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Franc-Slovenia i don't remember of the map committe approving you to rp slovenia. Which is currently part of Yugoslavia.

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Pontianus wrote:Franc-Slovenia i don't remember of the map committe approving you to rp slovenia. Which is currently part of Yugoslavia.

oof well i guess i have to get that filled

Pontianus wrote:Franc-Slovenia i don't remember of the map committe approving you to rp slovenia. Which is currently part of Yugoslavia.

well that means that you need to fight a war on slovenian soil

New factbook for Finland

The Constitution

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=finlandee/detail=factbook/id=1690141

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Franc-Slovenia wrote:well that means that you need to fight a war on slovenian soil

I mean, unless they say opposite i control Slovenia, so this "war" does not exist.

[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Estado Novo Begins Political and Economic Institutional Reconstruction of Portuguese Africa; Council on Education and Cultural Affairs Approves Plan for Increase in Specialized Institutions and University Construction in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and East Timor

Estado Novo Inicia Reconstrução Institucional Política e Económica da África Portuguesa; Conselho de Educação e Cultura aprova Plano de Aumento de Instituições Especializadas e Construção Universitária no Brasil, Portugal, Angola, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau e Timor Leste

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal and President of União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas | LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas convened in Lisbon to construct a strategy on the governance of African territory. It was a clear consensus that Estado Novo must be an empire strengthened and led through leadership restructuring to maintain compliance by African natives. Clear oppression and subjugation of African natives will only fuel resentment and open rebellion, thus the Estado Novo needed a new course of action to capture the hearts and minds for generations to come even if it means potentially forming Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Mozambique into their own Estado Novo States and incorporated into O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas, thus prompting unification of defense, economics, and foreign affairs to that of both Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. However, before that to potentially happen, the Supreme Council of the UENP has prompted a checklist guideline for African territories to be created as a roadmap for development, advancements, and sustainment. With the combined potential of Portugal, Brazil, and East Timor, Portuguese African territory's future looks substantially bright.

The first on the list for the Supreme Council was the establishment of the Office of African Affairs, which would serve as a combined bureaucracy between the Council on Foreign Relations and the Council on Education and Cultural Affairs as a means to coordinate and implement new Estado Novo policies toward African prosperity. Through the OAA, a new education and culture policy has been drafted and approved to begin implementation with the intention of morphing the identity of African subjects over 2-3 generations to become more aligned with Portuguese ideals and customs while infusing Portuguese and Brazilian heritage and culture with native African traditions to produce a new, unique identity and stronghold for Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. It would be stressed continuously within the Supreme Council that for a civilization to be sustained and properly progress into the future, education must become a priority. Additionally, O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas has placed heightened priority across the Estado Novo for the proliferation of social benefits and social programs such as community outreach programs, positive interactions and sporting between communities and local authorities, immersive environmental educational programs instead of staying in classrooms all day, and granting money to families to determine where their children go to school. Antonio Salazar and Getúlio Dornelles Vargas has also ordered for the expansion of public, private, and religious educational institutions and has ensured equity of educational opportunities based on the financial need of every citizen.

Stressing that it is never too late to gather an education no matter the age; O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas has promised as an incentive, employment and job training for all citizens over the age of 30 if they return to school to receive a higher degree of education. Another initiative put forward through is the Instituto de Matemática, Ciências e Tecnologia do Estado Novo

(Estado Novo Institute of Mathematics, Science and Technology) to heighten an emphasis on the advancement and understanding of science and technology. It provides grants, scholarships, internships, and employment to students and citizens alike that have an expertise and interest within the sciences and technology. The IMCT will also have satellite campuses in all Portuguese African, Asian, and Oceania territories in addition to in Portugal and Brazil. Furthermore, the IMCT will work to create trade schools and high schools geared toward STEM. It places a priority on collegiate majors and minors that pertain to the following:

[list]Materials Engineering

Process Engineering

Chemical Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Mining Engineering

Transportation Engineering

Radio Engineering

Acoustical Engineering

Agricultural Engineering

Military Engineering and Applied Sciences

Petroleum and Industrial Engineering

Textile Engineering

Chemistry

Physics

Biology

Mechanics

Ecology

Oceanography

Geology

Atmospheric Science

Thermodynamics

Magnetism

Geophysics

Hydrology

Meteorology

Soil Science

Economic Geology and Mineralogy

Astrophysics

Chemical biology

Astrochemistry

Psychology

Sociology

Anthropology

Archaeology[/list][/list]

To encompass the establishment of Estado Novo as a "modern empire", O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas has further prompted the elimination of travel restrictions throughout the Portuguese Domain. By removing travel restrictions, Africans, Asians, and Oceanians are able to travel, obtain work, live, and become citizens within Portugal, Brazil, and East Timor as a leading example on how modern empires ought to operate and treat its citizens. Already established universities within Portugal and Brazil have been prompted to begin construction design plans to enlarge campuses for potential influx of new student attendees. O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas has also required for all citizens to start school in Pre-Kindergarten. To stress the importance of education, O Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas now requires all schools to establish communal outreach programs, even in villages, to ensure extensive resources and tutoring opportunities. Teachers have also been required to be available for home schooling. Salazar and Vargas has made it clear that no one is exempt from receiving an education as it is part of the Estado Novo to ensure vital investment and proliferation of human and social capital.

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Pontianus wrote:I mean, unless they say opposite i control Slovenia, so this "war" does not exist.

not really a war, kinda like a.... small fighting between some underground parties

[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Supreme Council of the Union-State of Portuguese Nations Verdict on Inmate Labor

Veredicto do Conselho Supremo da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas sobre o Trabalho dos Reclusos

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal and President of União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas | LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1545975

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Franc-Slovenia wrote:not really a war, kinda like a.... small fighting between some underground parties

I’m in the map office and you were never confirmed as Slovenia and that land is a part of Yugoslavia which has a player there already

[pre]| JULY - 1937 |[/pre]

[list][list][list][pre]LR ★ REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA

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

LITTLE AMERICA COMING OUT OF THE DARKNESS:

SOMETHING BREWING IN BUCHANAN

[pre] President Barclay had just 3 years ago led Liberia through political and economic tensions between Liberia, America, Germany, France, and British governments with threats to occupy the independent Republic against its will due to debts. As things began to cool internationally, internally a fever started in rural native communities and in the city's slums. Americo-Liberians have since independence ruled the natives as they ruled in the plantations and fields of the Americas. As political power was fully inside the hands of the Whig Party and only Americo-Liberians were given the right to vote. Native resentment was at a high as they felt punished by the actions of Americo-Liberians by other nations. This would culminate in the first ever Liberian Civil Rights Convention in Buchanan away from the prying eyes of Barclay. Leading this would be William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, a man of Americo-Liberian descent, but held strong sympathetic views on the plight of the native Liberians. He came from a military family with Alexander Tubman, his father serving as a General in the Liberian Frontier Force and himself serving in a militia. The Convention brought together Civil activists from all backgrounds from Americo-Liberians, Natives, Leftists, Centrists, and Rightists all who saw a lack of what they came to Liberia for and what the natives envisioned it would become post-independence. Tubman held a vision for Liberia that modeled the Great American Experiment, but with African ideals and goals: Self-Sufficiency, a Strong National Identity, Civil Liberties for All, Open to the foreign world, and a entry point for the western nations into the African continent on a even playing field and dissuading exploitation. Tubman preached non-violence to the convention, but plans have already been set into motion for “Peoples’ Protection Units” to be formed to protect protestors and activists from military or pro-government militias during operations and protests made up of veterans of the Liberian Frontier Force mostly made up of natives and some Americos. The meeting would end with a call to action being placed and for their to be a March on Monrovia on the 6th of August along with the commencing of a general strike across the nation.[/pre]

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[list]NATIONAL PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT REQUESTS WESTERN AID

JUNE, 1937 ------ Ankara, Anadolu Geçici Hükümeti[/list]

[list][list]As the first shots were fired and the Anatolian Red Army swept across the countryside, the nationalists were fought back with every step, with wave after wave of red militia attack. Nationalist militias have largely been pushed back in the east, and some forces are held up in remote villages across the central part of the nation leading to Ankara. It was reported that not too long before the Kars Incursion, that Mihri Belli and his staff had fled the capital to a more remote location in the mountains inside ARA controlled territory. With Belli still being at large, the Ataturk administration has called on the nations of the West for aid concerning the war effort against the communist rebels.

On the evening of the day of the incursion, the National Army was Mobilized under the command of Marshal Refet Bele, who was reinstated only a few days prior to the events at Kars. The garrison within the city itself caved within hours, as the call from the ARA to give up arms was either heeded, or other troops fled the city and scattered into nearby villages. Some troops fell back and had notified superiors, who then relayed the message to Ankara. As well, with the garrisons pushed back, the National Army had then called up all reserve forces and had called on additional militia forces from the regions of Izmit and Istanbul, galvanizing the overall military strength of the Provisional Government.

As a result of the attack, as well with Belli having fled Ankara, the coalition between the CHP and Workers Parties had been broken, and the WP had been outlawed. Senior politicians were arrested, and aides were marched out of the Assembly as protests against the revolution had begun by CHP members with guards taking their sides and some even joining the protests. It was even said the now reinstated Prime Minister, Ismet Inonu, had participated in these protests, with President Ataturk meeting with National Unity Committee members, as well as German dignitaries in the German consulate down the road from the Assembly. Not too long after the meeting, President Ataturk had sent a letter to Chancellor Heidler, thanking him for his nation’s support.[/list][/list]

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[list]June 1937

[sub]เพื่อนเก่า - Novo Dia[/sub][/list]

Lisbon, Portugal, União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

[sub]Invigorated by the election of president Chula and his plans to evaluate and reorganise the military, the Navy of Suwannaphumi who had sided with the now established Republicans in 1932 would take their new found position atop the military triad, using it to lobby for higher defence spending for the protection of the surrounding and inland waters of the republic. Their first action would convince the Ministry of Defence to approve a request to acquire additional ships capable of Green-Water activity for coastal defence and ships capable of exclusively Brown-Water activity for renewed operational activity along the Chao Phraya and Mekong river. With the president's formal approval a temporary committee would be formed to evaluate foreign shipbuilding industries to find vessels that meet their requirements.[/sub]

[sub]The committee would bring forth proposals to purchase vessels from regional allies with prior defence deals with Suwannaphumi such as the British Empire and the French Republic or even the United States who helped found and train the Siamese Marine Corps prior to the civil war. While the proposals weren’t completely shelved the committee would decide to approach the Union-State of Portuguese Nation after being informed by correspondents in Lisbon and Rio De Janeiro of the country’s naval industrial ambitions. A healthy friendship dating back to the 16th century and the industrial capability of a now unified Portuguese world would convince the committee that aligning both Suwannaphumi and Estado Novo’s naval ambitions early would be cheaper and could cement Thai connections to the Portuguese military industry and economy. [/sub]

[sub]In April a naval attaché and a small group of officers would be sent to the Diplomatic Mission of the Republic of Suwannaphumi in Lisbon, tasked with pitching the committee’s proposals to the relevant parties within the Portuguese Navy and the civilian apparatus of the Estado Novo government. The attaché with the committee's authority would offer the upgrade of the diplomatic mission between the two countries to embassy status and foreign direct investment into key sectors negotiable by the Portuguese government in exchange for the bolstering of military cooperation. [/sub]

[sub]By June the two countries would be in official talks regarding the purchase of it’s two Bahia Class cruisers and six Carioca Class corvettes for the Green-Water Navy and the standardised production of the Parnaíba class monitor ship with a reinforced hull and twin diesel engines as requested for the Brown-Water/riverine force. The Naval office in Suwannapura would be prompted to consider further development of Sattahip Naval District to more modern standards to accommodate for a larger and more up-to-date naval force, inquiring to the Portuguese Navy about potentially sending advisors to oversee future procedures.[/sub]

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[list]JULY 1937

[sub]BRANDEBURG GATE — BERLIN, New Provenance[/sub][/list]

[list][list][sub]DER "BRANDENBURGISCHE MARSCH" ZEIGT DIE MACHT DER DEUTSCHEN WEHRMACHT, EINER KRIEGSBEREITEN ARMEE[/sub]

[pre]"BRANDEBURG MARCH" DISPLAYS THE MIGHT OF THE GERMAN WEHRMACHT, AN ARMY READY FOR WAR[/pre][/list][/list]

| The march of the black boots echoed across the streets and somewhat intimidated the massive crowds gathered on both ends of the large road. The crimson flag of the German Staat flew valiantly above Brandenburg Gate, one of Berlin's most recognizable landmarks. The breeze was light as the elite forces of the German Wehrmacht marched through the pillars of the Gate and into the sight of the crowds and the gathered members of government on an elevated platform to the right. The stern eye of the Staatskanzler followed the troops, marching in perfect unison, as they goose-stepped their way down the road, their eyes aligned with the platform. The Brandenburg March, held on 2 July 1937, marked the largest show of force by Germany yet. An estimated 85,000 soldiers partook in the parade, which lasted for over 5 hours. Of the parade, a civilian present wrote: |

[list][list][pre]Man konnte die Kraft und die Macht spüren, die von den Soldaten ausgingen. Ihre Gesichter waren eiskalt und hart, vielleicht das eines strengen Lehrers. Ihre Uniformen waren eintönig, grau und schwarz. Der Helm war erkennbar, er stammte noch aus der Zeit des preußischen Reiches. Die Truppe marschierte in absolutem Gleichschritt, die Augen die ganze Zeit auf den Staatskanzler gerichtet. Es war ziemlich beunruhigend, wie geschlossen sie marschierten. Sie waren wie roboterhafte Kreaturen. Sie fühlten sich nicht menschlich an. Aber gleichzeitig spürten wir ihre Stärke, die die Stärke des Landes, des vereinten Deutschlands, verkörperte.[/pre]

[pre]You could feel the strength and the power emanating from the soldiers. Their faces were stone cold and hard, that of a strict teacher perhaps. Their uniforms were monotone, grey and black. The helmet was recognizable, dating all the way back to the days of the Prussian Empire. The troops marched in absolute unison, their eyes on the Staatskanzler the entire time. It was quite unnerving, how united they marched. They were like robotic creatures. They didn't feel human. Yet at the same time, we still felt their strength, embodying the strength of the country, a Germany united.[/pre][/list][/list]

| The parade showcased Germany's new armored vehicles, the Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf. A, Ausf. B and Ausf. C, and the Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. A. The new half-tracks of the motorized infantry units of the German Heer (Army) and the trucks that would keep the Army supplied in times of war were also presented in their full strength. The Army that marched before Germans in Berlin on the second of July was not the Army that marched before them in 1934 and 1935. This Army was stronger, more powerful and well-equipped for a modern conflict. They marched with their modern arms in hand and their state-of-the-art tanks and trucks following behind, and in their minds they marched with a doctrine that would deliver death to the enemies of the Staat. |

| In 1935, shortly after the introduction of the mandatory service draft, the German Wehrmacht combining all three branches totaled 550,000 soldiers. Two years later, in July 1937, the Wehrmacht has expanded to an estimated 750,000 personnel across all three branches, with around 200,000 of that composing the reserves. Compared to the military of the Soviet Union it is fairly small, but these soldiers are equipped with modern rifles and supported by powerful tanks, agile aircraft and a massive amount of trucks and half-tracks for motorization capabilities. The Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe have also expanded in accordance with the swelling in size of the German Wehrmacht in total, a European military ready for war. |

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[list]July 1, 1937

[sub]The General Election[/sub][/list]

LEINSTER HOUSE, KILDARE STREET, DUBLIN, IRELAND

[sub]The 1933 general election was a huge win for the Fianna Fáil party as it gave them the overall majority in the Dáil Éireann with 76 seats. However, in May 1934 a schism occurred in the Fianna Fáil over the position of the monarchy which split the party into two and creating the separate Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party. With losing some of it members, including TDs, the Fianna Fáil have to form a coalition government with the Labour Party in order for the government to be maintain.”[/sub]

[sub]Now it is time for the election of a new Dáil where men and women will vote which of the following party will have a seat in the Dáil Éireann and which one of them will have enough seats to form a new government.[/sub]

[list][sub]- The Fianna Fáil Party[/sub]

[sub]- The Fine Gael Party[/sub]

[sub]- The Labour Party[/sub]

[sub]- The Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party[/sub]

[sub]- Independent[/sub][/list]

[sub]As men and women line up at the polling stations, politicians and TDs waiting with anxiously for the results of the election. After all the votes are counted the results is the Fianna Fáil Party won most of the seat in the Dáil but couldn’t reach the overall majority seats of 70 thus would still continue the coalition government with the Labour Party.[/sub]

[list][sub]RESULTS:[/sub]

[sub]- Fianna Fáil: 68 (previously 59)[/sub]

[sub]- Fine Gael: 56 (previously 48)[/sub]

[sub]- Labour: 13 (previously 8)[/sub]

[sub]- The Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party: 1 (previously 20)[/sub]

[sub]- Independent: 7[/sub][/list]

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Large Coal Deposits Discovered in Mozambique; The Estado Novo prioritizes Geological Surveying for Oil in Angola, Mozambique, and Equatorial Guinea; Brazil and Portugal Implement Corporatist Economic Structure and Removes Previous Bureaucratic Red tape and Regulations

[sup]Descobertas Grandes Depósitos de Carvão em Moçambique; O Estado Novo prioriza a Pesquisa Geológica de Petróleo em Angola, Moçambique e Guiné Equatorial; Brasil e Portugal implementam estrutura econômica corporativista e eliminam burocracia e regulamentos anteriores[/sup]

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Prime Minister of Portugal and President of União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas | LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

In Benga, Mozambique, Portuguese miners and geologists stumbled across a potentially significant coal deposit. Upon its discovery, José Ricardo Pereira Cabral, High Commissioner and Governor-General of Mozambique, would be informed of the deposit to relay the information to Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro for Vargas and Salazar. Having been informed about the Benga coal mine, the Office of African Affairs would inform High Commissioner José Ricardo Pereira Cabral to begin the organizing of infrastructure to exploit the coal mines in addition to establishing a trade school for Construction and Mining Engineering to educate native Mozambicans and Portuguese as a way to begin forming a new blue collar working class in Mozambique. With the recent removal of travel restrictions between the Portuguese Empire and Brazil, ample opportunities to address overproduction in burgeoning new markets within the Portuguese World have become possible. As Portugal aspires large scale naval development ambitions and the development of African territory, coal extraction and production would be essential. To initiate the economic stimulation, the Office of African Affairs have relayed the order from Salazar to High Commissioner Cabral to task Portuguese and native Africans to begin the construction of a rail network that will connect Benga to three points on the Mozambican coast: Beira, Quelimane, and Nacala for exporting coal in addition to establishing domestic coal power plants to provide electricity to rural areas of Mozambique upon successful extraction of coal.

This desire of exploiting Mozambican coal has further prompted the Departamento da Marinha da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas to coordinate with Portuguese and Brazilian shipbuilding companies to begin A Frota Marítima Mercante do Estado Novo (Merchant Marines) to expand the Estado Novo shipbuilding industry, thus providing jobs to Angola, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, and Brazil.

Vice-President Vargas Pushes Resource Exploration in Angola, Mozambique, and Equatorial Guinea for Oil and Other Energy Resources

with Brazil discovering oil in 1930 and the discovery of coal in Mozambique, Vice-President Getulio Vargas launched within the jurisdiction of the Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente (CIMA)

a syndicate entitled Sindicato para Exploração e Processamento de Energia e Recursos, which has the sole priority of surveying geographic regions within the Union-State that possess potential energy resources (oil, uranium, hydropower, coal, etc.) for exploitation, processing, refining, and production. This endeavor comes with a joint initiative by both Vargas and Salazar to incorporate more technocrats, economists and financiers, and industry-specific experts into the new conjoining bureaucracy of O Grande Estado Novo. The new syndicate would have their first set of operations set for Equatorial Guinea, Angola, and Mozambique while coordinating with the Conselho de Indústrias e Tecnologia (CIT) and Conselho de Educação e Assuntos Culturais (CEAC) to prompt new training and education programs in Portuguese Africa to further integrate natives into the formation of a new intelligentsia and industrialist class to assist in the governing, construction, and subtle supplanting of a permanent Estado Novo political and economic presence in Africa. Through this new syndicate, Portuguese and Brazilian industrialists and energy entrepreneurs, including government officials, will expand operations into Portuguese Africa to initiate commercial operations while establishing African domestic subsidiary companies that will invest in the educating, training, and managing of native Africans while providing them the tools to form their own domestic companies and syndicates within energy sectors to drive competition and bring prices to a new market equilibrium.

Brazil and Portugal Implement Corporatist Economic Structure and Removes Previous Bureaucratic Red tape and Regulations

In an experimental move, both Vargas and Salazar would initiate the first attempt in the world toward a successful, dominant Corporatist government structure. Despite the understanding of corporatism being pushed and molded by Mussolini, Salazar and Vargas agreed that Mussolini's fascism was nothing more than caesaropapism and Hiedler's Volkism was nothing but pagan race-oriented nationalism; therefore, failing to understand true national unity. Thus in a joint declaration, Vargas and Salazar pushed forward A Ordem Social Corporativa (The Corporatist Social Order). By this understanding, Vargas and Salazar forged an alliance between neoliberal economics and conservative social values, believing that they lived in a true Catholic moment, when the teachings of the Church could fulfill the potential of conservative liberalism. The new combining structure of Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro confesses that liberal democracy might not be compatible with tradition and family but the modern state and corporatist capitalist economics were.

Both Vargas and Salazar would look to mold their new combining regimes and structure on the statements of Pope Pius XI, which called on the premodern traditions of medieval guilds, where employers and workers harmonized their interests, to solve the bitter conflict which was raging between non-owning workers, who must sell their labor to survive, and employers, who own productive private property: “But complete cure will not come until this opposition has been abolished and well-ordered members of the social body—Industries and Professions—are constituted in which men may have their place, not according to the position each has in the labor market but according to the respective social functions which each performs”. Additionally, looking at Catholicism for methods of Corporatism, Pope Pius XI’s corporatism, developed in §§ 78–97 of Quadragesimo, is immediately preceded by discussion of just wages, which further gave Vargas and Salazar incentive on how the Union-State should be structured and operated. According to Pope Pius XI and conveniently the mission statement of the Conselho de Trabalho, Salários e Bem-Estar (CTSBE): The purpose of just wages is so that “the abundant fruits of production will accrue equitably to those who are rich and will be distributed in ample sufficiency among the workers” such that “the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property” and “[emerge] from the insecure lot in life in whose uncertainties non-owning workers are cast”.

