction to the election was especially strong in Tooro as the Konjo and Amba people under the Rwenzururu movement subsequently launched a low-intensity guerrilla war against the government in response. Isaya Mukirania, leader of the Rwenzururu, sought to form his own independent kingdom separate from their traditional Tooro lords and the Bugandans. Colonial authorities' deployed the Kings African Rifles to quickly end the rebellion, lest the other Bantu kingdoms took the chance to revolt as well. The Rwenzururu rebels had the initial advantage after taking over some small towns, but the KAR quickly expelled the rebels into the Bugandan bush. To settle the tensions with the other kingdoms, the KY and DP promised a future form of a federal government that allowed for autonomy rather than a centralized Kampala based government. This would somewhat manifest initially when Buganda after official independence was classified a State and not a Kingdom. The description “State” implied that the country was not a republic but instead a federation of tribal kingdoms.[/sup]

[sup]To cut remaining ties with the old colonial era, the 1963 Bugandan Constitution put forth before the National Assembly would abolish links with the British monarchy. Making Freddie Muteesa II the defacto monarch of Buganda. Despite the initial excitement of independence, Buganda would enter a two-year-long period of political strife known as the “Federal Crisis”, a continuation of the previous grievances between Kampala and the four minor Bantu kingdoms. The Rwenzururu movement continued its insurgency against Kampala after British withdrawal. Violence reaching its height between 1963 and 1964, when, Rwenzururu rebels massacred Tooro villagers as they sought to control the lower valleys in Kabarole. The Buganda Army intervened against the Rwenzururu, doing such significant damage that the movement was suppressed for some time. While the Rwenzururu insurgency took place, Bunyoro, Tooro, and Ankole under the UTC would continually protest against their lack of representation within the national assembly. The districts counted in the elections of 1962 were exclusively from central Buganda districts, while western districts were completely left out. The BDP would take advantage and enter a short term alliance with the UTC to counter the power of the KY, who by 1963, rebranded as the Bugandan Royalist Party (BRP).[/sup]

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[list]April 1965

[sub]Erhard Joins the Race![/sub][/list]

[pre]D I E B U N D E S R E P U B L I K[/pre]

ERHARD's SECOND FIGHT

[sub]FRANKFURT, DARMSTADT REGION, New Provenance[/sub]

| While Karl Schiller of the SPD seeks to maneuver swiftly on the economy ahead of the coming election, the CDU parliamentary caucus has been divided over a question that could decide whether they are able to retake the chancellery after four years of center-left control, or whether they allow Willy Brandt to continue to serve as Federal Chancellor. The question is whether or not they should keep their current leader, parliamentary caucus leader EUGEN GERSTENMAIER, a resistance leader and moderate statesman, and allow him to run as their chancellor candidate, or nominate a new leader, namely former Economy Minister and father of the German economic miracle, LUDWIG ERHARD. Both candidates have their own shares of advantages and disadvantages, like how Gerstenmaier has strong support from centrists and even some left-wing voters who appreciate his extremely moderate views on some issues, or how Erhard has the de facto title of "Father of the German Economic Miracle" and would get a boost simply from that. While the SPD maneuvers to present a strong, unified platform, the CDU must decide whether or not it will choose a new leader or stay the course of moderatism. |

| Originally, many within the CDU parliamentary caucus were convinced that Gerstenmaier would serve through, and Erhard would not mount an opposing candidacy for the CDU leadership role. This assumption, however, was usurped when, in late March of 1965, Erhard announced his intention to come out of the backbenches of the CDU caucus to run for leader of the Christian Democratic Union. During his speech, which was made to donors and top parliamentary lieutenants and allies in the CDU, as well as some members of the German Democratic Party, he affirmed that while he viewed Gerstenmaier's leadership as positive, he stated that the goal of the CDU in the coming election was to 'win and put the economy back on track', and he pointed to his experience when he declared he believed he was the candidate to make that happen. Gerstenmaier's leadership position was now in serious risk, with many in his own caucus backing Erhard's bid as the party's leadership committee prepared for an election. They hoped there would be no need, and that Gerstenmaier would simply resign to allow for a quick transition, but in a speech on 2 April 1965, Gerstenmaier said: |

[list][pre]"As I fought during the war against the tyranny of government, I will now continue to fight for moderate values, for humane values, and for a common-sense platform to lead the union party to victory in the coming elections."[/pre][/list]

| He would not be standing down. Gerstenmaier would be running for re-election as the CDU's party leader in the June leadership election. This will be Erhard's second fight for the leadership, after in 1960-1961 he narrowly lost to then Minister-President Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who ended up winning a plurality of votes in the general election but did not secure the support of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), denying them a majority to continue governing. Gerstenmaier would bank on that 1961 leadership race to inspire confidence among his supporters. Erhard had been denied leadership by a coalition of party centrists, moderates, and fiscally conservative, socially progressive voters who sought moderatism. Gerstenmaier expressed his confidence that this same coalition would deliver him to victory in the leadership election. Erhard, on the other hand, told supporters privately that he was confident the CDU would choose him as leader because the CDU, he said, had 'lost its way under extreme moderatism' and was 'becoming indistinguishable from the Democrats and the FDP'. Early polling would be conducted among the CDU party membership in early April. |

[list][pre]LUDWIG ERHARD, Former Economy Minister - 48%

EUGEN GERSTENMAIER, Leader of the CDU Parliamentary Caucus - 44%

Unsure / Other - 8%[/pre][/list]

| Not the best of numbers for Gerstenmaier, but he remained confident that the party would support moderatism over returning to the more conservative style of governance under Konrad Adenauer. Both candidates would begin their retail campaigning, especially targeting the support of local Landtag leaders and councilors and mayors who would prove to be crucial endorsements in the internal party leadership race. This could present complications for the CDU for, while they are occupied with their own leadership election, Chancellor Brandt and his Social Democratic Party have already begun conducting their campaign for the general election. The DPD and the FDP are also moving quickly, seeking to siphon off votes from the CDU in this election. Nonetheless, early election polling shows the CDU in a relatively strong position, with 42% of voters supporting the CDU, compared to 39% for the SPD, 10% for the FDP, and 9% for the DPD. General election polling, however, indicates that Erhard could be a stronger candidate for the CDU than Gerstenmaier, with the CDU performing 1% better in polls with Erhard at the top of their ballot. |

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APRIL , 1965

Liberation Of Dress

| President Hadif Rayyan, would put pen on paper, and officially abolish the [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=50788179]Muslim Attire Policy[/URL]. A policy that has lasted for 11 years, having started back in 1954. With the policy effecting only a handful of generations but a, singular generation in a meaningful way, who had to grow up living their life with this policy. Which had restrict the choices of clothing that Muslims could wear. With the abolishment of the Muslim Attire Policy, Hadif would create three new acts to take its place. |

| The first act would be the "Kritikan Pakaian Act". An act that would seek to protect the younger generation from being chastised by a previous generation for their choice of clothing. The Kritikan Pakaian Act would state that;

[List][I]" No matter one's own position within society, whether it be someone of old age or someone of high status. They should not enforce the wearing of the songkok, tudung and baju kurung, as they are clothings that should only be worn by choice, and not forced on like when the Muslim Attire Policy was active. If someone is discovered violating this act, that person would be punished with 4 years of manual hard labour. "[/I] |[/list]

| The second act is titled the, " Muda Tidak Menyamakan Keunggulan Act ". An act to protect those who choose to still wear the songkok [I](a hat that is popular among Malay Muslims, that is worn by men)[/I] or tudung [I](a form of hijab)[/I]. The act would state that;

[List][I]" If someone tries to grab and pull at someone songkok or tudung, whether it be malicious or joking in intentions. That person if caught by authorities would receive a varying punishment dependent on their age. If they are still a juvenile child, they would receive a very light punishment of 2 days in prison. If they are a teenager, they would be sent to prison for a week. If they have just finished secondary school and commited the crime, they would be put into prison for a month as they are now considered as muda dewasa or young adults. If they are an adult they would be in prison for a year, and finally if they are an elderly person. They would receive the harshest punishment, execution by, firing squad. "[/I][/list]

Hadif believes that the execution is justified for, they've had years of their life to be aware of this law, and the punishments for violation of it. They don't deserve to keep on living, and potentially disrupting society. |

| The third and final act, is called the " Konservetisme Pakaian Muslim Act ". This act intentions is to protect a individual expression of themselves through clothing. The law would specifically be targeting, for those who still choose to wear the baju kurung, tudung, and songkok. The act would state that;

[List][I]" If a person chooses to modify, either their baju kurung, tudung, or songkok. They shouldn't be ridiculed or chastised just because they choose to wear those pieces of clothing. As a result of this, specific punishments would be employed. That punishment being 4 years of manual hard labour if an individual is ridiculing or chastising someone for wearing the previously stated pieces of clothing. The people who still choose to wear those pieces of clothing should also not be ridiculed by others, just because they choose to modify those previously stated clothings, to express themselves through the way they dress. If someone is ridiculed just for their modification of their, for example; tudung. The one ridiculing would receive the 4 years of manual hard labour. "[/I] | [/list]

| With these new acts enacted, by the government. [B]Farhad Akhbar Khan, the former president of Maziya Parti Nasional would use the creation, and implementation of the three acts to critique the Hadif administration. By stating in a speech he made in Permata Bersinar city centre;

[List][I]" These new laws are created to destroy Malay culture and society. As the religion of Islam, is an integral factor of Malay culture, society and identity! With these new laws, the future generations wouldn't be dressing themselves like Malays, and instead be dressing themselves like Europeans, the people who came and took away our homeland as their own! "[/I][/list]

[U]Farhad is hoping that his speech; which was being documented down by journalist. Would spark a violent and public rebellion by his fellow Malay nationalist, against the Hadif administration. Which he hopes would topple the government, and allow him to claim the presidential office, and reshape Brunei into his ideal state for the Malays. |

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[pre]APRIL of 1965[/pre]

[list][pre]THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик[/pre][/list]

[pre]ALEXEI LEONOV BECOMES THE FIRST MAN TO WALK IN SPACE, AND THE REALIZATION OF THE SOVIET MOONSHOT BEGINS[/pre]

[pre]АЛЕКСЕЙ ЛЕОНОВ СТАНОВИТСЯ ПЕРВЫМ ЧЕЛОВЕКОМ, ВЫШЕДШИМ В КОСМОС, И НАЧИНАЕТСЯ РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ СОВЕТСКОГО ЛУННОГО ВЫСТРЕЛА

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| [sub]On 18 March 1965, at 07:00:00 UTC, a Voskhod 11A57 rocket launched from Baikonour's Site 1/5 launch pad, rocketing into the sky with two crew members about. With commander Pavel Belayev and pilot Alexei Leonov, the mission was, to the outside world, a seemingly regular two-man Voskhod program mission, most likely to conduct some experiments and continue to maintain the launch cadence established by the Soviet leadership when it came to Soviet space program launches. Within 24 hours, however, the Soviet Union would meet yet another historic milestone in the Race for Space - that of the first extravehicular spacewalk. Utilizing an inflatable airlock attached to the Voskhod 3KD capsule, Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave his spacecraft, using a specialized spacesuit he wore to conduct a brief 12-minute spacewalk where he was photographed and filmed as he became the first human to see the Earth without the limitations of a window. The mission's success delivered yet another round of applause, and a batch of new funding, from the Kremlin, where General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev was enthusiastically supporting the Soviet space program and pressing the Soviet military command to support it - provided these so-called "propaganda missions" were to continue.[/sub] |

| [sub]While these propaganda missions served its purpose of delivering new funding to the Soviet space program, crucial now especially as the country begins development on its long-range manned Lunar program under the direction of the Chief Designer, they did not serve to extend the technological prowess and capabilities of the Soviet Union in comparison to their Western counterparts. The rate of innovation in the Soviet Union when it came to aeronautics was significantly slower thanks to the presence of multiple 'design bureaus' within the Soviet space program environment. While this in other circumstances would work fairly well, there existed plenty of competition between the major players in the design bureau system. Sergei Korolev as Chief Designer led his own design bureau, Vladimir Chelomei led his own, as did Valentin Glushko, and others. Each had their own specialites - Chelomei in developing boosters, and Glushko essentially dominated the Soviet rocket engine scene thanks to his pivotal role in developing hypergolic engines in the USSR. The divisions and competitions between the design bureau chiefs meant that funding for programs was usually divided.[/sub] |

| [sub]As early as 1961 the Soviet government had already made public pronouncements about making a manned Lunar landing and establishing a Lunar base were within their scope. Plans, however, never materialized for multiple years, as Korolev focused on the development of a large orbital space station, as well as crewed flights to Mars and Venus, the planets nearest to the Earth. The super-heavy N-1 rocket, with a 75-ton payload capacity, was designed around these ideas. In August 1964, the Soviet government finally issued a response to the Apollo program in the United States - three years behind schedule. Chelomei would be instructed to develop a Lunar flyby program utilizing his Universal Rocket (UR, or later Proton) rocket family system, while Korolev would be directed to develop a Lunar landing program with a first flight planned by the end of 1967. Plans to hand over the flyby program to Korolev by certain elements of the Soviet government never materialized, especially after Khrushchev asserted his dominance with the removal of Leonid Brezhnev.[/sub] |

| [sub]While the developing "Soyuz" rocket would likely become the main workhorse of the Soviet Union when it came to launching orbital missions to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Vladimir Chelomei's Universal Rocket (UR) program was going to be the workhorse of satellite launches and, as he hoped, the Soviet moonshot as well. The UR-100 and UR-200 were standard ICBMs that, by a 1964 directive, were to have variants (dubbed "Rokot") developed to allow them to also launch satellite payloads in an effort by the Soviet Union to boost its satellite launch capabilities. The UR-500 was a larger ICBM design theoretically capable of delivering the 50-100 megaton Tsar Bomba, but was transformed into a space launcher. The UR-500 would be tagged for launching components of a future space program. The biggest ambition of Chelomei, however, would be his UR-700. Meant to carry cosmonauts to the Moon on a direct ascent mission in the LK-1 lunar craft, the rocket would be capable of carrying 151 metric tons to LEO, compared to only 75-tons for Korolev's N-1 rocket. The rocket would employ a novel strategy of cross-feeding fuel, which means that while all engines would be lit upon liftoff, by the time of booster jettison, the central stack would still fly with full tanks, reducing dead weight and increasing payload capacity. The UR-700 would be green-lit by the Soviet government for the Lunar flyby proposal.[/sub] |

| [sub]In direct competition would be Sergei Korolev's N1 heavy-lift launch vehicle. Capable of launching a maximum of 95 tons to LEO by its N1-L3 Lunar mission iteration, which would start development in 1965, the heavy-lift rocket was originally designed for extraplanetary missions to Mars and Venus, as well as to launch extremely heavy payloads like space stations into Low Earth Orbit or higher, like in geosynchronous orbit. The rocket, however, would be repurposed towards carrying out a Lunar landing mission utilizing the Soyuz 7K-LOK lander (which carried in itself a series of complications, such as the fact the Soyuz capsule hasn't at this point finished development yet). While the Soviet Lunar flyby program will operate separately from the N1, both programs are likely to be set back thanks to a lack of sufficient funding from the Soviet government - though the UR-500 flyby program appears to be more plausible and achievable within the given timeframe.[/sub] |

| [sub]Despite the competition and division between design bureaus, however, as Chief Designer, Korolev would take it upon himself in March of 1965 to begin some level of cooperation and coordination between the design bureaus to ensure the overall success of the Soviet moonshot. He understood that the Americans were already well ahead of them, having started development years prior on their Saturn V heavy lift launch vehicle, but maintained that if the design bureaus were to stand together and coordinate, for example with Glushko allowing the use of his efficient engines, Chelomei his boosters, and Korolev his aeronautic knowledge, the Soviet Union would, he told Chelomei and Glushko in a rare letter, have a greater shot at success. While coordination remained sparse through April, Korolev had at the very least gotten the ball rolling.[/sub] |

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

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Arcanda

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Connomia

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Greater Adriatican State

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Ma-Li

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[list][pre]Kon'nichiwa[/pre][/list]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1096644

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In response to Saudi threats

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[list][sup]Republic Palace (formerly Sanaa Palace), Yemen Arab Republic

12 April 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]The Revolutionary Command Council met to discuss Saudi Arabia’s threat of embargo, and their request to release the arrested princes[/sup]

[list][sup]

Lt. Gen.Hassan al-Zaidi, Prime Minister: What do you think the response should be?

Maj. Gen. Hamoud al-Jaifi, Minister of Security: We execute the princes, but let this be the most eloquent response to the senile Faisal.

Abdul Aziz al-Taghlibi, Minister of Education: I need to remind you that trade to and from Saudi Arabia is important to us because of our common ties

Dr. Hassan al-Amiri, Minister of Health: I think that the Abdul Aziz al-Taghlibi’s opinion is correct. We need to continue trade with Saudi Arabia

Ali al-Qardai, Leader of the Hashid tribe: I think we should move our tanks on the northern border, let it be threat for threat

Maj. Gen. Hamoud al-Jaifi: I support the opinion of Ali al-Qardai. We must respond directly to this dementor in the north.

Judge Abdul Rahman al-Hamdani, Minister of Justice: Allow me to express my opinion. I am the judge in charge of the case. These princes are charged with crimes whose punishment will not reach the death penalty. Only imprisonment and a short period. We cannot execute them without reason for a dispute with the Saudi king.

Maj. Gen. Hamoud al-Jaifi: We must show him who we are and that we are not afraid. Also, our trade with Saudi Arabia can be compensated from anywhere else. Fuel can be obtained from any of the neighboring countries, the Gulf for example.

Lt. Gen.Hassan al-Zaidi: We will not execute anyone in order to show our control, but we will give a diplomatic response. As for the ruling, whatever the number of years in prison, they will be punished with exile. We do not need to harm them, nor do we want them in the country. Let us now discuss the proposal to establish a public transportation authority.

