Post Archive
Region: Commonwealth of Liberty
[list]October 1951
[sub]Complete Deterrence[/sub][/list]
[pre]D E T E R R E N C E T O C O M M U N I S M[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]The Federal Republic's legitimacy, some argued, was built upon
the notion that the Bundesrepublik had been born with the goal of defending
Germany and Germans from communism. Throughout its so far short existence,
which of course was sought to be extended, the German Government regularly
endeavored to make clear its stance on communism, and affirm to its population
the threat posed by the Reds.[/pre][/sub][/list]
OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, BOTTLERPLATZ, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| In MARCH of this year, the Office of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bottlerplatz, looking over a small park in downtown Bonn several blocks south of the MUSEUM KOENIG, was officially opened to operations in an inaugural ceremony by the Federal Chancellor and other top government officials. Prior to March, the Federal Government had been in a bit of a precarious position internationally. Indeed, it was by default recognized that the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) was an independent and sovereign entity, and was backed and recognized by default by several major players, from WASHINGTON to LONDON to PARIS. However, the Federal Government did not officially possess its own diplomatic corps or foreign ministry not problematic at first, but eventually becoming more of a bureaucratic and red tape pain as the Federal Government began interacting with fellow members of the international community. In March, via classified communiques with the British Foreign Office, the French Foreign Ministry, and the United States Department of State, the German Government secured the green light to establish its own Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer appointed himself the position of the Ministry's lead official, having been the chief foreign representative of the Bundesrepublik since its inception. |
| This FOREIGN MINISTRY headed by the Federal Chancellor and representing the nation on the foreign stage was presented with the easy responsibility of affirming the fact that the Bundesrepublik Deutschland was a legitimate entity. Considering that the country was by default split into two (this was, however, recognized as a state of existence that was temporary rather than permanent, by the Bonn government) and that the previous democratic German government had suffered constitutional crisis after constitutional crisis, it was necessary to affirm that this new Federal Republic was as legitimate as the air one would breathe. Some argued that the nation's legitimacy in its initial years was and would be built upon the notion that the Bundesrepublik had been born with the goal of defending Germany and Germans from communism. This stance would be made clear by the aggressive public service campaigns imposed to unify the country against the new thread The Reds. |
[list][pre]". . . Let there be no doubt whatsoever; the forces to the East have no intention of allowing you to have your freedom, your choice, your liberty, and your inalienable right to make decisions based on morality and truth and hope and all things that we hold so dear. Let there be no doubt that this is not a battle for ideology, but rather a battle for the Germany all of us dream of and the Germany all of us will continue to dream of a democratic Germany, a hopeful Germany, a prosperous Germany, a free Germany, a forward-thinking Germany, and most importantly, a unified and freedom-loving Germany!"[/pre][/list]
| This defense against the reds would comprise the nation's DETERRENCE TO COMMUNISM that being information campaigns that educated the German populace on the serious threats of communism and how it posed a threat to the growing economy and society the Bundesrepublik was building. In government, too, anti-communist efforts were being waged as both the social democratic SPD and the governing CDU/CSU refused to partner with the KPD, a party that had been deprived of any seats in the Federal Republic's Bundestag. There were yet to be any laws prohibiting the KPD from running for public office, or preventing the formation of communist or Marxist organizations, however more nationalistic deputies in the Bundestag were already moving to do as such, as part of the nation's Anti-Communist Deterrence |
[list][pre]"The introduction of this bill is not a matter if it is worthy of consideration by this chamber, but only when it shall be passed. Not if, when. When it comes to situations such as these, when the very essence of our society, of our liberty, of our democracy, of our freedom is placed at the gravest risks from the Red threat, it is necessary for us to act and defend the beauty we have born in this society to the very last stand. For the partisans who fought Volkism and for our children who strive to live in a free, fair and brighter future, that is the bare minimum of what we must do."
- DEPUTY ANDER HELSIG, Bundestag Deputy, on the Bill to Strengthen Internal Security and Ensure the Liberties of Government (ie. the Liberty Act)[/pre][/list]
| Among the populace, this Anti-Communist deterrence efforts was already reaping fruit for the government. Under the Weimar Republic, the authorities and the government struggled to establish themselves as the legitimate representative of the German people. Now, faced with the threat from the East, Germans of all colors, races, men and women, high and low, left and right, north, south, east and west, united under the golden German tricolor against communism and tyranny, for liberty, democracy and national security and stability. Among the populace, polls discovered that at least 75% of the population believed that democracy, liberty, the right to free speech and free assembly were rights to be defended from tyranny and communism, and 50% said they would consider joining a German military force should an attack from the East take place. The rallying of the German people under the Bundesrepublik only strengthened its resolve, and saw a new All-German Coalition form around the CDU/CSU and Chancellor Adenauer, who at this stage was actively seeking greater recognition and legitimacy as the Federal Republic continued to embark on foreign agreements to strengthen its standing abroad and begin economic development en masse. |
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[list][list]OCTOBER 1951
[sub]Infiltrated Communists[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] C L U B M I L I T A R [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, FEDERAL DISTRICT NIGHT
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| The U.S.S.R. is considered hostile by much of the Western world, in Brazil it is no different, but a fact has just come to light in the country: there are communists in the armys officer corps. The Brazilian government has not yet taken a position on the matter. After the war, when the Communist Party of Brazil was not banned, the Communist conspirators moved to the Rios Club Militar, a former social organization for Brazilian officers. In this club, the Democratic National Liberation Front was organized, which gained influence in Congress for more salaries and privileges for officers. In the clubs 1950 elections, they helped elect General NEWTON ESTILLAC LEAL as club president, returning to politics; to gain influence, they placed loyal men on the clubs board. |
| In control of the clubs magazine, Revista do Club Militar, the communists converted it into a party organ. Editorials criticized the U.S. and U.N., called the Korean campaign a war of Wall Street imperialism, negatively criticized U.N. troops, and criticized the Brazilian government for being in the Western sphere of influence. The EURICO GASPAR DUTRAs Government crushed the Revista. But when President Vargas returned to power on January 31, Estillac Leal was named Minister of the War. He allowed the editors to reopen the Revista. When the criticism came, Estillac said he was a busy man and had stepped down as club president. The anti-Communist military was furious. After the campaign, it was promised that a referendum would be held to see if the members really supported the Revistas leftist editorial policy. |
| On the eve of the vote, officials from across the country arrived in Rio. The Communists were preparing to broadcast their last-minute speeches over the Club Militars loudspeaker. The Minister of the War was summoned by President Vargas. After the conference, Estillac Leal went to the club, announced that he was resuming the presidency and postponed the referendum for 30 days. This postponement meant nothing. This was just an idea of a government that wants to buy more time to deal with the communists. |
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[list][sub]SLOVENIA AND ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM, PART ONE[/sub][/list]
GOSAR PLANS TO INTRODUCE FOREIGN COMPETITION WHILE SAFEGUARDING LOCAL INDUSTRIES
[list][sup]TO WHET THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
SLOVENIAOCTOBER 1951[/sup][/list]
Several arguments had sustained protectionist practices in the years immediately following the Slovene Rising. Indeed, the region sported a long industrial legacywhich had accounted for nearly a third of the preceding Yugoslav Kingdoms economic activitybut time was needed for the careful emergence of domestic supply chains, manufacturing facilities and design departments. This time proved valuable: hundreds of companies emerged in the six years following Slovene independence, many of which immediately proved to be valuable contributors to innovation, security and economic wellbeing. Slovenias currently known natural resources were securely concentrated in the hands of Slovenian firms, and Slovene-made medicines, tools, and vehicles permeated the country, and economic patriotism saw Slovenian companies innovating and building on behalf of their nation. However, a truly sharpened, sustainable economy could never emerge without the corporate fear of inadequacy brought on by true competition. Competitive spirit would be key to driving the perfection of Slovenias industrial tools in the era to come, and thus Andrej Gosars conservative political bloc began discussion about the introduction of foreign firms in Slovenia in the summer of 1951. However, the legislature remained divided over whether opening the floodgates of foreign firms was a wise maneuvera balanced approach was needed to allow competition in Slovenia while simultaneously protecting Slovenian industries from being eclipsed or swallowed by foreign ones.
The resultant measures manifested in a legal package passed by the Slovene government in the late autumn, anticipating a year of foreign investment in 1952. To protect its businesses and yet ensure strong ties with foreign high technology companies, Gosars first legislation required any foreign investors wishing to operate within its borders to first obtain a federal permit from the newfound Urad RS za podjetniko dovoljenje (URSPD, Office of the Slovene Republic for Business Permits). Furthermore, regulations were to stipulate that the head of a business operating in Sloveniaand a majority of the members of its board of directorshad to be of Slovenian nationality. Foreign companies would thereby be selectively permitted to operate in Slovenia via affiliate companies¹, preventing a total economic intrusion into the nascent nation. Still, they would be permitted, and even encouragedwhen a foreign firms goals aligned with those of the Slovenian government, Ljubljanas financial organs would spare no penny to create an investment opportunity. Introducing foreign projects into Slovenia and granting them government attention would ideally be enough to spur domestic industries to competitive life. Gosars gamble showed quick returns as Renault affiliate company Revoz d.d. and Ford affiliate company Ford Slovenije d.d.both joint stock companies, as foreign investors could were forbidden from owning shares in Slovenian limited liability companiesbegan wedging into the Slovenian automobile manufacturing market with factory announcements in late 1951. Domestic manufacturer Avsec pushed up the release date for its Izletnik (Excursionist), its highly anticipated passenger car model, from the spring of 1953 to the summer of 1952, declaring that it would be taking a loan from the Banka Slovenije to finance expedited construction of the series. Revoz and Ford Slovenijeas well as other foreign operationswill be expanded upon in the second part of this series.
[list][sub]¹ This is a reasonably common practice in real-life Slovenia; Revoz, Slovenias largest automobile manufacturer in real life, is a local affiliate company of Renault. The selective allowance of highly developed companies to operate in Slovenia while protecting primary resources via legislation mirrors what has been seen in several successfully planned economies, most famously including Japans postbellum reorganization.[/sub][/list]
Arcanda, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Taiiwan, Brazil Toucan
[list]October 1951
[sub]Pro-American Star[/sub][/list]
[pre]S E C R E T A R Y M A G S A Y S A Y[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Ramon Magsaysay was the first Secretary of National
Defense of the Third Republic. First serving under Manuel Quezon as a
member of his native Nacionalista Party, he was invited to serve in a Liberal
cabinet under President Manuel Roxas upon the latter's victory in 1950.
Magsaysay has been a strong proponent of the American military presence
in the Philippines and the US-Philippines special relationship.[/pre][/sub][/list]
CLARK AIR BASE, ANGELES CITY, PAMPANGA PROVINCE, Provenancia
[sub]THIRD REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES[/sub]
| The stereotypes that were linked with Army men were strong, powerful, stern, unlikable, with an honorable military background. RAMON MAGSAYSAY had only the first two and the last. Serving as Secretary of National Defense - the chief advisor to the President of the Republic on matters relating to national security and the armed forces - since the re-formation of the Philippine Republic in 1946, Magsaysay was a member of the Nacionalista Party but was effectively politically neutral. He had a smile that charmed women and made his colleagues, superiors and subordinates alike comfortable about him. Some described him to be 'one of the nicest men in government', while his subordinates described him as 'scarily efficient yet charismatic'. Magsaysay was a new breed of politician one that was charismatic yet experienced; young yet politically viable; and a moderate who could bridge the gap between the Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party, who were seeing hard splits over the summer of '51 due to President Manuel Roxas's social welfare proposals to Congress. |
[list][sub]| RAMON MAGSAYSAY, Secretary of National Defense |[/sub] "I am a military man, there is no doubt about that. But that does not mean I have no care for the Filipino people."[/list]
| MAGSAYSAY was the son of a farmer and his wife. He was born into the lower middle class, and worked his father's fields in the Interwar Period where the Philippines was still under the Insular Government and the economy was booming. During the Second World War and the Japanese occupation, he fled his family farm after the deaths of his parents at the hands of the Japanese to fight as a guerilla commander. He would go on to unify the wartime resistance under the Free Republic forces and eventually become a storied war hero alongside thousands of others who successfully resisted Japanese occupation. In the postwar, he was appointed by President Manuel Quezon to the post of Secretary of National Defense, and in 1946 was the secretary who saw the inauguration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. |
| Visiting the all-important CLARK AIR BASE in October of '51, accompanied by the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines and the Vice President, Magsaysay's charisma and charm was on full show as he met with the soldiers and wives of the Air Base, operated jointly between the United States Air Force and the Philippine Army. In a speech before troops, Magsaysay praised their 'continued valiance and vigilance', pointing out the communist threats that were 'being kept at bay' by their 'steadfast commitment to the security of the Philippines and her Peoples'. Already, there was chatter spawning that he was a potential candidate for the Nacionalista Party to run against his superior, Liberal President Roxas, in the 1954 ELECTIONS. In his speech, he disspelled these rumors, affirming his loyalty to the current Administration |
[list][sub]| RAMON MAGSAYSAY, Secretary of National Defense |[/sub] "My loyalty is to my President, but above all the Filipino People. I stand up and will stand up when duty calls."[/list]
| Despite this, however, questions about the viability of a Magsaysay presidency were being raised positively. Newspapers ran article after article of the Secretary of Defense meeting with troops and socializing with his subordinates, presenting to the public "A Politician We're All Proud Of". There were skeptics, however, mostly Liberal Party officials, who did not trust his close friendship with the Americans. Magsaysay had and was still a staunch defender of the American military presence in SUBIC and CLARK, calling it a 'vital part of our national defense'. He had also been key in advocating for numerous trade deals inked between Washington and Manila under the Roxas Administration. |
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[pre]| NOVEMBER НОЯБРЬ 1951 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
OPERATION LEGKIY STARTS IN SILENCE:
COVERT SOVIET ACTIONS BEGIN TO ATTEMPT CAUSING CIVIL CONFLICT AGAINST THE IRANIAN STATE IN THE NORTH OF IRAN!
ОПЕРАЦИЯ ЛЕГКИЙ НАЧИНАЕТСЯ В МОЛЧАНИИ:
НАЧАЛО СКРЫТЫХ ДЕЙСТВИЙ СОВЕТСКИХ ПОПЫТОК ВТОРЖЕНИЯ ПРОТИВ ИРАНСКОГО ГОСУДАРСТВА НА СЕВЕРЕ ИРАНА!
[pre]| The MGB and Soviet Armed Forces prepared for covert operations pitted against CIA and MI6 backed Iranian Forces in the northern mountains of Iran mainly focused in Kurdish Dominated regions. As Iranian Security Forces continue to target Kurdish civilians in relentless ethnic violence Soviet Intelligence concluded there could be a large faction of Kurdish Civilians ready to defend their culture and peoples in the face of ethnic violence. The MGB had begun to prepare Operation Legkiy to incite a Kurdish Insurgence against Iranian Security forces across northern Iran targeting Government and Energy Infrastructure. To supply this force and jumpstart this insurrection the MGB created and delivery system for these would be fighters in a the form of Cadre Drops [Кадровые капли] within these drops would be enough to arm 15 men and instruct them in tactics and explosives making & handling abilities for them to then act on all in Kurdish in multiple Kurdish dialects.[/pre]
[sub]What every Cadre Drop contains - Что содержит каждая падение кадров[/sub]
[pre]- 10X Mosin-Nagant Carbines {10X 5-round stripper clips}[/pre]
[pre]- 3X PPSH {2 Drum Magazines}[/pre]
[pre]- 2X AK-47 {3 Magazines}[/pre]
[pre]- 10X Korovin pistol {3X 10-round magazines
[pre]- Booklets for the cleaning and management of each firearm.[/pre]
[pre]- Combat maneuvering and Guerrilla tactics booklets.[/pre]
[pre]- Guides on explosives handling and bomb making instructions.[/pre]
[pre]- Explosive materials to produce IEDs[/pre]
[pre]- Maps of Northern Iran to increase organization in planning of attacks against Iranian infrastructure.[/pre]
[pre] All firearms and Ammo would be cleaned of all markings indicating country of origin. These shipments would be dropped into Iran in land smuggling and covert night time airdrops in unmarked Antonov An-2 in mountain regions near the border.[/pre]
[sub]Cadre Drop Locations - Что Места сброса кадров[/sub]
[pre]- 2X Bazargan[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Maku[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Khan Amir[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Siah Cheshmeh [/pre]
[pre]- 1X Avajiq[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Khoy[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Salmas[/pre]
[pre]- 4X Oshnavieh[/pre]
[pre]- 5X Muhābād[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Piranshahr[/pre]
[pre]- 5X Bukan [/pre]
[pre]- 4X Baneh[/pre]
[pre]- 3X Sardasht[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Rabaṭ[/pre]
[pre]- 6X Urmia[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Majnun-e Olya[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Haramlu[/pre]
[pre]- 1X Segrik[/pre]
[pre]The MGB accounts for numerous drops to be either damaged in transit due to Airdropping and for drops to come into the hands of loyalist forces in Iran calling for the magnitude of the operation to effectively saturate the region in firearms to spark conflict.[/pre]
[sub]Objectives and Targets - Цели и задачи[/sub]
[pre] Military Infrastructure & Officials, Government Infrastructure & Officials, and Energy Infrastructure would be Priority targets in the initial list of targets sent in Cadre Drops. Alongside this would be for these cells to be connected for greater cooperation through the sending in of 50 Kurdish MGB agents to act as a unify force for these cells in the creation of a unified group going under the working name of the Muhammad Revolutionary Units [ Yekîneyên Şoreşgerî Mihemed / یەکینەکانی شۆڕشگێڕی محمد ]. The 50 Kurdish MGB agents would be ordered to if caught to commit Suicide to prevent connection to Soviet intelligence.[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
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| IZURU DOESN'T BACK DOWN |
[sub]15th of November, 1951[/sub]
| It's the mid of September, and Izuru finds herself in her car on her way to Banza's mansion. Driving through the streets, the car is met with pro-Church protesters at each side but little emotion comes through Marie Izuru who coldly stares forward, not even acknowledging the loud protesters and bangs on her window from time to time. The car would slowly pull up to the expensive mansion of Mrs Banza, before making its way through into the main driveway. The aids would quickly open the car doors, from which Marie Izuru would emerge. Wearing a short black dress, with her hair covered by a beautifully expensive dark black hat with feathers coming out of it. She would hold her dark black handbag dearly as she looked upon the mansion before making her way inside. With only the sounds of her heels appearing throughout the corridors, she would make her way to Mrs Banza cabinet before entering as the aid opened the door.
Gloria Banza would stand up with a slight smile, nodding softly. Marie would make her way in. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Marie."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Mrs Banza."[/list]
| Gloria would look at her for a moment before gesturing to take a seat as she did too. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "I will not take too much time of yours. I'm sure you're very busy."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "The floor is yours. But first I think it'd be good---"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "M'am, I will be quite honest in starting that I am not amused with what the press had to say this week. To go out against me, is one thing. To publicly state that you will veto the Church Act is another thing. Don't you think? A sign of disrespect and disloyalty."[/list]
| Gloria would brace herself as she listened on. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "I realise that it must be hard for you to understand that the talks you held between me and the Bishop were unsuccesful. His lack of understanding and complete desire for power simply does not allow for me to compromise with him. But, that does not give you the permission to go out against me in such a manner. Against your own government. To veto this act will show the world who really controls you."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "No one controls me, Marie."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "Really? The Eastern papers call you out as the Black Puppet of the Vatican. The newspapers of Belgium, France and even Germany question whether you really are as indepedent as you claim to be. Is that the image the First Representative of Zaire wants to have? A puppet of the religious oligarchs? The beacon of African freedom is actually nothing more than a tool used by the Church to remain in control."[/list]
| Gloria would remain silent. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "With all due respect m'am, I think you lack the imagination and the ability to comprehend how important this is. Yes, it is hard to make reforms that change the country fundementally. My reforms are not intended to make the lives of the people better today or tomorrow. They are intended to make ground-breaking changes that will move this country forward for decades to come. You, Mrs Banza, fear the people and the wrath that some of them might have. But they don't have it. They do not care."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "They clearly do. The protests?"[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "They are led by the pro-Church religious fanatics who want the church to cling onto its power and influence. But everyday Zairean is too busy enriching himself, discovering himself, becoming himself. The economic situation of this country does not allow an ordinary citizen to worry about the Church. Why? Because they want to make a better life for themselves, and they are. But in the decades to come they will be asking a question, why was Mrs Banza in opposition to the act? Why was she so aggressively against it? Is that the legacy you wish to leave?"[/list]
| Gloria would look at her for a moment. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "I will pass this act whether with your help or not. If, you decide to veto it I will use Article 74 of the constitution and the Congress will overrule your veto. For the first time in history. I do not wish that upon you, as it will show a weakness in our rule, and the fundements of the reforms that we wish to push forward. You might want to save the Church's power but the Church will not save you in the years to come."[/list]
| Marie would lean in, waiting for Gloria to respond. Gloria would lean back and look at Marie silently. |
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| On 28th of August, 1951, the First Representative of Zaire, Gloria Banza, had signed the Church and State Act which officially brings through laws that seperate the Church and the State, cuts all state funding to religious institutions, bans any formations of radical political religious movements and bans direct involvement in the politics of the country by the Church. The signing of the act caused caused further protests around major cities, protests that were put down by the SECULAR FORCES. The protests turned into riots in Elisabethville, but were harshly put down by the Secular Forces on the orders of Marie Izuru. Over 80 were injured and 130 were arrested in relation to causing riots.