Additionally, Vargas and Salazar would come together to formulate a new Portuguese identity that incorporates Brazilian identity, culture, and heritage as well; however, both are coming together under the framework of Catholicism being indistinguishable from both. Additionally, both figures came to agree that the Nationalism that founded the Estado Novo is based on noble spirit of courage, dignity, selflessness, sacrifice stretching back to the12th century Portuguese Kingdom; and its national and imperial destiny, especially tied to Portugal's colonial ‘lusotropicalism’ doctrine - Portugal’s unique method of colonialism, it was assertive, not exploitative, but cooperative, producing racial harmony, rather than domination. Per the guidelines of the developing Constitution of the Union-State, the Supreme Assembly of the Union-State of Portuguese Nations delivered the following remarks:

[list][list][pre]"The State assures the constitution and defense of the family, as fount of conservation and development of our people, as the primary base of education, discipline, social harmony, and as the foundation of all political order by its aggregation and representation in the parishes and municipalities...Property, capital, and labor perform their social function in a regime of economic cooperation and solidarity, with the law being able to determine conditions for its employment or exploitation in conformity with its collective end...The State promotes and favors institutions of solidarity, providence, cooperation, and mutualism."[/pre][/list][/list]

By this statement, the Supreme Assembly Union-State of Portuguese Nations passed a new government structure to adhere to the previously mentioned remarks:

[list][list][pre]Approval for the creation of a corporative state divided by levels into sindicatos (government unions by industry), gremios (guilds of employers), and ordens (white-collar organizations). Each of these shall handle welfare arrangements, employment of their members, and vocational training and negotiated national wage agreements. Each are to be guided by special government secretariats that dictate policy. A fourth level is to be made up by the armed forces, although here there is to be slightly more autonomy in honor of the role played by the services in establishing the Estado Novo. All four levels are to elect representatives who then appoint deputies for the Supreme Assembly, giving franchise to the developing corporative institutions rather than to a national electorate—a variation of indirect franchise. [/pre][/list][/list]

With this declaration, Antonio Salazar and Getulio Vargas announced the removal of unnecessary red tape regulations and bureaucratic difficulties to make the establishment of the new governing institutions to become established and moreover, to further encourage economic activity domestically.

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

FRENCH BUREAUCRACY

MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR[/pre][/list]

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MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR: BLUM IS BACK IN POWER!

[sub]3RD REPUBLIC | PARIS, AUGUST 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| HELM OF LIBERTÉ, MINISTÈRE DE L’INTÉRIEUR - | Permanent is the personal respect of French Socialists bigwigs for Socialist Leon Blum. As a wealthy young man, Leader Blum for years helped penniless comrades keep their landladies at bay. Yet last week militant pinks set themselves to make the Socialist Party Congress at Marseille hot for Vice Premier Blum. His recent resignation without a fight as Premier and his orders to Socialists to support the new Cabinet of moderate Premier Camille Chautemps; they flung last week in Leader Blum's face with fury, charges of betrayal. "Everything should be done by us Socialists to make life impossible for the Chautemps Cabinet!" cried Delegate Jean Zyromski.[/sub]

[sub]Meanwhile Leader Blum had arrived quietly from Paris, his secretaries exuding confidence and saying, "Just wait and see." After a few hours of congressional wrangling, Socialist Blum rose in the late afternoon and introduced himself with a sentence which set every cartoonist in France to scratching: "I shall not speak as God or as Caesar, but as for my stewardship as Premier for 13 months, I do not think that the record is so bad."[/sub]

[sub]The way to win back his prestige with the Socialist rank & file, Vice Premier Blum judged correctly, was to sound clarion calls for action to achieve old favorite Socialist reforms such as the nationalization of French railways and to demand that the Senate be made subordinate to the Chamber of Deputies. "Remember how this was done," cried Orator 'Slum, "in the case of the House of Lords in England!"[/sub]

[sub]It proved popular talk for Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is abhorrent because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority, and orders the Chamber dissolved. Senators are elected for nine-year terms, an election taking place every three years for one-third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must be at least 40, and they tend to be wealthy, political oldsters, congenitally unsympathetic to the Popular Front. Vice Premier Blum finished up at Marseille by revealing that he and Premier Camille Chautemps are going to nationalize French railways by September 1st, merging them by Cabinet decree into one big company of which the State will be the controlling stockholder. With this concrete move and his popular lecture about the House of Lords, persuasive Orator Blum won from the Socialist Congress an approximate 3-to-1 majority to carry on as Leader amid shouts from his supporters of "Blum is in power!"[/sub]

[sub]Then President Lebrun summoned Leon Blum's Chautemps Cabinet to sit as a formal Council of Ministers and approved decrees flashing every ministerial budget save that of the Defense. Upped was France's Defense budget by $711,675,000. Free-spending Emile Labeyrie resigned as governor of the Bank of France. Conservative Vice Governor Pierre Fournier took his place. The Bank has revalued its gold stocks up by $2,245,400,000. |[/sub]

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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

VIVE L’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]

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[ Meeting the Germans ]

[ October, 1936: Málaga, Spain The Confederate Prussian Empire ]

| Franco was one of the first to greet the Germans of the Condor Legion upon their arrival to his country, glad to finally be in the presence of the aid he had asked for. The battles of Córdoba and Badajoz had been fierce, his own forces were currently moving along the planned out order of march, moving along the eastern coast of Spain and taking towns and cities with very little resistance. Franco knew that the rebels would focus a major amount of their troops on the capital of Madrid to attempt and hold it, the idea of anarchists and Bolsheviks being in control of his country's historic city disgusted him to no end. The results of the battle of Córdoba and Badajoz were indeed good, even though there may be fallout from the usage of ‘black flag’ tactics later on once the war is over. Despite arguing with his subordinates over such tactics, they were proving to be effective against their enemies and installing a form of fear. While he himself did not initially want to use such tactics, Franco knew that this was war and everything needed to be done. Walking out from the building he was staying in for his planning period in Málaga, he’d check over his uniform to make sure that it was proper for meeting with the officers of the Condor Legion. Wanting to plan out their further movements as his forces have taken key cities on their way to Madrid, he primarily wanted to form a spearhead right for the capital city in hopes of seizing it within the coming months and hopefully by the spring of 1937. |

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Parliament Act of 1928

An Act detailing the functions, procedures, and layouts of the Finnish Parliament.

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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New Class of Light cruisers Called the ENS Santo Abercio and Heavy Cruisers called the ENS São Malco Begin Research and Development Process

Nova classe de cruzadores leves denominada ENS Santo Abercio e cruzadores pesados ​​denominados ENS São Malco iniciam processo de pesquisa e desenvolvimento

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Conselho da Força de Defesa do Grande Estado Novo (CFDGEN) | RIO DE JANEIRO & LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

To ensure the full maritime security of Portuguese territorial waters, EEZs, and the freedom of navigation within the Southern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Northern Atlantic Ocean, and the Indian Ocean, the Departamento da Marinha do Conselho da Força de Defesa do Grande Estado Novo, after approval from the Assembleia Suprema da União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas, will begin two new programs regarding light and heavy cruisers. For the purpose of protecting the national sovereignty, national identity, and right to self-determination of the Greater Estado Novo, the Departamento da Marinha do Conselho da Força de Defesa do Grande Estado Novo reveals the ENS Santo Abercio Light Cruiser Class and the ENS São Malco Heavy Cruiser Class. The Estado Novo understands via the new navy posturing declaration that a robust, flexible maritime force is essential to the lifeblood and strength of the Portuguese World. As the Estado Novo is a returning power within international relations, it is clear that possessing a large, power projection naval force is not in the current focus of Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro; however, the capabilities of establishing an agile force that can change operational structure and conduct efficient operations for the protection of our Domain is viable. Thus understanding our current realities, the the ENS Santo Abercio Light Cruiser Class and the ENS São Malco Heavy Cruiser Class are essential to these operations to spark development and expansion of the Estado Novo shipping industry and to grow the maritime presence of Portugal in strategic geographic locations, specifically near major trade chokepoints.

ENS Santo Abercio Light Cruiser Class

[list][pre]Possesses 4 x João-41 Diesel-Electric propulsion turbine engines

Armor: 3 inch belt, 2 inch deck, 2 inch turrets, 3 inch conning tower

Armaments: 9 × 6 inch guns, 4 × 4 inch guns, 10 × 1-pounder autocannons (Anti-Air), and 6 × 21 inch torpedo tubes

Range: 13,034 nautical miles[/pre][/list]

ENS São Malco Heavy Cruiser Class

[list][pre]Possesses 6 x João-38 Diesel-Electric propulsion turbine engines

Armor: 1 inch for Deck, 3 inches for Sides, 2.5 inches for conning tower, 2 inches for turrets

Armaments: 6 × 7.5 inch 54 caliber guns, 12 × 4 inch 45 caliber Dual-Purpose guns

6 × 40 mm AA guns

6 × 21-inch torpedo tubes

Range: 8,689 nautical miles[/pre][/list]

It is to be projected that production of both cruisers shall be ready between 1940-1941 based on collective effort of shipbuilders and manufacturers across the Portuguese World; however, predominant construction of both cruisers will occur in the Southern Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and Angola, with technical expertise being provided by Lisbon and additional resources from Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and East Timor. Testing throughout the process will occur across the Portuguese World from the Atlantic and Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and Oceania.

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September,1937

INTERNATIONAL PLANS

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Maziya is still trying to fix and improve itself and prime minister,Juaidi has surprisingly come out publicly on future international plans he "will" execute once the timing the right,these plans include.

[B]"Mending relations with Greece if possible and forging relations with countries in Asia and Europe."

Some people have already put in their voice of concern in the nation believing that Juaidi is too ambitious and needs to slow down to focus on the national issues that are still plaguing the countries,such as the fact that the unemployment rate has continued to increase even after all the factory jobs have been reopened,rather then focusing his time towards international plans.

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Brazil Begins Expansion of Shipbuilding to Assist the Estado Novo Maritime Objectives

Brasil inicia expansão da construção naval para atender aos objetivos marítimos do Estado Novo

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil and Vice-President of União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas | LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1548734

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Maziya wrote:September,1937

INTERNATIONAL PLANS

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Maziya is still trying to fix and improve itself and prime minister,Juaidi has surprisingly come out publicly on future international plans he "will" execute once the timing the right,these plans include.

[B]"Mending relations with Greece if possible and forging relations with countries in Asia and Europe."

Some people have already put in their voice of concern in the nation believing that Juaidi is too ambitious and needs to slow down to focus on the national issues that are still plaguing the countries,such as the fact that the unemployment rate has continued to increase even after all the factory jobs have been reopened,rather then focusing his time towards international plans.

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Oh damn there goes my plans of colonizing you…

The Yank Empire

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TEA

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September,1937

NEW SUPPLY TRUCK

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With the every increasing amount of industry sections in Maziya and the fact that the agriculture was still producing a lot of gains,a new supply truck design was built by the company formerly called Kereta Nowfi but due to the fact they have experimented with building warships,have rebranded into Nowfi Kenderaan.They have designed a supply truck using a slightly more upgraded version of the engine used in the PD-001 APC for the military,they would also use a closed wheel design as quote

"To protect the wheels from any flying debris.",the engine would be fitted at the front of the vehicle the same as the PD-001 had its engine fitted.The reasoning behind why it doesn't use tank treads was because it would've been cheaper to mass produce normal wheels over tank treads as the supply truck dubbed the PBT-1 otherwise known in full as the Permata Bersinar Truck-1 which is a bit of a bold statement to make,was going to be used for the industrial and agricultural sections to use for carrying around heavy loads and would be given to the military to replace the horses they've been using for the past few years.

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What is going on

FIRST RHODESIAN AIRBORNE OPERATION

September 1937

Today marks a great moment for the Rhodesian Army as its first Airborne landing was completed with only five men injuring their legs out of a total of 180. Being carried by 8 Handley Page Harrows & 12 Airspeed Envoy Aircraft the 180 strong complement of the Rhodesian Light Infantry who had trained to complete the operation jumped from their aircraft two miles north of Karoi. While being a complete success operationally with all men being deployed without major hiccups, and their Equipment following quickly behind utilizing a system of makeshift small pallets, the Rhodesian High Command has issued an overall report that the Parachutes should have their size increased by around 15% in order to increase the drag and thus slow down the Paratroopers more. This was the reason stated as the cause of the five injured men, having hit the ground too hard despite being in the proper stance.

The overall success has contributed to the Rhodesian Air Forces ordering 32 Douglas DC-3 Aircraft from the Douglas Aircraft Company, as it was noted that both the Handley Page Harrows and Airspeed Envoy while entirely capable of dropping Troops in such a manner were less suited than their American counterpart due to less space for accompanying Cargo.

Celebrated in Salisbury as not just a victory and success for the Rhodesian Federation but the British Empire as a whole, a Parade with the Airborne Troops was held upon their return, with each receiving a unique 1937 Paradrop Service Ribbon. The hope is such that if another conflict for the Empire began requiring Rhodesian contributions, the Airborne Contingent of the Rhodesian Light Infantry would be the first to response to the call.

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[list]March 12, 1937

[sub]Finnish News: Parliament vote of no confidence in the Cabinet and Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio and the cabinet resigned. King Väinö I appointed Aimo Cajander as Prime Minister again and form the first centre-left or "red soil" Finnish Government.[/sub][/list]

[sub]Today, Parliament, in which the Social Democratic Party is the majority, has decided to vote of no confidence against Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio and the current cabinet due to not including the Social Democrats in the Government. Prime Minister Kyösti Kallio and the cabinet resigned due to Parliament voting no confidence in them. His Majesty, King Väinö I, has officially appointed Aimo Cajander as Prime Minister of Finland. This will be the third time that Aimo Cajander has served as this country’s Prime Minister. King Väinö I has decided to let the new Prime Minister form a new government that includes the Social Democratic Party, Agrarian League, Swedish People's Party, and The National Progressive Party. This will be the first in Finnish history that a centre-left or "red soil" ("red" for the Social Democrats and "soil" for the Agrarians) Finnish government has been formed. The Social Democratic Party leader, Väinö Tanner, will be appointed as the new Minister of Finance by the King. A few other Social Democrat MPs will also be given ministerial positions in the Government by the King.[/sub]

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October,1937

MAZIYAN COMMUNIST PARTY

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With the election act having been used already.Maziya surprisingly had no real political party to contend for elections however a formation of the first political part has been done today,October 1st 1937.Its a communist party created by Malayan immigrant Fong Wei Yuan.Ever since Fong Wei Yuan arrived in Maziya he has been creating quite a public perception of himself as a person to represent the normally discriminated against,Chinese people in Maziya,much about Fong Wei Yuan has yet to be founded out but one thing which is known is that,Fong Wei Yuan was a member of the Malayan Communist Party ( M.C.P ) otherwise officially known as the Communist Party Of Malaya ( C.P.M ) and has spread their Marxist-Lenist,anti imperialist beliefs into the higher populated Chinese areas of Maziya.With a increase in support after the Greeks attempt at colonising the nation,however surprisingly he decided not to run for the election probably due to the fact that the Maziyan and Sarawakian population which massively outnumber the Chinese population didn't favour him as much as they would someone like Juaidi Asyrafil and maybe even sultan,Zahier Al Hafiz as much as the sultan reputation with the people went downwards after multiple poor leadership decisions.Fong Wei Yuan has confirmed that he won't be running for prime minister for the next few elections but will be running for a seat in parliament in the future.

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[list]ANATOLIAN MILITARY COUNCIL - ANDALOU ASKERI MECLISIi

Six Broken Arrows: The Turkish Civil War Expands

October, 1937

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As the Turkish state fractures, a multi-ethnic army seizes swathes of land in Southeastern Anatolia but declares itself for the Nationalist government.

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In late 1936, trouble brewed in Turkey. The inexplicable electoral victory of the New Dawn Coalition ended the administration of Ismet Inonu and brought to power the leading socialist, Mihri Belli. The Belli government spent the next year virtually dismantling the nation. As President Kemal Ataturk fell sick and was politically side-lined, Belli became Acting President and assumed extensive powers. It was at this time that socialist peasant militias began to spring up in rural Turkey, challenging local authorities and skirmishing with army garrisons. Concern and opposition to Belli’s government reached a fever pitch when Belli signed Turkey into a military alliance with the Soviet Union and two of its puppets, the Black Sea Pact. This seemingly unstoppable expansion of leftist and Soviet influence in Turkey raised concerns for many in the country. Yet not all those involved with the anti-communist movement in Turkey necessarily looked to the Nationalist government of Ataturk for their solution.

This dissatisfaction with both major political factions applied to many in southeastern Anatolia, an area populated mostly by Kurds, Turks, and a minority of Arabs. A number of political groups and civilian militias began to coalesce during this time, organizing and protesting against the Belli government and communism in general. The overlap with Kurdish and Arab nationalist groups was significant, though they were all tied together by anti-communism. When the ARA invaded Turkey and the Belli government fled to take command of their forces, these groups were understandably panicked. The seemingly unthinkable had come and it wasn’t a given that the government would be capable of saving them as ARA forces swept across Northern and Western Turkey. A secretive conference was called and all major militias and political groups were set to meet in Gaziantep, a provincial capital and the largest city in southeastern Anatolia. Chief amongst these groups was Xoybun, a Kurdish nationalist group responsible for two significant ethnic uprisings in Turkey. Their leader, Ihsan Nuri, was a prominent member of Kurdish society in the country. A veteran of the Ottoman Army, Nuri had fought in World War I and had led 3 separate armed rebellions against the following Turkish government. He co-chaired the conference along with Ubayd Hamdan, a vocal Arab nationalist in the small but tight-knit Arab community in southeast Anatolia. Hamdan commanded this position due to his personal wealth as a Gaziantep aristocrat but also due to his connections with the Egyptian and Iraqi governments as well as the House of Hashim.

Hamdan and Nuri connected in Istanbul just after the beginning of the war and had formulated a plan for the many parties and organizations that chafed against the current situation. They presented this plan to 23 separate groups gathered with them at Hamdan’s home in Gaziantep. It called for the creation of a joint body, coordinating the actions of all groups on an equal basis. All militias and paramilitaries would be merged into a single organization at the council's disposal. As a requirement, all groups would agree to freeze their own operation, giving total authority to the council they were a part of. The front would be overtly dedicated to anti-communism and of course the interest of each group to involve itself in real governing authority. The goal of the council would be simple: seize control of Southeastern Anatolia and prevent the spread of communist forces. The details of a specific charter were hammered out over three days. At the signing of the charter, liberals, conservatives, secularists, Islamists, and ethnic nationalists came together to form the Anatolian Military Council.

For several months the Council operated tacitly, its members meeting irregularly whilst planning and condition setting took place. But soon, they were ready. On October 3, 1937, the governor of Gaziantep province hosted the Council at the state building in the city, where the AMC was officially declared publicly. 14 provinces of Turkey would come under AMC administration that day: Osmaniye, Kahramanmaras, Adiyaman, Gaziantep, Kilis, Urfa, Diyarbakir, Mardin, Batman, Bitlis, Sirnak, Siirt, Van, and Haggari. 9 provincial governments aligned themselves with the AMC, accepting seats on the Council. 5 others required removal. Crucial to the AMC’s success, the majority of Turkish troops in the provinces willingly defected to the AMC. These forces successfully removed uncooperative governments, empowering whichever member of the council was most powerful locally. By mid-day, the Council had secured all of Southeastern Anatolia under their command. Ihsan Nuri, declared Chairman of the Council, made a direct radio address:

[list]” With the full authority of the Council, we will take all necessary measures to expel communism from our lands. In this time of crisis, extraordinary measures must be taken to ensure the security of our communities. Our military forces will defend our land and drive out the Soviet invaders and traitorous communists. In this endeavor, we are forced to make our own decisions and we must act with a free hand. We stand not in opposition but in solidarity with President Kemal and the GNA. Our loyalty is to the Republic, to God, and to our peoples. My only goal is the bringing of peace to Turkey and the expulsion of the Russian invaders.”[/list]

Nuri made a direct gamble, establishing independence from the central government but also trying hard not to antagonize them, even as they deposed their governors. Those Turkish troops that decided not to defect were given safe passage out of AMC territory and allowed to return to Nationalist command. Tacit messages were dispatched to Istanbul swearing the AMC would make no ethno-nationalist endeavors and was committed solely to defeating the ARA. With a new swath of territory under his command, Nuri set about preparing for the oncoming war. Ubayd Hamdan, Nuri’s Vice-Chairman, was placed in command of the AMC’s new armed wing, the National Defense Brigades. Between Turkish defectors and militias, the AMC wielded an army of 24,000 men. These forces deployed north, to the border of ARA territory. In major border towns, garrisons would begin preparing defenses and creating forts. Additionally, in cities and towns, they began a formal campaign of persecution of known communists. Communist organizers and sympathizers were arrested en masse in a wave of police raids. In Security Directive #001, Chairman Nuri officially outlawed communist activity and declared the Workers’ Party a criminal organization.

Publicly, Vice-Chairman Hamdan has appealed to the governments of Iraq, Iran, Egypt, and Arabia for material and manpower support. Envoys have also been sent to the British, French, German, and Greek governments to establish formal relations.

