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[list][pre]March, 1946 |Parliament House, Khartoum Province, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of The Sudan[/pre]
FACTIONS OF THE FIRST PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS[/list]
The recent decade has proven complex and turbulent to the political and social climate of the world, and within Sudan particularly. Though that very promise of democracy was made by parliament some 11 years ago with the establishment of the first political parties in Sudan, London had continued to postpone the beginning of the election process, pushing it further and further down the road until the Empire and the colony had seen themselves stuck in a state of war with the forces of Volkist Germany and the Axis powers.
The war itself has fallen on the Sudanese front, as it was the Allies who threw the first punch against Italian positions in East Africa and Libya, plunging thousands of Sudanese and Allied troops from the bowls of Sudan into Ethiopia. Now, however, global peace has been established, with celebrations ringing across the world and Sudan, in anticipation of the post-war future. Such promises made to the future included the holding of democratic elections for the Sudanese Parliament, established five years ago.
The purpose of the election was to get an official representation of the Sudanese people in a government of their own in the colonial capital, Khartoum. Though this newly democratically elected government would not operate on its own, acting within limited power under the rule and oversight of London and the British settler minority in control, this parliament would still act in full representation of the ideological, political, and social diversity of the Sudanese people.
With the elections now being confirmed since the end of the war in September of 1945, political movements and institutions across the colony would begin their election campaigns across the country. Preparations for the elections in anticipation of some high voter turnout of the first democratic process would be made, as established by the colonial government. Polling centers would be established in several Sudanese cities, establishing themselves in the train stations, schools, supermarkets, and administrative offices of the cities. The Sudanese colony had conditioned the people into understanding the democratic process in the past ten years, educating them on their duties as a citizen, and informing them on the benefits of liberty and democracy that many corners of the Empire enjoy.
Other preparations were also included to the necessary steps the colonial government had to take to insure the peaceful transfer of power, it is thus decided that though the Parliament has not recognized the legitimacy of political parties, the political and ideological factions that manage to win a majority in parliament would therefore be in charge to choose a Chief Minister, the new highest ranking member of parliament within the exception of the Speaker of Parliament, that must be of Anglo citizenship. The roles of the Chief Minister had not been clear other than being given the task to establish a coalition of factions that shall insure the stability of parliament and its competency in its day-to-day law-making decisions as the democratically elected legislature of the colony.
Many prominent community members, such as tribal chiefs, the educated rich elites, merchants, businessmen, those who have spent years in political and administration school institutions across Sudan and the world from the Cape to London, and even already established parliamentarians who had served under the British Legislative Administration of Colonial Sudan since 1930 and the first Sudanese Parliament since 1940, have all made their bids for the elected seats in parliament that represent their communities within the Sudanese provinces. Those running to become representatives have already chosen the ideologies and political parties that they had aligned with, those educated in the Arab world and held Arab and Islamic heritage aligned with the Unionist and Islamist factions, meanwhile some of the Sudanese workers, business owners, and urbanites in the North and South have aligned with the Nationalist and Liberal factions, and for those of European ancestry settled in Sudan and natives who hold loyalty or dealings with the British Empire had aligned themselves with the Commonwealth Faction.
[list]Ideologies Of The Political Factions:
Unionist — Lead by the 46-year-old Ismail Al-Azhari, the Unionists are a center-right Faction based on the remnants of the former pro-Egyptian White Banner League, which carry the ideologies of Egyptian nationalism, social conservatism, and Nile Valley unity as many members in the Party pledge allegiance to Egypt and her monarch, seeking the reunification of Sudan with Egypt under the green banner of the crescent and the three stars as envisioned in the 1925 Khartoum revolt. Though it is important to note that the recent Sudanization effort had hindered Unionist attempts in expanding their base, with some in the party already calling on abandoning a complete union with Egypt and settling for a pro-Egyptian Sudanese state.
Nationalist — Under the command of the now 38-year-old Mohamed Ahmed Mahgoub, the Nationalists Workers Confluence Party (NWCP) embraces the recently established ideologies of Sudanese nationalism, African supremacy, Sudanization, Sudanese independence, self-determination, and finally centralized rule. The party has been gaining traction in recent years but with the formation of the Liberal Party and the damages that nationalism has proven to inflict on nations such as seen in Volkist Germany, the NWCP has been facing setbacks in the goal of Sudanese independence.
Umma Islamist — With Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi at its helm, the Umma Party’s ideology was based on Islamism primarily, Sudanese nationalism, and Islamic democracy. The party, despite its history being linked to the violent Islamist insurgency of Mahdist Sudan against the British and coalition forces in the last century, wishes to rather peacefully cooperate towards the establishment of a free Sudanese state while also negotiating for the granting of increased rights, political and economic powers to the Sudanese people.
Liberals — Established by Benjamin Lwoki and four other prominent Southern members, the Liberal faction embodies the ideologies of Liberalism, Sudanese liberation, Southern autonomy, federalism, secularism, African nationalism, and Anti-Imperialism. The party had covered some great ground in recent years since it was established in Malakal, the Liberals have even found support amongst working urbanites and elites who sought a more moderate path towards Sudanese independence that didn’t include Islamist, “far-right” nationalism and pro-Egyptian sentiment.
Commonwealth — some say the faction is controlled by the speaker of Parliament Loader Maffey himself, some say the Crown from London, but it is evident that the Commonwealth is a coalition of factions made up of British and foreign settlers, as well as native Sudanese merchants and elites who owe their success, and business to the Empire, therefore showing their dedication towards maintaining Sudan a part of the Commonwealth. The faction mainly aligns its ideology with that of the Conservative party of the mother country, embracing the center-right elements of conservatism, economic liberalism, and Imperial British Unionism.
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With the five parties now set on the race toward colonial rule, the Sudanese people are now preparing to cast their votes in many polling stations across the colony. Though the majority of those voting booths had been located in the urban centers, provoking outrage from the rural communities, some of which had still braved the journey nevertheless. Another group that had felt betrayed by the new democratic system was women, who had protested the lack of women's representation and even the lack of laws towards the protection of women in the colony, only to be ignored by the colonial government nevertheless that sought the participation of the colonyÂ’s young male population in the democratic process.
The march towards a free nation has begun, and the ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice in Sudan had now been born, for ten years Sudan has demanded to establish a government that is representing the ethnic, religious, and racial diversity of Sudan, a legislature that shall listen to the concerns of the people of the state shall soon be established as the results of the vote will soon be announced once its is accumulated from all over the vast colony and sent to Khartoum.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
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16,April,1946
MAZIYAN REPUBLIC PARTY DISSOLVED
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Late in the afternoon on the 16th of April,former prime minister and head of the Maziyan Republic Party,Juaidi Asyrafil made a speech that he is dissolving the Maziyan Republic Party.
[B]"I've initially formed the Maziyan Republic Party to represent the Crowned Republic and oppose the communist party.However with recent revelations I,with a heavy heart will announce that the Maziyan Republic Party is no more.I believe that the communist party have truly seized their opportunity to represent the legitimate government of Maziya meanwhile we the Maziyan Republic Party made our nation suffer with our poor decisions and I believe the last straw for the people to loose all faith in the Crowned Republic Of Maziya government which would be turned into the People's Republic Of Maziya government,was our surrender to the Japanese.It does not help that the second biggest ethnic group in our nation are the Chinese who suffered the most under the Japanese occupation and with the communist party already leading the way for a Chinese led Maziya.I expect the People's Republic Of Maziya to last for decades to come."[/B]
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[B]"Saya pada mulanya telah menubuhkan Parti Republik Maziyan untuk mewakili Republik Mahkota dan menentang parti komunis. Namun dengan pendedahan baru-baru ini saya, dengan berat hati akan mengumumkan bahawa Parti Republik Maziyan sudah tiada. Saya percaya bahawa komunis parti telah benar-benar merebut peluang mereka untuk mewakili kerajaan Maziya yang sah sementara itu kami Parti Republik Maziyan membuat negara kami menderita dengan keputusan kami yang tidak baik dan saya percaya pilihan terakhir bagi rakyat untuk kehilangan kepercayaan terhadap kerajaan Republik Maziya yang dimahkotai yang akan bertukar menjadi kerajaan Republik Rakyat Maziya, adalah penyerahan kita kepada Jepun. Tidak membantu bahawa kumpulan etnik kedua terbesar di negara kita adalah orang Cina yang paling menderita di bawah pendudukan Jepun dan dengan parti komunis sudah memimpin jalan untuk seorang Cina mengetuai Maziya. Saya menjangkakan Republik Rakyat Maziya akan bertahan selama beberapa dekad akan datang."[/B]
-Juaidi Asyrafil,former prime minister of Maziya.
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[list]SHOWA 21 | APRIL 1946[/list]
[list][list]自由選挙!
[pre]FREE ELECTION![/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]D E M O C R A C Y F O R A L L[/pre]
TOKYO, S.C.A.P. HEADQUARTERS — AFTERNOON
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| In a FREE JAPAN there will be free elections and for the Japanese this election was “historic”. About 2,781 candidates, representing 257 parties, wrangled for 466 parliamentary seats. They ranged from KENSHIN IZUMI of the Buddhist priesthood to Mrs. SHIDZUE YAMAGUCHI, a typist sponsored by Christian leader TOYOHIKO KAGAWA. Some communists invaded the residence of PRIME MINISTER BARON KIJURO SHIDEHARA. One radical called the Emperor “that guy”, this is a bit of the new freedom whose legality was being discussed by the higher courts. On election day, three-fourths of the registered electorate (36 million) turned out to vote. Women voted for the first time. As some Americans from the U.S. Military Government toured the polls, men and women bowed politely. Sitting at their abaci, with hot green tea and cold rice balls, the election officials counted the votes. It was no surprise when conservatives—Liberals, progressives and independents, all in favor of free enterprise and the Emperor system — won the elections (about 300 seats). Unexpected was the strength of the Social Democrats, defenders of evolutionary socialism (about 90 seats). The communists, despite their militancy and rigid organization, won only five seats. Most revolutionary was the election of 38 women, including Ms. SHIDZUE KATO, the former Baroness Ishimoto. At least 13 ballots were marked “More Food”, one was cast for HENRY WALLACE, and a dozen bore the write-in “General MacArthur”. |
[list][pre]THE GREAT EXPERIMENT[/pre][/list]
| In his headquarters in Tokyo, GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR watched his wards at work. “Satisfactory,” was his pronouncement on the election. The poll was an amazing experiment. MacArthur’s methods have been remarkably successful in demilitarizing Japan and in establishing the outward forms of democracy. If the Japanese still lack inward democratic light, this can be attributed to centuries of Japanese history rather than MacArthur’s policies. Only Japanese institutions and attitudes that were impenetrable to Western thought remained untouched. During the election, progressive politicians called for the return of Korea and Manchuria to Japan. The Liberal leader, elderly ICHIRO HATOYAMA, was asked by American newsmen about his book, FACE OF THE EARTH, written in 1938 and studded with praise of Volkism, fascism and Japanese expansion in China. When asked if he considers himself a suitable candidate for the position, he said: |
[list]| ICHIRO HATOYAMA, [sub]LIBERAL LEADER[/sub] | I was wrong . . . I have no confidence.”[/list]
[list][list]間違えました、自信がありません。[/list][/list]
| But ICHIRO HATOYAMA regained his confidence. As chief of JapanÂ’s biggest party, he pressed for a new Government, with himself as Prime Minister. |
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CULTURAL EXHIBITION AT THE JAKOPIČ PAVILION MARKS ONE YEAR OF SLOVENE INDEPENDENCE
[list][sup]JURJEVOÂ’S NEW MEANING
SLOVENIA—SPRING 1946[/sup][/list]
On Jurjevo—a day now with immense added importance for Slovenes, being that on which Slovene independence was declared in 1945—a national cultural organized by the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts was held at LjubljanaÂ’s Jakopičev paviljon (“Jakopič Pavilion”) in 1946. The first purpose-built art gallery in Slovenia, the Pavilion was an elegant, tree-shaded house on a green and had been named for the late Rihard Jakopič, a Slovene pioneer of impressionist painting who died in 1943. The exhibition naturally took place there; organized by Izidor Cankar, it featured works by esteemed painters Božidar Jakac, Ivana Kobilca, Jožef Tominc and Rihard Jakopič; original manuscripts of poets France Prešeren, Josip Murn and Josip Stritar; original glass photographs by Janez Avguštin Puhar; the military regalia of Rudolf Maister; showings of Janko RavnikÂ’s In the Kingdom of the Goldhorn, the first Slovene feature film; Paleolithic artifacts excavated by Srečko Brodar at Potok Cave, including dozens of arrowheads and the worldÂ’s oldest known sewing needles; Svitoslav PeruzziÂ’s sculpture of Slovene biologist and literary historian Pavel Grošelj; original manuscripts used to devise the Sokhotski-Plemelj theorem; and bottomless rows and displays of other artifacts, artworks, photographs chronicling the long and dazzlingly rich cultural heritage of the newborn nation crowned by appearances by eminent figures in Slovene culture.
The exhibition was, in a way, an introduction to the world. Ambassadors in Ljubljana were invited to attend, and the diplomatic community were celebrated at the occasion with lengthy toasts and white-clothed tables laden with food and drink. Traditional dishes such as potica and prekmurska gibanica were served, and the most precious and exalted Slovene wines were uncorked and poured. The lush gardens outside, flourishing with spring, were open to all, and the air was thick with the scent of roses and linden trees. Literary historian and philologist France Kidrič, President of the Academy, thanked the international community for attending the event and supporting the fledgeling nation but focused on his homeland, praising the young republic and its “mighty and bold dreams,” dreams which could be achieved through “unity, perseverance and industry.” He also noted that the “noble memory” of the first Slovene national poet, France Prešeren, should inspire all to work towards a future in which the young nationÂ’s “greatness and glory” would be sung of by poets yet unborn. The event was, in truth, both a cultural coming-of-age party and a statement of national pride.
The founding mothers and fathers of the new Slovenian state were aware of the great responsibility they bore in reestablishing and affirming the Slovene identity. The outright Slovenification of areas formerly ruled by great powers, the rebuilding of destroyed testaments to the Slovenian nation and the revival of old traditions in modern forms were all desperately needed for the soundness of the new Republic. Things like the Jurjevo cultural exhibition were not only responsibilities, though; they were breaths of fresh air for a people whose culture had been eclipsed by Germans, Italians, and Serbs for centuries. The efforts of the Slovene state-builders were not without their successes, either. A shocking surge in the birth rate was becoming clear as 1946 wore on; over 100,000 children were set to be born in Slovenia in 1946, heaving the population of five million upward. An even greater reward still was the named being afforded to the children: long-archaic names like Valjhun, Hotimir and Iztok for boys and Božidara, Vesna and Višnja for girls saw marked upticks in use, as did a wide array of other Slavic and pre-Christian names. The cultural renaissance was bearing its first fruit.
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[list]22 April 1946
[sub]Merger of KPD and SPD[/sub][/list]
[list][pre]S O C I A L I S T⠀ U N I T Y[/pre][/list]
ADMIRALSPALAST
[sub]BERLIN, SOVIET SECTOR, East Germany Ddr — AFTERNOON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_o9HkYCtQs[/sub]
| Already before April 1946, the merger of the Communist Party (KPD) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) was high on the agenda. Under pressure from the Soviet occupation forces and the KPD leadership, and with the support of some leading Social Democrats, working groups and committees had been formed at all levels of both parties, whose declared aim was to create a union. Many Social Democrats unwilling to unite were arrested in early 1946 in all areas of the Soviet occupation zone. The ground was further prepared when on 1 March 1946, a chaotic conference of SPD party officials, convened on the initiative of the Communist and SPD leaderships, was held in the Admiralspalast, Berlin. The meeting voted to arrange a vote of SPD party members, both in the Soviet occupation zone and across Berlin, on the proposed merger with the Communist Party. On March 14, 1946 the Central Committee of the SPD published a call for a merger of the SPD and KPD. A ballot was scheduled to take place of SPD members in Berlin on 31 March 1946. In the Soviet sector of Berlin, however, Soviet soldiers sealed the ballot boxes less than thirty minutes after the polls had opened, and dispersed the queues of those waiting to vote. In West Berlin more than 70% of the SPD members took part in the vote. In the western sector, invited to vote on an immediate merger ("sofortige Verschmelzung") with the Communists, 82% rejected the proposal. However, on a second proposal for a "working alliance" ("Aktionsbündnis") with the Communists, 62% of those voting did so in support of the motion. |
| On 21/22 April 1946 another meeting took place in Soviet Berlin at the Admiralspalast. This was the Unification congress, and it was attended by delegates from the SPD and KPD for the entire Soviet Occupation Zone. There were over 1,000 party members in attendance of whom 47% came from the KPD and 53% from the SPD. 230 of the delegates actually came from the western occupation zones, however some 103 SPD delegates from the western zones had no democratic mandate to support merger, because of an anti-merger meeting in the western sector of Berlin at Zehlendorf earlier in the month, at which delegates rejected unification between the two parties. Still, everything was set at least on paper, and the name of the new party had already been agreed: the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. |
[sub]| The opening remarks were given by the leaders of the respective delegations. |[/sub]
[list]| [sub]OTTO GROTEWOHL, SPD[/sub] | “30 years of Brother war no come to an end. On your 70th birthday, Wilhelm Pieck, we shock each others hands for hundreds of thousands of Social Democrats and Communists. I wished for the day that our hands should never more be separated. That day has now come. He who has an eye for history, sees today millions of socialists standing behind us. A gasp of relief is making the rounds, a nightmare finally ends and the eyes of so many light up. An old dream has become a reality: the U n i t y of the German working class.” (turbulent applause)
| [sub]WILHELM PIECK, KPD[/sub] | “Yes, dear Otto Grotewohl, that is how it is. The both of us are obligated to justify before the masses the trust which the they have placed in the Socialist Unity Party. It is a great task which stands before us. [...] It is a great task, to create a new anti-fascist democratic Germany, to rescue our people and to secure peace and democracy. Let us approach this work with courage! We will make it. We will make our Socialist Unity Party a party of millions of German workers, in order to destroy their enemies and to accomplish the great goal which we have set ourselves: S o c i a l i s m. (applause) Otto Grotewohl! That is the meaning of our handshake, that is our solemn pledge, that is our deed! (thunderous applause)[/list]
| The congress began with the formation and election of bureaucratic bodies required for the duration of the negotiations, namely the Presidium of the Congress and several committees: credentials, statutes, revisions, and elections. Then, the congress entered into full swing. Members gave arguments, mostly in favor of unification, and couriers came and went, delivering remarks from regional congresses and workers committees. Official negotiations on the first day ended at 2 pm, and recommenced the next day at 10 am. As the discussions drew to a close, two documents of significance were adopted: the Principles and Goals, as well as the party statute. Both would concretize the merger and serve as a basis for another congress in the near future. |
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1760524
[sub]| The last word, at 3 PM on April 22, went to none other than Walter Ulbricht. |[/sub]
[list]| [sub]WALTER ULBRICHT, KPD[/sub] | “The working class in all parts of our homeland have awaited the resolutions of this great unity congress with bated breath. For all those who witnessed firsthand the split of the workers movement during the first world war, today is indeed a special and joyous days. At the end of the second world war we have finally accomplished the unification of the two great streams of the German workers movement in the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In this same land, where the split in the workers movement first occurred, begins now, after the downfall of the Heidler regime, the unification of the working class. In Germany, the home of the founders of scientific socialism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the lessons of our champions is now made the content of the struggle and the work of the great Socialist Unity Party." (lively applause)
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A milestone of world-historic significance has been reached with the resolution on the unification of the KPD and SPD. As of today, there are no more Social Democrats and no more Communists; now there are only S o c i a l i s t s! From Berlin, the capital of our fatherland, it can be seen by the whole German people; the banner of the Socialist Unity Party, the banner of the unity of the German working class, the banner of the fight for the unity of all democratic forces, the banner of the unity of Germany! (ecstatic applause) Our strength lies with our unity, our strength lies with our programme, which exclusively serves the welfare of the people.
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Our strength lies in the mighty organization that is capable of leading our people towards a better future. Our strength lies in our resolute will to secure the unity of Germany. Comrades! Let us work in the spirit of the programme, which we have decided in these two days. Let us invest all our energy, so that the old saying will also come true: With us the people, with us victory! (ecstatic standing ovation, followed by a singing of Brothers, to the Sun, to Freedom)"[/list]
| By all accounts a momentous occasion, it wasn't quite a revolutionary exercise. The atmosphere approximated that of, perhaps, the Smolny Institute during the Russian revolution of 1917, but this Congress lacked the organic dynamism of the Bolsheviki and the Soviets of Workers', Peasants', and Soldiers' Deputies in those fiery days. The resolutions and speeches already betrayed formulae. Still, it would be wrong to say people weren't enthusiastic. The creation of the SED was a feat, and there was hope that Social Democrats and Communists working side-by-side would lead to a cross pollination of the best the workers movement had to offer. The coming stalinization of east German society was not yet obvious. |[/list]
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list][list][pre]HASHIMI ARABIA
الهاشمي العربية
أشدو أن لا إله إلا الله ، وشدو أنا محمدان رسول الله[/pre][/list]
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PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS REVEALS INCREASED ARAB NATIONALIST COALITION VICTORY; NEW DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER APPOINTED BY AS-SAID; ARABIA BEGINS SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS INTO NEW SLOVENIAN COMPANIES
[sub]KING FAISAL II ADMINISTRATION | BAGHDAD, APRIL 1946[/sub][/list]
[sub]| The conclusion of the first post-WW2 parliamentary elections were not much of a shocker for the State Administrative Council and the Supreme Shura Council. The increase in parliamentary seats of the ruling National Arab State of Law Coalition (ائتلاف دولة القانون العربي الوطني) at the expense of the Communist Party of Arabia (الحزب الشيوعي العربي) and the Civil Democratic Alliance of Arabia (التحالف المدني الديمقراطي للجزيرة العربية). The election success of the NASLC (Arab Nationalists) was primarily determined to be impacted by the energy and economic policy prioritization of Prime Minister as-Said and substantial foreign direct investments and companies entering Arabia, prompting the growth of Arab industries and steady diminishing of product prices due to increased competition and innovation. The steady influx of investments and considerable revenue from yearly increases in oil production has further stabilized the Arabian economy, especially along the Arabian Sea and Arabian Gulf coastlines, and increased the public acceptance of continual Hashemite monarchical institutions. The certification of the parliamentary election results via official signatures from provincial electoral magistrates within the State Administrative Council and final approval with the signature of King Faisal II, Prime Minister as-Said solidified four additional years of governance until the next parliamentary elections in 1950. With the increased control over the Arabian parliament, Prime Minister as-Said appointed Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i to newly established Deputy Prime Minister position to assist in the governance of the growing Arabian bureaucracy.[/sub]
[sub]Upon his appointment to Deputy Prime Minister, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i prompted immediate interest in overseeing the expanded architectural initiatives for city designing, housing infrastructure, and cultural initiatives to revive unique Mesopotamian and Arab architecture to begin a sort of Arab intellectual renaissance. Additionally, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i has provided a promise to oversee water treatment initiatives and further expanded research and implementation of modern drip irrigation techniques within the Tigris and Euphrates zone in addition to the Arabian Peninsula and the Aqaba Gulf. For expanded governance, the NASLC, signed off by Prime Minister as-Said and King Faisal II, implemented new legislation for Gwadar to be begin operation as an official Governorate, therefore, responsible to hold elections to be represented in the State Administrative Council. As maritime infrastructure, with the assistance of the United Kingdom and the United States, continues to be implemented and new housing measures are constructed, it has become policy for full political incorporation of Gwadar residents as constituents.[/sub]
[sub]With new members of the NASLC are en route to Baghdad to take their oath of office, Baghdad announced significant investments in particular Slovenian companies per extensive conversations and agreements. The initial Slovenian company to accept Arabian investments is Iskra, which currently seeks to produce radio receivers and basic communications equipment, including telephones. Furthermore, agreements have been formalized to allow Arab students and young professionals to apply and attend the Academy Research Center (ZRC SAZU) of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a form of scholarly training to start up their own projects at home. The formalization of the Arab-Slovenian developing relationship has demonstrated a growing indication of Baghdad becoming an embryonic global city as foreign investors, foreign companies, and increased foreign partnership presence increases substantially while new large scale public works projects become scheduled and a new outlook for the next 4 years begins its formation.[/sub]
[list][list][pre]الهاشمي العربية!
حصن الاسلام[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]EMBRACE ALLAH AND
ARABIA[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून [sub]February 1946 फरवरी 1946[/sub]
[sub]Volume 29, Issue 1 /खंड 20, अंक 1 [/sub]
[sup]Airmen Facing Court Martial Following Widespread Demonstrations!![/sup]
[sup]व्यापक प्रदर्शनों के बाद कोर्ट मार्शल का सामना कर रहे एयरमैन !![/sup]
[sup]With developing news coming from the across the RAJ, where over several dozen Royal Air Force stations in the Indian subcontinent were reportedly under a series of demonstrations and strikes which were organized by members of the Royal Air Force. The protests arose in response to slow demobilization and return of British troops to Britain, and use of British shipping facilities for transporting G.I.s. The "mutiny" began at either Maripur or nearby Karachi (RAF Drigh Road) and later spread to involve nearly 50,000 men over 60 RAF stations in India, Ceylon, Burma and as far away as Singapore, Egypt, North Africa, and Gibraltar.[/sup]
[sup]राज भर से आने वाली विकासशील खबरों के साथ, जहां भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप में कई दर्जन से अधिक रॉयल एयर फ़ोर्स स्टेशन कथित तौर पर प्रदर्शनों और हमलों की एक श्रृंखला के तहत थे, जो रॉयल एयर फ़ोर्स के सदस्यों द्वारा आयोजित किए गए थे। धीमी गति से विमुद्रीकरण और ब्रिटेन में ब्रिटिश सैनिकों की वापसी और जी.आई.एस के परिवहन के लिए ब्रिटिश शिपिंग सुविधाओं के उपयोग के जवाब में विरोध हुआ। "विद्रोह" या तो मारीपुर या पास के कराची (आरएएफ ड्रिघ रोड) में शुरू हुआ और बाद में भारत, सीलोन, बर्मा और सिंगापुर, मिस्र, उत्तरी अफ्रीका और जिब्राल्टर में 60 आरएएफ स्टेशनों पर लगभग 50,000 पुरुषों को शामिल करने के लिए फैल गया।[/sup]
[sup]The peaceful protests lasted between three and eleven days. In response the British Government argued that the amount of shipping available was insufficient to permit immediate repatriation of the large number of personnel. With some criticizing the report with some believing that British troops were deliberately retained in India to control possible unrest from the independence movement, with reports that one of the grievances of the RAF men may have also included significant political views and sympathy with the Communist Party of India.[/sup]
[sup]शांतिपूर्ण विरोध तीन से ग्यारह दिनों के बीच चला। प्रतिक्रिया में ब्रिटिश सरकार ने तर्क दिया कि बड़ी संख्या में कर्मियों के तत्काल प्रत्यावर्तन की अनुमति देने के लिए उपलब्ध शिपिंग की राशि अपर्याप्त थी। कुछ ने रिपोर्ट की आलोचना करते हुए कुछ लोगों का मानना है कि स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन से संभावित अशांति को नियंत्रित करने के लिए ब्रिटिश सैनिकों को जानबूझकर भारत में रखा गया था, रिपोर्ट के साथ कि आरएएफ पुरुषों की शिकायतों में से एक में महत्वपूर्ण राजनीतिक विचार और कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के साथ सहानुभूति भी शामिल हो सकती है। भारत।[/sup]
[sup]The issues were ultimately resolved with reports of some of the airmen facing court marshal following what many regard as a successful demonstration, all charged with mutany among other penalties. The initial protests in Karachi took the form of a collective refusal to prepare kit for inspection and going to the parade ground at the normal time but in casual khaki drill rather than the "best blue" uniforms required when on morning parade.[/sup]
[sup]मुद्दों को अंततः कोर्ट मार्शल का सामना करने वाले कुछ एयरमैन की रिपोर्ट के साथ हल किया गया था, जो कि एक सफल प्रदर्शन के रूप में कई सम्मान करते हैं, सभी पर अन्य दंड के साथ विद्रोह का आरोप लगाया गया था। कराची में शुरुआती विरोध ने सामूहिक रूप से निरीक्षण के लिए किट तैयार करने और सामान्य समय पर परेड ग्राउंड में जाने से इनकार कर दिया, लेकिन सुबह की परेड के लिए आवश्यक "सर्वश्रेष्ठ नीली" वर्दी के बजाय आकस्मिक खाकी ड्रिल में।[/sup]
[spoiler="The future depends on what you do today." Mahatma Gandhi]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Central Arstotzka, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance
[list][pre]April 25th, 1945 | Castle Avenue, Khartoum Nile Province, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of The Sudan[/pre]
VICTORY DAY DECLARED[/list]
The second global war has been concluded for some seven months now, though the not-so-distant memory of war and active combat continues to linger amongst the population of those closer, to the battlefields of Europe and the Volkist heartland, the war here in Sudan had practically been long gone as the Sudanese Defense Force claimed victory over Italian East Africa In April of 1941 restoring peace and stability.
However, now amid a complicated long drawn out parliamentary election, with SudanÂ’s political factions competing over the ParliamentÂ’s 136 seats, the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Keren, marking the fall of Italian defenses in Eritrea, was drawing closer as the end of April approaches.
A decision had been made under an “executive” order established by Governor-General Abdallah Khalil with support from the first Sudanese Parliament, which had announced on the fifth anniversary of the Battle of Keren, Eritrea of 1941, to mark April 25th as the colony’s official Victory Day, a day for which the colony shall celebrate the expulsion of Axis troops from Eastern Africa while also become a day of remembrance to the hundreds of Sudanese soldiers who have sacrificed and laid down their lives in the protection of Sudan, it's people, the Empire and its King, and above all, the defense of Liberty.
Celebrations had commenced in Khartoum with a military parade performed by a regiment of the 1st Khartoum Brigade, they would greet the gathering crowds of Europeans and Sudanese assembling at downtown Khartoum by marching down Castle Avenue, leading up to the Governor Palace. The regiment would consist of 50 camel troops, a famous symbol of the Sudanese Soldier, musical instruments, weapons in arms, and some three trucks and armored vehicles driving at slow speeds. The parade would also see three of the RSAFÂ’s PZL P.24A Fighters flying overhead to the thunderous applause of the crowds beneath, all waving banners of victory and the Empire.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Central Arstotzka, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance
20th-28th,April,1946
NEW HUB OF CHINESE COMMUNITY
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[U]20th of April
The town "Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi" which was used as the main base of operations of the People Of Maziya Anti Japanese Army.Had recently seen a huge influx of Chinese from the capital city of Permata Bersinar to the kampung.This had massively unbalanced the ethnic communities in that part of Maziya,the reasoning behind this massive move of Chinese to the kampung is suspected to be because of either work opportunities due to the fact that the kampung is still a young establishment,only being a year old and could still be developed or ethnic discrimination in the capital city.The capital city is still the main hub of ethnic Malay and Sarawakians with the minorities being the Chinese,Indians,people of the western world and the native people of the island of Borneo such as the Iban people.
[U]28th Of April
With the massive influx of Chinese from the capital to the kampung,the kampung began being known as "Kampung Orang China" in the capital city with the name coming from the fact that when people visit the kampung whether it be because of family or vacation,they see a lot of Chinese people and very few other ethnic groups.Buildings with signs in the kampung now could be seen with Chinese characters with English words next to them and very few of these signs included the current national language,Malay on them.However the amount of Chinese people moving to this kampung has reduced but it's still happening.Due to that the government has begun looking into the reasoning behind the massive moving of Chinese out of the capital and will be looking towards methods of stopping it.
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[list]May 1946
[sub]One Year Later[/sub][/list]
[pre]A YEAR LATER: AN EERIE SENSE OF NORMALCY AND A TRICKLE OF HOPE IN GERMANY[/pre]
| An eerie silence lay over the city of Hamburg, the de facto center of the American occupation zone of Germany. A year earlier, Allied bombs had been falling on the city, and well over 75% of its buildings were damaged in some capacity. A year later, children played and laughed in the streets, mothers scurried about with their bags of food and home supplies, and workers were working to rebuild homes and other civilian properties, after priority for reconstruction had been placed on government buildings and properties 'essential to the operation of the local city government and the Allied control authorities'. It had been one year since the end of the Second World War. It had already been 365 days since the Volkist government collapsed to the Allied forces, and 11 months since the division of Germany was formally enacted by the June Declaration. |
| Reconstruction efforts were well underway. In Cologne many looked to its local government for inspiration on the process of rebuilding and revitalizing Germany, as the Allies very slowly came to the realization that a permanently divided Germany (as outlined by the Morgenthau Plan, among others) would not be viable for the world, and in Hamburg, the normalcy in the streets was an inspiration and proof of a faint hope. Normalcy. That was something Germany lacked severely, and indeed needed a lot more. The past seven years, perhaps even the past thirteen years, had been rough for the country. Indeed, they had recovered economically thanks to the aggressive, authoritative policies of the German government under the DVP, but at what cost to their personal freedoms? At what cost to society? |
| Thankfully, these questions could now be asked publicly, for the first time in many years. The Hamburger Tafelrunde, or the Hamburg Round Table, was a nonprofit policy forum organization dedicated to asking these questions to German experts, former Weimar politicians, and members of the regular citizenry. The Hamburg Round Table was established in the winter of 1945, and was evidence of a slowly waking German longing for the beauty of democracy, liberty and self-expression. Hopefully, some policy forum members said, these questions could be asked in a potential German government or authority as well. |
| Reconstruction and the slow but steady reviving of democracy was not only the achievements of the dissolved German state in the year since the War ended. A trickel of hope that perhaps the next day would be better slowly but surely spread amongst the German populace. Indeed, they were by technicality no longer self-governing. Nor did they have their own home state. Their economy was bust, and their lands in control of the Allied Control Council. However, in the words of Konrad Adenauer in a speech to a crowd of 25,000 Cologne citizens; |
[list][pre]"Liberty. Democracy. Self-expression. Prosperity. These are the ideals we all fight for as freedom-loving and as liberty-aspiring Germans. We fight for our freedom and for our democracy, and we fight for our individual and societal liberties. We aspire to go higher, we aspire to be stronger, we aspire to be more prosperous. We make and work for these aspirations not only for our own wants and needs but for our children's needs and for the needs of our country. We aspire to go higher, to go faster, and to go beyond. The past year, we have been in mourning, both over the end of an independent German state, and over the deaths of millions of Germans, regardless of who they were religiously, politically or ethnically. Despite all of these hardships, I ask my countrymen now: Keep your heads up. A brighter future awaits. I cannot promise to relieve you of all your problems, but I can promise that together with our friends - our newfound friends, partners and allies across the Free World - we will work to make tomorrow just that little bit brighter."[/pre][/list]
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THE RHODESIAN POUND - PREPARING FOR THE NEXT DECADE
May 9th 1946
As the Smith Government had declared in 1944, Rhodesia would enter the 1950s with a new currency, but announcing a new currency is one thing and implementing it an entirely different one. Ahead of the Nation was a 4 year period of preparation to introduce the Rhodesian Pound, which even more ambitiously would not be linked to the Pound. The Rhodesian Government had instead long decided that it would be linked to a Government owned and operated portfolio of Gold and Silver. In a unique take on the gold backed Currency however the Rhodesian Government would ensure a reasonable supply of money based on that backing. If Gold were to increase in value then Rhodesia would increase its printing of Rhodesian points to maintain a "Reasonable Value Coefficient", which in essence means preventing the currency from being valued too highly and thus contributing to deflation. At the same time if the value of gold decreases and thus the value of the currency alongside it, the Rhodesian Government would print less money to combat this decrease in value while still providing reasonable increases in the money stock.