On the 17th of October, Marie Izuru authorized the creation of the ZAIREAN NATIONAL INVESTIGATION FORCE, the ZNIF, which is tasked with keeping track of radical and potentially dangerous activity within the country. The ZNIF has been formed as a new institution that will work as its own being, with no links to the police, the Secular Forces or the Military.
On 15th of November, secretly, Marie Izuru has issued operation CHURCH to go ahead which has began. The operation will seek an extensive amount of ZNIF operators to be sent out around Zairean churches and to the most religious communities in the country to observe any form of radicalism and religious fanaticism forming and effectively crushing them before they have a chance to spread. The operation was accepted by Mrs Banza and the main Experts of the Interior and Culture.
Marie Izuru, in her speech to the National Congress on the 14th of November stated that;
[list][ MARIE IZURU, Head of the Finest Assembly ]: "Nous ne ferons jamais demi-tour. Nous ne céderons jamais. Nous ne nous laisserons pas détourner ou arrêter dans notre besoin profond de réforme et de changement afin de donner à notre peuple la liberté dont il a besoin. Avec la loi sur l'Église maintenant adoptée et en vigueur, je suis convaincu que nous entrons dans un nouveau Zaïre avec une énergie de triomphe et d'effort. Ce que cette loi nous a montré à tous, c'est que nous défendrons toujours les libertés de notre peuple et que nous chercherons toujours à l'enrichir sur le plan économique et politique. Aucun homme ou femme n'aura désormais à craindre que l'Église s'immisce dans sa vie politique et personnelle, et je veillerai à ce que chaque homme et femme qui prend sa vie en main soit libéré des politiques religieuses radicales et des tactiques religieuses dépassées de contrôle, de peur et d'intimidation. "[/list]
[spoiler="...Fabian Nigoye was the status quo that focused on money and economy...Marie Izuru is the brick that destroys the status quo and creates a new one, you decide which one is more effective and more dangerous..." - The Zairean Tribune]Adriatican Islands
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[list][list]|[sub]To represent the host nation and Czechoslovak Delegation in the Session's closing speech, Chairman of the National Assembly Jaroslav Haek[/sub]|[/list][/list]
"Greetings to all who have been welcomed into this beautiful and historic capital of Central Europe. The socialist peoples of Europe have gathered in the halls of our Parliament here in Czechoslovakia; Soviets, Germans, Baltic Slavs, Poles, Hungarians, and us, have willing come together in a socialist bond to support our development together. Our strength in our proletariate rule and labor power is seen as "un-democratic" or "authoritarian" elsewhere in the capitalist world... but we know our truths! Our progress here tonight in this very room, this session with you all, is proof otherwise, of our strength from our systems."
"Here, tonight, in the capital of my home that I have long relished in living in, we have accomplished so much. We have shared our economic progress, together, cooperating our economic strengths and socialist economies. We have even begun our finest socialist project, a coordinated railway treaty of powerful importance: COMTRACK! And, of course I wouldn't forget, the ascension of our longer-term ally, Yugoslavia, to our ranks. I will now continue to relish in the fact that this city has continued to accomplish so much! The power of the socialist organization of government, and the continuation of Marxist thought through Lenin's revolution, has proven its own strength today. I speak on behalf of Czechoslovakia's government, when I am proud to be apart of CMEA's accomplishments."
"... Czechoslovakia is lucky to be able to host this year's CMEA Session, of course, and even more proud to be hosting the accomplishment of COMTRACK's Phase I... This nation has long looked for better leadership since the death of Tomá Garrigue Masaryk, our nations great founder. Some men have attempted to replicate his progress from his shadow... and some men continue to do so in this very country!... Which is why Czechoslovakia, and myself of course, are extremely humbled to be able to be amongst fellow states of paramount socialist accomplishments! We wish further progressive accomplishments and strength to our fellow countrymen and CMEA members!..."
[list][sub] Chairman of the National Assembly Jaroslav Haek, televised, representing Czechoslovakia in a closing speech to the Council for Mutal Economic Assistance Session, 1951. A long-awaited first public speech for Haek since becoming Assembly Chairman after the Communist Coup, who has now gathered somewhat of a public following. Haek still heads the National Assembly's Intelligence Commission, which continues to hold onto leading-admin control over the State's security and intelligence forces. [/sub][/list]
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The War in the North - November, 1951
After a few months, the situation in Thailand became more and more complex for the Royalists. Despite several skirmishes, the forces loyal to the King were unable to overcome the Constitutionalist troops, largely due to the total support of the Thai Navy to the rebels. Even though it had control of virtually all military aircraft in the country, the Air Force was unable to launch a large-scale operation in the eastern provinces. Trapped in the East, Phibun decides to force his forces to the North and put an end to the communist revolution before it spreads. Several villages in the provinces of Lampang, Chiang Mai and Lamphun are attacked by royalist forces inflicting heavy casualties on the revolutionaries, however they are unable to eliminate their presence, using guerrilla tactics and allied to the extensive use of Thai jungles, the communist forces continue to haunt Phibun and the Kingdom of Thailand.
Meanwhile in Nakhon Ratchasima, the provisional capital of the Constitutional forces, Prime Minister Thamrong, Pridi and other members of the government are discussing what to do about the communists: Attack them? Form a united front against the Royalists? Despite many days of debate, no proposal manages to gain broad support, with scarce resources and mostly focused on defending the "Legitimate Government", Luang decides to simply ignore the socialist government in the North until the situation improves.
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YUGOSLAV MILITARY COMPLEX - R-25 VULKAN & J-451MM STRLJEN
November 3rd 1951
https://youtu.be/NlzxqRfTzn4
While the Yugoslav Military Industry was among its largest economic focuses, there was a severe lack of both jet borne aircraft and anti-aircraft systems. Naturally most of this could be imported from the Soviet Union however an internal source of supply for such items would be extremely valuable. Tito himself had put a large priority on the Development bureau, granting it an annual budget of 76.8 million USD (just over 880 million in 2022). Firstly the T-451MM Strljen (Hornet), with soviet assistance, would become the Nations first jet propelled Close Air Support Aircraft which would replace the aging IL-2 Sturmovik from the early 1940s. Then to provide proper and modern ground to air capabilities the R-25 Vulkan is actively being developed and researched by Serbian engineer Obrad Vučurović. With the T-451MM already being in a prototype stage, its production is set for 1956 while the much more theoretical R-25 Vulkan will most likely enter service in either 1959 or 1960.
Being additionally a point of prestige to create many of its own Systems to compete with Slovenia, the urgency of the projects and their importance were of almost no equal beside pressing civilian concerns. Already with its newly acquired S-103 Fighters (Czechoslovak-made Mig-15s) the Yugoslav Air Force was conducting daily flights near the Slovene Border to both show off the prowess of the Air Force and the fact that Slovenia was no longer the only State in the area with Jets. To replace these flights with Yugoslav Aircraft would only further intensify the image of a strong Yugoslavia.
[spoiler=T-451MM Strljen]
Crew: One pilot
Length: 7,72 m
Wingspan: 7,70 m
Height: 2,19 m
Wing area: 10,50 m2
Empty weight: 1186 kg
Gross weight: 2936 kg
Powerplant: 2 × Klimov RD-10A axial-flow turbojet, 9.8 kN (2,200 lbf) of thrust each
Range: 884 km
Service ceiling: 11 050 m
Top speed: 902 km/h (560 mph, 487 kn) at 4,500 m
Armament: 2 x 23 mm Vya-23 cannons with 120 round each, 8 x RS-82 rockets or 4 x RS-132 rockets, 4 x 250 kg bombs on external hardpoints
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[spoiler=R-25 Vulkan]
Weight : 1,413 kg (3,115 lb) at launch
Length : 8.10 m (26.6 ft) total length at launch
length : 5.24 m (17.2 ft) missile without booster rockets
Diameter : 350 mm (14 in)
Engine : RM-1000B sustainer, 11.77 kN (2,650 lbf) thrust - sustainer, 245.25 kN (55,130 lbf) thrust - boosters
Propellant : liquid fuel sustainer, solid-fuelled boosters
Operational range : 30 km (19 mi)
Flight altitude : 20 km (12 mi)
Speed : M2.5
Guidance system : Radar initially with infra-red terminal guidance
Steering system : Aerodynamic
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[list]✶𝔏𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔦́𝔫 𝔇𝔦𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔬✶
ꜱᴀɴᴛᴏ ᴅᴏᴍɪɴɢᴏ, ʀᴇᴘᴜ́ʙʟɪᴄᴀ ǫᴜɪsǫᴜᴇʏᴀɴᴀ
10 DE NOVIEMBRE 1951 - ELECTIONS TO BE HELD
ELECCIONES A REALIZAR
ᴛɪᴘᴏ: ᴄᴏᴍᴜɴɪᴄᴀᴅᴏ ᴅᴇ ᴘʀᴇɴꜱᴀ | ʀᴇᴄᴇᴘɪᴇɴᴛᴇꜱ: ɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀʟ
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| After two months of grueling demonstrations led by the Free And Fair Elections movement that erupted across the country on the day of the controversial funeral of ex-President Rafael Trujillo and his brother, the interim government led by a military junta has agreed to the calls and will hold elections in January 1952, giving candidates enough time to recuperate and plan for their campaigning. Two candidates have already announced they will be running, which include Democratic Revolutionary Party candidate Juan Bosch and Viriato Fiallo of the National Civic Union. There have been rumors that Joaquin Balaguer will attempt to run for candidacy yet due to his connections with the Trujillo brothers and living in exile, there are doubts that the rumors are indeed true. Nevertheless, the current interim government, who have been planning the first free elections the nation has seen, are on alert for any attempt to subvert the upcoming election. |
✶PALACIO NACIONAL✶
| Reporters surround General Antonio Imbert Barrera as he addresses the nation about the upcoming election and his view of a new republic... |
[list]{ᴀɴᴛᴏɴɪᴏ ɪᴍʙᴇʀᴛ ʙᴀʀʀᴇʀᴀ}: Good evening Quisqueyanos, I General Antonio Imbert Barrera alongside the rest of the current military junta are pleased to announce the upcoming election in January of 1952. It will not only be a new year, but a new face of the country we call home. Regardless of which candidate wins, they will have to address the major discrepancies and issues that past leaderships failed to subdue or repair. It is with this information that it must be acknowledged that we will see a new Republic, a new Quisqueya. We have been shaken to the core after the events that unfolded due the funeral procession and we send our condolences and offer reparations for the families of victims that were lost as a result of the riots that soon ensued and engulfed most of the nation. We hear you, we see you, and we don't want to lose you. Be ready to vote, as this will be the first free election since the inception of our nation.[/list]
| Imbert adjusts his military formals, looks at the camera with a small smirk, and walks off frame as reporters follow him. As he is walking, he shakes the hands of the two politicians that announced their candidacies. |
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[sub]Ministerium für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (MfAA) der DDR (backdated)
| GDR foreign Ministry statement on the Meeting between the GDR and United Tribes of Azania. |[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1806557
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[list][list]JUNE 1950
[sub]Far East Treatymaker I[/sub][/list]
[pre] F O C U S O N A S I A [/pre]
[sup]A Series¹[/sup][sub][pre] D U L L E S A M E R I C A N A[/pre]
[list][list][pre]A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is good;
and an evil man out of the evil treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is evil;
for of the abundance of his heart his
mouth speaketh.
LUKE 6:45, KJV[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
[list][sub]By the time JOHN FOSTER DULLES came into the State Department in 1950 as a bipartisan consultant, the postwar world had evolved with conclusive rapidity . . . . the Iron Curtain had slammed down across Europe. In Asia, the red armies of MAO ZEDONG had driven General CHIANG Kai-SHEKs forces out of the Chinese mainland with the remnants of his KMT forces calling Taiwan home . . . There were rumblings of other confrontations in the Far East, the most dangerous being Korea. The country was divided at the 38th Parallel between the Communist North and pro-American South under the leadership of SYNGHMAN RHEE. On the eve of 50, the 38th Parallel was on the verge of crisis.[/sub][/list]
EXT./INT. DULLES, KENNAN, & THE STATE DEPARTMENT,
[sub]FAR-EAST ORIENT AFFAIRS[/sub]
| It appeared to strategists in both Washington and London that the sooner a peace treaty could be signed with the occupied Japanese, just across the sea from both China and Korea, the better upheavals could be avoided . . . but what sort of peace? That was the major question. Thanks to GEN. MacARTHUR, Japan had undergone enlightened military occupation by U.S. (and token British, Australian and New Zealand) forces since its surrender in 1945. But concerning those peoples and nations who underwent wartime era suffering at the hands of the Japanese, it would take a number of years, Washington knew, for the process to heal. In Vancouver Straits, Provenancia and Taiiwan diplomats therefrom; Sydney, Manila and Taipei had made it clear that they wished to see a peace treaty signed that would remind the Japanese for generations to come of what had occurred during those wartime years at the hands of their imperialism that spanned from the 1930s to 1940s. |
| On the otherhand, the United States badly needed Japan as a military base, and it was obvious that American troops, ships and planes could not stay there much longer alone by meer subjugation. A framework for peace had to be established between Washington and Tokyo for Japanese acceptance and acquiescence. GEORGE F. KENNAN, a mastermind of postwar American strategy, and his Policy Planning Staff drafted up a paper proposing liberal changes to ease Japanese integration back into the greater world. Converting the nation from defeated enemy to a member of the family of free nations. |
INT. SALLE Du BOIS RESTAURANT EVENING
[sub]18th & M STREET NW, WASHINGTON D.C.[/sub]
[list][sub]In the 1950s Washington's restaurant culture was still recovering from the food shortages of World War II and its aftermath. The wartime Office of Price Administration (WT-OPA) had frozen prices for food served in restaurants in 1943, dampening business through the duration of the war. Since the postwar eras cautionary economics however, the return of said culture became gradual.[/sub][/list]
| La Salle du Bois, opened in December 1941 at the dawn of American involvement in World War II, was one such place. Located on the southwest corner of 18th and M Streets NW, it was an outpost of a New York City restaurant of the same name, as were many of Washington's best restaurants of this era. When it opened it was decorated in a patriotic modern style of rose, white and blue, with Colonial revival wallpaper and soft lighting. Thats where JOHN FOSTER DULLES and TOWNSEND HOOPES, a Staff Aide to the Defense Secretary. |
[list]| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | I understand youve read Kennans draft on Japan.[/list]
| DULLES was in the process of folding a napkin over his lap, before leaning in slightly to position his silverware. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | I have . . . I attached a memorandum to the State Secretary [Acheson] this morning.
| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | A rider?
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | To the Kennan draft, yes.
| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | I gather hell find it sage then.
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | It reflects two deeply held convictions of mine . . . One, any attempt to impose vengeful terms on a defensed enemy would be a self-destructive approach . . . and two, the intensity of the geopolitical standoff we find ourselves with the Soviets makes it an imperative to align a post-occupation Japan with our interests and assets of the coalition of free nations.
| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | Coalition of free nations? Im sure the NATO boysll like the ring of that for Europe, dont know how theyd feel about Japan however being part of that.[/list]
| DULLES halted for a moment, as the WAITERS brought around their drinks and starting appetizers, Oysters Rockefeller. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | And what is that suppose to mean?
| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | The appalling nature of the Pacific front. The Bataan death march, everything the Japanese did in China, to Indochina, all of it, everything.[/list]
| DULLES only took a moment to ponder, it was the same concerns raised by many in postwar American foreign policy on the issue of Japan and her occupation. Unlike German and Italian Americans, the Japanese in America had been treated differently, as if somehow the zealous devotion to the Emperor and Empire was ingrained and not what it truly was, a consequence of a decade of propaganda at the behest of imperial warlords. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | The world must finally learn and apply the tragic lesson of Versailles, its beyond important that magnanimity and generosity be applied to the Japanese as it has been to the Germans and Italians. Both on moral and practical grounds.
| TOWNSEND HOOPES, [sub]Defense Dept. Staff Aide[/sub] | Forgiveness as American foreign policy, John?
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Our redeemer [Christ] teaches us that nothing is unforgivable.[/list]
| Slight eyeroll from HOOPES, but nevertheless. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | On the second point, its not strange to understand former enemies must now become allies, as former allies pivot to a level of red tyranny we all knew would come.[/list]
DISPATCH DULLES TO THE FAR-EAST
| It seemed to DEAN ACHENSON, Trumans Secretary of State, that DULLES as the right man for the job of bringing about a Japanese treaty that would be acceptable to all parties involved. Not simply because his viewpoints would gain favor with the occupied Japanese Nippon-Nihon, but also his authority. having been once a diplomacy to Kuomintang China in the 1930s, his air of sincerity and sense of purpose would prove crucial in convincing the Japanese, whomst were former enemies, and the Australians, New Zealanders and Britishthat a liberal treaty was the only course of action. |
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[sub]¹ A Series: Dulles Americana focuses on JOHN FOSTER DULLES, and the State Department at large during Americas cold war years. DULLES went on to serve as President EISENHOWERs Secretary of State, and his brother, ALLEN DULLES, a founding father of Americas intelligence community and director of the CIA.[/sub]
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NAVAL PLAN '55, YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS DEAL WITH THE U.S.S.R
November 21st 1951
https://youtu.be/akSNeApBmZI?t=7
To secure its long term needs Yugoslavia has signed a deal with the Soviet Union for the provision of second hand Vessels between the current date and 1955, negating the need for any future deals until that date is reached. Increasing needs due to the growing Naval capabilities of Italy, Greece and Slovenia, Yugoslavia needs not only to increase its own Naval Strength but also the Bases extended to the Soviet Union to permit Soviet Vessels to project power within the Adriatic and as a result the Mediterranean. This final plan will bring the Yugoslav Navy to its full strength, meaning in the future only replacements or modernizations would be considered.
Vessels to be acquired in 1952 grouping
1 x Kirov-class Cruiser
4 x Uragan-class guard ship
Vessels to be acquired in 1954 grouping
8x Kronshtadt-class submarine chaser
12x Shchuka-class submarine
As with all Vessels acquired in early 1951, Soviet Naval Personnel will assist in the training of Yugoslav Sailors on their Soviet Vessels, particularly the Shchuka Class Submarines as Yugoslavia's previously operated types were all of an outdated and thus vastly different nature. If it were to become the case that in response the Slovene and Greek Navies in particular vastly expand their own capabilities, it is the view of the Ministry of Defense that the Air Forces should be expanded as this would be a more versatile response than simply expanding the number of ships in service.
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NO TOLERANCE PUNISHMENT UPGRADES INTRODUCED TO DETER CRIME
December 13th 1951
In order to combat the persistent issue of increased crime which worsened after the liberation of Albania due to the Albanian Lek losing virtually all of its value overnight (and thus eliminating the savings of thousands of Albanians), the Yugoslav Ministry of the Interior in coordination with discussions held with Marshal Tito have held upgrades in severity of punishments for various crimes meant to deter criminals. Already life in prison is unsavory at the very least in Yugoslavia however the sentences themselves would have to be overhauled to prevent any individual from believing their crimes are worth the risk of jail time.
Noticeably all sentences in excess of 20 years shall now carry the additional punishment of an individual having all of their financial and property assets seized by the Government to be distributed either to the victim or any other valid participant. Included within the reform is also the stipulation that any and all individuals sentenced to more than 5 years can now be forcefully enlisted in labor programs, mainly the construction of roads and railways. An Individual who attempts or succeeds at escaping from such forced labor shall automatically have their sentences upgraded to Death.
To deter organized Crime the practice of negotiations done with lower members of an organization will no longer take place, as was often the case and is still the case in most of the world. The argument being that Justice, represented by the State, would rather see a murderer be put in front of a firing squad than learn trivial information about other members of his supposed organization. Perversion of Ideology was the only upper severity crime which was not altered, because while it carries a minimum punishment of 10 years does not possess an upper limit and death or life imprisonment can as a result be applied as seen fit by the Judge in question. Sexual crimes of all natures were equally put on the death list due to concerns raised by Female Advisors of the Ministry of Justice belonging to the Union of Women of Yugoslavia. These Advisors were adamant that the crime should be applied equally to all sexes and ages, and after the matter was passed on to Marshal Tito he gave his full approval and support of their message.