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[list][sup]Supreme Court of Yemen, Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

18 April 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]The Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Judge Abdul Rahman al-Hamdani, issued its ruling on the defendants against the people, Hassan bin Yahya Hamidaddin and Muhammad bin Hussein bin Yahya Hamidaddin, Exile the defendants outside the Yemen for what they committed against the people of Yemen and their assistance to the tyrant Muhammad al-Badr.[/sup]

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[list][sup]Headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

24 April 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yemen, Shukri Al-Anani, informed the Saudi ambassador to Yemen that he was expelled and had 72 hours to leave Yemen. He also announced the withdrawal of the Yemeni ambassador to Saudi Arabia. The minister announced the reason, which was not to accept any threat that would affect the free sovereignty of Yemen, and this is response to the threats of Faisal, King of Saudi Arabiyah, provided that the diplomatic missions of the two countries continue their work to manage the affairs of their citizens.[/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

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Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

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Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

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Sudesam

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[list][list]SHOWA 33 | OCTOBER 1958[/list]

[list][list]皇后と未来の皇后

[pre]THE EMPRESS AND THE FUTURE EMPRESS[/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] T H E C H R Y S A N T H E M U M ¹ [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre] オー・スネイル 富士山に登ろう でも、ゆっくり、ゆっくり

O Snail; Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly![/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

TOKYO, IMPERIAL RESIDENCE — MORNINGTIME

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

| In 1957, at a tennis tournament, IMPERIAL PRINCE AKIHITO met a beautiful young woman, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist named MICHIKO SHŌDA. She sat next to the CROWN PRINCE holding a racket, while talking to him, she laughed. Japanese newspapers dubbed the encounter a “fairy tale” or “a romance on the tennis court.” In 1958, the royal couple were granted permission by the Imperial Household Council to marry. MICHIKO became AKIHITO’s fiancée in January 1959. But MICHIKO had a strong opponent, she was the mother of the Imperial Prince, Her Majesty Empress Nagako. Although her father was a wealthy industrialist, she was considered a commoner and this angered the Empress. Nagako wanted her son to marry Japanese royalty. A few days before the Imperial Household Council approved the engagement, NAGAKO had a serious conversation with the prince. |

[list]| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “You shouldn’t marry a woman who doesn’t know our lifestyle. You should have chosen one of those three noblewomen I introduced to you.”

| AKIHITO, [sub]IMPERIAL PRINCE[/sub] | “I didn’t like any of those three women. I won’t marry someone who doesn’t love me.”

| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “A couple can feel love for each other after marriage.”[/list]

| The IMPERIAL PRINCE, stressed about his mother, started pacing back and forth in his room. Before continuing the conversation with his mother, AKIHITO straightened his tie. |

[list]| AKIHITO, [sub]IMPERIAL PRINCE[/sub] | “I’m going to marry her. Michiko already has the Emperor’s approval. Certainly, the Imperial Household Council will approve Michiko as my bride.”[/list]

[pre]▌5th of FEBRUARY 1959.[/pre]

| After the engagement ceremony, carried out against the Empress’ will, but supported by the Emperor. NAGAKO invited her future daughter-in-law to the Imperial Palace for tea. The Crown Princess-in-waiting, MICHIKO, gladly accepted her future mother-in-law’s invitation. Upon learning that MICHIKO was invited by the Empress, a nosy Tokyo journalist publishes a headline: “THE EMPRESS AND THE FUTURE EMPRESS.” Upon reading the news, the citizens of Tokyo praised the Empress for her decision and said: “The Empress is passing on her wisdom to the future Empress.” When the Empress was notified of the arrival of her son’s bride, NAGAKO, dressed in a kimono, was preparing tea herself. MICHIKO wore a simple beige dress, unlike her mother-in-law who wore a traditional Japanese dress. Upon entering the room, MICHIKO bowed to the Empress and sat down on a cushion that was on the floor. |

[list]| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “An Empress must keep her opinions to herself and never say them, we must always walk behind the Emperor and above all the most solemn duty of the sovereign’s wife is to give an heir to the throne.”[/list]

| Although MICHIKO did not agree with the family’s archaic rules, she politely nodded to the Empress. |

[list]| MICHIKO SHŌDA, [sub]AKIHITO’s FIANCÉE[/sub] | “I completely agree, Your Majesty.”

| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “Although I am not a sentimentalist, I would like to know if you love my son. An Empress must support and love her husband unconditionally.”

| MICHIKO SHŌDA, [sub]AKIHITO’s FIANCÉE[/sub] | “Yes, I love him.”[/list]

| Little did MICHIKO know, but her nightmares about her mother-in-law were beginning. The Empress, watching her daughter-in-law, looked at her with a serious expression on her face, MICHIKO’s back was not straight and she drank the tea making noise with her mouth. |

TŌGŪ PALACE, RESIDENCE OF THE CROWN PRINCE

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

[pre]▌1st of MAY 1965.[/pre]

| MICHIKO and AKIHITO’s eldest son, Prince Hiro, turned 5 in February this year, his grandmother, Empress NAGAKO, harshly criticized his mother, the Crown Princess. According to the tradition of the Imperial House, the heir to the throne must be separated from his parents and placed under private tutors, MICHIKO did not follow this tradition when her first child was born in February 1960, she and her husband chose to raise the son instead of hand it over to the court chamberlains. This greatly enraged Empress NAGAKO at the time and still enrages her to this day. The Empress hopes that this mistake will not be made with the couple’s next children. For the mother of the Imperial Prince, tradition should never be broken. |

[sub]¹ A Series: THE CHRYSANTHEMUM, Even before the engagement was announced, Empress Nagako was firmly opposed to the marriage of her son, Imperial Prince Akihito, to the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Michiko Shōda.[/sub]

Rutannia, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya

SURPRISE RESULT FOR REFORMISTS!

3 May, 1965

| While the appointment of Antonín Novotný as the new President by the Czechoslovak Politburo last July had been seen as a continuation of political stability, the results of the May election seemed quite the opposite. Novotný had run unopposed in January's presidential election and figured the parliamentary elections this year would return a similar result as the last elections in 1960. |

| And while the National Front - the alliance of communist and socialist parties who led the country - won all 300 seats, as it always did as an alliance of the only approved political parties, the composition of the new parliament was something of a shake-up. |

| Since the rise of socialism, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) had always won around half of the 300 seats in the National Assembly, with its junior Slovak branch hovering around 70. Meanwhile, the more moderate parties - the Czechoslovak Socialist Party, Czechoslovak People's Party, Party of Slovak Revival, and Freedom Party - never won more than 40 between them, with independents usually making up the final 30 to 40 members. |

| After the Politburo chose Novotný over the more moderate Ludvík Svoboda last year, the Czechoslovak people seemed to indicate a different preference in the May parliamentary election. In the wake of ongoing economic stagnation, government resistance to reforms, and increasingly frosty relations with neighbouring Slovenia, voters handed the reformist Czechoslovak Socialists a whopping 52 seats, up from just 19, and the Czechoslovak People's Party 29 seats, up from 16. Meanwhile, the KSČ's share of seats decreased for the first time since 1954, from 147 to 130. Though not exactly opposition parties, the relative success of the smaller parties - largely allowed to exist to present the illusion of political alternatives to the KSČ - came as something of a shock to the establishment. |

| It remains to be seen how President Novotný will react to this showing of moderate sentiment versus his well-known hardline Stalinist policies...but the result will surely put pressure on the President to budge on the reforms he has steadfastly refused to adopt since his time as Minister for Finance... |

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub] COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY —] Abessinienreich Adriatican Islands Amsterwald Anglo Channel Arcanda Cascadla Cheezaslovakia Connomia East Germany Ddr Greater Adriatican State Great Britain Gb Greater Kurdistane Israelli Kewtpuff Kotakuan Ii Ma-Li Maziya Metropolitan Francais Mutawakkiliti Neepal Nevbrejnovitz Newauroria New Provenance Nileia Nippon-Nihon Osivoii Paramountica Paseo Peking Zhongguo Pontianus Provenancia Ranponian Rio De La Plata Argentina Rutannia Saudi Arabiyah Socialist Democratic Republic Romania Spainard Sudesam Turkiye 1St Vancouver Straits Victoria Harbor Virnall [/spoiler]

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| NIGOYE'S PLAN 2.0 ; THE LIGHT AND SHADE OF DELPHINE MASENGO |

[sub]9th of April, 1965[/sub]

| The National Congress of Zaire has passed the NIGOYE'S PLAN 2.0, a series of economic reforms and regulations that aim at pushing the Zairean economy even further. FABIAN NIGOYE was the Head of the Experts Assembly between 1940 and 1951, and the head economist of the nation. Nigoye is the one that laid the fundements of the Zairean economic system, allowed the Zairean economy to flourish over the past twenty-five years. His departure to the United States of America in 1952, was a major shock but his return, an even bigger one. First Representative, MARGOT OKOMBI quickly brought Nigoye back into the government and the nation did not have to wait long for his plan to be enacted.

The National Congress passed the plan 296 ( Future & Progress Movement / National Liberal Revival Party ) in Favour to 102 ( Zaire Democratic Reform Party / Communist Front / Conservative Party ) against. The plan is set out for five major sectors.

[list]NIGOYE'S FIVE MAJORS;

- Refining of National Resources Program ( The RNRP intends to begin in 1965 and end in 1970, with the intention of refining at least fifty to sixty percent of Zairean national resources in Zaire, therefore allowing for wider and larger ability to export its resources around the world...the RNRP intends that by 1975/76, at least ninety percent of the resources will be refined in the country. )

- Lower Taxation on Small Business Program ( The LTSBP intends to begin in 1966, and will implement a decrease from twenty two percent tax to seventeen percent tax...the LTSBP will also allow new small business owners to not pay any tax from their revenues for the first year of running their business...the LTSBP will also create the Small Business Loan Fund, which will aid new comers into business at least forty to fifty percent of needed funds to begin a small business...in 1970, the LTBSP intends to lower the tax on small businesses to further thirteen percent...)

- Expansion of the Industrial Belt of South & East Program ( The EIBSE intends to attract bigger investments, both domestic and foreign, into industries within the South and the East of Zaire...heavy industry will be favoured into those parts of the country...domestic and foreign investors will pay a lower tax in Zaire, should they establish their heavy industry forces in the South & East between 1965 and 1969...the refining industries will be in sixty percent established in the South & East...)

- Heart of Africa Project ( The HAP intends on expanding the current tourism program in Zaire...it intends on supporting local tourist companies and the national tourist companies through means of PR & funding...it intends to develop and create eight new resorts, four of which will be at the coast of Zaire, two in the North and two in the South-West...the HAP will begin actively seeking out counter-parts in Europe, North America and Asia...)[/list]

| To many the program is another big step forward for the Zairean economy, providing new job opportunities, expanding the Zairean natural resources program and pushing Zaire towards becoming Africa's largest economy. However, a lot of criticism has came from both the Communist Front and the Conservative Party. The CF accuse Nigoye for once again exploiting the workers of the country through the program, with too much centred around the businesses, forgetting about the ordinary workers. The Conservative Party insatiate that Nigoye is playing into the hand of the Five Families, giving their own companies a chance to flourish whilst forgetting about the new-starts.

The First Representative, Margot Okombi, hailed the the program as a terrific push forward for Zaire and its economy, showcasing that the program thinks about the future of the country rather than just focusing on the now. To Mrs Okombi "...it provides a fantastic gateway for the Zairean economy and business to truly become a force on the international stage by the start of the 1970s..." |

| MASENGO PHARMACY HEADQUATERS, ZAIRE |

| The basement of the headquarters is more than just a storage area of the company. It is also the personal laboratory of Delphine Masengo. It provides Delphine the chance to work with her experts on new vaccines, on new medication in a way which is less public than in her open laboratories, and in a much less ethical way. But today, it was not about creating a new miracle, it was about creating death itself.

Only a month left before the wedding between her daughter MONIQUE, and the Numbi's son, JEAN. A wedding that Delphine has a plan for, far more sinister and calculated than she let slide. Standing by one of her experts, ARNIE, she would be looking carefully at the flask that Arnie lifted up. |

[list][ ARNIE ]: "We have used the poison of the Gaboon viper, in a dose lethal enough to kill an average sized man or woman in a span of less than fifteen minutes."[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "Can it be mixed with anything, to provide the poison and not kill the effects?"[/list]

[list][ ARNIE ]: "Yes, ma'am."[/list]

| Delphine would take out a glass from the cupboard behind her, and pour the coffee from her own cup into it. |

[list][ ARNIE ]: "Ma'am, using this poison will, however, cause severe damage and pain to the victim. My question bares...is it...necessary?"[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "It is. I've seen the health reports of Gloria, she is not bidding well and her heart is not the strongest. Who knows, how quickly she might go. The Numbis and the Lubulus are the worst of the kind, and should they destroy one another, it will be much better for our country. Numbi does not forget, and should he be believing that his beloved son was murdered by the Lubulus...well, you can imagine. Pour it into the glass."[/list]

| Arnie with hesitation would pour the contents of the flask into the glass containing coffee. Delphine would grab the coffee and make her way to a man sitting in a small cell, his arms and legs chained. He would weakly look up at her. |

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "My dear, I think we have found the right solution to your medical issues. Please, drink up."[/list]

| The man would open his mouth weakly, as Delphine poured the coffee slowly down his throat before moving back. In a matter of minutes, the toxins within the poison would begin to do their job as Arnie looked at the man in horror, Delphine would begin taking notes. After ten minutes, the man would be dead, surrounded by his own blood. Delphine would finish writing and nodding at Arnie, walk off. |

[spoiler="Let them destroy each other." - Delphine Masengo]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

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Rio De La Plata Argentina

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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

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30 , APRIL , 1965

Pegawai Of Culture: Kesar-Taj Rhyan Saige

| The president would read a newspaper and stumble upon the story on Farhad critique of the [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=53768130]three new acts[/URL] that the president had established. To provide something to attempt at reducing the tension, the president would establish the position of "Pegawai Of Culture", and looked for a candidate. What qualified for a candidate is a non-Malay,who's also non-Muslim. The reasoning behind this is, that Farhad influence only stretched into the Malay population, as Farhad is a Malay nationalist, but Farhad also appeals to Islamic conservatives, with his stance on Islam being an integral part of Malay culture, society, and identity. Eventually after digging through tons of files of former politicians, current and former military personnel. The president would decide on Kesar-Taj Rhyan Saige. |

| The pegawai of culture, would be intended to have numerous powers relating to its title. The first of these things that the pegawai of culture would have power over is, literature. As literature could shape and bend cultures towards new periods based purely on how things are written or spelled or even introducing new terms or words or phrases. The second thing is, art. As the power of art could move a population towards idealising something, as well as the fact that art could also be used as forms of propaganda. The third thing is, music. Because music is an integral part of cultures that could leave a lasting impact, way pass the death of a culture. As other cultures would absorb it's unique music forms. The fourth thing is, fashion. As the aesthetics of a culture choice in fashion would impact how others outside of their culture would view them. The final thing is, architecture. As architecture could give a culture a specific vibe, feeling, and nuance. Which allows them to stand out from other culture, when comparing architectural styles. |

| With the position established, comes some specific terms that would be created for it. Which would align with the intentions of the president when it comes to the usage of this position. The most major of these terms would be that the pegawai of culture, can't say no to the request of the president, or vice-president when it comes to their job. Which allows both the president, and vice-president to still maintain a massive amount of influence in the shaping of the nation culture. |

| Rhyan was a former member of Briane Ricuelmae James party. [B]Maziya Kesatuan Demokratik, and only officially left because of the [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=52767801]Tiada Politik Bill[/URL]. Rhyan former allegiance with the party that won the majority of electorial votes, under Briane leadership, makes him an enticing figure to manipulate. However another reason for picking Rhyan, is that during the Maziyan Civil War, Rhyan had served under Hadif command, in the [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=52127675]ending months[/URL] of the civil war. On the day, Rhyan was appointed. He had to read a pledge of allegiance, to the president that would, if Rhyan is a person of upstanding morals. He [I](Rhyan)[/I] would abide by, with the ending of the pledge being that;

[List][I]" Violation of this pledge of allegiance would result in execution. If I cannot abide by the pledge of allegiance, how can I hope to be of use to the government. "[/I] |[/list]

| When news came out about, the creation of the pegawai of culture, and Rhyan appointment to the post. [U]Briane and Rhyan would convene in a book store. Where they initially just discussed about, the terms, conditions, and the pledge of allegiance that Rhyan had agreed to. Eventually Briane would reveal his ambitious side and tell Rhyan:

[List][I]" Using your position, if you keep things as low as possible. I want you to adapt elements of Western culture, whether it be in architecture or whatever. To adapt to the future, we need to make Brunei look at least on the outside, since that's the most you can do. Appealing to Western investors. "[/I][/list]

Rhyan agreed with Briane to a certain extent, but Rhyan although would never say it to his friend. He [I](Rhyan)[/I] thinks that, Brunei is already appealing to foreign investors, and that "westernisation" of its culture, would only make Brunei seem more like a outcast in Asia. |

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Rutannia, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[list][pre]T H E S L O V E N E R E P U B L I C • S L O V E N S K A R E P U B L I K A[/pre][/list]

‘ŽELEZNO SUMMIT’ BRINGS SOVIET AND CZECHOSLOVAK LEADERS TO SLOVENIA AS JAKAC GAMBLES ON PUBLIC SENTIMENT

[list][sup]AN INEVITABLE AFFINITY

MAY 1965[/sup][/list]

To call the Slovene Republic inherently ‘anti-communist’ is an oversimplified and outdated statement. While paranoia about Titoism had been rife in the shadow of the Second World War, internationalism, socialist political thought and pan-Slavism ran deep in the blood of the Slovenian national movement; even what had been masked with names such as ‘Liberal Party’ in the post-war era had, in practice, been democratic socialism with a Slovenian national flair. The decision to accede to N.A.T.O. had been driven more by fear of Titoist invasion than by a kinship with Western nations.