It was for precisely that reason that the Government nationalized Gold and Silver in 1944 when Smith and his Party took control of the Nation, to provide a guarantee that the entire Nations supply of both rare minerals would be funneled directly into this State-controlled portfolio. The benefit of this is that the Government could decrease printing while increasing output and thus to a certain degree ensure that the value of the currency remained somewhat similar to what it was pre-fall. The downsides being multiple however, the main being that as a result of Rhodesia requiring these stocks of gold and silver the Government would as of 1950 be unable to export either goods in significant quantities.
Bold however is the decision to omit any coins whatsoever, instead opting for Paper for all cash sums. These shall be issues in the following sizes and denominations :
[list] 500 Rhodesian Pound note
200 Rhodesian Pound note
100 Rhodesian Pound note
50 Rhodesian Pound note
20 Rhodesian Pound note
10 Rhodesian Pound note
5 Rhodesian Pound note
2 Rhodesian Pound note
1 Rhodesian Pound note
50 Rhodesian Pence note
25 Rhodesian Pence note[/list]
By refusing to include Coins the value of the paper currency would be easier to set, and in the event that any potential coins face value was lower than its metal composition would prevent the acquisition of coins for smelting or foreign sale which had been a problem in a number of Nations in the past. Further by issuing notes it would make it easier for the Government to ensure not just quality but fraud controls, as notes of all sizes could be numbered and issued with special markers indicating legitimacy. A notable example of fractional notes in the past was the United States between 1863 and 1876 where they issued notes from 5 cents to 50 cents in size. Advertised as a simplification of currency production as by solely using notes the requirement of coin presses fell away, the other benefit of notes as stated by the Government would be ease of stockpiling as notes are easy to stack and handle compared to coins.
Officially the change shall take place on the 1st of January 1950, though the Government shall begin the process of printing in 1948 to ensure sufficient paper currency for exchange when that date indeed arrives. Individuals will then have from the 1st of January until the 1st of June to exchange their British Pounds for Rhodesian Pounds.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Paramountica, Central Arstotzka, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya
RHODESIAN CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM
May 11th 1946
Seeing the writing on the wall in the post war world, a world with growing political influence in the non major Countries of the world and the dominance of the Colonial powers being challenged Prime Minister Ian smith has ordered the creation of a Chemical Weapons stockpile within the Country. To be done using relatively easy to produce Chemicals such as Mustard and Chlorine gas the Stockpile shall be built up until 12,000 tons in total are achieved. While the program is not secretive in nature it is naturally not advertised, while its legal to produce said weapons as the Geneva convention only discusses the usage of chemical weapons and does not prohibit their production (such production-bannning treaties came in the 1990s). It is considered Rhodesia's only real alternative to a deterrent on similar scales to a Nuclear weapon. That being Rhodesia could potentially attempt to deploy such weapons over Civilian centers as in a total war scenario.
Considering Nuclear weapons and the development of such to be too expensive for Rhodesia, Chemical Weapons are a cost effective and more realistic alternative (As they were IRL, Rhodesia had one of the worlds most widely used program and used them extensively against Insurgents which also caused widespread infections and outbreaks).
Rhodesia shall focus its development efforts on the ability to deploy such chemical weaponry in both artillery and bomb form, allowing both its air force and army the last resort usage of these weapons of mass destruction in the event of invasion or other immense dangers. The very nature of its deterrent nature is why most major Powers still possess and produce chemical weapons despite being technically banned under the Geneva convention. The justification for this being that in the event of another unrestricted war (which was narrowly avoided in WWII but even then the Allies still had Chemicals on-hand as is seen at the Air raid on Bari in 1943 where a US ship carrying mustard gas to Europe for potential use against Germany caused the deaths of over 600 Civilians) the Geneva Convention would not exactly be followed to an ideal degree.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Paramountica, Central Arstotzka, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya
THE DARK CORNERS OF SLOVENE ULTRANATIONALISM: THE BORDER-REALM OF PRIDE AND SUPREMACISM
[list][sup]WHAT MAKES A TRUE SLOVENE?
SLOVENIA—SPRING 1946[/sup][/list]
As 1946 wore on, the Furlan government continued to dedicate its time to restoring and highlighting national symbols and heritage. The spring saw a comprehensive plan to restore the Borovniški viadukt (“Borovnica Viaduct”), a gargantuan two-story railway bridge made of over five million stone bricks that formed a key part of the Trst-Ljubljana railroad. Though the Viaduct had stood proudly for almost one hundred years and was the largest stone bridge in Europe for decades, water damage and rot had weakened the viaduct such that trains crossing it needed to slow considerably—Infrastructure Minister and construction engineer Črtomir Nagode hoped to change this encumbrance. With the revitalization of Slovenian rail infrastructure underway, secure routes were needed for comprehensive electrification; thus, Nagode went on a nationwide campaign to raise money for the Viaduct, featuring it on a commemorative stamp and launching drives to restore the bridge. He got his wish: a combination of grants, loans and donations permitted a two-year-long restoration plan that would see the replacement of the wooden pilings with cured concrete pilings that should resist the water damage that plagues the ViaductÂ’s current iteration. It was a proud moment for the Slovene government, and the idea that the Viaduct would continue to stand as a testament to Slovenia was exciting.
Even small efforts like these, however, stoked a dark corner of Slovenian society. Fusing with fear of the eastern Titoist threat, pride in the accomplishments and Slovenification that have followed Slovenian independence fueled swaths of new recruits to the Slovene ultranationalist scene. The Hervardi Society, named after a military guard of the medieval Slavic principality of Carantania, was a chief actor therein; idealizing figures such as imperial general Hervard Turjaški, who fought off the Ottomans in present-day Slovene Lands, they adhered to a strange combination of clericalism and authoritarian nationalism that advocated for a singular vodja (“leader”) for all of Slovene Lands. Nationalistic theologians, such as Jurij Dalmatin and Anton Martin Slomšek, were semi-mythological heroes; the Society saw Slovenes as the masters of the Adriatic, keepers of the mountains and forests of old and the heirs to a glorious legacy of Alpine Slavs. Though they started on the extremes in the late Yugoslav era, their efforts for Slovene independence partially legitimized the group. Their members even managed to gain elected office: Franc Petek, the elected župan of Celovec—formerly the Austrian town of Klagenfurt—attended society meetings and altogether eschewed German, which he degraded as neprijeten (“unpleasant”) and forbade on road signs, in classrooms or in any other form of government use. The use of German was shattered in Gradec, where the ‘spirit of Franjo Malgaj’ lives on among Slovene nationalist politicians.
Carrying banners with such slogans as ‘Običaji starine, so ščit domovineÂ’ (‘Ancient customs are the shield of the homelandÂ’) and flying crimson banners adorned with the Carantanian panther, Slovene nationalists have marched against Orthodox communities and demonstrated vocally against German minorities. More violent members among them have contributed to the exodus of Germans, Italians, Croats and Hungarians from the Slovenian concessions, beating, robbing or exiling minority families. The remnants of the Slovenian left wing have rightfully criticized the Furlan government for its inaction on the matter, as sentences have rarely been passed upon perpetrators of such crimes, but the response from the government has been cold. Furlan was a hero in the eyes of many, but the cruelty he has allowed has increasingly embittered intellectuals against him. The nationalistic fervor would continue: fixed on the juncture of Romantic, Germanic, Finno-Ugric and Slavic worlds, the new Republic was to be a rallying point for fervent supremacists. The coming years would see bold claims thereby: some would declare that Slovenia should rightfully stretch as far as Benetke (“Venice”), Inomost (“Innsbruck”), Dunaj (“Vienna”), Stolni Beli grad (“Székesfehérvár”) and Zagreb. These claims, however unrealistic they were, would persist so strongly along the nationalist edge of society that mainstream Slovenian politicians would long play on the idea that Slovenia is ‘undersizedÂ’ for the sake of conservative support—nationalist influence on Slovene society could not be doubted.
Nonador, Paramountica, Central Arstotzka, Nosautempopulus, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance
Spring 1986
Camentello, FaveNova
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The nation of FaveNova is officially declared and today marks FaveNova Independence Day. Conservatives quickly take power and a nationalistic police state is established. The people of FaveNova celebrate and fireworks go off.
Ranponian
May,1946
CAMPAIGN:SATU MAZIYA
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It was discovered after a lengthy period of compiling evidence taken from interviews with both Chinese and Malays and witnessing events on the streets of the capital city,Permata Bersinar that it was concluded that the reasoning behind the moving of hundreds of Chinese people to the "Kampung Orang China" is that Chinese discrimination still plays at large in the capital city.Due to this it was decided by parliament,rather then trying to change the point of view of the current generation in the country,why not try and alter the point of views of the next generation.With that idea the campaign named "Satu Maziya" was created.
[U]How Satu Maziya,would work.[/U]
Satu Maziya,being a campaign aimed at children meant that the main location where they would pour in effort would be schools,as they could get schools to host events to promote the Satu Maziya mindset.
[B]"Chinese,Malay,Indian or native people of the island of Borneo.It does not matter,we are all still Maziyans despite for how we look on the outside."
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[B]"Cina, Melayu, India atau orang asli di pulau Borneo. Tidak mengapa, kita semua masih Maziyan walaupun dari segi luaran."
To children which would hopefully means that in a few decades time when the current schooling children go on to have children of their own,this mindset could be passed down and reduce discrimination in the nation.However just hosting events in school would not work as some children are very naughty and won't show up to school and would rather do something else outside,so to counter this the entertainment industry would need to be targeted whether it be radio or comic books.
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[list][list][list][pre]HASHIMI ARABIA
الهاشمي العربية
أشدو أن لا إله إلا الله ، وشدو أنا محمدان رسول الله[/pre][/list]
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NEW ARABIA INDUSTRIAL HEARTLAND FORMING IN NORTHERN YEMEN?!
[sub]KING FAISAL II ADMINISTRATION | BAGHDAD, JUNE 1946[/sub][/list]
[sub]| According to new labor and wages statistics, a new remarkable trend has begun to surface in southern Arabia/northern Yemen. In the five emerging areas of Sa'dah, Ladqul, Bani Owair, Haydan, and Baqim, newly educated and ambitious Arab industrialists begun to implement their new vision of an Arabian industrial backbone primarily away from Baghdad to expand development and productivity onto the peninsula. Understanding the industrial capabilities across the vast Hashemite Kingdom, mining and industrialist experts have found it probable to begin the establishment of a domestic Arabian steel industry, prompting the idea of an expanded underlying industrial base that could originate in Yemen and progressively move into the Arabian interior.[/sub]
[sub]The same is being projected in Oman as the coastline areas of Lakba, Sawqirah, Lakabi, and Qaysad have become the destination for industrialists and maritime sector practitioners to begin the purchasing of lands to develop new factories, trade schools, and city planning initiatives. With the as-Said government making the process for business registration slightly easier in addition to securing the right to private property, Arab industrialists have prompted to seek profits and large scale projects outside of Baghdad and into the vast underdeveloped portions of the Hashemite Kingdom. To support private business enterprises, the Ministry of the Interior has approved an extensive new rail plan to construct a rail network from Lakba, Sawqirah, Lakabi, and Qaysad to the Arabian port of Al Hudaydah, located on the Red Sea. An additional new rail for industrial and civilian transportation is expected to be approved to extend from Lakba, Sawqirah, Lakabi, and Qaysad to Sohar, located in the Gulf of Oman. The final rail extension plan approved is to be located from Al Hudaydah to Jazan along the Red Sea coast in an effort to spur industrialization and metropolitanism within Southern Arabia to take advantage of the massive coastline to acquire further trade and foreign direct investments into the interior of the Kingdom.[/sub]
[list][list][pre]الهاشمي العربية!
حصن الاسلام[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]EMBRACE ALLAH AND
ARABIA[/sub]]
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Zabrowka[/spoiler]
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[pre]| June - 1946 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SOVIET UNION, THE PROLETARIAT STATE IS SAFE:
RECONSTRUCTION CONSUMES THE POLITBURO ALONGSIDE THE FIRST POST-WAR FIVE YEAR PLAN COMES INTO EFFECT!
РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА, ПРОЛЕТАРСКОЕ ГОСУДАРСТВО В БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ:
РЕКОНСТРУКЦИЯ ПОТРЕБЛЯЕТ ПОЛИТБЮРО, ПОТОМ ПЕРВАЯ ПОСЛЕВОЕННАЯ ПЯТИЛЕТКА Вступает В ДЕЙСТВИЕ!
[list]The Western Soviet Union lays in shambles - Западный Советский Союз лежит в руинах[/list]
[pre]The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics would stand as one of the most affected Nations by the war, with the Soviet Republics of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia suffering the most from the fascist attempt to destroy the Union. Although the Soviet Union was the hardest hit, it also proved itself to be the most resilient and determined nation in the war from its awe inspiring victory against the almost complete fascist victory during the Great Patriotic War. The sacrifice of millions of Soviets was not in vain as the Red Army now occupies Eastern Germany and the Eastern Fascist empire of Japan defeated with the annexations of south Sakhalin and the Kurils. Although the Soviet land was devastated much of its industrial capabilities would be saved by the fact that the Union had ordered the industrial infrastructure to move east as the German advance grew stronger and stronger. [/pre]
[pre]- 27 Million deceased Soviets[/pre]
[pre]- 98,000 collective farms damaged/ruined[/pre]
[pre]- 137,000 tractors, 49,000 combine harvesters, 7 million horses, 17 million cattle, 20 million pigs, 27 million sheep lost in the war[/pre]
[pre]- 25% of all capital equipment lost[/pre]
[pre]- 35,000 plants and factories destroyed[/pre]
[pre]- 6 million buildings destroyed[/pre]
[pre]- 70,666 villages and 4,710 towns destroyed[/pre]
[pre]- 40% of urban housing lost, leaving 25 million homeless[/pre]
[pre]- 40% of railway tracks destroyed[/pre]
[list]The Fourth Five-Year Plan put into action - Четвертая пятилетка вступила в действие[/list]
[pre]The main goal of this Five-Year plan was the complete reconstruction of the Western Soviet Union to pre-war levels and hopefully exceeding those numbers to bring it back to what it once was and better. This effort would be especially heavy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. Due to StalinÂ’s paranoia though, the focus would be heavy on heavy industries and military industries in the build up of the Soviet Armed Forces to keep the new Soviet Sphere secure. The labor shortage would have a heavy effect on this plan, but the continual demobilization of the Soviet Red Army will bring a steady stream of labor to the destroyed area as Soviet workers work tirelessly to rebuild the Union. Agriculture which would be heavily destroyed in the Great Patriotic War and a coming drought has also brought fears of a new famine in the south west of the Union.[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
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[list]JANUARY & FEBRUARY 1946
[sub]UNGA & SG Announcements[/sub][/list]
[pre]UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY GENERAL CHOSEN![/pre]
WESTMINSTER CENTRAL HALL
[sub]LONDON, Great Britain Gb — MORNING[/sub]
| [sub]The dozens of delegates assembling at the Westminster Central Hall had an engaging few weeks, with numerous documents signed and most importantly, choosing the first United Nations General Assembly’s President and the United Nations Secretary General. Each delegation from the six continents would cast a single vote on who should become the UNGA’s president. Four candidates from different parts of the world (2 from Europe, 1 from Africa and 1 from South America) would stand before the assembly — waiting to be chosen as the first UNGA President.[/sub]
[sub]It would be declared that PAUL-HENRI SPAAK of Belgium would serve a 1 year term as the United Nations General AssemblyÂ’s President, with his term beginning in March of 1946. With the United Nations Security Council finding a suitable person to serve as Secretary General, TRYGVE HALVDAN LIE of Canovia would serve a 5 year term.[/sub]
[list][sub]”The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority human race is the United Nations. A patient, long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.”[/sub]
— TRYGVE LIE, UN Secretary General[/list]
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Post self-deleted by Puerto Somoza.
Can I get the rest of mexico
Central Arstotzka
June,1946
NATIONALIST PARTY TAKES FORM
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[U]11th of June.
With the Maziyan Republic Party dissolved,former member of the M.R.P,Aisy Rayyan took it upon himself to carry on a fight against communism in the country by forming his own political faction.The
Maziya Parti Nasional otherwise known as Maziya Nationalist Party in English.This political party was created under the slogan "Maziya are for the native people of the Malay peninsula,not foreigners from the east or west." Which already puts the predominantly Chinese,Maziyan Communist Party under direct opposition not just from the fact that this new nationalist party are anti-communist.
[U]15th of June.
Fong Wei Yuan would come out with a statement on both the rise of the nationalist party and fall of the Maziyan Republic Party.
[B]"As leader of the Maziyan Communist Party and current prime minister of Maziya,I believe I need to clear some fog in the air of what happens to parliament now that the M.R.P have dissolved.We've decided to split equally between us the Communist Party and the Royalist Party albeit some members of the Communist Party are against this decision and would've rather wanted us to take all the new opened up seats.However my mission is,as of now to unite all the races of Maziya under one demonym "Maziyan" and I don't want Chinese supremacy to take the place of the previous Malay supremacy in parliament.Now about the newly formed Maziya Parti Nasional,they seek to put all of the power under the Malay race and I personally don't think that's a good idea as that could put high amounts of instability in the nation as civil wars could occur due to high racial tension or the ability to cooperate of our fellow Maziyans would be hindered due to the distrust between those of different ethnic groups.About whether or not the nationalist will be given seats in parliament.They would not receive seats until the next election which I intend to hold next year as I am aware that the Malays and Sarawakians here are not very happy with me as a Chinese person in charge and would rather see a Malay or Sarawakian in charge.This election is to just see how ethnicity could impact chances in elections as of now,if someone else wins the elections I will step down however I don't know if my fellow members of the communist party will."
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[B]"Sebagai ketua Parti Komunis Maziyan dan perdana menteri semasa Maziya, saya percaya saya perlu membersihkan sedikit kabut di udara tentang apa yang berlaku kepada parlimen sekarang setelah M.R.P telah dibubarkan. Kami telah memutuskan untuk berpecah sama rata antara kami Parti Komunis dan Parti Diraja walaupun beberapa ahli Parti Komunis menentang keputusan ini dan lebih suka kita mengambil semua kerusi baru yang dibuka. Walau bagaimanapun misi saya, pada masa ini untuk menyatukan semua kaum Maziya di bawah satu nama syaitan "Maziyan" dan saya tidak mahu ketuanan Cina menggantikan ketuanan Melayu terdahulu di parlimen. Sekarang mengenai Maziya Parti Nasional yang baru ditubuhkan, mereka cuba meletakkan semua kuasa di bawah bangsa Melayu dan saya sendiri tidak 'Jangan fikir itu idea yang baik kerana itu boleh menyebabkan ketidakstabilan yang tinggi dalam negara kerana perang saudara boleh berlaku disebabkan oleh ketegangan kaum yang tinggi atau keupayaan untuk bekerjasama dengan rakan-rakan Maziyan akan terhalang kerana ketidakpercayaan antara kumpulan etnik yang berbeza. .A sama ada nasionalis akan diberikan kerusi di parlimen atau tidak. Mereka tidak akan menerima kerusi sehingga pilihan raya akan datang yang saya berhasrat untuk mengadakan tahun depan kerana saya sedar bahawa orang Melayu dan Sarawak di sini tidak begitu gembira dengan saya sebagai orang Cina dalam menuduh dan lebih suka melihat seorang Melayu atau Sarawak yang bertanggungjawab. Pilihan raya ini adalah untuk melihat bagaimana etnik boleh memberi kesan kepada peluang dalam pilihan raya setakat ini, jika orang lain memenangi pilihan raya saya akan berundur tetapi saya tidak tahu sama ada rakan-rakan saya parti komunis akan." [/B]
-Fong Wei Yuan,head of communist party and prime minister of Maziya.
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[list][pre]May, 1946 | GovernorÂ’s Pace, Khartoum Province, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of The Sudan[/pre]
THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT[/list]
Around ten years later, the promise of democracy had finally been fulfilled, since the elections were announced two months ago, the Sudanese people had continued to vote all throughout April and to the end of May, where the colonial government had at last collected and recorded the results to be announced by the beginning of June.
It had now reached the point of readiness to officially declare the results of the first Sudanese Parliamentary Elections of 1946, in which the Colonial Government shall now distribute the 136 parliamentary seats along the percentage of votes each party had managed to accumulate from the votes casted over the election period. Each seat is set to represent 60,000 Sudanese voters from across the colonial provinces.
[list]ELECTION RESULTS BY SEATS
136 Available Seats, 68 Need To Create Government
Unionist Party (NUP) — 39 Seats
Commonwealth Party (BCP) — 38 Seats
Liberal Party (LP) — 28 Seats
Umma Party (MUP) — 16 Seats
Nationalist Party (NWCP) — 15 Seats
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In what had been a very drawn out, complicated, and strange turn in events, the elections had been finalized and finally confirmed and approved by the British Imperial Offices, Parliament was elected by the Sudanese people, established, and here to staydespite the speculations and questioning taken out by many political leaders.
Without much doubt, however, AzheriÂ’s Unionists Party had claimed victory over the election as it had gained the majority of seats, despite it being not much of a victory given it was one seat away from either a tie or losing its majority to the British Commonwealth Party that is now on its heels. However, what shocked the Sudanese public was how far the Nationalists have been pushed back by the democratic process despite the loud and heavy campaigning taken out by Mahgoub and The Confluence. But to what many had already foreseen, the effects of blind Nationalism exhibited by Germany, Japan, Italy, and many Axis nations had only exposed to the Sudanese voters the poison of Nationalism, its toxicity, and the scars effects it had left on a population brainwashed by war and glory for the country. This hateful message is what had pushed many of the Sudanese voters away from the NWCP and into the arms of a far more moderate party that had both seemed an identity to the Sudanese people as well as prosperity, the Liberal Party.
BenjaminÂ’s LwokiÂ’s Liberal Party was stunned to find itself taken from the party of Southern rights to suddenly being pushed into the spotlight as the champion of Sudanese rights as a whole in both the North and South. Unlike the Unionists whose base was made up of Pro-Egyptian and Arab groups believing themselves to be Egyptian loyalists, and the EmpireÂ’s champion Commonwealth Party that advocates for Imperial loyalty and brotherhood, the Liberal Party had become SudanÂ’s only major voice of reason and equality with the 28 seats it now controls in the Sudanese Parliament.
The Commonwealth Party, now under the new leadership of former Governor-General Abdallah Khalil, owe much of its successes to important and huge economic and political reforms that the colonial government had enacted in efforts of completely overhauling and uplifting the Sudanese people and their standards of living, all while in the midst of a violent war. The Commonwealth Party had claimed the industrialization of the Colony as a part of the many riches and fruits of the Empire, therefore enforcing the perception that a stronger Sudanese Commonwealth would lead to the continuation of such success and growth to the people of the colony. Seeing that the colony has indeed thrived under British policy and innovation, much of the Sudanese people had simply voted based on what they saw as results, and thatÂ’s what led many to vote for the Commonwealth Party, restrengthening their position as the citizens of His MajestyÂ’s Empire.
With the lack of faith placed in the descendants of Al-MahdiÂ’s Umma Party, and the fear of Nationalist take over in Sudan, the MUP and NWCP had automatically been pushed over to the side of the opposition government, creating a new right-wing conservative voting coalition of a humble 31 seats altogether. However, within realization that the Unionist are just about 29 seats shy of the 68 seat majority needed for the establishment of a government of their own and appointing a Chief Minister, the three large parties of the now democratically elected Second Sudanese Parliament had all come in agreement that given the freshness of the democratic process, the three parties must form a coalition in order to establish a government, of course headed by the leader of the majority party.
The moderate coalition had been invited by the newly appointed Governor-General Sir Alexander Knox Helm, to officially form a government together consisting of the Unionist, Commonwealth, and Liberals, who would control a great majority of 105 seats in Parliament, which has then appointed the 46 year old Unionist leader Ismail al-Azhari as SudanÂ’s first Chief Minister. Azheri shall oversee the duties of ensuring the passing of bills, as well as be able to listen and provide solutions to the disputes taken out between coalition members, Parliament, civil and military services, as well as disputes between the provinces and affairs occurring within the Sudanese colony.
Officially confirmed and approved by Governor Helm, the Imperial Offices and Royal Crown in London, Islmail Azheri would be officially inaugurated into the newly established position of Chief Minister of the British Sudan. Together with Governor Knox Helm, Azheri would also be serving under the ColonyÂ’s executive office, officially also acting as an ambassador of the Sudanese Parliament to the office of the Governor, who in turn also acts as an ambassador of the Crown to the colony.
The Azheri administration now currently faces a crisis of its own making, given that despite the PartyÂ’s pro-Egypt base, itÂ’s Arab nationalist carry the party under the dream of an Arab Sudanese state separate from the Egyptian monarchy, therefore already showing fractures within the party and the coalition government, sowed division that would eventually dictate the faith of Sudan. Azheri himself had already expressed discomfort that since the formation of the first Parliament, it has felt as if Sudan is actively being pushed further and further away from any union with Egypt, and closer towards creating for itself an identity of its own.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1511271
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1761675
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1512291
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
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[list][list][pre]LABAN PILIPINAS!
FIGHT, PHILIPPINES![/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]| THE START OF A NEW ERA: THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES IS ESTABLISHED![/pre]
[sub]| AGUINALDO GRANDSTAND, MANILA - The tension had been building up the entire year. In accordance with the Tydings-McDuffie Act, the United States of America was expected to grant to its Asian colony its full and formal independence in all aspects and forms on the 4th of July, 1946, a year delayed thanks to the Second World War and the subsequent Japanese occupation. In March, the Philippine Senate had voted 21-3 to delay the 1946 national elections to July 9, 1946, and instead prioritized all efforts for 'Republic Day', as many were now calling the Fourth of July. In line with American requests, the handover of power from the U.S. authorities to the new republican government of Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmena was to take place on American independence day. President Quezon had wished for independence on 12 June, the day when in 1898 Filipino forces forced the Spanish occupiers out for the first time, but conceded to the American request in spring of this year.[/sub]
[sub]Preparations at the Aguinaldo Grandstand, where the Commonwealth of the Philippines had been proclaimed a little more than 11 years before in 1935, started in late May and continued throughout June and the first day of July. General Douglas MacArthur, the supreme commander of the USAFFE, the division of American forces in the Far East, would be in attendance and would on behalf of the U.S. Government oversee the handover with President Quezon. The event would be open to the public, and would take place around noon time. At 11:45 local time, President Quezon and General MacArthur will ascend onto the stage and sign the official declaration of independence. The MacArthur would read out his final speech on behalf of the Government of the United States of America at 11:55, and at 12:00, the new national anthem ("Lupang Hinirang") will play as the American flag would be lowered, in conjunction with the parallel raising of the Philippine flag.[/sub]
[sub]When the event day came, crowds in the thousands assembled before Aguinaldo Grandstand, adjacent to the Rizal Monument, under which the ashes of Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, who died fighting non-violently for the country's independence at the hands of the Spaniards, were buried. President Manuel L. Quezon and Vice President Sergio Osmena, along with the justices of the Supreme Court and the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, foreign dignitaries, representatives from the United States government, the Insular Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, they were all present. As the national anthem played alongside the lowering of the American flag and the raising of the Philippine standard, Quezon shed a tear before shaking hands with MacArthur amidst the cheering.[/sub]
[sub]The Third Republic of the Philippines would be proclaimed that same day by President Manuel L. Quezon at 12:19 local time in his first speech as president of the sovereign republic, and the first independent Philippine president since Emilio Aguinaldo.[/sub]
[list][pre]"This day marks the start of a new era for all Filipinos!"[/pre][/list]
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[list]8th July 1946
[sub]The Results of the Spanish Constitutional Referendum[/sub][/list]
[pre]S P A N I S H S O C I A L I S M[/pre]
ASAMBLEA DE MADRID
[sub]MADRID, Bescania — EVENING[/sub]
THE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM ON THE ADOPTION OF THE SECOND (1946) CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SPAIN
| The question put forth to the Spanish elecotrate was simple and as follows: "Do you approve the text of the New 1946 Constitution proposed by the Spanish People's Constitutional Convention? |
[list]RESULT:
YES — 10,543,961 (76.7%)
NO — 3,210,321 (23.3%)
TURNOUT — 13,754,282 (91%)
THE SECOND CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF SPAIN IS APPROVED BY A 53.4% MAJORITY[/list]
| With the passing of the new constitution, the second form of unprecedented mass democracy within Spain was well underway. Firstly, the new constitution stipulated that a new government, headed by a Prime Minister, must be formed following proportionally representative elections from a (generally) unrestricted selection of parties. Fascist parties, and other ultra-right wing parties, were legally banned from participating in such elections and are considered illegal organisations. Secondly, the President of the People's Republic of Spain will be decided via a direct vote from the Spanish electorate. The Spanish President is totally independent of the party political system and will act as a truly democratic head of state. This was the compromise between the Republican Left, Republican Union and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party - a both representative and direct democratic system. Thirdly, and finally, the constitution now states that for matters deemed of extreme importance and or amendments constitutionally, a referendum will take place. The Spanish People's Assembly General Election is likely to take place in the autumn of 1946, with the Presidential Election to be held not long after. |
| The constitution provides the Spanish People with the most progressive rights they had ever seen, stating that the end of rights is a dignified life, democracy, peace and the balance of nature, endowing people, decolonisation, indigenous nations and nature as holders of individual and collective rights, committing the action of the State to eliminate access barriers to these rights. Its exercise is established as direct, participatory, community and representative, in addition to establishing the bases of the Electoral Service. It guarantees the right to direct democracy via incidental or binding participation of citizens in matters of public interest. It establishes the possibility for regional and local governments to call a referendum, the popular law initiative (with 3% of the electoral roll to propose a law and 5% to repeal a law). |
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[list][list][pre]LABAN PILIPINAS!
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[pre]| NACIONALISTA PARTY WINS LANDSLIDE IN THE 1946 ELECTIONS; MANUEL QUEZON RE-ELECTED TO MALACANANG[/pre]
[sub]MANILA - The 1946 national elections, as per a resolution passed by the Senate and signed by President Quezon, was postponed from April 1, 1946 to July 9, 1946, to take place after the declaration of independence of the Third Republic. The evening after the ceremonies of the 4th of July, President Quezon held a midnight meeting with officials of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), the body primarily responsible for the execution of the election process and the counting of the ballots. It was an independent poll body established in 1935 for the Commonwealth's first election, which Quezon won by a landslide majority. Quezon discussed the preparations of the COMELEC for the July 9 elections, and signed a directive early on the morning of the 5th ordering the various departments involved to launch a 'legitimate public information campaign' to spread awareness on when, how and where to vote on the 9th. The complete aim was to get at least 45% turnout for the election. [/sub]
[sub]As Election Day dawned on the country, polling stations prepared across the country by the COMELEC opened to the public, and voting began. The Commission reported to the newspapers that election results would be published at the COMELEC offices at Malacanang Palace by July 15. Canvassing all the votes, especially from rural areas, would take several more days, the COMELEC reported, but added that the results from urban areas (which would arrive by the 15th) would be 'sufficient' to call the election. The election proceeded smoothly, with President Quezon addressing the country on the evening of the 9th, thanking military personnel and police authorities who had been mobilized to ensure the conduct of a smooth and safe election day.[/sub]
[sub]The Philippines utilized a D'Hondt system of allocating seats based off the percentage of the popular vote a party garnered in a national election. On each ballot, the parties were listed for the Senate and House of Representatives, and the party candidates' names were listed for local Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) posts and for the presidential race. The COMELEC released the preliminary complete results on 15 July, as follows.[/sub]
[list][sub]RESULTS OF THE 1946 NATIONAL ELECTIONS, BY POPULAR VOTE (%)
NACIONALISTA PARTY (NP) - 54.5%
QUEZON, MANUEL - 1,346,988
LIBERAL PARTY (LP) - 42.0%
ROXAS, MANUEL - 1,038,045
MODERNIST PARTY (MP) - 3.2%
MONCADO, HILARIO - 79,089
PROGRESSIVE PARTY (PP) - 0.3%
TARUC, LUIS - 7,414[/sub][/list]
[sub]The composition of the First Senate and the First House of Representatives are as follows:[/sub]
[list][sub]COMPOSITION OF THE SENATE
GOVERNMENT - 12
Nacionalista Party (12)
OPPOSITION - 12
Liberal (9)
Modernist (2)
Philippine Progressive (1)
COMPOSITION OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
GOVERNMENT - 55
Nacionalista (55)
OPPOSITION - 43
Liberal (29)
Modernist (3)
Progressive (11)[/sub][/list]
[sub]With a landslide 54.5% of the popular vote, or over 1.3 million votes, Manuel L. Quezon secured re-election to his third and final term as president. He is now tasked with rebuilding the country in the postwar world and reviving the national economy after three years of Japanese military occupation and subservience. Quezon bested his opponent, Liberal candidate Manuel Roxas, with his popularity and the fresh memories of Quezon valiantly leading the government-in-exile in the United States. 'Resilient during wartime, planting the seeds of prosperity in peacetime!' was a campaign motto of the Nacionalista Party. Quezon was sworn in to his final term as Philippine president on 30 July 1946.[/sub]
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[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list]SHOWA 21 | JUNE 1946[/list]
[list][list]共産主義暴動
[pre]COMMUNIST RIOTS[/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]D O W N W I T H Y O S H I D A[/pre]
TOKYO, KANTEI — MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| It was the policy of U.S. occupation in Japan to administer democracy effectively and swiftly, and it was GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR’s determination to see that every level of Japanese institutionalism embraced the new form of governance.The SUPREME COMMANDER appointed SHIGERU YOSHIDA as the new Prime Minister of Japan. But YOSHIDA had problems. As he formed a cabinet, leftists were making noise. They shouted “GIVE US MORE RICE” and “DOWN WITH YOSHIDA”. About 200,000 men came to the Prime Minister’s Residence. There were thirty leaders, among them was KYUICHI TOKUDA, Secretary General of Japan’s Communist Party, they entered the house and stayed there until the Prime Minister said he was going to resign. General MACARTHUR sent Tokyo police, after issuing a warning. |
[list]| GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, [sub]SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER[/sub] | “Violence [by] undisciplined elements will not be tolerated.”[/list]
[list][list]規律のない要素による暴力は容認されません。[/list][/list]
| The PRIME MINISTER will need more MacArthurian adrenalin if he wants to lead the government. |
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Democracy in Thailand?- August, 1946
Only after the end of Great War in Asia could Ananda Mahidol return to Thailand. He returned in December 1945 with a degree in law. Despite his youth and inexperience, he quickly won the hearts of the Thai people. The Thai were delighted to have their king amongst them once again. One of his well-remembered activities was a highly successful visit to Bangkok's Chinatown Sampheng Lan, which was intended to defuse the post-war tensions that lingered between Bangkok's ethnic Chinese and Thai people. Elections were held in January 1946. These were the first elections in which political parties were legal, and Pridi's People's Party (Khana Ratsadon) and its allies won a majority. In March 1946 Pridi became Siam's first democratically elected prime minister, altought the political situation would get worse for Pridi governments with the departure of the newly created Democrat Party, lead by Khuang Aphaiwong, from the coalition formed during the elections. Khuang and his partners, moslty from the Army ranks, were main opposers of harsh punishments for Phibun during his trial, which resulted only on his demotion from general to colonel. Having noticed that Khuang shifted more and more conservative, Pridi decided to compete for political power himself.