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MURDER - Death > Death with Seizure of all Assets
ATTEMPTED MURDER + MANSLAUGHTER - Life Imprisonment > Death with Seizure of all Assets
RAPE + RELATED SEX OFFENCES - Life Imprisonment > Death with Seizure of all Assets
SALE + TRAFFICKING OF DRUGS - 10 years > Death with Seizure of all Assets
MALE + FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION - Not Specified > Death with Seizure of all Assets
ASSAULT - 10 Years > 25 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence + Seizure of all Assets
ABDUCTION - 5 Years > 25 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence + Seizure of all Assets
INCEST - 5 Years > 25 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence + Seizure of all Assets
BURGLARY + THEFT - 5 Years > 20 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence
BLACKMAIL - 5 Years > 15 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence
POSSESSION OF DRUGS - 2 Years > 10 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence
SMUGGLING - 5 > 10 Years without possibility of negotiation or commuted sentence
*Current Punishment > New Punishment
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[list]November 1951
[sub]National Interest[/sub][/list]
[pre]D E F E N D I N G N A T I O N A L I N T E R E S T[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]The 1950 Quiapo Theatre Incident left a distaste for communism
in the minds of the public. Perpetrated by an avowed communist and an anti-
establishment Filipino, the incident left four dead and 15 injured. The Philippines
already had in itself burned an anti-communist mindset, but the integration of
former HUKBALAHAP rebel leader Luis Taruc into the government under the
Philippine Progressive Party had loosened that mindset. It was clear, however,
that it was in the National Interest to ensure the maintenance of the
Status Quo.[/pre][/sub][/list]
QUIAPO THEATRE, QUIAPO, MANILA, MANILA PROVINCE, Provenancia
[sub]THIRD REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES[/sub]
| The first anniversary of the 1950 Quiapo Theatre Incident was marked by a solemn ceremony and a Mass attended by several senators and law enforcement leaders. A year ago, an avowed communist committed arson and attempted to burn down the famous Quiapo Theatre, killing four and injuring fifteen. The incident was burned into the public's mindset, but the rise of social democratic policies and the vocal presence of former communist rebel leader Luis Taruc in the Philippine Government somewhat reduced the negative effect of the incident, to the ire of some. PRESIDENT MANUEL ROXAS was meant to attend the ceremonies on the 9th of November, but did not do so due to what vague Malacanang Palace spokespersons described as 'minor movement issues' with the President. Standing in for him, instead, was INTERIOR SECRETARY Jose Zulueta, a long-time Representative in the House turned Secretary of the Interior and Local Government. |
[list][sub]| JOSE ZULUETA, Secretary of the Interior |[/sub] "We stand here today in commemoration of a tragedy inflicted by forces of violence, of radicalism. We stand here today to mourn the deaths of four of our fellow countrymen, and we stand here today, ready to pledge that we do our best to prevent such a tragedy from occurring once more. It is clear that there is no place in our society for radicalism, but only unity. Not violence, but prosperity."[/list]
| It was evidently clear that the ROXAS ADMINISTRATION was more left-leaning than the previous Quezon Administration. Supporting a broad level of social welfare programs as well as initiatives to create jobs and develop local industry en masse, President MANUEL ROXAS was regularly likened to former U.S. President FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, who initiated the NEW DEAL and the SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM. Despite this, however, Roxas remained a committed pro-West politician and one who advocated for the development of the national status quo through greater government regulation of the economy and investments both locally and internationally sourced to support economic growth. In the first years of his tenure, economy was the key focus. Trade acts were passed by Congress strengthening the ever valuable U.S.-Philippines Special Friendship, and the Roxas Administration defended the presence of U.S. bases in the Philippines. |
| With the outbreak of the KOREAN WAR and the strengthening of the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA - a new Communist regime - however, the Philippine Government began to process the notion that communism could be spreading. In a developing progressive economy, even in one governed by a center-left Liberal government, the threat of ideological radicalism remained strong. It was evidently clear that there was a need to keep the nation stable politically and economically. This was embodied through a series of programs initiated by PRESIDENT ROXAS to DEFEND THE NATIONAL INTEREST. In a series of key legislation passed after the Summer Recess of 1951, the President signed into law several pieces of legislation mandating for; |
[list][pre] National Labor Union Act - Initiated national protections for labor unions and labor members, but strengthening government oversight and monitoring over the increasingly powerful unions
Defense Authorization Act of 1951 - Granted a 7.5% increase in funding for the procurement of surplus and modernized military equipment for the Philippine Army, Philippine Air Force, and Philippine Navy
Law and Order Act - Granted a 3.5% budgetary increase for the Philippine Constabulary and other local-level law enforcement forces, and mandated for the strengthening of law enforcement reach especially in rural areas[/pre][/list]
| Controversially, however, the Roxas Administration also enthusiastically signed into law the SAFE UNIVERSITIES ACT, which mandated greater levels of police patrolling of university campuses and strengthened campus security. Generally, the public was indifferent to the legislation, but particularly vocal activist groups called the law a 'violation of students' right to privacy', arguing that strengthened presence of 'arms-carrying authority' would 'obstruct students and their education'. The bill encountered great protest among these vocal groups - comprised predominantly of young activist students - but the President signed the bill into law in October either way. |
| Crucial to this NATIONAL INTEREST DEFENSE policy however was President Roxas's strong and firm commitment to the Korean War. Since the outbreak of the conflict, the Philippines has committed a force of over 4,500 men to the United Nations Coalition fighting alongside the ROK Army against the communist north. The President has been hawkish on the situation, affirming the need to continue the supplying of arms and other goods to the U.N. forces as the war continues to rage on. This, however, appears to be less party policy but rather a general view among the Filipinos that communist containment was more necessary than a balanced budget, per se. |
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| IZURU HEADS TO YUGOSLAVIA AMIDST CONTROVERSY |
[sub]2nd of December, 1951[/sub]
BANZA MANSION
| Walking through the corridors of the Banza Mansion, yet again, Izuru would be in a different position than before. She knew she was going for a scolding, two weeks prior to her visit to Yugoslavia to which the majority of Zairean media, especially those of right and central wings reacted negatively and with shock. Wearing a black dress, she would make her way through the corridors before making her way to the cabinet to which the door opened. Banza was already standing and turning around harshly she would gesture Izuru to sit. Despite Izuru taking a seat, Banza would remain standing. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "Mrs Banza."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Mrs Izuru."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I understand---"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Yes we know, that you understand a lot. Yet, you don't comprehend that the foreign ministry is in my power. Representation of Zaire, in the outside world, is my power."[/list]
| Izuru would remain silent. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Yet, despite my initial responses of a no to your planned visit to Yugoslavia, I hear that preparations are nearly finished. You're going against my orders. My thoughts. Most of all, against me personally. I didn't visit Yugoslavia for the sole reason of not wanting to show a signal that Zaire respects their doings against our long standing partner, Slovenia. You are doing the exact opposite by going."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I only wish to make a deal---"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "A deal that you have no constitutional right to make. It is not your power you travel abroad and make deals. You're to focus on running the country, on making the country better. Not on going foreign visits and smiling your way through the cameras."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "So it's about fame."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Don't be stupid. It's about loyalty. It's about the constitution. It's about respect. All of which you are not adhering to in a shocking manner."[/list]
| Marie would slowly rise up as she looked directly at the angered Gloria. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "You are worried, m'am, that I will outshine you. That maybe, perhaps, Mrs Banza is not irreplaceable in the spheres of foreign affairs. I am not going to make myself a celebrity, I am going to make Zaire a world standing partner."[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "You will not go. You do not have my permission to go."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "I'm afraid I don't require your permission. You're inability to see the need in Zaire opening to the Eastern world and your incredible fear of losing your power and influence is truly baffling for someone as seasoned as you. I will go, Gloria. Whether you like it or not."[/list]
| Gloria would look at Marie and after making her way directly to her face, she would look her up and down. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "If you go, I will motion for your dismissal."[/list]
| Marie would stand back, as shock lured over her face. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "That will be all, Mrs Izuru."[/list]
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| The jet carrying the Head of the Finest Assembly would land in Yugoslavia, after a provisional stop in Egypt. From the jet would emerge Mrs Marie Izuru, the Head of the Assembly. Wearing a black dress with black high heels, black gloves, a black feathered hat and a white fur, Mrs Izuru would dazzle the press and people gathered. Smiling slightly at them all, she would give an occasional wave before making her way onto a red carpet rolled out for her. The Yugoslavian children would approach her with smiles and flowers, as she kissed them on the cheeks. She would pose for a few more pictures before making her way on. Heading to the Banquet in her honour before going off to the meeting with the leader of Yugoslavia, Marshall Tito. Her visit has caused incredible controversy in Zaire, with Mrs Banza stating that she does not support the meeting and the Zairean media commenting on whether the era of Mrs Banza is endangered by the approaching force that Marie Izuru is becoming. Mrs Izuru, at the airport stood at the podium to the international press gathered and stated a few interesting words. |
[list][ MARIE IZURU, Head of the Finest Assembly ]: "C'est un plaisir d'être en Yougoslavie aujourd'hui, alors que s'ouvre un nouveau chapitre dans les affaires étrangères du Zaïre. Il nous rapproche de la compréhension du monde oriental et crée un lien qui, basé sur la valeur économique et l'amitié, pourrait durer longtemps. Je sais que ma visite suscite de fortes émotions, mais il s'agit d'une visite de curiosité et de volonté de comprendre et de faire des affaires."[/list]
[spoiler="...Izuru's visit to Yugoslavia is a strong sign to Mrs Banza that unless she breaks through yet again, she risks being sidelined by a force no one suspected, Marie." - Zairean Tribune]Adriatican Islands
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[list][list]JUNE 1950
[sub]Far East Treatymaker II[/sub][/list]
[pre] D U L L E S A M E R I C A N A [/pre][sup]A Series¹[/sup]
[list][list][sub][pre]A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is good;
and an evil man out of the evil treasure of
his heart bringeth forth that which is evil;
for of the abundance of his heart his
mouth speaketh.
LUKE 6:45, KJV[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
[list][sub]DULLES set off for the Far East Orient on the 14th with JOHN ALLISON, his single assistant for an exploratory tour of Japan and Korea. By way of South Korea, hed make that journey to Japan. There he had made it an important priority to see SYNGHMAN RHEE, a fellow member of the World Council of Churches, and an old friend to DULLES whomst had always respected the sly, ruthless Korean leader that hadnt been noticed by most of the Washington establishment DULLES arrived in Rutannia on the eve of the war, due approx. in 11 days.[/sub][/list]
EXT. DINING PATIO, THE HOTEL CHOSUN EVENING
[sub]FAR-EAST ORIENT AFFAIRS[/sub]
| It had only been a year since the Chosen Hotel had been renamed to the Chosun Hotel, by the new Korean government to fit its Korean culture and depart from the Japanese imperial spelling format. Once called the Ritz Hotel of the Far East, the Chosun Hotel was, for a time, the last word in luxury and comfort in Korea. Dignitaries, statesmen, royalty, celebrities, casual travelers, and locals graced its elegant spaces with their presence it now, beyond being managed by the new Korean Ministry of Transportation, was staffed by U.S. Military officers and their staff, as well as the Hotel Bando. That was where JOHN FOSTER DULLES met with U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia; GEORGE V. ALLEN , a fellow of the Foreign Service core. |
[list]| GEORGE V. ALLEN, [sub]Ambassador[/sub] | Among their peoples, its quite clear Chiang and Rhee dont intend to allow free and open elections. Not exactly the paragons of the democratic process.
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Not in that sea of tranquility you experience in Yugoslavia, George . . . They are however, Christian gentlemen of a very high order.[/list]
| DULLES leaned forward in his chair a bit. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Well, Ill tell you this. No matter what you say about the President of Korea or the President of Nationalist China, those two gentlemen are the equivalent of the founders of the church. They are Christian gentlemen who have suffered for their faith, immensely so. They have been steadfast and upheld the faith in a manner that puts them in the category of the leaders of the early Church.[/list]
| Ambassador ALLEN merely leans back slightly in his seat, sorta surprised, it was also sorta humorous. |
[list]| GEORGE V. ALLEN, [sub]Ambassador[/sub] | . . . Wow.
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | And the day that ceases to become better than Communist tyranny, is the day something had been forsaken.
| GEORGE V. ALLEN, [sub]Ambassador[/sub] | Now look, I didnt
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Youll write to me when Tito finally goes ballistic psycho, wont you?[/list]
INT. PARLIAMENT OF KOREA AFTERNOON
[sub]SEOUL, Rutannia[/sub]
| DULLES had spent 4 days with President RHEE of the Republic of Korea and made several speeches before U.S. diplomats, U.S. stationed military officers, some translated to the Korean public but the most important however not-State Department sanctioned one was before the Korean Parliament itself on the 19th, a mere six days, on the eve of War . . . To his credit, RHEE had expressed his fear that war was coming between his country and that of the North, and the current status was that Korea was not the top concern of American far-east policy, far more focused on Japan than Korea or Taiwan. RHEE lauded to DULLES his concern that DEAN ACHENSON, Secretary of State and DULLES superior had threatened to cut U.S. Aid off unless free elections were allowed in Korea something RHEE was not about to do. |
| DULLES to his credit, arose as the Korean Parliament applauded his walk to the podium, in a navy blue suit and vest, round-spectacles and lanky demeanor. DULLES had taken upon himself to reassure RHEE and the Korean people on the eve of what-may-be. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | . . . The American people welcome you as an equal partner in the great company of those who make the Free World, a world which commands vast moral and material power, and whose resolution is unswerving . . . I say to you: You are not alone. You will never be alone so long as you continue to play worthily your part in the great design of human freedom . . .[/list]
| It was of course, without doubt, a surprisingly bold pronouncement for a bipartisan consultant that DULLES was, especially since the speech had not been cleared with Washington. |
A GREATER SIGNIFICANCE SIX DAYS LATER
[sub]KYOTO to TOKYO, Nippon-Nihon[/sub]
| While JOHN FOSTER DULLES and his wife, JANET AVERY DULLES, were sightseeing with a U.S. diplomatic core in Kyoto war broke out between the North and South by way of a Northern invasion, and the plight of RHEE and the South was reaching its nadir. DULLES rushed back to Tokyo and with ALLISONs assistance, drafted an urgent cable to DEAN ACHESON, Secretary of State. |
[list][list][list][list][list][pre]FOREIGN SERVICE MAILGRAM [INTER.NAT. Postal][/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]
[list][pre]DEAN ACHESON, STATE.SEC.
STATE DEPT.
WASHINGTON DC 20500
RECOMMENDATION TO STATE SEC IF THE SOUTH CANNOT HOLD BACK ATTACK WE BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES FORCE SHOULD BE USED BECAUSE NOT DOING SO WOULD START A DISASTROUS CHAIN OF EVENTS LEADING MOST PROBABLY TO WORLD WAR
JOHN FOSTER DULLES 31-1 CHIYODA WARD TOKYO JPN 100-0006[/pre][/list]
| The PRESIDENT and ACHESON, who started off by being furious with DULLES speech before the Korean Parliament now agreed with his assessment of the unfolding situation. It was time to show the Communists, The PRESIDENT asserted, that armed invasions and the conquering of independent nations would be resisted by the democracies. With the whole hearted supported of GEN. MacARTHUR, The PRESIDENT ordered troops and rallied the United Nations Un to support American efforts to aid the Koreans in their hour of need. |
TRANSPACIFIC FLIGHT EVENING
[sub]TOKYO, Nippon-Nihon to SAN FRANCISCO, Paramountica[/sub]
| With a stop in Hawaii, DULLES sat with his staff on board a Douglas DC-4, state department issued travel when he heard the news of The PRESIDENTs shift in Far-East foreign policy. Turning to ALLISON, who was seated across from him, promptly declared. |
[list]| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Truman is the greatest President in our American history.
| JOHN ALLISON, [sub]Dulles Staff Aide[/sub] | I gather your opinion of the President has turned for the better than prior the trip.
| JOHN FOSTER DULLES, [sub]State Dept. Diplomat[/sub] | Beyond happy and buoyant, John.[/list]
| DULLES feelings over the Communist sphere had been cemented during his months in the wilderness, and had become increasingly convinced that only by active resistance by the Democratic and free sphere would mopping up small nations be avoided. The American-led U.N. effort in Korea marked the commencement of rolling them back. |
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[sub]¹ A Series: Dulles Americana focuses on JOHN FOSTER DULLES, and the State Department at large during Americas cold war years. DULLES went on to serve as President EISENHOWERs Secretary of State, and his brother, ALLEN DULLES, a founding father of Americas intelligence community and director of the CIA.[/sub]
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JUNE 50 | Far East Treatymaker I
MAY 50 | Reluctant Appointee[/sup][/list]
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[list][sub]SLOVENIA AND ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM, PART TWO[/sub][/list]
THE SLOVENE GOVERNMENT USHERS IN DEALS WITH VISIONS OF SPRAWLING DOMESTIC PROJECTS
[list][sup]WHEN INTERESTS ALIGN
SLOVENIADECEMBER 1951[/sup][/list]
With the door now carefully opened to foreign businesses operating via local affiliate companies, the Slovene government had a framework through which to invite the worlds entrepreneurs. It quickly set to a program of courting world manufacturers with lucrative development deals, aiming to strategically create competition against local companies to drive innovation. The Ford Motor Company of the United States (Paramountica)which had operated via subsidiaries abroad since it founded Henry Ford & Sons Limited in Ireland in 1917was among the first to form a local affiliate company: Ford Slovenije d.d. Ford Slovenije would help to populate the auto-making hub of Novo Mesto, the Lower Carniolan center of industry. They would not be the only newcomers, though. Revoz d.d. was founded by Renault of France (Metropolitan Francais) under local foreman-turned-executive Gostimir Jarc just weeks later, and the two companies announced plans for Novo Mesto manufacturing complexes: a colossal shift that has the citys housing market rapidly expanding as the post-war baby boom saw mothers and fathers migrating to urban areas to support growing families. The announcement came as alarming to leading Slovenian vehicle manufacturer Avsec, also based in Novo Mesto; this was, however, the ultimate goal of Prime Minister Andrej Gosars administration. Pushing Slovenian companies forward was the ultimate goal of creating a competitive atmosphere, though the jobs and investment brought by foreign entrepreneurial activity could not be discredited either. Novo Mesto was to become a veritable capital of motors and automobiles in the Republics.
The Slovensko-arabska bencinska druba (SABD, Sloveno-Arabian Petrol Company) was another product of the new efforts. Founded by investors representing the Arabian-American Oil CompanyAramcoof Saudi Arabia (Sudesam), SABD would work as an intermediary infrastructural company forming the bridge between Arabian oil suppliers and the Slovenopetrol refueling stations dotting the Republic as well as the resupply points of municipal bus stations. The move came as political analysts viewed a Perso-Yugsolav alliance as likely and sought to establish a line of supply that would remove any need for trade with Iran. A further deal established an outlet shipping various goods from the port of Koper via Greek (Adriatican Islands) industrialists Demitri and Voula Koutroubinis shipping fleet, operating under local affiliate company Grke linije Koper (GLK, Greek Lines of Koper). URSPD was welcome to license the Koutroubinis pairs entrepreneurship, hoping to help provide logistical support for the growing Slovene export economy and to relieve traffic in the port of Trst: the busiest in Slovenia and one of the most frequented in Europe.
Equally interesting were the countries uninvited to participate. Public enmity for Zaire (Paseo) was on the rise after a publicized visit by Marie Izuru to Yugoslavia; solemnly declaring that the Zaireans did so with full knowledge of the consequences, Foreign Minister Leonid Pitamic lamented the emergence of a Zairean government guided by profits. An evening of discontent followed news of Izurus actions, andthough Gloria Banza was not supportive of the visitthe base of Banzas statue in Ljubljana was nonetheless left chipped and damaged and its plaque dented. The City of Ljubljana has not yet committed to repairing it. Indeed, especially after the Yugoslav invasion of Albania earlier in the year, countries dealing with Yugoslavia quickly found themselves on a kind of Slovenian blacklist. The license applications of four Zairean businesses were rejected by the URSPD on the authority of Prime Minister Gosar for public relations purposes. Also on the blacklist were Soviet-aligned states in Eastern Europe. Despite a history of cordial relations between the Western Slavs and Slovenes, the emergence of COMECON and its inclusion of Yugoslavia has created a profound gap between Slovenes and the other Slavic states. Altogether, in economic terms, Slovenia was forced to treat exclusively with the west: France, Germany (New Provenance), and the Anglosphere held the greatest promise in economic alliances. Even in the West, however, Slovenia was not fully accepted, and it sought no membership in NATO so long as Italy continued to claim Slovene Lands. Still, it strove for economic integration, acceding to the Conference of Maastricht and committing to sharing a market with Western Europe.