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[list]October 1937

[sub]Egyptian Asservation of Condemnation for the Anatolian Red Army via the Anatolian Military Council[/sub][/list]

[pre]T H E E R A O F F A R O U K[/pre]

ANATOLIAN MILITARY COUNCIL, GAZIANTEP MILITARY COMMAND

[sub]GAZIANTEP, Alaroth — EVENING[/sub]

Asharken — Islahh — Kotakuan Ii

| The red banner of oppression and atheistic evil now flies proudly around numerous cities in the North of Turkey. In an immediate response to Soviet, and to a lesser extent German, interference in Middle Eastern geopolitics an Arab coalition consisting of the Three Kingdoms of Iraq, Egypt and Arabia have enlisted in support in the fight against the Anatolian Red Army via the empowerment of an Anatolian Military Council in the south-east of Turkey. The AMC now controls 14 provinces of Anatolia and the entirety of the South East including the major city of Gaziantep which will be used as a base of operations. Following the AMC Vice-Chairman Hamdan's appeal for manpower, munitions and armoured support to Egypt, as one of three members of the Arab coalition and military council, will be sending its 7th Royal Mechanized Volunteer Division (consisting of two regiments) in the form of volunteers, which includes the 23rd Royal Armored Battalion and the 19th Infantry Brigade, for a total of 8,000 active infantry soldiers and roughly 30 Tigris M1 Tanks who are manufactured in Iraq and produced with Egyptian engines. The 23rd Royal Armoured Batallion will be headed by a young and upcoming junior officer named Gamal Abdel Nasser who has swiftly reached the rank of Lieutenant aged 19 in the Royal Egyptian Army having enlisted at the age of 16 in 1934 as an officer cadet in training in the Royal Military Academy. Lieutenant Nasser will be in charge of the 23rd Royal Armoured Battalion consisting of 30 Iraqi Tigris M1 light tanks and 200 soldiers supported by 30 Italian FIAT 611B Armoured Cars featuring 3 Breda 5C 6.5 mm machine guns with its secondary armament being grenades. The civil war ensuing in Turkey is a perfect opportunity for the Royal Egyptian Army volunteers to spread their wings and gain valuable battle experience as it will be participating in the first non-training military exercise in its 15-year history. Captain Mohamad Naguib will oversee the 19th Infantry Battalions operations in Turkey, supported by 750 men, and will ensure its operations proceed as smoothly as possible coordinating with his superiors and fellow Officers from Arabia and Iraq. The Entire operation will be overseen by General Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi who has served in the Egyptian army since 1916, during the Great War, and with whom King Farouk I shares a personal friendship. The volunteer division will arrive in Gaziantep no later than January 1938 after all preparations are completed. |

[spoiler=[sub]SPECIFICATIONS OF THE 7TH ROYAL MECHANISED DIVISION[/sub]]

[sub]7th Royal Mechanised (Volunteer) Division:

30 FIAT 611B Armoured Car (Breda Machine Gun Turret)

30 Tigris M1 Light Tanks

8000 Enfield Rifles

100 Vickers Machine Guns

8000 Infantry Soldiers

Royal Alexandria Regiment:

2nd and 3rd Royal Mechanised Battalion (Lead by Lance Corporal Anwar Sadat)

23rd Royal Armoured Battalion (Lead by Lieutenant Gamal Abdel Nasser)

14th and 19th Royal Infantry Brigade (Lead by Captain Mohamed Naguib)

Royal Giza Regiment:

5th and 8th Royal Mechanised Battalion (Lead by Lieutenant Abdel Hakim Amer)

5th, 7th, 14th and 19th Royal Infantry Brigade (Lead by Major Mohamed Ibrahim Selim)

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The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून [sub]October 1937[/sub]

[sub]Volume 13, Issue 2 /खंड 13, अंक 2 [/sub]

[sup]Federal Court Of India Formally Established!!?[/sup]

[sup]Under the provision of the Government of India Act of 1935, a federal court system has been recognized and established. The event alone triggering celebrations across India as nationalist and various self-rule groups and organizations claiming victory in India's determination of achieving full independence. With the seat of Federal Court of India in New Delhi.[/sup]

[sup]The Federal Court had exclusive original jurisdiction in any dispute between the Central Government and the Provinces. Initially, it was empowered to hear appeals from the High Courts of the provinces in the cases which involved the interpretation of any Section of the Government of India Act, 1935. The Federal Court came into being on 1 October 1937. The seat of the court was the Chamber of Princes in the Parliament building in Delhi. It began with a Chief Justice and two puisne judges. The first Chief Justice was Sir Maurice Gwyer and the other two judges were Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman and M. R. Jayakar.[/sup]

[sup]As a British lawyer, judge, and academic administrator. Gwyer was born to John Edward Gwyer and Edith Gwyer (née Linford), and he had a sister, Barbara Gwyer. He was educated at Highgate School from 1887 to 1892, then at Westminster School, before he graduated with a BA from Christ Church, Oxford. In November 1902 he was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Who according to various sources that he became an honorary student of Christ Church early this year before his appointment.[/sup]

[sup]Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman was the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court from 16 March 1932 to 30 September 1937 and was the first Indian and one of the youngest to hold the post. Sulaiman graduated from Allahabad University in 1906 and topped the list. He was awarded the Provincial Government Scholarship to study abroad. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge and obtained Mathematical Tripos in 1909 and Law Tripos in 1910. He represented Cambridge University in the annual Varsity chess match against Oxford University in 1910 and drew his game Cambridge won by 4½ to 2½. He was also awarded LLD by the University of Dublin, Ireland in 1910.[/sup]

[sup]Sulaiman returned to India in 1911 and started his legal practice as a junior to his father in Jaunpur. In 1912, he shifted to Allahabad to practice in the High Court. The Rani of Sherkort's case, the Bamrauli case, the Dharampur case and the Bhilwal case, were his early legal triumphs. He impressed the English Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court so much that he was offered a seat on the Bench at an early age of 34. Sulaiman acted as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court when he was 43. He was knighted in the 1929 King's Birthday Honours, becoming Sir Muhammad Sulaiman. At the age of 46 he was made the permanent Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court on 16 March 1932. Five years later he was elevated to the Federal Court which was a record in the British Commonwealth at the time.[/sup]

[sup]Mukund Ramrao Jayakar, known also as M.R. Jayakar before his appointment as a sitting judge in the Federal Court of India was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Poona. He was a lawyer, scholar and politician. He was a prominent freedom fighter. Also known for his literature works such as Social Reform and Social Service Madras: Theosophical Society, which was published in 1917. Including Kirtikar, V. J., Studies in Vedanta published in Bombay, Taraporevala in 1924.[/sup]

[sup]Jayakar studied LL.B. in Bombay in 1902 and became a barrister in 1905 at London. In 1905 he was enrolled as advocate of the Bombay High Court. He was Director of The Bombay Chronicle along with Jinnah. He was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council during 1923–1925, and a leader of the Swaraj Party. He also became member of Central Legislative Assembly. He was a member of the Hindu Mahasabha. He took part in the All Parties Conference in 1928, and was pivotal in denying demands of the Muslim League put forward by Muhammad Ali Jinnah.[/sup]

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October 1937

IRAQI VOLUNTEERS MOBILIZE

Shortly after receiving an appeal from Vice-Chairman Hamdan of the AMC over the rise of the Anatolian Red Army, Which has plunged the country into a civil war, the Kingdom of Iraq has responded by mobilizing 2 Infantry divisions, consisting of 5,000 soldiers each, alongside a tank brigade of 25 Tigris M1 tanks with 2,000 support infantry. Orders are to transfer into the AMC and integrate for full effectiveness, forming a frontline against the ARA. Hamza Al-Harithi, a young Iraqi general that will command the volunteers, headed by field marshal King Faisal I.

"It seems these pests have not heeded our warnings, which there were plenty of. So be it. these vile, godless individuals do not seem to grasp what they are going up against. Their attempts at establishing their diseased ideas of godlessness and spreading them amongst our brothers and sisters, using Turkey as a doorstep, Will not go unanswered. I advise all communist rebels to surrender or leave Turkey immediately. Or suffer the consequences, God willing." King Faisal I, Public speech.

Units Sent

-2nd Al-Mushat Infantry Division (5,000 Men)

-3rd Al-Mushat Infantry Division (5,000 Men)

-Tank Brigade "Al-Tahinon" (25 Tigris M1, 2,000 Infantry)

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A Hard Path for Diplomacy

The recent conflict that sparked in Turkey have caught the attention of the Yugoslav government. The Civil War have brought the attention of many actors: Greece, Soviet Union and even the Arabs. The bigger concern of Yugoslavia is the further military alliance between Greece and Turkey, The announcement itself was good for the the Balkans, but not entirely for Yugoslavia. Sharing a big border with Soviet-aligned countries, the Yugoslav need to be cautious with his diplomacy. Other big concern of Yugoslavia is Franco-German rivalry, despiting both sides declaring to not seek a military conflict, the further militarization of the Rhine region could turn into small scale fights.

Having links with almost all sides in both "hot spots", the Yugoslav government have decided to perform a major change on it Foreign Policy. With this is mind the Yugoslav Regent Prince Paul have officilly announced the departure of Yugoslavia from the Mare Nostrum Entente Cordiale just, two years after it's creation. He declared that Yugoslavia would still keep good relations with former allies, but that frow this moment would seek a policy of military neutrality, similar to the one practiced by Sweden.

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[list][list]OCTOBER 1937

HANSEONG, JOSEON — EAST ASIA[/list]

[list][list]사랑하기에 늦은 때는 없습니다

[pre]IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO LOVE[/pre][/list][/list]

| HONG SEO-YUN, a girl of noble lineage — whose only job is to prepare to be a good wife to her future husband, but her advanced age of 32 complicates that goal. Year after year, her father, who currently holds the position of MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY, is even more disappointed in his daughter, who tends to take even longer to look for a new husband. |

[list][pre]Her father, as a highly respected Minister, imposed a limit that by the end of 1937, his daughter would have to find a husband.[/pre][/list]

| This did not make her daughter very happy. Since the JOSEON DINASTY, it was common for the father (head of the family) to arrange a marriage for his daughters, but over the years, this tradition has become more lax. In some noble families, this tradition seems to have returned in 1932, but it is used only for daughters who are slow to marry. SEO-YUN still opposed the decision of her father, MINISTER HONG. “Dad, this is so old fashioned.” and added “we are not in the 16th century.” His father replied however; |

[list]| HONG SA-IK, [sub]Minister[/sub] | “I will no longer let my father’s image get a bad rap when it comes to parenting. You need to understand that I am a politician, we must lead by example.”

| HONG SEO-YUN, [sub]Daughter[/sub] | “You only care about your political image.”

| HONG SA-IK, [sub]Minister[/sub] | “. . . Don’t answer your father . . . you are already 32 years old, an old woman without a husband, aren’t you ashamed?”

| HONG SEO-YUN, [sub]Daughter[/sub] | “Okay, okay . . . I’ll find a husband.”[/list]

| The day after her conversation with her father, when SEO-YUN was walking around Hanseong accompanied by one of his maids, she came across a tall, charming young man named KANG JONG-SUK, 25, who was running towards her and two ended up bumping into each other. |

[list]| HONG SEO-YUN, [sub]Daughter[/sub] | “. . . ugh!— Be more careful, commoner”

| PARK EUN-JIN, [sub]Maid[/sub] | “Are you okay, my lady?”[/list]

[list][list]| But when the young man got up, SEO-YUN suddenly fell in love with him, she was paralyzed. |[/list][/list]

[list]| KANG JONG-SUK, [sub]Commoner[/sub] | “You who must be careful . . . and judged by your clothes, this place is not for you.”[/list]

[list]| HONG SEO-YUN, [sub]Daughter[/sub] | “I walk where I want, who are you to say where I go?”[/list]

[list]| KANG JONG-SUK, [sub]Commoner[/sub] | “You’re just another one of those nobles who think the world revolves around you.”[/list]

[list][list]| Seeing that a small crowd had gathered to watch the two fight, a soldier from the King’s Royal Guard approached the crowd. |[/list][/list]

[list]| SEONG-JIN, [sub]Royal Guard[/sub] | “What’s going on here?”[/list]

[list]| HONG SEO-YUN, [sub]Daughter[/sub] | “This commoner is insulting me, I am the daughter of a M-I-N-I-S-T-E-R.”[/list]

[list]| SEONG-JIN, [sub]Royal Guard[/sub] | “Now you will be arrested for insulting a noblewoman.”[/list]

[list]| KANG JONG-SUK, [sub]Commoner[/sub] | “I don’t care, we’re not in the 16th century anymore to get beaten up just for looking at a noble.”[/list]

[list][list]| Suddenly, the young man ran through the crowd and even glanced lightly back at the girl and the two exchanged a loving look — Two soulmates just found each other. |[/list][/list]

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| WIVES OF ARGENTINA |

[sub]Buenos Aires, November 1937[/sub]

| Maria Luisa Iribarne Daubert, the wife to President Roberto Ortiz who won the 1937 elections. A woman of little sympathy to those below her, a woman who seeks out her own ambition and prosperity amongst the ongoing situation with Argentina. Standing proudly by her husband side, as he tours the factories located under Buenos Aires, she carefully analyses the workers. She reaches out to each of them with a warm handshake, but not falling to an eye-contact. She is the elite, and she knows it. Unlike her husband, who despite winning only two months earlier, she cares very little about the increase in the economy or democratisation of the country, the main priorities for Ortiz.

With only two months into his term, Ortiz has already promised the people that the economy will revitalise and that the country will find itself on a path to democratisation. In his first efforts as the President, he began his approach to the National Congress about his reformation of the penal code for corruption and his reforms that would include extensive work in protective measures against foreign agricultural goods, instead focusing on utilising the damaged Argentine sectors of the agriculture. Sectors damaged by the Great Depression. However, Ortiz has to manage his conservative counter-parts, his outspoken Vice-President and the radicals of the Military who are watching him carefully.

That's where, Maria Luisa comes in as it shows. Prancing in beautiful dresses, the fifty year old First Lady of Argentina would begin to play an important part in keeping the Conservatives and the Military occupied. In the first two months, the First Lady managed to organise over six different balls, to which major Conservative leaders and Military leaders were invited, and were charmed by the First Lady who actively keeps the wives of those men busy. The balls were organised to collect money for military retirees, to collect money for the needy, to gain British and American investors, to make the Military leaders happy and the conservative leaders bewildered.

Ortiz is on a mission to democratise the country and repair it's economy, to bring Argentina back on it's feet in a world that is increasingly growing in tension. With the Germans remilitarising and the Turks falling into depths of a civil war, Ortiz will do all that he can to keep the country together. Whilst the First Lady of Argentina, Maria Luisa, will do all that she must to keep her husband in power and keep herself in a position of wealth and power. This is a story of the First Lady of Argentina, a position that is without a doubt the most intriguing and fascinating by all accounts. Without the First Lady, the President falls, and if the President falls, Argentina is plunged into chaos it cannot afford to enter. November 1937 is a start to a new Argentina, an Argentina ruled by President Ortiz and fought for by the First Lady Maria Luisa. |

[spoiler="We are on a path to a new, more prosperous Argentina, a country which will lead and create a new prosperity for the future ahead." - President Roberto Ortiz]

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[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, Intervention in the Turkish Civil War, November 1937

To Vasíleio tis Elládas, Epémvasi ston Tourkikó Emfýlio Pólemo, Noémvrios 1937[/list][/list]

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[list][list]GREECE INTERVENES IN TURKISH CIVIL WAR : GREEK ARMY MOBILIZES WITH FRONTLINES FROM THRACE TO ANATOLIA

ELLADA EPEMVAINEI STON TOURKIKO EMFYLIO : KINITOPOIITEI ELLINIKOS STRATOS PROSOPA APO THRAKI EOS ANATOLIA[/list][/list]

[list]| On the 24th of May, 1937, President Ataturk flew to Athens to discuss a Greco-Turkish Alliance, which would prove decisive in the Turkish Civil War which would break out not even two weeks after the signing of the alliance. With desperate Turkish pleads for Greek and foreign aid in the Civil War, Premier Metaxas and his high command had theorized several situations should Greece invade. There was indeed a very high chance that Greece's economy will fall, just like it did during the Greco-Maziyan War, however, this would also be avoided IF Greece were to send volunteer divisions and older equipment. By June 3rd, a garrison of 5,000 volunteer troops accompanied by 75 light and medium tanks had entered mainland Turkey, but by the time the Civil War broke out on the 4th, Greek troops continued to pour into the mainland, in positions ready to fight. With strong debates from the Greek high command to intervene, the first plans to intervene and the first plans for troop movements were drafted by late June. In a speech by Metaxas stated on the 2nd of November, Metaxas expressed great concern for Turkey and declared Greek intervention in the Turkish Civil War; | [/list]

[list][list]"Our Turkish Brothers in the East! You are not alone! Our recent alliance with Turkey states that Turkey will not be abandoned should it break into Civil War, and that promise is fulfilled today. So far, we have amassed over 15,000 troops in Turkey and with tanks too, and today they are ready to fight not only for Greece but for Turkey too. We are prepared to defend our Anatolian allies at all costs, and we now have defense lines with artillery from Bulgaria to Turkey, we are prepared to fight for our nation and peace and stability in the region. As I've expressed and mentioned so many times, I shall repeat, Greece will no longer stand idly by and watch another one of her democratic and stable neighbors fall into the horrors that is communism. To Premier Ataturk and the people of Turkey, we are going to save you from these monsters!"[/list][/list]

[list]| At 13:00 on the 2nd of November, 1937, after nearly four months of waiting, Greece declared intervention on the Anatolian Red Army's reign of terror over Turkey, with combat-ready Greek troops mobilizing to fight the Anatolian Red Army. The well-equipped Greek force of 15,000 men linked up with several Turkish armies and joined the fighting. The main role of Greek troops was overall meant to provide suppressed fire onto Anatolian troops while supporting Turkish troops with tanks and artillery. The deployed divisions (1st Infantry Division, 3rd Infantry Division, 6th Tank Battalion) are to enter direct combat by December, but until further notice, this Greek force will continue to fight for the independence of its Turkish ally. [/list]

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The Confederate Prussian Empire wrote:[ Meeting the Germans ]

[ October, 1936: Málaga, Spain The Confederate Prussian Empire ]

| Franco was one of the first to greet the Germans of the Condor Legion upon their arrival to his country, glad to finally be in the presence of the aid he had asked for. The battles of Córdoba and Badajoz had been fierce, his own forces were currently moving along the planned out order of march, moving along the eastern coast of Spain and taking towns and cities with very little resistance. Franco knew that the rebels would focus a major amount of their troops on the capital of Madrid to attempt and hold it, the idea of anarchists and Bolsheviks being in control of his country's historic city disgusted him to no end. The results of the battle of Córdoba and Badajoz were indeed good, even though there may be fallout from the usage of ‘black flag’ tactics later on once the war is over. Despite arguing with his subordinates over such tactics, they were proving to be effective against their enemies and installing a form of fear. While he himself did not initially want to use such tactics, Franco knew that this was war and everything needed to be done. Walking out from the building he was staying in for his planning period in Málaga, he’d check over his uniform to make sure that it was proper for meeting with the officers of the Condor Legion. Wanting to plan out their further movements as his forces have taken key cities on their way to Madrid, he primarily wanted to form a spearhead right for the capital city in hopes of seizing it within the coming months and hopefully by the spring of 1937. |

[list]October 1936

[sub]Meeting the Germans, Pt 2[/sub][/list]

CONDOR LEGION BASE CAMP, MALAGA, The Confederate Prussian Empire — AFTERNOON

[list]MEETING BETWEEN FRANCISCO FRANCO AND WILLEM VON RITTER, MALAGA, SPAIN - 19 OCT 1936[/list]

| Only a few kerosene lamps lit up the room as a lowly officer organized the German and Spanish flags draped on the wall. Major-General Willem von Ritter, the commanding officer of the Condor Legion, a German volunteer division dispatched to support the nationalist regime of Francisco Franco, sat in his seat, smoking a pipe and awaiting the arrival of his counterparts. Two German officers snapped to attention as the noise of conversation emanated from the lower floor of the building, on the outskirts of Malaga, Spain. The Major-General studied maps of Spanish troop movements from both the Nationalist and Socialist sides, the latter information being taken from preliminary aerial patrols conducted by German fighters, deployed alongside the Condor Legion. The battles would be fierce and many good men would die, the Major-General thought. Ritter stopped smoking his pipe and glanced at one of the officers, who nodded. He was here. Ritter stood up and adjusted his drab grey standard Wehrmacht military uniform and adjusted his cap. The two officers next to him stood up as well as footsteps made their way up the stairs. |

[list]| [sub]WILLEM VON RITTER, Major-General[/sub] | "General Francisco Franco. It is an honor. These are my deputies, Herr Joseph Straus and Herr Jans Faulkner. It is a pleasure to be of assistance to your great regime, and it will be a great honor to work side by side with your military forces for the purpose of achieving victory over your Socialist enemies."[/list]

| Major Joseph Straus saluted General Franco with a snappy right arm and smiled broadly. On the other hand, Corporal Jans Faulkner, of the intelligence and communications unit, nodded darkly and conducted with his right arm a quick, but slightly sloppy salute. |

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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]

November Edition — 1937[/pre]

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[pre]CONSORTIUM OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES EXPAND OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: SUID AUTOMOTIVES & SAAC ESTABLISHED;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| LUDERITZ — The integration of the port of Luderitz had resulted in a major shift of attention away from an otherwise strategic port in the Diamond export market. There, fewer cargo ships gathered to take on the precious stone than in years prior which proved to be a substantial hit on the local economy. With new rail connections from mines in the area to the national South African system, operators in the industry made the determination that it would be cost effective, efficient, and maximize returns, to direct exports through the more developed ports in Cape Province. Yet, local shipping corporations whose origins predate the transfer of control of South West Africa from Germany protested the new routes and made petitions to receive new government contracts to shore up losses.[/sub]

[sub]Those petitions mostly fell on deaf ears in Parliament, where a lack of representation of the territory and keen focus on the economic recovery of South Africa proper created a situation wherein government investment was almost exclusively given to already incorporated territories. Yet, even with this neglect from the public sector, private investors have taken interest in the exploration and extraction of Copper resources and even Petroleum which many suspect lay beneath the deserts of the territory.[/sub]

[sub]Beyond the arid climate of South West Africa, the Dominion has experienced a boom in various industries in large part thanks to a major consortium of British Corporations whose investment into South Africa subsidiaries have jump started a domestic automotive, and aerospace industry, the likes of which Africa has not yet seen. Suid Automotives, the largest of the new auto companies formed is headquartered in Bloemfontein, industrial capital of the Dominion, envisioned as a major producer of affordable vehicles with departments excelling in producing dependable cars and trucks capable of operating in the diverse climates of the continent. From vehicles tailored for rugged and overgrown biomes, to those with internal cooling for operation in the dry deserts of northern and southern Africa, Suid will produce cars of first choice for consumers across the continent and beyond. Plans also exist for the production of luxury models for export to Europe and elsewhere, emphasizing comfort for both executives, elites, and the upper middle classes of people everywhere. With dreams of a robust industry with world class, quality products, South Africans hope to shift away from a near-pure primary industry economy to one of a diversified portfolio with hands in nearly all areas of the consumer market.[/sub]

[sub]Hawker Siddeley, Blackburn, and Avro, the pride of the British aerospace industry have set up shop in South Africa as well — signing contracts with the fledgling South African Air Company (SAAC) for the establishment of parts manufacturing and assembly lines in the Dominion. This, the foundation of a new air industry received the most interest from Parliament who set aside funds and land for SAAC to propel the corporation to the forefront of South Africa’s trade brand bringing high paying jobs and training for the citizenry. With such an investment, SAAC published a 10 year plan which outlined a program for development of domestic long-range aircraft most notably of a large passenger liner with the ability to fly “from Cape to Cairo” on a single load of fuel. Notable about this goal, is that the stalled Cape-to-Cairo rail line envisioned prior to the Great War was the hope upon which peace and connectivity in Africa was promised, but was never realized due to competing interest among the colonies and protectorates of the Empire who would not cooperate for this effort. With such an airliner, transcontinental flight could spur the connectivity required to ensure long-term growth and interoperability in Africa, even across colonial boundaries. But, such lofty goals, like in the automotive industry, require humbled beginnings to which SAAC has committed to “perform with excellence”.[/sub]

[sub]By air, and over land, South Africa hopes to reach outward, capturing the imagination of peoples across the globe.[/sub]

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente Approves Major Greater Estado Novo Rail Public Works Project

Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente Aprova Grande Projeto de Obras Públicas Ferroviárias do Grande Estado Novo

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente | RIO DE JANEIRO & LISBON, 1937[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

Without proper infrastructure to spur economic sustainment and promote the interconnection of the Estado Novo Domain, the Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente hereby approves a prestigious and historic agenda for the construction of modernized rail and road transportation networks to further integrate domestic cohesion and expansion of economic activity from the coasts into the interior. Portugal, Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique have all been approved for their recommended rail and road logistics. For the success and achievement of these networks, the Conselho de Revisão e Consulta Judicial has determined any previous legal restrictions that prohibited the travel and employment of citizens of the Estado Novo is not only illegal but unconstitutional; therefore, approving the combining of the total workforce of the Estado Novo into a cohesive, strengthened class.