On the morning of 9 June 1946, the young king was found dead in his bed in the Baromphiman Mansion in the Grand Palace, dead from a gunshot wound to his head, only four days before he was scheduled to return to Switzerland to finish his doctoral degree in law at the University of Lausanne. Soon after the death, the Democrat Party spread rumours that left-wing prime minister Pridi Banomyong was behind the death. Day by day, the cofindence created between the royalists and Pridi during the wars was slowly dying, and the new born democracy in Thailand was once again put into risk.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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URBAN PLANNING CONFERENCE ESCHEWS THE AUTOMOBILE FOR THE ‘SANCTITY’ OF SLOVENE CITIES
[list][sup]A MECHANIZED DISRUPTION
SLOVENIA—SPRING 1946[/sup][/list]
Infrastructure Minister Črtomir Nagode was able to breathe a sigh of relief as the Survey of the Slovene Republic, which commenced with Boris FurlanÂ’s election in October 1945, drew to a close. Mapping out constituencies and rail routes had exhausted the energy of he and his department—the effort had been so monumental it actually spawned a new Slovenian Geographical Institue under SAZU, the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts—and Nagode was now able to turn to projects of passion and interest. A construction engineer hailing from the medieval city of Metlika, Nagode developed a fondness for the traditional architecture of his hometown as the Republic came into being; when the Survey was completed in June 1946, he summoned a conference of SloveniaÂ’s urban planners in his White Carniolan hometown just east of Mažadan.¹ There, he made a bold case to his peers: with car ownership already a privilege of a small class, car-centered infrastructure would be ‘unsustainably foreignÂ’ to the newly created state—construction and upkeep costs coupled with the purchasing of a car by each family would not only cost the average Slovenian citizen, but it would endanger the sanctity of old Slovenian towns and cities that would require the annihilation of public walking and social space. In a keynote speech to the attendees, Nagode clarified that when he was sealed as Infrastructure Minister—an almost undisputed fact to come with next monthÂ’s elections—he would be introducing stipends to municipal governments that prove their friendliness to cyclists and public transportation. That, he feels, is the future. Botanist Maks Wraber, a staunch defender of forests, wrote to Nagode earlier in the year to explore this very issue: highways, he felt, would be a scourge on SloveniaÂ’s proud forests and would embitter a nation so proud of forestry.
Nagodejeva metoda (“Nagode’s method”), as it would come to be known in municipal circles, would cordon off city centers from private vehicles entirely and greatly curtail the need to own a car in developed areas. It was a daunting task, but one that Nagode was not afraid to take on: “Ljubljana will be the first,” he declared at the close of the conference. The Slovenian government would go on to prop up a private truck-building venture in Maribor—‘Pionir’—the following year, enabling it to become a prolific maker of buses and even military vehicles in the country. Buses, trams and trains were Nagode’s vision to preserve the sanctity of ancient Slovenian cities against the concrete advance of automobile-centered infrastructure. So too would it play on a Slovenian strength: while there are no major civilian automobile manufacturers in the country, there are several heavy vehicle and railway firms eager to accept government contracts. Mass transit lay in Slovenia’s future—parking lots and highways would never come to be, supplanted by parks and greenbelts in a country that considered its ancient natural heritage nothing less than sacred.
[list][sup]¹ A fictional city that crowns the region of White Carniola.[/sup][/list]
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LIBERAL-SLS COALITION TRIUMPHS IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS, THOUGH THE LEFT WING MAKES A SURPRISE SHOWING
[list][sup]A SHRUNKEN BUT IMPORTANT CORNER
SLOVENIA—SUMMER 1946[/sup][/list]
Provisional Prime Minister Miha Krek, a staunch anti-Titoist and relentless conservative, had ruled for fifteen months with his appointed cabinet, impressing his nationalistic agenda upon the newborn Slovene nation and its many subdued concessions with near-limitless power, aided and defended by the British and American armies. During those fifteen months, left-wing circles in Slovenia have been severely curtailed on account of fears of Titoist influence; known Titoists have been prosecuted without mercy, and the many thousands subsequently sentenced to prison labor have done key work in revitalizing Slovene industry and infrastructure. Though democratic in name, Slovenia had warped and subjugated its traditionally vibrant left wing in the face of communist expansionism—President Boris Furlan, though himself falling near the center-left of the political spectrum, did little to save his further-left-wing friends and seemed convinced that anti-communist sentiment in Slovenia was inexorable. In spite of everything, though, the left wing in Slovenia was far from dead. The nation’s first parliamentary elections saw a surprise showing from Levica (“The Left”), a simplistically named political front uniting social democrats, democratic socialists and those further left who had avoided prosecution. Their unconventionally named party was a circumvention of restrictions on ‘socialist and communist’ imagery and cleverly navigated the loopholes in conservative electoral restrictions.
Boris Furlan and Miha Krek’s ‘centrist’ big-tent bloc, the Liberal Party, triumphed with victories in just under half of the nation’s constituencies. Of the 150 seats in the National Assembly—the lower house of the Slovenian Parliament—73 would be won by Liberal candidates, who would go on to form a coalition government with Andrej Gosar’s center-right Slovenian People’s Party (SLS), the second largest party in the country. The hegemony of the Liberals and SLS was a testament to the conservative domination of the country, a one-sided political situation that even some conservatives mourned. Still, Levica made a sincere showing: under stern, analytical Mažadan-born chairman Iztok Jamnik, it managed to gain 12 chiefly urban constituencies and vowed to ‘bring unheard voices to Slovenian politics’. Though its voters faced harassment and deeply unfair treatment at the hands of their more extreme opponents, the party had still managed to gain nearly 10% of the national vote—this prompted excitement in left-wing journals and intellectual circles and suggested that the once-vibrant socialist sect of the Slovenian political sphere could possibly return in the near future.
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BANZA STATUE INAUGURATED IN LJUBLJANA AS SLOVENO-ZAIREAN TIES ARE SEALED
[list][sup]AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP
SLOVENIA—SUMMER 1946[/sup][/list]
[list][sup]https://i.imgur.com/iX0YN5j.png[/sup][/list]
Ljubljana was at the height of summer. Green trees swayed gently in the breeze on a warm day, and the streets were full of people, bustling trams and the chimes of bicycle bells. A crowd had gathered throughout a cobblestone street of the city’s government quarter, where construction was most widespread as foreign states established their embassies and permanent diplomatic missions. The United People of Zaire (Paseo) was among them; an unlikely friend of the new Slovenian state, Zaire’s friendship with little Slovenia had begun when First Representative Gloria Banza aided Slovene separatists during the Yugoslav era. In 1944, now-President Boris Furlan’s Committee for an Independent Slovenia commissioned stone and bronze sculptor Lojze Dolinar to create a commemorate life-sized sculpture of Banza for display in Ljubljana upon Slovene independence; it would now stand on a high stone pedestal reading “GLORIJA BANZA—PRVI PREDSTAVNIK ZAIRA” and feature a tall, elegant depiction of her gazing southward, as if toward her homeland. The First Representative herself was able to attend the inauguration of the statue—standing beside Prime Minister Miha Krek, she watched the unveiling of the oversized Zairean and Slovenia flags that had been draped over it and expressed graceful gratitude to Dolinar and all in attendance.
Banza’s presence in Slovenia amounted to a fully-fledged state visit. The night of her arrival saw a candlelit dinner with the Furlan family and Zairean ambassador Augustin Obala, featuring platters of traditional Slovene dishes, glittering bottles of aged wine from Slovenia’s prestigious wine country, and a trio of musicians playing violin, mandolin and bass. Her lodging was at the recently restored Rocen Manor, a 17th-century mansion in the hilly countryside west of Ljubljana. The next day was filled with meetings with Prime Minister Krek, President Furlan and the heads of several ministries. Then, in the evening, came an extravagant gala at the Grand Union Hotel, where Banza was met with a standing ovation by a crowd of dignitaries and politicians, both Slovene and foreign. The evening included lavish meals, sincere speeches and conversations in French with an array of traditional Slovenian nobles, more than one of which cryptically called Banza a ‘bearer of the White Sword’. The First Representative’s speech that night was a long one, filled with eloquent words of praise for Slovenia and the Slovenian people. She described the relationship between Zaire and Slovenia as one of true friendship, a friendship that was built on the common values of independence, democracy and human rights. She spoke of the Slovenian people’s courage in standing up to the Yugoslav state and achieving independence and emphasized the need for closer economic cooperation between the two countries—at last, she officially announced that Zaire would be opening an embassy in Ljubljana. The speech was met with rapturous applause, and banqueters rose to their feet to give Banza a standing ovation.
After two daysÂ’ break for leisure and time spent in countryside luxury, Banza met with students at the University of Ljubljana, where she spoke about the importance of education in Zaire and the need for closer cooperation between the two countries. She also visited the National Museum, where she was shown around by the director, Bojan Brecelj; the First Representative was particularly interested in the museumÂ’s collection of African art purchased from across the continent, and she expressed her hope that Zaire and Slovenia would one day be able to cooperate on exhibitions of Zairean art in Slovenian museums. Most financially significant during the visit, though, were her meetings with several executives and developers of Slovenian businesses. Negotiating on behalf of several Zairean import-export firms, she adeptly arranged trade deals with several consumer goods companies, including Alpini, a footwear and athletic wear manufacturer; Iskra, an emerging electronics facility; and the developers of Pionir, a company soon to be incorporated with an emphasis on heavy vehicles. The visit ended somberly with a memorial service for the victims of the Slovene Rising held at LjubljanaÂ’s Franciscan Church of the Annunciation. For two hours, hymns were sung, prayers were read, and eulogies were made. The First RepresentativeÂ’s eulogy in particular was a heartfelt one, in which she spoke of the courage of the Slovenian people and the need for reconciliation between the nations of the former Kingdom. The service was a solemn one, and those in attendance left the cathedral in a pensive mood. Still, the bond between the two states had been unquestionably strengthened, and the state visit altogether served as a reminder of the richness that can emerge even in friendships with countries as nascent as Slovenia.
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What year is it ?
As of current,1946
The United Tribes, Canada Leaf
August,1946
"THE HOME OF THE FUTURE."
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As we reach the half way point in the year,and monsoon season in the Malay peninsula being on its way.Maziya needed a solution to handle the floods that are the products of the monsoon season and the fact that they destroy houses very easily if their traditional Malay architecture and easily flood houses which will break or damage a lot of things in that building.A new type of building would be built from this,labelled as the "HOME OF THE FUTURE" on posters to promote it.This "home of the future" would be build in the middle of the capital city where activity would be at its highest and people if they see it and looking at the surrounding buildings could be interested in moving into it.
[U]The building architecture.
It would have two buildings attached with a mini bridge.The first building would be the stairwell to lead up to every floor,the second building is the actual residential area.The building would have two residential floors with 8 homes for both residential floors,below the residential area would be a mini market for daily goods and a kopitiam otherwise known as a coffee shop to the people of the west.The Kopitiam would have a variety of food from the different ethnic groups in Maziya.
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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[list]SHOWA 21 | AUGUST 1946[/list]
[list][list]皇帝の規則
[pre]RULES FOR THE EMPEROR[/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]N E W I M P E R I A L L A W[/pre]
TOKYO, IMPERIAL PALACE — MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| The three Imperial princesses, KAZUKO TAKA, 16, ATSUKO YORI, 15, and TAKAKO SUGA, 7, worked in the Imperial kitchen. In EMPEROR HIROHITOÂ’s summer villa near Nasu, his three daughters, who had previously lived surrounded by servants, were now washing the dinner dishes. In the morning, at the Imperial Palace, the Emperor read in his newspaper the first draft of a new Imperial Household Law, drawn up by the Japanese government to replace a statute in effect since 1889. |
[list][list][pre]1) The emperor cannot abdicate.
2) Only the direct heirs of the family may assume the throne.
3) Only heirs may inherit the throne as per Japanese tradition.
4) It is forbidden to use the Imperial Crest (a 16-petal chrysanthemum) as a trademark.[/pre][/list][/list]
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RESULTS OF POST WAR WEAPONRY EVALUATION
August 9th 1946
Reference post : https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=48763731
The results of the Rhodesian post war Weapons Evaluation Committee, set up by the Army to determine the effectiveness and possible introduction of many weapons seized from the Germany both during and at the conclusion of the war has finally bore fruit with the Holden Review (named after the head of the Committee Charles Holden). Multiple Recommendations and notes were given to the various acquired items :
[spoiler= Items considered inferior/not as effective as current alternatives]
MP-40 Sub Machine Guns
Gewehr 43 semi-automatic Rifles
Kübelwagen light vehicles
Opel Blitz Medium Trucks
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[spoiler= Items that cannot feasibly be copied due to munition restrictions or other concerns]
Flakvierling 38 anti-aircraft guns
Pak 43 anti-tank guns
Flak 41 anti-aircraft guns
Panzer III J. tanks
Panzer IV J. tanks
Panther G. tanks
Jagdpanzer Hetzer tank destroyers
Sd.Kfz. 251 halftracks
Sd.Kfz. 222 Armored Cars
BF-109K Fighters
Fw 190 A-10 Fighters
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[spoiler=Items recommended for Production in Rhodesia]
Sturm Gewehr 44 Assault Rifles - Recommendation for rechambering in .303 Munitions with production start aimed at 1948
MG-42 Machine Guns - Recommendation for rechambering in .303 Munitions with production start aimed at 1949
Panzerschreck - Recommendation for production ASAP to replace PIAT, feasible introduction 1947
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[spoiler=Items recommended for Production in Zambezia]
Walther P38
Karabiner 98k - Recommendation for rechambering in .303 Munitions with
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With a very limited amount chosen for introduction the remaining Vehicles are to be tested for possible other technologies such as Gearboxes and Generators for Vehicles or Sights that may be superior to what Rhodesia currently operates. Once all that is completed all captured items shall be shared amongst Rhodesian Museums. All recommendations to chamber weapons in .303 would take at the very minimum 24 months due to the associated testing and research to ensure they still function perfectly.
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
[/spoiler]
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[list]1946년 08월 | 1946 August
[list][sup]Seoul | 한성[/sup]
United States Army Military Government in Korea[list]
[sup]Â’Non-supporters are sympathisersÂ’[/sup][/list]
| [sub]Â’Those who refuse to support our leadership are communist-sympathisersÂ’, the words echoed around Prince UihwaÂ’s head for a moment as he realised the implications of such a statement, was he now suddenly a communist? Kim Gu? His son? The idea that those who desired independence immediately and opposed the occupation of the US military were now all suddenly viewed as sympathisers, or even collaborators worried him greatly. He knew the Communist Party of South Korea had grown more agitated and aggressive in its stance, and knew an escalation was almost imminent.[/sub] |
| [sub]He was soon joined by his son Prince Haneul, formerly known as Prince Yi U, in the dining room of Gyeongbok Palace who noticed the worried look on his fathers face. The Prince sat on the floor opposite his father, nodding as if to acknowledge the look on his fathers face.[/sub][list]
[sub]Prince Uihwa: “I fear that we may be entering our darkest days. Japan’s retreat and surrender gave us up, but now we sit on a divided peninsula. Anyone who doesn’t support the US and Rhee is a sympathiser for the north, and anyone who doesn’t support the regime in the north is anti-revolutionary. The Korean struggle begins now.”[/sub]
[sub]Prince Haneul: “We are weakened but desire lives on in our hearts. If we are truly abolished and our property confiscated, I will fight on to see Korea reunited once more. Even if it kills me.”[/sub]
[sub]Prince Uihwa: “And fight on we must. Speaker Rhee despises us; he views us a threat to his authority.”[/sub]
[sub]Prince Haneul: “He is family after all; haven’t all our ancestors viewed one another as a threat to their authority?”[/sub][/list]
| [sub]The matter-of-fact response earned Prince Haneul a small chortle from his father who took another sip of his tea, gently placing the cup back down on the table.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]Prince Uihwa: “A workers strike will take place soon; and it will make or break the American occupation-[/sub][/list]
| [sub]HeÂ’d wave his hand to his son, who looked keen to interject, so he could continue uninterrupted.[/sub] |[list]
[sub]-I have it on good authority. The workers are hungry, they are tired and in poverty. The north has outflanked the American military in terms of policy advancement, our economies are both still weak, but the north seems to have a better foundation to build upon. There are minimum wages, need I go on?”[/sub]
[sub]Prince Haneul: “Have you gone communist father? You sound like you’re preaching from Kang Ryang-uk sermons.”[/sub]
[sub]Prince Uihwa: “Is it not basic decency and human kindness? To guarantee people a standard of living? I am no communist nor am I a socialist, but in this new world we must look after one another. Otherwise we’d be no better than the Japanese who occupied us.”[/sub][/list]
| [sub]Prince Haneul would simply hum in agreement, realising his father was right. RheeÂ’s regime was shaping up to be no better than the one that had ruled over them all for thirty-five years. Time was not on their side, but the right moment would come along soon.[/sub] |[/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
[/spoiler]
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| THE TWO TALES OF ZAIRE |
[sub]August, 1946[/sub]
| BANZA MANSION, ZAIRE |
| The marriage between Gloria Banza and Alexander de Mutte was that of necessity for Gloria. Marrying her own stylist in 1942, the marriage was enforced upon her by her surrounding. In fear that she would be perceived as a single mother, a woman without a husband, the establishment pushed her towards remarrying. Alexander de Mutte is a half-Belgian, half-Zairean who before the war spent most of his time in Belgium before appearing in the Colony of Congo, and later becoming a stylist and a close friend of Gloria.
However, their marriage began to show cracks within their friendship as the two began to find one another annoying. For Gloria, keeping up the marriage keeps the Church and the conservative strive of the party quiet and for de Mutte? Well, it keeps his records clean, and allows him to travel the world under the supervision and protection of the Zairean authority, as he is the First Man of Zaire. However, just how long can the marriage succeed?
That's the question that lingered within the mind of Gloria as she made her way to the doorsteps of her mansion, only to find them locked. Bewildered, she would knock loudly on the door when suddenly one of her aids, Xavier, would run up and open them before in shock realising it was Gloria. |
[list][ XAVIER ]: "Mrs Banza! What a surprise."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Do let me in Xavier. I need to change."[/list]
[list][ XAVIER ]: "I'm afraid that's not possible."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "I beg you pardon?"[/list]
| Looking down for a moment, he would open the door wide and full as Gloria made her way in. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "I believe this is my home. So long I live here, I may enter whenever I wish, yes?"[/list]
[list][ XAVIER ]: "Of course."[/list]
| Shaking her head, Gloria would make her way through the long corridor before approaching the bedroom door. Opening the door, she would realise who was within her bed. It was Alexander and a strange unfamiliar woman. Gloria would look at the two, and raising her head up she would point towards the door. The woman, in a manic hurry got up and left as she picked her dress up from the floor. Alexander would stretch out in bed before lighting a cigarette as Gloria would turn her gaze towards the wardrobe, and begin to look through her clothes. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Quick change?"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Yes."[/list]
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Important meeting?"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Obviously."[/list]
| Silence would spread throughout the room. Gloria would pick out a dark blue dress and take it out. Alexander would sit up. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "I'm sensing that you're mad with me, Gloria."[/list]
| Gloria would remain silent. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "I thought it was clear what our deal looked like."[/list]
| Gloria would begin to change into her dress. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Can you not speak? Just say what's on your mind for Christ sake woman! I hate when you act like that."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Like what?"[/list]
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "A spoilt brat, incapable of telling me her true feelings. You're not fifteen. You've got some sort of education, surely you can speak out."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "You...you never told me that women...that women were part of this deal."[/list]
| Alexander would look at her and burst out laughing before getting up and putting his robe on. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Sweetie, you didn't think that I was a homosexual strictly?"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "What I think doesn't matter. Clearly."[/list]
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Clearly."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "I will not be humiliated like that, Alex. I put my gaze down when it comes to men...it's a frivolous escapism for you."[/list]
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Now that's a word I never thought you knew."[/list]
| Gloria would look at him for a moment, and after sighing she would get up as she looked at herself in the mirror. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "We had a deal, Gloria. You want to break it...be my guest. You make me live in this...well, how to put it lightly...hell. And you want me to just sit and abide? Smile and wave? I don't think."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "It's hurting me, Alex."[/list]
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "We're not a real couple, Gloria. We never were."[/list]
| Gloria would look at him for a moment. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Oh...oh you're falling for me, aren't you?"[/list]
| Gloria would look away for a moment as Alex shook his head with laughter. |
[list][ ALEXANDER ]: "Bless. Bless that naïve little African heart. Deep inside you're still that maid looking up at every man, wishing he'd take care of you. Quite sad, actually. For someone that so badly wants to be a leader. Truly. Sad."[/list]
| Alexander would leave off. Gloria would look up, catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror before breaking down. After a moment, she would compose herself and try to bring on a smile that would turn into tears at each moment. She would get up and up close to the mirror, trying to smile before failing again and letting out a loud primal scream from within her before landing back on the bed. She would catch a glimpse of herself once more in the mirror before taking a deep breath and leaving off to the bathroom. |
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| NIGOYE MANSION, ZAIRE |
| Marie Izuru has rose over the past two years into fame within the politics of Zaire. Leading the Left Wing within the National Liberal Revival Movement, she has brought a new thought to the movement, one that connects with Banzaism as much as it takes points from Socialism. Izuru's parents were plantation workers in the deep countryside, but Izuru manged to get education due to her mother's conviction and determination, Izuru manged to attend Church school lessons. Izuru is an outright atheist, however. Her movement within the party gained 13 seats in the last elections, and with the Congress elections coming up next year, Izuru is set to take even more seats with her left wing program appealing to the quickly educating population, especially the working class population.
Fabian Nigoye quickly saw her as a threat, a threat that has to be minimised and what better way than to try and incorporate that threat into your own group. Leading the Liberal Wing, and being the Head of the Assembly, Nigoye has much to offer for Izuru, and her rising political career. With that in his mind, he calculated a plan. A plan that he tries to set in motion as he sits opposite her, within his home mansion, drinking whiskey as she does too. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "You wouldn't believe how much work went into this house."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "It's lovely."[/list]
| Smiling at her, Fabian would move forward slightly. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Just as lovely as your recent victory. I congratulate you on it. A new wing within the party is always welcomed by me."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I'm glad. We might differ in our visions for the nation but yet we are able to work under the same banner."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "We differ? I wouldn't go that far. Our programs revolve around Banzaism."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Yes, but I don't believe that we should be leaving the people to themselves. We must help them."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "We are. Education, Work."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Beyond that. Healthcare, further education, social care, equality, equity, and fairness. Also, let's not kid ourselves here. You're quite soft on the colonial powers, and on their position within Africa."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "Hm. And how would you deal with them?"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Well, it's vital that we push for a quick process of decolonisation, and stabilisation of Africa. The African people need to have freedom. The African people deserve freedom. We cannot be bouncing around the Whites, smiling and kissing them whilst our brothers and sisters are continuously oppressed within Africa. We have to push for a new world, a free and unified world, an equal world."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "With what?"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I'm sorry?"[/list]
| Fabian would laugh and put his drink down. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "What you're saying is beautiful. Worthy of attention. But. What they all have, those Whites as you say is money. We need money. We are making money. Without money, we do not exist. Without money, we cannot help our brothers and sisters. How do you think the world operates? On the basis of visions and ideas? No. No. It operates on the basis of practicality and business. We are making business. We are making friends. Good friends. Long last friends. You want to change Africa, change Zaire first. You want to change Zaire, change your mindset first. Idealism is beautiful when you have the money to support it. Otherwise it's nothing more than false propaganda."[/list]
| Marie would look at him, annoyed and bewildered by his beliefs. |
[list][ FABIAN ]: "But I like you, a lot. You have the fierceness of being a diplomat. That is why I asked you to come. I think a position in the Assembly would be just right for you. In foreign affairs."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "But?"[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "You're a fast learner. But the Left Wing would have to join the Liberal Wing. We're not that far from each other, as I just established."[/list]
| Marie would look at him for a moment before smirking and putting her drink down. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "I thank you for the offer, Mr Nigoye. But the answer is no."[/list]
[list][ FABIAN ]: "No?"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "We're not the same. Clearly the only thing that unites us, is Mrs Banza. I'm not sure whether it's because she unites our beliefs or because she is the only capable leading figure so far...the Left Wing is not the Liberal Wing. We stand on the principle of helping the poorer man, on the principle of aiding the cause that we should strive for. And let me make something clear to you, Mr Nigoye. You want to change the world, you change Africa. You want to change Africa, you change Zaire. You want to change Zaire, you change your greedy, euro-centric mind. Thank you, for inviting me to your lovely home, Mr Nigoye."[/list]
| With a slight smile, she would nod at him and leave off. Fabian would finish his drink as a smirk appeared on his face as he watched her leave. A new idea popped into his head, a more secure way of potentially removing Izuru from the scene for some time. |
[spoiler="...Gloria, I write to you as I believe it'd be a good opportunity to move her out into worldwide diplomacy...show the world what Zaire is made of..." - Nigoye in a private letter to Banza]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU
DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS
ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA
THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]
01 February — 1946[/pre]
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[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]
[list][list]____________
[pre] [/pre]
[pre]DELAYED GENERAL ELECTION LEADS ANC MAJORITY AMID RISE OF NEW LEADERS IN ALL MAJOR PARTIES;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]| PORT ELIZABETH — As dusk settled in on the 29th of January, words spread like wildfire that ballots had finally been counted and the results were clear. The African National Congress, for the first time in the history of the Dominion, secured the most seats in Parliament. With the sudden retirements of nation’s first aboriginal premier, AB Xuma; the founding leader of the National Party, JBM Hertzog; and Labour’s Waltar Madaley, many wondered whether or not the National Unity Government would survive the changing tide.[/sub]
[sub]During the last summer, the three Parties held internal elections to select their leaders which showcased how much politics and the public philosophy of Azania had changed since the last regular election in 1935, much less the snap election of 1939. Gone were the Party Manifestos written to cater solely to white voters who were, by-and-large, the only demographic that mattered. With the expansion of voting rights in 1936 to certain aboriginal ethnic groups recognized as “civilized”; and further with the adoption of the new Constitution Act in 1944 which brought about universal suffrage. In it’s place, movements to adopt various forms of ‘multiculturalism’ as planks to attract the diverse multitude of voters who now fill the rolls. In the Labour Party, the departure of the aging Waltar Madaley was widely viewed as overdue, with the campaign for General Secretary falling along generational lines. The leading candidate and ultimate victor, Colin Steyn, campaigned on a platform of ‘Non-racialism’ and expansion of worker’s rights in the wake of the Miner’s and Industrial strikes back in 1941. That movement, the single largest worker’s strike in the history of the African continent, saw millions of Azanians - Whites, Aboriginal, Coloureds, and Asiatics - join in arms culminating in Parliament’s nationalization of the nation’s ore extraction and refinement sectors. It demonstrated for a plethora of voters, the possibility of non-racial, pan-Union activity towards the realization of common goals. Through Mister Steyn’s victory, the Labour Party solidified it’s position as the party of Unions, Demonopolization, and creation of a social safety net.[/sub]
[sub]The National Party’s leadership campaign fell within the context of the Discrimination and Hate Crime Prevention Act (DHCPA) arrests from 1943 to 1945, which saw a number of previously declared “rising leaders” receive multi-decade prison sentences for Treason. In the absence of D.F. Malan, widely regarded as JBM Hertzog’s heir, a moderate Jan Hofmeyer was able to rest control of the party which reeled in the wake of the arrests. His campaign pitch was simple, to regain a sense of direction for the National Party - not as advocates for Afrikaner nationalism and racial segregation, but as the party of Azanian independence from the United Kingdom and so-called “civil nationalism”. To Hofmeyer, Azania’s future rested not in her leader’s ability to relegate “natives” to second-class citizenship, but to build alliances that reaches beyond racial lines and mobilizes the nation towards hegemony in the southern hemisphere.[/sub]
[sub]Finally, the African National Congress’s leadership campaign proved to be the most intense of the three. Where once the universal nature of the ANC as a ‘big-tent’ party for native rights was enough to hold the differing ideologies together, the application of citizenship and recent government efforts to overcome the plight of natives expanded pre-existing divisions. The nation’s first native Premier, Dr. AB Xuma found himself under immense pressure by his partisans who castigated him as a hand-servant to whites, and an embodiment of a non-confrontational ideology - prompting an announcement that he would step aside as leader of the ANC during the 1946 election. Earth shattering was the announcement, which opened up the floodgates for members of the Pan-Africanist, Usaphist, Nationalists, and various tribal factions to put forth candidates of their own. In all, some 17 men and women stood for election as leader each with widely different pitches - from Pro-Commonwealth members who supported the Cosmopolitan vision of Jan Smuts (Xuma’s wing); to Communists who advocated for an abolishment of the Monarchy and immediate dissolution of private corporations; and even members of the Royal Family of the Zulu Peoples, who advanced the idea of removing the British Monarchy, replacing it with an African one, and expelling whites from the United Tribes. However, it was Ambassador Engameli Zwane who was able to advance before the crowd on a Usaphist platform of multiculturalism, progressive economics, and an exertion of Azanian influence as the leader of a “New Africa”.[/sub]
[sub]New Leaders, New Voting Laws, and a New Constitution creates an unprecedented moment in the history of Azania through which her citizens were tasked with cutting through noise and determining the direction of the nation. Under the new Constitution act, the Parliament of the United Tribes would see seats distributed to each constituent country evenly with 37 seats for each country, and 2 additional seats granted to the nationÂ’s capital; wherein the municipalities of Cape Town and Pretoria, would receive one seat each.[/sub]
[sub]The condition of the nation was peculiar. Victory during the second Great War demonstrated Azania’s prowess as a diplomatic, military, and economic force on the global stage. Such was this the case that the United Tribes would receive a permanent seat on the United Nation’s Security Council, membership on both the Board and Executive Committee of the International Monetary Fund, while cultivating a continental framework for cooperation alongside Zaire. Indeed, Azania’s presence abroad was felt - for better or worse - boosting foreign expectations for greatness while the traditional powers lay in shambles. However, internally, the nation had been broken beneath the weight of rapid change and social instability. Great industrial growth was met with mass worker’s demonstrations; victorious military forces during the war returned home to find that no veteran benefits packages had been prepared for them. Financial growth and an expansion of the United Tribes’ fiscal imprint abroad raised concerns about the vast wealth divide where 67% of the population were considered impoverished — living on traditional subsistence farms, or in shanty towns to commute to menial low-wage professions in urban centers. Despite the great effort to provide redress for these grievances, the 1945/46 Census revealed that there is much work to be done.[/sub]
[sub]Thus, in response to this great task, the people — all of Azania’s people, took to the polls, yielding the following results;[/sub]
[list][*] United Party of South Africa
[sup]Leader: JGN Strauss[/sup]
20% (-21), Seats: 54 (-7)
[*] African National Congress
[sup]Leader: Engameli Zwane[/sup]
29% (+25), Seats: 58 (+14)
[*] National Party
[sup]Leader: Jan Hofmeyer[/sup]
11% (-17), Seats: 15 (-27)
[*] Labor Party
[sup]Leader: Colin Steyn[/sup]
2% (-3), Seats: 21 (+18)
[*] Various Independents
[sup]Leader: N/A [/sup]
.8% (+.8), Seats: 2 (+2)
[list]https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=827740[/list]
[list][sub]These results can further be broken down by ethnicity; wherein the United Party secured the vote of 20% of participants, securing 36% of seats. The National Party secured only 11% of the vote, yielding 10% of seats. The Labour Party received 15% of the vote, and received 15% of seats. Finally, the African National Congress 54% of the vote, but only 39% of seats.[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]The greatest change produced by the election results was the utter collapse of the share of seats controlled by the National Party and United Party. Traditionally the two major parties, Both suffered losses , but the National PartyÂ’s loss of 27 seats far exceeded those lost by the United Party (7). This was largely the result of the distribution of AzaniaÂ’s population in each constituent country, with most NP supporters being concentrated in the Union of the Cape. There, 38% of voters supported the NationalÂ’s (almost completely Afrikaner AzanianÂ’s), whereas the United PartyÂ’s broader coalition of Afrikaners, Capers (British Desendents), Coloured Azanian, and some Aboriginals, yielded a larger seat gain in the Union of the Cape (17 Seats), and elsewhere across the United Tribes. In Ikhaya, the UP received 2 seats whereas - surprisingly, Tswana voters awarded the UP with 28 seats in Bechuanaland of their 37.[/sub]
[sub]A casualty of the new division of seats was the neutering effect of the Aboriginal population concentration into the Union of Ikhaya, which created a situation where 54% of ballots cast were by Aboriginal Azanians, who were only able to secure 39% of seats. This was as much a design feature as it was a flaw, to protect the rights of minority populations in Azania by giving each country a equal amount of seats and as such, every ethnic group, a fair short to secure leadership of the United Tribes.[/sub]
[sub]With these results, the African National Congress under Ambassador Engameli Zwane has been tasked by the Governor-General to form a coalition government as they were 18 seats short of an out-right majority. Truly, this is a new day for the United Tribes.[/sub]
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Paramountica, Paseo, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Otsla, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance
Mexican Economic Project
The Mexican government has allocated the funds to begin a major infrastructure project throughout the country. President Salvador presented the plan to repave the major roads, expand the rail lines, build more permanent airports, and extend the power grid. The president has used the national oil industry to help with funding a major amount of these projects. The first major goal and the first phase includes the repaving and expansion of the infrastructure. Engineers from the Autobahn in Germany were quietly invited to provide their input and experience in the building of the new roads. A continuous road from the tip of Baja California to the Yucatan is the first phase. The new road project has provided a great many Mexicans with new work across the whole of the nation. The first section of this network will start in Mexico City and expand in the direction to all the major cities and webbing out.
Phase two will be expanding the rail networks with a large emphasis on the oil transit network to enable for greater transport of oil to ports and neighbors who are purchasing the oil. The PEMEX company has been instructed to begin work on building new refineries in the country. Major estates of the PNR dictators and Calles's personal assets have been repossessed and liquidated in order to allow for the needed funds and to send a message to the PNR. National oil exports have been ordered to be increased to do so. This will then pivot to the Airports and shipping ports. This all will ideally provide the nation with a much stronger economy and with the recent land reforms turn Mexico into a net exporter. The government is open to holding trade deals with other Central American nations and non-aligned nations.
In addition, Salvador would like to make strides to open up relations with their catholic brothers around the world. The President has reached out to his Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to expand a network of nations that would be open to trade and open relations. Salvador called on the people of Central American to stand united in order to strengthen the nations from the threat of communism.
Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya
[list][list][pre]LABAN PILIPINAS!