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[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, The Greek Army Reorganizes : Greece Ramps Up Arms Acquisitions and Continues Military Exercises!, July - August 1951
Το Βασίλειο της Ελλάδος, Εντυπωσιακή επίδειξη της ελληνικής δύναμης : Οι ελληνικές Ένοπλες Δυνάμεις διεξάγουν στρατιωτικές ασκήσεις!, Ιούλιος - Αύγουστος 1951[/list][/list]
[list][list][list]Adriatican Islands - The Greek Army and Defense Ministry! - Ο Ελληνικός Στρατός και το Υπουργείο Άμυνας![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]| ARMY REORGANIZATION, GREECE, SOUTHERN BALKANS: | ΑΝΑΔΙΟΡΓΆΝΩΣΗ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΎ, ΕΛΛΆΔΑ, ΝΌΤΙΑ ΒΑΛΚΆΝΙΑ: |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| Following the success of Operation Sparta in July 1951, the sheer power and vigor of the Greek Armed Forces in tandem with the Slovenian Armed Forces were unleashed. However, several flaws were found in the Greek Army in particular, which led to failed exercises and training. Chief among these drawbacks was the logistical problems the Greek Army faced. The current system of logistics was flawed to say the least, only being able to fully accommodate 60-70% of the total Greek troops. Along with this, another problem was the fact that the Greek Divisions were incredibly conflicting in terms of how many troops were in one division. For example, one division would have 8,000 Troops, and another division having nearly twice that at 15,000 Troops, both of these divisions being standard infantry divisions. This was somewhat released to the public, and it now being in common knowledge. Defense Minister Spiliotopoulos stated that the problems faced by the Greek Army during Operation Sparta would be resolved by the end of the year. |[/list]
[list]| In response to these problems faced by the Greek Army, Prime Minister Tsaldaris, and Defense Minister Spiliotopoulos, army reorganizations would be carried out. By the first week of August 1951, the reorganization of the Greek Army started. The following groupings were modified/changed, with new additions added: |[/list]
[list][list][pre]Divisions:[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]13 Infantry Divisions (12,000 Troops each) total of 156,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]For the standard infantry, are supplied with the required amount of guns and surplus, this includes standard rifles, a small number of tanks and trucks, three infantry brigades, artillery, scouts, and a select/on-demand amount of infantry grenadiers or support groups. Demand, equipment includes the selection of different types of support groups, artillery, support vehicles, anti-armor units, and more tanks. [/list][/list]
[list]6 Mechanized Infantry Divisions (10,000 Troops each), a total of 60,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]For the mechanized infantry, they will be supplied with similar standard and on-demand equipment as above. Trucks and non-armored vehicles are mandatory. There are 2 non-independent motorized infantry brigades in one division. [/list][/list]
[list]3 Tank Divisions (8,000 Troops each) total of 24,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Tank Divisions will be supplied with similar equipment as stated above. Tanks and armored vehicles will be mandatory, such as the GMT-44 and GMT-50 Medium Tanks. They will also be supplied with tank destroyers, scout vehicles, and mobile troop carriers.[/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]Brigades:[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]5 Motorized Infantry Brigades (4,000 Troops each) total of 20,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Trucks are mandatory, along with fast-wheeled or tracked transport for troops. Similar provisions will be provided/on request will be given to the brigades as seen in the divisions.[/list][/list]
[list]15 Infantry Brigades (9,000 Troops each) total of 60,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Lesser amount of equipment as the Infantry Divisions.[/list][/list]
[list]6 Tank Brigades (2,5000 Troops each) total of 15,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Lesser amount of equipment as the Tank Divisions.[/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]Special Forces:[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]1st Paratrooper Division, 2,500 Troops. [/list]
[list]2nd Paratrooper Division, 2,000 Troops. [/list]
[list][list]Mandatory Guns, Parachutes, and Bicycles. Transport planes will also be on standby for training and operations. Support from the Air Force and Navy is in demand. [/list][/list]
[list]1st-4th Marine Brigade (3,000 Troops each) total of 12,000 Troops[/list]
[list]5th-7th Marine Brigade (1,000 Troops each) total of 3,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Mandatory guns and coastal support. Ships and Air Support are in demand. They will work in unison with paratroopers.[/list][/list]
[list]2 Paratrooper Brigades (500 Troops each) total of 1,000 Troops[/list]
[list][list]Lesser amount of equipment as the Paratrooper Divisions.[/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]TOTAL COUNT: 25 Divisions, 39 Brigades[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]PERSONNEL: 435,000 Troops, 40,000 Navy, 40,000 Air Force[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| Total reorganization and restructuring of the Greek Army will be finished by January 1952. |[/list]
[list]| Locator Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1Qwu34qNLkN8LK_K5gD23J-3d8lkUEhc&usp=sharing |[/list]
[list][list][pre]| ARMY TRAINING, GREECE, SOUTHERN BALKANS: | ΕΚΠΑΊΔΕΥΣΗ ΣΤΡΑΤΟΎ, ΕΛΛΆΔΑ, ΝΌΤΙΑ ΒΑΛΚΆΝΙΑ: | [/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| All these new improvements and modernization to the armed forces, the Greek Army, in particular, did indeed look good on paper, however it would be useless if the troops carrying out these new orders did not know what to do. The Greek Armed Forces, under current Defense Minister Spiliotopoulos and the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, Pavlos I, had training plans put forward to the defense ministry and the parliament, which was subsequently approved by the parliament, defense ministry, and Prime Minister Tsaldaris. By the end of August 1951, several deals were negotiated between the Kingdom of Greece and her allies. Starting with Greeces most loyal, steadfast, and strong ally, the Republic of Slovenia (Amsterwald), a deal was drafted between Greek Defense Minister Panagiotis Spiliotopoulos, Slovenian Prime Minister Leonid Pitamic, and Slovenian Defense Minister Karel Marčič. This deal entailed further joint exercises between Greece and Slovenia, this time 15,000 Greek Troops comprising of the 1st Corps, which then comprised of the 1st Infantry Division, 3rd Tank Brigade, 1st Infantry Brigade, 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, totaling 24,500 men. Another separate deal was made with one of Greeces first allies during the interwar period, the 4th French Republic (Metropolitan Francais). In exchange for 20,000 new MAS-49 Rifles, along with added ammunition, Greece would facilitate French Troops' training on Crete at no cost to the French. |[/list]
[list]| In addition to this, Greek doctrines would be inspired by the Slovenian and French ones, matched with military industrialization which in turn provided more jobs. Projects are underway to now modernize the aging Greek Fleet and the Greek Air Force, as this new decade continues to progress. |[/list]
[list][list][pre] It is safe to say that the Greek Armed Forces have successfully trained and modernized over the past few months. And in tandem with our Slovenian and French allies, have now been supplied with the proper materials and equipment to operate. The Greek Armed Forces will continue training, to ensure the safety and protection of our nation.[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]- Greek Prime Minister, Konstantinos Tsaldaris[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
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[sub]THE LAND OF THE HASHEMITES DECEMBER 1951[/sub]
[sub]| A look at the many problems facing the Federation of Hashemite Kingdoms and the young Faisal II in 1951. |[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1807363
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[list][list]29th December 1951
[sub]Arab Socialist Baath Party Triumph![/sub][/list]
PARLIAMENT BUILDING, DAMASCUS, (Bescania) MORNING
| In September 1951 the Leader of the Arab Socialist Baath Party Michel Aflaq participated in a meeting with the leaders of the Egyptian Republic, President Naguib and Prime Minister Nasser. Within the meeting, Afleq requested overt support from the newly established Egyptian Republic in endorsing Afleq for the position of Prime Minister of Syria. Whilst Prime Minister Nasser was keen to do so, Naguib did not wish to openly endorse a socialist. Instead, it was devised that Egypt would provide funding and advisors to the Arab Socialist Baath Party and in return Afleq would provide closer relations to the Republic of Egypt upon a potential election victory in December 1951. By covertly supporting the Baath party, Egypt would sustain the emerging friendship with the United States it has developed and would potentially gain another friend in the Republic of Syria. |
| Back in Damascus, such funding and support allowed the Baath party to extensively campaign before the December election. Posters, leaflets and general advertising was immense, whilst not endorsing the Baath party Prime Minister Nasser recommended that the Syrian Baath Party could use Egypt as an example of a wider movement of liberation across Arab countries. Posters and leaflets adorning تحررت مصر نفسها من قيود الاستعمار والفساد فلماذا لا تستطيع سوريا؟ (Egypt has liberated itself from the chains of colonialism and corruption, so why can't Syria?). The election in 1952 was generally seen as one of the status quo vs a radical alternative. The National Party vs the Ba'ath Party. The National Party was a homogeneous movement. More than 90% of its leaders were Sunni urbanites, primarily from Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, and Hama. Over 60% of the leaders were either bureaucratic landowners or educated landowners from the old upper class. Furthermore, 25% were from affluent or middle-class merchant families, while just 10% were from the landless working class. This allowed the Baath Party to effectively represent the landless working class, and hypothetically also the middle class. The negative socialist label that the Arab Socialist Baath party had acquired was indeed daunting for some of the middle class, and in those areas that were key for electoral success the party attempted to heavily advertise themselves based on the simpler version of their name, the Baath Party which simply means renaissance" or "resurrection. |
| On the 28th December 1951, Syrian residents took to the streets to vote in a crucial election. The Syrian electoral system was one of proportional presentation, the party who wins the highest number of seats would go on to form the government with a cabinet. The leader of the party would achieve the position of Prime Minister, with Presidential elections being held separately (March 1954) two years after the parliamentary elections. Independent election observers were invited from a wide spectrum of Arab countries, including Egypt, to verify and certify the results. In the early hours of December 29th, the results were conclusive. Of Those eligible to vote (2,824,321), there was a 74.3% turnout (2,098,232). The National Party achieved a combined vote of 889,650 (42.4%), and the Arab Socialist Baath Party achieved 1,030,232 of the vote (51%) meaning an official majority had been won narrowly. This meant that 6.6% of votes which went to the third party in the election (the Peoples Party with 138,483 votes) effectively held an important sway in holding the Baath Party to account. The Peoples Party were a group who had split from the National Party a few years ago in retaliation for pro-French policies. With the results now certified, the Arab Socialist Baath leader Michel Aflaq was duly democratically elected as Prime Minister of the Republic of Syria! |
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| THE YUGOSLAVIAN VISIT SPARKS A CONSTITUTIONAL WAR |
[sub]15th of December, 1951[/sub]
| Marie Izuru's visit to Yugoslavia and her meeting with Marshal Tito earlier this month has brought was an open defiance of the First Representative Banza, and created much controversy in Zaire. Many news outlets in Zaire and around the world have nicknamed Izuru as the RED AFRICAN QUEEN, alluding to her openness towards the East and the socialistic and communistic values, that she herself states has none. Izuru was greeted with the highest honors in Yugoslavia and managed to work out an extensive trade deal with Marshal Tito that would bring lucrative profits for both states. However, on 15th of December, when the deal appeared before Mrs Banza to sign it, she outright refused to sign it.
The Zairean media quickly jumped in, stating that a CONSTITUTIONAL WAR has began between Izuru and Banza, one that has not happened in the last decade of Zairean independence. The Zairean Tribune wrote that "...the brewing of the war started much earlier when Banza was rather apprehensive towards strict secularisation act but gave in, Izuru won...then Izuru's announcement of her visit in Yugoslavia despite Banza's public refusal to allow it, Izuru won...now Mrs Banza has struck back harshly, as she denounced the deal and stated that she will not sign an illegal document that sits on her desk, Banza has won...but the crisis has only began..." The Truthful Observer goes even further in its analysis "...Izuru's visit to Yugoslavia, despite all that she said, was to showcase her power and domination over Banza...ignoring the First Representative and going anyway was a slap in the face for Banza..."
The Communists and the Socialists have taken the streets of Zaire, protesting against Banza and her refusal to sign the deal. Calling upon Banza to sign the deal, and to end her capitalistic and neo-fascist policies and tendencies. "...she [Banza] outright refuses to sign a deal that would bring profit to us simply due to the nature of Yugoslavian ideologies...it is an outright discrimination and complete arrogance and ignorance supported and funded by the French, British and Americans!" stated the leader of the Communist Party.
However, the New Zaire Media, a Television News Broadcaster, has a different idea as to why Banza refuses to sign the deal, with its main reporter PHILIPE UBUDI stating in his TV appearance that "...it's not about ideologies or ideas, it's about Banza outright refusing to be pushed around and it's a symbol of her power, that she is in charge not Izuru, and that unless Izuru complies, Banza will oust her..." However, Mrs Banza has her own reasoning which she stated before the National Congress when she was summoned by Izuru to give her reasoning for the refusal of signing the deal with Yugoslavia.
[list][ GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire ( Translated to English ) ]: "I will not accept a deal that strikes into the hearts of a nation that Zaire has for so long supported. I will not allow a whimsy of a politician to ruin a strong foundation of support and friendship that I have established with Slovenia over the past years. We have taken in Slovenian refugees, we have supported their strive for independence from the start, we have done extensive partnerships with Slovenia. For me to sign the deal with Yugoslavia, will be a knife to their back, and I will not allow Zaire to look like a backstabber of the international community. For as long as I am the First Representative of our country, the deal with Yugoslavia will not be passed unless Yugoslavia changes its ways with and towards Slovenia. I do not want to pick sides, but when someone pushes you to it, I and therefore Zaire stand by Slovenia. The deal will not be signed by me and that is final."[/list]
According to reporters presents, Izuru left harshly after Banza delivered her reasoning despite applause coming from around the chamber. The problem that Izuru is having is that in accordance with the constitution of Zaire, only the First Representative can sign foreign deals, and unless such signature appears the deal is frozen. Despite their being calls for Izuru's dismissal and apparent rumors of Banza considering it, Banza went a step further. She has humiliated Izuru and her efforts, marking the start of the constitutional war. Izuru did offer her own comments to the press about Banza's decision stating that "...being hang up on a nation thousands of miles away because of your own triumphs with them, should not exclude Zaire from opening up to the Eastern world at large. Personal ambitions and triumphs should never stand in the way of pragmatic politics but they do in this case. I think it's time for us to review the importance of the position of the First Representative and their powers that are blocking the success of our country at large." |
| IZURU'S CABINET, NATIONAL CONGRESS |
| Storming into the office, Izuru would slam down onto her desk with her fists. She would slowly breathe in and out, as she looked up in storming anger. Suddenly, the doors to the cabinet would open and Banza would walk in, shutting the door behind her. She would light herself a cigarette and standing carefully, she would shake her head. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "I have warned you about going."[/list]
[list][ MARIE ]: "You're making a horrible mistake. How will this look? How do I look now? Making a deal and being so savagely blocked!"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "To me, it looks like you were put in your rightful place. The foreign affairs belong to me. To the First Representative. If you wanted to make a deal with Yugoslavia you could of done it swiftly and silently, instead you wanted to show off your capabilities. You wanted to show off that you're very much competent in the fields of foreign diplomacy. Which clearly, you aren't."[/list]
| Marie would turn around angrily. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "You made me look like an absolute fool!"[/list]
[list][ GLORIA ]: "Not at all what I intended."[/list]
| Gloria would inhale her cigarette as Marie shook her head with contempt. |
[list][ MARIE ]: "You will regret this, Gloria. You have crossed a line which shouldn't have been crossed. We're partners, of the same party and belief and yet you make me look like an idiot."[/list]
| Gloria would stare at her for a moment, with harshness and coldness. |
[list][ GLORIA ]: "You thought that you could push me aside, make me irrelevant. Well don't you forget who gave this country its independence and who the people, and the world still love. Now. I hope this has taught you something, Marie. I must go and make preparations now. I am heading off to West Germany in a few weeks, to repair what you have damaged. Let it this be the last of your mistakes, please."[/list]
| Gloria would offer a slight smile before walking out. Marie would brew inside before flipping the chair away in a fit of rage. The constitutional war has begun. |
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AGRICULTURE PATHWAYS BEGIN CONSTRUCTION IN CHINAS FERTILE EASTERN PROVINCES
在中国肥沃的东部省份开始建设农业道路
[sub]December 1951 | 1951年12月
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HEFEI, ANUHI PROVINCE | 阿努希省合肥市[/sub]
[sub]To the north of the city of Hefei lay flat, vast and fertile farmland. Hefei served as the de facto provincial capital of Anuhi Province, just west of the city of Nanjing and just north of the Yangtze River. The Anuhi farmlands were just one of many in the vast agricultural nation that was the new Peoples Republic of China. While the country had in the past failed to utilize this trait to its advantage - perhaps a crucial factor to the former dynasties financial downfall - the new government of the Communist Party and Mao Zedong sought to change that to ensure the stability of the new Peoples Republic and a steady flow of revenue to maintain the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), which served as the Peoples Republics line of defense against the Western imperialist forces. To the government, it was abundantly clear that Chinas agriculture and farming industry held the key to the progress and development of Chinas economy - at least for the present time.[/sub]
[sub]For decades, China has been recognized as a mass producer of agricultural products and a massive employer of farmers. Majority of Chinas population, in fact, was descended from or was currently a farmer or a worker on the land. While the urbanization of cities like Shanghai, Nanjing, and even Hefei in Anuhi had begun the process of changing this as the young Chinese began moving to the cities at the start of the 20th century, many Chinese remained on their home properties, continuing to work tirelessly to make a profit by selling grain, rice and more. Previous governments - including the former Republic of China under General Chiang - had neglected this crucial part of Chinas population and Chinas economy - one of the key reasons why the Republic lost its grip and influence over Chinas rural areas during the Civil War to Communist forces.[/sub]
[sub]Recognizing the importance of the peasant farmer and his satisfactory production of goods to profit for himself and his family, Chairman Mao authorized the formation of the Peoples Committee for Agriculture and Land Reform (农业和土地改革人民委员会) to advise him and his Peoples Government on matters relating to agriculture and land reform. While the new Communist government stripped landowners of their properties and handed them down to the peasant farmers as the Maoist ideology and always mandated for the people of China, it was clear that the production levels the government wished to see to enable them to begin exporting for profit were not being met. As such, in order to boost production of agricultural products, the Chairman signed a proclamation directing for mandatory production quotas be implemented by the next harvesting season, of the year of 1952.[/sub]
[sub]In addition to the establishment of production quotas to be slowly rolled out by the Peoples Commissariat Committee for Agricultural Production (人民委员会农业生产委员会), the Chairman also directed on recommendation from the Peoples Committee for Agricultural and Land Reform the beginning of planning on the construction of Agricultural Pathways (农业之路) - essentially farm-to-market roads that would allow farmers and landowners easier access to markets and places where they could sell goods. In theory, this would enhance regional connectivity, increase trade, and strengthen and grow profits earned from agriculture. Seeking to build up domestic infrastructure and roadways at the same time, the Chairman signed off on the project, and construction began in Anuhi Province in early December, so as to allow the new pathways to be used during the next harvest season.[/sub]
[sub]合肥市的北部是平坦、广阔和肥沃的农田。合肥是阿努希省事实上的省会,就在南京市的西部,长江的北部。阿努希省的农田只是新的中华人民共和国这个庞大的农业国家中的一个。虽然该国过去未能利用这一特点来发挥其优势--也许是前朝财政衰败的一个关键因素--但共产党和毛泽东的新政府试图改变这种状况,以确保新的人民共和国的稳定和稳定的收入来源,以维持人民解放军,作为人民共和国抵御西方帝国主义力量的防线。对政府来说,非常清楚的是,中国的农业和养殖业是中国经济进步和发展的关键--至少在目前。[/sub]
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[sub]HASHEMITE CONSTITUTION DECEMBER 1951[/sub]
[sub]| Following news of Ba'athist wins in Syria, the Iraqi Regent 'Abd al-Ilah (عبد الإله) and Jordan's King Talal bin Abdullah (طلال بن عبد الله) have expedited the process of promulgating a constitution for the newly agreed Federation of Hashemite Kingdoms (اتحاد الممالك الهاشمية). Negotiations and preparatory work were originally intended to last until 1953, at which point the Iraqi King, Faisal II, would reach his majority and consummate the new Federation himself. But the politics of the Middle East admit of no delay, and while the Ba'athists are still gathering their strength, a Federal Assembly and provisional Regency Council will govern Iraq and Jordan before a Ba'athist party is able to form and put up its own contenders. The new Hashemite constitution is quickly approved by the national assemblies of Iraq and Jordan, catching the public by surprise. Federal elections will take place in Iraq and Jordan in the spring of 1952, and 'Abd al-Ilah will lead the Regency Council until Faisal II can assume the Presidency in accordance with the constitution. |[/sub]
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[sub]AL-HAYAT JANUARY 1952[/sub]
[sub]| A look at the main political parties facing off in the upcoming 1952 Federal Assembly elections. |[/sub]
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After pushback after pushback, elections have finally set in Bulgaria. The Communist Party is lagging behind the Democratic Socialists and the Agrarian Labour Party in terms of popularity within the masses. This was until Mr. Chervenkov, the director of the Marx-Lenin school in Moscow stepped in as leader of the Communist Party. He organized multiple rallies in which he slandered the other candidates from other parties with provided information from the NKVD of which, he was also a member of.