Thus, while the Slovene Republic’s relations with the U.S.S.R. in the spring of 1965 were poor, there was no sentiment in the Slovenian populace that dictated it must necessarily be that way. With presidential elections approaching and an internationalist reputation on the line, Slovenian President Božidar Jakac gambled on that fact. Hoping to secure another victory in a line of diplomatic triumphs—and improve Slovenia’s leverage as an increasingly peripheral nation in Europe—Jakac, after months of talks through diplomatic back-channels, secured a direct summit with President Antonín Novotný of Czechoslovakia and First Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Novotný had electoral considerations not unlike Jakac’s, and the Soviets—though they did not deign to send Khrushchev into the territory of a N.A.T.O. member—organized Kosygin’s attendance with an air of curiosity. Accompanied by teams of negotiators armed with complex policy proposals, the three finally met face to face at Železni grad—formerly Schloss Esterházy—in the Slovenian town of Železno near the Czechoslovak border on an auspiciously sunny day in May 1965. The entirety of the Slovenian government paused in tension; former president Nikola Koprivnikar, a genuine anti-communist, called the day a “revolting consequence” of the most strikingly internationalist presidency to date.

The talks themselves were cautious, but far from hostile. One common ground found with surprising ease was the establishment of ambassadorial-level relations with the Soviet Union as a basis for future discussions. Beyond this, however, obstacles piled up—a Slovenian proposal trade corridor via Bratislava to facilitate Sloveno-Czechoslovakian trade was tied up and abandoned amidst security concerns, and the extradition of right-wing Czechoslovakian dissident Dušan Zima was not on the table at all. Discussions of Yugoslavia, too, were too divisive to mention. Regardless, a photograph of Jakac, Novotný, and Kosygin smiling before their flags evidenced the path toward reconciliation represented by the meeting. Jakac wasted no time in presenting the summit as a victory of internationalism and of the political position of Slovenia, and the meeting doubtlessly illustrated the Slovenian government’s willingness to steer a geopolitical course of its own.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1722936

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Hey

The Confederate Prussian Empire, Victoria Harbor

[list]1965년 5월 9일

[sub]Japan and Korea[/sub][/list]

[list][sub]A New Beginning. . .?[/sub][/list]

[sub]SEOUL, Rutannia — MORNING[/sub]

| The meeting had been one of the most anticipated foreign engagements on both sides of the Sea of Japan, for centuries Korea had become stuck in a tug of war between the Empire of Japan and the then Qing Dynasty. During the First Sino-Japanese War the Qing sued for peace, and control over Korea fell to the Japanese. The intervening fifteen years saw more and more control move to Japan with full occupation coming in 1910 and lasting up until the end of the Second World War. Since 1945 Korea and Japan have been diplomatically dancing around one another, but now twenty years after the occupation ended Korea’s Prime Minister, Park Chung-hee, extended a hand to his Japanese counterpart that brings us to today's events. |

| Today had been a field for the press, Prime Minister Eisaku Satō of Nippon-Nihon landed at Gimpo International Airport on the western outskirts of Seoul where he was greeted by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister before they made their trip to the Blue House. The Blue House is a complex of buildings sat on part of the Gyeongbokgung Palace estate, burnt down by the Japanese in 1592, since the April Revolution the estate had been divided between the Blue House; the National Assembly complex; and the residence of the Royal Family. As the pair arrived at the steps of the Blue House the pair gave a wave to the gathered press before heading inside away from the eyes of the region's press. |

| It would be several hours before either side emerged from the meeting, rumours had been circulating amongst the press in that time, before a great rush towards the conference began, the two leaders would give a press conference. |[list]

[sub]PM. Park: “Thank you for gathering at such speed, we both assumed that you’d want to know the details so we called this press conference. I would like to thank my counterpart, Prime Minister Satō, for agreeing to attend this meeting and I look forward to many more. The meeting has been productive and we agree on many issues not just between our nations but internationally too. I will let Prime Minister Satō speak more on our agreements and then we’ll head for questions.”[/sub]

[sub]PM. Satō: “Thank you Prime Minister Park, like previously said this meeting was very beneficial and productive. We are fully committed to forging a new relationship between Japan and Korea, but we cannot forget the past. That is why I am committed to investing in Korea’s infrastructure. We are looking at launching initiatives to help facilitate the development of high-speed rail across major routes in Korea. Combined with this we will encourage Japanese businesses to invest and open up shop in Korea; a combination of both high and low skilled jobs will open up as trade does. I am committed to more meetings that facilitate a trade deal between our nations.”[/sub]

[sub]PM. Park: “Thank you Satō, obviously we discussed the past during our meeting. Japan’s occupation is a painful memory in our nation's past, it has affected everyone in our country. We are committed that relations never reach that point again, we have committed to working out cultural and student exchanges that can see the people forge greater and closer relationships. We hope such exchanges build up mutual respect between our great nations, so that the feelings of the past cannot ever be reached again.”[/sub]

[sub]PM. Satō: “Like Prime Minister Park stated, we cannot go back to how things were, but we still have a long road to go to build our relations, that is why I committing to compensatory measures to begin the path to making amends for our wrong-doings, while this will not fix things overnight we hope this is the beginning of a long journey towards healing.”[/sub][/list]

| The conference would continue on as the Question and Answer section began with the world's journalists asking various questions, Park and Satō confirmed that further meetings would be taking place to work out the full details of compensation to be paid out. The pair appeared to be getting along well, laughing and joking with one another, it was clear that even if the people of their respective nations had yet to learn to love one another the governments had clearly begun to turn a corner. |

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler]

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Tragedy in the Streets

Capital News Record of Luanda: 20th of April,1965

Recently within the territory of Angola, a heavy uprising against the Portuguese authority has been occurring over the last 4 years. The fighting has indeed been bloody, but has mostly stayed away from the major cities. During the mid-day hours on this day of April 20th, a vicious attack took place which resulted in the deaths of 45 Portuguese law enforcement, 20 Angolan natives and 10 Portuguese Army soldiers. The attack was not an attack by the force of arms, but a improvised bomb attack in a cafe on the main street of the city thoroughfare. While normally this cafe would be of inconsequential relevance, the cafe is known to be a stopping point of various law enforcement and army officials during the growing heat of the mid-day sun. Eye witness reports state that a man, about middle age, left a suitcase near the doorway of the cafe after said man had ordered himself a coffee. The bomb erupted at about 15:00, leaving the front half of the cafe a smoking ruin with various innocent bystanders caught in the blast, one as young as five years old. A scene of absolute tragedy and horror, one of which cannot be accurately described lest those reading this at their table lose their appetite and indeed the contents of their stomach. Many of you may be seeing news of this already over the television, or perhaps have been hearing of it from your neighbors, we here at the Capital News Record implore all of you to take caution in your day to day tasks. Because of the tragedy and potential threat of more attacks, the territorial government has ordered all citizens both Portuguese and Native, to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity and to report it to the nearest authorities. More information shall be relayed at a later date.

Café da Rosa Roxa: Hours before news article

Smoke billowed up from the cafe, as firefighters had put out the flames only an hour prior. Which still left a lot of heat in the building, even as investigators and firefighters worked their way through the building. The scene itself was on of absolute destruction and carnage, with police and even army officials keeping the crowd of onlookers back. One man in particular had to be restrained by the police, he was the owner of the cafe and his reason for acting so insanely was more than one would think. Police investigators had found that it was the man’s daughter, Diana Costa, who had discovered the bomb in the suitcase. Being a young child, she had simply thought that the man had forgotten it by accident. Before she could even reach for the suitcase, the bomb inside of it erupted. The force of the blast completely left nothing of her to find, except for a few pieces of bone and shredded clothing. Even with the poor girls body taking a majority of the explosion, it was not enough to slow it down at all. Antonio Costa, the owner of the cafe and the girls father, had seen the moment the explosion took his daughters life from her. He had been coming back from the basement of the building, having to retrieve some supplies for the cafe, and had seen all of it. The blast had thrown him back down the basement steps, knocking him out entirely until the firefighters found him a few mere minutes after the blast. Speculation of what had caused the blast were already abound in the news, and there were already assumptions of it being foreign supplied or even foreign agents. While such things were not entirely impossible, most foreign involved countries would not be foolish enough to leave actual serialized bombs or explosives to be found. Because the geopolitical backlash could be immense, especially if the foreign power was one of the eastern block and Asian countries. Despite that, the possibility was not off the table at all that some countries would brazenly do such things if it meant their interests being met.

Walking through the rubble, looking for any potential evidence that would point towards who did this, was a sergeant from the newly formed Commandos. The unit had been specifically created in order to fight the insurgency, as an off branch of the Caçadores. Having been trained by the best that Portugal had to offer, their training expanded from insurgency fighting to investigations and even law enforcement. The sergeant in question, Mateus Cardoso, was looking at a piece of shrapnel that had lodged itself into the side of the counter of the bar portion inside the cafe. Putting on a glove, so as to not slice himself open in the process, he was able to jerk the piece of metal free of the counter. Setting it down on the top of the bar, he would grab a discarded bottle from behind said bar and pour the contents over it. Doing his best to clear off the smudges and see if he can find a serial number, or perhaps even the heavy stencil marks of what armory or base it came from. After a few moments, he found the stamped on serial code and his suspicions were indeed confirmed as to what was used in the bomb. The serial number matched with what the Portuguese army uses to identify their 81mm mortar shells, meaning that during the fighting going on in the countryside the insurgents must’ve found an unexploded shell or two. Tapping the piece of metal on the counter, contemplating the news that this meant, he would sigh to himself before picking it up and walking out of the building without saying a word. Because he needed to get this back to his units base, as this one piece of metal could go up the chain of command and help them with isolating where these shells were coming from. Because this is not the only attack of its nature within the last few months, but it’s the first one to happen inside the capital city of the colony. One thing he very much knew, was that blood was going to be spilled by the gallon once the rest of the army found out who specifically the culprits were. Most likely, he would be called back in for immediate action and off into the countryside of Angola once more.

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler]

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Post by Vladiovoska suppressed by Paramountica.

Vladiovoska

Zombies have emerged, does anybody have a strategy!?

PLAY ME FOR AMBIENCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew3--XVFioU

[list][sup]October 29th, 1880[/list][/sup]

[pre]𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒[/pre][sup][pre] | CONGO FREE STATE[/pre][/sup]

[list]“𝔚𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔢𝔯 -- 𝔪𝔞𝔶 𝔦𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔞𝔰 𝔩𝔬𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭𝔰 𝔯𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤! 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔶𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔡𝔞𝔶.”

― 𝔍𝔬𝔰𝔢𝔭𝔥 ℭ𝔬𝔫𝔯𝔞𝔡, ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰[/list]

SOMEWHERE IN THE EAST OF CONGO — Bataillon d'exploration [sup]In the deep darkness of the forest, all that is heard is the subtle sounds of the jungle, the moon is full and shines over the forest. The air seems peaceful, almost majestic, that is until the ringing of shots in the air disturbs the peace. A belly churning scream fills the void. From the balcony of a newly built church, Capitan Kristof De Mulder observes as flashes of lights briefly light up the dark void. His sergeant, Jason Verdoodt, also looks on in dismay with a hint of fear in his eyes. The Capitan simply motions for the sergeant to prepare what remained of the mission to defend the church. The sergeant complies and descends the stairs towards the room of worship, the church preacher, Andres De Leener, is kneeling before the cross whispering his prayers, preparing for what is to come. Jason approaches him from behind to request that he blesses the men for what could be their last stand.[/sup]

[list][list][list]Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Father Andres, please bless the men...we must make a stand here in the church! Father!}

Father Andres De Leener { [sup]Sancte Michael, defende nos in proelio ut non pereamus in tremendo iudicio. In Nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen...[/sup]}

Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Father please we don't have time! Give the men your blessing!}

Father Andres De Leener {Child...no amount of prayer will help...for what comes from the darkness is death itself. [sup]Crux Sacra Sit Mihi Lux....[/sup]

Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Dammit all to hell! MEN, ARMS AT THE READY! WE MAKE OUR STAND HERE IN THE CHURCH! BATTLE POSITIONS NOW!}[/list][/list][/list]

[sup]Sergeant Jason began rattling off orders to the few men who remained alive, ordering them to their positions, yet he was unable to find corporal Bruno Delporte who was to lead the men. He asked the soldiers where he was to which one simply remarked in the cellar. Jason would quickly make his way into the cellar, stepping down the stairs into the dark pit, they had used the cellar to detain disobedient slaves and soldiers, but all of the slaves they had brought with them had long been consumed by the darkness. The cells remained empty with the exception of one. The last cell is where Bruno hid. He was in a fetal position, rocking back and forth whispering to himself. As the sergeant came closer, his lantern revealed the mass writing on the walls. One single repeated sentence that read, 'THEY ARE COMING, THEY ARE HUNGRY'. With no time to contemplate the madness around him, sergeant Jason grabbed Bruno from his collar, pulling him to his eye level.[/sup]

[list][list][list]Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {CORPORAL WHAT THE HELL IS THE MEANING OF THIS, HAVE YOU GONE MAD?! GET TO YOUR STATION NOW CORPORAL!}

Corpral Bruno Delporte {Theyarecomingtheyarehungrytheycomingtheyarehungrytheyarecomingtheyarehungry}

Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {You've gone mad fool! Get a hold of yourself, we have to make a stand!}

Corpral Bruno Delporte {Were all going to die, Jason...were going to burn in hell for what we've done here HAHAHAHAHA!}[/list][/list][/list]

[sup]The sergeant lost his calm and struck the corporal across the face, laying him on the ground. The corporal just continued laughing like a mad man, Jason simply left him in the cell to rot. Ascending the stairs back into the prayer room, a soldier rushed to meet him. Urging him towards the entrance as a soldier had come out of the dark bush, stumbling his way towards the church. The Sergeant opened the peak hole on the large door to get a better look at the approaching soldier, he recognized him, it was Sammy De Geyndt. The sergeant immediately tried to open the door to welcome him inside, but a soldier stopped the sergeant as he sensed something was wrong. Something was indeed wrong. Sammys left arm was dangling around, as he got closer the men could see his arm was barely attached to his elbow with his bone almost exposed. His body was covered in blood with his once elegant blue uniform turned to deep crimson and his expression was a mix of terror and happiness. The Sergeant quickly realized what was going on, as he had seen this trick before, and ordered Sammy to not get any closer to the church.[/sup]

[list][list][list]Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Not a step further Sammy! Stay where you Stand! Where is the rest of your platoon?!}

Sammy De Geyndt {Sergeant! Please let me in! Let me in! They are coming! I don't want to die, please let me in! I want to see my wife again!}

Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Where is the rest of your platoon soldier?}

Sammy De Geyndt {I-i-i played dead, yes I played dead! They don't like the dead so i-i...i played dead hahaha yes I crawled through the corpses. They were too busy to notice me so I got away hahahahah, Jonas...Pierre...Félix...the-y th-ey....I just kept crawling through the corpses. I saw Gert...he was still alive when th-they...he screamed so much he even called for his mother and I...i-i I just kept crawling hahahahaha!}[/list][/list][/list]

[sup]As Sammy rambled on, a gunshot from the church balcony was heard, fearing the worst the sergeant sprinted up the stairs. But all he found was the lifeless body of Capitan Kristof De Mulder. He had shot himself through the head with his officer's revolver. The wall was colored red with his blood. But with no time to mourn a soldier at the bottom yelled for the Sergeant to return to the prayer hall. As the sergeant descended he could hear Sammy whaling and banging the door, begging to be let in. The sergeant barked at the soldiers to not allow Sammy in. He had seen this trick before and knew better than to open the door as the evil may be baiting them. As heartless as it was, better him than them.[/sup]

[list][list][list]Sergeant Jason Verdoodt {Sammy you will not be allowed into the church! Return to your post right this instance and await further instructions!}

Sammy De Geyndt {Sergeant please! Don't leave me to die, please! I can hear them getting closer, they coming they are hungry! I saved your life Sergeant...I SAVED YOUR LIFE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! Oh god...the eyes...THE EYES AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!}[/list][/list]

[sup]Suddenly the banging on the door intensified and Sammy wailed out in pain as the soldiers could hear him being ripped apart from the other side. Sergeant Jason yelled at the men to fall back and form a circle with the church benches. The banging on the door was so intense that the screws began to creek and the door itself was buckling from the force. Father Andres paid no mind as he continued his prayers, knowing that it would all be over soon. Jason and the last of the men took aim at the door, expecting the door to give in at any moment now, the fear was strong as sweat dripped from everyone. One soldier was so terrified that his rifle trembled to the point where he couldn't even aim it properly. Suddenly the banging stopped and the room went silent. Seconds went by, all one could hear was the wind. Suddenly the silence is broken as the door was breached, the church erupted with a mixture of shots from M1870 rifles and the screaming of men. The darkness consumed the church and once more the dark forest remained silent.[/sup]

Going to reopen this 2-year-old Halloween rp. Hopefully, Spielberg or the guy who made Avatar (The blue aliens not the live action Avatar) will contact me for a live action movie.