FIGHT, PHILIPPINES![/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]| DEFENSE SECRETARY RAMON MAGSAYSAY LAYS OUT PLAN FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE, DEFENDS THE CONTINUED AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE[/pre]
[sub]CLARK - The new Secretary of National Defense, Ramon Magsaysay, was considered by many as the young wild card in the Quezon cabinet. He had been appointed to lead defense affairs in the aftermath of the Japanese occupation in recognition of his services as a guerilla leader against the Japanese, and for a short time as chief of staff of the Free Republic Army. Magsaysay had publicly confirmed that he was not a military general, but described himself as a 'strategical decisionmaker' and 'a patriot first and foremost'. Taking his experience from operating the Republic Army, the new Defense Secretary organized weekly meetings with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)'s commanding officers, including the chiefs of staff and the chairman of the joint chiefs, Rafael Jalandoni of the Philippine Constabulary. In these meetings, which took place from 5 July to 13 July, established a framework of operations for the new Philippine Armed Forces and directed for the reorganization of the military 'with the fullest transparency'.[/sub]
[sub]By the conclusion of the war, the Commonwealth Army had been downgraded from up to 800,000 forces (factoring in guerilla units of all types and across the spectrum) to only 250,000 men. With the approval of President Quezon, Magsaysay announced to the Chiefs of Staff of the Philippine Army and the Philippine Navy, and to the Organized Commander (O.C.) of the Philippine Army Air Corps (PAAC) his intention to maintain a standing army of 170,000 men, divided into 17 divisions, while maintaining a reserve force of 150,000 divided into 15 reservist divisions. The new Philippine Army would also likely possess American surplus arms to bolster its armored and motorized infantry forces, which the Philippine Government hopes to acquire from the U.S. Government in the planned 1947 trade and defense negotiations.[/sub]
[sub]The new, cocky and charismatic Defense Secretary clashed hard with Quezon's Finance Secretary, Andres Soriano, one of the Philippines' financial elites and the founder of ANSCOR, a gargantuan holding company that was strengthening its hold on the growing San Miguel Brewery corporation. Soriano defended business interests and pushed for lower taxes, calling it the 'best way' to solve the country's economic woes, but Magsaysay, who was seeking more funding for the military, fought back, demanding higher taxes for the rich. This debate between the two politicians would begin to form Magsaysay's social democratic and center-left political views.[/sub]
[sub]The new defense secretary furthermore defended the continued American military presence, which post-independence was quickly coming under fire for being a 'stain on the independence of our country'. Some decried the American bases in Clark and Subic, some of the largest outside the continental United States, slated to be maintained by the U.S. and the Philippines, as being anti-independence and 'compromising on Filipino sovereignty'. Magsaysay, who witnessed firsthand the strength and capabilities of the American military, was strongly supportive of maintaining 'extremely close' defense ties with the United States, while 'maintaining sufficient strategic autonomy'. In a statement to The Manila Bulletin, the country's most circulated newspaper, Magsaysay described the American military presence as:[/sub]
[list][pre]"[...]The Filipino People have great potential to aspire high and fly even higher than ever before, but we are but a young fledgling bird. We can stand by ourselves, but we require some assistance from an external force, like how a fledgling requires support from her mother. The United States is able to provide that support, and together, we can grow the Filipino defense capabilities to eventually allow ourselves to stand alone and transform ourselves into a defender of democracy and liberty in our region."[/pre][/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][pre]August, 1946 |Gulu, Northern Province, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of Kalenjin[/pre]
SEPARATED AT LAST, THE BRITISH KALENJIN[/list]
Without time to waste, the plan that had been put off since April of 1944 as a consequence of the global world war, had now been put into effect. With authorization from the Imperial offices of London and support from the colonial legislature, Kampala quickly pushed towards officially severing Uganda into two political entities within the domain of the British Empire.
Uganda would become divided between the two British domains of the Protectorate of Buganda with its capital in Kampala, and the Colony of British Kalenjin with its capital in Gulu, in the northern regions of former Uganda. British Kalenjin, which is named after the regions of the Nilotic highlands, would be a colony composed of a Nilotic majority while also being inhabited by Sudanic and Bantu minorities in its western and southern regions.
With plans made for the partition of Uganda now finalized, both colonial governments in Gulu and Kampala would conform to strengthen the new frontier founded on the line of separation, which was installed to maintain the Nilotic people of northern Uganda and the Bantu of southern Uganda isolated, in efforts to prevent the recent wave of violence heeding territorial and power disputes.
The British Kalenjin would, just as Buganda, start entrenching its political, societal, and military institutions and capabilities within the hands of the native ethnic Nilotic populace of the colony, making way for greater strength for the people in roles of local and provincial administrations.
In steps to also boost the Kalenjin people in new postwar economic plans, the commonwealth administrations of Khartoum and Gulu had affirmed to their respective inhabitants that the two colonies would begin working together closely in founding a new train branch out of Gulu that would link to Mbale and Jinja, instead of compelling trade and activity to go through Buganda. It is within this project that ideas have emerged for the creation of a trade corridor between Juba to Jinja, therefore opening up the markets and resources of the Great Lakes to Sudan while Sudan could extend its markets and resources from the industrial north and the Mediterranean to the Great Lakes region of Kalenjin.
The Juba-Jinja trade corridor would not only be made in hopes of bolstering trade between the two colonies but also be set up as a long-term strategy by the newly assembled British Kalenjin offices of binding the colonial trade market closer to that of the Nilotic Sudanese south, which sees a lot in common with that of the Kalenjin, it is with this scheme that Gulu hopes its economic integration to that of KhartoumÂ’s would usher the reunification of the Nilo-Saharan people under an already prospering economically and culturally influential Sudanese state.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING![/list]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Paseo, Nosautempopulus, Amsterwald, Osivoii, Otsla, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya
September,1946
INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE PLANS
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With Maziya day of independence,one month away.It would be voted on by parliament to create a independence day event which doesn't just mean that students and workers who are outside of the food industry get a few days off from school and work.It would be decided to hold a military parade to give the people a source of entertainment to look forwards to every year .To go along with the parade,the Navy will form a new branch called the Naval Marching Band to perform in the parades.
[U]In-depth look into the parade and after parade plans.
The military parade will be held at the heart of the capital city,Permata Bersinar and will start of with the army branch of the military,Naval branch of the military and police force marching,those who are marching will only be volunteers.After that the Naval Marching Band will march and perform a song behind the others and after a few minutes after the marching band finish walking down the straight road to their stop point to line up behind the marching navy soldiers,land vehicles that Maziya has made and are serving in the military would be used to show that there is a weapons industry in the nation albeit not a very impressive one,once shown to the people who watch the event.After the parade finishes and all the other parade participants leave the area,the Naval Marching Band would perform 5 songs with coordinated movements along with it in that area,after that the sultan and representatives of each political party in Maziya and one of them would make a speech with the other political parties representitives being there to represent the different political mindsets of Maziya
Maziya Naval Marching Band.
The marching band would take a small amount of soldiers from the navy,they would be a volunteer group to perform for independence day parades.The group would comprise of 3 commanders,a percussion commander,a colour guard commander and the first commander who could come from any of the current three sections (percussion,colour guard and brass instrument) along with the three commanders,there would be 2 snares,2 bass drums,2 cymbals,2 trumpeters,2 low brass players and 2 colour guards,totalling 15 members.They would be training as normal soldiers of the navy until the 1st of September when those who volunteered would for five years play as a member of the marching band for independence day parades,after the parades are over they will be returned back to their normal training as soldiers of the navy.Once those five years of serving as a member of the Naval Marching Band are up a new batch would replace the previous batch however the previous batch will be called in to teach the new batch once the new batch of volunteers begin training for the parade.
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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TRIGLAV ENSHRINED AS SLOVENIAÂ’S FIRST NATIONAL PARK
[list][sup]A CROWN OF JULIAN STONE
SLOVENIA—SUMMER 1946[/sup][/list]
Triglav had long towered sagely over its Julian companions, crowning Slovenia in stone and snow as it watched over the land. With the annexation of Carinthia, it was no longer the highest point in the Republic—that title had been supplanted by Veliki Klek, formerly Großglockner—but it had never lost its majesty. First ascended by Carniolan nobleman ÂŽiga Cojs in 1778, it has long been a focus of Slovenian mountaineering, and its distinctive three points have inspired symbols, banners and even caps; the battle for cultural ownership of the triglavka continues between Slovene communists and nationalists. Among the eminent symbols of Slovenia, its importance could not be discounted. Thus, in August 1946, the Ministry of Forests and Land—acting on the authority of the parlament—established Triglav National Park, an area of 1,300 square kilometers encompassing both the Julijske Alpe (“Julian Alps”) and the Soča Valley. Its late-summer scenery was striking—light winds stirred the trees at the feet of the sun-gilt mountains, prompting gentle movements of their austere branches. Above them, the snow-capped peak of Triglav shone brilliantly against the blue sky. Renowned Slovenian botanist and plant geneticist Fran Jesenko had called the area the Triglavski narodni park (“Triglav national park”) twenty years earlier, in 1926, but the land had not been so in official form until the extensive protections afforded now.
Forester Franjo Sevnik was appointed the Chief Conservator of Triglav National Park, and his task would be no small one. The park was quite expansive, and the area had long been a site of human activity. Hunting was immediately prohibited, as were gathering firewood and other wood products, grazing and farming, as well as damaging the natural landscape in any way. In addition, the construction of roads, railways, tunnels and power lines was tightly restricted, as were any further settlements within the park. All told, the new national park was to be inviolate; a pristine wilderness where humans were to be visitors, not settlers. It was a status long sought, and Sevnik’s work was the culmination of a long and arduous process that had started with the efforts of the Carniolan Natural History Society in 1808. In the intervening century and a half, many individuals had fought for the preservation of the area; among them was the aforementioned botanist and plant geneticist Fran Jesenko, who had dreamed of seeing the park established as early as 1926. In the intervening twenty years, many others had joined his cause, among them the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Slovensko planinsko društvo (“Slovene Alpine Club”), and now the parlament. Tourists and hikers would need to be carefully managed, as all of the aforementioned organizations have cautioned—still, it would be an effort worth making.
Paseo, Nosautempopulus, Osivoii, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya
SMITH'S RHODESIA FORWARDS PARTY REFORMED INTO RHODESIAN VANGUARD
September 1946
As the Smith Government enters its second year of rule over Rhodesia Prime Minister Ian Smith announced numerous changes to his Party, including a merger with the more extreme Brotherly Front of Rhodesia. United these two Parties would now be referred to as the "Rhodesian Vanguard" echoing its foundations in the Armed Forces Committee and its largest voting bloc being Veterans. While its goals have scarcely changed it came with many visual differences, such as the adoption of a party flag depicting a large red "V" for Vanguard symbolizing the blood of those who fought to safeguard Rhodesia, while in the foreground a white and black hand shake to symbolize the native loyalists who work with the Rhodesians to secure the State from subversion.
Upon completion of the merger the Rhodesian Vanguard was transformed into the largest single Party in Rhodesia with just over 35% of the vote not including its Coalition partners. Importantly however it portrayed a uniting message, that all who stand for Rhodesia are welcome within its ranks, rather than the tribalism which they previously espoused. Not entirely convicting for the natives but it did not have to be as the vast majority of registered voters are still white. It was meant as an olive branch to the many right wing factions within the Nation, which if they could in fact put aside their differences would muster slightly over 60% of the vote.
Whether a widely popular move or not it is part of Smiths movement to try and monopolize the claim that his Party stood for a strong and self determined Rhodesia that valued all of its Citizens, whether factual or not. In fact many of the things he had begun espousing and enacting upon taking power were borderline isolationist, or at the very least to move Rhodesia to a state of near isolationism where it could at a moment notice become completely cut off from the world. With the rising native movements across the Continents tearing down colonial truths and standards this was in his eyes the only way to prepare and defend Rhodesia from a wave of anti-imperialism which would no doubt soon come banging on the Frontiers of Rhodesia and its Zambezian Ally. To him it was preparing for an ideological struggle that only he could properly see coming, and whether costly or not Rhodesia must remain armed and ready for any possible threat to its existence. The quicker African States achieved self determination was to the Vanguard an air raid siren getting louder and louder, signaling approaching conflict and strife as well as potential collapses of civilization due to the departure of "White Administrators".
In fact much of the new rhetoric was that of deception, showing the natives as equal as well as forcefully teaching such to whites in schools was meant to propagate the idea that it was truly so. White Children having that fact drilled into their head would then, as is the idea, respond in hostility to those who refuse to "face facts" or in any other way attempt to attack what they believe to be the truth. Native Schooling, which Smith championed during his time as regional representative would be only one of the tools to achieve this. Natives would be taught that achieving Equality is precisely what the Government fights for, and vigilance and support was required to achieve it in the long term. Ironically similar to the credence of Communism in the Soviet Union that praised sacrifice in the short term to achieve "socialist utopia" in the long term. His aim was to teach all Rhodesians that equality and stability went hand in hand, but that achieving it was a long journey that required strict adherence to accomplish.
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THE ‘WINE INSTITUTE OF SLOVENIA’ AND THE ANCIENT TRADITION OF SLOVENIAN WINEMAKING
[list][sup]PRESTIGIOUS VITICULTURE
SLOVENIA—SUMMER 1946[/sup][/list]
Slovenia’s winemaking tradition is one of the oldest on earth. Indeed, Slovene Lands saw the introduction of Illyrian and Celtic viticulture long before the practice was widespread in Western Europe, and today the country exports tens of millions of vrhunsko bottles of white wine among other varieties. Sprawling vineyards guarded by klopotci—traditional windmill-like bird-scarers—coat the country’s diverse and productive winemaking regions, each contributing its own practices and specialties. Altogether, though, Slovenian wine was meticulously made and considered to be premium quality: ordinary ‘table wine’ makes up less than a third of national production. In order to maintain the high standard for Slovenian viticulture, the Ministry of Culture and Ministry for Economic Development jointly founded the Zavod za vino Slovenije (“Wine Institute of Slovenia”, ZVS), which will seek to build on Slovenia’s viticultural heritage, promote and regulate the production of wine in the country and endeavor to promote it abroad. Slovenian wine was already ascendant in the Republic itself; tall, polished bottles of domestically made wine have featured at prestigious banquets, cultural exhibitions and state visits.
Slovenian wine chiefly comes from three winemaking regions. The Primorska vinorodna dežela (“Littoral Viticultural Region”) is perhaps the most prestigious; encompassing the Goriška brda (“Gorizia Hills”) of the Italian concession as well as the rolling hills of western Slovenia that slope toward the sea, it has the greatest international reputation of any of the regions and grows several globally popular wine varieties. However, it has several unique products as well: Kraški teran is a very dark, short-lived acidic wine grown in the red soils of the Karst plateau, and the Vipava Valley produces such light, fresh white wines as Glera and Vitovska Grganja. The Posavska vinorodna dežela (“Lower Sava Viticultural Region”) is the second of these, stretching along the lowest eastern portion of the mighty SavaÂ’s valley. It produces red wine more frequently than the other regions, including the traditional sour Cviček popular among the lower and middle classes. The last and largest of the viticultural areas of Slovenia is the Podravska vinorodna dežela (“Drava Viticultural Region”), which overwhelmingly produces white wine and dominates Slovenian viticulture in the realm of sparkling wine. In protection of this diverse array of wine varieties, the ZVS planned to open a Slovenian Wine Academy in Ljubljana by 1948 in order to educate young winemakers and encourage careful entry into the field.
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[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE[/pre][/list]
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ÉLYSÉE PALACE: SYRIAN INDEPENDENCE RECOGNIZED AS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS AND LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS RESHAPE FRANCE
[sub]FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, SEPTEMBER 1946 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF DÈMOCRATIE, PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE - | Continued pressure from the newly formed republican government in Damascus has ultimately led to France officially recognizing Syria as an independent state. While decades of French colonial rule have indefinitely left their mark on Syrian history, it will also be known that France's industrial contributions to the Syrian economy have led to this point where it is now a maturing and developing nation. The French scientific and historical community will also be enshrined for their efforts to uncover and preserve ancient Syrian and Arab artifacts and sites which will undoubtedly shape and further tell Syria's history in the decades to come. With all French troops leaving, France now lends its support and recognition to what will hopefully be a fledging Arab state in the years to come.[/sub]
[sub]Following Syria's recognized independence shortly thereafter, France held a constitutional referendum on 5 May 1946. Voters were asked whether they approved of a new draft Constitution proposed by the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945, the "Constitutional Bill of 19 April 1946". The draft Constitution, approved by the Constituent Assembly on 19 April 1946 was supported by the Communist and the Socialist parties. It would establish concentrated power in a unicameral Assembly and abolish the Senate of France. Moderates, Radicals, and the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) campaigned against the referendum. The "No" coalition warned the voters against the danger of a "dictatorship" of an Assembly dominated by the Marxists, which could question the existence of private property. In the "Yes" coalition, the SFIO refused the Communist proposition of a common campaign. The draft Constitution was rejected by 52.8% of voters, with a turnout of 79.6%. It was the first referendum in France in which the proposal put to voters was rejected.[/sub]
[sub]As a result of the vote, the Constituent Assembly elected in 1945 was dissolved and fresh elections for a new Constituent Assembly were held on the 2nd of June 1946. The results of the elections led to a Popular Republican Movement (MRP) majority in parliament and the creation of an unlikely coalition between the MRP, French Communist Party (PCF), and French Section of the Workers International (SFIO). A well known teacher, politician, and resistance fighter Georges-Augustin Bidault was selected to become the new Chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic and lead the Constituent Assembly. This second Constituent Assembly adopted a different draft Constitution on September 29th 1946. This second draft is to be submitted to the French people in a referendum on October 13th of this year. [/sub]
[sub]In the meantime, one of the key objectives of the newly elected French government is to create a new budget for the coming fiscal year. There is also the issue of rebuilding France's military with calls for new and more advanced equipment being echoed amongst the General Staff. However, the primary mission of the new government is continuing the reconstruction efforts of France's roads, bridges, and tunnels while also ensuring a smooth transition from France's wartime economy back to a liberalized fledging economic powerhouse much like it was before the war. Though this may take some time; cooperation with other Allied powers will be the key to France's success. |[/sub]
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VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LÂ’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]
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FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE[/pre][/list]
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ÉLYSÉE PALACE: THE BEGINNING OF A NEW CHAPTER — THE START OF THE FOURTH REPUBLIC
[sub]IVTH FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, OCTOBER 1946 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF DÈMOCRATIE, PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE - | A second constitutional referendum was held in France on the 13th of October in which voters were asked whether they approved of a new constitution proposed by the Constituent Assembly elected in June. Unlike the May referendum, which saw a previous constitutional proposal rejected for the first time, the new Constitution of 27 October 1946 was accepted by 53.2% of voters, and brought the Fourth Republic into existence. Voter turnout was 67.6%. While thousands of hopeful French citizens openly celebrated in the streets for the founding of this new and optimistic republic, the old Provisional Government still had much work to accomplish.[/sub]
[sub]While France approved of the constitutional referendum, several colonies which also had the opportunity to vote in separate colonial referendums rejected the constitutional referendum. Algeria, Cameroon, Dahomey and Togo, Chad–Ubangi-Shari, French Somaliland, French Sudan−Niger, Gabon–Moyen Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Tunisia all rejected the newly proposed constitution by well over 50% except for Mauritania−Senegal which approved by 92%. The colonies voting was added together in a collective manner in which 53% of all voters across the colonies actually approved by 53%. Thereby the new constitution was accepted outright by the majority even if a colony itself voted against it. With France's new constitution now being supreme law all across the empire, it had become time to host new legislative elections for the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic.[/sub]
[sub]In many ways the beginning of the Fourth Republic was seen as a revival of the old Third Republic. Despite this, the government had much bigger plans like the rebuilding of the nation's social institutions and industry. The election of the new National Assembly body was dominated by the Tripartisme alliance with the Communist Party (PCF) taking the lead and securing 182 seats. The Popular Republican Movement came in second with 173 seats and was followed by the French Section of the Workers' International which picked up 102 seats. The other two parties to participate were the Republican Party of Liberty which gained only 72 seats and the Rally of the Republican Lefts which grabbed up a mere 69 seats. [/sub]
[sub]Consequently, the PCF leader Maurice Thorez demanded to lead the government but his allies refused. Finally, the SFIO former Prime Minister Léon Blum took the head of the Cabinet. Another well known socialist, Vincent Auriol began to position himself to run for President in January of next year. Auriol had previously led the French delegation to the United Nations in 1945 and is already selected to be France's first representative on the United Nations Security Council. It is expected that he will attend the United Nations meeting later this month as well and begin building his rapport with other delegates and national leaders. |[/sub]
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Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the wild, young world like blue mantles beneath the stars. In this age there was strife and sorcery aplenty, gods and heroes who are now veiled in the mists of legendry. It was the age of Hyboria, an age of high adventure!
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Somewhere in the Frozen Tundra of Nordheim
There was no question in BrugoÂ’s mind that he was close to that which he sought. The journey from Messantia had been long and arduous, and the nearer he drew to his destination the more hostile the land became. It was the only proof he needed, for surely the gods of this foreign land did not want him to reach his goal. Still, despite having confidence, he questioned if his guide had chosen the best route. With each step his feet sank into the frozen crust beneath him, his labored breathing left behind him a veritable chimney of vapor from his tired lungs. Although he was wearing several layers, including thick furs he had acquired in Cimmeria, he was still shivering. Had it not been for the fire of his will, ever determined to acquire that which he sought, he would have surely succumbed to the freezing winds.
“How much further Galmar?” Brugo’s voice was strained, but still carried his characteristically deep tone. The way he spoke let any who might wonder know that he was no Northlander, that he was a civilized man and, to the barbarian peoples beyond the border kingdoms, soft and weak. To most though Brugo appeared anything but weak, for he towered some two heads over six feet and had a frame worthy of a warrior. One could not venture this far away from the warm shine of the sun without such hardiness as Brugo radiated.
Galmar, a shorter but visually more rugged and rough man than Brugo, turned back to face the man behind him. Holding locks of his red hair out of his tattooed face he shouted through the freezing wind to Brugo, “Not much longer, another day’s march North and we will arrive at the precipice that you seek.”
Brugo did not respond, but instead he tucked down his chin, pulled his furs tighter across his muscled shoulders, and continued forward after his guide. Soon they would be beyond even the reach of the yellow-haired savages, the Æsir, whose scouting parties had harassed the travelers without mercy. Brugo both despised and respected the savages of the North, and it was for this reason that he both fought them and relied upon them. He shared a tenuous bond with his guide Galmar at best, the man did owe him a blood-debt, but Brugo always slept with one-eye open for the red-headed Vanir were just as cunning and brutal as their Æsir brothers.
“By Mitra, it is too damn cold here…”
BrugoÂ’s mumbled curse was heard by none save for the icy gale as he dragged his freezing feet forward inch by miserable inch.
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[list][pre]Právo Paper - Prague, Third Republic of Czechslovakia[/pre][/list]
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MAY/JUNE 1946 - [sub]One Czechoslovak Koruna[/sub]
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[list]NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS HELD! COMMUNIST PARTY WINS NEW PLUARLITY![/list]
| The much anticipated moment is here for Central Europe, as Czechoslovak Legislative elections have been held in May 1946, new electoral system with the country divided into 28 multi-member constituencies. 150 members were elected from Bohemia, 81 from Moravia and Silesia and 69 from Slovakia. The voting age was lowered to 18 and full sufferage has been enacted, but only Czechs, Slovaks and other Slavs could register to vote, along with other eligible citizens, in accordenance with the Beneš Decrees. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) emerged as the largest party, winning 114 of the 300 seats (93 for the main party and 21 for its Slovak branch) with 38% of the vote. The Communist vote share was higher than any party had ever achieved in a Czechoslovak parliamentary election; previously, no party had ever won more than 25%, with other National Front co-members trailing behind in political support and votes. The Czechoslovak National Social Party, another socialist fellowtraveler party in the National Front, wont 18.4% securing its senior spot in the new Czechoslovak government as well. Bringing heat into the legislative elections was the in-theory anti-communist party, the Democratic Slovak Revival (The Democratic Party) won nationally only 15.7%, but won an outright majority in Slovakia. With an excessive 93.9% turnout, as these are the first full elections since the establishment of the Provisional Government in Eastern Slovakia, especially with a high recorded public enthusiam for the new government and for participation in the state overall. |
| Following the legislative elections and constitutional procedure, the new High Executive positions were filled. The KSČ only won a plurality of 38 percent of the vote at countrywide level, so that Edvard Beneš continues as President of the Republic as a member of the ČSNS. Meanwhile, the Communist leader Klement Gottwald has become Prime Minister under a coalition government. Most importantly, although the communists held only a minority of portfolios, they were able to gain control over most of the key ministries, gradually tightening their grip on the country. Information and Intelligence, Internal Trade, Economics and Finance, and The Interior were all now headed by KSC members or officials. It is expected that through this newly gained political offices, the KSC will begin to enact its alligned policies and party plans, alongside funding for their social programs and non-profits, such as the various ethnic Communist Youth Leagues. Jan Masaryk, son of the revered founding father, will continue as Foreign Minister at the appointment of President Beneš. This is a developing story! |
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SMITHS NEW ARMY - POST WAR ARMY REFORM
October 10th 1946
DISCLAIMER : If you don't like military stuff ill save you the time, don't read it
Having learned countless lessons during the war on both the fronts Rhodesia contributed directly on as well as indirectly in the form of Attaché's on the Soviet Front the Rhodesian Armed Forces has at the behest of Prime Minister Smith introduced multiple changes to the structuring of the Army overall. These will affect how Rhodesia fights its potential future wars from squad compositions down to the equipment fielded by men in the service. Enabled primarily due to the reduction act of 1946 which gave Rhodesia vast stockpiles of Gear such as Uniforms and Helmets it would allow Rhodesia to quite comfortably move onto new equipment without feeling itself naked in the face of a potential invasion.
MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES :
Organization (counting only combat troops and not support personnel) :
[list]- Army consists of 2 Corps (19,008 men)
- Corps consists of 2 Divisions (9,504 men)
- Division consists of 3 Brigades (4,752 men)
- Brigade consists of 3 Battalions (1,584 men)
- Battalion consists of 4 Companies (528 men)
- Company consists of 4 platoons (132 men)
- Platoon consists of 3 sections (33 men)
- Section consists of 1 Combat Group & 1 Support Group (11 men)
- Combat Group consists of 2 Submachine gunners & 5 Riflemen
- Support Group consists 1 Submachine gunner, 1 Rifleman & 2 Machine gunners [/list]
^ Philosophy : During the Second World war a typical British and Rhodesian Section possessed one Bren Gun which was insufficient to provide an effective fire screen on a company level. This resulted in 12 Bren guns per company which even on paper and in a theoretical setting was much lower than the 13 required to provide an effective screen regardless of unit size. By increasing the number of Machine gunners overall to 2 per section the total amount available to the Company is increased to 24 and thus is much higher than the recommended amount ensuring that Rhodesian Companies can maintain an effective fire screen against the enemy even if it were to lose upwards of a quarter of its overall machine gun complement.
Further availability of Submachine guns makes possible a reduction in the number of slow firing Riflemen in favor of a mixed and well rounded team that is able even without its machine gun complement to maintain a higher rate of fire than previously. Each Support Group would have their single Riflemen replaced with one Submachine gunner for close defense of the Machine gunners in their respective group, something which was previously difficult by a single man armed with a long and cumbersome rifle.
The previous Section arrangement of 1 Submachine gunner, 9 Riflemen and 1 Machine Gunner were capable of a theoretical upper limit of 427 rounds per minute, this compares to the 412 rounds per minute of a British Section, 430 Rounds per minute of a Soviet Rifle Squad, 550 Rounds per minute of an American Section and 910 Rounds per minute of a German Gruppe. The new arrangement of 3 Submachine gunners, 6 Riflemen and 2 Machine Gunners upgrades this theoretical upper limit from 427 to 854 Rounds per minute, still slower than the wartime German counterpart however almost twice as high as the wartime Rhodesian capability despite an overall increase of only one man compared to the 10 men during wartime.
Combat Group composition and Equipment :
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- Overall strength of 2 Submachine gunners and 5 Riflemen
- Submachine gunners shall be equipped with a Sten MK.II along with a total of 8 28 round magazines & 2 30 round Bren Magazines each
- Riflemen shall be equipped with an Enfield No. 4 Mk I along with a total of 10 5 round clips for a total of 50 rounds & 2 30 round Bren Magazines each
- Company Commanders can optionally assign Anti-Tank Detachments to the Combat Groups of Rhodesian Sections, this is so that Commanders can localize the entire Company's anti-tank firepower at a single area or zone rather than be divided between all of the Company's Sections. This is also applicable to Flamethrower detachments, of which each Company possesses two.
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Support Group composition and Equipment :
[list]- Overall strength of 1 Submachine gunner, 1 Rifleman and 2 Machine Gunners
- Submachine gunner shall be equipped with a Sten MK.II along with a total of 8 28 round magazines & 2 30 round Bren Magazines each
- Rifleman shall be equipped with an Enfield No. 4 Mk I along with a total of 10 5 round clips for a total of 50 rounds & 2 30 round Bren Magazines each
- Machine Gunners shall be equipped with a Bren Mk.II along with a total of 4 30 round magazines[/list]
^ Philosophy : The Combat Group must be capable of independent operation from the Support Group and thus the increase to two submachine gunners increases their total theoretical rounds per minute from 255 to 435 which was previously the same number as a wartime Section. With each man carrying two additional Bren Magazines this allows a total carrying capacity of 660 Bren rounds or 330 per gunner. This increase in the Support sections firepower means that while the Combat Group possesses an upper limit of 435 rounds per minute the Support Section is capable of 419 which places them on an almost equal level in terms of theoretical total firepower.
In practice one of the Riflemen assigned to the Combat Group would be designated a marksman and his Enfield equipped with a telescope, however in practice low level commanders (in the terms of Section Commanders Corporals or Groups Lance Corporals) may decide to have the singular Rifleman of the Support Group adopt this role.
Companies are responsible for arranging proper resupply to squads to maintain this higher rate of fire, to be accomplished with 16 additional men issued to each Company for supply duties. These men are armed with pistols with the sole duty of transporting Munitions to and from the Sections and Platoons from the Company HQ. These 16 men represent 6 logistical support staff per section and represent an additional 580 men per Division. While operationally speaking this may be perceived as a waste this is due to a double-philosophy that these 16 additional men per company who have also received basic infantry training are considered "In addition" to combat units and thus if a section is destroyed can quickly form a replacement section or can be chosen to individually reinforce sections on a soon as possible basis. This functions to lessen the impact of losses by providing an immediately available reserve capable of keeping the same unit in the battle for longer. Traditionally speaking if a Company is almost entirely wiped out that Company needs to be replaced by a Company from a reserve Division which takes time, or reformed using replacements. By utilizing this readily available support troop to function as standby personnel losses can to a degree be quickly absorbed without losing firepower in the long term.
Overall Equipment changes :
[list]- Adoption of the Mk III helmet, which is superior to the Brodie (flat) Helmet and provides slightly better protection than the British MK.IV (though at the cost of being slightly heavier)
- Adoption of the MK.I Bush Cap (iconic Rhodesian camo Cap) which is light weight, pocket stuffable and possesses an adjustable neck protector. Overall it is better protected to the hotter environment of Rhodesia than the standard British sidecap.
- Rhodesia shall adopt a domestic variant of the standard British Uniform however with more bush-compatible coloring.
- Each Group shall possess one No.38 MK.III Wireless Radios for a total of 1 per Group and 6 per Platoon (not including Platoon HQ). These Radios possess a throat microphone and as a result are one of the few Radio sets in service that permit the user to continue firing while conversing with superiors or support teams. Overall in practice the MK.III has an effective range of between 700 and 800 meters (2,300 & 2,600 feet), and was designed in wartime with the requirement that unskilled labor could assemble it thus making production easy and streamlined.
- PIAT Anti-Tank Weaponry will be replaced by the Rhodesian variant of the Panzerschreck as soon as possible
- Bren guns shall be replaced with the Rhodesian MG-42 Variant (QF SG-49 or Quick Firing Support Gun model 1949) where possible and shall result in a phasing out of Bren guns on a Divisional Basis so as to not complicate logistics. This replacement will increase the upper rate of fire of Rhodesian sections by over 80% compared to the Bren.
- Lee Enfield Rifles shall be replaced by the Rhodesian variant of the STG-44 pending proper testing and improvement, the Rhodesian Variant being coined the RAR-48 (Rhodesian Assault Rifle Model 1948). Upon completion of this replacement Commanders shall be permitted to determine the total number of QF SG-49s in their units, its possible that the number of MGs shall be reduced to 1 as the increase in fully automatic Rifles in the form of the RAR-48 would make up for the decrease in sustained firepower.
- The Hurricane, as alluded to in the post war reduction bill has been transformed into the Fighter-Bomber role. Under this Reform the standard armament of the Hurricane MK.X-GA (Ground Assault) are set as follows : 4x 20 mm Hispano Mk II (160 rounds per gun) standard, Bomb load either 2x 250 or 2x 500 pound bombs, rocket load possible with 6x RP-3 Air to Ground Rockets
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list]October 1946
[sub]The United Nations: The Beginning of New Peace[/sub][/list]
[pre]FIRST UN MEETING COMMENCES! COUNTRIES BRING UP ISSUES![/pre]
FLUSHING MEADOWS-CORONA PARK
[sub]NEW YORK CITY, STATE OF NEW YORK, Paramountica — MIDDAY[/sub]
| [sub][The Second World War through the lens of civilians and governments was perhaps the most destructive and deadliest war known to man. Several million civilians and soldiers would lose their lives either in the fight against Volkism, or an unfortunate casualty caught in the crossfire. With two great wars happening in the span of less than fifty years, mankind now yearned for a peaceful world where wars on a massive scale would be unfeasible. The Tehran Conference of 1943 began the motions of creating a new organizational body to replace the League of Nations — when US President Franklin D. Roosevelt raised the idea of an international organization comprising all nation states, a venue for the resolution of common issues, and a check against international aggressors. It was from here that the “Big Three” (Roosevelt, Stalin & Churchill) would agree that something must be done in order to prevent another Great War.[/sub]
[sub]For the second time, the United Nations General Assembly would convene once more for a few reasons. As leaders and ambassadors from all over come to ratify the Charter of the United Nations, they would also be given the chance to speak about any international issue of concern. In a new era of peace and rebuilding — history would see first hand different cultures and countries come together to promote world peace.[/sub]
[list][sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM THE UNITED STATES: President Henry Wallace[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM ZAIRE: First Representative Gloria Banza[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM BRAZIL: Representative Paulo Santos[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM EGYPT: King Farouk I[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM THE UNITED NORDIC KINGDOMS: Forwign Minister Christian Ernst Günther[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM MAZIYA: Representative Tan Kai Wen[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Foreign Minister Jan Garrigue Masaryk[/sub]
[sub]• AMBASSADOR FROM SPAIN: Prime Minister Fransisco Largo Caballero[/sub][/list]
[sub]*All others will have to post AFTER Spain.[/sub]
[sub]”Let us boldly state that aggression wherever it occurs and however it may be defended, is an international crime, that it is the duty of every peace-loving state to resent it and employ whatever force is necessary to crush it, that the machinery of the Charter, no less than the machinery of the Covenant, is sufficient for this purpose if properly used, and that every well-disposed citizen of every state should be ready to undergo any sacrifice in order to maintain peace ... I venture to impress upon my hearers that the great work of peace is resting not only on the narrow interests of our own nations, but even more on those great principles of right and wrong which nations, like individuals, depend. The League is dead. Long live the United Nations.”[/sub]
— ROBERT CECIL, British Diplomat
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[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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To present the opening speech of the United Nations: Paramountica will go first with President Henry Wallace! 5 minutes to post!