The rail links will primarily begin on the coasts and proceed internally as villages, cities, towns, and resource deposits are to become further connected as people, capital, and resources are better able to be transported and the Greater Estado Novo more robust. It is with this understanding that modernity, social unity, and reconstruction cannot be achieved unless all peoples of the Estado Novo are of one family, mind, and soul. Vereador-chefe da Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente Marcello José das Neves Alves Caetano GCTE GCC has personally confirmed these robust networks to commence their construction immediately with the hope that mass employment drives will assist in easing the tensions from the ongoing Great Depression. Part of the desire to get the rail and road connections completed is for a military/security component as well; therefore, the Conselho da Força de Defesa do Grande Estado Novo has coordinated with its syndicates pertaining to infrastructure technology to assist in the progression of these major networks. Within Brazil, Getulio Vargas has confirmed his government will incorporate Brazilian natives into the workforce for the completion of this project. The High Commissioners of both Angola and Mozambique has confirmed their commitment to the project and will be coordinating with the Office of African Affairs to mobilize African-based workers with assistance from Portugal and Brazil specialists to ensure high quality work.

The necessity of these networks are expected to place steel and niobium steel in addition to automobiles and energy resources such as oil and coal to high demand, driving industrial-based employment to high attraction. The intended goal is not to enforce rapid industrialization and modernization so that the Estado Novo can avoid economic and financial miscalculation. What is the goal however is to form the foundation where the Estado Novo can be independent in all things. With the discovery of coal in Mozambique, this new project will ensure increased curiosity in further exploration of coal in addition to expanding coal production in Brazil to adhere to the resource needs of this new project. As these rail and road networks are primarily for industrial and security reasoning, commercial and passenger train networks will align to these as well for greater mobilization across the Estado Novo.

Antonio Salazar and Getulio Vargas both agree that it is imperative that the working class possess sustainable, long-term, bountiful employment instead of short-term, temporary employment created solely by government for autarky. The Salazar-Vargas Administration decrees that autarky is an end goal to be gradually achieved instead of a means to be immediately implemented for a grandiose end that has no direction or assessment based on concrete value and trajectory. The infrastructure project is to be observed as being indicative to the Estado Novo's unique approach to long term strategic growth and empowerment.

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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]

November Edition — 1937[/pre]

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[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]

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[pre]KINGDOM OF THE SOUTH: PARLIAMENT PASSES PEERAGE ACT, AUTHORIZING CREATION OF NOBILITY AND THE INTEGRATION OF TRIBAL PROTECTORATES;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| PRETORIA — The 1931 Act of Westminster represented the culmination of a century of debate concerning the future of the British Empire. Since the release of British North America, now known as the United States in 1783, the debate surrounding the governance of Britain’s global Empire has been as intense and diverse as the people over which it ruled. Where once it was acceptable for the Empire to be ruled from London alone, the American Revolution reverberated throughout the far flung realms of the Empire until home rule for the most populous colonies became the rule of thumb, and the establishment of Protectorates required in areas dominated by native populations. The 1931 Act was a settlement of this debate, by that time surrounding the question of the incorporation of a single transcontinental nation-state known as the Imperial Federation, or as an Empire of co-equal states bound together through a Union of Crowns. Thus, in Ottawa, a Kingdom was formed in Canada and likewise in Canberra for Australia, Delhi for India, and at-last, Pretoria for South Africa. These ‘Kingdoms’ took on the style of “Dominions”, so as to codify Great Britain’s position at the head of this Union fo Crowns, but with every passing year, and a growing dependence on the other realms, the Smuts Government took a new position.[/sub]

[list][pre]”[…] In 1937, our sentiment must be, that co-equal states in this Union should, by all accounts, reflect their status in the Empire. Thus, South Africa must take on the form of a Kingdom in the Southern Hemisphere worthy of her people and her King.”[/pre][/list]

[sub]Intense was the opposition from members of the National Party, whose Afrikaner nationalist base was in staunch opposition to the question of furthering South Africa’s alignment with London. Feelings that the freedom promised to the first Dutch settlers had been stymied first by native incursions backed by the British Army, culminating in the Boer Wars, was the root of hatred expressed by many of that people towards both English and Black. But with a narrow majority, and the urgent need to shore up electoral defenses through a new Native-English-Moderate Afrikaner voter base, the coalition government whipped enough votes to pass the act along party lines.[/sub]

[sub]This Act made provision for the designation of some 70 Barons & Counts, and 5 Dukes none of whose titles will be hereditary but conferred upon citizens of South Africa by the Monarch following recommendation by the Executive Council. Together, those “Peers” will form a new House of Lords replacing the Senate as upper house in Parliament, following the 1940 election. Beyond this controversial move, the Act authorized the Executive Council to grant recognition of “several Paramount Chiefs of the native Clans of South Africa” marking the first time in the history of the Dominion, that aboriginal South Africans will obtain direct representation in Parliament. To make that possible, provisions banning the seating of non-European in Parliament contained in the South Africa Act were repealed universally — which has burst open the door through which the plight of all South Africans can find voice not just in the House of Lords but in the House of Assembly.[/sub]

[sub]Critics of this move called it the ”beginning of the end of the Common Man’s rule” in South Africa. Echoing the sentiment of Republicans who oppose all connection to the British Monarchy out of principle and as a result of anti-Unionism. To that, members of Parliament and the Government were United in their position that the awarding of titles was not an effort to reinforce elitism, but to reward citizens who have demonstrated the best of the South African spirit. They evidence this position with the ban on hereditary peerage for the new titles, outside of the Clans, and provisions of the Act which ban South Africans from obtaining peerages from Britain or any foreign state. In essence, a purified nobility is the aim, composed of first citizens and representatives of the first people of South Africa.[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1623906[/list]

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[list]| ዜና— MODERNIZATION OF ITALIAN EAST AFRICAN ARMS FACTORIES |

[/list] Even though the war had mostly been won, armed resistance had still been a massive problem in the south, and even in cities several armed uprisings occurred. The arms originally received in the war were even outdated compared to the Ethiopian army's rifles that were from the 1920s and 30s, and even then, Rome could not keep up these shipments forever. The decision was made to establish a local arms industry to better supplement the needs of the administration. The defense industry sector of the former Ethiopian Empire was decent for an African nation, but still, nothing compared to what it could be. The only factory was established by Emperor Menelik II, and that only produced ammunition for rifles. The Italian army itself was beginning to change bullet caliber, so it was decided that the colonial forces should match it, so the ammunition factory would be modernized and also alter production lines to begin producing 6.5 mm, 7.35 x 51 mm, and parabellum caliber ammunition.

Meanwhile, it was obvious that only 1 ammunition factory would not suffice for the demands of the combat. Another factory plant next to it was lined for construction, predicted to be finished in mid-1938, specified to make rifles and other small arms, such as Carcano carbines, Beretta submachine guns, OTO Mod.35 grenades, Lanciafiamme Modello 35 flamethrowers, and a variety of Breda machine guns.|[/list]

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[list]DECEMBER 1937

[sub]HOTEL ASTOR — NEW YORK CITY, Paramountica[/sub][/list]

[list][list][sub]DIE VERBANTE-OPPOSITION: EINE OPPOSITION, DIE IN DER DUNKELHEIT VEREINT IST UND AUF EINE NEUE ÄRA WARTET[/sub]

[pre]THE VERBANTE OPPOSITION: AN OPPOSITION UNITED IN OBSCURITY, AWAITING A NEW DAWN[/pre][/list][/list]

| Following the 1933 federal election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition parties, the Centre (Zentrum) Party of Konrad Adenauer and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Kurt Schumacher fled for the United States aboard a maritime vessel. Adenauer and the Centre Party fled before the rest, realizing that horror awaited them should they stay any longer and attempt to resist the tightening chokehold on power being strengthened by the DVP of Adolph Heidler. Schumacher and the SPD were briefly jailed north of Berlin at a security camp before breaking out with the support of anti-DVP dissidents, allowing them to flee to New York and with the cooperation of Adenauer and the Zentrum Party establish a unified exiled opposition to the Deutsches Volkspartei. As the DVP strengthened their power in 1935 and 1936 and it became obvious that support for the return of democracy would not be strong enough to practically implement liberalization, the Exiled Opposition (Verbante Opposition, or VO informally) transitioned from campaigning for their safe return to Berlin to helping people flee the increasingly authoritarian regime in place. Of the VO's situation in December 1937, Kurt Schumacher (SPD) said: |

[list][list][pre]Die Situation ist beängstigend und die Hoffnung auf eine sichere Rückkehr schwindet rapide. Unsere Abhängigkeit von finanzieller Unterstützung aus dem Ausland wie hier in Amerika, wo unsere Freunde uns aufgenommen und vor den Volkisten in Deutschland geschützt haben, wächst von Tag zu Tag. Wir haben die Migration von Zehntausenden von Juden aus Deutschland unterstützt, wo die Verfolgung von Minderheiten weiter eskaliert. Ich bin mir mit Herrn Bundespräsident [Konrad] Adenauer und sicher auch mit dem Rest der Verbändigen Opposition einig, dass die Lage in Deutschland düster aussieht. Wo einst eine blühende Demokratie stand, steht jetzt ein finsteres autoritäres, absolutistisches Regime. Ich kann nur hoffen, dass, was auch immer es für den europäischen Kontinent bereithält, die Demokratien der Welt in der Lage sein werden, es in seinem Lauf zu stoppen.[/pre]

[pre]The situation is scary and the hope of a safe return rapidly dwindling. Our dependency on financial support from foreign entities like here in America, where our friends have taken us in and shielded us from the Volkists in Germany, grows day by day. We have assisted in the migration of tens of thousands of Jews from Germany, where persecution against minorities continues to escalate. I alongside Herr Prasident [Konrad] Adenauer and I'm sure the rest of the Verbante Opposition agree that the situation in Germany is looking bleak. Where a prospering democracy once stood a dark authoritarian, absolutist regime now stands. All I can hope is whatever it has in store for the European Continent, the democracies of the world will be able to stop it in its track.[/pre][/list][/list]

| Adenauer, the Chairman of the VO, alongside Schumacher as its Vice Chairman and Executive Secretary, spoke to the media on 2 December 1937 for the first time in months, to brief the public and the world on the state of Germany's political opposition. "Darkness has descended upon Germany, but happy days will come again," the VO Chairman declared in an interview. The political influence of the Verbante Opposition in Germany is weak especially as Heidler's autocracy consolidates itself as the singular power of authority in the country, however the VO continues to campaign for recognition from countries like Britain and France, to little success. |

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December,1937

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UPDATES TO PARLIAMENT

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With the end of the year,and the introduction of the communist party,Juaidi himself formed the Maziyan Republic Party to counter the formation of the communist party.Because of the two new political parties,Maziya sultan,Zahier Al Hafiz made the decision to talk with the prime minister,head of parliament and Fong Wei Yuan head of the communist party to change the way parliament works,to factor both political parties and any other future political parties which may form.Talks began back in October and within that time the only change which were agreed on to be used was that there will be a yearly head of parliament election,in which at the end of every year the head of parliament will be changed.The head of parliament will like before only be voted by the parliament and no outside source will be allowed to vote and the other change was to increase the size of the parliament but to do that a new parliament building had to be established as previously the parliament being a small group was working in the same building as the prime minister.The new parliament building has been planned to be finished come March 1938.The first yearly election will still go ahead as planned with the communist party also being included with Fong Wei Yuan as the representative for the communist party in parliament.

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[list]December 1937

[sub]Through the Skies and To the Stars[/sub][/list]

[list][pre]I D R E A M O F A L I F E A M O N G T H E S T A R S[/pre][/list]

PEENEMUNDE ROCKETRY FACILITY, MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN, New Provenance — MORNING

[sub]AGGREGAT "A3" LAUNCH FOUR, 12 DECEMBER 1937 - 8:51AM[/sub]

| [sub]"I dream of a life among the stars, a destination we shall reach through the development of rocket ships with powerful engines and large capacities for payloads of humans and foodstuffs into the havens," were the words of Dr. Wernher Von Braun, esteemed German engineer and rocket scientist turned senior weapons researcher for the German Army. Von Braun had launched his rocket career in the 1920s, joining the VfR, a Berlin-based club for rocketry enthusiasts. Robert H. Goddard's successful launch of the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926 spurred on the dreams of those who wished for a life among the stars, and Von Braun was among them. He quickly rose the ranks in the VfR and, when he submitted his thesis (Construction, Theoretical, and Experimental Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket), raised the interests of the German Army's Ordnance Development Division under Walter Dornberger, who subsequently classified said thesis due to the sensitive nature of the topic.[/sub] |

| [sub]In September 1934, the VfR was disbanded by the German Army and its top researchers - Von Braun included - were absorbed into the Ordnance Development Division of the German Heer. In December 1934, Von Braun and other top researchers were moved to the Peenemunde Rocketry Research Facility in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in the north of Germany along the coast of the north. In 1933, with the advent of the DVP and Adolph Heidler, rocketry development became a national priority, and under the blanket of secrecy development began, albeit slowly. In February 1933, the first rocket of the Aggregat series, the A1, was developed by Von Braun and his company at a German Army arms research facility in Kummersdorf. In February 1935, development on the "A3" rocket began, two years after the development of the A1. This time research had been moved to Peenemunde permanently.[/sub] |

| [sub]General Thomas von Fritz, a member of the German High Command and the Commander-in-Chief of the German Heer, witnessed the test firing of an A3 engine at Kummersdorf in January 1936, impressing him to such a level that he lent his full support to the program. Development on the A3 continued through 1936 and 1937, culminating with the first test launch of the A3 rocket on 4 December 1937. This would be the first Aggregat program rocket launched from the Peenemunde site. The morning launch was a complete failure due to premature parachute deployment and engine failure, resulting in a crash close to the launch site. Of the failed A3-1 launch, Von Braun remarked:[/sub] |

[list][pre]"A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE, CERTAINLY, BUT WE SHALL WORK OUR WAY THROUGH THE NIGHT TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF SUBSEQUENT LAUNCHES."[/pre][/list]

| [sub]The failure of the first A3 launch created worries that the funding for the project had been misspent, and the whole program was going to be shut down due to the failures. The launch of the second A3 rocket occurred on 6 December 1937, resulting in a failure due to similar problems as well. The third A3 launch on 8 December 1937 failed as well due to engine failure, but went farther and faster than the previous two A3 launches thanks to the parachute issue being solved by Peenemunde engineers. On 12 December 1937, the fourth and last A3 was prepared for launch. Two hours prior to launch, Walter Dornberger, Von Braun's mentor and superior, said:[/sub] |

[list][pre]"WE'RE READY FOR A SUCCESS, BUT WE'RE ALSO READY FOR A FAILURE. AS ROCKET SCIENTISTS WE MUST BE PREPARED FOR BOTH A SPLENDID SUCCESS AND A LAUNCH ENDING IN A FIERY CRASH. SUCH IS THE LIFE OF A ROCKET ENGINEER."[/pre][/list]

| [sub]The fourth Aggregat A3 launch took place at 9:01AM local time from the Peenemunde Rocketry Research Facility, on the 12th of December 1937. It reached an altitude of 3,300 feet (1.05 kilometers) before crashing into the cold northern ocean due to an engine failure once more. It flew over 400 feet higher than the previous highest A3 launch, however, and thus was not seen as a complete failure. Pre-launch processes had been tested and recovery operations in the ocean had also been practiced with the four failed launches. The A3 program was scrapped shortly after and development of the A4 was postponed, while work on the A5 commenced. While the failure marked yet another fiery explosion and demise of a rocket for Germany's novel rocket program, such is the life of a program pushing for a home among the stars, through whatever means necessary.[/sub] |

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[pre]| DECEMBER - 1937 |[/pre]

[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS

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

REVOLUTIONARY FURY TAKES HOLD IN KARS:

RECRUITMENT DRIVES BEGIN, MILITIAS MAKE MOVEMENTS, SOVIET INVOLVEMENT DEEPENS!

РЕВОЛЮЦИОННАЯ НЕБЕСНОСТЬ ОСУЩЕСТВЛЯЕТ КАРС:

НАЧИНАЕТСЯ ВЕРБОВКА, ДВИЖЕНИЕ ОПОЛЧЕНЦЕВ, УГЛУБЛЕНИЕ СОВЕТСКОГО ПРИСУТСТВИЯ!

[pre]The Red flag flew proudly across Kars as sounds of fighting that filled the cities streets soon fell fainter as Counter-Revolutionary forces were pushed out of the City and into the rural countryside where brave soldiers fired upon the soldiers of the bourgeois. Artillery positions began to station in the city causing the thunder to return in irregular intervals as bodies still clung to the streets as leftists rejoiced in the streets with those of strong convictions hanging Red Flags out of their homes with cloth or clothing as the ARA marched and secured the city while the main force pushed out to keep the momentum heading to secure the whole of the Kars Plateau. As the streets of Kars regained safety the Kars Valiligi would become the meeting point of members of the Workers’ Party and leftists who fled from the Ankara Government. Most importantly Mihri Belli and Mehmet Hüsnü would lead the discussion on how to move forward now that Kars was in the hands of the Anatolian Red Army. The Kars Konsey of the Proletariat and Soldiers mimicking the Soviets of the Russian Revolution Mihri Belli would be voted as Executive Chairman of the Kars Konsey by vote of those present in the Kars Valiligi. The Revolution has come to stay in Kars! With news reaching Moscow fast, Comrade Stalin would announce the recognition of the Kars Konsey as the true government for the People of Turkey severing ties with the Ankara government.[/pre]

| Kars Konsey begins to recruit for the ARA - Карс Конси начинает набор в ARA |

[pre]As the Kars Konsey officialized representatives would begin to enter communities to call upon young and old men and women to join the Revolution. Kurdish people were heavily targeted for their distrust towards Ankara. 10,000 men and women would be recruited from the local population in Kars Province to begin a short training period before being transferred to the frontlines as reinforcements to the initial ARA force pushing to secure the whole plateau. Recruitment would also begin in the Soviet Union as Georgian and Azeri Veterans and young men were targeted by the NKVD to join secret Turkish led Units of the Anatolian Red Army.[/pre]

| Armenian Mountain Rifle Division strikes in Operation Ararat - Արարատ» գործողության ընթացքում հայկական լեռնահրաձգային դիվիզիան հարվածներ է հասցրել |

[pre]The Armenian Mountain Rifle Division stood ready as the war broke out as the Soviet Union attempted to bring Armenian support to the war. They would be outfitted in the same Guerilla uniforms as the ARA to blend in and hide direct Soviet involvement.[/pre]

[pre]-7,000X Armenian Soldiers[/pre]

[pre]-100X M1936 Divisional Gun[/pre]

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[pre]This force would have the task of securing the province of Iğdir and more specifically Mount Ararat in this special operation to bring vocal support from the Armenian community to add to a volunteer force in the ARA many seeking a friendly state to allow Armenians to visit cultural sites. Artillery bombardments would commence in the early morning against Turkish Border posts along the Aras River before the T-37 followed by Infantry columns would cross the river and secured bridges under light Turkish fire due to attention being focused on the Kars front. The morale of the Armenian unit would be high as they saw this as liberating a lost homeland from the Turkish horde with commanders of the unit commenting to Stalin and Soviet command of the bravery and ferocity shown by Armenian soldiers. The main attack would be focused on capturing Iğdir and pushing and securing the mountain range surrounding the Iğdir plains. While a minor force would secure the culturally important Ararat Mountain where once secured Soviet officials would allow Journalists in the document the success of the Armenian “Volunteers” of the the ARA.[/pre]

| Red Militias strike railway infrastructure - Красные ополченцы нанесли удар по железнодорожной инфраструктуре |

[pre]The Red Militias stood strong in Turkey as they harassed the convoys of the poorly equipped and trained Turkish National forces, closing mountain passes and road ways through blowing landslides and blockades as they would pick off stopping convoys. Never facing the larger forces in open combat would keep their numbers strong as the turned the Turkish countryside into a kill zone and prevented Turkish National Forces from moving comfortably. The next targets for strikes would be rail infrastructure across the nation from destroying track to planting explosives through leftist cells in urban train stations to blow late at night to destroy infrastructure but minimize civilian casualties.[/pre]

[pre]-Ankara railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Bostancı railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Adana railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Konya railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Ali Çetinkaya railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Karaman railway station[/pre]

[pre]-Railway tracks heading east towards the front would be targeted for Red Militias to sabotage track and fire on military train cars with small arms and heavy weaponry[/pre]

| Soviet involvement increases- Советское участие увеличивается |

[pre]Comrade Stalin would take notice of involvement by foreign actors in the Turkish Revolution especially once notified of the formation of the Anatolian Military Council and of Greek involvement leading to him ordering the mobilization of Bulgarian Forces near the Greek border through telegram to General Secretary of the Workers’ Socialist Republic of Bulgaria. More pressing was the alert to the Transcaucasus Military District to bring readiness protocol for possible aggression against Soviet borders mainly calling up 100,000 Soviet Soldiers forming the 1st Caucasian Army made up of Russian, Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani Soldiers to ensure the territory of the Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani SSRs. Armor and artillery divisions would also begin to arrive in the region to bolster the mainly infantry force and to provide heavy weapon capabilities to the force.[/pre]

| Comrade Stalin would officialize the Recognition of the Kars Konsey as the legitimate government of the Turkish People and the ARA as the legitimate fighting force of the Turkish Nation. |

| Armenian Journalists and Historians would be allowed into ARA territory under the protection of a NKVD Rifle unit to search and document evidence of the Armenian Genocide. |

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| QUEEN DOWAGER ELISABETH GAINS THE BELGIAN CONGO |

[sub]December, 1937[/sub]

| I sit in this lonely manor, dreadfully feeling the heat from each side of me. It's not what I intended to feel, nor what I intended to get. In October, I was notified that I am to go out on a mission to Congo, but for what? What do I have to do in the Congo state? Thousands kilometres away from Brussels. But, I dutifully listened to the King, my son. Then came the Prime Minister in early November, and their plan shocked me to my core. They want me to go to Congo, and oversee it. Oversee, a country, a land that is ten times bigger than the country I was once the Queen of. I think not. I said no. And I protested. But, it was too late. I did not have a say in this. So, I ordered my maids to pack the best of my summer attire, and head off to Congo.