Paramountica, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[list][list]SHOWA 34 | APRIL 1959[/list]

[list][list]ロイヤルウェディング

[pre]THE ROYAL WEDDING[/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] T H E C H R Y S A N T H E M U M ¹ [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre] オー・スネイル 富士山に登ろう でも、ゆっくり、ゆっくり

O Snail; Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly![/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

TOKYO, IMPERIAL PALACE — AFTERNOON

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

| The idea of marrying her eldest son to an ordinary woman was unacceptable to Empress NAGAKO. This made her relationship with the Crown Princess-in-waiting, MICHIKO, bitter. However, the royal couple gained support from the public, especially the ruling political class. Imperial Prince AKIHITO, who was visiting London, left his bride in his mother’s sights. Days after AKIHITO’s trip to London, NAGAKO gathered a group of five people to undermine the royal marriage, they hatched a plan to plant evidence against MICHIKO, to show that she was not worthy of becoming his favorite son’s wife. A few days before the wedding, the Empress met with her husband, intending to make him change his mind and cancel the wedding. This would harm the relationship that NAGAKO had with her son, which was not the best, given his mother’s opposition to the engagement in ‘58. Seeing the success that his daughter-in-law has in the newspapers, the Emperor likes her, he also believes that she and her son, the Crown Prince, will be the protagonists in making the Imperial House more egalitarian. Crown Prince Tsugu wants to bring the Imperial family closer to his subjects. |

[list]| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “This marriage not being able to take place would be a shame for the Imperial family lineage. This woman is not suitable for my son. The marriage must be annulled.”

| HIROHITO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPEROR[/sub] | “This wedding will happen, it has already been decided. Akihito and Michiko have great support from the public and the government.”

| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “Well, if this is your final decision, I will have no further objections.”[/list]

| Upon hearing his parents’ conversation outside, Imperial Prince AKIHITO opened the door and entered the room. The Emperor and Empress changed the topic of conversation. But when AKIHITO found out that his mother was still against it, he questioned her. |

[list]| AKIHITO, [sub]IMPERIAL PRINCE[/sub] | “There’s no need to change the subject . . . Mom, why are you still opposed to this? We both love each other, that’s what matters. This won’t change that.”

| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “I have already told your father that I will no longer oppose the marriage.”

| AKIHITO, [sub]IMPERIAL PRINCE[/sub] | “That’s good, but I still won’t forgive you for plotting against this marriage. I found out that you tried to plant false evidence against her.”[/list]

| The Emperor, who was looking out the window, turned to his wife in surprise. HIROHITO, in a furious tone, questioned her. |

[list]| HIROHITO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPEROR[/sub] | “Why did you plot against your favorite son’s marriage?”

| NAGAKO, [sub]H.I.M. THE EMPRESS[/sub] | “I did this to protect the family, this woman is not worthy of receiving the title of Crown Princess or even Empress.”

| AKIHITO, [sub]IMPERIAL PRINCE[/sub] | “Mom, this is cruel.”[/list]

| Furious, the Imperial Prince walks out the door. Empress Nagako, although she has disappointed her son, does not feel the slightest regret. |

THE WEDDING DAY

[pre]▌10th of APRIL 1959.[/pre]

| On her wedding day, despite the problems surrounding her regarding her mother-in-law, MICHIKO was happy. The wedding will be a traditional Shinto ceremony. The Crown Princess-in-waiting, MICHIKO, was wearing a traditional Japanese outfit. It will be the first imperial wedding to be televised in Japan. The citizens of Tokyo are happy with the marriage, MICHIKO has become the people’s favorite, and the newspaper headlines are full of praise for her. The only person who hated her so far was AKIHITO’s mother, the Empress Consort. But during the ceremony, she pretended to smile. For the wedding portrait, MICHIKO didn’t want to wear an expensive dress, but rather a cheaper dress and she didn't want to wear expensive jewelry. NAGAKO insisted that she wear the dress, it was a dress chosen by the Empress herself, as well as the tiara. |

TOKYO, IMPERIAL RESIDENCE — MORNINGTIME

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

[pre]▌12th of MAY 1965.[/pre]

| During the visit of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, the Empress criticized her again. She said that she was not a suitable mother for her grandson, criticizing MICHIKO’s decision to send Prince Hiro to a public school when he was older. Nagako suggested hiring a tutor for her grandson, but MICHIKO refused, which made her mother-in-law furious. The Crown Princess wants her son to interact with other children, make friends. MICHIKO wants him to have a normal life. As an influential member of the family, NAGAKO will try to convince the Emperor to prevent her eldest grandson from attending public school. So far all attempts to harm her daughter-in-law have failed, because MICHIKO has the support of the people and, most importantly, the Emperor. |

[sub]¹ A Series: THE CHRYSANTHEMUM, Even before the engagement was announced, Empress Nagako was firmly opposed to the marriage of her son, Imperial Prince Akihito, to the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Michiko Shōda.[/sub]

[sup]PREVIOUS CHAPTER —

OCT ‘58 | The Empress and the Future Empress[/sup]

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MAY , 1965

Review Of The Administrative Structure

| President Hadif begins developing concerns over the stability of the nation. As now, with Farhad potentially [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=53768130]rallying[/URL] a Malay nationalist, and Islamic conservatives, rebellion group against his government. Then there's also the actions of Amanat Syurga, with them having [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=53494011]blown up[/url] two school's, and then [URL=https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=53674772]burning[/URL] down the church of St.Andew. To counteract this, Hadif begins to analyse the structure that he had set up, in hopes of discovering a weak link that could be removed, to reinforce his government. |

| The first thing, Hadif would look at is; the function of the president [I](himself)[/I], and the vice-president. The president by far has the most government power, having singlehandedly power over the executive and legislative, second to none. Meanwhile the vice-president, has the second most executive and legislative power within government. With the intended function of the vice-president being to assist the president, and also take over the role of the president whenever the president is unable to perform his [I](the president)[/I] presidential duties. |

| With the analysis of the function of the president, and vice-president leading nowhere. The second thing that was looked at, is the Pegawai's . Which were created to assist the president and vice-president. With their roles being effectively, that of a minister. As the power, and influence of a pegawai only extends to a specific topic that they've been assigned towards. With the matter of how pegawai's are selected being that, they are handpicked by the president or vice-president. |

| The pegawai's also lacked any obvious weaknesses to its present structure. The final thing that was looked at is the state superior's. Who are handpicked by only the vice-president, but the president could still step in, and remove a individual from their post as the state superior, of a state. With the state superior's having the highest level of authority in a state level, within the respective states that they've been assigned to. However the president fears the state superior's more then he does the vice-president as unlike the pegawai's and the vice-president. The state superior's actually have land that they have administrative power, and influence in. Which allows them access to manpower which could topple the government. |

| President Hadif determines; that there should be a change to the structure. As the pegawai of security, communication and finances was called into Koridor Kerajaan, to discuss with the president on what changes should be made. With the main goal behind the changes being the reduction of the power, and influence of the vice-president, and state superior's. |

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

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Paramountica, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Ma-Li, Zeitenwende, Mutawakkiliti

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[pre]MAY of 1965[/pre]

[list][pre]THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

Союз Советских Социалистических Республик[/pre][/list]

[pre]THE STATESMAN IN MOSCOW: ALEXEI KOSYGIN, THE ZELENO SUMMIT, AND CONFLICTING INTERESTS IN SOVIET FOREIGN AFFAIRS[/pre]

[pre]ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬ В МОСКВЕ: АЛЕКСЕЙ КОСЫГИН, ЗЕЛЕНСКИЙ САММИТ И КОНФЛИКТ ИНТЕРЕСОВ В СОВЕТСКИХ ВНЕШНИХ ДЕЛАХ[/pre]

| [sub]While General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko remain the most forefront policymakers on the issue of Soviet foreign policy, as the leading foreign diplomat and face of the Soviet Union to the world at large, First Deputy Premier Alexei Kosygin has taken on a unique role as a new statesman in Moscow - with a reform-minded idea of how the USSR should engage with the world around it. Kosygin manifested this newfound involvement in foreign affairs during the highly-complicated but extremely special Zeleno Summit between the USSR, the Czechoslovak People's Republic, and the NATO-aligned Slovenia - in Slovene, and thus NATO, territory. While the meeting saw no more agreements beyond an understanding on the establishment of ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations, it nonetheless marked a shift in Soviet foreign policy, and raised alarm bells in Yugoslavia, a long-time opponent of the Slovenes. Kosygin, privately, had anticipated this response from Yugoslavia, as did many diplomats in Moscow who were aware of the summit's taking place before it happened, but in the days, weeks and months afterward, the First Deputy Premier's justification for what he considered a necessary move had to be explained to a frowning Kremlin.[/sub] |

| [sub]Comrade Alexei Kosygin has always been the reformist. An economist at heart, he was one of many "optimal planners" who led the charge for Soviet economic reform in the 1960s. With the removal of conservative hardliners and Leonid Brezhnev loyalists, the path to economic reform was made clear. The path to foreign policy reform, however, was not as straightforward. Kosygin was arguably third in terms of foreign policy influence. At the top would, of course, be General Secretary Khrushchev, exercising his immense influence over the Party to control the USSR's foreign policy. In second would be Andrei Gromyko, the statesman and long-time Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union. He was the country's official foreign representative, and played a key role in shaping Soviet foreign policy. With Kosygin in third, then, it was hard for anyone at all to say that the reforms being implemented in other parts of the Soviet government would spread to foreign affairs, but then the Zeleno summit occured.[/sub] |

| [sub]The Zeleno Summit between Czechoslovakia, Slovenia and the Soviet Union was a product of this reformist foreign policy thinking. It did not necessarily entail a complete shift in foreign policy, but rather argued for a more reconciliatory diplomatic approach to those across the Iron Curtain with whom the USSR would benefit from a more positive relationship with. This included Slovenia, a border nation with a leftist president, and potentially Italy, a Western country that, despite its NATO alignments, had one of the largest communist followings outside of the Eastern Bloc. The Zeleno Summit was a step forward in that direction, almost certainly at the instigation of Kosygin and other reform-minded individuals within the upper echelons of the Soviet bureaucracy, but it came with its own baggage. Yugoslavia had already responded negatively to the summit, expressing concern about the Warsaw Pact's commitments to Yugoslavia's security. In a courtesy phone call to Yugoslavia, General Secretary Khrushchev would warmly assuage concerns that the USSR was aggressively pivoting on the issue, but behind the scenes, there were conflicting interests butting horns.[/sub] |

| [sub]While for now, the Soviet Union would likely be pacing down the development of bilateral relations with the Slovenes at the behest of personalities like Khrushchev and Gromyko, a known lean-conservative in the Soviet leadership who had held over from the time Brezhnev was still presidium of the Supreme Soviet, Kosygin remained a crucial force and an increasingly important voice. At a meeting of the Central Committee, the three officials debated Soviet foreign policy in Europe. Kosygin argued for an Ostpolitik-esque type of conciliatory foreign policy, while Gromyko stood at the other end of the spectrum, in favor of cutting down on the pivoting and nourishing relationships with Yugoslavia and other Warsaw Pact member states. The General Secretary listened quietly, but afterwards extended his support for Gromyko's point of view. That, of course, remains private and, the state of affairs for now.[/sub] |

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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[ Wolves of Portugal ]

[ 1st of May, 1965 ]

[ Bravia Defense Corporation Facility: Lisbon, Portugal ]

Due to the recent events in the world, primarily the ongoing fighting taking place within the overseas colonies, the government was looking for a way to modernize some of their older tanks. Because the terrain of not only Portugal, but also the overseas colonies, did not truly make for heavier main battle tanks the decision was made to look at the model M24 Chaffee tanks that the country had in abundance. Having the capabilities to make more and modernize them with the equipment they had, the decision was made that a new prototype model would be designed and tested. Having had the M24 tanks in inventory since the end of the Second World War, many armored units and engineers were used to the vehicle. Knowing the ins and outs of it, ideas came flowing forth to the Bravia designers and engineers who were put in charge of designing the new vehicle for production. Amongst all of them, one name in particular floated around and that was ‘Lobo’. A good way to distinguish it from the original American design, plus what else would be changed about it in future production. Currently, all the engineers at Bravia had was a name and the metaphorical ‘shell’ to work with. Time would tell if they would be able to think of a way to work on said tanks, as their actual workers and production lines were still primarily focusing on the M47 and M48 Patton designs that they had in stock. Normally the government would only come to them with this issue, but the necessity of the ongoing conflict called for quickness and other companies jumped at the opportunity to make designs for the Salazar regime. Arsenal do Portão do Leão, was an up and coming manufacturing firm within Estado Novo, even though their business only really began during WW2 with the selling and production of M4A3E4 Sherman tanks. Currently, the company had its own modernized design of the vintage old WW2 tank they simply called ‘Urso’, but the design was flawed and had been rejected by the current regime. Leaving both companies, at this very moment, to scramble for who would win the military contract.

Currently within the facility of Bravia itself in Lisbon, one of the company's various designers was drawing up plans for the ongoing project. Looking over a blueprint design of the M24, he was trying to figure out a way to make the tank itself more formidable without having to sacrifice the speed of the vehicle itself. Adding extra armor plating would slow it down significantly, unless they added a bigger engine which would mean they’d have to change the entire chassis itself as the tank itself isn’t that big to begin with. Staring at the designs, he would flip through other pictures and design drawings that he and others had created. Coming to a stopping point on one design, he would look over the dimensions of it and all it included. Armor, engine, transmission, main gun, electric controls, everything that would make the tank run and be effective. The design itself was not signed by any one of their engineers, which made him curious and suspicious of who specifically had created such work. From his standpoint it was almost perfect, as it fit the design of what specifically they were looking for. A tank with enough firepower to punch through most armor, with enough speed to get in and out of trouble quickly if needs be. While the tank could not be considered ‘MBT’ material, that was not what Portugal needed at the moment. Grabbing his stamp, he would place it over the design and press down to show that he himself approved it. Hopefully it would be approved by the other major engineers of the project, as he stood up from his desk and handed it off to his secretary to have it directly delivered to the offices of the others. The design was of course not concrete yet, not until it was approved by the others. Which meant it could be weeks or even months before it was made official, not only by them but also the state itself.

[spoiler=M24EN-85 ‘Lobo’ prototype]

Mass-42,500 lb

Length-33 ft 8in (including the barrel)

18 ft 3in (without barrel)

Width-9ft 10in

Height-9ft 1in

Crew-5

Armor- 3.50-4.10

Main armament- 85mm Smoothbore anti-tank gun

Secondary- 1x 50 caliber Browning machine gun

2x MH-34 machine guns

Engine-Twin Cadillac Series 44T24

220 hp (160 kW) (164 kW) at 3,400 rpm (total)

Power/weight- 12 hp (8.9kW)

Transmission-Hydramatic 8 speed forward, 4 reverse

Suspension- Torsion bar

Ground clearance- 2ft 6in

Fuel capacity- 420l

Operational range- 160km

Max Speed-56 km/h[/spoiler]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Abessinienreich

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Zeitenwende, Mutawakkiliti

Post self-deleted by Nippon-Nihon.

Operation Feed the People (1965-1970)

May 25, 1965

The center point of the Malian economy, and its ideology is agriculture. This was not unique to Africa many African nations and people were dependent on agriculture for economic growth. Nonetheless, Frédéric Guirma would take it a step further, from a simple program to increase production, to an obsession.

The so-called Operation Feed the People would begin in 1965 and be replanned every 5 years, with Operation Feed the People II, beginning in 1970. The goal of this plan would be to increase agriculture to a level of self-sufficiency in meat, grain, and vegetables.

Colonial Background (Before 1960)

French rule in Mali had greatly devastated crop production in the region. Prior the regions that made up Sudan were a bread basket that then traded their abundance of African rice and fonio to their neighbors, now they had begun to stagnate.

Failed French projects like the Niger River Irrigation Project (1920-1925) and a general introduction of European agriculture greatly damaged the fragile soils of West Africa. This led to a gradual decrease in crop outputs, that would be compounded by a rise in the population.

By 1965, Sudan was no longer food self-sufficient and was falling behind cheap Asian rice imports and European wheat.

Goals of Operation Feed the People I

The goals of the OFP I would be to remove Cash Crops as the source of Malian economic growth. In the new villages, farmers would receive subsidies and minimum price guarantees if they grew predefined staple crops. Quota/Allotment programs would restrict how much cash crops, cotton, cocoa, fruit and tobacco could be grown in villages, with the amount decreasing every year. These crops would also not receive any subsidies or guarantees.

Next would be choosing the right crops. Wheat was proven to not be a solid crop to grow in the tropics often dying off as heat increased. Instead, the big 5 would be Fonio, Sorghum, Millet, Maize, and Rice would be chosen.

Generally, rice would be restricted to areas where access to irrigation was guaranteed, while the other crops could be grown under rainfed conditions. In these irrigated areas rice would be considered the allotment and receive the bulk of government support, especially as irrigation networks were expanded, the goal being at least 25% of agricultural land having some form of irrigation, most of which is located near the Niger and Senegal rivers.

Early Struggles

Attempting to shift Mali entirely away from cash crops would have cascading effects, some immediate and some not seen for decades.

Immediately western companies raised concerns about the loss of their main investments in Mali. Coca-Cola which had relied on Kola nuts from Mali, now found their market tightened, tightening this was the Nigerian civil war, as Nigeria had been the world's largest producer of Kola nuts.

Another outcome would be the sudden sharp rise in staple crop seed prices. Fonio, Rice, Sorghum, Millet, and Maize seed prices soared as farmers scrambled to keep up with the new government ordinances. To offset the Malian government would create the Maligrow for seeds and Magrichem for agricultural fertilizer and chemicals. These companies would initially pay hefty prices for foreign seeds and chemicals, especially during the initial years, incurring massive losses requiring government subsidization.

Slowly, Malian food output would grow by 5-10% per year during OFP I, this would, of course, all come crashing down upon the onset of the 1968 Great Sahel Drought.

”Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more of an obsession, a source of pain.”