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[sub]Insert President Wallace opening speech here.[/sub]
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SPEECHES BY Bescania, Paseo and Kotakuan Ii
• ZAIRE: ”[sub]Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a pleasure to see freedom, liberty and peace win over the destructive forces that have ruined Europe, Asia, Africa, the world at large. I stand before you all as the leader of an independent, free African nation and I take pride in that. I take pride in leading a free African country. I take pride in aiding the war efforts as Zaire did, with its vast natural resources. I take pride in having Zaire sit amongst the civilised, democratic, free countries of the world. We are making history, and we better not screw it up. This is a new chapter for the world, a new chapter for us all. Our differences are true in their colours, but just as we were able to put them aside during this disastrous war, we must find the courage, the determination and the mind to do so again if required, when required. We must do all we can to prevent war and conflict. We must do all we can to spread peace and resolution around the globe. We must also look deeper into who we are and what we want. The liberation of men and women of Europe has come with a price of an unconscious promise to those in Africa and Asia, to liberate them too. To give them freedom and power in their liberty. If we are to truly start anew, we must find a way to give the liberty, the freedom that sits within the people of the world, to them. We are friends, we are allies and by all means we should support one another, but we can only do so if we support our own people and the people of the world. Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. Without Liberty, we have nothing. Without freedom, we have nothing. Oppression and Tyranny are always around to strike again, and so long we protect liberty and freedom, we will remain victorious.”[/sub] — GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire
• EGYPT: [sub]“As-salamu alaykum, it is an absolute honour to be stood here before this general assembly. Six long and gruelling years of war for the liberation of the world against the ideology of fascism, but the battle is not yet won. Those with good memory remember the days of the League of Nations and it’s goal of providing international diplomacy and peace, brothers we must not make the same mistakes and we should fight everyday to ensure that the United Nations is a body that can truly uphold international law, peace, Justice and prosperity. Egypt has been placed as the representative of Africa within the United Nations Security Council, so not only am I as King of Egypt representing the interests of the Egyptian and Arab peoples across the world - I am now the voice of millions of Africans filled with hope for a world free from poverty, hunger and exploitation. The United Nations must put it’s full weight behind improving the living standards of everyone, not just those in Europe or North America. I am determined to see in my lifetime an African Continent full of hope, success and the laughter of children who live in a world that is far far greater due to the contributions of the United Nations. I yield the floor to the next speaker, but I will not yield my efforts and I hope the United Nations will share the same enthusiasm. May God be with you.”[/sub] — FAROUK I, King of Egypt and the Sudan
• SPAIN: [sub]“Men and women gathered today within the United Nations General Assembly, I will make my address simple yet succinct. From the ashes of a devastating war imposed by fascists and bourgeois imperialists, we see hope rising like the sun on a brisk springs morning marking the end of a long dark winter in places such as Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary . . . particularly for a brighter and more humane future. The global West and East, and the global North and South, must both look towards the organisation of Labour and emancipation of their workers, as it will be those said workers who will rebuild the world from its ashes. Moreover, the United Nations must work towards the democratisation and enfranchisement of the people following the defeat of fascism. The establishment of this new international governing body provides hope that states will be truly held to account, and provides the potential for a future where petty disputes are discussed through diplomacy and words rather than planes, tanks and working class innocent young men. I hope this great opportunity is not squandered, for we are at a crossroads in history.”[/sub] — FRANSISCO CABALLERO, Prime Minister of Spain
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[sub]Insert Brazil's UN Representative Paulo Santos opening speech here.[/sub]
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~Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia Jan Garrigue Masaryk Speaks at the United Nations :
[list] |”Ladies and Gentlemen, people from all nations! Firstly, I am glad I could make not only myself present not only at a gathering of nations that have survived and fought against the menace of oppression and fascism-! *pause for applause* But at a gathering of true leaders, those who are passionate for true representation of their peoples. That is something us Czechoslovaks value, true representation… Nevertheless, I come here to applaud something else, our cooperation, something I’ve mentioned earlier within my discussions here with some of you! The cooperation that has led my country into existence, my fellow Europeans through recent domination, and now to all of us here! I see divisions of ideology amongst us, and I acknowledge it. I say, to us, to overcome said barriers, and to build bridges instead! That it was I say to all of us, in this concise speech to this new body, to aim to build bridges where needed, not bombs! *ending applause* I hope that in the near future, that my words do not fall deaf on the ears of my fellow statesmen… ” *continue ending applause* |
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• UNITED NORDIC KINGDOMS: [sub]”Ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly. We are assembled here today in the pursuit of one goal. A goal which is aimed to prevent another Great War in our lifetime. We are assembled here today to provide a safe and peaceful world for our children, grandchildren and future generations by setting an example by showing them that we, people of different cultures and traditions can come in one room and solve our differences peacefully rather than solving them through war. We are in a time of rebuilding. We are seeing many men, women and children picking up the debris and rebuilding societies back into what they once were. New nations have forged from the ashes of war. A new beginning has been presented to us on a golden platter. Let us not make the same mistakes that plagued the League of Nations. Soviets, Americans, Canadians, British, Nordics, Slovenians, Azanians, Zaireans and others are all tired of war. Tired of seeing their men sent to their deaths and the looming uncertainties in front of them. Destroyed cities and societies that lasted hundreds of years. So to my fellow ambassadors, representatives and foreign leaders — let’s go hand and hand in securing our place in history as men and nations committed to achieving the ultimate good. The goodness of peace. Because if we cannot maintain peace, then the world and our societies we know today will enter a dark path. A path in which we cannot turn around and undo.”[/sub]
— CHRISTIAN ERNST GÜNTHER, Foreign Minister of the United Nordic Kingdoms
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•Maziya appointed representative at the UN,Tan Kai Wen.
[List][I]"Although I might now be the best example to tell this topic,as I'm not a aboriginal of the Malay peninsula.But I was chosen to represent my nation in the UN and I will like to introduce to everyone's mindset here,decolonialisation of the Malay peninsula.Like everywhere else,the Malay peninsula prior to imperialism was a area full of aboriginal tribes,yes some of these aboriginals did eventually form something similar to our modern day view of countries.Some could even be considered as empires by our modern day view! However after imperialism came through the Portuguese,Spanish,British and Dutch.Malay culture began either to disappear in its native region or blend in with the western beliefs.I believe that we should end colonialism in the Malay peninsula before the rest of the Malay culture is either fully blended with the western beliefs in the region,or just disappears and the entire peninsula essentially becomes another western belief influenced area in the world with it's native traditions only being reserves for special events! This area is a great place for trading between the east and west and I know that the colonisers won't let go of the region at least not without a very good reason,and I don't think culture preservation will be enough to convince the colonisers to let go of these hot spots for trading."[/I][/list]
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[list]January - November 1946
[sub]Ten months of changes and reforms in Brazil.[/sub][/list]
[sub]After the end of WWII Brazil has enter its post-war period. The Emperor and the new Imperial government brought reforms and changes to the country.[/sub]
Reform and changes #1: Creation of several new governmental posts
[sub]In January Brazil’s Imperial government created several new posts in the government, these new posts are the Social Service of Industry (SESI) and Social Service of Commerce (SESC), and the General Staff of the Imperial Armed Forces (EMFA).”[/sub]
Reform and changes #2: Closing of all Casinos and the prohibition of Gambling
[sub]At the request of the Council of Ministers, HIM Emperor Dom Pedro III propose a bill to the General Assembly to not only order the closure of all Casinos in Brazil but also prohibit Gambling throughout the Empire. ItÂ’s took from February to march to get the bill passed the Chamber of Deputies (the Lower House) and From March to June to get it also passed by the Senate (the Upper House). Once the bill was passed by both houses of the General Assembly the Emperor officially signed it into law, thus ordering the closure of all casinos and prohibit any gambling in Brazil.[/sub]
Reform and changes #3: Appointment of BrazilÂ’s first representative to the United Nations.
[sub]In September, HIM Emperor Dom Pedro III appoint Paulo Santos to be the first representative of Brazil to the United Nations.[/sub]
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[sub]Long Live the Emperor, Long Live Brazil![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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[list][list][sup]A Series¹[/sup][sub][pre] A N G L O — A M E R I C A N P O S T W A R I S M [/pre][/sub]
FEBRUARY 1946
[sub]Postwar Labor Busts.[/sub][/list]
[pre] N A D I R O F T H E S T R I K E [/pre]
[list][list][sub][pre]Some have spoken of the "American
Century." I say that the century on
Which we are entering — The century
which will come into being after this
war — can be and must be the century
of the common man.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
[list][sub]The American economy had doubled during the war, by an immense demand for armaments, the government had pulled the country out of the Great Depression — yet like with war booms that swept the national specter, came peace busts. The 1920 — 21 recession that came to follow upon Great Britain was such an example, also impacting America to a lesser extent . . .[/sub]
▌Contrary to modern day public perceptions of postwar prosperity idealised by the Eisenhower period, the national public feared the onslaught of a returned Great Depression period.
[sub]President WALLACE would, as the war came to a close, reach out to farms, homes and businesses, offering governmental reassurances that a return to economic ruin would not occur again . . . Three weeks after the surrender of Japan [sup]Nippon-Nihon][/sup], the nation was on the verge of the nadir — The PRESIDENT rallied to mitigate the possibility of labor strikes. Assuring Labor leaders that Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs would not waiver under a Wallace presidency, indeed, a friend of labor had every intention to see the 1944 “Second Bill of Rights” come into fruition, or as much as Congress would permit.[/sub][/list]
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[sub]NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Paramountica[/sub]
[list][list][sub]Nevertheless, in the city, business districts began to steep to a halt. New York’s elevator operators, porters, doormen and maintenance workers; numbering 15,000 walked off the job—[/sub][/list][/list]
| —The wartime importance had faded, the prohibitions on striking had no more merit once war came to an end, and even with a pro-Labor president in the White House, Labor used its newfound power to apply pressure to management. The PRESIDENT, after a delayed hesitation, acted— calling for the COAST GUARD (USCG) to seize/operate New York’s tugboat system, helping vessels navigate the city’s waterways after tugboat operators went on strike. |
[list][list]𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄
𝐖 𝐀 𝐒 𝐇 𝐈 𝐍 𝐆 𝐓 𝐎 𝐍
[pre][excerpt] STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT[/pre]
[sub]“. . . Labor’s right to display dissatisfaction must be met by governmental action to turn the tide of growing costs. Housing, food and transportation costs must not prevail over the work of wages. I call upon Congress to raise the minimum wage up to .65 cents up from the present .40 cents . . .”[/sub]
[sup]𝙷𝙴𝙽𝚁𝚈 𝙰. 𝚆𝙰𝙻𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝟶𝟹/𝟺𝟼[/sup][/list][/list]
| Although the PRESIDENT had terminated meat rationing in November of 1945, the PRESIDENT had continued price controls; and foresaw their continuation well into the rest of ‘46. The PRESIDENT’s calls to sustain Washingtonian power over rationing, to combat the nationwide shortage of important items even went as far as hamburger meat . . . American debt stands, as of 1946 — at $271 billion, five times since 1941. 121.70% of the national GDP. Across the transatlantic pond, to London, faith in boom & bust American prosperity remained ambivalent. |
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[sub]¹ A Series: Anglo-American Postwarism covers transatlantic affairs and interconnected storytelling between Paramountica & Great Britain Gb. The affairs occurring in posts of this series may at times be interconnected by political and/or economic affairs, basically, Anglosphere stuff.[/sub]
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The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून [sub]March 1946 अक्टूबर 1946[/sub]
[sub]Volume 29, Issue 2 /खंड 29, अंक 2 [/sub]
[sup]Royal Indian Navy Stages Revolt, Widespread Uprisings Confirmed!![/sup]
[sup]रॉयल इंडियन नेवी ने किया विद्रोह, व्यापक विद्रोह की पुष्टि !![/sup]
[sup]With the RAJ declaring a state of emergency in response to the growing crisis in the cities of Bombay, including townships and villages between Karachi and Calcutta. Where according to authorities, over twenty thousand sailors is believed to have mutiny and have taken control of over seventy eight warships and twenty shore establishments. Despite its support for the Quit India Movement leading up to the mutiny, it has been equally condemned by the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League.[/sup]
[sup]कराची और कलकत्ता के बीच कस्बों और गांवों सहित बॉम्बे के शहरों में बढ़ते संकट के जवाब में राज ने आपातकाल की स्थिति घोषित कर दी। जहां अधिकारियों के अनुसार, बीस हजार से अधिक नाविकों के बारे में माना जाता है कि उन्होंने विद्रोह किया था और उन्होंने सत्तर से अधिक युद्धपोतों और बीस तट प्रतिष्ठानों पर नियंत्रण कर लिया था। भारत छोड़ो आंदोलन के समर्थन के बावजूद विद्रोह की ओर अग्रसर होने के बावजूद, भारतीय राष्ट्रीय कांग्रेस और मुस्लिम लीग द्वारा इसकी समान रूप से निंदा की गई है।[/sup]
[sup]With many believing to have been inspired the Royal Indian Air Force mutiny early this year, the first of the reports in regards to the mutiny occuring in Karachi. Where the revolt broke out on board the Royal Indian Navy warship HMIS Hindustan off Manora Island, result in the takeover by the mutineers. With the capture of the HMIS Bahadur by mutineers shortly after. Thousands of sailors across the cities of Bombay, Karachi, Cochin and Vizag were have said to have established a line of communication, thanks in due part to the HMIS Talwar have set up defensive positions. Effectively establishing a coordinated revolt, leading to hundreds of mutineers from the sloops, minsweepers and shore establishments in Bombay to protest for two hours, who had reportedly singled out and spotted British personnel belonging to the Defense forces and were attacked and beaten.[/sup]
[sup]कई लोगों का मानना है कि इस साल की शुरुआत में रॉयल इंडियन एयर फ़ोर्स के विद्रोह से प्रेरित थे, कराची में होने वाले विद्रोह के संबंध में पहली रिपोर्ट। जहां मनोरा द्वीप से रॉयल इंडियन नेवी के युद्धपोत एचएमआईएस हिंदुस्तान पर विद्रोह शुरू हुआ, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप विद्रोहियों ने अधिग्रहण कर लिया। कुछ ही समय बाद विद्रोहियों द्वारा एचएमआईएस बहादुर पर कब्जा कर लिया गया। कहा जाता है कि बॉम्बे, कराची, कोचीन और विजाग शहरों में हजारों नाविकों ने संचार की एक लाइन स्थापित की है, एचएमआईएस के कारण धन्यवाद तलवार ने रक्षात्मक पदों को स्थापित किया है। प्रभावी ढंग से एक समन्वित विद्रोह की स्थापना, जिसके कारण बॉम्बे में नारे, मिनस्वीपर्स और तट प्रतिष्ठानों से सैकड़ों विद्रोहियों ने दो घंटे तक विरोध किया, जिन्होंने कथित तौर पर रक्षा बलों से संबंधित ब्रिटिश कर्मियों को बाहर निकाल दिया और उन पर हमला किया और पीटा गया।[/sup]
[sup]1000 RIAF men from the Marine Drive and Andheri Camps also joined in sympathy. By the end of the day Gurkhas in Karachi had refused to fire on striking sailors. The strike soon spread to other parts of India. The ratings in Calcutta, Madras, Karachi and Vizag also went on strike with the slogans "Strike for Bombay", "Release 11,000 INA prisoners" and "Jai Hind" or Victory to India.[/sup]
[sup]मरीन ड्राइव और अंधेरी कैंप के 1000 आरआईएएफ जवान भी सहानुभूति में शामिल हुए। दिन के अंत तक कराची में गोरखाओं ने हड़ताली नाविकों पर गोली चलाने से इनकार कर दिया था। हड़ताल जल्द ही भारत के अन्य हिस्सों में फैल गई। कलकत्ता, मद्रास, कराची और विजाग में रेटिंग भी "स्ट्राइक फॉर बॉम्बे", "11,000 आईएनए कैदियों को रिहा करें" और "जय हिंद" या भारत की जीत के नारों के साथ हड़ताल पर चली गईं।[/sup]
[sup]In response to the growing unrest, the British Royal Navy has stationed destroyers off the Gateway of India. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee ordering an immediate end to the revolt. With additional reports of elements of the Royal Indian Army and Air Force participating alongside the Royal Indian Navy in what many fear with spread across the Indian subcontinent.[/sup]
[sup]बढ़ती अशांति के जवाब में, ब्रिटिश रॉयल नेवी ने गेटवे ऑफ इंडिया से विध्वंसक तैनात किए हैं। ब्रिटिश प्रधान मंत्री क्लेमेंट एटली ने विद्रोह को तत्काल समाप्त करने का आदेश दिया। रॉयल इंडियन आर्मी और वायु सेना के तत्वों की अतिरिक्त रिपोर्ट के साथ, रॉयल इंडियन नेवी के साथ-साथ भारतीय उपमहाद्वीप में फैले कई डर के साथ।[/sup]
[spoiler= “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment.”]Adriatican Islands
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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(Kuomintang) Republic of China / (國民黨)中華民國
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THE LAST BRIDGE FALLS: 1946 NANJING NEGOTIATIONS FAIL!
两条龙。毛泽东和蒋介石争相征服解放后的中国
[sub]September 1946 | 1946年9月
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[sub]
NANJING, CHINA | 南京,中国[/sub]
[sub]Across all the lands of China, an uncertain peace held. A tenuous truce had been made between the Communists and KMT, but internal struggles within the Nationalist faction undermined its strong international support and its strategic position against the forces of Mao Tse-Tsung. In November, the KMT launched a national campaign to prevent the CCP from strengthening itself even more, but internal issues such as the return of widespread graft, corruption and internal tension damaged the KMT's credibility, siphoned vital funds and aid for the military and the general populace, and weakened Chiang Kai-shek's political position. While mere weeks ago the Double Tenth Agreement had been signed between Mao and Chiang, which re-affirmed both sides' commitment to a peaceful reconstruction of China, the KMT was already planning large offensives against the Communists. In the end, one officer wrote, there was no possibility for compromise.[/sub]
[sub]In November, KMT forces launched offensives against the Communists, pushing as far as Chinchow, with little resistance from the spread-out and guerilla-focused CCP forces. Retaliation against KMT forces on the Shandong Peninsula, however, was successful, resulting in the peninsula's collapse to the Communists. The winter had offered a glimpse of what was to come in terms of relations between the Nationalists and Communists. All political efforts were being directed towards attempting to establish a cordial line of communication, allow for the entry of aid across all China from the United Nations, and begin towards a pathway of Chinese reunification, but it was already clear on the ground that such peace was unlikely at best. Fundamentally there were too many differences between both sides, and the unwillingness of both leaders to concede an inch to the other side also contributed to this fact.[/sub]
[sub]However, while border skirmishes continued, continued efforts at peace were sustained by both sides. As the spring of 1946 came and went, Chinese officials from both the Communist and Nationalist sides descended upon Nanjing - the capital of Nationalist China - to hold yet another series of talks. This time, the postwar atmosphere of global reconstruction and a faint hope for a better future were hanging above them, as opposed to the previous talks. While the governments reported 'successful talks', however, things on the ground were changing. Aid from the United States was flowing in for the KMT, and the Communists were radically emboldening themselves and strengthening their forces.[/sub]
[sub]In early July, the last bridge fell when the Nanjing Conference collapsed with the departure of senior Communist delegates. Later, in July of 1946, General Chiang at the helm of the KMT launched a massive assault on Communist territory in Northern China, with 1.6 million men (113 brigades) behind him. This marked the official end of peace between the Communists and Nationalists, at least publicly.[/sub]
[sub]在中国的所有土地上,一种不确定的和平得以维持。共产党和国民党之间达成了脆弱的休战协议,但国民党派系的内部斗争削弱了其强大的国际支持和对抗毛泽东势力的战略地位。11月,国民党发起了一场全国性的运动,以防止中国共产党更加强大,但内部问题,如普遍的贪污、腐败和内部紧张的恢复,损害了国民党的信誉,抽走了军队和普通民众的重要资金和援助,并削弱了蒋介石的政治地位。仅仅几周前,毛泽东和蒋介石签署了《双十协定》,再次确认双方对和平重建中国的承诺,但国民党已经在计划对共产党发动大规模进攻。一位军官写道,最终,没有妥协的可能。[/sub]
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
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VINCENT AURIOL VISITS SLOVENIA IN A TRIUMPH OF FRANCO-SLOVENIAN RELATIONS
[list][sup]OLD NAPOLEONIC ALLIES
SLOVENIA—WINTER 1946–1947[/sup][/list]
The Slovene identity owed a debt of gratitude to the French nation (Metropolitan Francais). Indeed, it was the nineteenth-century Napoleonic occupation of Slovene Lands and the creation of the Illyrian Provinces that helped to strengthen Slovene confidence in the uniqueness of Slovenia; during the few years of French rule, Slovene was taught in schools for the first time. It was a turning point in the countryÂ’s cultural history and ignited the spark that would eventually become the United Slovenia movement and—after over a century—the Committee for an Independent Slovenia. The Ilirski steber (“Illyrian Column”), a pillar designed by Jože Plečnik with faces carved by sculptor Lojze Dolinar, had been designated in Ljubljana in 1929 to commemorate the Napoleonic legacy in the country; it is popularly said to be the only monument to Napoleon outside of France. It was here that, wrapped in wintry January winds, a grand reception was held for newly inaugurated President Vincent Auriol of France. Auriol was welcomed warmly for a four-day state visit, and a slate of speeches and celebrations at the Illyrian Column inaugurated it. Boris Furlan, President of the Slovene Republic, greeted the French President eagerly, declaring him an “old friend of Slovenia”. The two leaders then planted a tree together near the Illyrian Column, and Auriol laid a wreath at the base of the monument.
[list][sub]“Napoleon, by his recognition of the national language and his issue of proclamations in it, revived and stimulated the [Slovene] national movement.”
— New York Times, October 1921[/sub][/list]
On the second day of his visit, Auriol met with several Slovenian legislative and ministerial leaders in casual afternoon settings. In the evening, however, he was treated to the grandiose opening performance of a ballet starring Gizela Bravničar; the work was an hours-long adaptation of Slovene composer Blaž ArničÂ’s symphonic poem Pesem planin (“Song of the Highlands”), and afterward Auriol was introduced to Bravničar and Arnič themselves. The following day Auriol was brought to Gorica, where he solemnly visited the grave of the exiled French King Charles X—Charles had abdicated during the July Revolution and died in Gorica (then Austrian Görz and later Italian Gorizia). That night in Trst, conductor Jakov Cipci put on a performance of the Trst Philharmonic Orchestra for Auriol; the concert was dedicated to Lojze Bratuž, a choirmaster and composer of the Slovene minority in Italy who was brutally killed by Italian fascists in 1937. The day after, Auriol returned to Ljubljana for a luncheon in his honor; the food was typical Slovenian fare, and the wine was from the Maribor region. In his speech, he praised the “ancient and robust bond” between the French and Slovene peoples and declared that the French Republic would always stand by Slovenia and its right to independence.
The final evening of Auriol’s visit was spent in Bled, where he attended a late-afternoon dinner with President Furlan and other officials. He subsequently toured Bled Castle and at sunset made his way to the shores of Lake Bled. There, he was greeted by a guard of honor—a 21-gun salute was fired, and the French president made a short speech, again praising the “unbreakable bonds” between France and Slovenia. The day ended with grand applause in his honor, and the next morning he departed for home. Altogether, the state visit was a resounding success—with relations undoubtedly renewed, its grandeur reflected the high esteem in which the French government held Slovenia.
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[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE[/pre][/list]
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ÉLYSÉE PALACE: VINCENT AURIOL INAUGURATED — SPEECH GIVEN TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
[sub]IVTH FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, JANUARY 1947 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF DÈMOCRATIE, PALAIS DE L’ELYSÉE - | Vincent Jules Auriol has officially been elected as the new President of the French Republic by the National Assembly on January 16th. Being the first President of the Fourth Republic, Auriol won by a large margin, receiving 452 votes (51.19%) against the 242 (27.41%) for the People's Republican Movement (MRP) candidate, Auguste Champetier de Ribes. Vincent Auriol's first act as President was to address Parliament under the advice of Prime Minister Léon Blum so that he could lay before them his administrations agenda. His second act as President of the newly formed Republic was signing the Paris peace treaties between the Allies, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Finland. [/sub]
[sub]With the National Assembly gathered before him in the Palais Bourbon, President Auriol gave a heartfelt speech to the men who had been his peers not more than an hour before:[/sub]
[list][sub]| "Bonjour monsieurs, it is my great honour to be bestowed the highest office in our glorious Republic. The duties this elected body has entrusted unto me are not lightly taken nor are they easily executed. Throughout the next seven years of my tenure, we have much to accomplish for France. We must ensure that reconstruction efforts on our roads, bridges, tunnels, and cities remains one of our top priorities. We must also tend to our wounded soldiers and civilians which still carry battle scars from the great nightmare which we have just endured. Hospitals and clinics must be readily available to treat these patients free of cost, for we owe them so much for their great sacrifices. It is for their heroism and sacrifice that we must also prioritize honouring them and ensuring that they are placed ahead on any list of employment. Furthermore, we must ensure that new jobs are being created as we transition from a wartime economy back to a liberalized economy. We must not also forget that our overseas territories require much attention at this time as they too have volunteered to fight for France and our Allies. They shared in our struggled transition. If they are to remain loyal, we must not forget them. That is why I am encouraging further investments into their economic platforms and calling for an increase in mining and oil drilling efforts throughout Africa to fund and supply France and her still vast empire with the materials we need to rebuild. We can and should utilize our railways throughout Africa to their fullest ability to ensure maximum productivity. It is my wish that before the end of my tenure as President, that France will be repositioned as the economic powerhouse and beacon of hope it was before the war. Merci monsieurs and remember Vive la France! Vive la République!" |[/sub][/list]
[sub]Following President Auriol's short speech, the room erupted with a roar of applauding and cheering to which he acknowledged with a slight bow before being ushered out. With the Élysée Palace now being officially occupied again, France seemed to be on the cusp return towards its former glory. President Auriol's speech seemed to light a fire underneath Parliament as they spurred into action on the passing of a budget and a bill waiving all medical costs to veterans and military personnel. Shortly after settling into the Élysée, President Vincent Auriol had scheduled his first official out of country visit to the Slovene Republic (Amsterwald which France had been very supportive of throughout the war in return for their own loyalty to the Allies. |[/sub]
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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LÂ’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]
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𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
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The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून [sub]March 1946 अक्टूबर 1946[/sub]
[sub]Volume 29, Issue 3 /खंड 20, अंक 3 [/sub]
[sup]Battle of Manora Island Results In British Victory, Battle of Bombay Rages!![/sup]
[sup]मनोरा द्वीप की लड़ाई के परिणाम ब्रिटिश विजय में, विद्रोही गिरफ्तार !![/sup]
[sup]With reports of explosions and gunfire all night reporting from Bombay, where British authorities had successfully retaken Manora Island and is in the process of taking on mutineer forces in the streets of Bombay. Heavy fighting and casualties are being reported on both sides, the British military had successfully retaken other key areas with the conclusion of the uprising in Bombay. With British reinforcements battling members of both the mutineers, police, including others within the general public that are aligned with the Indian Communist Party. With plans to move in on the city of Karachi. With reports of heavy fighting throughout the city.[/sup]
[sup]बॉम्बे से पूरी रात विस्फोटों और गोलियों की रिपोर्ट के साथ, जहां ब्रिटिश अधिकारियों ने मनोरा द्वीप को सफलतापूर्वक वापस ले लिया था और बॉम्बे की सड़कों पर युद्धपोत बलों को लेने की प्रक्रिया में है। दोनों पक्षों में भारी लड़ाई और हताहत होने की सूचना दी जा रही है, ब्रिटिश सेना ने बंबई में विद्रोह के समापन के साथ अन्य प्रमुख क्षेत्रों को सफलतापूर्वक वापस ले लिया था। भारतीय कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी के साथ गठबंधन करने वाले आम जनता के भीतर अन्य लोगों सहित, दोनों विद्रोहियों, पुलिस के सदस्यों से जूझ रहे ब्रिटिश सुदृढीकरण के साथ। कराची शहर में जाने की योजना के साथ। पूरे शहर में भारी लड़ाई की खबर के साथ।[/sup]
[sup]With it intensifying on 20 March 1946, the Naval Central Strike Committee had recommended some of the ratings to move into the city to garner popular support for their demands. RIN trucks packed with naval ratings entered European-dominated commercial districts of Bombay shouting slogans to galvanize Indians, followed by instances of altercations between the mutineers and Europeans including servicemen. Police personnel, students and labor organizations in the city went on sympathetic strikes in support of the mutineers. he Royal Indian Air Force units also witnessed unrest in its base of operations in Bombay. The personnel including pilots refused transportation duties for the deployment of British troops in the city and orders to fly bombers over the harbor. Around 1,200 air force strikers began a procession in the city alongside the ratings. The procession was joined in by striking servicemen from the Naval Accounts Civilian Staff.[/sup]
[sup]20 मार्च 1946 को इसे तेज करने के साथ, नेवल सेंट्रल स्ट्राइक कमेटी ने अपनी मांगों के लिए लोकप्रिय समर्थन हासिल करने के लिए कुछ रेटिंगों को शहर में स्थानांतरित करने की सिफारिश की थी। नौसैनिक रेटिंग से भरे आरआईएन ट्रक भारतीयों को प्रेरित करने के लिए नारे लगाते हुए बंबई के यूरोपीय-प्रभुत्व वाले वाणिज्यिक जिलों में प्रवेश कर गए, इसके बाद विद्रोहियों और सैनिकों सहित यूरोपीय लोगों के बीच तकरार की घटनाएं हुईं। शहर में पुलिस कर्मियों, छात्रों और श्रमिक संगठनों ने विद्रोहियों के समर्थन में सहानुभूतिपूर्ण हड़ताल की। रॉयल इंडियन एयर फ़ोर्स की इकाइयों ने भी बॉम्बे में अपने ऑपरेशन बेस में अशांति देखी। पायलटों सहित कर्मियों ने शहर में ब्रिटिश सैनिकों की तैनाती के लिए परिवहन कर्तव्यों से इनकार कर दिया और बंदरगाह पर बमवर्षक उड़ाने का आदेश दिया। लगभग 1,200 वायु सेना के स्ट्राइकरों ने रेटिंग के साथ शहर में एक जुलूस शुरू किया। जुलूस में नेवल अकाउंट्स सिविलियन स्टाफ के हड़ताली सैनिक शामिल हुए।[/sup]
[sup]Meanwhile, the Viceroy's Executive Council convened a meeting and came to the decision to stand firm and accept only unconditional surrender, refusing any notions of a parley. Rear Admiral Rattray issued an order to confine all the naval ratings back into their quarters at the barracks by 15:30. General Rob Lockhart, the commanding officer of the Southern Command was given charge of suppressing the mutiny. The Royal Marines and the 5th Mahratta Light Infantry were deployed in Bombay to push the agitating ratings out of Bombay and back into their barracks.[/sup]
[sup]इस बीच, वायसराय की कार्यकारी परिषद ने एक बैठक बुलाई और दृढ़ रहने और बातचीत की किसी भी धारणा को नकारते हुए केवल बिना शर्त आत्मसमर्पण स्वीकार करने का निर्णय लिया। रियर एडमिरल रैट्रे ने सभी नौसैनिक रेटिंग को बैरक में अपने क्वार्टर में 15:30 बजे तक सीमित करने का आदेश जारी किया। दक्षिणी कमान के कमांडिंग ऑफिसर जनरल रॉब लॉकहार्ट को विद्रोह को दबाने का प्रभार दिया गया था। रॉयल मरीन और 5वीं महरत्ता लाइट इन्फैंट्री को बॉम्बे में तैनात किया गया था ताकि आंदोलनकारी रेटिंग को बॉम्बे से बाहर और वापस अपने बैरकों में धकेला जा सके।[/sup]
[sup]The strike committee had advised mutineers to refrain from engaging in combat with the army personnel in the city, and the ratings hesitant about engaging in a confrontation with the police and the army retreated to the harbor by afternoon. The troops however proved inadequate in pushing the mutineers back into their barracks. Warning shots from machine guns and rifles were fired near the harbor to prevent the army from advancing further. The naval ratings had taken position at the harbor and were well armed with small arms and ammunitions available at the warships, lockers and munitions depots at the naval establishments. The warships in the harbor were armed with Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and main batteries with 4-inch guns, that had been altered to the advancing troops and directed their guns towards the land. HMIS Narbada and HMIS Jumna took up positions, pointing their batteries at the oil storage and other military buildings on the Bombay shoreline.[/sup]
[sup]स्ट्राइक कमेटी ने विद्रोहियों को शहर में सेना के जवानों के साथ युद्ध में शामिल होने से परहेज करने की सलाह दी थी, और पुलिस और सेना के साथ टकराव में शामिल होने से हिचकिचाने वाली रेटिंग दोपहर तक बंदरगाह पर वापस चली गई। हालाँकि सैनिक विद्रोहियों को वापस उनके बैरक में धकेलने में नाकाफी साबित हुए। सेना को आगे बढ़ने से रोकने के लिए बंदरगाह के पास मशीनगनों और राइफलों से चेतावनी के शॉट दागे गए। नौसैनिक रेटिंग ने बंदरगाह पर स्थिति बना ली थी और नौसैनिक प्रतिष्ठानों में युद्धपोतों, लॉकरों और युद्धपोतों के डिपो में उपलब्ध छोटे हथियारों और गोला-बारूद से अच्छी तरह से लैस थे। बंदरगाह में युद्धपोत बोफोर्स 40 मिमी एंटी-एयरक्राफ्ट गन और 4 इंच की बंदूकों के साथ मुख्य बैटरी से लैस थे, जिन्हें आगे बढ़ने वाले सैनिकों में बदल दिया गया था और उनकी बंदूकें जमीन की ओर निर्देशित की गई थीं। एचएमआईएस नर्बदा और एचएमआईएस जमना ने बॉम्बे तटरेखा पर तेल भंडारण और अन्य सैन्य भवनों में अपनी बैटरी की ओर इशारा करते हुए पदों पर कब्जा कर लिया।[/sup]
[sup]In the evening, the commanding officer of the Royal Indian Navy, Vice Admiral John Henry Godfrey reached Bombay after being flown in from the headquarters at New Delhi. The army had formed an encirclement around the harbor and naval districts. The ratings informed The Free Press Journal that the government was attempting to enforce a blockade and cut off food supply to them. During the same time, Godfrey offered to accede to one of the demands, that of improvement in the quality of food which reportedly baffled the mutineers. Parel Mahila Sangh, a communist-affiliated union organized food relief from fishermen and mill workers in Bombay, to be shipped into the harbor.[/sup]
[sup]शाम को, रॉयल इंडियन नेवी के कमांडिंग ऑफिसर, वाइस एडमिरल जॉन हेनरी गॉडफ्रे नई दिल्ली में मुख्यालय से उड़ान भरकर बॉम्बे पहुंचे। सेना ने बंदरगाह और नौसैनिक जिलों के चारों ओर घेरा बना लिया था। रेटिंग्स ने द फ्री प्रेस जर्नल को सूचित किया कि सरकार नाकाबंदी लागू करने और उन्हें खाद्य आपूर्ति में कटौती करने का प्रयास कर रही थी। उसी समय के दौरान, गॉडफ्रे ने भोजन की गुणवत्ता में सुधार की मांगों में से एक को स्वीकार करने की पेशकश की, जिसने कथित तौर पर विद्रोहियों को चकित कर दिया। परेल महिला संघ, एक कम्युनिस्ट-संबद्ध संघ ने बंबई में मछुआरों और मिल श्रमिकों से भोजन राहत का आयोजन किया, जिसे बंदरगाह में भेज दिया गया।[/sup]
[sup]On 21 March 1946, the commanding officer of the Royal Indian Navy, Vice Admiral John Henry Godfrey released a statement on the All India Radio, threatening the mutineers to surrender immediately or face complete destruction. He had conferred with the First Sea Lord (Chief of Naval Staff), Sir Andrew Cunningham who recommended the swift suppression of the mutiny to prevent it from turning into a greater military conflict. The British flotilla of the Royal Navy, consisting of the cruiser HMS Glasgow, three frigates and five destroyers were called in from Singapore. Bombers from the Royal Air Force were flown over the harbor as a show of strength.[/sup]
[sup]21 मार्च 1946 को, रॉयल इंडियन नेवी के कमांडिंग ऑफिसर, वाइस एडमिरल जॉन हेनरी गॉडफ्रे ने ऑल इंडिया रेडियो पर एक बयान जारी किया, जिसमें विद्रोहियों को तुरंत आत्मसमर्पण करने या पूर्ण विनाश का सामना करने की धमकी दी गई थी। उन्होंने फर्स्ट सी लॉर्ड (नौसेना प्रमुख), सर एंड्रयू कनिंघम से सम्मानित किया था, जिन्होंने इसे एक बड़े सैन्य संघर्ष में बदलने से रोकने के लिए विद्रोह के तेजी से दमन की सिफारिश की थी। रॉयल नेवी के ब्रिटिश फ्लोटिला, जिसमें क्रूजर एचएमएस ग्लासगो, तीन फ्रिगेट और पांच विध्वंसक शामिल थे, को सिंगापुर से बुलाया गया था। रॉयल एयर फोर्स के बमवर्षकों को ताकत दिखाने के लिए बंदरगाह के ऊपर से उड़ाया गया।[/sup]
[sup]The Royal Marines were directed to re-take the Castle Barracks, the mutineers entered into fire fights on some of the army positions on land. The mutineers attempted a probe into the city but the army successful repulsed it, preventing them from surging into Bombay. Godfrey sent a message to the British Admiralty requesting urgent assistance and stating that the mutineers possessed capabilities to take the city. Meanwhile, the ratings manning shops at the harbor exchanged rifle fire with advancing British troops of the 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. Salvos from the main guns of the RIN warships were fired at the British troops approaching the barracks.[/sup]
[sup]रॉयल मरीन को कैसल बैरकों को फिर से लेने के लिए निर्देशित किया गया था, विद्रोहियों ने जमीन पर सेना के कुछ पदों पर आग की लड़ाई में प्रवेश किया। विद्रोहियों ने शहर की जांच करने का प्रयास किया लेकिन सेना ने इसे सफलतापूर्वक खारिज कर दिया, जिससे उन्हें बॉम्बे में बढ़ने से रोक दिया गया। गॉडफ्रे ने तत्काल सहायता का अनुरोध करते हुए ब्रिटिश नौवाहनविभाग को एक संदेश भेजा और कहा कि विद्रोहियों के पास शहर पर कब्जा करने की क्षमता है। इस बीच, 5वीं महरत्ता लाइट इन्फैंट्री के ब्रिटिश सैनिकों को आगे बढ़ाने के साथ, हार्बर पर रेटिंग मैनिंग की दुकानों ने राइफल फायर का आदान-प्रदान किया। RIN युद्धपोतों की मुख्य तोपों से साल्वो को बैरक के पास आने वाले ब्रिटिश सैनिकों पर दागा गया।[/sup]
[sup]Around 16:00, the firing from the warships were ceased following instructions from the Strike Committee and the ratings retreated out of the barracks. The marines stormed the barrack facilities in the evening, seized the munitions storage and secured all the entrances and exits of the barracks. With the marines having gained a foothold inside the harbor, the Central Strike Committee was moved from the shore establishment HMIS Talwar to the state of the art warship HMIS Narbada.[/sup]
[sup]16:00 के आसपास, स्ट्राइक कमेटी के निर्देशों के बाद युद्धपोतों से गोलीबारी बंद कर दी गई और रेटिंग बैरकों से पीछे हट गई। शाम को नौसैनिकों ने बैरक सुविधाओं पर धावा बोल दिया, युद्ध सामग्री के भंडारण को जब्त कर लिया और बैरक के सभी प्रवेश और निकास को सुरक्षित कर लिया। बंदरगाह के अंदर नौसैनिकों के पैर जमाने के साथ, सेंट्रल स्ट्राइक कमेटी को किनारे की स्थापना एचएमआईएस तलवार से अत्याधुनिक युद्धपोत एचएमआईएस नर्बदा में स्थानांतरित कर दिया गया था।[/sup]
[sup]In the meantime, Royal Indian Air Force personnel from the Andheri and Colaba camps revolted and joined up with the naval ratings. Sporting white flags spattered with blood, around 1,000 airmen occupied the Marine Drive of Bombay. The contingent issued their own set of demands mimicking the Charter of Demands and included a demand for standardization of pay scales with the Royal Air Force (RAF). The Royal Indian Air Force personnel at the Sion area began a strike in support of the mutineers.[/sup]
[sup]इस बीच, अंधेरी और कोलाबा शिविरों के रॉयल इंडियन एयर फ़ोर्स के कर्मियों ने विद्रोह कर दिया और नौसेना की रेटिंग के साथ जुड़ गए। खून से लथपथ सफेद झंडे के साथ, लगभग 1,000 वायुसैनिकों ने बॉम्बे के मरीन ड्राइव पर कब्जा कर लिया। दल ने मांगों के चार्टर की नकल करते हुए अपनी मांगों का सेट जारी किया और इसमें रॉयल एयर फोर्स (आरएएफ) के साथ वेतनमान के मानकीकरण की मांग शामिल थी। रॉयल इंडियन एयर फ़ोर्स के जवानों ने सायन क्षेत्र में विद्रोहियों के समर्थन में हड़ताल शुरू कर दी।[/sup]
[sup]On 22 March 1946, British reinforcements in the form of battalions from the Essex Regiment, the Queen's Regiment and the Border Regiment, along with 146th Regiment of the Royal Armoured Corps arrived at Bombay from Poona, Bombay Province. This was followed in quick succession with the arrival of an anti-tank battery from the Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery stationed in Jubbulpore. Curfew was imposed in the city. Fearing a wider, communist-inspired rebellion in the country, the government decided to crack down on the agitators. The estimated casualties included 236 people killed and thousands injured.[/sup]
[sup]22 मार्च 1946 को, एसेक्स रेजिमेंट, क्वीन्स रेजिमेंट और बॉर्डर रेजिमेंट से बटालियनों के रूप में ब्रिटिश सुदृढीकरण, रॉयल आर्मर्ड कोर की 146वीं रेजिमेंट के साथ पूना, बॉम्बे प्रांत से बॉम्बे पहुंचे। इसके बाद जुबुलपुर में स्थित रॉयल आर्टिलरी की फील्ड रेजिमेंट से एक टैंक-विरोधी बैटरी के आगमन के साथ त्वरित उत्तराधिकार में किया गया। शहर में कर्फ्यू लगा दिया गया। देश में व्यापक, कम्युनिस्ट-प्रेरित विद्रोह के डर से, सरकार ने आंदोलनकारियों पर नकेल कसने का फैसला किया। अनुमानित हताहतों में 236 लोग मारे गए और हजारों घायल हुए।[/sup]
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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Nonador, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nippon-Nihon, Metropolitan Francais
January,1947
ELECTION TIME!