The Parliament appointed me as the Governor of the Belgian Congo on the 20th of November. Two days later, I was away. I have experts and advisers come with me. But what do they know about running a country? A people? They're not Belgians, they're just part of Belgium. But that's different. And now, I must sit and oversee their country. Well, I did my fair share of studying on that ship. I read, read and listened. I wanted to know everything about the people of Congo, the country, the society. If I am to rule it, I need to know. My experts and advisers told me how prosperous we are making Congo. How, deliberately good, we are making Congo. Well, what I've seen is beyond belief.

I've arrived in the capital, and I did not see the prosperous Congo I was promised. Poverty, no education, and little self-worth all around. Of course, I realised that what they meant was in fact our companies getting prosperous. But what about the people? Are they not to be educated? Are they not deserving of a life? A good, decent life? And you want me to run this? Put my name, and face to the world, on this? Well, if you do, things are about to change. And if they are about to change, I request full permission from you, and the Parliament to give me a free hand in running Congo. Otherwise, you can forget that I will remain. Let me pick my advisers, let me form Congo into the state it deserves. Give me three years, and if I make Congo work, then I'll remain but if I fail, you may as well remove my titles.

Your Majesty,

Queen Dowager Elisabeth of the Belgians.

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| The Queen Dowager, has been officially granted the position and reign as the Governor of Belgian Congo. As of 2nd of December, the Queen is now solely responsible for the running of Congo. It is stated that the Queen, will however, remain under the supervision of the Parliament and each year for the next three years will undergo reviews and checks. It is unprecedented that the Queen has been given such a title, and such a power position. The reasoning behind such move is questioned by the opposition within the Parliament, however, the Prime Minister has defended his decision by suggesting that the Queen Dowager is of vital importance for the image, perseverance and progress of the country as a whole. The Queen Dowager has also been given international power, in being allowed to negotiate treaties and trades on behalf of Congo, and Congo alone. Unofficially it has been revealed that the Queen has a three year term to prove her reforms.

Reforms, which the Queen had announced will be coming into effect very soon. Her reformation will be based upon the principles of, and I quote, "...Education, Investment, Democratisation, Liberalisation..." In her efforts, the Queen Dowager has revealed that she will do all she can to create an education system for the people of Congo; invest heavily into industries, agriculture and people of Congo; begin the process of giving the people of Congo an equal voice; create a society that will ultimately lead to prosperity of the Congo people. Many Communists within Belgium have mockingly nicknamed the Queen Dowager as, and I quote, "...The African Marie Antoinette...", further adding that "...let's hope her head won't end up in the Congo River..."

The Queen Dowager, in her first move, has created her own council of advisers composed of four Belgians - Albert Jacobs ( Economics ), Hugo Aarden ( Education ), Alexander De Witte ( International and African Relations ), Elena Kloet ( Justice and Politics ), and two Congolese ( Pierre Ilunga ( Congolese Customs and Traditions ), Christine Umba ( Women Politics ). The move has been perceived as highly controversial amongst the Parliament members in Belgium, but nonetheless, accepted due to the Prime Ministers' protection. The Queen Dowager has also announced that she will continue the major infrastructural system developments that will connect major Congolese cities and towns, and connect the new upcoming port city that is to be expanded and built. The Queen will also set out for a tour of major towns and cities of Congo, in order to emerge herself with the locals. Major system changes are set to be announced by January of 1938, and it is most likely that until 1940, the Queen Dowagers' main residence will be in the capital city of Congo. |

[spoiler="The Parliament and His Majesty have bestowed me the honour of leading our gracious colony...it will be my life-duty to make Congo the gem of Africa, the crown of Belgium..." - Queen Dowager Elisabeth]

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

FRENCH BUREAUCRACY

MINISTÈRE DES COLONIES[/pre][/list]

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MINISTRY OF THE COLONIES: TURKISH CIVIL WAR SPREADS FEARS OF SPILLOVER INTO SYRIAN MANDATE

[sub]3RD REPUBLIC | PARIS, DECEMBER 1937 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| HELM OF L’EMPIRE, MINISTÈRE DES COLONIES, TROISIÈME RÉPUBLIQUE - | The ensuing of the Turkish civil war has become a buffet of interventionist forces such as those of Greece and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It would seem that these interventions, whilst seeming to serve merely simple minded interests are leading to fears of a conflict spillover into the French Mandate of Syria. The semi-autonomous region which includes Lebanon, has grown to become one of the most docile territories in the French Colonial Empire. The Turkish civil war threatens the stability of nearly the entire region as well as the tremendously positive economic growth seen in the last few years.[/sub]

[sub]These worries have led the autonomous government of the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon to issue a call to arms amongst the Popular Mobilization Forces; a paramilitary group with numbers that vastly dwarf the units of the French military stationed there. These paramilitary forces are mostly consistent of self trained locals and villagers whom have had a lifetime of experience handling conventional weapons in the interest of defending their homeland and way of life. The ages of fighters ranges between less than 16 and older than 70 in some cases. Some of the fighters whom are still alive fought against the Colonial French Expeditionary Forces when France was still working to colonize the Levant.[/sub]

[sub]Now at peace with each other, the French Government and Popular Mobilization Forces have begun a new era of cooperating with each other, seeing their common interests in securing and maintaining security in the Levant region. The knowledge and tactics of these seasoned fighters is indeed passed on from generation to generation. With an estimated overall strength of 300,000 fighters, only 60,000 would be requested by the autonomous colonial government. They would be requested to mobilize along the North Syrian border with the support of the Colonial French Expeditionary Forces. Their primary mission would be to secure the Syrian border and prevent a spillover of the Turkish conflict.[/sub]

[sub]The Colonial French Expeditionary Forces, numbering 40,000 strong in Syria would provide a screen of protection to the Popular Mobilization Forces with their array of equipment and airpower while also providing logistics support and airborne reconnaissance of the border regions. In the meantime, all government infrastructure projects in the Levant are to remain underway and shall go unhindered. French naval facilities in Tartus, Beirut, Tripoli, and Latakia are to remain on a lowered state of awareness while still providing patrols and security to commercial vessels. | [/sub]

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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

VIVE L’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]

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| NATIONAL CONGRESS OF CONGO ESTABLISHED |

[sub]28th of December, 1937[/sub]

| Today was a difficult day for me. Finding myself on edge for the past month. I've managed to travel to some cities such as Stanleyville and Leopoldville. These people need their own to lead with me. I cannot look them in the face, without thinking that what they have towards me is hatred, I know that. I represent their oppression but what they don't understand yet, is that I represent their only hope for a better life. With that in mind, I sped up the process of setting up a political and administrative structure of Congo, to the dislike of the companies that made so clear. But I will not give in.

Prime Minister, this place is a potential that has to be tapped in. I believe that we only tapped into the iceberg of what Congo can offer, economically, socially, politically and culturally. We have to dig deeper, and that is what I intend to do. But the only way we can assure ourselves in keeping Congo within Belgium and continue to use their great resources is through making the lives of Congolese better. Violence is not the answer for a long term solution, and what we have to do is expand their industries, create new ones, create an elite of Congo that can lead with us, counter to oppose us. We can make Congo into an industrial booming heart of Africa with the resources, manpower and land it has. Let's do so. Keep the companies happy, and let me do my job.

Your Majesty,

Queen Dowager Elisabeth of Belgians and Congo |

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| On 28th of December, the National Congress of Congo has been established from the power of Queen Dowager. The National Congress of Congo will be composed of 20 members from each province of Congo; Ten of those members will be elected by people who have education higher than primary, that includes men over the age of 24 and women over the age of 30. The other ten members will be elected into the Congress by the Advisory Council to Queen Dowager. Political factions which are allowed to be formed have been listed; Democrats, Conservatives, Liberals, Centrists, Christian-Centrists. Radical factions such as Communists, Fascists, Anarchists or anti-Belgian movements have been dubbed as banned.

Furthermore, the National Congress of Congo will appoint it's representative to the Queen Dowager. The position has been named as The First Representative of Congo. The position will entail overseeing the National Congress, formation and leadership of the Tribes Council of Congo, advisory role to the Queen Dowager, appointment of the Vice-Representatives of the Provinces and appointment of the Ministry Council which will be composed of Ministry of Health, Agriculture, Primary Education, Infrastructure and Village Development. The Provinces will now gain the Provincial Representative to the Queen Dowager who will be appointed by the Advisory Council to the Queen, and the Vice-Representative appointed by The First Representative of Congo. The Provincial government will oversee and put into execution any programs initiated by the Queen Dowager and the First Representative of Congo.

This major change in the structural politics of Congo have sent shockwaves through those in Belgium, but once again the Prime Minister was able to defend the Queen Dowager and her actions. What's more, is that giving Congolese such level of autonomy and power has been perceived as highly demoralising and many media outlets in Belgium have not reported on the actions within Congo. Some suggest, that giving Congolese such level of power will result in the creation of a new Congolese elite, but that is exactly what the Queen Dowager is aiming for. The elections to the National Congress of Congo are said to take place in January of 1938, in order to start the reformation of Congo immediately.

Queen Dowager has stated to us that as the politics of Congo have now been organised, it is time to enact mass scale education, industrial, healthcare and infrastructure programs that will entail Congo changing it's ways completely. The Queen Dowager said, and I quote, "...now is the time to bring Congo up to speed of the 20th century...my intention is to transform the country and it's society to a new level by the year 1940...the reforms are ready, all I am waiting for now is the green light from the upcoming National Congress of Congo, as I want to show Congolese that nothing will happen in their country without them knowing and understanding it..." |

[spoiler="I am certain in my tactics and decisions...the fact that my work is not being shown in Belgium through the ultra conservatives, is not my issues." - Queen Dowager Elisabeth]

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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]

December Edition — 1937[/pre]

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[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]

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[pre]THE EMPIRE, UNITED: CAPE TO CAIRO RAIL PROJECT TO BEGIN AT LAST;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| CAPE TOWN — When Cecil Rhodes died in 1902, before the conclusion of the Second Boer War, it appeared as if the dream of a ‘Cape-to-Cairo’ rail died with him. Hostilities in Southern Africa between the British-Native alliance and Afrikaaners seemed to dim the prospects of a peace capable of encouraging the needed material and political investment across the continent, to see the project realized. Yet, with the formation of the Dominion of South Africa in 1909, the dream of an interconnected British presence in Africa endured with bursts of interest occurring from that year thru 1936. With the outbreak of the Great War, and Great Depression thereafter, the viability of the project conflicted with the geopolitical reality of the Empire. In December of ‘37, however, and the intensity with which the government was reinvesting into the economy, the Office of the Prime Minister announced an agreement with the other heads of government in British Africa. From South Africa, to Rhodesia, Tanganyika Territory, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt — an accord, and commitment to direct the industry of each realm in the Empire towards this common goal, a High Speed and Industrial Railroad to draw us all together.[/sub]

[sub]Existing in all but name, much of the route of the future Cape-Cairo Rail has already been completed, or will soon be completed. In the north, Egypt and Sudan historically invested into a rail network connecting both from Port Said to Khartoum, with the Sudanese Protectorate initiating a construction program connecting their capital to the Ugandan capital of Kampala via Malakal and Juba. Such a line has been the hallmark of efforts there to expand the industrial capacity of all three states and advance them towards self-government. In the South, a similar situation exists, with advanced rail systems existing in South Africa proper, with connections to the Rhodesian rail system — in all, with systems in the north and south totaling several thousand miles of standard gauge rail. Thus, what remains for this the first transcontinental Megaproject in Africa’s history, is the construction of a connection through the Tanganyika Territory, and laying of more direct routes in the existing systems.[/sub]

[sub]With the consent of Westminster, South African engineers were granted the ability to work with colonial officials in Tanganyika to help with efforts on the North-South connection as well as the laying of rail lines which will connect the Cape-Cairo system to ports in Dar Es Salaam and Mombasa, in Kenya. Together, estimates project the completion of the Cape-Cairo rail system over the next decade, which will spur economic activity and provide a tangible symbol of cooperation and shared economic prospects of each territory in British Africa.[/sub]

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The Cabinet *(^o^)*

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1694503

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QUEEN DOWAGER LEADS CONGO TOWARDS NEW INVESTMENTS AND DEALS

[sub]12th of January, 1938[/sub]

| On 12th of January 1938, it was announced by the Queen Dowager that new partnership deals have been signed with South Africa and Estado Novo. The deals, according to Her Majesty, are based upon peaceful prosperity into the future of the states and the continent of Africa. It is the first time that the Queen Dowager has made such deals, but nonethless within her power. The deals are aimed at attracting new and fresh investments into Congo, whilst securing its place in the current state of affairs within Africa.

The partnerships with South Africa and Estado Novo are based on very similar principles of peacefulness, prosperity and cooperation within the range and capacity of Africa, Congo and the states involved. The deals are said to be only the begining, but are still highly important. Estado Novo is an active presence within Africa, with Angola and Mozambique becoming very important hubs around Congo. Whilst South Africa is a growing strategic power within the area, and is therefore an important partner to have.

[list]BELGIAN CONGO - SOUTH AFRICA COOPERATION PACT

- Establishment of the Congo-South Africa Economic Friendship which shall incorporate but not be limited to; Reduction of Tariffs / Opening of Congo Markets to South Africa / Opening of South African Markets to Congo / Easier Investments Bridges Between Congo and South Africa ).

- Establishment of the Peaceful Unity Pact between Congo and South Africa to ensure peace and prosperity.

- Establishment and Creation of Infrastructure Between Congo and South Africa to Expand Trade and Make Travel Easier.

- Establishment of a Major Trade Route Between Congo and South Africa to encompass the goods and resources trade.

- Creation of the Military Security Pact between Congo and South Africa to establish and embrace peace, unity and prosperity.[/list]

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[list]BELGIAN CONGO - ESTADO NOVO COOPERATION PACT

- Establishment of the Congo-Estado Novo Economic Pact which will include but not be limited to; Reduction of Tariffs / Opening of Congo and Estado Novo Markets to Each Other / Larger Economic Direct Cooperation Between Congo and Angola/Mozambique )

- Establishment of a Peaceful Unity Pact Between Congo and Estado Novo.

- Establishment of Direct Relations Between Angola and Mozambique with Congo.

- Creation of Infrastructure Between Congo and Angola to expand trade and give ability of easier travel.

- Creation of a Major Trade Route Between Angola and Congo.

- Establishment of a Military Pact between Estado Novo and Congo within Africa to embrace and promote peace, unity and prosperity.[/list]

[spoiler="I am in strong belief that Congo will flourish with its new partners and we cannot wait to continue our policy of openness towards new partners." - Queen Dowager Elisabeth of Congo]

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[list]January 20, 1938

[sub]THE END OF THE ECONOMIC WAR BETWEEN IRELAND AND GREAT BRITAIN AND THE RETURN OF THE TREATY PORTS.[/sub][/list]

The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1938 - The beginning of the relationship between Kingdom of Ireland and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!

[sub]Fourteen years ago, the Free State government, following through with the referendum, declared the end of the Irish Free State and the Personal Union with the British Monarch, the establishment of the Kingdom of Ireland as a sovereign nation, and the restoration of the Independent Irish Monarchy. With the restoration of the native Irish monarchy, the new Irish Government decided to offer the Crown of Ireland to Lucius O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin. He is the head of both the O'Brien Clan and Dalcassians tribe. The O'Brien are descendants of Brian Boru, the most famous and most beloved High King in Irish history. The offer comes with the condition that he resigns from his seat in the British House of Lords, and he and his family convert back to Catholicism, to which Lucius agrees to the condition and the offer. Lucius O'Brien was crowned as "High King Lucius of the Kingdom of Ireland. However, the announcement creation of the Irish monarchy and declaring the Kingdom of Ireland as a sovereign nation drew criticism from the UK due to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which declared that the Irish Free State is to be a self-governing dominion within the British Empire and establish King George V and his successors as Head of State of the Irish Free State who the Governor-General represents.[/sub]

[sub]The British government declared the Kingdom of Ireland an illegitimate state and monarchy, and the British Empire began to implement severe economic pressure on the Kingdom of Ireland to force them to return to follow the 1921 treaty. While this did impact the economy, this did not crush the will of the Irish people. The Irish government countered the economic blockade by passing legislation to create new jobs, reduce prices on foods and necessities, and prevent any more eviction of residents who couldn’t pay the bills. High King Lucius and the Royal family opened up a Soup Kitchen outside the Royal Palace and gave away foods that they didn’t need or any leftover food from their meals to anyone for free. This action helped many Irish to feed their families and themselves and made the High King, the Royal family, and the monarchy popular. This made them unique as they were the only monarch and the Royal family in the world to willingly open up a Soup Kitchen and give away their food. In 1933 the Irish government, led by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, decided to put their own economic pressure on Great Britain. They started by withholding land annuities owed to the UK for loans provided under the Irish Land Acts and agreed as part of the 1921 Treaty, and then they raised the tariff of British Imports to 20%.[/sub]

[sub]Things began to change when in 1937, Neville Chamberlain became UK's new Prime Minister, and he was willing to open negotiation with the Irish government to settle the economic and political conflict between the two nations. The negotiation was tough, especially the Irish delegate being a very tough negotiator, but in the end, both sides came to an agreement resulting in the creation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1938. This treaty will finally end the decade of conflict between Ireland and Great Britain, with the following being its major provisions:[/sub]

[sub][list]- Both Ireland and the United Kingdom will stop the economic pressure on each other and abolished the 20% tariffs that both the United Kingdom and Ireland placed on their respective imported goods.[/sub][/list]

[sub][list]- Ireland will also to pay a final one time £10 million sum to the United Kingdom for the "land annuities" derived from financial loans originally granted to Irish tenant farmers by the British government to enable them purchase lands under the Land Acts pre-1922, a provision which was part of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty (to compensate Anglo-Irish land-owners for compulsory purchase of their lands in Ireland mainly through the Land Acts introduced by governments of the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1909).[/sub][/list]

[sub][list]- The United Kingdom will officially recognized the Kingdom of Ireland as a legitimate independent sovereign state.[/sub][/list]

[sub][list]- The United Kingdom shall transferred to the government of Ireland the Treaty Ports (Queenstown (Cobh), Berehaven and Lough Swilly). The use of these ports had been retained by the United Kingdom under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that ended the Anglo-Irish War.[/sub][/list]

[sub]In Ireland, the Treaty was quickly passed through both houses of the Oireachtas and was signed and given royal assent by High King Brian II into effect, while the Treaty was passed by the British parliament as the Eire Act 1938 and was signed into effect. This will start a new beginning in Ireland as the country will rebuild itself again and slowly remove the laws passed during the conflict. In Ireland, the pro-Treaty and loyalist factions condemned the Treaty, while in the UK, some MPs, including Wilson Churchill, condemned Prime Minister Chamberlain for his many lenient he given to Ireland in the Treaty especially recognizing the Kingdom of Ireland as a sovereign state and returning the important treaty ports back to Ireland.[/sub]

[sub]This will be the starting point of a new beginning for the Emerald Isle.[/sub]

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| NATIONAL CONGRESS OF CONGO OFFICIALLY ESTABLISHED |

[sub]18th of January, 1938[/sub]

| The elections to the first National Congress of Congo have taken place over the course of three days between the 12th and 15th of January, with an additional two days of counting the votes. On the 18th of January it was announced by the Queen Dowager herself about the results. Each Province has 20 members to elect, 10 of which are voted for and 10 of which are chosen by the Advisory Council to the Queen Dowager. Four political factions did appear during the elections, all of which support the Queen Dowagers' actions and reforms but with slight differences in the way to achieve them and with different emphasis.

Belgian Congo Democratic Party of People led by the 47 year old Pascal Banza, a Congolese Doctor.

[list] - Expansion of Healthcare and Education

- Creation of an Industrial Heart of Congo

- In Support of Openness to the World

- Centre-Left Ideologically[/list]

Conservative Movement of Belgian Congo led by the 60 year old Isaac Mertens, a Belgian Aristocrat.

[list] - Expansion of Industries and Infrastructure

- Creation of a Major Congo Port

- Reservation Towards Opening To the World

- Centre-Right Ideologically[/list]

Liberal Belgian Congo Party led by the 46 year old Maxime Leroy, a Belgian Ex-Industrialist in Congo.

[list] - Expansion of Civil Liberties and Standard of Life

- Creation of a New Social Order of Congo

- For Openness Toward the World / Especially African Active Nations

- Left Ideologically[/list]

Christian-Centrist Party of Belgian Congo led by the 64 year old Martin Nuzuzi, a Congolese Pastor of Léopoldville.

[list] - Expansion of Christian Values and Reforms

- Creation of a more Equal and Fair Society

- Reservation Towards Openness To the World

- Ideologically Right[/list]

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The Election Results has been broken down by the popular vote section and the Advisory Council Choice section.

[list]POPULAR VOTE FOR THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF CONGO

BELGIAN CONGO DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PEOPLE gained 25 Seats from the Popular Vote, gaining 41.6% in the polls.

CHRISTIAN-CENTRIST PARTY OF BELGIAN CONGO gained 15 Seats from the Popular Vote, gaining 25.0% in the polls.

LIBERAL BELGIAN CONGO PARTY gained 12 Seats from the Popular Vote, gaining 20.0% in the polls.

CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT OF BELGIAN CONGO gained 8 Seats from the Popular Vote, gaining 13.3% in the polls.[/list]

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[list]ADVISORY COUNCIL CHOICE

BELGIAN CONGO DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PEOPLE gained 4 Seats from the Advisory Council.

CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT OF BELGIAN CONGO gained 12 Seats from the Advisory Council.

LIBERAL BELGIAN CONGO PARTY gained 26 Seats from the Advisory Council.

CHRISTIAN-CENTRIST PARTY OF BELGIAN CONGO gained 18 Seats from the Advisory Council.[/list]

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COMPLETE RESULTS AND SEATS WITHIN THE NATIONAL CONGRESS OF CONGO

LIBERAL BELGIAN CONGO PARTY with 38 Seats.

CHRISTIAN-CENTRIST PARTY OF BELGIAN CONGO with 33 Seats.

BELGIAN CONGO DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PEOPLE with 29 Seats.

CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT OF BELGIAN CONGO with 20 Seats.