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

30 , MAY , 1965

" Absolute Blasphemy "

| A Christian liturgy was being held in the state of Temburong. Which had a crowd of people listening into it, due to the man performing the liturgy being a Malay, who had recently converted to Christianity. However a Catholic in the crowd pointed out, that the things this man was saying, is very off to Christian theology. |

| The Catholic would point out, that the Malay man said that;

[List][I]" The Holy Trinity is an important aspect of belief. With it meaning, the belief in God in three person: The father, the prophet, and the holy spirit. "[/I][/list]

The Catholic would then continue by correcting the Malay man statement about the Holy Trinity:

[List][I]" While you were correct about the belief aspect of the holy trinity. But it's supposed to be; the father, the SON, and the holy spirit. Not the father, the prophet, and the holy spirit. "[/I] |[/list]

| The Catholic would continue onto his next point, with a more irritated tone in his voice:

[List][I]" You also say, that Christian theology believes that, iconography serve as a window to divine. But by believing that iconography has someone form of divine influence, even if it is less then God. It's like saying that Christianity is a polytheistic faith, as Christians would be able to worship multiple things or people. Instead of just God. Which is flat out wrong, as praying to anything to her then god, is once separating one's self from the path of God! "[/I] |[/list]

| At this point, the [U]Catholic was [I]effectively[/I] shouting, at the Malay man. As the Catholic man quotes from memory, of the last thing the Malay man said:

[List][I]" Jesus Christ, isn't the son of God, and instead a prophet of the lord and saviour. A man destined, to guide humanity towards God's path. "[/I][/list]

The Catholic would catch his breath before continuing with his correction;

[List][I]" Jesus Christ, is the son of God. Born into the mortal plane of existence, through the Virgin Mary, and someone destined to rid humanity of sin. Your claim, would easily be proven false by any Christian. "[/I] |[/list]

| The Catholic would then storm off, while shouting;

[List][I]" That man's teaching's are absolute blasphemy, he has no idea what he is talking about![/I][/list]

As the Catholic, continues to storm off. The Malay man would continue with his liturgy. Still attracting a crowd, as well as some Malay journalist asking him about why he converted to Christianity from Islam. With the Malay simply saying;

[List][I]" The religion of Christianity, peaked my interest. So I converted, and read the Bible. Simply put it, I truly believe that the Bible is in some way or another, not 100% complete and is missing certain aspects, which if those aspects are every rediscovered would make the Bible whole. "[/I] |[/list]

______________________________________________

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Al-Oman

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Ma-Li

Establishment of the Yemen Electricity Company

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[list][sup]Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

6 June 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]At the opening of the Sanaa power station, Lieutenant General Hassan al-Zaidi turns on the electricity in the station, and at the same moment several lighting poles in front of the station building and others in all the streets of the city are lit. Here the crowd applauds, as among the attendees were all members of the Revolutionary Command Council and several businessmen and merchants. And intellectuals and a crowd of citizens, Lieutenant General Hassan al-Zaidi announced that at the same moment the power stations in Taiz and Al-Hudaydah had been operated, with the help and implementation of engineers from the Slovenian company EM Hidromontaža, and that thus the new factories, which had been built and equipped with the help of engineers from Yugoslavia, could begin work, as he announced. Lieutenant General Hassan said that a government company has been established under the name of the Yemen Electricity Company, which will be responsible for managing the three stations and transmitting electricity to all parts of Yemen. It is planned that the company will build more stations and electricity transmission poles in Yemen, coinciding with the construction of more factories in the future. [/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

[/spoiler]

Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li

[list][list]SHOWA 40 | JUNE 1965[/list]

[list][list]日産とプリンスの合併

[pre]THE NISSAN-PRINCE MERGER[/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] T H E P O W E R F U L J A P A N E S E I N D U S T R Y [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre] オー・スネイル 富士山に登ろう でも、ゆっくり、ゆっくり

O Snail; Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly![/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

TOKYO, TOKYO BAY — EVENING

[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]

| Japan’s automobile production increased by 26%, to 1,700,000 cars and trucks, placing Japan as the fourth largest car manufacturer in the world, and this year it is expected to reach 2,000,000. But many Japanese car manufacturers — 14 companies — are fighting for a share of this market. Facing Japan’s current recession and competition from foreign automobiles, the Japanese automobile industry is beginning the consolidation it has long resisted. Nissan Motor Co. and Prince Motors, Ltd. announced plans to merge. THE NISSAN-PRINCE MERGER will bring together two companies whose combined monthly production of 49,000 cars represents 36% of Japan’s total, compared with Toyota’s 32%. The government is playing matchmaker and encouraging other mergers. |

| Japanese automakers are bracing for a possible wave of foreign competition after Japan’s import quotas are lifted; this will be the first step towards reducing the restrictive 35% to 40% tariffs on foreign cars. Under current tariffs and taxes, for example, a Volkswagen sold for $1,250 in Germany is valued at up to $2,600 in Japan. With the reduction in tariffs, increased competition could be fierce. There’s a range from three-wheel $650 cars and the $1,020 beetle-shaped Carol 360 to Nissan’s six-passenger, $3,750 Cedric. Top seller: Nissan’s $1,566 Bluebird. Although they are functional and economical cars, they cannot compete in style and space with most U.S. and European brands, which will be closer to Japan’s prices when tariffs are reduced. To secure a market for its production, the Japanese auto industry is selling heavily abroad, especially in Southeast Asia. Automobile exports increased by 53%, to 150,000 cars and trucks. Japanese automakers have opened factories in India, Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines, as well as in South Africa and Latin America. Japan will also ship cars to the U.S, and Canada aboard specially-built freighters to transport 1,200 cars per trip. In 1964, the Japanese sold 12,000 cars in the U.S., but they intend to increase this number by 30%. Nissan’s Bluebird, the best-selling in Japan, costs $1,696. |

Spainard, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

[list][PRE]March 1965[/pre][/list]

[list][spoiler=Small Tails Deserve Music]https://youtu.be/Hwbv8gdESWw?si=7t4w6LDQUSMWGHOV&t=300[/spoiler]

[list][list][list][list][pre]The Sad and Lonley Tail of a Former Leader[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more.

If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][I]Algeciras Spainard

[sub][I]THE SPANISH KINGDOM OF SPAIN[/I][/sub][/list]

[list]|[sub] Francis Alavrez, a name now faded into history and is nearly forgotten amongst those who rage opposition for which such a household name is now defeated. Better or for worse, the man still lives on. He has managed to slip out of the public eye as the years go by and gets to enjoy the freedoms that he had forgotten while in the public eye. The pleasantries of the blissful silence and no daily announcement from men in suits seemingly have aged the former Prime Minister backward.[/sub]

[sub]Retirement for some is a reminder that life begins to slow down and that it is time to make time for our loved ones and to reintroduce ourselves to the pleasures we once enjoyed before becoming too busy with our societal duties. Hence, it goes without question in Alavarez’s mind that he continues to enjoy these simple pleasures with grace and satisfaction.[/sub]

[sub]Nonetheless, once in the public eye for as long as Alvarez has his face remains recognizable to those who give the name an ounce of thought. In the blissful and breezy town of Algeciras, he enjoys the orchestra plays of 101 Strings Orchestra as it moves his soul to each musical note as he reminisces about his time as Prime Minister. On some days, locals would perform flamenco concerts to the public. He would be one with the audience on many visits to the performance at the performing arts center in the middle of towns but on occasion, he would be noticed, particularly by those who disapproved of his leadership and blamed him for the many lives lost in the bombings done by ETA extremists. He would without a sound remove himself from the space and make his way back to his home on the coast. Nonetheless, his name is nearly forgotten, but the opposition who rages his name will continue to haunt his golden years until his death.[/sub]

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Arcanda

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Ma-Li

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Neepal

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Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

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Peking Zhongguo

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Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

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The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

10/5/1965 | The United Republic of Tanzania

Talks begin regarding a potential East African Economic Alliance

Yesterday (9/5/1965) at 3pm (15:00) GMT+3 the leaders of Sudan (Nileia), Uganda, Bugunda (Tallahan), and Tanzania (The United States Of Africa) met in Dar es Salam to discuss the idea of an economic alliance in eastern africa. They spoke over ideas such as Free Trade, a Single Market, and Freedom of Movement but it isnt fully certain as of now which ideas will end up being implemented.

What has been agreed upon by all member nations are : Lowering of Tariffs and Quotas to a certain extent to boost trade and economic cooperation in the region, Freedom of Movement between Bugunda and Tanzania and the reduction of border security, a Visa free period within Sudan (3 months) (wherein if you are seeking education or employed within the country you would be allowed to remain). The economic union aims to benifit all nations within the union helping rural and agrarian economies to diversify their economies and providing much needed investments from other member states to urbanize infrastructure, while at the same time giving the more stable, urbanized, and developed members of the union valuable natural resources which they can trade for with significantly less hurdles to move past (such as tarrifs). Julius Nyerere current head of state of Tanzania said : "african unity is necessary to remove all traces of imperialism and colonialism on our continent, and is also essential to the removal of neocolonialist practices being held today by western corporations such as Shell and Nestle, the EAC is just another step towards the freedom of our continent". As for when the alliance would be founded it is not clear yet but there is still time for more talks to happen between the nations and maybe even the admission of more nations such as the nations within the African Horn (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia) or in the Congo.

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[list][list][sub]9 JUNE | 1965[/sub][/list][/list]

[list][list][sub]1ST PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS[/sub][/list][/list]

[pre]PALESTINIAN LEADERS ANNOUNCE NEW 10-PROGRAM MANIFESTO [/pre]

[list][sub]| Dozens of Palestinian intellectuals, political peoples, activists, and leaders met today in Benghazi to mark the beginning of the first Palestinian National Congress, which is aimed to ratifying the goals and ideology of the Palestinian Liberation Front, the newly created umbrella collation of Palestinian groups and factions which is set to be representative of the Palestinian people under its leadership. With the two biggest factions of course being the nationalist Fatah and the revolutionary Socialist Hiraak, the former led by Palestinian activist Yasser Arafat and the latter by the 'Wise Man of the Revolution' Dr. George Habash. |[/list][/sub]

[list][sub]| The congress saw debates over everything ranging from religious identity, to economic systems, to the legitimacy of both Arafat and Habash, and many other such issues. Indeed, the Palestinian National Congress seemed to be one of the first expressions of Arabic democracy, with unusual amounts of political debates taking place that were unlike many seen or experienced in many Arab nations, where parliaments tend to be mere rubber stamps and authority lies in the king or party. To their credit, both Habash and Arafat took criticisms fairly well and responded with their own when needed. |[/list][/sub]

[list][sub]| These debates eventually yielded what has been termed the '10 Points', which is a 10 article document which is set to be the charter of the P.L.F and the guiding constitution which will form the basis of any future plans. The 10 points are notably Socialist in their language, no doubt a result of the large legitimacy the Hiraak movement has acquired thanks to its clashes with both Lebanese Christian militias and the Israeli defense forces in the last weeks. |[/list][/sub]

[list][sub]| The following is the 10 Points: |[/list][/sub]

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1. Palestine, henceforth defined with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit and all methods of achieving its liberation are permissible.

2. The Palestinian identity is independent, revolutionary, and retains inherent characteristics that are essential and form the identity. The Palestinian identity is transmitted from parents to children, the dispersal of the Palestinian people through the Zionist's project ethnic cleansing in 1948 do not make them lose their identity or negate it.

3. Palestine is a quintessential part of the Arab world (yet independent in its unique characteristics and identity), and is the nucleus that shall mobilize the revolutionary wave against anti-Imperialism, anti-Capitalism, and struggle for defeating reactionary thought and feudalism. Therefore, the liberation of Palestine is recognized as the first step towards liberating the Middle East of the evils that grip it.

4. A Palestinian state set up after the fall of the Zionist project shall be strictly secular, multicultural, and revolutionary. It unconditionally rejects any notions of a religious state set up on Palestinian land, or that Palestine is a land for a certain sect, or that certain sects must be expelled from its land and re-affirms that Jews, Muslims, and Christians are part of this holy sacred land.

5. In consideration with the historic fact that within Palestine Jews, Christians, and Muslims had lived in peace for centuries, and that Palestine provided refuge with open arms to those escaping the evils of fascism and capital in Europe, the future Palestinian state shall consider Jews as Palestinians with equal rights, while affirming that this has been the historic nature of Jews in Palestine. Ergo, the Palestinian state unconditionally rejects the Zionist project which perpetuates violence against Muslims, and violence against its own people by stoking anti-Jewish sentiment in the Arab countries through its espionage and cowardly tactics.

6. Revolutionary violence and armed struggle are the only paths towards liberating Palestine, the Zionist enemy does not understand the language of peace and negotiations.

7. The Zionist enemy is unconditionally based on the ideas of colonialism, ethnic ultranationalism, and discrimination against the Arab identity, thus the Zionist enemy is a fascist entity and as such it is the duty of the anti-Fascist resistance to dismantle it as the Soviet Union had dismantled the German regime.

8. Palestinians have a legal right to return to their homeland, or receive compensation for their lost property. The liberation of Palestine is not complete until this condition is fulfilled.

9. The Palestinian people assert the genuineness and independence of their national revolution and reject all forms of intervention, trusteeship, and subordination

10. The Palestinian Liberation Front is representative of the revolutionary forces of Palestine, and is responsible for its struggle, in all military, political, diplomatic, and financial fields, and is the one and only true legal representative of the Palestinian people.[/list][/sub]

Astarina, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Osivoii, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, Nileia, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti, The United States Of Africa

[list]June 1965

[sub]Erhard for Us![/sub][/list]

[pre]D I E B U N D E S R E P U B L I K[/pre]

LUDWIG ERHARD FOR GERMANY

[sub]BONN, THE FEDERAL CAPITAL, New Provenance - AFTERNOON[/sub]

| On 4 June 1965, members of the Christian Democratic Union and its regional sister party, the Christian Social Union, CDU and CSU respectively, went to voting stations across the nation for a primary to decide who would lead the CDU for the foreseeable future and, most crucially, who will serve as its candidate for chancellor in the coming 1965 federal elections this August. Voters went out with two names on their ballot - LUDWIG ERHARD, former Minister of the Economy and the father of the German economic miracle, and EUGEN GERSTENMAIER, the incumbent CDU parliamentary leader with a strong multipartisan streak. Pre-primary polls showed Erhard widening his lead over Gerstenmaier, who had guided the party into stability after Kurt Georg Kiesinger but lacked the experience and reputation Erhard held. The primary was organized by the Federal Returning Officer, the official electoral management body in the Bundesrepublik. |

| During the short campaign, both officials laid out their plans for the policy platform they would pass as CDU leader for the 1965 federal elections. Erhard called for a return to the economic prosperity and rapid economic growth of the 1950s, pledging to revert economic policies to the time and empower the growth of German industry. Gerstenmaier also reiterated the same, but stated he had a vision of "merging the positives of the 50s policies with the positives of the policies we have implemented today". Both supported empowering German industry, and both supported Germany's role in NATO. They only differed on foreign policy, where Erhard was a critic of Chancellor Willy Brandt's "Ostpolitik", while Gerstenmaier stated that he was interested in putting the policy to Bundestag debate and discussing the possibility of its implementation "based on whether or not it has merits or not, and I do believe it does". Exit polls showed that while 52% of CDU voters believed that Gerstenmaier would likely be more electable to the eyes of moderates and dissatisfied SPD voters, 50% planned to support Erhard, compared to only 46% for Gerstenmaier. |

| The voters trooped to the polls and, after two days of counting, the Christian Democratic Union headquarters buzzed with activities as the leadership convened to announce the party's new leader. In two weeks time, the party would be hosting its annual conference in the same place. Gerstenmaier himself as party leader stepped up to the podium, on which the words "Eine Sicherere Zukunft" ("A Safer Future") was emblazoned with the CDU initials, and announced the results of the primary. |

[list][pre]ERHARD, Ludwig - Former Federal Economy Minister - 5,085,684 votes - 50.4%

GERSTENMAIER, Eugen - Incumbent Party Leader - 4,782,965 votes - 47.4%

OTHER - 221,994 votes - 2.2%[/pre][/list]

| The results were accepted solemnly by Gerstenmaier and, later the same day, the keys to the CDU leader's office were ceremonially handed over to Ludwig Erhard. After a failed battle for the office in 1961 against Minister-President Kurt Georg Kiesinger, "Adenauer's Deputy" now held the leadership position of the CDU, and was primed and ready to secure the office of chancellor. He addressed the party on 9 June 1965, describing the path ahead as "long and arduous", but pledged to fight to "defend our values and defend our essential freedoms and our economic growth". He immediately began reorganizing the CDU's campaign efforts, which launched in May as the various political parties in Germany began campaigning nationwide to secure votes from the electorate. The governing SPD and its coalition partner, the FDP, will be defending their government from what many expect will be a powerful onslaught from the CDU and the centrist DPD. Early polling for the election shows that 47% of voters prefer Erhard as Chancellor, against 43% who prefer Brandt, and Bundestag polling gives the CDU 44%, and the SPD 40%. |

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COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Arcanda

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Connomia

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Ma-Li

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Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

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Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

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Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

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Astarina, The Confederate Prussian Empire, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Osivoii, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, Kewtpuff, Maziya

[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE

FRENCH BUREAUCRACY

MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR[/pre][/list]

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MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR: A TRIOMPH FOR FRANCE AS MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ARE GRANTED TO FRENCHWOMEN

[sub]VTH REPUBLIC | PARIS, JUNE 1965[/sub][/list]

[sub]| HELM OF LIBERTÉ, MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR - | In the words of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, "A Woman is given to a man to bear children; she is therefore his property, as the tree is the gardener's." These words have been held sacred and considered law in France since the reign of Europe's most notorious man.[/sub]

[sub]Married Frenchwomen have had all the legal benefits one might anticipate from the Emperor's opinion of them since 1840, when the Code Napoléon was adopted as France's fundamental civil law. The Code Napoléon was in fact ahead of its time when first enacted, but has now become outdated in some aspects according to most Frenchwomen. Novelist George Sand was heartbroken in the 19th century to see her husband waste her large dowry and force her to wait for permission before using the money she produced from plays and books. A modern-day French woman informed her attorney that her spouse had recently sold her business and was now seeking a separation. How was she to react? "Weep, woman, weep," was the counsel given.[/sub]

[sub]Wide-ranging revisions to France's marriage laws suggested this week by Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet would erase some of madame's tears. Beaming Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte stated that the government's goal was "a veritable emancipation of women." A married woman will be able to create a bank account of her own and apply for a job without her husband's consent under the new bill. Legally speaking, she will be able to block his intentions to sell her house, decide where her kids can attend school, and, in the event of a divorce, keep her personal belongings. In actuality, many Frenchwomen already enjoy greater freedom than the legislation would suggest because to a silent blend of sophistication and strong personalities. After all, Madame de Pompadour dominated France from Louis XV's bedroom, and 75% of French blue-collar workers willingly give madam their weekly pay envelopes, returning a few francs in exchange for Gauloises and wine. French housewives are becoming more self-sufficient financially. Due to the rising popularity of time-saving devices in the home such as automatic washers and le sandwiches, approximately 30% of married women manage to work outside the home, which is about the same percentage as in the United States.[/sub]

[sub]France is also home to some of the worlds independently richest women such as L'Oréal heiress and Chairwomen Liliane Bettencourt. Additionally, French women have had the right to vote since 1945, and there are 2,800,000 more eligible women voters in the country than there are men. Government officials are also keenly aware that women make up a significant portion of Le Grand Charles's supporters, and that a presidential election is just six months away. Regardless, France is determined to herald its position as a progressive leader among nations in civil rights. |[/sub]

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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

VIVE L’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]

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Post self-deleted by Nippon-Nihon.

May-June, 1965, Ottawa

[sub]Newauroria — Afternoon[/sub]

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Headline: Jonathan MacAllister Sworn in as Canada's New Prime Minister in Historic Victory

Byline: May-June, 1965, Ottawa

Election Triumph: Jonathan MacAllister's journey to the highest office in the land began with a resounding electoral triumph. The CCF's progressive policies resonated with Canadians across the country. His commitment to social justice, healthcare reform, and bolstering the welfare system drew widespread support. The CCF secured a majority government with a solid mandate for change.