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With current prime minister Fong Wei Yuan decision to allow people to vote in a emergency election to confirm if the people do infact prefer Malays over Chinese in this election.Members of the communist party especially those in parliament have begun feeling that Fong Wei Yuan isn't strict enough in enforcing their beliefs,and are confused as if to why would he just gamble away his current position as prime minister just to test the current nations view of racial preference in the position of head of the country.This has begun causing arguments in parliament among the communist party members between the Wei Yuan supporters and the rest.
[U]Conditions for the party who wins.
Whichever party wins,they cannot change the nations name.Even after the communist party have been removed from power and say the royalist take that position.To reduce confusion they cannot change it from the "People Republic Of Maziya" to something like the "Sultanate Of Maziya".
[U]Each party's promise if they win.
Maziyan Communist Party:Reduction of racial discrimination and strengthening of economy.
Maziya Parti Nasional:Strengthening of a Malay identity and culture,and removal of the "white men" influence.
Royalist Party:Restoration of the monarchy to a position of power rather then just being a figurehead,but the monarchy will not be a absolute monarchy and the monarchy will be put in check by those in parliament.
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FIRST ‘PREŠEREN AWARDS’ GIVEN TO EXCEPTIONAL SLOVENIANS
[list][sup]A POETÂ’S LEGACY
SLOVENIA—WINTER 1946–1947[/sup][/list]
By 1947, the Slovene Renaissance was in full swing. January saw celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first Slovene newspaper, Lublanske novice, as well as the 98th anniversary of the Mažadan Rising. A flourish of the Renaissance came in the gilded halls of the University of Ljubljana that February, when—on the eve of Prešeren Day—eleven Slovenes were bestowed with newly conceived ‘Prešeren Awards’ in a triumphant ceremony. Long feast tables were laden with regional cuisine, the wines were flowing, and the mood was buoyant as Slovenian scientific, artistic and cultural figures received applause accompanying an ornate silver medal and monetary prize before a crowd of their peers. Echoing through the building were the cheers of attendees as each recipient’s name was announced. Still, one man was not present: the inspiration for the awards, poet France Prešeren. Indeed, his death a century earlier was the basis of Prešeren Day, now celebrated on the 8th of February; Prešeren’s spirit was far from forgotten by his countrymen. A bright student with a knack for poetry, he had spent his life formulating masterful works dealing with heartbreak and loss, and his elegant use of Slovene literary language helped to develop the tongue’s status. For this, he has become—among such names as Matija Majar and Anton Martin Slomšek—a national hero of Slovenia.
[list][sub]“As long as you lived, you were unhappy—but dead you are an eternal singer!”
— Slovene writer and poet Josipina Turnograjska about France Prešeren[/sub][/list]
Among the Award’s recipients were Anton Melik for his work on the Survey of the Slovene Republic, Vitomil Zupan for Rojstvo v nevihti (“Birth in a Storm”), and Lojze Dolinar for his use of sculpture as a bridge in international diplomacy. The elegant strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion of the Ljubljana Philharmonic Orchestra accented the awards, and President Boris Furlan himself was in attendance. Furlan did not play a leading role, however—the establishment of the awards was not in his hands but in the Prešernov sklad (“Prešeren Fund”) that resulted from a comprehensive act proposed by the provisional cabinet in 1945 and ratified by the legislature in late 1946. The Fund was tasked with managing the poet’s legacy, as well as with promoting the literary arts, theater and music in Slovenia. Its chief responsibility was bestowing the new Prešeren Awards, which were to be given annually to those who had made “a significant contribution to the development and affirmation of Slovenian culture.” Though originally conceived as a one-time event, amendments to the legislative proposal have instituted it as an annual celebration of slovenstvo.
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The Principality of Mexico Global News
“The Corporatism Reform”
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A group of people in Mexico called the Corp Administration just overthrew the government and reformed everything about it. They changed to a confederacy instead of a principality and made the government a fascist monarchy. They start producing nuclear warheads and announce that they will be going western. They ban other political movements and parties and you must be a catholic to enter the city of VeraCruz and Merida. They change their national anthem and soon will try to invade Caribbean islands and also try to steal colonies from European powers like France. They ask to ally with Germany and the Iberian nations. The Revolutionary Confederacy of Mexico is born.
A man by the name of Cameron Robinson becomes monarch and a man named Louis Macron is made the secretary of the state. All provinces are remade and only 3 provinces exist: Yucatan, California and Central Mexico. The capital of Mexico City is renamed to Camentello and becomes a federal district. Troops are placed along the US-Mexican Border and Mexico builds up their navy and embargo Cuba because they want to invade Cuba and Mexico HATES COMMUNISM.
Can you update the geopolitics map. We claim Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Nonador, Paseo, Otsla, Ranponian
February,1947
NATIONALIST WIN ELECTION!
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[U]Results
The month long voting time has come to an end.A majority of people elected to have the Maziya Parti Nasional to lead the country with a incredibly high 50% of total voters,voting for the nationalist.Second place in the elections are the Royalist Party with 30% of the total votes and the Maziyan Communist Party came in dead last with a very low 20% of the total votes.
[U]Changes To Parliament[/U]
With the nationalist victory,came the changing of seats in parliament,as with prior agreements the nationalist would gain seats after the elections were over,however with the communist party defeat in the elections.The amount of seats had to changed around and it was decided that of the 230 seats in parliament it would be divided based of the percentage of total voters each party received in the latest elections,which means that the nationalist would take 50% of the seats,communist would take 20% and royalist would take 30% of the seats.
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[list]SHOWA 22 | MARCH 1947[/list]
[list][list]ストライキの失敗
[pre]THE FAILURE OF THE STRIKE[/pre][/list][/list]
[pre]S T R I K E A N D L A B O R U N I O N S[/pre]
TOKYO, S.C.A.P HEADQUARTERS — MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| Japan’s trade unions have discovered that democracy is like the art of love, it’s hard to learn while the General is in the parlor with the lights on. For DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, creator of the Japanese labor union movement in late 1945, the question was how to leave the parlor with GRACE and DIGNITY. The necessary discipline finally collided with the experiment in democracy that MacArthur was implementing in Japan. On February 1, the American military high command prevented a general strike in Tokyo, saving the Yoshida Government but causing workers to be pushed to the left — and convinced many unionists that MacArthur had developed an anti-union tendency. As a result, the PRIME MINISTER SHIGERU YOSHIDA was unable to contain inflation and confronted S.C.A.P. with a not-so-attractive set of measures: |
[list][list]i)すべてのストライキ抑制措置を撤廃することは、政府の完全性と経済の安定を危険にさらします。
ii)日本の経済全体の方向性を引き継ぐ。
iii)米国に対するすべてのストライキを阻止するための緊急措置を課す 教え。
[pre]i) removing all strike control measures risks the integrity of government and economic stability.
ii) take over the entire economic direction of Japan.
iii) impose urgent measures to prevent all strikes against U.S. teachings.[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][pre]TWO BIG JUMPS[/pre][/list]
| Whatever MacArthur’s solution to this puzzle, the new Japanese labor movement will be an important factor in Japanese life for a long time to come. In just over a year, 4,400,000 workers have joined 17,000 unions in the two largest federations, N.F.L.U. (National Federation of Labor Unions) and the N.C.I.U. (National Congress of Industrial Unions). This was something unexpected. N.F.L.U.’s predecessors never had more than 400,000 members before the war. Imperial Japan’s “cheap labor” economy disapproved of unions. After 1937 “China Incident,” the militarists smashed them flat. The N.F.L.U. has returned under one of its former leaders — KOMAKICHI MATSUOKA, 59, who has been called “William Green of Japan” and hates communists. A more radical group established the N.C.I.U., appointed KATSUMI KIKUNAMI to be the president. Kikunami did not jump into the red, but accepted communist support. From this springboard of American standards, the Japanese jumped into the blue. |
[list][pre]PENMANÂ’S PROGRESS[/pre][/list]
| Japanese work techniques emerged from the Japanese workerÂ’s effort to reconcile the structure of Japanese industry with the ideas of class struggle. The chairman of the Pilot Workers Union, SANSHI ISHIZUKA, 35, was wearing hornrimmed spectacles. Ishizuka, a war worker, returned to his job at Pilot shortly after JapanÂ’s defeat, helped organize the PilotÂ’s 300 workers, with them achieving several immediate improvements. With inflation on the rise, the union asked for more money and a formal contract, but management refused. As requested by MacArthur, JapanÂ’s Government had legalized U.S. labor guarantees. But the union ignored this, because a lawsuit would affect the companyÂ’s social standing. On the other hand, a strike would have paralyzed production, and the union had no money. There would be no strikes, because many workers who lost their homes in the bombing were living in the factory. |
[list][pre]“PRODUCTION CONTROL”[/pre][/list]
| The option chosen by SANSHI ISHIZUKA and his fellow workers was that no U.S. union would interfere. They call this a “production control strike.” Instead of leaving their jobs, the Pilot union members kicked the management out. They established a 30-man committee, divided thus into departments — production, sales, electric power. Then they stepped up production, used receipts to pay wages and buy materials. Ishizuka posted notices: |
[list][list]工場に来る場合は、役員室にとどまり、工場の建物には立ち入らないでください。
[pre]“If you come to the factory, please stay in the Board Room and do not enter any of the factory buildings.”[/pre][/list][/list]
| The workers greeted the strikers politely: |
[list][list]これらの規則を守り、これらの施設に立ち入らないようにすることはできますか?
[pre]“Could you observe these rules and avoid entering these facilities?”[/pre][/list][/list]
| Strikers continued pen production as normal, and did not swing toward American-style action until the company tried strikebreaking. Ishizuka got a mediator and the executives returned to the company. They gave everything that was asked of the union, they recovered a business that did not suffer from the stoppage. |
[list][pre]OUT OF THE PARLOR[/pre][/list]
| The failure of the strike taught workers and industry a lesson: look to each other and not to Yoshida or S.C.A.P. Union leaders Kikunami and Matsuoka met with leading industrialists, formed the “Economic Rehabilitation Congress” to work for better labor relations, supply allocation, distribution and price control. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, emboldened to have provided constructive leadership for Japan, ignored the bad alternatives that had kept him locked in the parlor with Japanese labor. In a press conference, MacArthur proposed an early end to the U.S. military occupation, calling for future “control and guidance” by the United Nations. MacArthur’s reasoning: Japan has been demilitarized; democracy was established; now the Japanese need an opportunity to solve their economic problems free of the military. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR has not yet held an all-out press conference. But when the SUPREME COMMANDER went to lunch with the Tokyo correspondents at their SHIMBUN ALLEY clubhouse, the journalists didn’t bother to bring paper or notebooks for their notes. But to record what was said they had to write it on napkins, chit books, and letters from home. The MACARTHUR DOCTRINE declared that Japan was ready for a peace treaty; such a delay would further damage the Japanese economy, which would require even more U.S. assistance; that after the treaty Japan would need direction and protection — and that the U.N. might well have that responsibility. The PRIME MINISTER SHIGERU YOSHIDA applauded the declaration that Japan was ready for a peace treaty. But he didn’t like the idea of a U.S. withdrawal. |
[list]| SHIGERU YOSHIDA, [sub]THE PRIME MINISTER[/sub] | “We are also in a battle with the communists and we have a dangerous enemy to the north . . . I don’t know the strength of the United Nations.”[/list]
[list][list]私たちは共産主義者とも戦っており、北には危険な敵がいます。 国連の力がわからない。[/list][/list]
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SMITH'S NEW NATION CAMPAIGN
March 5th 1947
Having reformed his Army and Education System, as well as creating the basis for law and order within the state, Smith was finally able to turn the post war attention of Rhodesia towards the foundations of a long term system of governance - Construction. Rhodesia was controlled by a multitude of Industrial and mainly white metropolitan Cities and large Towns which while steadily growing and bringing in large amounts of Revenue for the Coffers of State were increasingly leaving behind the rural areas where the majority of the Population resided. Many rural areas populated by the European migrants had seen to their own constructions and advancements, and some of the more benevolent Tribal leaders many of which were allied with the government had done the same, but a vast majority of the Nation still remained backwaters capable of nothing more than subsistence farming.
Smith needed to help create the longevity that Rhodesia needed to survive throughout the remainder of this century, and he could only do that by taking those areas and transforming them even if at a slow pace, but vitally doing so and underlining it was the Rhodesian Government doing it and achieving it. These could not be aimless donations or good will, they had to be rewards for loyalty and continued good citizenship. In a way Smith and his Government would have to be seen as the Patrons of these advances, but even if that were not successful they needed to be done sooner rather than later to turn these locations into places that relied on the existing National Network. Electricity that comes from Government owned Enterprises, Fuel and Consumer Goods sponsored and delivered by the Government or its cooperating firms.
Traditionally speaking there had been a philosophy that to prevent Rebellion and Strife you must cut off your peoples from infrastructure, education and resources and yet in Smith's eyes these were the very things that enabled rebellion. If you give a people nothing to live for and thus no reason to remain loyal, then they shall more easily turn to violence. If you however woo them with amenities that are dependent on continued service to the Government you are rewarding their loyalty or even their inaction.
Utilizing £24,000,000 (equal to £1,043,000,000 in 2021) from the current Government Surplus Treasury he planned to take rapid and widespread action to ensure that a groundbreaking start to this foundation was made. Employing an estimated 80,000 Veterans of all colors and creeds who were recently released from the army he would form Building Detachments of both skilled and unskilled Veterans to move in a centrally coordinated manner across the rural regions of the State. Supported by Factories recently re-converted away from war-goods and Army convoys to delivering the goods produced within them, these Detachments would complete constructions required by the Government for Smiths first phase of the New Nation Campaign.
GOALS OF PHASE I OF THE NNC (to be completed by early 1949) :
[list]- Construction of permanent mechanical water wells in all Towns and Villages throughout Rhodesia, in locations where wells already exist these shall be replaced by the more modern and efficient types
- Construction of Town & Village Halls in all localities across the Nation, where ones already exist but are considered inferior in quality they shall be replaced by the new construction. These new Buildings shall be connected to the newly constructed water wells to provide piped fresh water access.
- Construction of minor Clinics in all localities greater than 1,000 individuals, and where already present a complete interior reconstruction to take place
- Construction of Government owned Bathhouses in all localities greater than 1,000 Individuals, with a focus on post usage water reconstitution via irrigation (Bath water can be safely reutilized in farming without treatment unlike sewage). Entrance fees to consist of two pence per entrant to offset costs (equal to 0.84 pence in 2021, example calculation being) which would equal 20 pounds per 1,000 entrants (or 870 pounds in 2021).
- Construction of proper and more modern sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of disease
- Construction of a minimum of two Government owned water fountains per town and village, each to be inscribed with 'This Fountain was constructed on the command of the Right Honorable Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith'. Water dispensed from these fountains shall be free of charge as a service by the Government.
- Construction of Water Towers where possible or underground Water Tanks for water storage during possible droughts to mitigate possible drought impact.
- Construction of the Insiza Dam on the Insiza River in order to create Lake Cunningham with a water capacity of 173,41 million cubic meters, with planned introduction of native fish species.
- Construction of Manjirenji Dam east of Masvingo to create Lake McDougal with a water capacity of 284.2 million cubic meters, with planned introduction of native fish species.
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[list]April 1947
[sub]The President of Slovenia and the Emperor of Brazil meets in Rio, Brazil to establish relationship between two nation.[/sub][/list]
[sub]Brazil has always been the supporter of Slovene independence; in fact, it was one of the first country to give itÂ’s support to the Slovene nationalists and their effort free themselves from YugoslavÂ’s tyranny. Now SloveneÂ’s President Boris Furlan has arrived in Brazil at the Imperial capital of Rio de Janeiro to meet with the Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro III, to officially establish diplomatic relation between the two countries. The meeting between the two leaders took two days to complete which resulted in Brazil and Slovenia signing a treaty of friendship between the two nations. Before President Boris Furlan left Brazil, the Emperor officially award him the Imperial Order of the Cross (the highest order and medal of honor in Brazil, given to both national and foreigners) for his valor of fighting against the Axis power and for freeing the Slovene people, creating an independent country for them. This act made the relationship between the two leaders even more friendly as Furlan left Brazil and heading back home to bring the news of a successfully diplomatic trip to Brazil.[/sub]
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[sub]Long Live the Emperor, Long Live Brazil![/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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‘PREGELJ’ CHEMICAL FACTORY SEES INTEREST FROM FOREIGN INVESTORS
[list][sup]A GIANT IN THE MAKING
SLOVENIA—SPRING 1947[/sup][/list]
The Slovene people have had a long heritage of scientific chemistry. Friderik Pregelj, Germanicized as Fritz Pregl, was a Nobel Prize winner who pioneered in quantitative organic microanalysis; Ana Jenko, who later took on the surname of her husband, Jan Stanislav Štěrba-Böhm, broke barriers in the field and published an acclaimed doctoral thesis on the separation of organic acids. The Ministry of Economic Development has been continually keen on this heritage—with the growth of chemicals as a component in general manufacturing, an opening was clear for Slovenia to fasten its position as an economically important asset. Thus, ‘PregeljÂ’ was born. One of many private efforts spurred by government subsidies, Pregelj—named for the chemist—was a ‘government-endorsedÂ’ chemical firm formed soon after the Slovenian Chemistry Institute was established in late 1946. Groundbreaking began on its first facility, a factory north of Ljubljana, in April 1947—the production of cellulose acetate, used in the production of photographic film, has been planned at the location, though it will optimistically later synthesize such products as adhesives, resins, and plastics.
The potential of this development has attracted several foreign investors. Chief among them are those from Hashemite Arabia, the elite of which has already pursued civilian vessel contracts with Slovenian shipbuilder Mašera; the Arabian delegation was in conversation with Pregelj for months, and a representative of the King was among the first to tour the factory site. The talks were clearly fruitful and have ultimately allowed the company to peer further into the future. Pregelj sealed a commitment to build an overseas factory in Oman—a developing industrial region—that will produce similar materials for the Arabian market by 1949. Chief Executive Officer Andraž Zajc was quick to express excitement for the project. “What we are doing is unprecedented,” Zajc said in a Ljubljana press conference; “Pregelj will be the first truly international chemical company to operate within the Kingdom [of Arabia].” His vision extended into the future of his home country, too—Slovenian domestic needs and export potential were to be fulfilled by new Maribor and Celje facilities planned for 1948. “There is no reason why Pregelj should not be the face of global chemical production,” he concluded; “we have the potential to be the largest and most successful chemical giant in Europe if we enter the market as we plan to.”
The growth of the chemical industry in Slovenia rides on a tide of economic and political nationalism that has swept the country for two years now. Hrastov prestol (“The Oaken Throne”), an anti-monarchist movie chronicling the kidnapping of a young Slovenian separatist named Marko by Yugoslav secret police, continued to dominate the Slovenian box office in April and has been an enormous critical success. “We Slovenians must carve out our own future,” said producer Tone Ahčin in a magazine interview. “If we do not take action soon, we will be drowned out by nations who do not represent us.” That very concern was rampant among Slovene economists, several of whom have been vehemently supportive of such efforts as Pregelj with the hope of decreasing Slovenian imports; one proposal from Dr. Janez Rajh of the University of Mažadan advised that legal mandates should stipulate that at least 85% of the raw materials used to manufacture items within the nationÂ’s borders must be of Slovenian origin. The Furlan-Krek government has been careful not to endorse such radical protectionist measures but also to staunchly support domestic industry. A recent press release from the Furlan office was spent praising recent foreign affairs efforts and only lightly addressed economics with a statement reading that “Slovenia cannot hope to prosper by shutting itself off from the global economy.”
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(Kuomintang) Republic of China / (國民黨)中華民國
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PASSIVE DEFENSE: COMMUNISTS ENGAGE THE KMT DESPITE MANPOWER AND ARMS DEFICIENCIES
被动防御:共产党人在人力和武器不足的情况下仍与KMT交战
[sub]March 1947 | 1947年3月
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[sub]
HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA | 中国湖北省[/sub]
[sub]With the official conclusion of the tenuous peace between the Communists and Nationalists of China in July 1946, as General Chiang Kai-shek directed a massive offensive against Communist forces in the north with over 1.6 million men, the nation once more fell into chaos. What little hope remained during the Nanjing Conference had dissipated. In the words of one foreign observer in Nanjing; ‘The peace has been lost; we might as well have lost the war too’.[/sub]
[sub]The immense costs of the war had been enormous so far. Even with only skirmishes in increments spread throughout the postwar period, the entirety of China was still stumbling, unable to find its way to recovery and improvement. While the rest of the world was slowly building towards recovery in the postwar period, China remained frozen in a period of conflict, skirmishing and famine. The hostilities that remained between the Communists and Nationalists maintained the weak status of ChinaÂ’s infrastructure, from railways to roads to airfields that were necessary to keep such a gargantuan nation connected.[/sub]
[sub]From the July Offensive by General Chiang in 1946, Mao Tse-Tsung, the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), directed for the execution of a strategy of PASSIVE DEFENSE, which sought to have CCP forces avoid the strong points of KMT defense and concentrated troop locations as well as abandon territories to preserve manpower and arms. Knowing they were stretched thin in comparison to the much larger Kuomintang forces, Chairman Mao understood the need to conserve their forces for the future.[/sub]
[sub]By 1947, this tactic would prove successful. The balance of power was now slowly shifting to the CCP, as they became more organized and as they acquired more arms from allies to the north, while at the same time KMT forces continued along their route of disorganization and corruption. Over 1.12 million KMT troops were wiped out or severely damaged between June of 1946 and March of 1947, marking a significant shift in regional strength in favor of the CCP, who was growing rapidly.[/sub]
[sub]In March, however, with a surprising victory, the KMT secured for themselves a symbolic success with the capturing of YanÂ’an (延安), the Communist capital. Despite this, however, General ChiangÂ’s lines were stretched, and his forces had been dissipating despite supposed victories after victories.[/sub]
[sub]随着1946年7月中国共产党和国民党之间脆弱的和平正式结束,随着蒋介石将军指挥160多万人对北方的共产党军队发动大规模进攻,国家再次陷入混乱。南京会议期间仅存的一点希望也烟消云散了。用一位在南京的外国观察员的话说:"和平已经失去,我们也可能失去战争。[/sub]
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[pre]| April - 1947 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
SOVIET-KURD RELATIONS THRIVE IN THE POST WAR MIDDLE EAST:
KURDISTAN RECEIVES MILITARY AID!
НА ПОСЛЕВОЕННОМ БЛИЖНЕМ ВОСТОКЕ ПРОЦВЕТАЮТ СОВЕТСКО-КУРДСКИЕ ОТНОШЕНИЯ:
КУРДИСТАН ПОЛУЧАЕТ ВОЕННУЮ ПОМОЩЬ, И НАЧИНАЮТСЯ ОБСУЖДЕНИЯ ОБ ИНФРАСТРУКТУРНЫХ ИНВЕСТИЦИЯХ В КУРДИСТАН!
[pre]The Soviet Union has always been at the forefront of Kurdish international relations. Many Soviets and presumably many Kurds can point proudly to the sacrifices Armenian/Soviet Socialists made in the Turkish Civil War leading to the independence of Kurdistan and its people. Kurdistan citizens are also seen as trustworthy and Allies in Middle Eastern Security that they are allowed free access into the Ararat district for cultural means. The Soviet Union has set itself up to be the protector and enforcer of Kurdistan Sovereignty and declared any attack on Kurdistan is an attack on the Union. It now came time for the Soviets to investment into the Kurdish Armed Forces and to assist in the training of these Armed Forces to ensure the strong defended Kurdistan.[/pre]
[list]Soviet Military Aid sent to Kurdistan - Советская военная помощь отправлена в Курдистан[/list]
[pre]As Demobilization occurred across the Union, the guns those brave soldiers once held would not receive rest as they were put into the hands of soldiers around the world. Soviet arms shipments would become prevalent across Eastern Europe especially in nations fighting Counter-Revolutionaries. Kurdistan was to also receive multiple shipments of weapons as stock was approved to be sent without affecting Soviet Needs. [/pre]
[pre]- 50,000x M1938 mosin rifles[/pre]
[pre]- 20,000x PPS-43 submachine guns[/pre]
[pre]- 5,000x DP-28 light machine guns[/pre]
[pre]- 100x T-34/85 medium tanks[/pre]
[pre]- 30x IS-2 heavy tanks[/pre]
[pre]- 100x SU-76 self-propelled guns[/pre]
[pre]- 400x assorted 21-k, 52-k, M1931, M1938, M1914/15, 72-K, and 61-Ks[/pre]
[pre]- 500x assorted M1927, M1943, M1902/30, F-22, USV, ZiS-3, BS-3, 1910/30, and M-10s[/pre]
[pre]- 1,000x assorted RM-38, 120-PM-38, and 107mm M1938[/pre]
[pre]- 50x il-2 fighter/bombers[/pre]
[pre]- 50x Yak-9 fighters[/pre]
[pre]- 20x Tu-2 bombers[/pre]
[pre]- 20x Il-4 heavy bombers[/pre]
[list]Tushpa Military Officers Academy - Тушпинская академия офицеров[/list]
[pre]The ultimate goal of Soviet Military Aid would be the creation of a well armed Kurdish Military Force and that force would need a robust network of well trained and disciplined officers ready to lead their men in the defense and interests of Kurdistan. The Tushpa Military Academy would be constructed near Van close to the ruins of the old Armenian City that became Van. This Academy would be host to numerous Soviet Instructors and soldiers for the training of Kurdish Officers, most instructors would be of Russian, Kurdish, and Armenian Ethnicities and alongside numerous military scholars would be the first to build a solid relationship between the Soviet and Kurdish military for decades to come.[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
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| THE KURDISH REPUBLIC - KOMARA KURDÃŽ |
The GeneralissimoÂ’s Victory Lap
Fall, 1946 to Spring, 1947
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Mustafa Barzani virtually decrees his second term as President, entrenching his personality cult and promising far-reaching progress.
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After his landslide election as President, the nationalist warlord and political leader Sheik Mustafa Barzani embarked on critical reforms and policy initiatives aimed at stabilizing KurdistanÂ’s economy, political, and social situations. These efforts dominated his first 6-year term and most of them found some degree of success. Through a program of land redistribution and government charters, the Kurdish government managed to resettle hundreds of thousands of Kurdish refugees and immigrants, establishing new communities and creating a new class of small and medium landowners. A great number of people also resettled in the rapidly-expanding capital city of Amed, where government subsidization was contributing to industrialization. Barzani also touted programs of agricultural subsidies, the creation of a Civil Service Corp, a National Police, and foreign policy victories with Arabia and the Soviet Union. Additionally, he had enacted bigoted but popular security laws, targetting Turks as a part of a so-called fifth column of fascists and state enemies.
Heading into the 1946 elections, there was no real question of outcome. Barzani was still the triumphant war hero and national founder, who had laden himself with titles and built a system of legal dictatorship to defend them. The Kurdish National Party maintained an absolute majority in the National Assembly and the unitary powers of the President allowed Barzani to appoint friendly sheiks and businessmen as governors, judges, ministers, and commanders. President BarzaniÂ’s government was a system of tribal and political patronage, centralization, and a commitment to the facade of democratic institutions. For many, this system raised a few problems. Kurds were no stranger to authoritarianism, even having lived under perpetual martial law in the last years of Turkish subjugation. So while BarzaniÂ’s monopoly on power and the omnipresence of the National Police might have bothered some, it was a preferable alternative and derived further legitimacy from its relative success. Barzani had indeed won independence for Kurdistan, stabilizing its politics and economy, and facilitating a capable and centralized state. And for many more, this was simply the standard of tribal rule extrapolated to a nation-state. And while many in Kurdistan donÂ’t support the KNP on ideological grounds, there is a conviction that Generalissimo BarzaniÂ’s role transcends his party, leading many PKK, DP, and FF voters to still lend their support to Barzani. But there also remained stark opposition to Barzani and the legal dictatorship in the intelligentsia, especially amongst urban liberals and intellectuals.