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| The National Congress of Congo makes history, as so many black natives make it to a formation of power. Two out of the four leaders in the National Congress are native Congolese. Furthermore, out of the 120 members, 34 are native Congolese. Major controversy has broken out in Belgium as to allowing such numbers of native Congolese into a power base. The Queen Dowager, however, only added to the fire when she agreed to appoint Pascal Banza as the First Vice-Representative of Congo. The decision came after the National Congress appointed Maxime Leroy as the First Representative of Congo. Leroy, was quick to nominate his candidates for the other positions to the National Congress, amongst who was Pascal Banza. The Queen appointed Banza as the First Vice-Representative of Congo, and therefore allowing a native Congolese to not only have a say in the running of the country but also in giving him the ability to make major decisions alongside his Belgian counterparts. The Queen also agreed to appoint Joseph Kasongo as the Minister of Village Development. Maxime Leroy also created the first Tribes Council of Congo with the help of Banza and Nuzuzi, which will act as the official advisors to the First Representative and the Queen Dowager on matters involving Tribes.

The work being done by the Queen Dowager is historic, but Belgium finds itself in fire of scandal and controversy. More media outlets are closing down any notifications on the situation in Congo within Belgium, and the opposition to the current Prime Minister is raging. The Prime Minister asked the Queen Dowager to remove Pascal Banza from the position, but apparently only gained a swift response in form of a note, stating "I don't think so." Many conservative politicians in Belgium, are going through a different route, however. Many have contacted their British, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese counterparts claiming that allowing the Queen Dowager to continue her reforms, and allowing the native Africans to hold such high political positions within their nations is a dangerous precedence for their own colonies around the world.

The First Representative of Congo and the First Vice-Representative of Congo have announced that they shall be working with the Queen Dowager on her new pact of reforms. Both Maxime Leroy and Pascal Banza are said to take out into the countryside, to not be stationed within the Congress. Despite the work that the Queen Dowager is making, many claim that the Queen is in danger and that unless she gains ultimate support within one of opposition parties within Belgium, her position and reforms might be in danger. |

[spoiler="We triumph and we succeed. As the First Representative of Congo, I am honoured to lead these people to a new start alongside the Queen Dowager." - First Representative of Congo, Maxime Leroy]

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January 19, 1938

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Welcome to Channel 2 News.

--CRIME REPORT--

Gangs of supposedly of communist and fascist origin have sprouted up in the city. Just last night, 38th street was lit up by submachine guns, killing 7 and injuring 12. The government has the police force active in the city, wanting to crack down on the new gangs. On January 17, a underground party called "Communist Party of Slovenia" had one of it's buildings raided. Police found 3 boxes of supposedly smuggled DP-27s and Mosin M91s. Now we're going to new technology discovered. We'll come back after commercial break.

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[list]FEBRUARY 1938

[sub]STAATSKANZLEI — BERLIN, New Provenance[/sub][/list]

[list][list][sub]DAS WOHNZIMMER-PROTOKOLL: DIE DOKTRIN ZUM ANTRIEB EINER FEUERNATION[/sub]

[pre]THE WOHNZIMMER PROTOCOL: THE DOCTRINE TO DRIVE A NATION OF FIRE[/pre][/list][/list]

| Since the advent of Volkism in Germany in 1933, the German foreign and military policy has revolved primarily around maximal neutrality and a strengthening of the German armed forces first in secret then later (post-1935) publicly, in order to hasten the rate at which the Wehrmacht - Germany's armed forces - was expanding and rearming. The annexation of Austria in January 1936 marked the first major territorial expansion by the German Staat on the European continent, albeit it was a peaceful one. The German Army's High Command had never strongly advocated for further enlarging Germany or using military force to defend Germany's interests abroad in a widescale manner, and it was primarily Chancellor Heidler who pushed for Germany's interventions in Spain and Turkey. The concept of "WOHNZIMMER", or living room, was devised by Heidler first in his popular book "My Past, My Present, My Future" wherein he declared that Germany had an 'innate need' for larger territories to sustain its rapidly growing population. It never gained traction, at least until now. Addressing his Cabinet on 2 February 1938, Heidler stated: |

[list][list][pre][...] In Anbetracht des raschen Wachstums des deutschen Militärs bin ich der festen Überzeugung, dass es höchste Zeit ist, eine Politik zu betreiben, die es Deutschland ermöglicht, seine territoriale Größe so zu gestalten, dass sie der rasch wachsenden deutschen Bevölkerung und der deutschen Gesellschaft entspricht. Diese Politik habe ich im Jahr 1925 entwickelt. Diese Politik ist das Wohnzimmer-Protokoll. Durch den niederträchtigen Versailler Vertrag wurde Deutschland gezwungen, sich den alliierten Mächten zu unterwerfen. Deren Wegnahme von ethnisch und rechtlich deutschem Land erzwang 1929 den wirtschaftlichen Zusammenbruch, der für unser Volk viele Härten mit sich brachte. Durch die Rückeroberung dieser Gebiete können wir sicherstellen, dass Deutschland in der Lage ist, sich für die kommenden Jahrzehnte nachhaltig lebendig und blühend zu erhalten. Diese Ziele werden - ich wiederhole, werden - notfalls auch mit militärischer Gewalt erreicht werden.[/pre]

[pre][...] Considering the rapid growth of Germany's military, I strongly believe it is high time to implement a policy that would allow Germany to ensure that its territorial size is competent to match the rapidly growing German population and German society. That policy I devised in 1925. That policy is the Wohnzimmer Protocol. Through the dastardly Versailles Treaty Germany has been forced to submit to the Allied Powers. Their taking away of ethnically and rightfully German land forced the economic collapse in 1929 which created many hardships for our people. Through the recapturing of these territories, we can ensure that Germany is able to sustainably keep itself vibrant and thriving for decades to come. These objectives will - I repeat, will - be achieved through military force if necessary.[/pre][/list][/list]

| In effect, the Wohnzimmer Protocol if implemented would make it official German policy to in one way or another retake German territories lost to the Treaty of Versailles and other agreements that 'unfairly stripped Germany of ethnically and rightfully German territories'. It was widely believed the Protocol was targeted against the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Poland which was formerly a part of the German Empire, Schleswig-Holstein which was absorbed by Denmark, German towns taken by Belgium in the Versailles Treaty, and Alsace-Lorraine which was stripped from Germany's control also during the Versailles Treaty. The Cabinet voted unanimously for the Protocol's secret implementation into German military and foreign policy the next day. Of course, these goals and the protocol in all was kept under tight wraps to prevent suspicion. In public and in communications, government officials were required to refer to the Wohnzimmer Protocol as the Ruheprotokoll, or the Rest Protocol. |

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February,1938

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HEAD OF PARLIAMENT

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With the decision to accept the communist party into the parliament and a new head parliament election being held every year.The election was intended to start on January but it was shifted to February as the entire of January was spent on figuring out how many members of the communist party will join parliament and figuring out which member of parliament align themselves with which party.It was decided that 10 members including Fong Wei Yuan will be accepted into parliament to work alongside the Maziyan Republic Party.As for now the head of parliament election had to be held this time it wasn't kept behind closed doors like the first one but instead the PRESS was allowed into the building to then put the news into their papers.

Both Fong Wei Yuan ( the head of the communist party ) and Aisy Rayyan ( the new chosen representative for the Republic party ) stood at the middle of the room to give their honest opinions of their chances of winning.

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WEI YUAN:"If you want my complete honest opinion,I would have to say I'll loose this election but that's because nobody here outside of the M.Z.C.P knows who I am but I'll put faith in Aisy to be able to lead us but if he fails,the next head of parliament election....VOTE FOR WEI YUAN!"

[B]AISY:"*sigh* Listen to this Chinese immigrant from Malaya,this man clearly doesn't have faith.Why should we trust him with the keys to parliament when he doesn't even have faith in any possible chances to win.Its quite obvious his beliefs are weak at best and non-existent at worst,I will not understand your communist ideology but I believe your nothing but trouble for us people of Maziya."

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After their speech Aisy Rayyan words moved the parliament in his favour,even a couple members of the communist party raised their hands to vote for Aisy.Fong Wei Yuan had suffered a drastic lost,some members of the communist party feeling a bit skeptical on Wei Yuan own belief in the communist ideology.As this information was put into the newspapers,the communist party very own newspaper company "Dexing Zhi" portrayed Fong Wei Yuan lost as the members of parliament not knowing what a good person Wei Yuan was rather then telling the truth of the actual event.

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[list]January 1938

[sub]One Language, One Nation[/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]NATIONAL ASSEMBLY RATIFIES EO-134, ESTABLISHING FILIPINO AS THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE

PINAGTIBAYANG NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ANG EO-134, NAGTATATAG NG FILIPINO BILANG WIKANG PAMBANSA[/pre][/list][/list]

| [sub]In November 1936, the National Assembly of the Commonwealth of the Philippines - the transitional unicameral legislature of Quezon's Commonwealth - passed Commonwealth Act No. 184, which provided for the establishment of the Institute of National Language, or the Surian ng Wikang Pambansa (SWP). It was tasked with studying native languages and dialects through studies and surveys to choose one that would serve as the base for a national language. Throughout 1936 and most of 1937 the SWP conducted surveys, studies and missions across the country to locate a language that would be suitable to serve as the base for a Philippine national language, a key prerequisite for Philippine independence, currently slated for 1945. A year later, in November 1937, the National Assembly adopted a resolution recommending Tagalog as the national language, as it was widely spoken and was one of the most understood languages in the country. It was also the lingua franca of the Manila region, which serves as the national capital and political and economic center.[/sub] |

| [sub]On 24 December 1937, Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon signed Executive Order No. 134 that officialized Tagalog as the new national language of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, stating that among the factors that led to the decision to choose Tagalog included widespread understanding across the thousands of islands within the Philippine archipelago, its unison as one language rather than one being divided into multiple dialects, its widespread use in Philippine literature, and its use in Manila as the primary language. The Assembly's winter recess prevented the Commonwealth government from ratifying the Executive Order to make it formal legislatively, but on 14 January 1938, the Assembly ratified it by unanimous consent.[/sub] |

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New Provenance wrote:[list]FEBRUARY 1938

[sub]STAATSKANZLEI — BERLIN, New Provenance[/sub][/list]

[list][list][sub]DAS WOHNZIMMER-PROTOKOLL: DIE DOKTRIN ZUM ANTRIEB EINER FEUERNATION[/sub]

[pre]THE WOHNZIMMER PROTOCOL: THE DOCTRINE TO DRIVE A NATION OF FIRE[/pre][/list][/list]

| Since the advent of Volkism in Germany in 1933, the German foreign and military policy has revolved primarily around maximal neutrality and a strengthening of the German armed forces first in secret then later (post-1935) publicly, in order to hasten the rate at which the Wehrmacht - Germany's armed forces - was expanding and rearming. The annexation of Austria in January 1936 marked the first major territorial expansion by the German Staat on the European continent, albeit it was a peaceful one. The German Army's High Command had never strongly advocated for further enlarging Germany or using military force to defend Germany's interests abroad in a widescale manner, and it was primarily Chancellor Heidler who pushed for Germany's interventions in Spain and Turkey. The concept of "WOHNZIMMER", or living room, was devised by Heidler first in his popular book "My Past, My Present, My Future" wherein he declared that Germany had an 'innate need' for larger territories to sustain its rapidly growing population. It never gained traction, at least until now. Addressing his Cabinet on 2 February 1938, Heidler stated: |

[list][list][pre][...] In Anbetracht des raschen Wachstums des deutschen Militärs bin ich der festen Überzeugung, dass es höchste Zeit ist, eine Politik zu betreiben, die es Deutschland ermöglicht, seine territoriale Größe so zu gestalten, dass sie der rasch wachsenden deutschen Bevölkerung und der deutschen Gesellschaft entspricht. Diese Politik habe ich im Jahr 1925 entwickelt. Diese Politik ist das Wohnzimmer-Protokoll. Durch den niederträchtigen Versailler Vertrag wurde Deutschland gezwungen, sich den alliierten Mächten zu unterwerfen. Deren Wegnahme von ethnisch und rechtlich deutschem Land erzwang 1929 den wirtschaftlichen Zusammenbruch, der für unser Volk viele Härten mit sich brachte. Durch die Rückeroberung dieser Gebiete können wir sicherstellen, dass Deutschland in der Lage ist, sich für die kommenden Jahrzehnte nachhaltig lebendig und blühend zu erhalten. Diese Ziele werden - ich wiederhole, werden - notfalls auch mit militärischer Gewalt erreicht werden.[/pre]

[pre][...] Considering the rapid growth of Germany's military, I strongly believe it is high time to implement a policy that would allow Germany to ensure that its territorial size is competent to match the rapidly growing German population and German society. That policy I devised in 1925. That policy is the Wohnzimmer Protocol. Through the dastardly Versailles Treaty Germany has been forced to submit to the Allied Powers. Their taking away of ethnically and rightfully German land forced the economic collapse in 1929 which created many hardships for our people. Through the recapturing of these territories, we can ensure that Germany is able to sustainably keep itself vibrant and thriving for decades to come. These objectives will - I repeat, will - be achieved through military force if necessary.[/pre][/list][/list]

| In effect, the Wohnzimmer Protocol if implemented would make it official German policy to in one way or another retake German territories lost to the Treaty of Versailles and other agreements that 'unfairly stripped Germany of ethnically and rightfully German territories'. It was widely believed the Protocol was targeted against the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, Eastern Poland which was formerly a part of the German Empire, Schleswig-Holstein which was absorbed by Denmark, German towns taken by Belgium in the Versailles Treaty, and Alsace-Lorraine which was stripped from Germany's control also during the Versailles Treaty. The Cabinet voted unanimously for the Protocol's secret implementation into German military and foreign policy the next day. Of course, these goals and the protocol in all was kept under tight wraps to prevent suspicion. In public and in communications, government officials were required to refer to the Wohnzimmer Protocol as the Ruheprotokoll, or the Rest Protocol. |

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[B]CHINESE TOWNS

Recently in British Malaya,the discrimination of the Malayan people against the Chinese population has reached a new high.Its gotten to such an extreme that some small groups of Chinese have left their individual villages,some even cities to build their own towns,in which the Chinese population could lead using information of their traditions passed down from their ancestors.Some of these small towns have eventually merged into bigger towns and the biggest of these Chinese towns is now holding the base of operations for the ethnically major Chinese,Malayan Communist Party otherwise known as the Communist Party Of Malaya.However with the Malayan Communist party leaving to make a new base of operations in a Chinese town,the Malayan parliament took advantage of this and had the communist party outlawed from taking part in parliamentary elections or even just voting.

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| TEN POINT ECONOMIC REFORM OF CONGO PASSED |

[sub]February 1938[/sub]

| The Queen Dowager, from the creation of the Advisory Council and passed by the National Congress, has put the Ten Point Economic Reform of Congo. The reform is aimed at the creation of a working class basis, a consumer society, a friendly open investment market and the establishment of a Congolese and Belgian industrials. The Ten Point Economic Reform was carefully crafted by the Advisory Council, with major influences coming from Albert Jacobs, the Economic Advisor. From the statements given from the First Representative of Congo, Maxime Leroy, the intention is to "...transform the Belgian Congo into an industrial beating heart of Africa in the next four years...".

The Ten Point Plan entails the following.

[list]TEN POINT ECONOMIC PLAN FOR CONGO

1 - Mass Scale Education Act ; Pushing Congolese between the ages of 17 and 65 into specialists schools to qualify them in Heavy Industries, Light Industries, Agriculture, Healthcare, Education and Business Ownership/Management.

2 - Infrastructure Expansion Act ; Expansion of Infrastructure between Towns, Villages, Cities, Mining Sites and Factory Sites.

3 - Modernisation of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology Across all of Congo.

4 - Creation of the Belgian Congolese Technology Institute ; To Create and Expand Technology within Energy, Mining and Agricultural Sectors.

5 - Open Door Policy for Foreign Investments and Foreign Companies officially established.

6 - Congolese Work Effort Act ; Abolishment of Free Labour and Child Labour / Yearly Based Increase in Wages / Creation of Work and Safety Regulations for Workers.

7 - Low Tax Tariff Act ; Lowering of Taxes on Companies from 4% to 20%, depending on the larger amount of workers employed and larger wages paid.

8 - Major Investments from the Government towards the Mining, Services, Agricultural, Heavy and Light Industries ; 70% of the tax collected within Congo, remains in Congo.

9 - Land Ownership Act ; 5% of the agricultural land owned within Congo will be handed over to Congolese families who will be trained in the upkeep of the land. By 1942, the number will increase to 20%. By 1948 to 40% and by 1952 to 50%.

10 - Energy Infrastructure Act ; Energy Infrastructure will be expanded and developed within all of the Congo ; Investments into new Energy Sources.[/list]

The Plan is revolutionary and the outburst in Belgium is unprecedented. The situation within Belgium has gone dire over the reform, and Prime Minister Paul-Emile Janson has taken off to Congo to meet with the Queen Dowager. The conservatives within Belgium, and the army, have called out their concerns towards the actions of the Queen Dowager and towards the ten plan economic plan. Many in Belgium are starting to question the intentions of Queen Dowager and unofficially one of the Generals has stated that "...the Queen Dowager is creating her own little land in Africa...we must remove her immediately, take direct control of Congo again and end this buffoonery at once..."

The decision for the Prime Minister to come to Congo is a red sign to the Queen Dowager. However, Her Majesty seems to have no intention of backing down. From documents released, it is believed that the Social Reform and the Educational Reform are bound to give Congolese more civil liberties, create a more Congo orientated education system and begin the establishment of a new order within Congo, order based on the wishes of the Queen Dowager. Prime Minister Janson stated at the Brussels airport that "...I am in strong belief that the Queen Dowager is doing what she seeks as necessary, but she has to understand the position it places Brussels in..." The Prime Minister is said to arrive in Congo by mid February, but the reforms have already went into action. The outcome of the talks will not only determine the position of the Queen Dowager but also whether the Prime Minister will upkeep his withering position. |

[spoiler="I am aware that the reforms that I am passing through seem radical and tough, but I believe that if Congo is to become prosperous, they're neccessary. A prosperous Congo, is a prosperous Belgium." - Queen Dowager Elisabeth]

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New Provenance wrote:[list]October 1936

[sub]Meeting the Germans, Pt 2[/sub][/list]

CONDOR LEGION BASE CAMP, MALAGA, The Confederate Prussian Empire — AFTERNOON

[list]MEETING BETWEEN FRANCISCO FRANCO AND WILLEM VON RITTER, MALAGA, SPAIN - 19 OCT 1936[/list]

| Only a few kerosene lamps lit up the room as a lowly officer organized the German and Spanish flags draped on the wall. Major-General Willem von Ritter, the commanding officer of the Condor Legion, a German volunteer division dispatched to support the nationalist regime of Francisco Franco, sat in his seat, smoking a pipe and awaiting the arrival of his counterparts. Two German officers snapped to attention as the noise of conversation emanated from the lower floor of the building, on the outskirts of Malaga, Spain. The Major-General studied maps of Spanish troop movements from both the Nationalist and Socialist sides, the latter information being taken from preliminary aerial patrols conducted by German fighters, deployed alongside the Condor Legion. The battles would be fierce and many good men would die, the Major-General thought. Ritter stopped smoking his pipe and glanced at one of the officers, who nodded. He was here. Ritter stood up and adjusted his drab grey standard Wehrmacht military uniform and adjusted his cap. The two officers next to him stood up as well as footsteps made their way up the stairs. |

[list]| [sub]WILLEM VON RITTER, Major-General[/sub] | "General Francisco Franco. It is an honor. These are my deputies, Herr Joseph Straus and Herr Jans Faulkner. It is a pleasure to be of assistance to your great regime, and it will be a great honor to work side by side with your military forces for the purpose of achieving victory over your Socialist enemies."[/list]

| Major Joseph Straus saluted General Franco with a snappy right arm and smiled broadly. On the other hand, Corporal Jans Faulkner, of the intelligence and communications unit, nodded darkly and conducted with his right arm a quick, but slightly sloppy salute. |

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| Franco salutes them back and his eyes notice the somewhat sloppy way that Faulkner did his salute, after dropping his salute he would walk closer to Von Ritter and offering his hand. Clearly wanting to speak with them but formalities had to be observed, Franco gave a nod of appreciation to Von Ritter. Franco knew that he needed the Germans help for sure, as even though his forces were currently winning the war he knew how things always change in combat. He was not a veteran of the Great War as many Germans likely would be, but he has seen combat and knew of its horrors. Many men would die before this civil war would end, he wanted to make sure that their sacrifice would not be in vain attempts or glory. |

[list][ Francisco Franco, Captain-General of the Spanish Army: ] "I appreciate you, your deputies and your men coming to the aid of my nation. I did not expect a response such as this, but it is welcome nevertheless. The honor is all mine, I have heard and read of the professionalism of German soldiers and hopefully my army will be able to follow such examples. They’re good men, general, but many of them are young and do not yet knows the ways of war. That aside, let us look to this day and plan out the events of the future."

Paramountica, Asharken, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance

[list]February 1938

[sub]Operation Stingray Phase 1[/sub][/list]

Chiang Rai Province, Lanna Region, Republic of Siam

[sub]On the third day February three Vickers Medium Dragon troop carriers would enter the premises of the world famous Oriental Hotel along the Chao Phraya river in the heart of Bangkok. Siamese Rangers would enter the building, showing a warrant for the arrest of multiple ethnic Chinese and Thai-Chinese staying on the second floor of the luxurious hotel. Blocking the routes in and out of the compound they’d split into two search teams, one tasked with raiding the room in question and one tasked with going door to door to pick off stragglers who may not be in the same place. The men apprehended by the ranger corps were prominent members of the Sun Yee On triad operating from within the Samphanthawong Chinatown. To the citizens of Bangkok this would be just another one of President Chula’s efforts to crack down on organised crime within the city but to those in the know it was the first stage of a coordinated effort to destroy the opium ring run by foreign triads in Siam.[/sub]

[sub]Hours before the raid a secure telegram would be sent to British Hong Kong, Portuguese Macau and other colonial powers operating within the Shanghai International Settlement or who posses concessions in China, including the Japanese occupiers informing them of the upcoming operations, imploring them to seek measures to mitigate reprisals as these territories are home to heavy triad activity connected to the opium trade in Southeast Asia. Another telegram would be specifically sent to General Long Yun, Governor of Yuanan, urging him to withdraw any Kuomintang troops operating within Siam’s Northern Region, hoping to avoid souring Siam’s relationship with Nationalist China and the Yunnan Clique a timeframe would be given at the end of which all unsanctioned opium cultivators in Northern Siam would be killed or captured without prejudice.[/sub]

[sub]The Samphanthawong Chinatown would be put under heavy surveillance as part of the operation. To avoid angering an extremely loyal voter base the chinatown would be surveyed and policed by unmarked Thai-Chinese officers , however the guise of normality would be questioned after a record number of lower scale raids on triad hideouts throughout the district. Suspicion would grow even higher, especially amongst the remaining triad groups as three of the newly acquired Parnaíba class monitor ships, oddly retrofitted with crude flamethrowers to replace their 4.7 inch guns, would be seen from the shore of Samphanthawong leaving Bangkok through the Chao Phraya, turning east towards French Cambodia. It would become hearsay amongst the Chinese underworld in Southeast Asia that the Siamese Navy would soon follow the river Mekong to the tripoint border with British Burma and French laos, one of if not the largest opium producing areas in the world, to destroy the fields and the drug trade with it.[/sub]

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February,1938

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[B]"The Maziyan military does not have a good track record,changes had to be made." Preached Fong Wei Yuan the representative of the communist party.Members of parliament were heeding his word and some even brought the concept of another military reform to the prime minister.Prime minister Juaidi decided to accept this military reform however he added in his note of acceptance.