Chervenkov: My dear fellow countrymen, our nation has long been suppressed by the Tsar and his cronies and almost tainted with capitalist poison until the Soviet Union, with its glorious armies liberated us from our troubles!
These candidates, they're no more than puppets set by the Americans to destroy our state from within! They are all playthings by America to spread its imperialist ideas onto our glorious nation. Once they have been put to power, American influence within the region will strengthen significantly! American forces will not only occupy our country but take over the government just to make sure they keep their figurehead in place. We must root out these foreign collaborators starting with these two vermin from the Democratic Socialist and Agrarian Parties, they shall be arrested and executed for their crimes against the Worker's Democratic Socialist Party! We, the workers, shall take the lead in our country itself! More power to the workers, more power to the common man, more, more, more! Today, my dear countrymen, we shall take back what was lost and bring equality for all!
After multiple speeches in Sofia, Burgas, Varna, Gabrovo, and other cities in the country with extensive propaganda campaigns showing other candidates as pawns for the CIA and the American Empire with only Chervenkov and his Communist Party as the rallying party against them.
It greatly helped the campaign that arrests were actually conducted to their parties' members on charges of espionage and suspected collaboration with foreign agents, making Chervenkov more believable to the people. When elections came, Chervenkov along with the Communist Party won an easy majority amongst almost all government positions with Chervenkov as Prime Minister of Bulgaria
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[list][list][list][pre]December, 1951 | ۱۹۵۱ جدی[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]پادشاهی افغانستان ☪ Dǝ Afġānistān ahi Dawlat
Abundance and scarcity: A look into Afghan economic development[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[sup]Traditionally, resource poverty and a weak center have troubled economic development throughout Afghan history. As a result of such hampers to economic development, the modus operandi of Afghan economics was very regional-based. There was little regional integration with the central government in Kabul, opposite in fact, it was groups and tribal councils that controlled the regions, which made them effectively autonomous. The primitive roads and communications ensured that long-distance cross-border trade was confined to a few cities and routes. Previous Afghan rulers typically funded the state with their wealth or taxes from the wealthy landlords or 'Khans' as they are known. When the Iron Amir, Abdul Rahnam, and his son, Habibullah Khan, reigned, they designed a state so that the government-controlled most commerce. It was Rahnam who would begin fiscal record-keeping, which was practically non-existent before, and he also began introducing European industry to the nation in the form of arms manufacturing. The Afghan government exclusively dominated the economy by imposing state monopolies on commodities and high taxes on goods. This was intended to fund their centralized government and strengthen the military. As a result of such regulations, for the longest time, it was incredibly rare for foreigners to conduct business in Afghanistan, a few exceptions being foreign experts invited by the King himself to help build the state. This was especially the case during Amanullah Khan's reign, who invited many foreigners from the Germans who designed his palace, the Darulaman, rifle/munitions factories, the electrical grid, and western style schools. The 1928 Civil War would destroy this economic progress as Habibullah Kalakani sacked the royal treasury to fund his army. The government was bankrupt when Nadir Shah regained control and reestablished the state. Nadir would spend his remaining time as Shah, attempting to rebuild the economy, only successfully stabilizing the treasury before his death in 1933. Too young to govern when Zahir came to the throne, his uncles would be the leading architects in building the economy. Hashim Khan would build a close relationship with the Axis powers, courting generous foreign aid packages from Germany until the Allies forced Afghanistan to cut ties with the Axis. When Mahmud Khan became prime minister, he oriented the economy back to a trade focus and saw minor success in cultivating trade relations with some countries. However, the nation is still developing slower than its neighbors, barely having a GDP of 50 million.[/sup]
[sup]Afghanistan's trade is mainly concentrated on the exportation of agricultural goods. It is Afghanistan's most important source of employment, as almost 80-90 percent of the population works in this sector. Despite this, agriculture only accounts for less than a third of the GDP due to Afghanistan's lack of irrigation, seasonal droughts, subsistence farming, limited market access due to being landlocked, and the lack of industry made production less than efficient. Most Afghan farmers did not have tractors or other machinery, typically using animals of burden and ancestral knowledge to cultivate their crops; the average peasant was poor, indebted, and exposed to the risk of droughts. It is their main livelihood, along with pastoralism. Afghanistan's main cash crop is fruits and seeds; the country produces almost a million tons of fresh fruit annually, its most famous being pomegranates, grapes, and sweet melons. Other fruits are also steadily increasing in cultivation, such as apples, apricots, cherries, figs, oranges, peaches, pears, and strawberries. However, most fruit production is still focused on the big three fruits. In the northern and western provinces, the Tajiks are famous for cultivating pistachios, Afghanistan's most produced nut. In Nuristan province, the people depend significantly on the pine nut trade. Central provinces also see great cultivation of almonds and walnuts. Nangarhar and Kunar provinces are known for lemons, oranges, olives, peanuts, and dates. Afghanistan also produces a modest amount of wheat and cereal, typically reaching 1 million tons annually. Another staple of the economy is livestock, specifically the sheep and goat trade. Both animals are a meat staple in most Afghan diets and are valued for their wool too. Cattle, on the other hand, are typically concentrated in the hands of wealthy landlords.[/sup]
[sup]Despite seemingly having little potential for growth, there is great hope in the government that the solution to Afghanistan's poverty lies beneath the earth. Iran and many of the Arab countries were building wealth thanks to their vast oil deposits; thus, logically, the government theorized that they, too, could jump on this new-age gold rush. This line of thinking is further strengthened by the fact that, historically, 2,000 years ago, during the era of Alexander the Great, gold, silver, and precious stones were routinely mined from Afghanistan. The most precious of these was Afghani Lapis lazuli, coveted by many ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians, for seals and at neolithic burials in Mehrgarh. In modern times, the British Empire began pioneering explorations to conduct geological mapping and mineral resource assessments in Afghanistan that continued until the twentieth century. This ended, however, with the subsequent geopolitical developments of the last 10 years. With high hopes for new economic prospects, the government established the Ministry of Mines and the Ministry of Geology to begin the search for Afghanistan's potential wealth. This task will not be possible without foreign aid as the state lacks the capability to handle this search alone; thus, it is searching for a potential partner.[/sup]
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| THE KURDISH REPUBLIC - KOMARA KURDÎ |
[list][sub]Xwedê, Welat, Gel[/sub][/list]
The 4th General Congress of the Kurdish National Party
| Hewler Citadel, Kurdish Republic
| 12 February, 1952
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Power changes hands in the ruling party at the 1952 General Congress, followed by a whirlwind of arrests.
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For the past 14 years the military commander and Sheikh, Mustafa Barzani, has been the nations undisputed leader and founding father. As President, Barzani constructed a legal and generally popular dictatorship centered on the leading role of the Barzani tribe and his own personalist, semi-monarchical rule. He, his family, and his tribal allies have dominated the institutions of Kurdistan, leading an effective albeit corrupt and unequal republic. Politically the Barzani rule is manifested in one key entity: the Kurdish National Party. Holding an outright majority in the National Assembly, the KNP has acted with a free hand to legislate and even amend the constitution at will. The party is a big tent built around the Barzani family and its tribal confederates, advocating a centrist mix of nationalism, populism, Islam, and economic development. The partys loose ideological criteria and strong grip on power attracted a broad base of regime supporters. This drew factions in the party and since the 1946 elections, two major factions have competed within the party.
The Business Council is composed of aristocrats, businessmen, and wealthy tribal leaders often from Kurdistans largest cities. The faction's two most prominent leaders are General Zoran Musaresan and Sureyya Bedirxan. Musaresan is a popular sheik and commander of the Civil Defense Force, a tribal-controlled militia and paramilitary which acts as police in Kurdistans rural provinces. Sureyya is one of Kurdistans wealthiest citizens and a key regime figure who acts as President Barzanis propaganda chief. They broadly represent the right of Kurdish politics, advocating free markets, oligarchical governance, and anti-communism. The Business Council has had a prominent role in domestic affairs, primarily in economic development and industrialization. Despite this President Barzani has excluded their pro-Iran stances from the Foreign Ministry and forced them to adopt progressive taxation and labor regulation. Opposite them is the Workers Council, a coalition of leftists increasingly dominated by Soviet-educated military officers. It is led by Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ehmed, a prominent socialist and supporter of the Egyptian Free Officers Movement. Other prominent members include Deputy Speaker Mazar Remman and Air Force Major General Dile Batar. The Workers Council has been accruing power steadily and has gained the support of many in the Kurdish Army, especially those previously sent to military colleges in the Soviet Union.
Party infighting has not been uncommon in government since the countrys formation and it has often been the unifying and autocratic figure of President Barzani that averted political crises. But throughout the 1940s, a single issue has come more and more to the forefront of party divisions: foreign policy. As a young nation surrounded by multiple larger neighbors with an ethnic grudge, foreign policy is often at the political forefront in Kurdistan. The Business Council loathes the diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union, especially as the global community becomes increasingly polarized by NATO-Soviet tension. Instead, they advocate neutrality and a regional affiliation to Imperial Iran, a state far more reflective of their political values. The Workers Council on the other hand applauds the Soviet-Kurd relationship and its members are almost universally anti-western. Most radical among them are junior Army officers who call for integration with Comecon and total socialization of the economy.
This disagreement was pushed to a boiling point in the summer and fall of 1951 as the Shah and Prime Minister Zahedi undertook a series of provocative internal measures in northern Iran aimed at discriminating against the Kurdish population there. This flared regional tension and led to a diplomatic scuffle including the Soviet Union. At the same time, it triggered a considerable internal realignment in the KNP. Over the course of the year, Pro-Iran stances have become publicly unpopular and the Business Councils informal influence dissolved. Sensing blood in the water, some members were quick to abandon the faction. Two of the three Bedirxan brothers, Celadet and Kamuran (Prime Minister and Assembly Speaker, respectively), publicly denounced Iran and voiced support for the Soviet Union. With two of its most prominent members having abandoned it and its policy goals increasingly unpopular, the Business Council appeared on its last legs politically. Going on the offensive, Workers Council leaders in the Politburo pressed for President Barzani to hold a party congress early. With their policy aims gaining popularity and senior members of the party and government backing it, the President granted their request.
Heading into the congress, fewer and fewer signs suggested the Business Council would survive. While it was kept from public knowledge, the faction's leader, Sureyya Bedirxan, was effectively removed from power. He remained nominally Minister of Communications, a member of the Politburo, and owner of the enormous Rudaw media conglomerate. But privately, his government and business subordinates now answered to Barzani, and party colleagues almost universally shunned him. Radical Amy officers and party leftists saw their chance to take power. In this light, the 4th General Congress of the Kurdish National Party called its session on the 12th of January, 1952. The event was held at the KNPs lavish new secondary headquarters in the Erbil Citadel, secured by the Republican Guard of the Kurdish Army, a force personally loyal to the President. Characteristic of the party, the actual conduct of the event was not recorded or publicized and its results were only published after the fact. When the dust settled after a 3-day session, the Party had been utterly remade.
The Business Council was decimated. The General Congress appointed only 2 of its members to the Central Committee and none to the Politburo. In their place stands a new vanguard of military officers and leftist figures. Of the 45 Central Committee seats, 32 are held by the Workers Council, and of those, 19 are active duty members of the Kurdish Army, Air Force, or National Police. In the 11-seat Politburo, 7 are members of the Workers Council. The congress was a resounding success for them, filled with ardent, chest-beating speeches decrying Turkey, the Hashemites, NATO, or any number of European nations. And on the final day, the General Congress sat its new Central Committee and Political Bureau for the first time.
Senior Leadership following the 4th General Congress of the Kurdish National Party:
General-Secretary: Gen. Mustafa Barzani (ex-officio Chairman of the Politburo)
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First Deputy-Secretary: Ibrahim Ehmed
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Deputy Secretaries: Kamuran Ali Bedirxan, Gen. Ahmed Barzani
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Deputy-Chairman of the Politburo: Mazar Remman
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Organizing Secretary: Lt.Gen. Ardan Reswan
But while the 4th Congress did change the character of the ruling party, President Barzani was keen to display that he remained in power and that, despite what some conservatives alleged, he had not been quietly usurped by junior officers. He blocked any major revision to the KNPs constitution, including proposals to secularize the Partys ideology and to adopt a stance in favor of abolishing private property in Kurdistan. In some regards Barzani ostensibly tightened his grip on the party, adding language to the party constitution that affirmed the Barzani tribe as spiritual leaders of the Party and of the nation.
The disintegration of the conservatives was swift. Upon hearing of his ouster from the Politburo, Sureyya Bedirxan stormed out of the congress along with what few allies he had left. From there he fled Hewler to the city of Cizre, a tribal conservative stronghold. In Cizre he met up with Musaresan and 3 other prominent tribal generals. Supposedly en route to the capital of Amed, all 5 were detained by officers of the so-called Asayish, the State Security Directorate. In the first two weeks following the Congress, over a hundred other highly conservative politicians, Amy officers, party, and public officials would all be arrested. The first since the last round of government purges in 1946, the arrests demonstrate the immediate institutional power the Workers Council has gained. The Interior Ministry delivered accusations that Bedirxan and Musaresan were plotting a coup with the support of sympathetic units in the HPS. Temporarily the HPS has been placed under direct command of the Interior Ministry and many of its commanders are being investigated by Asayish for anti-government sympathies or ties to foreign governments.
While the full extent of the change and even its immediate effects are still to be seen, it is clear a change has taken place in the character of the ruling party and the ideological ambitions of its members. Whatever his motivation, be it fears of a coup or foreign loyalty, President Barzani has clearly chosen a new wave of leftists to be the standard bearers of his regime into the 1950s.
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[list][list]FEBRUARY 1952
[sub]Vargas Does Nothing[/sub][/list]
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[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, CATETE PALACE MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| In January 31, ex-Dictator GETÚLIO VARGAS took office as President of the Republic, returning again to Catete. His return was cause for celebration for the Brazilian people, who remembered his decisive ways and felt that their problems demanded action. In his first year as a democratically elected president, President Vargas did nothing. On the problems facing Brazil inflation, transport, oil, agricultural development he failed to act on these issues. Some Brazilians say he wants to go back to being a dictator. Others say he strives to govern like a president who respects the democracy that allows a disorganized Congress mess up all his measures. They also say that Getúlio, now 68, simply doesnt care anymore, that all he wanted was just the electoral victory. |
| Both the President of the Republic and the Brazilian people find it easier to blame profiteering dealers for Brazils inflation (who have a noteworthy, but not a primary, role in forcing prices up). To combat inflation, the government announces anti-profiteering measures. It was said that peoples courts would be created, where shopkeepers could be tried by juries of housewives; the courts have not yet begun to function. After price riots in Belo Horizonte, BENJAMIN SCARES CABELLO announced his plan: |
[list]| BENJAMIN SCARES CABELLO, [sub]Brazilian Businessman[/sub] | 24 state-owned stores would be opened in all capitals to sell everything 15 to 25% cheaper. Prices will go down! We will change Brazils trade system! When will the first store open? It will open in three months.[/list]
Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Osivoii, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Taiiwan, Adriatican Islands, Greater Kurdistane
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[list] 24 FEBRUARY 1952[/list]
A NEW STATE IN ASIA?
Kabul, People's Square - 12.00A.M.
I After the very recent restoration of the state of Fantasy Taiwan and decisive Act for retaking Activity and have influence over the region of the Commonwealth of liberty;
SINCE to respect the map of the region it has been decided to create a new nation in the area of Afghanistan
AFTER carefully examining the style of Roleplay and understanding how to correctly write an appropriate message for the region in order to be taken seriously;
ENSURING to take as much responsability as possible being a non-toxic nation for the region and to take diplomacy very seriously with allies and enemies;
AND with the creation of new, and still WIP factbooks made to give a first impression of the nation to outsiders;
With the help of the people in the area living in the Borders of our Lands that everyone is able to see in our new map in the factbook section of our nation,
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1809298
Under the rule of The king, Mohammad Zahir Shash and the Prime minister, Karim Anwari, we officialy proclaim the birth of the State of Afghanistan in the region of the Commonwealth of liberty. l
I if there are some nations, especially the United States or the soviet union that want to open an embassy in our nation please telegram me about it. I
Long Life to Afghanistan!
Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus
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:trollface: jejejejeje
East Germany Ddr, Brazil Toucan
Post self-deleted by Aghani-Stania.
I am leaving this place aint worth it, bye cruel world
Probably a Tajik supremacist
East Germany Ddr
Post self-deleted by Brazil Toucan.
[list]FEBRUARY 1952
[sub]Centrally-Planned Dysfunction[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre]V O L K S W I R T S C H A F T[/pre][/sub]
[sub]| All is not well in the Workers' and Peasants' paradise. Officially, the German Democratic Republic is a "developed socialist state", well on its way towards Communism. The Party has assured the people that the western capitalist republics have yet to catch up with this state of affairs. But cracks are beginning to show in the foundation of East German socialism, only three years after its establishment. In all the factories and workshops, the East German proletariat complains about the so-called "Normenschaukelei", the excessive fluctuation in work norms. In the centrally-planned, socialist economy, production quotas are set by the state and handed down as commands to individual production lines. Envisioned to function as an organic nervous system, it is anything but. Information-lags and resultant miscommunication mean the state is increasingly out of touch with economic realities.[/sub]
[sub]| On the factory floor, a perverted incentive-structure complicates things further. The more productive a given factory is, the higher its quotas will be in subsequent years, to push productivity higher and higher. To prevent this from happening, factory workers collaborate to keep their productivity stagnant, or better still, to give the central planners the impression that productivity can only but go down. Uncompliant workers are called "Normbrecher", or norm breachers. These killjoys exceed the quotas set by the economic plans, consequently raising the norm for their colleagues. One such Normbrecher is the miner Adolf Hennecke, who in 1948 surpassed his quota by 387%, winning him the first ever National Prize (Nationalpreis) of the GDR. Hennecke was a propaganda coup for the SED. For the majority of East German workers, he is the dreaded Normbrecher par excellence. [/sub]
[sub]| Attempts to rectify the incentive problem and to compensate workers for their productivity range from mediocre to certifiably useless. In 1950 the GDR introduced a new award: "Hero of Labour." But a certificate and medal won't make the work day any easier. The "good life" continues to elude the proletariat in the proletarian state. Meanwhile, the decision-makers are catching on to the stubbornness of their subjects. If communism is to be built, quotas have be raised no matter what. The only question is whether, at a certain point, East German workers will stop putting up with it.[/sub]
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[sub]D I S P A T C H E S[/sub]
>> New Homepage
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=east_germany_ddr/detail=factbook/id=1798097
>>Socialist Unity Party
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1809831
Paramountica, Virnall, Arcanda, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Taiiwan, Brazil Toucan
[list][list]MARCH 1952
[sub]Another Day In Rio[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] B R A Z I L I A N F A V E L A S [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, FEDERAL DISTRICT AFTERNOON
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| From an expensive new apartment building in Rio, residents can observe the lives of people who live in Kerosene Hill, one of about 120 favelas in Rio. Kerosene Hill is formed by precarious shacks made of crate slats, crushed cans, and rubble. As in other favelas, there is no piped water supply; Favela residents throw water uphill in buckets. A horrible stench comes from the shallow ditches that serve as sewers for the settlement. |
[list]| RANDOM BRAZILIAN MAN, [sub]Apartament Resident[/sub] | We are watching Kerosene Hill, but they also watch us. We wonder what theyre thinking[/list]
| There was an undertone of fear when he said that. In the last 10 years, around 1,000,000 people went to Rio to have a better life than they had in the places where they lived. Many of them live in slums. Today, the favela residents number around 500,000, about three-fourths of them black. Rio police officers, although brave, avoid entering the favelas even in broad daylight. As a sanctuary for criminals, said the newspaper O Globo, the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law does not cross the border, as if it were a foreign country. |
| Cariocas fear epidemics and crime in the favelas, but they also fear the discontent of favela residents. There are always rumors that favela residents are coming down the hill to loot, putting fear in the carioca hearts. These rumors happened during the Carnival celebrations. The largest favela in Rio is Little Crocodile Hill, where around 45,000 people live in poverty. But something unusual happened there: construction workers went to the hill and began to clear the land for a health center, police station, and water pipe. Rio City Hall initiated a program to improve the favelas, and the person in charge of the program, Dr. GUILHERME RIBEIRO ROMANO, 37, chose the Little Crocodile. Romano knows he cant just demolish favelas. |
[list]| GUILHERME RIBEIRO ROMANO, [sub]Brazilian Doctor[/sub] | Favela residents have nowhere else to go.[/list]
| He will keep his program limited in the hope that, unlike previous attempts to abolish favelas, this program can be realized: |
[list][list][pre]
1) stopping the growth of favelas will prevent more shacks from being built;
2) destroy the few flatland favelas, because of the sewage in the open ditches;
3) provide the hillside favelas with police protection, free medical services, schools, electricity, sewage, and running water.[/pre][/list][/list]
| As limited as his program is, Romano will have to fight hard. He will have to deal with municipal agencies and with the hostility and apathy of the favela residents themselves. But he is determined to continue. |
[list]| GUILHERME RIBEIRO ROMANO, [sub]Brazilian Doctor[/sub] | This could be Rios last chance, If slum growth is not controlled, this city will turn into one big slum.[/list]
Paramountica, Virnall, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Taiiwan, Ubertica
hey guys
i would want to play as Socialist Romania
however my issue is that i am banned from the WA
Can i roleplay if i`m verified?