The actual campaign process was highly publicized but hardly contested. By 1946, a majority of radio and newspapers in Kurdistan had been concentrated among a handful of Barzani-loyal elites. This led to a landslide of propagandized reporting and overt support for his re-election as well as the KNP in general. Whereas in the 1940 Kurdish elections had been uncontested, this time the Democratic Party and the Fatherland Front dared to field candidates of their own. The Central Election Bureau of the Interior Ministry, which Barzani still oversees personally, denied both candidates the right to hold rallies or campaign outside of print but did approve them to appear on the ballot.
On October 3rd, the whole of Kurdistan came to a halt for an extravagant government event. The official National Victory Celebration would be held in Amed, commemorating the victory of the United Nations and Kurdistan in the war against fascism. Thousands of Peshmerga troops marched in the streets and President Barzani oversaw a massive parade. In the ceremony, it was announced the National Assembly had awarded him a new title, “Enemy of Fascism and Friend of Democracy”, in honor of his intractable commitment to freedom and the defeat of fascists and authoritarians. The parade was held in spite of the war ending just over a year ago and had no relation to the presidential elections scheduled for October 4th. On the following day, the Central Election Bureau certified that President Barzani had won his re-election in a landslide, securing 92% of the popular vote. The Democratic Party, led by businessman Dilotan Hetav, secured just 4.6% and ultimately the Fatherland Front withdrew from the elections.
The President delivered an ambitious speech at his inauguration, promising economic growth, a rise in the standard of living, diplomatic peace, and continued national strength. He called for rapid industrialization and modernization to grow Kurdistan’s wealth and global standing. But he framed rural farmers and agricultural workers as crucial to Kurdistan’s prosperity, vowing to increase agricultural output and promote industrial agriculture to make Kurdistan a food-secure country. He also vowed continued funding of the Kurdish Armed Forces, describing it as necessary to deter foreign aggression. He also called for continued international efforts against fascism, criticizing the United States for its relationship with Turkey and the perceived lack of action against a latent fascist government in Mexico. But he also praised the formation of the United Nations, calling it “the possible foundation of a system of enduring international peace and order.” A wholly positive tone was struck when he spoke of the Soviet Union, with whom he vowed closer relations and increased cooperation. There he also reiterated his policy that Kurdistan must maintain positive relations with all other geographical neighbors besides Turkey, to ensure Kurdistan could not be threatened on two fronts.
In the first fall session of the Kurdish National Assembly, President Barzani submitted and of course, gained approval for a new round of government offices. Gubernatorial and ministerial terms are tied to the presidential term, allowing the President to select an entirely new slate of subordinates each term. Whilst most of the cabinet changed over, the truly important governmental positions went unchanged. Qazi Muhummad remained as Prime Minister, Ibrahim Ahmed remained as Foreign Minister, Barzani himself as Internal Affairs Minister, Kamuran Bedirxan as Speaker of the Assembly, and the President's brother, Ahmed Barzani as Defense Minister.
Now in the 7th year of his official reign, Generalissimo Mustafa Barzani had cemented ironclad control of the Kurdish Republic. Perhaps emboldened by a sense of political security, the President spent the early months of his 2nd term organizing a new system of state-run political propaganda. The National Assembly passed a law requiring that in all government offices, business places, schools, universities, and hospitals, a portrait of the President and Prime Minister must be hung. A new Ministry of Communication was formed, with approximately 25% of the newspaper and radio industries slated to be nationalized. This space would be taken up by the new National News Bureau, giving the state a direct say in public discourse. Of course, the KDP monopoly ensured a system of self-censorship and propaganda from private media as well. Additionally, the Foreign Ministry confirmed the signing of a military cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union, seeing Soviet trainers and advisors dispatched to Kurdistan with considerable material and equipment aid.
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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LUSAKA CLASS HEAVY DESTROYERS ORDERED FROM FRANCE
April 7th 1947
With the conclusion of the war the long term viability of the Navy had come under quite considerable scrutiny, the slow moving and lightly armed Rhodes-class corvettes of which Rhodesia operated 28 were ideal for escorting wartime convoys but in peacetime and any theoretical war close to Rhodesia's shorelines they would prove inferior in the role of a warship. The Navy had considered the possibility of using the Ships as a form of Coast Guard in peacetime to justify the expenditure to keep them all in running order but ultimately was forced by the Government to offer all 28 Corvettes for sale, with the promise that if sale was not possible all Vessels would be interred into a "Reserve Fleet", or more accurately a mothball Fleet which could be reactivated within 6 months at the outbreak of possible hostilities.
To replace the Corvettes in a meaningful capacity was to be the responsibility of a French-built design being coined the Lusaka Class Heavy Destroyer, receiving its own designation due to its immense weight for a Destroyer (2,900 tons compared to the average 1,800) and yet being too light to be considered a light Cruiser. Heavily armed with twelve 5 inch guns compared to the standard six it also doubled the average capability of what a Destroyer should be considered capable of doing. Possessing above average speed and armed with an immense anti-aircraft complement the Vessels would provide Rhodesia with Eight Ships capable of effectively combatting Rhodesia's possible enemies within the Indian Ocean. To be divided into two Battlegroups with the two existing Coghlan Class Heavy Cruisers Rhodesia would be able to field two fully equipped Squadrons, and in an operational sense maintain one Squadron on patrol at all times.
Costing the Nation 6,500,000 for the Eight ordered Destroyers (equal to around 280,000,000 in 2021 pounds) the cost was relatively similar to what was paid for the 28 Rhodes Class Corvettes over half a decade prior, but the decreased number indeed did indicate that the Nation had to choose Quality over Quantity to meet its peacetime goals. Upon completion of the Vessels, expected at the latest in mid 1949, the Nations three tribal class Destroyers and two Bittern Class sloops shall join the 28 Rhodes Class Corvettes in mothball if sales of the Vessels cannot be achieved. These changes in status would reduce the total number of Vessels in active service from 37 Active to 10 Active & 33 in Mothball.
The entire order is to be completed in France, an act that will see thousands employed for the two coming years and as a result give much needed investment into the recovering French Shipbuilding Sector.
[spoiler=Statistics of the Lusaka Class Heavy Destroyer]
Displacement - 2,926 tons (standard)
Length - 132.5m
Beam - 13.1m
Draft - 34.9m
Propulsion - 80,000 shp; 4 oil-fired boilers; 2 geared steam turbines; 2 screws
Speed - 34 knots
Range - 3,800 nmi (7,000 km) at 15 knots
Armor - ranging from 16mm (3/4") on hull to 32mm (1 1/4") on Superstructure & 100mm (4") on Bridge
Complement - 362 officers and enlisted
Sensors and processing systems -
Radar Type 293Q target indication
Radar Type 291 air warning
Radar Type 274 navigation
Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI
Radar Type 262 fire control on director CRBF and STAAG Mk.II
Armament
12x 130mm/45 French 5.1 inch guns in three quad turrets
16x Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns in four quad turrets
17x 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns in single mounts
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[list][list]AUGUST 1945
[sub]Transatlantic Keynes I[/sub][/list]
[sup]A Series¹[/sup][sub][pre] A N G L O — A M E R I C A N  P O S T W A R I S M [/pre][/sub]
[pre] W H I T E H A L L Â M A N D A R I N S [/pre]
[list][list][sub][pre]
King George VI —Â
From Canada to the Indian Raj,Â
from Australia to Nigeria, fromÂ
the Caribbean to East Africa — Â
H.R.H. reigns united an Empire,
Commonwealth, & Postwar Effort.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
FAR-FLUNG EMPIRE & HER WAR DEBTS
[sub]LONDON, ENGLAND, Great Britain Gb[/sub]
[list][list][sub]For their part, the British knew they were in concerning financial straits — despite having a far-flung empire, whomst at the time could not doubt be contested as a lucrative asset, the country’s plight of economics due to the war was undeniable. By the fall of ‘45, the ATTLEE government had no choice but to seek a loan from their transatlantic Anglos. [/sub][/list][/list]
| Whitehall knew however of the grave murmurs on Capitol Hill — fear of depression and debt, of postwar economic woes made this moment an inauspicious era to request loaning ventures from across the pond . . . Arrangements like Lend-Lease, Mutual Aid from the Commonwealth, and credits from the Sterling area had masked the extent of concern — aided by the firesale of prewar equity holdings to Wall Street from the City [of London]. So much so was CHURCHILL’s desire to destory Volk Germania, that no price was expendable, indeed one of Berlin’s hopes on the eve of their invasion of Poland was the belief the British and French wouldn’t heed Poland’s call for support — the price of which, both Berlin and London knew, was to be the Empire at large — the Germans miscalculated; and Britain nevertheless went to war. |
[sub]WALLACE and WHITEHALL MANDARINS[/sub]
| Through Lend-Lease, the United Kingdom didn’t just recieve weaponry, but also food items; everything from evaporated milk to canned meat and fish. All of that however was terminated on August 21st — The American President, Henry A. Wallace opted to end it sooner than later, London had known of its termination sometime after full victory was achieved, but the timeframe nevertheless came as a surprise. American editorials sneered at British leadership, the CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE boasted the “Free Dinner Had Ended”. — Whitehall mandarins, from governmental ministers to diplomatic staffers had hoped however that Washington would remain receptive. Indeed, concern of an American retreat back into isolationism wasn’t too far off the mark — after the first world war, America had done so — Great Britain’s stature in the world was without question, it had the most advance intelligence gathering agency in the world and a network of commonwealth/empire allies to bolster her. To London, each ally had carried a cost — The UK itself paid directly for some 14.1 million small arms rounds and 282k grenades to supply the American war force and beyond that — The United States by-in-large was the sole major power to have been enriched by the wartime inferno, as seen by her growthrate. |
| In this light, the ATTLEE Government was optimistic about a loan, however trouble still loomed when the opinions of the American populace reared their head around. Gallup polls of 1945 showed that most Americans were not too kneen on offering loans to foriegn countries, a challenge to the Wallace Administration who figured American isolationist fervers remained hidden under the surface of this newfound country seeking to bolster to the United Nations and its causes — to drive the point home however — |
[list][sub]In the summer of 1940, citizens had dispatched their hunting rifles and shotguns to the United Kingdom to aid in the Battle for Britain via the American Committee for the Defense of British Homes (ACDBH) — by the fall of 1945, those very same citizens were petition their local congressmen for the return of said firearms.[/sub][/list]
10 DOWNING STREET — NIGHT
[sub]LONDON, ENGLAND, Great Britain Gb[/sub]
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] [sup](V.O.)[/sup] | “It’s commonly said, alas by some who’d ought to know; that Britain’s efforts to save civilization had ‘rendered her bankrupt’—”[/list]
| It was an unusual time to hold a cabinet meeting, a little beyond 10:00 PM as the sliver Rolls Royce arrived before 10 Downing Street. Its driver stepped out, but before he could open the door — its passenger proceeded to open it for himself. The PRIME MINISTER had called for an emergency meeting and His Majesty’s Treasury’s principal economic advisor had just arrived — dubious by today’s celebrity pantheon; he was the world’s most famous economist, lauded at a time where wartime destruction was pivoting to postwar rebuilding — a sense of optimistic relief mixed in with dread. He was the summit by far of the British liberal establishment, an intellectual wizard; but lanky as well, standing at 6’7, always slouching somewhat. His 1936 work, General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money had coined him the phrase the “Father of Modern Macroeconomics”. |
[sub]THE CABINET ROOM, 10 DOWNING[/sub]
| The Cabinet Room, with its long ever-so-slightly oval green furnished table — it was already, by the end of the second world war, historic. It was where Government debated on what to do about the American colonial revolution, where Napoleon’s European expanse was mulled over, where Empire policy was dictated, and most recently — where Attlee’s predecessor guided the nation through the world war . . . now, in this late-night session, packed with government ministers, it was the seat of discussion for something entirely different for the world’s third great superpower. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “—The phrase however lends itself shorthanded. Prime Minister, that hasn’t occurred, it’s not the case . . . but we are however, facing a financial Dunkirk.”[/list]
| Murmurs arose from among the seated Cabinet members, of concern however the use of “Dunkirk”, KEYNES knew, as a master of English prose would be taken as misunderstood. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “On the verge of virtually bankrupt . . . we risk exposure as isolated and crippled, as much as all nations, say the Americans, who came out of this great terror — what I meant to say, is that verge — of what may be, and that daring recovery of a harrowing rebound.”
| CLEMENT ATTLEE, [sub]THE PRIME MINISTER[/sub] | “As so, should this have been a terminal disaster, a more conclusive metaphor would have been appropriate?”
| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “Prime Minister, the fall of Singapore would have been so.”[/list]
| Far more conclusive was the Fall of Singapore than Dunkirk. Where Dunkirk saw 338,000 saved from the shores of France, in the Orient however — the conclusive stone of imperial power in the Far East was shockingly and suddenly conquered by Axis Japan in the early months of ’42 . . . KEYNES then shifted gears for a moment, with a vigor in his voice, regardless of his warning of calamity. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “. . . However . . . beyond that Nostradamus affair, there are outstanding opportunities . . . I had remarked to a visiting group of the American diplomatic core, junior level ones at that — that if Government handled the measures of actions, as in, listened to me . . .”[/list]
| Slight chuckles from the PRIME MINISTERS and CABINET. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “All of Europe would boom, and with aid from across the Atlantic, with due time, Europe would be back to the standard of living that was before. The minds, the will and the public are all here, rebuilding will create the jobs and security that is demanded.”[/list]
| There was a “Hear! Hear!” From some of the CABINET. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “Financial endearment will come from fruitful negotiations with the Americans. Since the [Bretton Woods] Conference two years back, a new financial order has emerged, and one far more governmentally reaching and stable than the primitive gold-bearers of old.”[/list]
| KEYNES had a history with negotiating with the Americans, beyond his economic publications, KEYNES also excelled in market forces, and the use of that skill had made him a fortune in the City of London, different from ‘London’ herself, the City was the location of the financial district. In 1941, KEYNES had successfully steered Great Britain towards Lend-Lease, with a supportive FDR and Congress after all, and Bretton Woods, three years onward — the monetary and financial conference in New Hemisphere that set the new world’s system for prosperity . . . But now, KEYNES knew the bitter climate of peace had set in. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “Beyond her financial might and desire for freer trade, as for America itself . . . It has no future in the long run. America and her lack of historical awareness and sheer disconnect of her people will create a wall between them and world leadership. It will in time, seep back into isolationism and we will have to content with a European commonwealth tasked with upholding the continent once American retreatism sets in, they believe they had saved the world, but not its caretakers.”[/list]
| Murmuring began up once more, for in the postwar world; there were in fact. three superpowers. Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Out of which, only Britain possessed the far-reaching imperial hold and network that could be defined as a “worldwide superpower”. In the halls of Whitehall, geopolitical analysis, as did those in the Kremlin, more than expected Washington to return to where it oriented before the war, abit now with a United Nations empowered with the Wilsonian ambition that was extinguished by the American Senate . . . and then, a light smile came upon KEYNES’ face. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “. . . That isn’t to say of course, I have any doubt those Americans wouldn’t be supportive of Britain and her Empire.”[/list]
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[sub]¹ A Series: Anglo-American Postwarism covers transatlantic affairs and interconnected storytelling between Paramountica & Great Britain Gb. The affairs occurring in posts of this series may at times be interconnected by political and/or economic affairs, basically, Anglosphere stuff.[/sub]
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APRIL 1947 - President of Finland begins the task of setting relations with neighbours
HELSINKI - Juho Kusti Paasikivi, the seventh president of Finland, is facing a critical moment for Finland. Relations with the Soviet Union are at an all time low. Most of the population in Finland resent the losses of the Winter War of 1940. Yet, the presidency declared that in order to move on with peace in Europe, it was necessary to establish a plan for defining future relations with key countries namely:
The Foreign Relations Council of Finland advised that Finland take a very cautious stance with the Soviet Union and adopt a clear neutrality approach. Negotiations for Moscow could be possibly difficult.
On the 28th April 1947, the Finnish Ambassador in Moscow, Risto Nenonen, transmitted a message to the Soviet Premier officially inviting for the beginning of peace negotiations.
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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Operation Omega
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The confederacy of Mexico has just made their first nuclear weapon. ItÂ’s called the Omega First. They point it to the US just in case. They ask for alliances with Iberian nations still.
Paseo, Victoria Harbor
[list]May 1947
[sub]Germany of '47[/sub][/list]
[pre]GERMANY, 1947: RECONSTRUCTION CONTINUES WITH THE COMING OF GEIST AG, LABOR STRIKERS SWEEP THE COUNTRY[/pre]
| Almost two entire years had passed since the War in Europe had concluded. Since then, reconstruction of Germany had been pushing along at a regular pace, with support from the Allied occupying powers continuing to flow in. While the Allied Control Council (ACC) in Berlin directed all affairs within the four varying occupation zones of Germany (divided between France, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union), local and state leaders on the ground supported and influenced actions on the ground, especially when it came to the distribution of aid and support. Konrad Adenauer, Lord Mayor of Cologne and the most senior German in a position of authority under the Allied interim government, led this effort, pushing several social and economic rehabilitation programs, while allowing the Allied occupation control boards to oversee the process of De-Volkization. |
| Thru 1946, other damaged cities across the occupation zones implemented similar social support and economic programs as what was implemented in Cologne. The primary focus was placed on delivering aid immediately to the peoples, and supplying soup, clothing, blankets and other important materiel as fast as possible in the most efficient way as possible. Rationing of foods was overseen through food stamps, but as the supply of food slowly stabilized by late 1946, in time for the second peacetime winter in Germany, food stamps would slowly see loosening. In comparison to other nations, Germany itself was recovering at a slower rate due to Germany's status as a defeated Axis power. There remained stigma that supporting the German people would be supporting the Volks. While this debate raged in the Allied capitals, however, Germans on the ground and humanitarian groups and corporations of all types did what they could to pitch in to the recovery effort. |
| A show of rare corporate unity took place between various German non-government organizations and companies, who united under businessman and clothing magnate Oskar Schroder to form Geist von Deutschland AG, or Spirit of Germany Corp. in English. Shortened to Geist AG, the company sought to provide low-cost services to cities and Germans who were not being supported by the local and state governments or by the Allied occupation forces. Geist AG focused primarily on donations and aid from abroad and pooling them together to be distributed to the places being least supported. Geist also capitalized on a campaign of stamping out Volkist remnants in the country and waving excitement for a 'new age of Europe' where 'all nations stand side by side equally'. Geist launched its own newspaper, of the same name, which laid down lofty ideas such as a future inclusion of Germany in the 'New United Nations' or a re-unification of the German state — for indeed, the debate on whether Germany should be unified or Balkanized still raged on in Westminster, on Capitol Hill, and in Paris. |
| Meanwhile, as the recovering Free World slowly built itself up, the workers were rising up in labor strikes to demand higher pay and better working conditions. As seen in the United States and in Japan, Germany too saw strikes of various severities primarily in the former Saarland and the industrial regions around Frankfurt, where Allied bombing had been particularly prominent. Factory workers demanded better pay and more food rations to be able to sufficiently feed their families. The first labor unions — which had been banned and shut down by the DVP when they rose to power, describing them a Communist threat to society — were now springing up, and officials like Adenauer were calling on both workers and companies to 'work together for a settlement in a way that does not disrupt the recovery of the nation and of Europe'. |
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list]May 1947
[sub]Hanging Over Us[/sub][/list]
[pre]SPECTRE: DE-VOLKIZATION AND ADJUSTING TO THE GREATEST DEFEAT[/pre]
| Like how the shame of killing a human being hangs over a soldier of war, the shame of orchestrating the most brutal conflict in human history now hung over the people of Germany. Like a dark spectre, a shadow that followed them wherever they went, Germans went from boisterous and confident to huddled and quiet. The casted looks of foreigners in the country — soldiers, mostly — to the ruined rubble itself, to the destroyed buildings of glory. The once great Reichstag, formerly the home to the infant and doomed Weimar democracy, was damaged. Its historic dome was cut in half, and the building itself was unusable to any authority who sought to use it. Brandenburg Gate stood alone in the middle of damaged Berlin, ports in Hamburg and Kiel rendered unusable, and the insignias of the old regime being burned and destroyed as part of the process of De-Volkization. Germany had been humbled and made silent in the fact of its Greatest Defeat — as one reporter worded it in a newspaper circulated in late 1946. |
| The Greatest Defeat hung over the German state and the German people. From its sudden rise in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, to its fall in the Great War, its rise once more in the late Thirties, and now its ultimate defeat in the mid Forties, Germany had gone from king of European militaries to an occupied state. In an exclusive article released by a Frankfurt newspaper in late 1946, Walter Zimmermann, a former MP in the Reichstag for the SPD, wrote of the "Greatest Defeat" — in which Germany will 'forever be changed and humbled; through which its view of the world and its view of itself will be changed forever'. This idea of a Greatest Defeat was hard to adjust to for Germans, who were accustomed to being prideful and confident about their home country. Now, it stood destroyed, obliterated, and economically unstable — what was there to be proud of, some asked? |
| The controversial process of De-Volkization contributed to this weakened German psyche and its injured patriotism. While a large majority of Germans — up to 86% — supported efforts to 'move onward for progress, change and a brighter future', some described the process as anti-nationalistic. Most of the opponents to the De-Volkization of Germany, however, were apprehended and stamped out as the Allied forces sought to clean out the remnants of the old regime. One newspaper described it as such; |
[list][pre]"[...] It is not only this so-called Greatest Defeat that is of the greatest harm to the patriotism of Germans and their love for their Fatherland, but as well as the fact that foreign forces are seeking to take down a part of our history, one so recent. Indeed, it is only right that such a dark, despicable chapter of our history be moved aside to allow for a stable democratic transition to a brighter, freer future for all Germans, but we must always remember: The greatest lesson history teaches us is that to move forward, we must be willing to learn from our mistakes."[/pre][/list]
| It was already well-acknowledged that for years to come, the country — if it could even still be considered one — would take time to adjust to the New World. The current geopolitical atmosphere is much different from what many saw in 1939 — the United States and the Soviet Union stand as global superpowers, with the former wielding a weapon of immense proportions. Labor movements across the world could see changes in the labor fields that strengthen workers' rights and increase pay, but could affect prices in a recovering global economy. And most importantly, Germany had to learn to face its past, lest it repeat its mistakes. |
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list]SHOWA 22 | JUNE 1947[/list]
[list][list]そんなに強くない男
[pre]NOT SO STRONG MAN[/pre][/list][/list]
[pre] S O C I A L I S T S W I N [/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, NATIONAL DIET — NOON
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| In the silent MEIJI SHRINE, the ghost of OLD EMPEROR MEIJI would be dismayed if he knew what was happening in the NATIONAL DIET that was a few kilometers away. While some say JAPANESE POLICY was being carried out according to familiar pre-war instructions, there were certainly unexpected people in many of the leading roles. Yoshida was left out, TETSU KATAYAMA is the new Socialist Prime Minister, he is Presbyterian, but his grandfather is a Shinto priest. In the elections the SOCIALIST PARTY took first place, winning the largest number of seats. JIICHIRO MATSUMOTO, vice president of the Diet’s upper house, is one of Japan’s Eta “untouchables.” While socialists have infiltrated the ranks of old conservative politicians, their arrival is likely to have little drastic results. To get right-center Democrats to agree to enter a coalition cabinet, Socialists had to give up most of their Socialism. |
[list]| TETSU KATAYAMA, [sub]THE PRIME MINISTER[/sub] | “My aim will be to give Japanese workers the guarantee that their rights will be protected . . . A new Japan is rebuilding itself from the ashes that the war destroyed!”[/list]
[list][list]“私の目的は、日本の労働者に彼らの権利が保護されるという保証を与えることです. 戦争で破壊された灰から新しい日本が生まれ変わる!”[/list][/list]
| Party members say Katayama is shaped like a penguin. “Middle of the road” were the words with which General MacArthur approved it; “Don’t overdo it” is Katayama’s favorite motto. He always carries an umbrella and has little involvement with KYUICHI TOKUDA’s Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese journalists, eating rice and radishes from a aluminum lunchbox. Most Japanese citizens believe that Katayama is a neutral politician and not very strong — “neither poison nor medicine” — and doubt that his Cabinet does much. The new coalition brought unhappiness to the Imperial Household officials, satisfied with protocol. At the formal inauguration, several ministers attended without a jacket. |
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[list]𝐍𝐄𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐃𝐄𝐔𝐓𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃 | JUNE 1947
[sub]JUNKERLAND IN BAUERNHAND![/sub][/list]
[pre]A G R I C U L T U R A L R E F O R M[/pre]
BERLIN (EAST) — AFTERNOON
[sub]SOVIET OCCUPATION ZONE, East Germany Ddr[/sub]
[list]| In September 1945, the provincial and state administrations of the Soviet Zone of Occupation (SBZ) issued ordinances for the implementation of land reform in the Eastern Germany, first in the province of Saxony. The reform and distribution of agricultural land continues to today. |
| Overall, around 30% of the agricultural land is affected by the land reform. 7,160 farms are to be expropriated from large landowners with more than 100 hectares of utilized agricultural area (76.3% of the total area). Among the largest expropriated goods are the estates of Prince Stolberg-Wernigerode (22,000 hectares), the Duke of Anhalt (20,000 hectares), Count Malte zu Putbus (18,800 hectares) and Count von Arnim (15,800 hectares). In addition, 4,537 farms under 100 hectares in size are being expropriated. These are businesses owned by people who have been classified as war criminals and "Heidlerist activists". State, municipal and institutional land holdings including forests are also included in the land distribution: 1,288 state-owned holdings with 337,507 hectares, 169 settlement companies and other institutions from the period 1933 to 1945 with 22,764 hectares, 384 holdings with 200,247 hectares of state forests and forests, and 551 holdings with 88,465 hectares of other land. This is 19.7% of the utilized agricultural area of 3.298 million hectares. |
| These total of 3.298 million hectares are being redistributed. About two-thirds of these areas are going to farm workers, resettlers and smallholders as personal, inheritable, inalienable property. 51% of the area is being given to new farmers , 11.5% of the area to farmers with little land and 3.5% to self-workers and employees. The land recipients breakdown as such: 183,261 new farmers, 119,121 agricultural workers and landless farmers, 91,155 resettlers, 82,483 farmers poor in land, 43,231 small sharecroppers and 39,838 old farmers who receive a forest allowance. In order to receive land reform land, the new farmers have to pay an annual pension spread over several years. The remaining third of the land expropriated by the reforms will become state property. |
| The Bodenreform is a crucial step in the fulfillment of the party principles laid down at the founding congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, which read: |
[list][sub]PRINCIPLES AND GOALS — "The Socialist Unity Party of Germany fights for the transformation of capitalist ownership of the means of production into social ownership, for a transformation of capitalist production into production by and for society. In bourgeois society, the proletariat is the exploited and dominated class. It can only liberate itself therefrom if it at once liberates the whole of society from all exploitation and domination and constructs the socialist order. Socialism guarantees to all nations, all humans, the free exercise of their rights and free development of their abilities. Only with Socialism does humanity arrive at freedom and general welfare."[/sub][/list]
|Re-affirming the Principles and Goals of the SED, Walter Ulbricht has said of the reforms: |
[list][sub]WALTER ULBRICHT — "We are steadfastly marching the path of socialism. The Bodenreform is a necessary step towards establishing peasant control of agriculture, just as we are extending workers control over the means of production in the cities of Germany. The bourgeois war profiteers and enablers must be expropriated, everywhere we have announced our people's programme: Junker lands belong in Peasant hands! Our task is far from finished, but when it is, the shortages and hardships will give way to peace and plenty. We must all redouble our efforts, for socialism will not come idly. The society of abundance won't be dropped from the sky, it will be the product of our collective labour."[/sub][/list]
| Church lands are exempt from land reform, but some confiscations have taken place. Also excluded from the redistribution are agricultural research institutions and goods that are operated by cities to supply their population.
As the land expropriation measures continue, an acute shortage of farm equipment, barn infrastructure, and housing has thrown a wrench in efforts to commence agricultural production. Some dispossessed bourgeois farm owners have also seen their residences plundered. |
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The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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| BANZA'S DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE |
[sub]March - June 1947[/sub]
| The diplomatic offensive started by the First Representative of Zaire, Gloria Banza, in 1945, continues on with great success as new pacts and treaties are signed, with Zaire continuing to grow and progress. With the country entering it's second stage of Nigoye's Economic plan in 1945, the past two years are bringing rapid industralisation and modernisation of the country, with great strives being made on all fronts from education and employment to business and exports. Treaties and cooperation pacts that are being made by Mrs Banza are coming to great fruition at the right time, in the key time of the development of the country.
On 14th of March, 1947, the Zairean - Azanian March Pact had been signed through which an open border policy will begin between Azania and Zaire from 1949 onwards, allowing the people of the two states to move freely and in peace between the two nations, as they grow closer. In addition, Azania will send through an additional amount of officers to help and train the navy and the Zairean air force thoroughly; with Zaire also being able to gain one-hundred and fifty Marmon Herringtons to the growing Zairean military. The ZAMP has brought the two African states closer and is heavily contributing to the stability and peace of Zaire, with Azania having a base within Zaire, furthering the openness and stability for foreign business making.
On 1st of April, 1947, the Zairean - French Extensive Cooperation Pact was signed marking a greater cooperation between France and Zaire. The Pact heavily expands trade relations between Zaire and France, with larger increase of Zairean natural resources and goods making their way to France, and larger increase of French goods and technologies reaching Zaire. Furthermore to that, Zaire has managed to secure major French investments within the country and a large increase of interest from French companies has been noticeable within the Zairean market. The two states have also signed the Zairean - French Cooperation Act which will entail the two states cooperating on the matters of peace, stability and good fortune within Africa ( especially on the Zairean - French Borders ). In addition to that, Zaire has officially become a client of French military equipment with Zaire gaining from France ; twelve Arsenal VG-33s , ten Amiot 354, MAS 38 Submachine Guns, Brandt mel 37 mortars, one FS Georges Leygues and one FS Montcalm; allowing the Zairean navy to make an appearance. A cultural exchange between the two states will also begin from 1949, allowing a larger understanding of one another. The deals made with the French are bound to bring highly desired economic boosts and are seen as ground breaking and historic.
On 14th of May, 1947, the Zairean - Nordic Union Pact of Cooperation and Friendship had been signed marking a beautiful and strong start to relations between the two states. The Pact entails establishment of major trade relations between the two states. Nordic Union investments and companies have been invited to establish within Zaire, with an educated and willing workforce ready. Zaire will increase its export of natural resources and goods to the Nordic Union with a larger increase of medical and technological goods arriving in Zaire from the Nordic Union. Furthermore, a cultural exchange will start between the two states in 1949, and Nordic Union healthcare experts will arrive in Zaire by mid 1947 to aid in creating and establishing a healthcare system for Zaire. The two countries are bound to become allies in the future, as stated by Mrs Banza.
The diplomatic offensive that is being led by Mrs Gloria Banza is becoming very effective and highly lucrative for Zaire as recent data and results are showing. The country is opening up, foreign businesses and investments are reaching the country in larger numbers, economic and educational rates are rising quickly and rapidly. Industralisation and modernisation is on a high increase, and all the diplomatic efforts of Mrs Banza are allowing for it to occur. It is time to understand that Zaire is changing, and it is changing rapidly and quickly, leaving little behind. How will the people cope, however as so much is changing? And how will Mrs Banza be able to live up to the momentum she herself is creating? On 3rd of June, Mrs Gloria Banza at the National Congress gathering has announced that she will aim for a world tour by mid 1948, with countries such as Azania, France, United States of America, United Kingdom, West Germany, Arabia, Nordic Union, Sud American Union, Slovenia and even potentially the Eastern Block being on her agenda.