Swearing-In Ceremony: On a bright and hopeful June 1st morning, Jonathan MacAllister was sworn in as Canada's 14th Prime Minister in a grand ceremony on Parliament Hill. The event was attended by dignitaries, supporters, and Canadians eager to see the new leader take the reins. In his inaugural address, Prime Minister MacAllister pledged to "prioritize the well-being of every Canadian, regardless of their background." He emphasized the importance of accessible healthcare and education and committed to addressing income inequality and social justice. His words were met with thunderous applause from the crowd.

A Vision for the Future: Jonathan MacAllister's tenure as Prime Minister holds the promise of progressive change. His government aims to strengthen social programs, support affordable housing, and advance civil rights. Furthermore, he is dedicated to enhancing Canada's reputation on the international stage as a champion of peace and cooperation.

Quote from Prime Minister MacAllister: "As we embark on this journey together, let us remember that our nation's strength lies in our unity. We will face challenges, but I firmly believe that by working together, we can overcome them. The path ahead may not be easy, but with your support and our shared commitment, we can build a brighter and fairer future for all Canadians."

The swearing-in of Prime Minister Jonathan MacAllister is indeed a turning point in Canada's history, and the nation eagerly anticipates the changes and progress that will come under his leadership.

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A New Prime Minister

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| WORLDVISION SONG CONTEST ; 1965 |

[sub]20th of June, 1965[/sub]

[sub]La Ville de Reves, Zaire[/sub]

| Twelve years after the first contest, Worldvision Song Contest returns to the city where it all started. After twelve years, La Ville de Reves has become one of the biggest metropolis of Zaire. Giving opportunities to artists, it has become the mini-Hollywood of Africa, according to many. Opulent, big, and flashy the city once again hosts hundreds of artists and press from around the world as the contest takes off. The technological advancements in the contest continues, with the contest reaching much more nations at live time on the television and radio. In addition this year the Zairean stage offered two interval acts between performances, something that has happened for the first time in the history of the contest. One of the acts was last year winner MARIE BONSO, and the second act was the tribal dances. |

| WORLDVISION RESULTS 1965; |

[list]1st Place - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA with 256 Points!

2nd Place - WEST GERMANY with 156 Points!

3rd Place - SUDAN with 137 Points!

4th Place - ZAIRE with 134 Points!

5th Place - SOVIET UNION with 113 Points!

6th Place - SLOVENIA with 91 Points!

7th Place - SCANDINAVIA with 75 Points!

8th Place - FRANCE with 70 Points!

9th Place - CZECHOSLOVAKIA with 63 Points!

10th Place - YUGOSLAVIA with 54 Points!

11th Place - CANADA with 50 Points!

12th Place - CHINA with 43 Points!

13th Place - JAPAN with 37 Points!

14th Place - INDIA with 34 Points!

15th Place - ITALY with 32 Points!

16th Place - UNITED KINGDOM with 29 Points!

17th Place - KOREA with 28 Points!

18th Place - ROMANIA with 18 Points!

19th Place - MALAYSIA with 12 Points!

20th Place - EAST GERMANY with 7 Points!

21st Place - ISRAEL with 4 Points!

22nd Place - BENELUX with 3 Points!

23rd Place - UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC with 3 Points!

24th Place - MOROCCO with 1 Point!

25th Place - SOUTH AFRICA with 0 Points![/list]

| The winner of Worldvision Song Contest 1965 is JAMES BROWN with his song I GOT YOU ( I FEEL GOOD ) from UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. For the first time, the United States have won Worldvision Song Contest and will have the power to host the contest next year. Despite the glam, glitz and flashes of the moment, political moments did occur, moments that were captured on live television. The Soviet delegation left the concert hall the moment United States was announced as the winner, with the press trying to follow them. The Korean delegation in the concert hall were visibly shocked when it appeared that the Korean Jury gave China ( PRC ) 10 points, with the United States only getting 8 and France 12. Another big strike was when the Slovenian Jury announced their points, showcasing 0 points to any of the Eastern Bloc nations except 1 for Yugoslavia. Nonetheless, the contest beat its record on the amount of people it has reached, and Worldvision Song Contest is growingly becoming a major success amongst the general population of the world. |

[spoiler="Life is a party, and politics should never take over...I am proud for giving United States a chance to host the contest...I think it'll be a blast!" - Winner of Worldvision 1965, James Brown]

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Inauguration and Grand Opening of the Danube-Black Sea Canal

[sub]June 1965, Central Committee of The Communist Party of Romania, Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania[/sub]

| The Danube-Black Sea Canal, a monumental feat of engineering, has been under construction for the past 11 years. Stretching over 70 kilometers, this canal is a testament to the unwavering commitment and hard work of the Romanian people under the leadership of the Communist Party. The canal's construction was a formidable challenge, given the rugged terrain, marshes, and the Danube River's immense volume, but it is now a symbol of the indomitable spirit of the Romanian working class.

| The inauguration ceremony was held on a bright and sunny day in Constanța, attended by thousands of enthusiastic citizens who had gathered to witness this historic moment. The atmosphere was charged with a palpable sense of pride and anticipation as the people awaited the arrival of His Excellency, Comrade Constantin Rotaru, Genius of The Carpathians and the distinguished party members.

As His Excellency and his entourage arrived, the crowd erupted in a chorus of cheers and applause. The national anthem played, and the Romanian flag was raised high above the canal's entrance. Comrade Rotaru delivered a rousing speech, praising the collective efforts of the Romanian people in completing this monumental project.

[sub]| ...This canal, this monument to the collective might of our people, serves as a testament to the unwavering dedication and boundless potential of the Romanian working class. For eleven long years, our laborers toiled ceaselessly, conquering nature's obstacles, uniting as one, and demonstrating their resilience in the face of adversity. You, the backbone of our nation, have achieved what many believed to be insurmountable.

But this achievement is not just a symbol of our engineering prowess; it is a reflection of the strength of our independent and socialist Republic of Romania. We stand here today, united under the banner of communism, a movement that has brought progress, prosperity, and equality to our nation.

Our beloved Romania, a sovereign and independent nation, has embraced the principles of socialism, standing shoulder to shoulder with our comrades around the world. We have charted our own path, guided by our own vision, while staying true to the common cause of the international communist movement. Long Live the Socialist Republic of Romania, free, independent and sovereign! - His Excellency, Comrade Constantin Rotaru during his speech[/sub]

| The Danube-Black Sea Canal holds immense economic and strategic significance for the Socialist Republic of Romania. It will facilitate the transportation of goods and materials from the Danube River to the Black Sea, reducing the dependency on foreign ports and improving the country's self-sufficiency. Additionally, the canal has a substantial military importance, allowing the rapid movement of naval assets in times of national defense.

| The inauguration ceremony also featured cultural performances, showcasing the rich cultural heritage of Romania. Folk music, dance, and traditional costumes were proudly displayed, further reinforcing the nation's cultural identity.

| The Danube-Black Sea Canal will be remembered as a testament to the determination and resilience of the Romanian people, led by the Communist Party. It is expected to usher in a new era of economic development and strengthen Romania's position in the international arena. The canal will serve as a symbol of the nation's unity and progress under the visionary leadership of His Excellency, Comrade Constantin Rotaru, The Genius of The Carpathians.

[sub]| The grand inauguration and opening of the Danube-Black Sea Canal was an unqualified success, celebrated with enthusiasm by the people of Romania. This monumental achievement is a testament to the strength of the Romanian working class and the unwavering commitment of the Communist Party. The canal promises a brighter future for the Socialist Republic of Romania, and its significance cannot be overstated. |[/sub]

[sub]E scris pe Tricolor unire! Pe roșu steag liberator! Prin lupte sub a lor umbrire, spre Comunism urcăm în zbor![/sub]

[sub]Trăiască Partidul Comunist Român în frunte cu al său secretar general, tovarășul Constantin Rotaru![/sub]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Bayern Kahla

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Canovia

Cascadla

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Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

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Hatzburg

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La Granadinas

Ma-Li

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New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Nonador

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Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Reyzen

Rutannia

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sri-Lanka

Sudesam

Taiiwan

Teymour

The Black Star-

The Sun States

Turkiye 1St

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Victoria Harbor

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Hello everybody.

The Continued Malian Political Crisis Part 1: Abdou Diouf vs The Malian Government

A landmark court case was set to rock the Malian Federation to its core. The status of the so-called Malian Revolution itself.

The defendant: Abdou Diouf, former left-leaning member of the Party for the African Federation, and hand-picked compromise successor for both Amhed Touré and Leopold Senghor. Diouf was considered the highest-ranking former member of the government who hadn't been sentenced to execution, imprisonment, or released. This was because Diouf had tied down the Courts in numerous appeals, and legal battles. Finally, his case was brought before the Supreme Court of Mali under Judge Kéba Mbaye. The last hope for Diouf, Judge Mbaye was the highest-ranking member of the previous government still around; this was mostly due to his renowned legal mind and relative apoliticism.

A National Soapbox

The first opening salvo made was an attempt to trip Diouf at the starting line. His lawyers were questioned if they believed the court was legitimate as they had called the entire “Malian Revolution” an illegitimate overthrow of an elected government. If the defense acknowledged they did not recognize the legality of the Supreme Court they could be immediately held in contempt. Nonetheless, Diouf’s defense recognized the legitimacy of the Malian Supreme Court as Mbaye and his fellow justices had been selected before the illegal seizure of power.

The main argument laid out by Diouf and his team was that his imprisonment was unjust and that the new Malian government was an illegal occupation. It quickly became clear that this trial was merely an attempt by Diouf to use his platform to speak to the small Malian middle class and turn them against the actions of the previous years.

Diouf further claimed that the Stalinist-esque purges against those deemed too far left or right made the government no better than those they claimed they wished to keep out of power.

In the Halls of Government; Men Grow Nervous

Meanwhile, in the halls of Parliament, Malian politicians rail against allowing the government to continue the trial. These politicians argued allowing every radical a soapbox to lambast the government would do as much damage as letting them in the halls of Parliament.

This was echoed by the military who wanted to conduct a new series of purges to remove these final remnants from prison and have them executed. The military argued the increasing shift towards liberalism and proceduralism would only weaken Mali.

Prime Minister Gurima believed and reiterated the idea that proceduralism was necessary to provide national stability. If the populace became used to cycles of military intervention and political violence, society would degenerate. Guirma and Laminzana stood by the Supreme Court, believing it would make the right decision. Only time would tell if they would be correct, or if Mali would begin a new path towards military intervention.

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★ UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC ★

[list][list][list][pre]

"Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero.

For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to

take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life"

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_________________

[list][sub]MILITARY BUSINESS[/sub]

[sub][sup] JUL 1965 - ARAB REPUBLIC OF EGYPT[/sub][/sup]

[sub][pre]In recent month, the state of finances of the United Arab Republic has started to take a toll on the economy, with many of the oil revenues going towards the establishment of universal healthcare and education systems, building infrastructure in Libya, continuing Egypt's rapid industrialization system, supporting the Palestinian struggle, and funding other such movements across the Arab world, it had indeed left the U.A.R with a large deficit and a looming debt bubble that would prove fatal if not addressed.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]One area where the leadership of the United Arab Republic has looked at to ease finances has been the military, which has been eating up a large amount of the state budget towards the modernization of the Armed Forces and its expansion. While this pursuit has allowed for the creation of the most advanced military in the Middle East, it has came with consequences on the financial side of things, with a recent military agreement seeing cotton that could have secured much needed currency going towards paying off military expansion instead being heavily criticised by many within the civilian leadership in the Arab Socialist Union's Executive Committee, which has recently been establishing its grip in power. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]The military, not content to be sidelined in such manner, and seeking ways to ensure that its influence is held and maintained, with the tact approval of President Nasser, has now sought ways to diversify its economic holdings. While the military has had some levels of influence economically, namely being in charge of the military-industrial complex and operating areas of national interest such as the Suez Canal, it still hasn't had a significant impact.[/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Capitalizing on a 1962 decree which granted control of all desert land, approximately 94% of Egyptian land, to the Egyptian Armed Forces, the military has now looked towards a new avenue of business, that of real estate. Naturally being the largest real estate holder in the country has meant that the military has been in a premier position to translate this into actual wealth, which it has begun to do. One way is currently offering certain areas of lands for possible developers in joint private-public projects such as the in construction Nasr City, in which the military makes a healthy profit selling off its desert land in exchange for ownership in certain areas of the project and direct revenues from the sale. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]However this has not been the only area of interest. Created to deal with the wave of nationalizations, the Higher Council for Nationalized Enterprises has been managed and almost entirely ran by military figures, whose job was to distribute the nationalized capital and assign managers and manage them in general. Seeing a special opportunity in this, the current chairman, Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, has authorized transferring certain nationalized enterprises in the areas of consumer goods, textiles, and fertilizers, towards military control. To which they would then be completely under the operation of the military. [/pre][/sub]

[sub][pre]Most of this has of course, been kept under wraps. With the view of a military-ran economy possibly being harmful internationally. Nonetheless, many within Egypt and Libya have seen the developments which have blurred the lines between secret and public several times. Furthermore, the position of the military and its importance has come under question by some of the youth leadership, particularly of the left wing, but this has notably been absent from the civilian component. Which is however not surprising, the current General-Secretary Ali Sabri, current Prime Minister Khaled Muhyi al-Deen, both vice-presidents, and President Nasser were all military before assuming power. It seems that the military will only grow from here.[/pre][/sub]

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The Uncian Archapelago

Hello! You may be confused as to why there are two countries which are labeled "Uncia" Uncia The Uncian Archapelago .. we're the same person, I just forgot the password to it :/

Anyways, this country is also owned by the person who owns Lumpur

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Nyaung Yan

Hello I am a new member and I want to know how and whom to contact for role playing

Thanks

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Nprcc

Nyaung Yan wrote:Hello I am a new member and I want to know how and whom to contact for role playing

Thanks

same here

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Hello, I'm new.

I'm quite bad at Roleplay so I hope everyone can help, after all I only play NationStates to pass the time.

Development and Stability: The Rise of Frondizism

President Arturo Frondizi's economic policy has focused on two main things, stability and development. Since 1960, Frondizi has combined market economics, some aspects of developmentalism, state interventionist policies, support for state-owned enterprises, guaranteeing bank and currency stability and maintaining a social safety net. Neither a socialist nor a market capitalist, Frondizi was influenced by French Dirigisme and the German Marktwirtschaft, better known as 'Rhine Capitalism'. While he has been repeatedly accused of bending to rabid capitalists, foreign corporations and even communists, Frondizi has remained firm in his beliefs. Not only because he refuses to let meaningless labels discredit his achievements, but also because he feels this is the right thing for the nation.

In 1957, it was Arturo Frondizi (then President of the Senate) who orchestrated the coalition that impeached and ultimately brought down Peronism. In public, the President has repeatedly condemned Perón's policies, populism, attitude, and his attacks on freedom of expression, the free media and democratic institutions. But in private, Frondizi somewhat admired many of Perón's achievements. His focus on developing Argentina through a renewed focus on education, infrastructure and industrialization had pulled the nation away from the perceived backwardness and poverty of Latino American states. Despite his other flaws, even Frondizi recognized the good the late General had done for the country.

While Frondizi continues to denounce Peronism to this day, he has maintained, continued and even expanded upon many of the projects he set in motion. In many ways, the influence of Perón and his ideas still permeate Argentina even as individuals like Frondizi attempt to stamp it out. Under Frondizi's administration, the state has continued to support educational institutions, particularly universities, colleges and research laboratories. It has ensured that all Argentine citizens have access to free early education and affordable higher education. Literacy rates have continued to rise under Frondizi, with Argentina being one of the only countries in Latino America to have a literacy rate of over 95%. One of the side effects of Perón and Frondizi's efforts has been the emergence of a well-educated, motivated and creative workforce.

With development well underway, most of Frondizi's efforts have focused on stability. Controlling inflation, closely monitoring the banks and keeping a healthy amount of debt have been primary concerns for his Administration. The creation of the Consejo de Finanzas del Estado, an advisory council on economic and financial affairs has been the epicenter of Frondizi's efforts. Chaired by the President, the council has ex-bankers, economists, financial experts, and other technocrats whose role is to advice and refine the policies of the Administration. The Governor of the Banco Central de la Nación Argentina and the Minister of Finance are also ex-officio members.

In many ways, Frondizi's council of technocrats embodies how he envisions his own Administration. Experts, technocrats, bureaucrats and intellectuals managing a carefully curated system without being influenced by ideologues and career politicians. In truth, Frondizi has made use of ideologues in the past, particularly those who wish to form ideologies based on his own beliefs. The emergence of 'Frondizism' among some circles within his own party and the media have been quietly welcomed by Frondizi. In a way, he sees it as a positive development for the nation. Policies which advocate for the continued economic development of the nation and stability would ensure the long-term prosperity of Argentina for decades to come.

However, Frondizi is well-aware that not everyone will follow his ideas. On the right and left are individuals who condemn him at every turn, who publish hit pieces and alternative policies in efforts to tear away at his relative popularity. Outside of his own allies and party, Frondizi sees the right and left as threats to the country's very stability. On the right, they wish to tear down the social services, gift government-owned corporations to private companies, and deregulate the market, placing it at the mercy of "market forces." On the left, they seek to give workers overwhelming power and influence at the expense of not only business owners, but also the people, others even seek to destroy the Argentine state itself, replacing it with a dictatorship to further their own ends.

In 1964, Frondizi began the development of his own ideas outside economic policies. There was only so much a stable currency and bank system could do for the country. If someone could simply sign away these regulations and sweep away his decrees, then the nation would be thrown into chaos. The definition of 'stability' had to be expanded, going beyond the financial and into politics themselves. While Perón had purged many of Argentina's radicals (another one of his policies that Frondizi agreed with and even supported back in the day), some remained. Ultranationalists, fundamentalists, conservatives, Marxists, socialists and their ilk still operated in Argentina in some way or another. They were a persistent threat which needed to be fully eliminated or repressed if true order and stability was to be achieved.