i left the same message as above on discord as well
[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
MINISTERE DE L'ECONOMIE[/pre][/list]
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MINISTRY OF ECONOMICS: LES ANNÉES GLORIEUSES THE GLORIOUS YEARS
[sub]IVTH FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, MARCH 1952 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF LEMPIRE, MINISTERE DE L'ECONOMIE, FRANÇAIS RÉPUBLIQUE - | The French Republic has officially entered a period of extraordinary economic and cultural growth, having fully recovered from the Second Great War. The period to be known as "The Glorious Years" or "Les années glorieuses" has taken a firm grip over French society and industry. The successes of this period are largely attributed to France's speedy recovery from World War Two and high level of investments being made into growing French industries from within France itself and abroad.[/sub]
[sub]Currently France is experiencing a record number of births per year as the population continues to grow on average 1.5-2% annually. This population growth is due not only to a higher birth rate, but to a declining mortality rate fueled by improvements in medical care, housing, and nutrition. The infant mortality rate has fallen from 60.0 in 1945 to 31.2 in 1952. France's economic growth is mainly due to productivity gains and to an increase in the number of working hours. Investment as a percentage of GNP has risen from around 15% per annum in the 1940s to 22.4% in 1952, the highest in Europe. Because of currency controls and the limited mobility of international capital, lenders have increasingly invested at home and not abroad. Investments have fueled continual improvements in production methods, making products like automobiles more affordable for average people.[/sub]
[sub]Through indicative planning the French government has used it's power to direct investment towards targeted industries, regions, and specific products. The state is primarily concerned with stimulating continuous modernization and restructuring, which it encourages through communication improvements, tax policy, export credits, and ensuring access to cheap loans for firms. Projects and industries considered to be of "strategic national importance" can also count on support from the French state. These include the nuclear power program, the armaments industry, infrastructure, and the aerospace industry. French agricultural productivity has continued to soar following the end of World War Two. France has gone from being an importer of food to meet the needs of it's population, to self-sufficiency and surplus output in less than a decade.[/sub]
[sub]Productivity gains have come from catching up with the United States. In 1950, the average income in France was 55% of an American ($9,573.00). The national government's industrial policy has been effectively used to bolster French industries. The government's third Modernization Plan has put an emphasis on investing in the staple agricultural products of Northern France and the Paris region: meat, milk, cheese, wheat, and sugar. The desire to find export markets for this surplus will undoubtedly be an important factor in the French decision to join the European Economic Community. |[/sub]
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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LEMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]
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𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
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TITOS NATIONAL ECONOMIC INITIATIVE - QUOTAS OVERHAULED
March 5th 1952
Under the Marshals new Economic Push to increase production and efficiency a national standard has been introduced for workers quotas. The introduced Quota consists of an annual average over the past three years, establishing what is "actively possible at current efforts". Workers shall be paid the basic rate universally regardless of if this Quota is reached or not, however each factory shift will be eligible for a bonus up to 50% each month depending on the percentage of surplus they produced above the standard Quota. As a result workers may opt to produce at their regular rate with no additional strain, however will not benefit from extra pay that could be used to purchase luxuries. These Quotas are additionally not as unfair as those tried in the past, as workers will get a bonus equal to their additional production rather than having a system where workers have to reach high Quotas to get any reward. As a result the amount of extra pay is directly linked to the amount of extra effort put in by workers. As the Quota-Bonus as its being coined is paid on a shift by shift basis, shifts are encouraged to compete and this will harbor good will and team work within each shift as well.
Additionally as of June 1st 1952, foreign Automobiles and Vehicles of all types with the exception of military goods shall no longer be imported to ensure a slow and steady rise in automobile ownership rather than rapid increases. This will ensure that the Government can control any and all influxes of Motor cars into the civilian market and as a result also limit petroleum usage as well as the independent travel of the Yugoslav Peoples. Wide expansions in the Bus and Rail Networks are expected in order to complement this decision
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နိုင်ငံရေးခေတ်သစ် A NEW ERA OF POLITICS
[sub]| 3rd Waxing of Natdaw 13122nd Waning of Waso 1313 ME | Yangon, Yangon Division, Royal Federation of the Burma Union |[/sub]
Amid the prevail of peace with the Rakhine, the question of the Rohingya yet still looms like a daunting chore. While the Royal Army focused it's efforts on the First Arakan Campaign, the mujahideen of the Mayu Peninsula utilized this time to allocate the necessary supplies and manpower to wage a protracted, unconventional conflict in the northernmost region of Arakan State. All while, Prime Minister U Nu is praised by the public for keeping his promise of Peace in Union, proving productive towards his reelection ticket for the upcoming 1951 General Elections to be held in June. Two months ahead of the elections, several major political names within the Union Government came together, some members of the current standing Anti-Fascist People's Freedom LeagueClean Faction, some Independents, among others, to formally dissolve the so-called 'Clean Faction' of the AFPFL. In it's place, vested by the assembly of nationalists present, the White Umbrella Party was formed on 11 April, just days before the Thingyan New Year. Bearing the same deep blue as the Union Banner, the party flag was ornately handsewn, decorated in the center with a Htee Hpyauu or "white umbrella" of eleven tiers, signifying those of which befit exclusively for royalty. Organizing an entirely new docket for the approaching electoral campaign, the party officially focals the facets of Federal Unionism, Buddhism, and Constitutional Monarchy, summarizing these ideologies with the party slogan, "Sarahpuu, Sarsanarnhang, Lwhaattaw!", or 'Crown, Faith, Parliament!'.
Among those supporting U Nu's reelection on the White Umbrella's ticket, Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Bo Hmu Aung, San Hlaing, Saw Lwin, Tun Shein and the President, Sao Shwe Thaik, alongside many others. It would prove vital to have their support, some of the most distinguished nationalists and statesmen whom equally have the trust and support of their people. The party formation indeed had a strong base and would go on to prove so on election day, 5 June, with a 48.25% turnout, and awarding the Htee Hpyauu with 147 seats and U Nu's official reelection as Prime Minister until 1956, with a popular vote of 47.76% against the National United Front (NUF), a big tent political alliance featuring left and right wing parties alike serving as the main united opposition bloc in the Chamber of Deputies (Pyithu Hluttaw). However, the NUF decidedly concede the election and motion in support of U Nu in forming a united government, though only conservative members of the NUF are formally offered invited to serve in cabinet, leaving much of it's leftist membership in the lurch following the elections.
Weeks after garnering electoral victory and forming this unified government, the now majority ruling Htee Hpyauu Party institutes several efforts to improve the social, economic, and defense situations of the Union. The Union Directorate of Defence Industries, (D.I.), Karkweye Pyitsu Setyoun, or Ka Pa Sa for short, is formally established by the Prime Minister under the auspices of the Royal Armed Force's General Staff Office. Pending license and full production rights from Italian gunsmith, Zorzoli Giandoso, the D.I. would have the TZ-45 blowback-operated sub-machine gun to use as a template for Burma's planned first domestically produced modern firearm. Alongside this, measures were enacted to begin the construction of the Union Academy of National Peace Officers, in Yangon. The Academy would serve as the main headquarters and central training complex of the multi-ethnic civil service bureau known officially as the Union Police Force (Pyidaungzu Reltauthpwal), fit with barrack housing, instruction classrooms, mess, military-style training courses, sports gymnasiums, track field, indoor Olympic-size pool, armory, firing range, vehicular asset storage and most importantly, an open-door policy as the Union Police strive for transparency with the public.
Economically, the White Umbrella had an eight-year national development plan soon to be introduced, established in co-opt with the Conservative MP's of the National United Front. Being named, officially, the Pyidawtha Plan, the nation's first national development program post-decolonization. With initial estimates tacking the plan at a cost of US $1,600,000,000, with two-thirds to be allocated toward industrial enterprises, and the remainder to fund numerous social services nationwide. Between 14-21 June, the Union government went into contract with several American companies, including the mining and engineering firm, Knappen Tippetts Abbett, and an economic consultation firm to develop a comprehensive, integrated program for resource development in Burma.
[list][spoiler=[sub]KABA MA KYEI! TILL THE END OF THE WORLD![/sub]]
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Paramountica, Virnall, Osivoii, Otsla, Ranponian, Sri-Lanka, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Taiiwan, Adriatican Islands, Greater Kurdistane, Brazil Toucan
2nd CONFERENCE OF CAEN - RESOLUTION
[list]A year after the successful conference of Maastricht, Europe continues to face difficulties. The quantum of imports and the quantum of exports of western Europe both fell by some 4 to 5 per cent from the first nine months of 1951 to the corresponding period of 1952. In the United States the quantum of imports in 1952 as a whole rose some 5 per cent in relation to 1951, while the quantum of exports (excluding military shipments) fell approximately 5 per cent. Among those countries in which imports for stocks-including governmental stockpiling-rose sharply as early as the first or second half of 1950 were Belgium-Luxembourg, Denmark, western Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. The increase in the deficit was about equally divided between visible and invisible accounts. With respect to the former, though exports to the United States were considerably higher in 1951 than in 1950, imports expanded still more, owing to the rise in income in western Europe, the replenishment of inventories of dollar goods which had been depleted in 1950, additional imports of grain necessitated by poor harvests in some countries in 1951 and a resumption of imports of coal to relieve the shortage created by the lag in western European coal production in relation to industrial activity. Thus there was a necessity in Europe to increase together the level of production, competitiveness and adopt common rules and policies to increase trade and stabilise economies.[/list]
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs hereby reunited believe the moment has come to go a step further towards the construction of Europe. In their opinion this step should first of all be taken in the economic field. They consider that the further progress must be towards the setting up of a united Europe by the development of common institutions, the gradual merging of national economies, the creation of a common market, and the gradual harmonization of their social policies. Such a policy appears to them to be indispensable if Europes position in the world is to be maintained, her influence restored, and the standard of living of her population progressively raised.
To this end, the Ministers have agreed on the following objectives:
A. 1. The expansion of trade and the movement of persons call for the common development of large-scale
communication facilities
[...]
3. Before long, the development of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes will open up prospects of a new
industrial revolution far beyond anything achieved during the past hundred years.
The signatory States consider that it is essential to examine ways and means for creating a common
organization which would have the responsibility and the facilities for ensuring the peaceful development of
nuclear energy, taking into consideration the special arrangements made by certain Governments with third
parties.
These facilities should include:
(a) a common fund to be financed by contributions from each of the participating countries, which will
enable the financing of plants and of research now in progress or still to be undertaken;
(b) free and sufficient access to raw materials and free exchange of knowledge and technicians, by-products
and specialised equipment;
(c) the making available, without discrimination, of the findings and the granting of financial aid for their
utilization;
(d) co-operation with non-member countries.
B. The Governments agree that the setting up of a common European market, free from all customs
duties and all quantitative restrictions, is the aim of their work in the field of economic policy.
They consider that such a market must be established by stages. Its introduction will necessitate a study of
the following questions:
(a) procedure and rhythm required for the gradual elimination of impediments to trade between the
participating countries, as well as appropriate measures for the gradual unification of customs systems in
regard to third countries;
(b) steps to be taken for the harmonization of the general policy of the participating countries in the
financial, economic and social fields;
(c) adoption of methods which will ensure a degree of coordination between the monetary policies of the
member states which will enable the creation and development of a common market;
(d) a system of saving clauses;
(e) establishment and operation of a readaptation fund;
(f) gradual introduction of freedom of movement for workers;
(g) setting up of rules ensuring the full play of competition in the common market, in such a way as to
exclude in particular all forms of national discrimination;
(h) the appropriate institutional means for the realization and operation of the common market.
C. The creation of a European investment fund will be examined. This fund would be used for the common
development of Europes inherent economic potentialities and, in particular for the development of the less
favoured regions of the participating countries.
D. As far as the social field is concerned, the Governments consider it imperative to study the
progressive harmonization of the regulations now in force in the various countries, especially those relating
to working hours, payment for overtime (night-work, work on Sundays and public holidays), length of
statutory holidays and holiday-pay.
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[list]April 1952
[sub]Coal and Steel Investments[/sub][/list]
[pre]G E R M A N C O A L & S T E E L[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Minister Anton Storch (Labor), Wilhelm Niklas (Food, Agri., and Forestry),
and Ludwig Erhard (Economics) had possessed strong professional and personal
relationships, fostered by the agreement among the three on the principles that would
support the growth and rebirth of the German industrial giant. All three were staunch
government backers of heavy government investments into various industries to
support job growth and development of the German export market.[/pre][/sub][/list]
OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF LABOR, PLITTERSDORF, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| The town of LEVERKUSEN, just north of Cologne, was home to several coal companies seeking to open new coal mines in the coal-rich central-western provinces of Germany, where coal had been produced in the masses during the War. Leverkusen saw four new mines open in the past two years alone, with government and private industry investments flowing in from all corners of the country. As German politicians in Bonn sought to secure parliamentary support for additional financial investments and incentives to bring Western investors in to jumpstart export growth, the leaders of the new German coal industry convened in Cologne to discuss the future of the industry. Among these would be Heinrich Heuser, of Heuser AG (German conglomerate, specializing in aeronautics, helicopter development, architecture, banking and coal and steel), Oskar Schroder of Schroder-Werke and Deutsche Bahn AG (steel works and railways, respectively), Hugo Beise of Beise Power and Light (private power grid management, construction contracting), and several other major German businessmen. |
| The Allied occupation starting in '45 endeavored to dismantle German industry. Accompanying this industrial dismantlement was the dissolving of the various dominating German companies within each industry, starting with the ones that had openly contributed to the war effort. There were some exemptions, like Schroder's Schroder-Werke (thanks to its involvement in sheltering persons fleeing persecution from the Volkist government) and other companies were dissolved then re-established when the policy of de-industrialization was shut down. In 1949, realizing the inefficacy of the proposed Morgenthau Plan and how the U.S. would have to feed 25 million Germans should they decide to permanently strip Germany of any and all forms of production capacity, German industry began reviving. Thanks to the presence of several major companies and businessmen who were able to be exempted from the industrial dismantlement of the years prior, such as Schroder and his businesses, the German economy was jumpstarted, alongside the presence of American Marshall Plan aid. With the foundation of the Bundesrepublik, the Allied restrictions on German industry were lifted entirely, and over the course of the next few years, Germany endeavored to affirm its foreign standing and secure foreign investment for its economy. |
| The opening of the new coal mines in Leverkusen in recent years indicated the importance of federal investments into German coal and steel, and highlighted the vital role played by three key ministers who manage the development of the German economy. Minister Anton Storch for Labor, Minister Wilhelm Niklas for Food, Agriculture and Forestry, and Minister Ludwig Erhard of Economics. The three government officials, who as per protocol are members of the Bundestag as leading CDU/CSU deputies, are strong proponents for the fostering of a competitive capitalistic economy in the country that balances powerful economic growth with a strong social net to keep the German people afloat financially and socially. While the latter part has yet to be implemented due to opposition to the SPD's radical social welfare initiatives, economic growth and greater output is already being seen nationally, prominently with the opening of the Leverkusen mining hubs. The production of coal for domestic use was also emphasized by the government as key to keeping people warm during the wintertime, but exports would also receive a place of importance in government policy, considering the export successes of the country in the wake of the Korean War. |
| The opening of new steel mills by Schroder-Werke and Heuser AG in Osnabruck, some 100 km south of Bremen, in northern Germany, also indicated the rise of German steel. During the War, the country had produced them en masse, but the disassembly of German industry had delayed the postwar growth of steel mills. With government-financed operations being launched nationwide, however, and competition between Schroder-Werke, Heuser, and other steel companies especially in Bavaria, the German steel industry is beginning to see the start of rapid growth, alongside the coal industry. |
| Zairean (Paseo) investments would also flow into the coal and steel industries following a January visit by a top Zairean delegation. The visit, which marked a key step forward for German relations with Africa, was praised domestically as many saw Zaire as a model for Germany's own economic growth. Coupling social welfare with the development of a competitive market economy, massive growth and extremely lucrative export numbers could be developed in a time that would have been unimaginable in a country like Weimar Germany, less than three decades ago. These steps forward in coal and steel would be emphasized by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who pointed to the coming European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) as the 'next step' for developing the national economy and import-export apparatus. |
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[list][list]29th April 1952
[sub]Naguibs Personal Purgatory![/sub][/list]
ZEINAB AL-WAKEELS HOUSE, CAIRO SUBURBS, (Kotakuan Ii) MORNING
| The disagreements between Gamal Abdel Nasser and Mohammed Naguib were increasingly making any form of power sharing untenable. In February 1952, Prime Minister Nasser was made Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council at the bemusement of Naguib. The President had been the symbolic head of the RCC for just under two years, with Nassers arrival marking a change in policy and heart for the Free Officers. It was very much clear that Naguib favoured a return to a constitutional form of government, one with monarchy era parties and a continuation of the establishment. Such a position was not favourable for the RCC, who wished to progress with the intended radical land reform & reformation of Egyptian society. Therefore, installing Nasser as the chairman of the council was the first part in cementing RCC control over the government. |
| In any case, Naguibs staunchly democratic stance and desire for the army to return back to its barracks has amounted to his untimely demise. Free officer Abdel-Hakim Amer had told Naguib that his stay at Zeinab Al-Wakeels home would be no longer than a few days. Instead, he has been held under house arrest for the last month and presumably indefinitely. Under house arrest, Naguib is guarded by 20 guard posts and its garden was stripped of trees for security reasons; all the antiques and furniture in the palace have been removed, including refrigerators, kitchen utensils, pots and pans. Even Naguibs own medals, shields and military diplomas are confiscated |
| Outside of Naguibs personnel purgatory, an official resignation letter was drafted which Naguib was forced to sign. This letter allowed for a peaceful transition of power from Naguib to the RCC, and more specifically Nasser himself who would be presiding as acting President. In terms of foreign policy, Naguib was extremely pro-United States and whilst Nasser was indeed fond of the Americans he was not as enthusiastic as his predecessor. Nasser aimed for a closer relationship with the Americans whilst increasing relationships with fellow Arab states, particularly with the seismic events happening in the Middle East such as the formation of the Arab Federation, Syrias Baathist election victory, Sauds reclamation of Arabia, Irans coup & indeed Egypts own revolution itself. Michel Aflaq, now Prime Minister of Syria, was seen as the first point of contact for Egyptian diplomacy. However, aware of the United States importance to Egypt, Nasser would not immediately dive into relations with an Arab Socialist state and would instead gradually increase relations over a number of years. |
| The position of Prime Minister would still ultimately be held with Nasser, making Nasser the temporary head of both state and government. A particular unifying point within the RCC is the commitment to its opposition to the British and French, specifically in regard to the Suez Canal. The British so far have been uncooperative in regard to the Suez Canal, and handing control to the Egyptian government. In turn, the RCC has covertly began funding attacks on both French and British forces in the Suez Canal Zone by the Fedayeen and other non-state affiliated groups. |
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ROYAL BENELUX MARINE
Office of the Supreme Admiral of the combined fleets
Your Highness, Queen of the Netherlands
Your Highness, King of the Belgians,
Your Highness, Duke of Luxembourg,
Please find attached a report from admiral Jans Van Bauer.
-------------REPORT---------------
We have decided to reorganise our navy and the distribution of our forces in a new plan of action called JUST 52. The Benelux navy has decided to adopt the following doctrine
- Calculated Risk Doctrine
This doctrine is a standard among the United States Navy since Admiral Nimitz in 1942. The basic principle is to not get exposed to enemy forces when they present overwhelming power.