"This will be the last military reformation until 1949." With those words the military reformation this time had to be good enough to keep up with the times all the way until 1949.So these changes were made,military training would be updated,the "Dinding Penembakan" strategy would be created the way it would work is that there will be 8 men carrying firearms being surrounded by 8 other men carrying the Besi Bangkit shield,the strategy would be used as a fall back strategy during combat,the next thing they did was the westernisation of their military uniforms and the final addition was seperate the Pasukan Maziya Diraja and the Kemuliaan Anjing from the normal armed forces into a special forces division.However there are future plans to get rid of the Kemuliaan Anjing come 1940.These plans would be put into action on March 1938.

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Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Asharken, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance

Following concerns over lack of tourism in Veilios, the government has granted permission to landowners within our mountains to pour artificial snow over their lands to boost tourism. This follows the Veiliosian policy of granting near supreme rights to landowners within their own property, and we hope that soon our tourism industry will see a major boom due to this lack of restrictions placed on artificial snow in our mountains.

Long live Veilios!

[pre]| MARCH - 1938 |[/pre]

[list][list][list][pre]LR ★ REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA

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

LITTLE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FULL MOTION:

PROTESTS, GENERAL STRIKES, AND STREET VIOLENCE IN CAPITAL AND MAJOR CITIES MARK THE END OF THIRTY-SEVEN AND THE BEGINNING OF THE NEW YEAR!!

[pre]Tensions hit a high after the March on Monrovia by Tubman and General Strikes led by the disenfranchised peoples’ of Liberia leading to some clashes with Americo-Liberian and Foreign elites in plantations and the few industrial zones in Liberia. Police violently attacked protestors and strikers while President Barclay attempted to call the Liberian Frontier Force off the border and into the cities to crack down on dissidents in the capital. 2,000 Frontier Force Soldiers would begin the March to Monrovia to dislodge the opposition protesting and rioting in the capital. While the Peoples’ Protection Units engaged in skirmishes against Pro-Barclay Militias and Police forces leading to the death of 45 Dissidents and 10 Pro-Government forces since the March began, but miraculously Chief of the Frontier Force ordered the force to stop the March on protestors while many of them deserting to actually join Peoples’ Protection Units bringing along their training and equipment leading to the deadliest day in the Revolution so far for Barclay forces in the Battle of Chocolate City where 100 pro-Barclay soldiers attempted to engaged in a ambush of a force of 200 soldiers of the Frontier Force trying to reach the protests in Central Monrovia. 57 of the Pro-Barclay soldiers would die to the hands of the better equipped and trained FF who would only lose 5 due to better training in combat. News would reach the protest showing the weakness in Pro-Barclay forces as former FF would begin to filter into Monrovia leading to heavy clashes in the east and north of the capital throughout the night of December 10th.[/pre]

| The Nights of Perpetual Thunder |

[pre]As FF and Peoples’ Protection Units clashed with Pro-Barclay forces in Monrovia lead to a reported 4 Nights of intense street fighting as FF and PPU forces pushed towards official government buildings and both forces used cover of the night to sneak up on positions before starting firefights. Central Monrovia was said to be littered with bullet holes and casings in the morning, but throughout the day it would be protests and more civil actions against Barclay. William Tubman was immortalized as a protector during those nights as he organized protected shelters for women and children to protect them from the firefights at their homes as plans were made to March on the Capitol Building of Liberia to dissolve the Barclay government and change Liberia forever.[/pre]

| Storming of the Capitol |

[pre]The morning of December 15th would be haunted by a low marine layer and fire smoke as the end of the bloodiest night came to a end, civilians would shamble through the streets checking their residences to find them surrounded by bodies of fighters from the battle of last night as FF soldiers have effectively pushed Pro-Barclay fighters out of the neighborhoods and keeping them held up in government buildings where the Liberian government was held hostage by the Revolutionary movement. Tubman would gather 10,000 people out of the shelters and would begin the storming of the Capitol building to bring a new era to Liberia. The chaos of the night before left the Pro-Barclay severely isolated with most forces push out of the capital or surrendering their arms to Revolutionary forces under the promise of amnesty with many Pro-Barclay seeing the writing on the wall as The Revolutionary movement lead by Tubman began the March to the Capitol building 100 Pro-Barclay soldiers would leave the capital with hands in the air and holding white clothes. They would be secured by Revolutionary forces and allowed to join the March once checked for weapons. The Revolutionary movement would begin bust down the gates of the Capitol building and once open Pro-Barclay forces would open fire on those who ran into the compound until Revolutionary Forces would fire upon the windows of the building allowing protesters to begin to rush into the buildings alongside armed Revolutionary forces for protection. The Battle for the building would last only 35 minutes as revolutionary forces either captured or shot down armed Pro-Barclay supporters in the many rooms and hallways of the building. President Barclay was reported to have been shot when attempting to grab a weapon from his desk when Revolutionary Forces pushed into his office in the building.[/pre]

| Tubman declares Transitory Government of Liberia in Capitol Building |

[pre]The Capitol building was a scene of commotion and celebration as native Liberians for the first time would be allowed in halls of the immaculate building. Men, women, and children dressed in only rags would wander the halls of the former Americo-Liberian elite. Tubman would gather leaders of the Revolution into the meeting room of the House of Representatives. The room would soon be packed by a large portion of the 10,000 people who made up the March for Democracy cheering would be heard across the city as Tubman would take the stand with 10 other Revolution leaders. Speeches would be made before announcing the “Transitory Council of Liberia to Democracy and Freedom” will lead the new government until a true democratic constitution for all Liberians can be established giving the deadline for a new constitution to be made by Christmas 1938 and the creation of a new government for the Liberian peoples. The Council called for the people to return to peace and democracy and not let chaos reign as true freedom was closed for all and disparaged attacks on Americo-Liberian citizens to prevent a mass exodus of the population. Tubman was reported to be visibly upset from the violence of the Revolution worried of foreign action against the new government of Liberia. Tubman was put into the role of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to begin talks with American, British, and French governments to quell possible foreign action against the new government. Change has come, but will it stay and prosper is yet to be known.[/pre]

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[list]MARCH 1938

[sub]STAATSKANZLEI — BERLIN, New Provenance[/sub][/list]

[list][list][sub]AUF DIE LEDER VERTRAUEN WIR: REICHSTAG BILLIGT NOTSTANDSGESETZ, DAS DEM KANZLERAMT ABSOLUTE MILITÄRISCHE BEFUGNISSE EINRÄUMT[/sub]

[pre]IN THE LEDER WE TRUST: REICHSTAG APPROVES EMERGENCY LAW VESTING ABSOLUTE MILITARY AUTHORITY IN THE OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR[/pre][/list][/list]

| On 22 February 1938, Volkist MPs introduced to the Reichstag emergency legislation granting the Office of the Chancellor (Deutscher Staatskanzler) absolute military authority over the Armed Forces of the German Staat, or the Wehrmacht. In the 1936 federal election the Reichstag's powers were nullified and its use in democracy destroyed when the Chancellor was granted full legislative powers and the Reichstag was filled completely with MPs representing the Deutsches Volkspartei (DVP). The proposal of the bill into the Reichstag on 22 February was merely a facade to attempt to portray a false democracy. The Reichstag moved to debate the bill and on 2 March 1938 it was passed by the entire Reichstag unanimously. The false show of democracy and popular support for the bill was criticized by the Verbante Opposition (VO), the Centre-SPD opposition group in New York, in the following statement: |

[list][list][pre]Dieser Versuch der unrechtmäßig und falsch gewählten Regierung in Deutschland, sich als demokratisches, liberales Land aufzuspielen, ist erbärmlich und offen gesagt Zeitverschwendung. Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass in Deutschland alle Freiheit mit den Bundestagswahlen 1933 und der Beseitigung der Oppositionsparteien gestorben ist. Es besteht kein Zweifel daran, dass die Regierung Heidler nichts anderes im Sinn hat, als den deutschen Einfluss auf den gesamten Kontinent auszudehnen und zu versuchen, das längst verstorbene und für immer tote Deutsche Reich wiederzubeleben. Es gibt keine Demokratie in Deutschland, nur Dunkelheit und eine Regierung ohne jede Form von Licht.[/pre]

[pre]This attempt by the unlawfully and falsely elected government in Germany to show themselves off as a democratic, liberal country is pathetic and frankly a waste of time. It is common knowledge that in Germany all freedom died with the 1933 federal elections and the removal of opposition parties. There is no doubt that the Heidler government has no other intention but to expand German influence across the Continent and attempt to revive the long-deceased and forever-dead German Empire. There is no democracy in Germany, only darkness and a government devoid of any form of light.[/pre][/list][/list]

| The criticism of the Verbante Opposition fell on deaf ears at home, where support for the DVP was - while in some parts still skeptical - strong and firm. Chancellor Heidler signed the bill before a large crowd outside the Staatskanzlei (State Chancellery) on 8 March 1938, granting him complete authority over the Wehrmacht, making Germany by effect a one-man government dictatorship. "A new era stands above us all, one higher than all of us, one with a purpose to deliver to the Staat a greater good," the Chancellor declared during his speech after the signing event. The bill included provisions changing the pledge all members of the Wehrmacht must undergo, from pledging to the government of the German Staat to pledging to Adolph Heidler himself, by name. The DVP shot down a proposal by dissident MPs to have the pledge be to the Office of the Chancellor rather than to Heidler himself. The MPs were subsequently relieved of their positions. |

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| QUEEN DOWAGER RESIDANCE |

[sub]Léopoldville, Belgian Congo

27th of February, 1938[/sub]

| Sitting on the large balcony of the Queen Dowager mansion, Prime Minister Paul Emile-Janson would be awaiting for the Queen Dowager to arrive. The servants would be pouring some cold whiskey for him, as they placed large plates of fruits and vegetables around. But after a moment, they would bring through plates on which diamonds, coal, rubber, iron, cobalt, gold and such would be placed on. Looking at the places in confusion, Janson would look up at the servants bringing them through. Suddenly, the Queen Dowager appeared, and as she made her way, Janson stood up and bowed slightly before kissing her hand. Gesturing him to take a seat, she would glance upon the plates. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "These are just the tip of what we have here, Prime Minister. If I can get enough investors in worldwide, and develop the technology of Congo with Belgian help, then the world will need Congo's resources by the 1950s. Making Congo the richest country in Africa, and therefore making Belgium one of the richest in the world."[/list]

| Looking at the Queen, Janson would look back at the plates for a moment. |

[list][ PRIME MINISTER, Janson ]: "It's a great thought, but so far backed by nothing, Your Majesty. The Parliament wants you out. The Military wants you out. Soon enough, the King might want you out. Your reforms are radical, too radical. Giving them political rights? Giving them land? Giving them the ability to vote, to educate, to be Belgian like. Congo is not a Belgian province, Your Majesty. It's a colony."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "A colony that surpass any Belgian province in size, in potential, in money, in population. If we want the best out of those people, we need to give them human like standards of living! For Goodness sake! How can we truly look to the world for investments? How can we go to America, to France, Britain, the Soviet Union and sell them our resources, our goods when we know very well that those making them, getting them are suffering, dying?! Facing challenges, no human deserves to get!"[/list]

[list][ PRIME MINISTER, Janson ]: "They're Congolese."[/list]

| Taken aback, the Queen would look in shock at him, as rage grew within her. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Mr Janson, my reforms are intended to expand Congo's economic, social and political capabilities for years to come. I understand that you're afraid for your own position, but I'm not. Should the King, decide to remove me from this position, I will go. But until then, I am here to stay, and I am here thinking about the years, the decades to come. The reforms will remain, I will continue to seek out international investments. And you, nor the Belgian Parliament will stop me from it."[/list]

[list][ PRIME MINISTER, Janson ]: "You're setting yourself up for failure."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Political calculation is not why I'm here, nor why I'm doing my reformation. Unlike you, Prime Minister, I intend to bring a real change."[/list]

| Looking at her with distaste, he would glance up as she stood up. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Now, that we have this over and done with. I invite you for a tour of our newest factories setting up. I gained the trust of Estado Novo and South Africa, soon I intend to turn to Rhodesia, the French and the Americans."[/list]

| Janson would get up hastily before bowing slightly. |

[list][ PRIME MINISTER, Janson ]: "I think we're done here. Your Majesty."[/list]

| Janson would storm off. The Queen would sigh slightly before smiling at the servants passing by. Thinking for a moment, she would walk off. |

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| QUEEN DOWAGER RESIDANCE |

[sub]Léopoldville, Belgian Congo

17th of March, 1938[/sub]

| The Foreign Minister of Affairs of Belgium and the leader of the Belgian Labour Party, Paul-Henri Spaak would be sitting on the large balcony. Once again, the plates filled with fruits, vegetables and natural resources of Congo would be set up around the table. Spaak quickly understood what the intention was, and smirking to himself slightly, he look out onto the skyline that was mesmerising in beauty and impact. After a short ten minutes, the Queen Dowager walked onto the balcony, sparking Spaak to get up and bow, before taking a seat again as she did too. With a slight smile, she would nod. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "It's a beautiful land, isn't?"[/list]

[list][ FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, Spaak ]: "Very much so, Your Majesty. And so are it's resources, I see."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Indeed. Rich and opulent is Congo in resources, in people and their potential. I just wish that the Belgian government and Parliament were able to see that."[/list]

[list][ FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, Spaak ]: "I understand, Your Majesty. I've been watching your work, in fact my whole party has and we are impressed. Your dedication to supporting those people, and to expanding Congo's economy is very astounding."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Thank You, Mr Spaak. But I know that the Prime Minister will not defend me anymore, should the Parliament raise the question of me being removed from Congo. Destroying Congo's, and therefore the Belgian future."[/list]

[list][ FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER, Spaak ]: "Well, for now I cannot account to being in the power of the Prime Minister."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Yet. But that soon can change, especially if you let me help you."[/list]

| Looking at her, Spaak would sit back slightly. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "I successfully made deals with South Africa, Estado Novo and Rhodesia. I am now reaching out to the Americans, British and French. But I am aware that there is a new player in Europe arising. Germany, is that correct? And the man that is leading Germany...well, guarantees are guarantees but shouldn't we aim for the Germans not see Belgium as anything more than a useful player? If the French, the Americans and the British finds themselves in Congo, buying our resources then we can keep the Germans happy too. I can reach out to their Chancellor."[/list]

[list][ FOREIGN MINISTER OF AFFAIRS, Spaak ]: "Your Majesty, Germany has already guaranteed us that they will not violate our neutrality stance."[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Through words. But if we provide them with resources as well, then the guarantee is backed in action. And I, I will not claim this as my own victory but as the victory of Mr Spaak. Isn't that what every aspiring Prime Minister wants? To keep the most potent danger at bay?"[/list]

| He would look at her for a moment, before laughing slightly. |

[list][ FOREIGN MINISTER OF AFFARIS, Spaak ]: "Who would of thought that the Queen Dowager is such a calculated diplomat. Mhmm. I suppose, however that you'd want me to defend your position in Belgium?"[/list]

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Exactly. Mr Spaak, we are entering a new dawn of politics, and I am safe in my belief that I will make Congo flourish by the 1940s. I just need your support, your help. Is that not how history will remember you? As the supporter of change? Grand change?"[/list]

| Smiling slightly at himself, Spaak would look at the Queen. She understood that unlike Janson, Spaak was a man that thought about the future, more than he did about the present. Spaak, after a moment, would turn towards the Queen and with a slight smile, he would nod swiftly. The Queen would look at him with a relief. It seemed that her position for now, was to be saved. |

[list][ QUEEN DOWAGER, Elisabeth ]: "Now, please follow me. I've prepared a tour, Mr Spaak. A tour of local factories and education centres. I think you ought to see the progress we're making, and just how much potential those people have."[/list]

| Getting up she would be followed by Spaak. The servants would begin to tidy up the plates. One of those servants would be Gloria Banza ( a name worth noting for the future ), a 19 year old aid to the Queen. She would stare at the diamond in front of her with a growing smile. |

[spoiler="...the Queen has surprised me...she's a cunning diplomat, highly calculated and very well versed in the current international politics...she's a force that I think many in Belgium have underestimated...her German practicality, combined with her natural charm, Belgian heart and high intelligence makes her a virtuoso of diplomacy..." - Paul Henri-Spaak in his note to the Belgian Ambassador in United States of America]

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[list]March 1938

[sub]Survey for Education[/sub][/list]

[list][pre]THE HALL SURVEY OF 1938[/pre][/list]

DON DOMINGO STREET, NORTHERN MARIKINA, RIZAL PROVINCE, Provenancia — MORNING

[sub]DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION SURVEY, NORTHERN MARIKINA REGION - MARCH 7, 1938[/sub]

| Two men, one American and one Filipino, walked through a crowded city street - DON DOMINGO STREET to be precise - in the center of Northern Marikina, in the Rizal Province. Both caught the eye of the children and adults playing around, passing by, or merely buying snacks from the sari-sari (convenience) store as they were dressed in high-quality suits. They wore bowler hats to protect their heads from the scorching morning heat, as it was only nine in the morning. They had been advised by their superior to wear hats as going out at this time in the Philippines unprotected would equate to 'being in the Sahara naked'. The American looked around, grasping his notebook and pen tightly, looking a bit uncomfortable, while the Filipino official led the way. On their chests, towards the left side, was emblazoned the symbol of the DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, the creation of the TAFT COMMISSION in 1901 to head the Philippine school system's development. |

[list]| [sub]ANTHONY GARLAND, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "So, uh . . . we're supposed to interview right? A few families and such?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Indeed, Mister Garland, interviews. Best families we can find, two of them. Preferably one that could read and write, no offense."[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANTHONY GARLAND, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Yes, yes, let's just get this over with, shall we? Hey — how about this lovely, uh, home here?"[/list]

| The two men stopped in front of a quaint little bungalow, with a little garden in the front and a young boy playing in the front yard next to the flowers. It was a rare but welcome sight in the city, where urban buildings of wood and even concrete were taking shape and pushing nature aside. Salazar gave Mr. Garland an approving nod before approaching the gate, which stood at half the height of the men and was painted a fresh white. |

[list]| [sub]ANTHONY GARLAND, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Hey, kid—"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "I think I'll do the talking, Mr. Garland, thank you. Young boy, what's your name? We're with the government here."[/list]

| To prove his point, Salazar pulled out an ID paper with his face and the logo of the Department of Public Instruction, enough to convince the young boy who had likely seen the DPI logo in his schooling before. |

[list]| [sub]RAYMOND CALINO, Student[/sub] | "I'm Raymond Calino. Are you men here to collect mama and papa's money?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Haha, well no, young man, we're here to interview your mother and you. Would you mind fetching your mama for us? We just have a few questions, that's all."[/list]

| The young boy stood up, patted his shorts and ran inside, as Mr. Salazar smiled at Mr. Garland. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Well-mannered boy, wouldn't you say? He must have a good instructor."[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANTHONY GARLAND, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "I would, actually. Rather surprised—"[/list]

| A young woman, in her LATE 30s to EARLY 40s, would emerge from the small bungalow with reading glasses on. She placed down a basket of laundry at the doorstep, adjusted her black and red dress and approached the men at the gate. Young Raymond followed his mother, hand holding hers, rather hesitantly. He wasn't used to talking to strangers, especially foreign-looking ones. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Mrs. Calino, I presume?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANNIE CALINO-BELMONTE, Mother[/sub] | "Yes, Calino-Belmonte. My son says you're here for a few questions?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Yes ma'am. Just some things regarding the school system. First question, how exactly do you view the centralized educational system? The one implemented by the Americans, standardized and all that."[/list]

| MR. GARLAND pulled out his pen and prepared to take notes. |

[list]| [sub]ANNIE CALINO-BELMONTE, Mother[/sub] | "Well, I think its better than what we had back in the day, under the Spaniards and all. I hadn't experienced it myself naturally, I was born into the American government. I'd say its done a fine job of teaching Raymond here. |[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Good to hear, ma'am. Do you think young Raymond's instructors are up to the task of educating the next generation of Filipino citizens?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANNIE CALINO-BELMONTE, Mother[/sub] | "I would say so, yes. His main instructor, Mrs. Hadfield I believe, she's one of those lovely Thomasite people from the United States, is a lovely woman, a great teacher. Raymond says he considers her a good teacher, don't you, Raymond?"[/list]

| Young Raymond nodded sheepishly, this time not hiding behind his mother's back like most children would do in a situation like this. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Wonderful. What about his local teachers? What does he think of them?"[/list]

| Mrs. Calino turned expectantly to her son. |

[list]| [sub]RAYMOND CALINO, Student[/sub] | "Well, I only have two teachers, uhm, one is Miss Hadfield, then the other is Miss Torres. Miss Torres is a good teacher, I can understand her lessons easily."[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "Wonderful. I believe, uh, that'll be all, right, Mr. Garland?"[/list]

| After a few moments of finishing up on his notebook, MR. GARLAND turned to Salazar before nodding curtly. MR. SALAZAR would smile as he turned to Mrs. Calino and her son. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRES SALAZAR, Dept. of Public Instruction Official[/sub] | "In that case, that'll be all. Madam, young man, have a good day."[/list]

| The 1938 Hall Survey, named for Joseph Hall, one of the leading members of the Thomasites - the group of American educators and soldiers who went to the Philippines to begin the wave of educational system reform in the country - was conducted over the period of two months, surveying over 500 families across the country on their thoughts on the state of Philippine education post-American reforms. At the current, with an estimated 25% of respondents interviewed, 95% of Filipino families view the American changes to the educational system positively, and 100% of families view the American system of training educators and instructors positively. |

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Estado Novo Household Responsibility Act Passes Supreme Assembly & Salazar Introduces New Fiscal Reforms

Lei de Responsabilidade Familiar do Estado Novo é aprovada na Assembleia e Salazar apresenta novas reformas fiscais

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Comissão de Infraestrutura e Meio Ambiente | RIO DE JANEIRO & LISBON, 1938[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

The month of March has been very busy for the Supreme National Assembly of the Union-State of Portuguese Nations as Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and Getulio Vargas has continued their efforts of economic experimentation and balancing budgets against the ongoing Great Depression but also granting incentives for investing in manufacturing, innovation, ingenuity, in addition to monitored fiscal decentralization to pave the way for Estado Novo State Capitalist Corporatism. Throughout the month, Salazar and Vargas has set a few initiatives into motion along with approving major economic changes that will truly impact the collective Estado Novo society and growth of the domestic market. The Salazar administration continues with rather radical approaches toward expansion, government intervention where necessary, and vitalization of the Estado Novo domestic market to ensure increase in purchasing power, power projection, but also alleviation of poverty.