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HARDLINERS YIELD TO MODEST REFORMS

25 July, 1965

| The first half of the 1960s in Czechoslovakia had been marked by chronic economic stagnation. The stubbornness of the former Kostra Government, and its successor the incumbent Novotný Government, to make major economic reforms in the face of inefficiencies in the nation's command economy had meant that while inflation had gone up, modernisation and productivity had not really followed suit. Consumer goods production had taken a back seat to producer goods production, and as a result domestically produced consumer goods were not only usually inferior in quality to their Western equivalents, they could also be more expensive due to their relative scarcity. Many high-quality items could only be bought with foreign currency that most Czechoslovaks could not access - as a result, the black market situation in the country was as bad as it had been since the Second World War, with many black market merchants stealing their wares from the public sector. A common saying that had emerged across the ČSR was "if you do not steal from the state, you are robbing your own family". |

| In the wake of both worsening economic stagnation, and the strong result for some of the ČSR's more liberal parties in May, President Novotný finally conceded a range of reforms in July. While the suite of changes was far less than many moderates had been calling for for years, this was the first major step away from Stalinism in the ČSR's history - to the anger of the moderates, the Party had formalised the continuation of Stalinism as the country's guiding ideology as recently as the XII. Party Congress in June 1963. |

| The President stopped short of outright denouncing Stalinism and announcing a full departure from his hardline style of governance, but the reforms were a fair departure in their own right. New committees were formed to review economic policy and the needs of the country's regions, and central planning was to be more limited under the 'New Economic Model' drafted by economist Ota Šik. The model had been fairly watered down by Novotný after a thorough reading - it originally emphasised technological and managerial improvements, the introduction of wage differentials, and a shift from price controls to allowing prices to respond to supply and demand. Novotný agreed with the former portion but not the latter two, urging the reinforcement of the Party's central control. Nevertheless he agreed to allow management personnel from the various industries a place at the decision-making table. The moderates of the National Front were somewhat pleased to see some reform occurring, though another of their requests - greater autonomy for the Slovak portion of the ČSR - was bluntly shut down by the Novotný Government under the same reasoning of preserving a high level of central control by the Party and "not letting things get too out of hand". |

| It remains to be seen to what degree these modest reforms will ease the economic woes Czechoslovakia faces, but with younger and more moderate National Front members continuing to gradually supplant older, and generally more hardline, members of the government, political tensions seem likely to continue bubbling for a while... |

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

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[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE

FRENCH BUREAUCRACY

MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR[/pre][/list]

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MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR: FRANCE TURNS ON THE TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN OIL TAP IN TOULON

[sub]VTH REPUBLIC | PARIS, JULY 1965[/sub][/list]

[sub]| HELM OF LIBERTÉ, MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR - | For the last two months, France has been operating the newly constructed Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline which pumps 20 million tons of oil from France's provinces in Algeria directly to the naval port city of Toulon where refineries await. Locked in Algeria's Sahara Desert is 2.5% of the world's proven reserves and more than 90 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 11% of the world's known supply.[/sub]

[sub]Algeria's Interior Minister and strongman, Ahmed Ben Bella has been overly anxious to get more development aid from the government in Paris and last week in Paris the old rivalries buried their bitter memories of the Algerian war and reached a tentative agreement. The deal gives Algeria the additional aid it needs for further economic and social development and Total Oil S.A. will be granted almost total over all oil and gas in Algeria. A five-year industrialization program for Algeria will also be financed by an additional $400 million from Paris, which will also oversee the construction of new steel and petrochemical complexes. Additionally, the government intends to establish a "cooperative association" that will control future oil and gas extraction under the companies Total Oil S.A. and Elf Aquitaine. Foreign oil and gas companies that are currently operating in Algeria, such as Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, and Jersey Standard, will be permitted to remain but will face significant tax increases. France's oil income is predicted to increase from $252 million in 1964 to as much as $480 million in 1965 based only on the tax changes alone.[/sub]

[sub]Additional incomes have yet to be determined from the new Trans-Mediterranean Pipeline which pumps 60 million tons of oil directly into the French and broader European market system. The increased Algerian oil supply will guarantee the French economy's needs as the country's consumption doubled to 463 million barrels between 1959 and 1964, fulfilling Charles de Gaulle's dream of independence from the Anglo-American oil firms. Additionally, France will come to further dominate the oil market in Europe with a constantly flowing tap at its southern coast. Most importantly, the deal represents a significant step toward Algeria's political and economic reintegration within France's area of influence. Additionally, it helps to bolster French prestige across Africa and thwart Russia's and Red China's economic aspirations on the continent within some countries that tend to lean left.[/sub]

[sub]For the French Navy, having a constant oil supply at one of its largest hubs in Toulon that also houses an immense refinement capacity is a massive strategic advantage. This now means that French oilers, tankers, and all other vessels of the French Navy can refuel whenever need be. The French Naval Ministry has already petitioned for the construction of new ships as part of a naval expansion program that would only have been possible with the completion of the new pipeline. |[/sub]

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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

VIVE L’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]

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[list]Indian Railways Continues Innovating, Nearly Two Decades After Its Consolidation

[list][pre]However, the price of democracy slows it dramatically..[/pre][/list]

[list][sup]July 1965[/sup][/list][/list]

| [sub]Initially constructed in 1837 by the British to connect Red Hills in Chennai to the Chintadripet bridge in Madras, the Madras Railway was the origin of an 89,000-kilometer system by 1965. After India declared Independence from the British Empire, the vast rail network on the Indian Subcontinent was renamed Indian Railways. Lines built to maximize the efficiency of London's looting of India have evolved into a modern logistics enterprise, the backbone of Indian industrialization and development. Under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Railways continued to electrify the system the British started with companies such as Chittaranjan Locomotive Works producing the country's first indigenous electric locomotives for the broad gauge market. These 1500 V DC WCM-5s became the workhorses of IR and a mainstay for passenger service. With the death of Prime Minister Nehru and the ascension of Lal Bahadur Shastri to the helmsmanship, the process of electrification and rail expansion continues unhampered. [/sub] |

| [sub]Building upon its successes and attempting to steer the eyes of the nation away from the misfortunes that befell the young-republic in 1962, the Indian National Congress greenlit the electrification of the suburban rail networks in New Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Calcutta. The Howrah–Gaya–Delhi Electrification Project, whose partial completion by 1966, will greatly improve the efficiency of rail transport along the Rajdahani Express Line. The most premium service Indian Railways has to offer, the Rajdahani Express consists of the finest train sets in the subcontinent, receiving the highest priority as the timely service transports to and fro India’s commuters.[/sub] |

| [sub]As for freight service, a vital component in the Indian National Congress’ vision for the transformation of the nation into a developing and industrializing power—progress is slower. Steam is currently the mainstay of freight service, something that the hardliners in the INC wish to keep going as long as possible. It takes five men to operate a steam locomotive, and switching to diesel or electric would cut thousands of jobs as they’d be obsolete. Positions like fireman would no longer be needed, if the INC had a say. Lucky for the workers, India is a democracy. The All India Railwaymen’s Federation, the IR’s largest trade union, vehemently opposes any efforts to limit the number of men on a crew. Thus, steam remains with Indian Railways purchasing 299 more WP class 4-6-2 “Pacific” locomotives from Chittaranjan Locomotive Works. The class, an engineering marvel in its own right regardless of it being steam, was designed for low-calorie, high-ash Indian coal—by Railway Board designers in the Republic. They will supplement the steam program along with its new diesel locomotives that the IR is slowly introducing as well. The INC hopes that one day, freight service will also be electrified, thus lowering overall costs, albeit at the cost of many jobs.[/sub] |

[list][sub]“Let us look to Japan, a nation that excels in inter-urban commuter service. Our friends in Tokyo can be a model for what can one day move the subcontinent efficiently and cost-effectively. I am confident that India can develop her indigenous rail network, rivalling that of other states. For a nation of over 500 million people, it is imperative that our system is able to support our growing population, lest we face economic collapse as a result of our inaction.”[/sub]

[sub]—Ram Subhag Singh, Head of the Ministry of Railways[/sub][/list]

| [sub]Other innovations, such as containerized intermodal shipping, are being implemented to maximize the efficiency of freight transportation. With the adoption of CIS, Indian Railways will be able to work in tandem with trucking services across the nation—allowing for the timely transfer of goods onto and off trains. This new development—will not replace boxcars that still have their use, specifically on locals. Rather-it is long distance services that will see the implementation of containerized intermodal shipping. Distribution hubs in or on the outskirts of India's metropolitan areas, will play a key role in CIS' ability to run smoothly, linking the IR with the rest of India's growing highway system. With its origins in the 1956 Highway Act, India began a 20 year program of doubling road density to 32 km per 100 km2. The synthesis of these two monumental projects, will insure that the nation can sustain its ever growing population and allow the Republic of India to thrive in the latter 20th Century.[/sub] |

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| THE BLACK MAMBA VS THE LEOPARD |

[sub]19th of July, 1965[/sub]

| The Wedding of the Decade, in the heart of Zaire, in the capital itself. Guests arrived from all over the country, the world even, with Belgians, Americans, and French amongst them. The MASENGO family and the NUMBI family were coming into an unofficial alliance, and a more official marriage of business over love. Lavish, opulent, big, that's the wedding. But this was more than just a wedding, it was a setup, a lavish arena for the BLACK MAMBA and the LEOPARD.

The church ceremony finished at 10:06 A.M, and the guests made their ways to the MASENGO GARDENS, where the wedding itself began at 11:11 A.M. The guests, all dressed in the latest designers, making their way to their seats, their tables. Food, lavishly prepared, ending up on the beautifully prepared tables. Drinks, flowing from fountains of alcohol. This was to be the start of the wedding everyone will remember, and without a doubt they will.

At 12:47 P.M, Zairean sensation and singer, MARIE BONSO, took the centre stage to perform her beautiful ballad for the newly weds, MONIQUE MASENGO and JEAN NUMBI. The two danced their first dance away, with applause erupting around them. Mrs Bonso continued her track list of hits, getting more guests onto the dancefloor. The newly weds, however, began to find some sort of attraction to one another. The mother of the groom, JULIE NUMBI, began to talk away with SYLVIE NOMBERI, and PHILIPE NUMBI drifted away towards the Belgian and French businessmen. At the alcohol fountain, LOUI LUBULU, the only guest attending from the LUBULU household. Observing all this, was DELPHINE MASENGO.

At 2:40 P.M, DELPHINE MASENGO got up from her chair, and made her way to the fountain where LOUI LUBULU stood. She would offer him a soft smile, as he kissed her hand. |

[list][ LOUI ]: "Apologises for my father, Mrs Masengo. He is truly feeling rather unwell."[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "Health always comes first. Besides, I'm sure you'll be able to tell him all about this wedding."[/list]

[list][ LOUI ]: "I'm sure I will."[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "Speaking of health, I'm sure I saw your wife in the bathroom, she said something about feeling unwell so I got the aids to take her out for some fresh air."[/list]

[list][ LOUI ]: "Oh! Thank you for letting me know, I'll go check on her."[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "Of course."[/list]

| Delphine would offer him a smile as he left off in a hurry, something that quickly caught the eye of JULIE NUMBI. Delphine would pour herself a drink, and take out a small flask that she quickly poured into the glass. She would make her way back to the table. She quickly noticed that JEAN and MONIQUE, are preoccupied with their respective guests. She would quickly swap out the drinks on the table, putting her new one in front of the groom's seat, and taking his instead. At that point, Julie Numbi would approach her. |

[list][ JULIE ]: "I noticed that the Lubulu boy has went off."[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "Yes, rather strange I say. I saw him approach Jean's seat, but Jean was out somewhere. So he left, he said."[/list]

[list][ JULIE ]: "Even his dad didn't make an effort to come, such a wedding and no---"[/list]

| Suddenly, Philipe Numbi would ring his champagne glass with a spoon. Everyone went quiet, the couple returned to their seats. |

[list][ PHILIPE ]: "Today is a big day for my beloved son, Jean! He is stepping into adulthood, into manhood, with big shoes. Marrying the beautiful daughter-in-law of mines, Monique. I am proud of you son, we all are. And of you, Monique. This is a magical day, and one that will go down in history for us all. To my son, Jean and his new wife, Monique! I say, raise a glass!"[/list]

| All the guests would stand up, raising their glasses up and sipping down their drinks. Delphine would sip her drink, as she closely watched JEAN sip his, finishing it quickly. Laughter and cheers erupted when suddenly JEAN began to choke. After a few more chokes, MONIQUE would turn towards him as he began to choke out blood. The laughter and cheers stopped, as the crowd began to go into shock. Suddenly, JEAN would collapse onto the table coughing on blood. JULIE and PHILIPE would rush towards their son, as MONIQUE run towards her mother, DELPHINE who would quickly embrace her. |

[list][ PHILIPE ]: "Someone get a medic! QUICK!"[/list]

[list][ JULIE ]: "He's not breathing! He's not breathing! My baby!"[/list]

| After a moment of convulsions, JEAN would stop breathing. Silence spread through the lavish room. As everyone surrounded the body, with JULIE and PHILIPE on the floor with him, DELPHINE would look up at them all. |

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "The Lubulu boy...he's not here..."[/list]

| PHILIPE would jump up and rush through the crowd. |

[list][ PHILIPE ]: "Block all the gates, all the exits! I want that boy in here!"[/list]

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "You heard him, find the boy!"[/list]

| The guards and aids would rush off. Delphine would grab Philipe by the hand, who would go into an embrace with tears streaming down his face. Delphine would embrace him back, smiling softly to herself before squeezing his hand. |

[list][ DELPHINE ]: "We will find out who did this, with all the might we have. I promise you that."[/list]

[spoiler="...provoke the leopard and he'll bite back, just make sure you're out of the way..." - Delphine Masengo]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

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Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

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Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

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Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

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Saudi Arabiyah

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Victoria Harbor

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Hello how can I participate in role play

1st Anniversary of the Yemeni revolution

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[list][sup]Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

5 August 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]On the occasion of the first anniversary of the revolution, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Lieutenant General Hassan al-Zaidi, delivered a speech in front of crowds of people and in the presence of members of the Revolutionary Command Council, in the center of the capital Sanaa. Lieutenant General al-Zaidi said:[/sup]

[list][sup]"The glorious August Revolution today reaches its first year. We are moving steadily on the path to achieving the goals of our revolution. We will build our republic. We will advance Yemen. Although we are surrounded by reactionism and colonialism, we will continue our sacred popular struggle for our freedom for a united Yemen. Long live the revolution, long live Yemen. Long live the people.”[/list][/sup]

[sup]The crowds chanted, repeating his last words while Al-Zaidi and the council members waved to them. Lieutenant General Hassan Al-Zaidi announced that the Yemeni factories had started and that more projects were now being planned in order to improve the Yemeni economy.[/sup]

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COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

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Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

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Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Paramountica, Arcanda, Amsterwald, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li

Post by Usa President suppressed by a moderator.

[list][list][list][pre]STATUS CIVITATIS VATICANAE

VATICAN CITY STATE

THE HOLY SEE[/pre][/list]

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SECRETARY OF STATE OF HIS HOLINESS: ROME CONTINUES ATTEMPTS AT THAWING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND THE EAST

[sub]VATICAN CITY | ROME, AUGUST MCMLXV[/sub][/list]

[sub]| SECRETARIUS STATUS SANCTITATIS SUAE - | Rinascita (Rebirth), the Italian Communist weekly, posed the question last week, "A new Vatican line for socialist countries? Or a new Communist line for the Vatican?" Pope Paul VI and his envoys are now busier than usual negotiating with the regimes in East Europe, seizing upon tiny but telling signs that Communist satellite states might agree to grant some spiritual breathing room to some of the 75 million Roman Catholics living behind the Iron Curtain.[/sub]

[sub]Red Theorist Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine in Hungary, made the following argument last month in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review): "We do not get very far with the old-type of atheism and anticlericalism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and Communism should work with "well-intentioned religious people" in order to achieve shared social goals. Poland's church enjoys significant operational freedom owing to the country's 96.5% Catholic population and its strong religious heritage, as well as Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski's astute diplomacy. However, Wyszynski reacts with ferocious sermons against Red harassment after the Polish government attempted to restrict religious instruction in schools and imposed high taxes on the church. Gomulka wants to talk diplomatically with the Vatican instead of Wyszynski, but the cardinal had guarantees from the Vatican that it would not talk to the Polish government without his approval. In addition, he requested that Pope Paul refrain from appointing a Pole among the 27 new cardinals, as Wyszynski thought both options to be more "reformist" in nature.[/sub]

[sub]Church officials are still trying to find a way to have a constructive dialogue with the Communists about church matters without forcing a settlement against the will of the most successful and astute political archbishop in Eastern Europe. Yugoslavia has plenty of hard-line Titoist in government and an old anticlerical tradition. Churches are empty and in poor repair; most of the dioceses are without bishops; priests are still arrested for anti-regime activities. But even here the church's future prospects are hopeful to say the least. Yugoslavia's government was not saved the embarrassment when Pope Paul VI placed the red hat on Zagreb's Archbishop Franjo Seper. Yugoslavia's clerical exiles in Rome are preparing Seper's quarters for the consistory, and last week there were rumors that Archbishop Seper would travel to Greece and meet with Yugoslav exiles. Seper would be called to the Curia; in return, there were hopes that the government might allow the Vatican to appoint new bishops and restore certain church properties. Whether or not these hopes ever come to fruition seems to depend on how much the Yugos will concede.[/sub]

[sub]Vatican authorities continue to see little progress in the nations where small Catholic minorities have been most severely persecuted, and relations between the Vatican and the Soviet Union are still frozen. Furthermore, the church understands that any compromises made are only calculated moves and do not actually lessen Marxist animosity toward faith. Therefore, Pope Paul's current goal is to achieve a modus non moriendi, or a way to avoid dying, rather than a modus vivendi. |[/sub][/list]

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[list][list][pre]Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto,

Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum. Amen.[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄

𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]

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Republica De Cuba-

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

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Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

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Nyaung Yan wrote:Hello how can I participate in role play

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https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=497355

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, Nyaung Yan

Night of Red Comrades

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[list][sup]Al-Hudaydah, Yemen Arab Republic

5 August 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]As night fell over the city of Al-Hudaydah, a young man walked through the streets until he reached a house. He looked around and then knocked on the door several regular ways. Another young man opened it for him and let him in quickly, while there was a meeting of a small group of young men. The last person present was Ali al-Ghanem, a young farmer from Sanaa, while those present were Othman al-Karim, a student at the College of Agriculture in Sanaa, Azzam al-Kalbi, a man in his thirties, an employee in Taiz Governorate, Aziz al-Ghali, a young doctor in Hospital of Al-Hudaydah, and the owner of the house is a man in his forties named Ibrahim Al-Amiri, who is a worker in the port of Al-Hudaydah.[/sup]

[list][sup]Al-Amiri, who is the leader of the group, said: Now we must start organizing our work. Demonstrations are not enough.