1. Reorganisation of fleets
We recommend the creation of several fleets with dedicated tasks and ranked by priority of security. All fleets will have local headquarters.
Fleet I - Dutch Guinea
Headquarters : Hollandia
Action to take :
(1) Reinforce fleet against possible threat by Indonesian pressure
(2) Create a security net with other possible partners or get guarantees
Fleet II - Caribbean
Headquarters : Saint Martin
Action to take : Maintain presence as is and keep relations with Metropolitan Francais and Paramountica (UK)
Fleet III/IV - Western Europe
Headquarters : Rotterdam
Action to take : Increase presence from NATO requirements and modernise the fleet for security operations and UN mandates
2. Creation of the Grand Fleet 55
The Combined navies should allow the Benelux to project and defend its territories. The Dutch Guinea area remains the largest problem as the combined difficulties of distance and material makes it a weak point in our security net.
We recommend that the Benelux Armed Forces shift to a clear strategy of naval strength. We only have one carrier and the budget and capacity of our forces do not allow us to get another one. At this stage, we should also insist on marine forces for our capacity to defend.
All these issues shall be discussed at the Chambers tomorrow.
Yours faithfully,
Prime Minister Weehler
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1810809
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[list]April 1952
[sub]German Power and Light[/sub][/list]
[pre]P O W E R I N G G E R M A N Y[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]The need for Germany to reindustrialize was, of course, built
upon the need for Germany to rebuild and significantly strengthen its power and
light production grid. German energy was previously dominated by the Volkist
government, who prioritized war production lines over regular homes. Out of the
postwar industrial wipe of the country, businessman and electrical engineer Hugo
Beise, who founded Beise Power and Light in 1947. The company would go on to
make beneficial deals with several key government ministries to secure a practical
near-domination of the German energy grid.[/pre][/sub][/list]
BEISE POWER AND LIGHT OFFICES, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| With the rapid mass industrialization of Germany, the need to maintain a stronger and more versatile power grid than ever before was born. It was clear that the dominantly state-owned power companies would not be able to provide the necessary supply the planned industrial giant of the Federal Republic would demand. As such, the flood gates were opened with the urging of several top economists in 1947 - one of whom was a very crucial figure, Ludwig Erhard - and various energy companies began springing up. Some went into coal extraction, refinement and burning for the production of energy via Coal Power Plants, which the government subsidized heavily under a policy from 1949 to late 1950, but the key focus was on the development of the system for distributing and maintaining a steady flow of power that would be much higher than ever before. The Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer, recognizing the issue established a National Energy Council (Nationaler Energierat) to advise him and the Bundesprasident on matters relating to German energy production, usage, and the German power grid. |
| Majority of German energy came, as no surprise, from coal. By burning this earth resource, energy could be produced and distributed through energy grids across the country. Germany had regionalized grids, that meant that if one 'main' link line failed, the entire national grid would not fail. This policy of allowing for independent energy production and usage between the Lander was implemented in 1951, with the focus being on implementing this policy on present and future energy grid development projects rather than engaging in the costly act of renovating currently operating grids entirely. Not to say that shutting down part of an energy grid would have a significant economic effect, to say the least, and such we are in a time where maximal production is necessary to maintain the economic momentum generated over the past few years. |
| This is where BEISE POWER AND LIGHT came into play. Founded by Hugo Beise, a businessman, investor and electrical engineer who studied alternative methods of energy transportation during his college years, the company would come to dominate the German energy industry through clever underhand agreements with key politicians and highly publicized deals and grants with the federal government and its various ministries. Of course, Beise was intelligent enough to avoid engaging in illegal activity, but he endeavored in such a way that insured that Beise Power and Light would secure majority of all government contracts and grants, which in an age of rapid public investment into the private sector to develop national industry was incredibly lucrative. With funding from the federal government, Beise overhauled old power grids and developed a modern and up-to-date system of monitoring it and the energy consumption by area (Gebiet). |
| Utilizing newly sourced funds, Beise would also invest into the development of the coal industry. Making deals with Heuser AG, which was at the same time beginning to forge its own stake in the coal industry, Beise would secure himself a supply of coal, which he and his planned network of next-generation power plants would turn into energy for the German people. Of course, this put him in a key position for the German industrial development, considering he provided the very thing industrialists needed to literally and figuratively make their gears turn. Knowing this, Beise would slowly begin expanding his business as well into the realm of German banking, which at this point was beginning to gain traction as local banks fought each other to gain the trust of the people and expand nationwide and perhaps even naturally. |
| It should be crucially noted that all of these industries were practically wiped clean by the Allied reorganization of German industry. This thus left a wide pool of companies waiting to take their place as the dominant group in that industry, and some companies - like Beise, Heuser and Schroeder-Werke - were attempting to expand their reach to multiple industries, from coal to energy to banking and finance. Thus, concern about the possibility of an oligarchical economy was raised by the SPD, who were successfully garnering ever-wider support from the populace for their pointed backing of social welfare programs as well as their pointed opposition to 'dropping all of Germany into the hands of a wealthy few'. As such, the chances for the politization of German re-industrialization would grow not only thanks to Hugo Beise's clever business tactics that raised the SPD alarms in the first place. |
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[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, The Greek Line Expands : The Design for the Ocean Liner TSS Hellas Publicly Released!, January - April 1952
Το Βασίλειο της Ελλάδας, η Ελληνική Γραμμή επεκτείνεται : Το σχέδιο για το υπερωκεάνιο TSS "Hellas" δόθηκε στη δημοσιότητα!, Ιανουάριος - Απρίλιος 1952[/list][/list]
[list][list][list]Adriatican Islands - The Greek Line! - Η Ελληνική Γραμμή![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]| THE GREEK LINE, WATERS ALL OVER THE WORLD: | Η ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΉ ΓΡΑΜΜΉ, ΝΕΡΆ ΣΕ ΌΛΟ ΤΟΝ ΚΌΣΜΟ: | [/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| Following mass investments into the General Steam Navigation Company of Greece, otherwise known as the Greek Line, Greeces premier passenger ship and ocean liner company now experiences a sudden rise in development in its fleet and its future endeavors. A new set of civilian deals had been set up between the Greek Line, under its CEO, Basil Goulandris, and the French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, internationally known as the French Line. This deal included the transfer of several dozen blueprints of legendary French Line ocean liners, including the famed SS Ile de France, SS Paris, SS Liberte, SS Pasteur, and the SS Champlain, over to the Greek Line, following promises of a strong ally in the revived transatlantic ocean liner market. This also included a deal for renowned naval architect Vladimir Yourkevich to be hired by the Greek Line. Yourkevich was renowned for his work on ocean liners such as the French SS Normandie, arguably one of the most graceful liners afloat in the modern era, along with aiding in the German Vaterland program which never came to fruition. But now he was tasked with a new job - this time to construct a symbol of national pride for the Kingdom of Greece, a new set of ocean liners for the Greek Line. |[/list]
[list]| Following a long and hard design and testing process of different types of ship design, seeing various proposals such as a Tumblehome Hull Design, Whaleback Bows, traditional tear-dropped shaped hulls, and other forms of modern, innovative designs, a design for the ship was settled. The ships design would be considered a mix between tradition and modernism, gaining the name Le petit Normandie - The Small Normandie. Her hull features a clipper-like bow design, a slim, tear-dropped shaped hull with sag towards the aft, a slight bulbous bow, and a traditional ocean liner stern to have a humble nod to the Greek Lines soon-to-be-replaced flagship, the Nea Hellas. The ship was laid down at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in France on the 11th of November, 1951, and is set to be completed by 1955 at best. |[/list]
[list]| The total cost for the vessels remains classified, however, with both the shipyard and the Greek Line refusing to reveal the total price, remarking that the price will be revealed once the design has been revealed, set for Summer 1952. It was however common knowledge, that Goulandris set up a string of deals with the Greek Government and other nations for investments into the Greek Line. The Greek Government, with the condition that the vessels built, could be used as troop transports in the event of war would be requisitioned by the Greek Navy for service as troop transports. The Greek Government has subsidized 45% of the cost of the total ship. The Greek Line also received plentiful foreign investments, particularly from the Kingdom of Italy (Arcanda), the Republic of Slovenia (Amsterwald), and the United People of Zaire (Paseo). These foreign investments significantly boosted the Greek Lines fame as an internationally expanding line, in which it was. |[/list]
[list]| With this, the lines ambition grew, with CEO Goulandris and the lines representatives announcing a new set of routes to be completed by 1957. This included the following: |[/list]
[I][list][list]| A five (5) ship weekly service across the Atlantic, comprising of the TSS HELLAS (completed by 1955), the TSS BYZANTINE (completed by 1957), the TSS NEA HELLAS, the TSS-G1, (name N/A, completed by 1955), and another vessel that the Greek Line will purchase by 1953. This ensured that the transatlantic route for the Greek Line would remain popular and profitable, with each liner having its own set of unique interior designs. The route ensured that there will always be a vessel on the route, one in the United States, one in Greece, and two other ships somewhere across the Mediterranean or the Atlantic. |[/list][/list][/I]
[I][list][list]| A weekly cruise service in the Mediterranean Sea, comprising of the SS COLUMBIA and the TSS G-2 (name N/A, completed by 1956). |[/list][/list][/I]
[I][list][list]| A twice-a-week African cruise service, comprising of the SS CANBERRA and the SS NEPTUNIA. |[/list][/list][/I]
[list]| Each ship is capable of 20-23 knots. The Atlantic vessels are required meanwhile to service at 22-24 knots, some slack however is given to the older NEA HELLAS due to the sheer age of the vessel. The Atlantic route, a straight voyage from Piraeus to New York will take 6-7 days. The Mediterranean Cruises take 3-5 days depending on the route, at 19-22 knots. A similar service speed will be achieved by African Cruises, however, the voyage will be longer, lasting 11-12 days. |[/list]
[list][list][pre]| THE HELLAS, THE CHANTIERS DE LATLANTIQUE SHIPYARD, FRANCE, WESTERN EUROPE: | ΤΟ HELLAS, ΤΟ ΝΑΥΠΗΓΕΊΟ CHANTIERS DE L'ATLANTIQUE, ΓΑΛΛΊΑ, ΔΥΤΙΚΉ ΕΥΡΏΠΗ: | |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| Meanwhile at the Chantiers de LAtlantique shipyard in France, at a conference held between representatives of the Greek Line, Chantiers de LAtlantique, along with several of the ships engineers, draftsmen, and architects including her designer, Vladimir Yourkevich, to finally reveal the long-awaited design of the HELLAS. By now, the ships keel has been finished, and the ships hull frames now starting to rise above the shipyards slipway. Following a round of introductions and a short applause from the crowd comprising of mostly press officials and photographers. Shortly after, the design for the HELLAS class of ocean liners was brought out, and its opaque cloth covering was removed, showing the design on full display. The crowd roared with applause. This was Greeces new flagship, a symbol of the Greek people and the nation. |[/list]
[list]| As for the overall design of the ship, the TSS HELLAS resembled the French Normandie in many ways. Its modern, sleek design combined with a clipper-like whaleback bow, high sheer, and wave break made for an interesting combination of different design elements. She is capable of carrying an estimated 3,900 Passengers and 1,000 Crew. She features three classes, Deluxe/First Class, Cabin/Second Class, and Tourist/Third Class. Her interiors were to be a combination of simplistic, modern, and ergonomic design, mixed with the luxurious Art Deco style of architecture, as seen on liners such as the British Queen Mary, the French Normandie, and the Italian Rex. As for specifications, Yourkevich believed they were just right for a liner, not as grand as the Normandie, but still quite impressive. At 50,000 GRT, 2590 meters long, 300 meters wide, and 270 draft, she is capable of speeds of up to 27 knots with her twin screw propulsion system, with a cruising speed of 24 knots. The Hellas design will also be used on her near-identical sister, the TSS BYZANTINE. The interior of the Byzantine would be different when compared to the Hellas, being built with Greek architecture and culture in mind, focusing more on tradition and old money. The Byzantine will be completed by 1956. |[/list]
[list][list][pre]"The Hellas and the Byzantine, the fruit of the work that myself and the team of talented naval engineers and architects have put together. These new vessels will be the culmination of my life's work, and the new national symbols of Greek strength and might." [/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]- Naval Architect, Vladimir Yourkevich [/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[list]| You can see the HELLAS and the BYZANTINE here, drawings courtesy of yours truly.
https://imgur.com/Tl5WO2V
https://imgur.com/DaN2kmi |[/list]
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*shakes fist at could*
The Autonomy of the University: A Stand for Principles in Times of Crisis
[list]April, 1952[/list]
The University of Havana was a place of great pride and prestige for the people of Cuba. Located in the heart of the capital city, it was a beacon of knowledge and intellectualism, attracting some of the brightest minds from all over the country. So when news of the March coup reached the campus, it sent shockwaves through the community. As the rector of the University of Havana, Professor Jose Hernandez was well aware of the importance of his position. He was a man of great integrity and intelligence, and he knew that the university would look to him in times of crisis for guidance and leadership. So when a group of students and faculty came to him, demanding that the university take a stand against the Batista regime, Professor Hernandez knew he had to act.
"I understand your concerns, and I share them," he said, addressing the group gathered in his office. "But we must remember that the University of Havana is an autonomous institution. We cannot simply take sides in a political dispute." "But Professor Hernandez," said one of the faculty members, a professor of economics. "The situation in our country is dire. The Batista regime is corrupt and oppressive, and it is our duty as intellectuals to speak out against injustice." Professor Hernandez nodded gravely. "I agree that we must speak out against injustice. But we must be careful not to compromise the independence of the university. If we take sides in this conflict, we risk losing our autonomy and becoming beholden to one or the other." "But surely there must be some way we can make our voices heard," said a student, a young man studying law. "We cannot simply stand by and watch as our country is torn apart by violence and corruption."
Professor Hernandez sighed and leaned back in his chair. "I understand your frustration, my young friend. But we must be strategic in our actions. We cannot afford to be rash or impulsive. We must think carefully about the consequences of our actions and choose the path that best serves the interests of the university and the people of Cuba." The group was silent for a moment, considering the rector's words. Finally, the economics professor spoke up."Perhaps we could issue a statement condemning the violence and corruption of the Batista regime while also affirming our commitment to the autonomy of the university," he suggested. Professor Hernandez nodded thoughtfully. "That is a good suggestion. I will consult with the rest of the faculty and see if we can draft a statement that reflects the concerns and values of the university community." After much discussion and debate, the University of Havana released a statement affirming its commitment to the university's autonomy.
University of Havana:
[list][list][sub][pre]The University of Havana reaffirms its commitment to its autonomy as an institution of higher education. It is our role to provide a safe and neutral space for the free exchange of ideas and the pursuit of knowledge. In this spirit, we call on our students and faculty to express themselves freely and openly without fear of reprisal or consequences. Open and honest dialogue is essential to finding solutions to the challenges facing our country, and we will do all we can to protect and defend the right to free expression on our campus. We also call on all parties involved in the current situation to respect the autonomy of the University of Havana and to refrain from using our campus as a battleground for their interests. We are a place of learning and intellectual inquiry, and we will not allow ourselves to be drawn into the political fray. We remain committed to our role as a beacon of knowledge and understanding, and we hope that through our actions, we can contribute to a more peaceful and just future for all the people of Cuba.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
As word of the statement from the University of Havana circulated around campus, many students were disappointed and frustrated. They had hoped that the university would take a stronger stand against the injustices of the current political situation, but instead, it seemed to be playing it safe and affirming its autonomy. "I can't believe this," said Maria, a young woman studying law. "The university is supposed to be a place of learning and progress, not a place of cowardice and silence." "I agree," said her friend Carlos, who was studying economics. "We have a responsibility to speak out against injustice, and the university should be leading the way. But instead, they're just hiding behind their autonomy and hoping everything will just go away." Others on campus felt similarly disillusioned. Many had hoped that the university would be a beacon of hope and resistance in these difficult times, but instead, it seemed to be taking a passive and noncommittal stance.
Despite the disappointment, however, many students remained determined to speak out and make their voices heard. They knew that the university was not the only platform for dissent, and they vowed to find other ways to stand up for what they believed in. As the days passed, a sense of frustration and disillusionment lingered on campus. Many hoped that the university would eventually take a stronger stand, but for now, they would have to find other ways to make their voices heard.
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[list][sub]𝙸.1952[/sub]
[sub]TENTATIVI DIPLOMATICI[/sub]
DIPLOMATIC OVERTURES
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ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub]
| After last September's bill and the re-assertion of Italy's rightful claims to the Slovene[sup][nation=short]Amsterwald[/nation][/sup]-occupied Julian March, Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi found a much-needed respite from the conservative elements within his own party. Although the situation was far from being considered resolved, his discourse to the Parliament was considered by many as an indication that Italy would keep asserting those claims in the near future. De Gasperi, a pragmatist at heart, now shielded from the raucous cries of the revanchist fringes, would find in with the new year a good occasion to signal his good will to Slovenia. |
| Seven bodies were found in an abandoned shepherd's home in the vicinity of Belluno. More precisely, five Slovenes and two Croats, who were found blindfolded and shot in the back of the head. Due to their peculiar location, a small basement in an elevated mountain home, their bodies had miraculously been preserved to a degree where they could be identified after the authorities led a month-long inquest, recalling former Fascist officers and collecting the testimony of local inhabitants and former Partisans Unfortunately, no Germans were contacted. After weeks of research, it could be determined with more or less certainty that these men were former Partisans hailing from Yugoslavia, and had attempted escape from a small prisoner's camp located south, most likely before transfer to Germany, while Italy's north was under de facto Volkisch occupation. They had been tracked through the forests by Black Brigades and summarily executed. Such a vast inquest, it is said, was an order coming from the highest echelons of power, since such a discovery, unfortunately not rare after a war, usually simply mandated a burial in the local cemetary. This time however, the corpses were groomed and the seven coffins draped with Slovene flags. At dawn on a freezing 23rd January morning, a small convoy drove to the Slovene border to entrust the dead to the local authorities so they could be interred in their homeland. |
| Across the Mediterranean, the new Egyptian republic [sup][nation=short]Kotakuan II[/nation][/sup] would be officially recognized on January 1st, while the deposed King, Farouk, fled to Rome and began living a lavish life from his rented estate of Villa Dusmet, where he would meet King Umberto II. Despite the good relations maintained with the former Monarchy, the Italian Kingdom, always guided by a pragmatic approach, would begin talks with the new Egyptian leadership. |
[list][spoiler=[sub]Evviva l'Italia![/sub]]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Afghanistaan[/nation]
[nation]Alaroth[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Annyeong Korea[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Astarina[/nation]
[nation]Bayside[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]Finlandee[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Jersey Republic[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Irelaand[/nation]
[nation]Islahh[/nation]
[nation]Philanialle[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Somerania[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Confederate Prussian Empire[/nation]
[nation]Tallahan[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation][/spoiler][/list]
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[list]May 1952
[sub]Social Welfare[/sub][/list]
[pre]G E R M A N Y A N D S O C I A L D E M O C R A C Y[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]The German Social Democratic Party (Sozialdemokratische Partei
Deutschlands) has been commonly referred to as the (Partei der ewigen Opposition),
thanks to its status as a party that as barely ever won a majority to allow it to govern.