The Estado Novo Household Responsibility System (EN-HRS) has been approved by the Supreme National Assembly and handed to the Ministério da Habitação e Bem-Estar Familiar but also the Ministério da Economia and the Ministério do Comércio e Indústria. The principle of the HRS is that individual households can claim the residual of their own production after fulfilling the grain quota to both the state and collective units. Because farmers and poorer citizens can now possess all remnants after fulfilling the state quota, their interest in stabilizing production in theory dramatically increases. The improved incentive system also incorporates the effect of immediately and progressively overtime resulting in a much fuller utilization of long‐term investments made by the State in agricultural research and development, irrigation, and other infrastructure. In the view of Salazar and Vargas, it would be rural reform to trigger Estado Novo’s economic stability, growth and revolution while working to alleviate a record number of people from poverty over the next 3 years. Along with the HRS, the Supreme National Assembly has announced a pursuit in subsequent State Owned Enterprise reforms. Salazar has also announced an economic ideology that he refers to as “Incentivos e ações são importantes” to grant an explanation of the Estado Novo’s evolving and projecting growth by focusing more so on strategic and logistical decentralization within certain components of the central government. This notion of “Incentivos e ações são importantes” will play a crucial in recent pursuits of monitored fiscal decentralization and strategic government intervention within the economy to play a major drive of economic resurrection.

The Spokesman of the Office of the USPN President during a press conference stressed that during the periods of Portuguese and Brazilian domestic instability, local governments had to turn in most of their local revenues to a corrupt central government, and there was no clear rule as to how central finances were to be devolved to lower governments. However, now, starting in 1938 in conjunction with a developing Five-Year Economic Itinerary for Developmental Prosperity (5YEIDP), the Estado Novo will be adopting a series of fiscal reforms aimed at improving the fiscal contract arrangements between different levels of governments. After fiscal reforms, it is projected and guaranteed by economic syndicates that local and upper level governments will successfully share fiscal revenues according to a predetermined formula. Since the local governments will be allowed to keep a significant portion of the increased local revenues, they will face stronger incentives to increase local revenue. The Supreme National Assembly has stressed that fiscal decentralization need not result in faster growth unless it is the local governments that have the incentives to use increased finances productively and in guidance with the government. Since the beginning of the Salazar administration, political conformity has given way to economic performance and other competence‐related indicators as the new criteria for a new foundation of promotion and performance. The promotion of Estado Novo cadres’ will now be largely based on competition in several key economic indicators, including economic and fiscal revenue growth rates, and some central mandates, such as family planning. To further legitimize the policies and indications previously mentioned, these indicators have been ordered to be written into local leaders’ contracts. Because of these contracts, tremendous, yet productive and salubrious pressure is created for local government personnel to compete with each other through superior regional performance. Because now Estado Novo capital is becoming largely mobile within the Portuguese domain, these counties and states must now compete for capital in a pro‐business environment wherein investors are trying to maximize returns while adhering to the contracts and protocols formulated by the central government.

Strong incentives for local governments to achieve rapid economic growth is the image that the current Estado Novo government is using to help explain why Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro has started to show strong signs of modernization and steady growth despite a lack of well-defined property rights protection in the current legal system, which Salazar plans to address and resolve. In fact, because of such, it is seen by Salazar that competition serves as the disciplinary mechanism by which local governments provide de jure protection of investors’ property rights. To summarize the enhanced economic initiative, the central government has announced that it plans to use both fiscal incentives and personnel policies to ensure that local governments use their financial empowerment to increase economic growth, especially in Guinea, East Timor, Angola, and Mozambique.

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| QUEEN DOWAGER DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE FOR CONGO |

[sub]20th of March, 1938[/sub]

| News have been released by the First Representative of Congo, Maxime Leroy, that the Queen Dowager has secured new lucrative deals with foreign counterparts. The deals have been signed with the French Republic, the British Empire, the United States of America and Rhodesia. The deals, as stated by Leroy, will enable Congo to be an open market for foreign investments, business and goods; it will allow Congo's resources to reach a larger wide of nations, and create more profit. The deals have also been passed through the Belgian Parliament, mainly thanks to the Foreign Ministers of Affairs, Mr Spaak. Despite her current bad press within the Belgian Parliament, the Queen has been praised for her international doings, as they do bring much money to Belgium as well it would seem.

[list]BELGIAN CONGO - FRENCH REPUBLIC COOPERATION PACT

- A Trade Pact between Belgian Congo and France officially established ; major increase of Congo's resources making their way to France and French goods coming to the upcoming Congo's consumer market.

- The French investments and investors will be welcomed in Congo especially into the natural resources, mining and energy sectors.

- Creation and Establishment of a major trade and travel infrastructure between the French African colonies and the Belgian Congo.

- French companies are invited to establish themselves and their businesses in the Belgian Congo.[/list]

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[list]BELGIAN CONGO - UNITED STATES COOPERATION AGREEMENT

- A Trade Pact established between Belgian Congo and the United States of America; with increase of Congo's resources making their way to USA and American goods coming into the upcoming Congo's consumer market.

- American investments and investors will be welcomed in Congo, especially into the services, heavy industries, natural resources and energy sectors.

- American companies are invited to establish themselves and their businesses in the Belgian Congo.

- American trade ships will have direct access to the ports of Congo in case of emergencies, and to access the African growing markets.[/list]

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[list]BELGIAN CONGO - BRITISH EMPIRE COOPERATION PACT

- A Trade Pact between Belgian Congo and Britain officially established; increase of Congo's resources making their way to Britain and British goods coming to the upcoming Congo's consumer market.

- The British investments and investors will be welcomed in Congo, especially into the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

- Creation of major trade and travel infrastructure and route between the British African colonies and Congo.

- British companies are invited to establish themselves and their businesses in the Belgian Congo.[/list]

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[list]BELGIAN CONGO - RHODESIA COOPERATION PACT

- A Trade Pact established between Belgian Congo and Rhodesia.

- Creation of infrastructure between Congo and Rhodesia in relation to trade and travel.

- Peaceful Unity Pact between Congo and Rhodesia to embrace peace and prosperity. |[/list]

[spoiler="Our European and American counterparts are our growing friends, friends of Belgium and of the Congo people. Time of economic problems will pass, and the world will be able to embrace Congo with force not seen before and Congo will finally be able to get what it truly deserves, prosperity." - Queen Dowager Elisabeth of Congo]

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Turkish Armed Forces: Report

January 1938

[list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list]-------- CLASSIFIED --------[/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[pre]Mobilized Eastward against ARA:

Ledger:

Infantry Regiment Makeup

• 18X Artillery pieces

• 5,000X manpower

• Ordnance Company

• Signal Company

• 5X FAI Armored car (confiscated)[/pre]

[list][list][pre] • 1st Republican Army Corps ---- Commander, Field Marshal Fevzi Çakmak[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][pre] o 49th Division ---- General Salih Omurtak[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  153rd Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  154th Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  155th Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  185th Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][pre] o 60th Division ---- General Abdurrahman Nafiz Gürman[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  186th Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list][list][pre]  187th Infantry Regiment[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

[list][list][list][list]| The current list of material and men are all that have been disclosed to have been mobilized to the front lines past Ankara. It is also rumored that shelling has begun on Rebel holdings in remote areas as positions become clear, as the Ankara government wishes to not add to civilian casualities which have already been rumored to have occured, as propaganda spreads of Soviet backed troops marching into Turkish homes and drawing out Ankara loyalists and executing them on the spot. It is also reported that the German Valkyrie Unit is making headway into ARA territory as well, acting as a spearhead with the support of the 1st Republican Corp. As well, Ankara firmly recognizes AMC control over their proclaimed area for the time being, as both sides attempt to push back the Red flood which was imminent in coming. |[/list][/list][/list][/list]

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[list]March 1938

[sub]Operation Stingray Phase 2[/sub][/list]

Chiang Rai Province, LannaRegion, Republic of Siam

[sub]After spending three weeks in port at Sattahip Naval Base to allow Kuomintang troops to leave the Chiang Rai Province as per warning, Task Force Torch of three flamethrower equipped Parnaíba class monitor ships, one coastal freighter carrying ten Vickers Light Amphibious Tanks of the Queen Company of the 1st Marine Tank Battalion and four small civilian vehicle transport vessels carrying the two hundred troops of Item Company of the 1st Marine Assault Battalion would leave port arriving at Cần Thơ in French Cochinchina on the 1st of March. Alerted to the Siamese Navy’s entry into the Mekong River Delta, hundreds of low level opium farmers would flee into neighboring Yunnan in China and the Shan States of Burma to avoid persecution. Despite this knowledge, opium cultivating militias near the Ruak River funded by the Triads of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Macau would hold their ground as the opium trade in China grew increasingly under threat due to conflict with Japan, destruction of opium trade to Southeast Asia would be devastating to Triad operations especially if cultivators in the Shan States were cut off from smuggling along the Ruak.[/sub]

[sub]Dozens of flights of indigenously built Boripatra light bombers would unnerve militiamen, flying overhead poopy fields during the task force’s eight day journey up the Mekong River. The bombers had been making scouting runs for months but they would usually come at night with large portable searchlights in much fewer numbers. The unusual daytime flyovers would be an attempt to weaken opposition morale before the full scale assault and a last minute persuasion to any remaining KMT troops that the offensive was not a bluff. [/sub]

[sub]Task Force Torch would stop at Phnom Penh, Pakse, Nakhon Phanom, Vientiane and Huay Xia before arriving at the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong at the tripoint border between Siam, British Burma and French Laos, on the early morning of the 9th of March. Boripatras flew sporadically throughout the night before, using their engine noise and shining strobe lights on militia positions to hamper their sleep. To utilise the ideal timing of their arrival the assault would begin before the sun could fully rise. Two platoons of 100 Siamese marines and 5 amphibious tanks would dismount in a coordinated landing on the shoreline north of Ban Sop Ruak as the three monitor ships fire on confused opposing positions as they slink up the Ruak river, burning shacks, shoreside poppy fields and narco boats. As the first combined land force marched westward towards the town of Mae Sai, a second landing Southeast of Wat Rong Phrachao of the remaining combined forces would take place, marching eastward to prevent the traders from retreating to Mae Sai and across the border into the Burmese town of Tachileik, the shared urban area between the two towns suspected of being the main hub for opium smuggling among the three countries. [/sub]

[sub]Formed and trained with the cooperation of the US Marine Corps the Siamese marines would establish two outposts at their designated landing points per US Marine doctrine. The operation would last half a week, consisting of search and destroy missions against scattered groups of lightly armed militias hiding in the forested area and the burning of fields and metric tons of opium caches. The three monitor ships would patrol the river to prevent escape, burning wooden boats filled with smugglers attempting to cross. Despite the effort, those who make it to the other side of the border cannot be pursued so as to not provoke accusations of aggression on foreign soil, leading to the burning of escaping boats without ample time to surrender.[/sub]

[sub]While an operational success, the destruction of the opium trade in Northern Siam was never the main appeal that brought joint staff on board President Chula’s campaign against drug militias plaguing the countryside. In particular the Siamese Navy were more keen on using the operation to evaluate the effectiveness of their marine troops and equipment, hoping to use the results and observations to improve their performance and acquire new material if need be. The Vickers Amphibious Tank’s technical performance and role within a combined formation in wetland was heavily praised, leading to suggestions of either a purchase of more of the vehicle, the license to produce it or the more attractive option of producing an indigenous amphibious vehicle as a universal weapons carrier to easily up-gun them, this becoming the first task of the newly formed Land Sea Armor Committee under the Navy and Siamese Army to search for a dual purpose platform to be used by both branches or to develop one in its absence. The Navy’s lack of capable troop transport for amphibious landing was front and center, this issue forced the combined arms forces to land farther away from the area of operation to avoid being fired upon while dismounting as the civilian standard ships used were unarmored and claustrophobic, however the bow ramps on these ships were seen as beneficial, in contrast to the rampless cargo ships forced to unload the tanks using cranes. Development of a cheap wood based lightly armoured landing ship with a bow ramp was suggested. Finally the specialised Parnaíba Class Monitor Ships purchased from Estado Novo proved their robustness during the two week operation, taming the winding arm of the Mekong with ease and most importantly providing a necessary success for the Navy’s Committee for Naval Procurement that lobbied heavily for the purchase of ships from Estado Novo to replace the increasingly obsolete Siamese Fleet, putting them ahead in the tug of war for the President’s favor.[/sub]

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ROYAL RHODESIAN NAVY ESTABLISHED

April 1938

In signing a deal with the Union-State of Portuguese Nations to transfer portions of a Naval Base in Beira (Mozambique) into Rhodesian control, the Federal Government was today able to purchase two Bittern-class sloop (1,200 tons) to operate as a small naval Squadron in the Mozambique Channel and if necessary the Indian Ocean as a whole. This move officially formed the Royal Rhodesian Navy, which does not have its history in fiction as Rhodesian Volunteers have served within the Royal Navy for almost half a century before today. Being issued the necessary funds for a total of 1,400 Personnel (of which 250 are onboard the two Ships, a further 250 in reserve and the remainder logistics staff) and accompanying Equipment and goods Rhodesia have overnight become one of the better equipped naval Forces in Africa, with most other Coastal states simply not possessing one.

The Government has made it no secret that they shall seek to increase their Naval Capabilities even more during the coming decade, however this shall possess at a slow rate as there is no potential war on the horizon.

Included within the deal with the Union-State of Portuguese Nations were agreements regarding tourism (establishing a new Holiday locale at Nangata), Infrastructure (Upgrading of Rail-lines between Mozambique and Angola) along with general trade deals that left both Parties intensely satisfied and hopeful for future cooperation and dealings.

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| GERMANY GURANTEES TOWARDS BELGIUM |

[sub]2nd of April, 1938[/sub]

| The Kingdom of Belgium had gained it's wanted guarantee from Germany, that respects Belgian neutrality and secures Belgium in the knowledge that Germany shall not and will not find itself as the aggressor towards the country. From official information provided it seems that such guarantee has come due to the actions and work of the Foreign Minister of Affairs, Paul-Henri Spaak who had countless talks with his German counterparts in Berlin. The signing of the pact also took place in Berlin between the Foreign Affairs Ministers. The guarantee places Belgium in a more secure position and has given the Mr Spaak a far more solid position within Belgium and the government.

However, from unofficial sources it is believed that the Queen Dowager of Congo had something to do with the deal. The pact signed between Germany and Belgium also seems to include Congo becoming a trade partner to Germany, with Congo's resources being bought by the German government. From unofficial documents, it's suggested that the Queen Dowager sent the member of her Advisory Council as her representative, Alexander De Witte; Advisor for International and African Politics. Many speculate that the Queen Dowagers' involvement in the deal is quite signifying as it shows that the Belgian government has a counterpart in Congo, one that is able to successfully deal in international politics. The deal has been frowned upon by the majority of the left political scene of the country but it is nonetheless very important for the security of Belgium and Congo. |

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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]

January Edition — 1938[/pre]

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[list][pre]Diversity in thought and view Strengthens the People[/pre][sub][pre]Dependable Source of News and Current Events from Across the Dominion[/pre][/sub][/list]

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[pre]IN SERVICE TO THE CROWN: PARLIAMENT APPROVES MILITARY REORGANIZATION AMID GLOBAL TENSIONS;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| SIMON’S TOWN — Since 1795, the strategic transit point between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans has been guarded by the Royal Navy’s Africa Station. Headquartered at Simon’s Town, not far from the Cape of Good Hope, this force has been of vital importance to the Crown even after the opening of the Suez Canal. Securing two of four potential routes to the Asiatic regions, the presence of the Royal Navy ensured freedom of navigation and commerce on the High Seas. Since South Africa’s founding in 1909, tensions between the government and British Commanders has been a consistent reality. Whereas British Forces in Africa are charged with defending the interest of the Empire at-large, nationalist elements in South Africa have contended that it was of paramount importance for the nation to be responsible for its own defense. Historically, this resulted in a doctrinal approach for military planners wherein the aim of South Africa would be to take on the role of defender of British Realms in Africa, south of the equator, so as to free Imperial Forces for more important tasks in theaters of war. This fundamental philosophy guided South Africans during the Great War shortly after the nation’s founding, which saw many thousands conscripted into service, mostly for garrison tasks on the continent with limited, albeit successful, operations in Europe alongside Commonwealth forces. Today, though, with increasing global tensions and the strain placed on London’s resources amid it’s global commitments, the Prime Minister’s party passed an Act calling for the modernization and expansion of South Africa’s armed forces.[/sub]

[sub]Under the South Africa Defense Act of 1937, the Union Defense Force of South Africa was to be restyled and it’s mandate expanded, as the Royal Armed Forces of South Africa. This styling, in recognition of the Dominion’s status as an equal Kingdom within the Empire, comes with the redesignation of each element of the former UDF, into the Royal South African Army, the South African Air Force and Royal South African Navy. To that end, this act called for the establishment of an independent command apparatus from British Central Command, so as to allow defense staff to craft strategy for South Africa apart from the Empire at large. When asked, the Minister of Defense assured Parliament and representatives of Westminster that this provision did not absolve South Africa of its constitutional obligation to support the Empire in War, but settled the question of who commands South African Forces — opening the door to the cultivation of a talented corps of South African Officers.[/sub]

[sub]The South African defense strategy called for the training of a moderately-sized, modular, and professional force capable of supporting the interest of the Crown in the diverse biomes of the continent and the world at-large. Towards that end, a new Regimental structure was to be adopted offering the modularity required to transform the Royal Armed Forces into a light weight force for constalbury operations in the jungles of Africa, or a heavy armored force for operations against European powers. Thus, the former ‘Commonwealth’ model was to be replaced by a ‘South African’ model wherein the Regiment took on the form of a traditional Brigade, and was to be the primary combat element instead of the Division. This new structure was to be a downsized version of the Triangle Division, where the Regiment would be composed of 3 Infantry Battalions (each with 3 ‘Line Infantry’ and 1 Heavy Weapons Company of mortars or Machine Guns), and a special attachment Battalion of either Artillery or Anti-Tank. Whether Infantry, Motorized, Mechanized or Armored, each Regiment reflected the same basic 3-1-3-1 formation. Whereas in most armies, the Division would be the primary operational unit and be composed of units of the same type, in South Africa, each Division would take on the role of a corps and be combined arms in nature. Gone are the static organizational Divisions, which can be too large and cumbersome, draining the Dominion of its resources with but a fraction of the needed effectiveness. A program of recruitment was authorized, for South Africa to train some 100,000 men from across the Dominion organized under this new structure.[/sub]

[sub]The reorganization of South Africa’s Air Force was not as drastic as plans for the Army, or Navy. Being a modest force of some 90 aircraft, the current air inventory is pecked smaller than that of Rhodesia and Egypt. Under the new force structure, the South African Air Force will acquire new aircraft to triple its size to an operational unit of 300 aircraft. The new force will be composed primarily of long-range aircraft, so as to expand the reach of South Africa to the far reaches of the continent in support of the Crown during times of conflict. While material expansion is the easiest of the planned expansion, given recent investments into the air manufacturing industry, the acquisition of trained pilots is a taller order. Towards this end, South Africa will expand the training staff at the Central Flying School based at AFB Langebaanweg to accommodate more pilots and support crew.[/sub]

[sub]Finally, the pride of South Africa, His Majesty’s South African Navy, is poised to see a period of new growth and expansion. Today, the navy is centered around the 1st Cruiser Squadron comprised of state-of-the-art Town-class light Cruisers sold to South Africa by Great Britain; and a squadrons of I-class destroyers. Taken in consideration of the British Africa Station, this force is adequate to support the overall naval mission of the Empire. Apart from the Africa Squadron, the Navy pales in comparison to many naval powers in the South Atlantic and around the globe.[/sub]

[sub]While it is not the goal of South Africa to cultivate a force matching the size and capability of other nations, policy makers in Cape Town have called for the development of substantial shipbuilding capability for South Africa. It’s geostrategic position at the intersection of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and proximity to the Southern Seas require an ability to ensure the Crown’s ability to project its influence in the Southern Hemisphere. Thus, plans have been outlined for the development of multi-purpose “Southern Cruisers” capable of both independent and fleet operations far away from the coastlines of the continents. To patrol shipping lanes, and secure them from threats exemplified by the u-boats of the First World War are the doctrine around which the South African Navy is to be organized. Interdiction and ASW operations will be the specialty of South Africa’s naval forces, and will guide the acquisition of warships capable of meeting this mission. Parliament has made provision for the purchase of 3 new light cruisers from Great Britain, and the construction of 10 large Destroyers for use primarily in anti-submarine operations and convoy escort. With an emphasis on the quality of its warships, the South African navy will depart from the philosophy of Britain whose far flung obligations differ from the consolidated nature of South Africa’s interest. A strong coastal force is to be developed to supplement the interdiction role as well. Finally, the core of South Africa’s navy will be a force of fast carriers whose role it will be to deter foreign aggression and wrest control of the South Atlantic from a hostile force in the reaches far away from land-based air installations. In this role an agreement is being negotiated with Great Britain for the acquisition of one of the Illustrious-class Aircraft Carriers under construction of not an order for a new Carrier made to South African specifications.[/sub]

[sub]With these changes and others, Prime Minister Smuts has boldly declared that South Africa will carry its weight in the unlikely scenario wherein the Empire finds itself rocked by war again.[/sub]

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[list][list][list][pre]União-Estado das Nações Portuguesas

THE UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS[/pre][/list]

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Establishment of the Unified Catholic Church of the Greater Estado Novo

Criação da Igreja Católica Unificada do Grande Estado Novo

Viva o Estado Novo!

[sub]Unified Catholic Church of the Greater Estado Novo | LISBON, 1938[/sub][/list]

[sub]| Deus abençoe o novo estado |[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1696886

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