[list][ FIRST REPRESENTATIVE OF ZAIRE, Gloria Banza ]: "L'offensive diplomatique, comme la presse l'a appelée, fonctionne et offre au Zaïre un avenir lucratif. Je ne m'arrêterai pas et ne me laisserai pas arrêter pour donner à mon pays une chance de réussir. J'ai l'intention de faire le tour de la communauté internationale pour recueillir d'autres investissements, soutiens et amis. Les préparatifs nécessaires sont en cours, et je n'ai aucun scrupule à tendre la main à qui que ce soit. Au-delà des différences, il faut faire des affaires. Je regarde avec amitié les États-Unis, la France, la Grande-Bretagne, l'Espagne, l'Italie, l'Azanie, l'Arabie, l'Amérique du Sud, la Slovénie et l'Égypte, tout autant que je suis prêt à nous ouvrir de nouvelles portes avec la Catalogne, la Pologne, la Tchécoslovaquie, l'Union soviétique, la Chine et le Japon. Même l'Allemagne divisée mérite une chance. Mesdames et Messieurs, le succès est aux portes du Zaïre et Dieu m'est témoin qu'on le laissera entrer !" | [/list]
[spoiler= "We cannot be scared of success, when in reality it's the only thing that will bring us forward." - Gloria Banza]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
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[list][list]SEPTEMBER 1945
[sub]Transatlantic Keynes II[/sub][/list]
[sup]A Series¹[/sup][sub][pre] A N G L O — A M E R I C A N P O S T W A R I S M [/pre][/sub]
[pre] T R E A S U R Y I N T E R N A T I O N A L I S T S [/pre]
[list][list][sub][pre]
King George VI —
From Canada to the Indian Raj,
from Australia to Nigeria, from
the Caribbean to East Africa —
H.R.H. reigns united an Empire,
Commonwealth, & Postwar Effort.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE — DAY
[sub]SOUTHAMPTON, Great Britain Gb to WASHINGTON, Paramountica[/sub]
[list][list][sub]Churchill, Keynes and Bevin; Attlee’s Foriegn Minister all shared a sense of great optimism — and it was with that postwar sense KEYNES was dispatched on behalf of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Britain’s equal to that of American Treasury Secretary to negotiate on behalf of of London, in Washington for a minimum of at least $5 billion in American financial loans.[/sub][/list][/list]
| KEYNES did not travel alone however — LYDIA LOPOKOVA, his wife; a former prima ballerina who had departed Imperial Russia long before the Bolshevik revolution took hold . . . and advisor specialists from both the Board of Trade and Treasury. EDMUND HALL-PATCH came along too, the Foreign Office’s senior economic advisor. Unlike KEYNES however, HALL-PATCH was not optimistic about an American loan. The small party joined along a troopship bound for Canada [sup]Adriatican Islands[/sup] . . . Arriving in Quebec City, quick meetings were held in Ottawa, the Canadian capital where more favorably than the Americans, the Canadians pledged to aid the Home Islands without much contention — they arrived finally in Washington, on September 7th. |
TREASURY BUILDING, DEPT. OF THE TREASURY — EVENING
[sub]WASHINGTON D.C., Paramountica[/sub]
[list][list][sub]The top-floor suite at the Statler hotel, it was comfortable and only around a quarter mile from the Willard on Pennsylvania Ave. where wartime’s British Purchasing Commission still held the lease on the 9th floor — At the British Embassy; KEYNES spoke freely about obtaining a $6 to $8 billion loan, and those Brits at the embassy surely believed it, and not only so, were also relieved. There was dining and drinks among Britain's diplomatic core, however those weren’t the people KEYNES had to convince.[/sub][/list][/list]
| At the treasury building, with its neoclassical column design, KEYNES met with America’s economic chiefs — from across the conference table was HENRY MORGENTHAU, Secretary of the Treasury², an American Jew and been in said office since 1934; aiding with the New Deal, financing World War II, support for China and Lend-Lease and postwar economics — — Beyond MORGENTHAU however, MARRINER ECCLES, the Federal Reserve chairman, was an unsmiling Mormon who viewed Great Britain like a busted sales company, and there was also WILLIAM LOCKHARD CLAYTON, in for a role at the department, the Assistant Secretary of State for Economics. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub]Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “Aside the airfields, bullets and lost lives . . . all debts can’t be measured in currency. The casualties we Britons faced in the war were greater, 400% per capita higher than those here. His Majesty’s Government merely seeks a loan, a grant, that could help shore up everything that had been given to defeat Volkism and the nationalistic hordes.”[/list]
| While MORGENTHAU was the most understanding, the postwar circumstances had, of course, shifted. Most important of all — KEYNES’ arguments went nowhere. Out of all the men on America’s behalf, CLAYTON represented the most equal challenge to KEYNES’ British position. He was a larger-than-life American internationalist . . . who trotted the globe after the war on eminent behalf of Pan Am, IBM and Esso. Out of the Americans there, he; the founder of a massive cotton brokerage that operated from Europe to the British Raj, at age 65, pressed the most. |
[list]| WILLIAM L. CLAYTON, [sub] US | State Dept. Economist[/sub] | “And the pledges.”
| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub] UK | Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “In due time, might I add—”
| WILLIAM L. CLAYTON, [sub] US | State Dept. Economist[/sub] | “Pledges made both when Lend-Lease was obtained, and again at Bretton Woods.”
| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub] UK | Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “Of whomst, may I remind, we are well aware of.”
| WILLIAM L. CLAYTON, [sub] US | State Dept. Economist[/sub] | “The system of imperial preference, and the need for currency exchangement are both required to strengthen the vibrancy of the new liberalised world economy. The Empire’s high wall of tariffs are not only barriers to freer trade, but to the world’s postwar stability.”[/list]
| KEYNES gave a slight smile, small enough to seem understanding, but not large enough to fully envelop yet. The term had yet to come around, but men like CLAYTON very much believed in the framework of ‘global interdependence” — for the American world, it meant bringing about a new age of expanded economic prosperity and peace. Uniting democracies together in commerce, and open markets for American exports, thereby enriching foriegn economies that had, for centuries, been cut off. It would too, much to Washington’s relief, help combat possible unemployment issue, a must in a capital and government rout with fears of a resurgent Depression. |
[sub]AT THE BRITISH EMBASSY in WASHINGTON[/sub]
| Negotiating directives came directly from the Treasury Exchequer in London to the British Embassy in the States. With its Lutyens-designed neoclassical English countryhouse, found in Embassy Row — With grand corridors adorn with regal portraits, a double-square staircase leading to a ballroom with black-polished floors — it was the first seat of residence for Americans curious of their former colonial holders, and at the time, their transatlantic ally and seat of one of the world’s largest Colonial Empires. Behind the scenes of diplomatic reception however was offices upon offices — cipher machines for KEYNES’ negotiations were for one, the most important. Top secret information would type out on a paper roll, the process however — was slow. The correspondence back to London was used not only by KEYNES’ and his staff, but also by the embassy entire, and the numerous British delegations currently in the American capital that used it also for the most sensitive and urgent lines of communication. |
[list][sub]AS THE WEEKS WENT . . . ON and ON . . .[/sub][/list]
| There were 12-hour workdays practically, with a back and forth not only with the Treasury Department, but with London as well. Negotiations however were going — unwell. The backlog on ciphers meant KEYNES and his staff had to wait anywhere from the next morning to days due to said backlogs or simply the five-hour time difference between the American Atlantic coast and the British Isles. |
[list][list][pre]𝐇𝐑𝐇 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐘 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐑
𝟏𝟏 𝐃 𝐎 𝐖 𝐍 𝐈 𝐍 𝐆 𝐒 𝐓 𝐑 𝐄 𝐄 𝐓
Continue to seek obtainment of grant.
Continue to seek obtainment of zero-interest loans.
For Keynes-led negotiations in Washington.[/pre][/list][/list]
| KEYNES read the cipher dispatch, it had been yet another far-fetched idea from Whitehall, as he turned the teared paper roll to face one of the cipher secretaries. |
[list]| JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, [sub] UK | Advisor & Economist[/sub] | “The cleaning women dispatch items on here after the Chancellor [of the Exchequer] and his aides depart for home. That explains this nonsense!”[/list]
| KEYNES’ advice at times was ignored, and London’s desire for a zero-interst loan or grant was impossible . . . So negotiations continued, on and onwards into the fall of ‘45. |
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[sub]¹ A Series: Anglo-American Postwarism covers transatlantic affairs and interconnected storytelling between Paramountica & Great Britain Gb. The affairs occurring in posts of this series may at times be interconnected by political and/or economic affairs, basically, Anglosphere stuff.[/sub]
[sub]² Alternate Secretary of the Treasury, in August of 1945, President Truman refuses to bring Morgenthau to the Potsdam Conference, who resigns because of it and Fred M. Vinson takes his place. Morgenthau, an American Jew, was FDR’s Treasury Secretary since 1934, and helped steer the country towards the series of FDRian programs that became the New Deal and an avent supporter of Keynesian economics. President Wallace however, in our world, brings him along to Potsdam.[/sub]
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[list]SHOWA 20 | SEPTEMBER 1945[/list]
[list][list]天皇とアメリカの将軍
[pre]THE EMPEROR AND THE AMERICAN SHOGUN[/pre][/list][/list]
[pre] F I R S T M E E T I N G [/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, UNITED STATES EMBASSY — MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| After EMPEROR HIROHITOÂ’s declaration of surrender, the American military would occupy Japan and take on the task of reforming JAPANESE INSTITUTIONS TO CONFORM TO DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES in order to transform the country into a modern nation. GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR was ordered to exercise authority through the TOKYO GOVERNMENT, including the IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD. Unlike Germany, where the Allies have completely dismantled the German state [sup]New Provenance[/sup], the Americans will allow the JAPANESE STATE TO CONTINUE, but under U.S. SUPERVISION. A partnership was created between the Americans and the Japanese, MacArthur decided to establish SOLID GOVERNANCE through the Emperor and the rest of the Japanese elite. The Emperor was considered a deity to the Japanese people, and MacArthur found that by ruling through the Emperor, his administration in Japan would be successful. The EMPEROR HIROHITO visited GENERAL MACARTHUR at the American Embassy in Tokyo. At around 10:00 am, in his Rolls Royce, the Emperor and his entourage of Imperial guards and advisers were received by the Japanese-language interpreter, the American FAUBION BOWERS and the U.S. Army officer, BONNER FELLERS. Fellers walks over to the Emperor. |
[list]| GEN. BONNER FELLERS, [sub]US | American Officer[/sub] | “General Bonner Fellers, Your Majesty.”[/list]
[list][list]ボナー・フェラーズ将軍、陛下。[/list][/list]
[list]| HIROHITO, [sub]H.I.M THE EMPEROR[/sub] | “It’s a pleasure to meet you, General Fellers.”[/list]
[list][list]お会いできて光栄です、フェラーズ将軍。[/list][/list]
[list]| OKUMURA KATSUZO, [sub]Imperial Translator[/sub] | “His Majesty says it’s a pleasure to meet you, General Fellers.”[/list]
[list][list]陛下は、お会いできて光栄だとおっしゃっています、フェラー将軍。[/list][/list]
[list]| FAUBION BOWERS, [sub]US | Interpreter[/sub] | “Please come in, General MacArthur is inside.”[/list]
[list][list]お入りください、マッカーサー将軍が中にいます。[/list][/list]
| The Emperor then entered through the front door of the UNITED STATES EMBASSY. Once in the room, MacArthur in his stentorian voice of burnished gold said the following words. |
[list]| GEN. DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, [sub]SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER[/sub] | “You are very, very welcome, sir.”[/list]
[list][list]どういたしまして、先生[/list][/list]
| It was the first time Bowers had heard MacArthur call anyone ‘sir’. The SUPREME COMMANDER reached out to shake the Emperor’s hand, and and the Emperor bowed simultaneously. MacArthur and Hirohito went to a private room and only the Imperial translator, OKUMURA KATSUZO. Both DOUGLAS MACARTHUR and HIROHITO talked for forty minutes. Over the course of their conversation, the Emperor offered to take responsibility for the war, but MacArthur, despite Russian and British objections, REMOVED THE EMPEROR’s NAME FROM THE LIST OF WAR CRIMINALS, fearing guerrilla action if he was put on trial. Three photos were taken, but only one photo was published. For the Japanese people it was a big change, for the first time they all saw the EMPEROR AS A MAN INSTEAD OF A GOD. Before the surrender, HIROHITO was a ruler who almost never appeared to his subjects, when he took pictures they were taken at an angle to make him look taller and more imposing. No Japanese photographer would ever have taken a picture of the Emperor being upstaged by MacArthur. The Japanese government banned the photo saying it would damage the Emperor’s image, but MacArthur revoked the ban and ordered all Japanese newspapers to print the photo in their headlines. The photo would be like a message to the Emperor about who would be his main partner. |
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[list][sub]JANUARY 1946[/sub]
[list][sub]IL REGNO DIVISO...[/sub][/list]
...A Kingdom Divided[/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub]
| For the first time in five years, Italy and its people have celebrated the New Year in peace. But far from what could be seen on the surface, there has not been more trying times for the Kingdom since the Unification than now, as war and its consequences had left the it ravaged and disunited, from North to South and East to West; bourgeois and worker alike, Fascist, Communist, Monarchist, Liberal, Republican or apolitical; collaborationist or partisan, all had suffered the scars of division. The Italy of 1946 would be radically different from the one of 1940. Il Duce and the ravaging passions of fascism had failed in a historical gambit; that of making Italy into a new Roman Empire, instead dragging into a long war with no shoulders to bear its weight and no willpower to see it to its end. Did the Duce reflect, in his last moments, of those letters he had once exchanged with Churchille, a long time ago? Of his disastrous choice to side with Volkist Germany? No one knew. The past was the past. As the tide of the war turned, the Civil War started, and two years of brotherly fighting, hatred, massacres and hardship began. Then, defeat for the fascist Republic of Salò, along with the lynching of the modern Caesar in Milan. Emerging from the ashes, a broken country, one which was not only composed of people with starkly different views and ideas about the future, but one where war itself had not been experienced the same way by all; the greatest fear as the fragile new year dawned on Rome was not hunger, devastation, occupation or exile but the very fabric of Italian society — and its unity. |
| The Cassibile Armistice of '43 secured for Italy one advantage that its former co-belligerents lacked : That of not having its government under foreign orders or its territory divided. But the question of nationhood was inevitably raised, with the most divisive question of all being that of the House of Savoy, which has ruled Italy since the Risorgimiento. The septuagenarian Victor Emmanuel III, having ruled since the dawn of the century, has turned into the first target of the Communists and the partisans; without a doubt, he is guilty, for them, of having condoned the fascist experiment. But the monarchists point to his role in ousting Mussolini, and his valiant stand in Rome when, in 1943, Germany invaded to prevent the Allies' advances against the capital. An even more convincing argument for them is the next King, Umberto II. In contrast to his old-fashioned, conservative father, Umberto has done the utmost since his de facto regency in '44 to redeem the image of the monarchy. The question of the House of Savoy is to be solved this year, as it is rumored that Victor Emmanuel's resignation will pave the way for his son to take the mantle of the country, just before a nation-wide referendum on the subject. |
| In politics, the task of leading Italy through the new peace has come to the conservative Alcide De Gasperi, who, since December of last year, has succeeded a spate of short-lived Prime Ministers, while the Constitutional Assembly discusses the "Insitutional question". De Gasperi is the father of Italy's largest political organization — Democrazia Cristiana or DC, a centrist, Catholic party; while De Gasperi has not officially voiced an opinion on the referendum, much of the party's base, as well as the Vatican, stand behind the monarchy. In his new position, he already faces opposition from the left and the National Liberation Committee, or CNL, and its partisans, who spearheaded the resistance and the war against Salò. Palmiro Togliatti, longtime leader of the Communist Party of Italy or PCI, has fought along De Gasperi at a time when the CNL encompassed all the parties opposed to Mussolini's rule; but the truce is no more. Togliatti, or Il Migliore ("The Best"), as he is nicknamed by his supporters, a Soviet citizen since 1930, has already served as Deputy Prime Minister and currently heads the Ministry of Justice. He is a fervent republican, and has mobilized his supporters for the upcoming referendum. For now, however, the task of De Gasperi, and Togliatti, as well as the entire cabinet, is confined to procuring the basic necessities for the common man; start a slow process of reconstruction, and a normalization of political life, which has been especially disturbed in the Northern and Central areas of the country, which in the span of three years changed hands three times. |
| Lastly, but not least, is the "Istrian question". Unlike other colonial holdings of Italy, those territories, comprising the cities of Trieste, Fiume and their surroundings, have always had an historical and important Italian presence. With both cities having been transferred to Slovenia [sup][nation]Amsterwald[/nation][/sup] there has been growing discontent among Italy's political elite. Unlike other former holdings of the Italian Empire, such as Libya and East Africa, which the authorities have asked to be given back without much success, the current government has kept its demands for Trieste and Fiume to remain in the Kingdom. And, while the Italian inhabitants of those cities have been spared from a seemingly unstoppable massacre at the hands of Tito's partisans, thanks to Slovenian statehood, they still faced persecution and deportation at the hands of the Slovenes. Although there is little bargaining power in the hands of a nation such as Italy, which is neither as victorious as France nor as defeated as Germany or Japan, Rome still hopes that its demands will be heard. |
[list][spoiler=[sub]Evviva l'Italia![/sub]]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Afghanistaan[/nation]
[nation]Alaroth[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Annyeong Korea[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Astarina[/nation]
[nation]Bayside[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]Finlandee[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Jersey Republic[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Irelaand[/nation]
[nation]Islahh[/nation]
[nation]Philanialle[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Somerania[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Confederate Prussian Empire[/nation]
[nation]Tallahan[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation][/spoiler][/list]
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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU
DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS
ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA
THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]
6 July — 1946[/pre]
____________[/list][/list]
[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]
[list][list]____________
[pre] [/pre]
[pre]PRIME MINISTER “EZ” WRAPS UP NATIONAL TOUR AS POST-WAR RECESSION THREATENS TO WIPE OUT WARTIME ECONOMIC GAINS;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]| CALENDULA — For 344 feet, waters from the Lucala River plunge over the Kalandula Falls of north-central Donga; supplying fresh drinking water to the interior regions of the country from the mighty Cuanza River. On her banks lay some of the most fertile land in all of Azania - where wild fruits and subsistence family farms can be found. It is here that Prime Minister Engameli Zwane concluded his union-wide tour with a speech before local residents and private investors whom the government has been ‘wooing’ since Zwane’s ascension last year. The content of the Prime Minister’s remarks was the economic slowdown which has consumed the United Tribes in the wake of the Second Great War. EZ declared that the present recession should not be taken not as an existential crisis, nor reason to fear a return to depression, but as an opportunity to “widen” the economy amid the halt in its upward trend.[/sub]
[list][pre]”The demands of war-time production jolted our economy from inactivity to boom in a matter of months, creating an untenable situation wherein the unemployed found new jobs in factories and in the armed forces - filling positions that are no longer needed. For 6 years, the poor were able to provide for their families at last, but today they are being told that they must return to squalor and despair… The task before us, while the world rebuilds, is to restructure our economy, such that poverty, hunger, and deprivation can be eliminated in our lifetimes. We must strive to cultivate an economy that is not solely focused on profit margins or rapid growth, but on sustainability.”[/pre][sub]— Engameli Zwane, Prime Minister and Leader of the African National Congress[/sub][/list]
[sub]The 1946 national census revealed that some 10.25 million Azanians, or 67% of the population, lived in varying degrees of poverty. Such a revelation quickly tempered the general consensus that the liberalizing policies of the Unity Government under Smuts, fundamentally altered the lives of millions of aboriginals and poor whites alike. Instead, economic analysts lament that while the social changes during the War provided an unprecedented opportunity for “undesirables” to gain access to the economy, the temporary nature of the positions they filled in factories and mines for the war effort, meant that those advances reverted back to a pre-reform status once those jobs disappeared with the Peace. In this, the millions of Azanians who found new income through positions in production of tanks, warships, aircraft, munitions, and raw materials - were forced to return to their family subsistence farms, most of whom we’re left unmaintained during the war, or in the hands of women and children. Whatsmore, with the world’s most lucrative market laying in rubble, the expected decline in demand manifested itself as a total collapse sending shockwaves into every section of the populace.[/sub]
[sub]As the warehouses and stockyards of AzaniaÂ’s Inland Ports reach their inventory capacity with an overstock of weapons, field rations, vehicles, and light construction equipment; the price point for many of these goods has fallen through the floor. The factories who produced those goods went into the red, having found today that the total cost of production has yielded little to no profit, resulting in a stream of layoffs that has begun to task the working and middle class of Azania who were once able to weather the effects of the Great Depression ten years ago.[/sub]
[sub]It was in this context that the United Tribes of Azania, at once a new Great Power in the eyes of the forming world order, was likewise facing an economic calamity. Yet, the ever-optimistic Prime Minister Zwane called for a general mobilization of the nation - not to fight a new war, but to fight for a lasting peace and more prosperous Azania.[/sub]
[sub]Towards that end, the Prime Minister has announced that his Government would pursue a national program for the development of new public works, a reorganization and expansion of the Union’s metropolitan areas, and a implementation of policies which would encourage investors and consumers alike to ”Buy Azania” again. With his return to Pretoria expected within the coming days, the nation and market waits with anticipation to see how the Prime Minister plans to address this growing crisis.[/sub]
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]
The Confederate Prussian Empire
The Former United States And The Enclave
[/spoiler]
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[list]August 1947
[sub]Deutsche Bahn[/sub][/list]
[pre]INDUSTRIALIST OSKAR SCHRODER FORMS DEUTSCHE BAHN AG, SEEKING TO REBUILD THE 'VEINS OF THE NATION'[/pre]
| Out of the War, not many components of the German industrial juggernaut had survived. Most of German industry had collapsed to bombings, economic collapse, inflation, the postwar recession, or a combination of all of these 'Unlucky Factors'. However, a crucial few group of businessmen and industrialists had survived the war, but had incurred severe damage to their wealth and properties due to the Allied occupation. Under the new Allied Control Council some of these industrialists - linked to companies who had during the wartime collaborated openly with the German Government of the DVP - were arrested and their assets dissolved or sold to surviving businesses, but others - who were vital to keeping the basic German markets open to prevent a full-scale collapse of society in Germany, or had nothing tarnishing their name, or had been vouched for by the Valkyrie Grupp in New York - were spared and allowed to continue operating. This allowed for the maintenance of some semblance of a German basic economy despite the Allied occupation, and this contributed to the slow but sure economic recovery. Indeed, the postwar recession was hampering growth and recovery, but the existence of basic markets and their maintenance into the postwar despite plans for a restructuring of Germany's institutions is expected to keep the transition smooth, at least economically. |
| One of the lucky Germans who got their business through the war fairly unscathed was Oskar Schroder, a German businessman. During the war, he had sought to produce weapons for the German war machine. Schroder-Werke (SchW) had been established and produced profits for Schroder and his associates, while at the same time 'special persons' or civilians fleeing persecution were hired, saving them from their demise at the hands of the authorities or the Gestapo. When the war ended, Schroder surrendered his factories to the Allies and pledged to work to transition to a civilian manufacturing output at the fastest possible speed. After meeting with Konrad Adenauer and other officials in August 1945, Schroder secured a pass for him and his company with the Allied Control Council, who cleared him to establish a new logistics division under Schroder-Werke to oversee the importing of aid and foodstuffs for Germans. |
| Schroder-Werke expanded operations in 1946, securing contracts with the local government in Cologne under Adenauer to re-open acquisitioned factories to create jobs thru consumer production. SchW was best positioned for such a contract, allowing them to easily win the bidding process. Schroder attended the opening of the first factory line - which produced baked beans in a can - in Cologne in September 1946, alongside other officials from the Allied Control Council and the local government. |
| In February 1947, Schroder met with a group of foreign and local businessmen and officials in New York to discuss the issue of railways. Railways and trains provided for the lifeblood and the veins of a nation, and created the pathways through which countries could import and export goods abroad. During the war, these railways were almost exclusively used for military and essential economic purposes, preventing the rapid economic growth that could have been seen. Allied bombing raids and advances by the Soviets in the east devastated the country's railway systems, and the Allies did not prioritize the immediate rebuilding and turnover of these railways as a top priority. Schroder voiced his intention to change that, describing railways as: |
[list][pre]"[...] The lifeblood, the veins of our nation and of our economy. Along it, the red blood cells - trains of all sizes - travel to deliver the goods and services that keep Germany and its great People alive. Without this, we would not be breathing. Without this, we could not trade, may that be importing or exporting. It is important that we rebuild these veins."[/pre][/list]
| With support, Schroder in April of 1947 established DEUTSCHE BAHN AG, roughly translating into German Railways Inc. A private company, it immediately sought to and subsequently did secure contracts to begin rebuilding Germany's railways, starting with links between Cologne and Frankfurt to the Western nations in the Benelux region and in France. Of course, political issues remained that could not immediately allow for the constructing of such links, but Schroder and his company did not dabble in such issues. He focused on the goal, and at that moment, that was working to help Germans any way he could. |
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Principality of Mexico Report
With the nation now finding itself under firm UNS control the question becomes, what are their plans for the nation now?
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1767985
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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU
DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS
ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA
THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]
20 August — 1947[/pre]
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[pre]AUGUST ACCORD SIGNED WITH RHODESIA, PROMPTING OUTRAGE ACROSS AZANIA AS THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THE AGREEMENT COME INTO FOCUS;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]| FRANCISTOWN — Just under twenty miles away from the border with Rhodesia, in Bechuana, the normally sleepy village of Francistown has burst with activity as trucks, and wagon convoys pour in from the border crossing. It is here, as in other municipalities along the border, that over 160,000 Rhodesian natives have poured across the border in the twelve days that have passed since the August Accord was signed. Without waiting for the two governments to organize an orderly execution of the agreement, border checkpoints have been overrun by both natives leaving Rhodesia, and disillusioned whites leaving Azania. The utter chaos that has descended upon the border regions between the two regions has sparked sharp criticism from nearly every possible ideological grouping within the Union. Members of the United Party have criticized the accord as violating the spirit of the “Cosmopolitan Azania” envisioned by fmr. Prime Ministers Jan Smuts and AB Xuma. The National Party has seethed with anger at what they call an ethnic cleansing of white Azanians - while the African Nationalist factions of the ANC have critisized the plan as an unncessisary concession to a government implementing the very “apartheid” which Azania rejected just four years ago. Most vocal of them all were members of the Labour Party whose concern had nothing to do with race or tribal affiliations, and everything to do with how this influx of “cheap labor” would affect Azanian workers who, by-in-large, marched close to achieving complete Unionization in major industrial sectors.[/sub]
[sub]With the government of Prime Minister Engameli Zwane going silent in recent days as they struggle to address the immediate concerns of civil unrest at the border, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange has begun to tank as investors begin to reel at reports that many whites have begun to pull their assets from the nationÂ’s banks in anticipation for their migration to Rhodesia. The silence coming out of the Union Buildings on next steps spoke volumes to the manner in which the Zwane Government has struggled to get a hold of the varying crises facing Azania. Commentators have remarked that his Government will go down in history as the most ineffective in the history of African democracies. Yet, despite those comments, the Premier called Parliament back into session in the late hours of yesterday evening to deliver an address broadcasted by radio across the United Tribes.[/sub]
[list][pre]”ENOUGH! - Have we moved to fast? Have we become too ambitious in our desire to better this nation? Have the people demonstrated that they are not ready to embody the visions of their forebearers? I say NO! We have not moved too fast, and we will not be damned for dreaming - but the time has arrived, now, for the people to put action behind their dreams. Lest we be carried by the ocean’s current into collapse like the Estado Novo years ago.”[/pre][sub]— Engameli Zwane, Prime Minister and Leader of the African National Congress[/sub][/list]
[sub]From the dispatch box, Prime Minister EZ announced that his government would be closing the stock markets for seven business days, and freezing products on all consumer and industrial goods during that same time. It was hoped by the Ministers of Finance, and Trade & Economic Development that this pause in major economic activity would put on ice the impending market collapse, long enough for the government to gain control of the situation.[/sub]
[sub]Likewise, the Premier announced that the Rhodesian-Azanian border would be closed for three days - prohibiting any travel across the border by civilians during that time, under the threat of imprisonment. To enforce the border closure, the Prime Minister has ordered the deployment of the Cape Guards, Pretoria Guard, Royal Azanian Guards, and Royal Cavalry Guards Regiment to major border crossings; and the National Constulbury to patrol the border at-large. In all, some 15,360 soldiers of the Royal Azanian Army would be deployed alongside another 1,100 Constables to regain control of the border. Beyond that immediate measure, the Government announced that it would adopt the following policies to ensure an orderly resettlement program;[/sub]
[list][sub][*] The Ministry of Internal Affairs, Office of National Statistics, would receive instructions to compile a list of white Azanians interested in participating in the exchange program. Those citizens would have to register at their local Postal Office in person, not by proxy or letter. Citizens who do not register, will not be allowed to leave the country for Rhodesia and assume the automatic citizenship offered through the August Accord
[*] Once the list reaches 300,000 registrants, the exchange process may begin until the 1.3 Million quota has been met. At which point, an Emigration holiday will be implemented for a 1 year period for those interested in moving to Rhodesia.
[*] Citizens who elect to participate in the exchange program are required to register and sale their real assets to the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development before their application for Emigration is approved.
[*] During the exchange period from August 1947 thru June of 1952, no more than 217,000 Azanians will be allowed to emigrate to Rhodesia, so as to not overwhelm the Federation or send untenable shockwaves throughout the United TribesÂ’ economy.[/sub][/list]
[sub]To address the issue of incoming native Rhodesians, the Government would implement the following policies as a foundation of their entry into Azania;[/sub]
[list][sub][*] No more than 710,000 native Rhodesians would be accepted into Azania in a given year during the exchange period from August 1947 thru June of 1952.
[*] Native Rhodesians received in Azania would be transported to housing settlements in the provinces of Lunda Norte, Lunda Sol, Moxico, and Cuando Cubango in Donga - being allowed to cluster together freely by tribal affiliation as they so choose.
[*] In accordance with the Azania Act, those tribes will be allowed to apply for formal recognition by the national government, upon receiving which, they may apply to the General Assembly to be admitted into the United Tribes with a Constituent Country of their own. This process will have to occur between 1947 and 1950 in order to meet the application deadline for the first General Assembly in 1950. If a tribe fails to apply for or receive recognition by that time, they will not have the ability to be formally admitted with a Constituent Country until the next General Assembly in 1960.
[*] In the interim, the Council of State has exercised itÂ’s authority to modify the territorial boundaries of Donga to reflect the transfer of those provinces to native Rhodesians. [It should be noted that the combined population of these provinces amount to just 5,400 persons, as Dongan citizens are mostly clustered in municipalities along the coast and land west of the Cuanza river].[/sub][/list]
[sub]With a mixed reception, the ANC-led coalition supported by the Labour Party voted to codify the aforementioned policies as an immediate measure to address the crisis.[/sub]
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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU
DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS
ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA
THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]
31 August — 1947[/pre]
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[pre]ROYAL AZANIAN ARMY REGAINS CONTROL OF THE BORDER, AS MARKET CONTINUES DOWNWARD TREND IN DAYS SINCE REOPENING;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]| FRANCISTOWN — In the eleven days since the Prime Minister took to the floor of Parliament announcing sweeping policies to address the August Accord Crisis; the chaotic scene in the streets of Francistown has been replaced by a calmer, but nevertheless busy atmosphere. Travel across the border has almost completely turned one sided, as native Rhodesians - who have gained the name “Nngwe” or “Movers” by the local Tswana peoples - are taken by bus to the rail station in town from the border crossing. From there, they are being taken along the Estado Novo-built Trans-African railway to the areas designated for Nngwe settlement in the western provinces, formerly of Donga. There, volunteers and members of the Armed Forces have been working diligently to construct temporary housing for the settlers ahead of a long-term solution expected to come up from Cape Town. The avalanche of Nngwe over the border has slowed to shifting sands, as tightened security on the border worked around the clock to prevent the creation of an overwhelming situation for the United Tribes. Since the 160,000+ Rhodesians first arrived between the 9th and 20th of August, another 8,000 had been allowed to enter Azania with tens of thousands more being forced to wait or asked to return to their homes in Rhodesia. 168,000+ new persons to care for; 127,680 of whom are working age adults, newly unemployed who will qualify for welfare benefits through their citizenship upon arriving in Donga; with 4 million others awaiting their turn.[/sub]
[sub]Questions have begun to swirl in every forum of leadership, think tanks, and in academia about the motivation for Prime Minister ZwaneÂ’s decision to agree to the Accord. Much less, with no new indication from the Union Buildings on the long term solvent to the other underlying issues in Azania, the fitness of the Prime Minister to lead has been called into question.[/sub]
[sub]What manner of man would willingly be a co-conspirator in what foreign observers have called an “Ethnic Cleansing” of Rhodesia? In a world where the pressure of revolutionary and anti-imperialism advocates have called for Africa to be purged of it’s colonists - how could the de facto leader of the African continent, all but recognize the right of Rhodesia to exist as a white-majority nation? Not just so, but provide them with the tools to become just that. African Nationalist leaders within the ANC representing over a quarter of their Parliamentary membership have begun to openly criticize the Premier and threaten to advance a motion of no confidence; supported by members of the National Party (Afrikaners) who view the August Accord as deportation from their homeland.[/sub]
[sub]Where war united the factions, and a debate over the contours of peace tore them apart - this crisis has all but brought together incompatible forces in universal agreement on one thing. Engameli Zwane has seriously placed prosperity, stability, and peace within Azania in serious jeopardy - without so much as an explanation why. Or moreso to the point, he has done little to regain control of national affairs in the wake of the second Great War.[/sub]
[sub]Inasmuch as the nation desires answers to “why”, the Government has been laser focused upon addressing the ‘How’ and ‘What’ of this inflection point in Azania’s history. With the JSE still trending down despite efforts to calm investor concerns, the reality presented by the run in banks by emigrating Afrikaners prompted a debate in Parliament, which EZ appeared happy to drum up to quiet his growing opposition. Towards that end, the Premier was able to garner support for Parliament to pass the Fair Banking and Lending Act of 1947, an Omnibus Bill which works to fundamentally alter banking practices in the United Tribes.[/sub]
[sub]When Azania signed the Breton Woods Conference agreement in 1945, it came amid controversy between Cape Town and London over AzaniaÂ’s break from the Pound Sterling, which later reports detailed prompted a request by Prime Minister Churchill to stop the United States from returning to Azania, its 5,421 tons of gold bullion. After a serious of back door meetings, fmr. Prime Minister AB Xuma was able to secure an agreement with the United States which would see the gold sent back to Azania by 1953. Such was the basis upon which the Central Mineral Reserve of Africa was established to backstop mineral demand in the market, and strengthen confidence in the UTÂ’s financial market. By 1947, 2,032 metric tons of gold bullion had been returned to Azania from the United States and placed into the CMR after being melted down into Smutsrands for circulation-upon-demand by the Central Bank of Azania.[/sub]
[sub]With those reserves, coupled with the 275 tons of gold taken into the reserve under the provisions of the National Banking and Reserve Act, Azania had cultivated the second largest gold reserve in the world after the United States. This amounted to some $2,583,840,000 worth of gold reserves presently held by the Central Mineral Reserve in 1947. Out of that gold reserve, the Ministry of Finance - under advisement from Maynard Keynes who was dispatched to the UT from London by the Atlee Government - would move to reverse the recession by leading the government to directly invest into the economy. Keynesian thought suggests that Government has a unique ability to tip the economic scale, in a positive way, to mute the effects of economic downturns prompted by the market - and likewise foster growth within the private sector. On the latter front, this could be done by awarding contracts to businesses, engaging in national public works programs, and other such activities which can create demand within the market, driving up consumer spending and investor confidence.[/sub]
[sub]In comes the Fair Banking and Lending Act of 1947, which marks the first attempt of the Azanian government in its history, to directly influence the market in rejection of traditional lazzie-faire economic thought. While the list of policies implemented under the FBLA is extensive, this article will focus on a few key measures which analysts have highlighted.[/sub]
[list][sub][*] The Central Mineral Reserve of Africa has been authorized by Parliament to transfer $15,058,868.02 (1947) worth of Smutsrands into the account of the Central Bank of Azania to make funds available for direct government investment into the Banking Sector.
[*] The Ministry of Finance has been authorized to make available those funds for the establishment of ten new aboriginal banking institutions across the United Tribes. Specifically, the Ministry of Finance will be established over the next 4 years, 2 Credit Unions and 5 Retail/Consumer Banks, and 3 Commercial/Investment Banks.
[*] Those new Banks will, by 1950 begin to sale shares to private investors and by 1955 by majority controlled by those private shareholders with the government controlling 25% of each institution to represent the public interest.
[*] To manage these institutions while under government control, and likewise represent its interest post-shareholder control, a new National Banks Office shall be created as an agency of the Ministry of Finance.
[*] Further, the Central Mineral Reserve of Africa has been authorized by Parliament to transfer $2,258,830.20 (1947) worth of Smutsrands into the Central Bank of Azania’s account to make funding available for the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development’s “Partner’s Program”.
[*] The Ministry of Trade and Economic Development shall establish a PartnerÂ’s Program, offering small low-interest loans to Azanians looking to start a small business or purchase their first home. Under this program, existing banks, and those created by this act will arrange a 1:1 price-match scheme for loans offered to program participants. In a case where, for example, a citizen would like to apply for a loan to open a shoe repair store - they could apply with their financial institution of choice for a loan of $376 (1947), the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development will match that loan amount, doubling the investment into the new business. This is a pilot program which, if successful, may become the standard practice for small businesses and individuals into the foreseeable future.
[*] In addition to these programs, a number of financial sector regulations are to be implemented covering areas such as anti-discriminatory lending practices, insurance for individual consumer checking and savings accounts up to $3,388.25 (1947); and establishing the framework for real assets sold to the government as part of the Exchange to be transferred to banks for sale back to citizens.[/sub][/list]
[sub]With the passage of this act, the Government hopes to shock the market into stabilization to balance potential drawbacks of white Azanians leaving the United Tribes for Rhodesia. It is likewise hoped, that this act will provide a path to closing the wealth gap between the 67% of Azanians living in poverty, and their fellow citizens living in relative abundance. Such would create a true aboriginal middle class, and stabilize the existing one comprised almost exclusively of whites.[/sub]
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