Al-Kalbi asked him: What should we do more?

Al-Karim quickly replied: Leaflets... We must distribute leaflets about our ideas so that more comrades will join us in our struggle.

Al-Amiri: Yes, the publications are a part, but I am talking about bigger actions to ensure that we exist and that the iron fist of security will not prevent us from continuing our struggle.

Then he continued: I will explain to you what we are doing and how we will teach security that we exist and continue the struggle.[/list][/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

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Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

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Post self-deleted by Nippon-Nihon.

Assassination of the Minister of Education

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[list][sup]Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

11 August 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]This morning, while leaving his home in Sanaa, the Minister of Education and member of the Revolutionary Command Council, Abdul Aziz al-Taghlibi, was assassinated by a gunman. He fled and the guards were unable to arrest him. The Internal Security Department is searching for the perpetrator of the crime to arresting.[/sup]

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COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li

[list]August 1965

[sub]The 1965 Federal Elections[/sub][/list]

[pre]D I E B U N D E S R E P U B L I K[/pre]

THE 1965 ELECTIONS

[sub]BONN, THE FEDERAL CAPITAL, New Provenance - MORNING[/sub]

| On 12 August 1965, a record high number of voters would troop to the polling stations across the Federal Republic of Germany in yet another exercise of the country's commitment to democracy and representative government. After a peaceful day of voting, ballots would be counted and, two days later, the Federal Returning Officer would announce by television from Bonn the results of the 1965 federal elections to a group of reporters and assembled media. In the Social Democratic Party headquarters, incumbent Chancellor Willy Brandt watched the results anxiously. Exit polls showed that the race had tightened between himself and the current poll leader, Erhard's CDU, but there was some anxiety about youth vote turnout. In Frankfurt, the Christian Democrats under former Economy Minister Ludwig Erhard were confident, but not ready to declare victory just yet. They had already engaged in private discussions with the center-right Democratic Party on the possibility of a coalition government. The FDP headquarters also buzzed with activity as current Vice Chancellor Erich Mende awaited what many believed would be a stronger result for the junior coalition partner, while the German Democratic Party under Reinhold Meier prepared for what they were hoping would be a strong result. To bated breath, the results would be announced on 14 August 1965. |

[list][pre]THE 1965 FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Christian Democratic Union - Ludwig Erhard - 14,189,982 votes (43.5%) - 175 seats (-7)

Social Democratic Party - Willy Brandt - 13,113,417 votes (40.2%) - 162 seats (-8)

Free Democratic Party - Erich Mende - 3,392,525 votes (10.4%) - 42 seats (+4)

German Democratic Party - Reinhold Meier - 1,924,606 votes (5.9%) - 23 seats (+15)[/pre][/list]

| After several moments, the newscasters having done the math confirmed it - Chancellor Willy Brandt would be likely retaining his coalition mandate to govern. The victory was delivered by what they said was high turnout and vote splitting between the centrist FDP and the center-right DPD. As expected, Erhard's center-right Christian Democratic Union received a plurality of votes, with 43.5% of the vote - they lost seven seats in the proportional representation Bundestag. The Social Democrats under Brandt came second, suffering the greatest loss with 8 seats down, and 40.2% of the vote; though the SPD had reason to be proud of this result since polls had shown they were expected to garner only 38-39% of the vote. The Free Democratic Party performed well, gaining a percentage point and earning 4 more seats in the Bundestag. This would allow the SPD-FDP coalition to retain a joint majority in the Bundestag, preventing Erhard from becoming Chancellor. The strongest performance of the night, arguably, remains the German Democratic Party. After bringing in an entirely new leadership team and campaign operation, and presenting themselves as the legitimate alternative to the CDU and the SPD, compared to the FDP who they painted as "allegiant to Mayor Willy", the party garnered 5.9% of the vote, gaining 15 seats to hold 23 in the Bundestag overall. |

| The results naturally favored the government of Brandt and Mende, who had prevented an electoral defeat against all odds. While the economy was still relatively slow in terms of growth, Brandt secured victory thanks to the support of younger voters who favored Brandt's policies that included expanded access to college and affordable housing for the youth to help them enter the housing market. Chancellor Brandt sat down with Mende of the FDP the very next day to confirm their intention to continue their coalition, despite some opposition voices rising within the FDP against what they saw as yet another tack to the left by the party. Federal President Konrad Adenauer, the elder and respected statesman who had left the chancellor's office to become the country's symbolic head of state, congratulated Brandt on his success, but he also reportedly met with Erhard two days later for a closed-door meeting. |

| While the new result is likely to encourage the SPD and FDP and affirm national support for their government, the result is still precarious nonetheless. The coalition would combined secure 204 of the 202 seats needed for a majority in the Federal Republic's unicameral legislature - a majority of two seats. This could spell for longer negotiations on big thorny issues between the SPD and the FDP like the budget, considering there was dissent among the FDP before on previous budgets under the Brandt government. The only difference is that then, the SPD and Mende had the margins that allowed them to pass their budgets even with the dissent. This would now be impossible, which could present complications for a government held by loose ideological threads, and could present an opportunity for the FDP to take Germany back to the center after four years under progressive governance. |

| Nonetheless, a new era for Germany begins! Chancellor Brandt would proclaim from the chancellor's palace the week after the elections his intention to propose a new economic reform bill that would seek to revitalize German industry and strengthen the country's manufacturing and export capacities immediately after the new government is sworn in. This will be the first test for the Chancellor's second term. |

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1736849

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Greater Adriatican State

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li, Mutawakkiliti

The Continued Malian Political Crisis 2: Abdou Diouf’s Sentence Upheld, Crisis Averted?

August 3, 1965

As tensions continued to run high within the Malian Parliament and Military, some have breathed a sigh of relief as the Supreme Court of Mali has announced it’s intention to uphold the sentencing of Abdou Diouf, and by extension the actions of 1963.

”Questionable but Not Illegal”

These words uttered by High Justice Kéba Mbaye. The judge ruled that while the united marching of police, military, trade unionists, and other representatives of Malian society, may have applied pressure upon the Malian government to resign, there were some important facts to consider:

1. Due to the fact the police joined the protests, including the Chief of Police, that meant protestors had the legal right to march upon the parliament building, even if the permit hadn’t been written. But since the Chief of Police HAD verbally agreed to back the protests in front of multiple witnesses who spoke during the previous trials, this constituted a verbal contract, thus the protest was legal.

2. Even if the Parliament at the time had been pressured by protests this did not make the vote inherently illegal. Nothing within the Malian constitution or legal system said citizens couldn’t pressure their government through protest. It only gives the government the ability to regulate protests, which the protest met proper requirements with the police. Parliament had also not issued any suppression order upon protests for so-called seditious speech, so the protests remained legal.

3. Frédéric Guirma, despite his removal from the National Trade Union Congress remained a member of the Party of the African Federation, so he could be chosen by MP’s to be the new leader of the government and later party.

4. The removal of 40 of the 100 members of parliament on charges of treason, while rushed is not illegal. All members of parliament were present and a simple majority was reached in each case.

By all metrics the Malian government, protestors, and successors acted by all technicality in accordance to the constitution and laid out law.

The Bloodthirsty Placated?

Despite a resounding success in the courts, it seemed for many this was a Pyrrhic victory.

The army grumbled on about Prime Minister Guirma and even their old General Sangoulé Lamizana having opposed their attempts to enforce order on Mali. Moussa Traoré a military young officer was the voice of these protestations. Traoré had risen to prominence among his fellow soldiers due to his vocal opposition to allowing white people to retain citizenship.

Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Mutawakkiliti

6/8/1965 | The United Republic of Tanzania

President Julius Nyerere holds National Address

Following the passing of the Voting Rights act earlier today, President Julius Nyerere has invited MLK to Tanzania to give a speech in the Capital. Earlier this year 4 months and a day ago MLK lead a march from Selma to Montgomery to give African Americans the right to vote, it ended with a conflict and the police as well as some state troopers ended up attacking the peaceful protestors with tear gas and beating many. It was a courageous attempt to show the power of the people against the racist laws being upheld by not just the State of Alabama but most of the american south, today despite the numerous deaths it has payed off with the public pressuring the government to enact the Voting rights act, an important step of the full liberation of african americans still being held down by systemic racism. Julius Nyerere applauded Dr. King in a national address and invited him to meet in the capital saying "The right to vote for all people regardless of sexual orientation, gender, or race is essential for the concept of democracy. Dr. King along with his fellow comrades have accomplished a huge step in the progress of eventual racial equality in the United States of America, and it would be my pleasure to have the company of an indiviual such as himself".

The CCM and Julius Nyerere also highlighted in the national address the desire to fund not only black liberation movements but all anti-imperialist and workers revolutions. This comes right before the coming election expected to be held later this year in September. The polls show the CCM stronger as ever with 97% in the presidential polls and 99% in the National Assembly. The opposition to the CCM suspect that they seek to turn the nation into a one party state but as of now there have been no credible sources to confirm the suspicions.

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COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Nevbrejnovitz

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Osivoii

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Pontianus

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Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

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Yemen imports cars from Slovenia

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[list][sup]Ljubljana, Slovenia

20 August 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]Businessman Rifaat al-Hazem traveled to Slovenia (Amsterwald) to contract to purchase buses from the Slovenian company Pionir. al-Hazem obtained a contract to supply 20 buses to the Yemeni Ministry of Transportation, which the government seeks to operate through the newly established Public Transport Authority. al-Hazem also signed an agency contract for Avsec and Larus to be agent of these companies in Yemen and the Middle East, where he announced his intention to open branches of his car sales agency in Egypt, Sudan, Iraq and Jordan.[/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Nippon-Nihon, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Tallahan, Maziya, Ma-Li

Where is Al-Zaidi?

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[list][sup]Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic

21 August 1965[/list][/sup]

[sup]As part of the revolution celebrations, it was announced that the celebration of the end of the training of the first group of Yemeni pilots to fly jet aircraft, with an air show of French Fouga Magister jet aircraft led by Yemeni pilots, was supposed to take place at the headquarters of the Air Force College in Sanaa (formerly the flight school), but it was moved. The celebrations arrived at Sanaa Airport. A temporary platform was created on the side of the airport for members of the Revolutionary Command Council, army officers, and dignitaries. Seats were also allocated to the right of the platform for citizens and journalists to attend the air show.[/sup]

[sup]While everyone came to the platform and was waiting for the presence of the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Lieutenant General Hassan al-Zaidi, who was late for the show, the audience wondered about the delay of al-Zaidi, but the Minister of Defense, Major General Abdullah al-Sallal, reassured them and informed them that Al-Zaidi was arriving, while Al-Sallal gave the signal for the start of the air show in the middle. The audience booed and wondered how the show could start without Al-Zaidi’s presence.[/sup]

[sup]The pilots moved, wearing their flight suits and helmets, led by the squadron commander in an orderly military walk, until they arrived in front of the platform and gave a military salute to their officers. Then they turned in the direction of the aircrafts lined up on the runway, then each of them run for his aircraft. The pilots ascended gracefully to aircrafts while the soldiers and technicians worked to prepare the aircrafts, the aircrafts took off one after the other regularly. Then they formed in the air in the shape of a triangle to fly over the airport and emit smoke in the colors of the Yemeni flag, red, white and black, in a consistent and good performance. They then began to separate for simple training, such as directing between enemy aircrafts, after completing the mock battle, they made a triangle formation again, after which the aircrafts began to landing, one after the other, while two pilots descended from the first aircraft and moved towards the platform, then they gave the military salute while taking off their helmets to show that one of the pilots was Lieutenant General Hassan Al-Zaidi. Here, the platform and the audience erupted in applause and cheers. Cheers for Al-Zaidi, the revolution and Yemen.[/sup]

[sup]Then Al-Zaidi put on his military uniform and came to the Platform to deliver a speech, the most important of which was:[/sup]

[list][sup]"Today, as a pilot, I accompanied one of the Yemeni pilots to fly a jet fighter to prove to these young pilots and even to all the nation’s youth, that I trust in your ability and I see that you are the pillar of this nation and its future."[/list][/sup]

[list][sup]"I Call the Yemeni youth to join hands and work hard to advance Yemen. The farmer, the worker, the student, and every young man in every field and every place in Yemen. You are our weapon against colonialism and reactionism, You are our path towards to unified Yemen."[/list][/sup]

[list][sup]"The Yemeni Air Force, and indeed the entire Yemeni army, needs further development in order to keep pace with the requirements of the current era. We are looking for advanced fighters, tanks, and a lot of equipment, and we are currently working on an expanded plan to develop the entire army."[/list][/sup]

[sup]All pilots who passed jet training were raised in rank and awarded the Revolution Medal.[/sup]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

—]

Adriatican Islands

Amsterwald

Arcanda

Brazil Toucan

Cascadla

Cheezaslovakia

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Mutawakkiliti

Neepal

Nevbrejnovitz

Newauroria

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Rio De La Plata Argentina

Rutannia

Saudi Arabiyah

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sudesam

Turkiye 1St

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Virnall

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Chairman Mao's Historic Visit to the Socialist Republic of Romania Strengthens Socialist Ties

[sub]September 1965, Central Committee of The Communist Party of Romania, Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania[/sub]

| As part of His Excellencies continuous approach to improving relations with all countries of the world regardless of their ideology, Romania welcomed Comrade Mao Zedong, the revered Chairman of the People's Republic of China and a delegation of Chinese Communist Party members to Bucharest with open arms, eager to engage in talks with His Excellency, General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, President of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Supreme Commander of the People's Army, beloved and esteemed son of all Romanian people, Comrade Constantin Rotaru, the Genius of the Carpathians

| The arrival of Chairman Mao and his delegation sent waves of anticipation throughout the Romanian capital, "the little Paris". Streets were lined with jubilant crowds, chanting slogans of Communist solidarity and waving both Chinese and Romanian flags. Portraits of the two leaders were held high, their presence evoking a sense of Socialist unity and warmth.

| The talks between Comrade Mao and His Excellency were held in an atmosphere of mutual respect and friendship, with Comrade Rotaru expressing his admiration for the Chinese Communist approach in a speech marking the occasion of. Their discussions revolved around strengthening diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties between China and Romania. The potential for significant trade relations loomed large on the horizon, promising to bolster the collective might of the socialist world.

[sub]|...Chairman Mao, your presence in the Socialist Republic of Romania is a momentous occasion that fills our hearts with pride and joy. We are deeply honored to be the first Eastern Bloc nation, apart from the Soviet Union, to receive the visit of such a revered figure in the global socialist movement.

Your visionary leadership and unwavering commitment to the cause of communism have inspired us all. The Chinese Communist Party, under your guidance, has achieved remarkable successes in building a truly socialist society. Your determination and resilience have shown the world the power of unity, dedication, and collective effort.

Chairman Mao, we hold in great admiration the tremendous strides made by the People's Republic of China in transforming a once war-torn nation into a prosperous and industrious socialist state. Your principles of self-reliance, class struggle, and proletarian solidarity have resonated deeply with us, and we take these lessons to heart as we work tirelessly to build a brighter future for our beloved Romania since our National-Communist ideology is greatly influenced by the doctrine of Maoism, as well as our Cultural revolution which is also greatly influenced by your policies in China. Your visit today marks a moment of historic significance, symbolizing the strong future bonds of friendship and cooperation between our nations. Let us use this opportunity to forge a path of collaboration, mutual understanding, and shared goals. Together, we will work toward a world where the ideals of communism and socialism can flourish, where the suffering of the oppressed can be alleviated, and where the working class can achieve the dignity and prosperity they so rightfully deserve - His Excellency, Comrade Constantin Rotaru during his speech[/sub]

| After the official proceedings, Comrade Mao and Comrade Rotaru took time to embark on a tour of Bucharest. Their joint presence electrified the city, drawing throngs of well-wishers and curious onlookers. As they walked the historic streets, the crowds chanted their names, Romanian folk singers and dancers played for both esteemed comrades dressed in their traditional attire, their faces beaming with admiration and respect.

[sub]| The diplomatic visit of Chairman Mao left an indelible mark on the hearts of the people of China and Romania, as well as on the history of the global socialist movement. The unity, friendship, and commitment to a brighter future for their nations and the world were solidified in Bucharest. The hope of a new era of cooperation and prosperity was enshrined, promising a future filled with promise and shared dreams for the people of both great nations. |[/sub]

[sub]E scris pe Tricolor unire! Pe roșu steag liberator! Prin lupte sub a lor umbrire, spre Comunism urcăm în zbor![/sub]

[sub]Trăiască Partidul Comunist Român în frunte cu al său secretar general, tovarășul Constantin Rotaru![/sub]

[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]

COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY

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Ababemba

Adriatican Islands

Alzarikstan

Amsterwald

Anglo Channel

Arcanda

Bayern Kahla

Bescania

Brazil Toucan

Canovia

Cascadla

Central Arstotzka

Connomia

East Germany Ddr

Great Britain Gb

Greater Kurdistane

Hashemite Kingdoms

Hatzburg

Honghai

Israelli

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

La Granadinas

Ma-Li

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

Moroavia

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nippon-Nihon

Nonador

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Paseo

Peking Zhongguo

Pontianus

Provenancia

Ranponian

Reyzen

Rutannia

Socialist Democratic Republic Romania

Spainard

Sri-Lanka

Sudesam

Taiiwan

Teymour

The Black Star-

The Sun States

Turkiye 1St

Ubertica

Vancouver Straits

Victoria Harbor

Vietnam Sv

Virnall

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Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.