Thanks to its status as a Marxist-leaning party, the SPD has consistently been unable
to secure a governing mandate in the postwar Federal Republic. Overshadowed by the
arguably more economically-capable CDU/CSU center-right party, the SPD faced with
a rising debate over German social welfare legislation is moving to reform itself and
aim high in 1953.[/pre][/sub][/list]
SOZIALDEMOKRATISCHE PARTEI DEUTSCHLANDS HEADQUARTERS, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| The SOZIALDEMOKRATISCHE PARTEI DEUTSCHLANDS (SPD) was the chief opposition party, thus regularly referred to as the Partei der Ewigen Opposition (PdEO). Led by the aged senior social democrat Kurt Schumacher, the party had stood in the 1949 federal elections and barely lost to the CDU/CSU to gain for themselves a governing majority, even by coalition. The party subscribed to somewhat Marxist policies, which was an extremely negative trait in a postwar, ardently anti-Communist and ardently pro-Western Federal Republic that was benefiting massively from the fruits of the implementation of a progressive market economy. Thus, following the tight defeat during the '49 election, the SPD under Schumacher began its pivot away from anti-Western, Marxist-leaning rhetoric to more balanced, social democratic policies, such as the implementation of a NATIONAL SOCIAL WELFARE SYSTEM, which was gaining traction by 1952 thanks to the growing calls for the federal government to take action and support those left behind by the rapid economic output and growth of the past two years. |
| While strongly opposed by companies as being anti-growth and anti-profit, the national movement for social welfare has been growing. Citing Zaire as a prime example that Germany 'should follow or at least take inspiration from for the growth it wishes to adopt in the years to come', the SPD has made social welfare and subsidization of healthcare bills by the federal government a key part of its policies, shifting away from advocating for the dismantling of monopolies and increasing taxes on higher-income Germans. The debate over social welfare entered center-stage with the opening of the Bundestag for the 1952 session, with a coalition of 42 SPD deputies and 4 FDP deputies co-sponsoring a bill to establish a comprehensive national social welfare system that would allow the government to enforce labor laws, defend labor unions, raise the minimum wage, and provide monetary and otherwise aid to the most unfortunate, as well as laying down the foundations for a national public housing system. |
| The debate over social welfare was initially thought to be swift by many analysts and Bundestag insiders. 'Socialist' policies and the SPD were not that popular amongst the populace, especially with anti-Communist sentiment growing alongside the Cold War and with German economic prosperity on the horizon with the CDU/CSU and Ludwig Erhard and Konrad Adenauer at the helm. However, public positions on the issues of minimum wage and labor unions were shifting. The industrialization of Germany saw economic and material prosperity, yes. Imports grew thanks to a rise in incomes, but exports grew even more so. However, concerns by several labor groups over the possibility of a relaxation in regulations to protect workers from potential workplace abuse grew to become a national issue. Groups were now advocating for greater strength for labor unions, and for the establishment of national minimum wage and worker protection laws. Especially as the government was openly subsidizing the growth of several industries, including coal and steel and mining, several deputies were also interested in ensuring that their subsidies programs would not be compromised by issues with labor groups. |
| As a result of growing national sentiment in favor of stronger labor laws, the SPD chose to take advantage of this, capitalizing on these issues and pushing a comprehensive labor package into the Bundestag in February. Kurt Schumacher, on the floor, called on the government to 'ensure that the companies they are so openly funding and providing investments to are respecting the sanctity of the worker, who is the true backbone of the unprecedented growth we have been seeing over the past two years'. Minor bipartisan support from the FDP and progressive wings of the CDU/CSU were also being shored up by Erich Ollenhauer, a top party official who was mobilizing his supporters in opposition to Schumacher's hard anti-European Unity positions. The debate over social welfare was preparing to spill over into SPD party division between Schumacher and hardline Euroskeptics and Ollenhauer's moderate social democrats. |
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"The new Romania!"
May 1952
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
The new Romania!
| After the sudden passing of esteemed comrade Petru Groza, Romania has been left in a political crisis until the 3rd Congress of the then Workers Party of Romania when Constantin Rotaru was elected both President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly and General Secretary of the Workers Party of Romania. Months have passed, Romania and the Workers Party have changed both flags and official names. As Comrade Rotaru noted in his first speech as leader of the Republic: "This is only the beginning of The new Romania!"
Development of the Workers and Peasants state
| The Communist Party of Romania has taken up the job of reforming Romanian Agriculture, Infrastructure and Industry. Two 5 Years plans have been enacted in an effort to Increase Agricultural productivity, development of Agricultural equipment in the "Stalin City" (Brasov), development of the nationwide railway and highway system, providing fast delivery of goods throughout all of our Motherland. The Romanian Industry however will see the biggest improvements. The existing factories and Refineries mostly have 1930`s era equipment inside of them, reducing the monthly output by an estimated 25,7%. At the Monthly Marea Adunare Națională (Great National Assembly) it has been decided that Romania will start a rapid industrialization programme that will ensure the Republics monthly economic grow to surpass the current economic grow of 78%. Tractors, Automobiles, Locomotives, Trucks, Industrial Engines and Equipment, Military equipment, Mining Equipment, Agricultural tools, Oil Industry etc.. shall all carry the stamp Made in Romania with pride!
Bucharest Socialist development plans
| Bucharest, the little Paris as it is nicknamed, sadly lacks the suitable development of a Socialist nation of the 20th century. We have enacted plans to expand the city and it`s industrial area. The most People of Bucharest live in impoverished 19th century Buildings affecting the cities quality of life. The Nation has decided to develop more high-rise Socialist Apartments for every citizen of Bucharest to live in equipped with adequate bathrooms and kitchens, and 2 to 3 rooms per Apartment. It is estimated that by 1957 more than 80% of people would be moved in Modern Apartments, with the number increasing until 1962 to about 90%. What Bucharest also lacks, is the availability of fast and safe Public Transport. The Government has approved the purchase of 65 new Trams (Dealer still to be found) and creation of 6 bus and tram lines. By 1962 Bucharest is expected to have around 3 new Factories, raising the number of Factories in Bucharest at 29, making it one of the most Industrialized capitals of the Eastern Bloc.
Diplomacy and Trade
| The new Republic ready to abandon the total isolation it has been left in, and develop relations with Western Nations as well as the brother and sister nations of the East. Having peaceful relations with everyone on the globe only means the further development of Socialism and global peace. Technological licenses would be our main priorities right now to improve our factories productivity.
Foreign Development Plans
| The Great National Assembly has proposed a plan of an integrated Socialist Railway programme, linking every Socialist Capital City and their smaller counterparts of Socialist Europe together. This would be beneficiary since Trade and Diplomacy can be improved even better between Socialist Nations
We place all of our trust and energy in Comrade Rotaru, beloved son of the brave Romanian people. The Nation believes in you, comrade General Secretary!
May 1952
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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BENELUX WORRIES OF TENSIONS BETWEEN WESTERN PARTNERS MAY HINDER EUROPEAN UNITY
In the hallways of the Binnenhof, Prime Minister Willem Drees has been receiving numberous worrying telegrams about the situation between Amsterwald and Arcanda.
While Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi seems to be less extreme as initially feared, his position remained clear that some land of Slovenia should return to Italy. The legislation passed is also a sign of worry. Whether the Italian PM is being forced to adopt such extreme measures, the risk for European unity is evident.
The Conference of Caen may result in failure if two parties of a future European community are at odds on such vital matter. The first objective of the European Community is peace. Willem Drees knows that until Italy and Slovenia agree on something that will end any territorial claim, the objective of peace will never be reached.
Prime Minister Drees has made several calls with his colleague of Metropolitan Francais and New Provenance to discuss the situation and ultimately hope to find a solution.
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back in my day we'd wear onions on our belts, as it was the fashion of the time, all though that trend ended with the great onion shortage was caused by the War.
[list][list][list][pre]THE EMPIRE OF IRAN
امپراتوری ایران[/pre][/list]
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NEW IRANIAN ASSEMBLY PASSES PAHLAVI ECONOMIC PLAN FOR MARKET LIBERALIZATION AND FINANCIAL BALANCE
[sub]FAZLOLLAH ZAHEDI ADMINISTRATION | TEHRAN, JUNE 1952[/sub][/list]
The National Front of Iran passed a new economic plan drafted by the Shah and the Ministry of the Economy with the participation of Prime Minister Fazlollah Zahedi and Deputy Prime Minister Gholam Reza Azhari. Forming the foundation for what is becoming known as Economic Pahlavism, the new economic initiative entails modernization of the government, making it more enterprise-friendly while dispensing greater authority to state and local governments. The ultimate goal involves rendering the American government smaller to gut out bureaucratic gridlock and to become less wasteful and more agile in light of the newly globalizing era. The comprehensive economic plan can be easily described by the following main components:
[list][sub]Establish fiscal discipline and eliminate the budget deficit
Maintain low interest rates and encourage private-sector investment
Eliminate protectionist tariffs
Invest in human capital through education and research[/sub][/list]
Additionally, the new economic agenda includes Small Business Protection & Sustainability Act to reduce taxes for small businesses. Furthermore, the Constituency Assembly increased tax deduction for self-employed business owners from 30% to 75% by 1955 while the Taxpayer Relief Agenda looks to reduce taxes. Additionally, the capital gains tax is to be lowered to 20%. To assist lower-income families and senior citizens, educational savings and retirement funds were given tax relief. Some of the expiring tax provisions are to be extended for selected businesses and by 1953-1954, an exemption could be taken out for those family farms and small businesses that qualify for it.
Additionally, the Ministry on Energy announced Iran is set to produce 875,000 barrels of oil at $1.75 per barrel. The increase in production comes with renewing energy agreements and negotiated terms to ensure steady, stable supply of oil to the global market. Furthermore, the Shah has declared that 15% of monthly oil and gas revenue is to be set aside toward monthly investments toward infrastructure development, social works and welfare projects, and the Iranian Education & Social Rebirth Sovereign Wealth Fund. The IESR aims to utilize allotted funds to finance grants and scholarships to medium and low-end families to expand education opportunities to guarantee a highly literate, intellectual society in a full encompassing effort to elevate Iranian education rankings and return regional prestigious to Tehran.
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Beginning of the National Infrastructure Reforms
June 6th
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| The Executive Committee of The Communist Party of Romania has decided that today, the 6th of June 1952, Romania will officially start it`s long awaited Infrastructure Programs, bringing the Infrastructure levels closer to the Modern World. By 1960 it is planned to build around 30.500 km of Roads, Highways and Express Roads. The National Railways are also seeing a major increase in quality and number of total kilometers, hoping to build 19.141 km by 1958, and modernizing 5000 km of the existing railroad by next year.
|The project is just one of Romania`s two 5 year plans, which will develop Romanian Industry, Agriculture and Industry. The Romanian people praise the leading class and the esteemed leader of "The New Romania", beloved son of the people, comrade Constantin Rotaru!
June 6th
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Our Leader`s speech about the Beginning of the first 5 year plan
June 11th
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Bucharest, balcony of the Central Committee of The Communist Party of Romania, Comrade General Secretary of The Communist Party, President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, Constantin Rotaru held a speech in front of 20 thousand Romanians, documenting the start of the first long awaited 5 year plan, in which Romania is expected to rapidly industrialize and modernize.
| Constantin Rotaru,General Secretary of The Communist Party, President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, beloved and esteemed Dear Leader of the Romanian people:
| "Comrades, it is with great excitement to announce the beginning of the first 5 year plan of Romania, long awaited by all other compatriots. We must all put our own effort in the new Romanian dream. Workers, Peasants, Soldiers, every citizen of this beautiful and resourceful nation, if he loves his country and people that is, has the duty to prove his unconditional love for his country, by doing his fair share of the Work. We all dream in living in a modern, stable and prosperous nation, where we do not need the help of foreign nations to sustain our economy and state. Finally, after years of Capitalist oppression, the people are free to choose their future, as they are the masters of their destiny and of the riches of the Country!"
| The crowd rushes to applaud and to chant Rotaru`s name
| "We have also decided that by August of 1952, the Magyar Autonomous Region to be dismantled, as it is an illegitimate and illegal region imposed by the former Ruling Elite of Romania, trying to subjugate the Romanian Country to their vile non patriotic values. Romania is a diverse nation, populated by Romanians, Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians and more, however everybody can agree that Romania is a majority Romanian ethnic country, and that the Autonomous region doesn`t value 2 Bani!"
| Partidul, Rotaru, Romania!
| Poporul, Rotaru, Romania!
| Rotaru e PCR!
June 11th
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[list][sub]SLOVENIA AND ECONOMIC PATRIOTISM, PART THREE[/sub][/list]
ON THE HOME FRONT: BUILDING NATIVE COMPETITION AND PATRIOTIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN A SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
[list][sup]THE CRUSADE FOR A HIGHER STATION
SLOVENIAJUNE 1952[/sup][/list]
A political strategist would find it a slippery, vexing challenge to rally any particular demographic of Slovenian political life against social democracy. Even the conservative wing of the Slovenian legislaturechiefly represented by the Slovene Peoples Party of Andrej Gosarwas in large part made up of Christian socialists. The most nationalistic politicians themselves were often staunch supporters of the social safety nets woven by the early Republics government, regularly characterizing Slovenias rigorous system of universal compulsory education and state-funded medical services as luminescent ornaments of Slovene greatness. To a Slovene, conservatism did not imply the fiscal liberalism, tax cuts and unregulated markets that it did in the United States; in the Republic, conservatism was instead purely a brand of social thinking that put national and religious values before cosmopolitan ones. The idea of social democracy was taken for granted, and formed the baseline of the economic angle of Slovenian government: political life in the country had been defined by an era of prolific social democratic and democratic socialist literature in the interwar period, chiefly between the more conservative Christian socialist and avant-garde Marxist schools of thought. Even when the violence of Josip Broz Titos actions against the Karadordeviči discredited Marxism in spheres of debate, Christian socialism survivedand grewentirely separate from the Titoist philosophy of authoritarian socialism. In the era of independence, there was no backlash against social democracy for any perceived similarities to Eastern philosophies. Among the Slovene electorate, social democracy was a heritage not blackened by the radical strains of socialism across the border.
Thus, while the Slovene government incessantly encouraged entrepreneurship and insisted on economic freedomcutting away at red tape and streamlining the processes of founding a businessit kept an unflinching eye on the countrys economic happenings, watchfully protecting workers and consumers. It had no intention of hindering the growth of the countrys industries, however. With the final packages of Marshall Plan grants reaching the Tomič-Gosar governments coffers in 1952, Slovene legislators embarked on distributing them in a sustainable way. This last wave of foreign funding would be dedicated to the opening of vocational and trade schools to act as a counterbalance to Slovenias growing university culture. To have an overeducated population in the future would be to misuse the talents of the Slovene peoplethus, metallurgical training programs, courses in the operation of machine tools, applied engineering and construction certifications and other vocational programs would be offered through seven new major campuses around the country in the hinterlands of its major cities. Staffing, tuition and construction would be paid for in part by Marshall Plan grants and in part by tax revenueuniversal tuition-free education was held to be a right for all Slovenes, keeping with its social democratic leanings, though this only went as far as one degree in an institute of higher education. Multiple certifications would have to be paid for through federal loans orin some casesgrants from prospecting corporations.
Indeed, economic patriotism extended to a culture of patriotic management: a reciprocal relationship between employers and employees that some analysts say is rooted in Slovenias rich village culture of collaborative living. Steelworking firm Trot paved the way in employee benefits; beginning in 1951, as the companys profitability soared, it began paying for the education and training courses of its contracted applicants. The few medical expenses not covered by the Slovene government were also paid for by Trots coffers, and maternity and paternity benefits were greater than even the governments. In the managements eyes, they were comparatively small expenses in comparison to heightened employee satisfaction and productivity, though it was not a cost-benefit analysis to founder Unčat Trot. To him, it was a duty. The editorship of the company newsletter was in the hands of a member of the Slovene National Party, and workplace posters in Trots sprawling Jesenice facilities spoke to Trots beliefs in the greatness and survival of the Slovene Republic. An educated Slovene, holding in his hands the tools to thrive and create a strongly rooted family, is a force of good in this world. I intend to give him those tools, Trot explained simply in a letter published by Catholic literary magazine Dom in svet. He had many listeners; Prime Minister Gosar silently applauded him for soothing any endemic labor unrest, and rival metallurgical corporations were fast to provide competitive benefitseven fledgling U.S. Steel operations in the country were forced to play the game. By the end of the decade, patriotic management in every sector would be indispensable.
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[list][list][list][pre]THE UNITED REPUBLIC OF LA PLATA
LA REPÚBLICA UNIDA DE LA PLATA[/pre][/list]
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PARTIDO JUSTICIALISTA EXPANDS REPRESENTATION IN UNITED CONGRESS OF LA PLATA; SOLIDIFIES PERON DOMINANCE AHEAD OF 1954 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
[sub]JUAN PERON ADMINISTRATION | BUENOS AIRES, JUNE 1952[/sub][/list]
Since 1946, there has been one man whose name has become synonymous with the southern cone of South America and Latin American corporatist populism: Juan Domingo Peron. Absolute political dominance is an understatement when observing the personality cult that surrounds Mr. Peron and his Judicialist Party. With a party platform that mixes tenets of Socialism and the feeling of a Worker's Party State with corporatist industrial syndicates, councils, and military-security networks intermingled between the two, Juan Peron begun the arc of being the living embodiment of what it means to be La Platan. Prioritizing heavy industries, investments into strategic infrastructure, and directly benefitting from the infrastructure implemented by the Catholic League since the 1930s and recent membership into OAS, La Plata has sustained a subtle, quiet trajectory to be an influential power in Latin America. The population of La Plata, measured at 26,857,479 people, tended to side on the line of stability in employment, worker's rights, social mobility, education, and religion. These elements of society, understood by Peron, are the key highlights to satisfy constituents to remain in power. This realization has remained core to the new power structure constructed by Peron via the Judicialist Party as being the true party of the people and against clear elitism...that did not benefit the agenda of Peron.
What solidified Peron's authority to this point is the mirage of the military and security apparatus under the leadership of Peron being on the side of the worker and the laborer whilst forcing the capitalist, industrialist, and entrepreneur to make arrangements and direct negotiations with representatives of the people to ensure a cohesive circular worker-industrial market-based economy with subtle state guidance to formulate a workable finance and economic theory that reduces the number of socioeconomic classes while still guaranteeing a social structure. The range of agreements have produced a corporatist worker's society unique to La Platan society. This reality is explained in the manifesto of the Judicialist Party called "Peronist Philosophy":
[list][sub]"When it comes to political action, the scale of values of every Peronist is: Argentina first; the movement second; and thirdly, the individuals. Politics are not an end, but a means for the well-being of Argentina: which means happiness for our children and greatness for our nation."[/sub][/list]
To the soft spoken critics, Peron has been legitimized as a true visionary and leader of La Plata; however, in reality, Peron reigns as the Latin American version of Franco, Salazar, and to an extent Ataturk and Mussolini; treating his opponents and opposition as sub-human with vicious brutality and covert state-sponsored terror. However, with the support of his wife and the propagandized warm smile as being a man of and for the people of La Plata, Juan Peron continues to dominate and serve as President of the United Republic of La Plata. In 1952, congressional elections bear witnessed the expansion of the Judicialist Party and their victories into the National Congress of La Plata, remarkably stronger in 1952 than in 1948 and 1944. This could be in relation to increased economic prosperity and new committees to operate as fusion centers between unions and industrial capitalists while industrial sectors stabilize. South America is living a relative moment of peace, allowing for the Judicialist Party to propagandize that it is their system of governance and union with the masses that has brought to fruition the framework for what Peron is referring to as "El Estado del Paraíso y la Paz" (The State of Paradise and Peace).
The growth of dominance by the Judicialist Party in the National Congress has further intimidated opposition parties to seek the formation of minor coalitions to attempt to undermine the Judicialist Party; however, now with a subtle supermajority resting at 64% of the legislature, the Judicialist Party does not need a coalition; however, Chairman of the National Congress of La Plata and Judicialist Party member Lieutenant General Eduardo Lonardi has confessed the Judicialist Party will seek to establish a majority coalition with minor parties to expand the consolidation of power from 64% to 82% if negotiations and agreements can be made. Nonetheless, from Casa Rosada, President Juan Peron sent his congratulatory praise to the hard work of the Judicialist Party and moreover, demonstrated much eagerness for the upcoming 1954 Presidential elections in addition to the new line of bills and acts to be signed into law without much difficulty.
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[pre]| JUNE ИЮНЬ 1952 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND ECONOMIC COOPERATION ESTABLISHED:
THE SOVIET UNION, KURDISTAN, AND SYRIA SIGN AGREEMENTS IN AMED ENSHRINING COOPERATION FROM THE CAUCASUS TO THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN!!
СОЗДАН СОВЕТ ПО ТОРГОВО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОМУ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВУ:
СОВЕТСКИЙ СОЮЗ, КУРДИСТАН И СИРИЯ ПОДПИСЫВАЮТ СОГЛАШЕНИЯ В АМЕД, ЗАПИСЫВАЮЩИЕ СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВО ОТ КАВКАЗА ДО ВОСТОЧНОГО СРЕДИЗЕМНОМОРЬЯ!
[pre]| As Moscow-Aligned Europe sees massive growth through the institution of COMECON with infrastructure projects taking hold and economic cooperation sees a closer bond with Moscow that benefits the people of COMECON as a whole, the Soviet Government would look to expand this to its Allies of the Middle East. Kurdistan and Syria both stand as the Soviet bulwark to Western Imperialism in the region, with the Soviets seeing Kurdistan as a nation it helped foster the environment for its creation and Syria as a strong newcomer to the leftist Internationale these would be the benefactors of Soviet growth in the region. In Amed the capital of Kurdistan, Soviet, Syrian, and Kurdish Officials would finalize agreements for the creation of The Council For Trade and Economic Cooperation. |[/pre]
| Signatories |
[pre] - Vyacheslav Molotov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union[/pre]
[pre]- Ibrahim Ehmed, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kurdistan[/pre]
[pre]- Akram Al-Hourani, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Syria[/pre]
[pre]| The Council For Trade and Economic Cooperation shortened in conversations to the Trade Council would facilitate the lessening of restrictions on international trade between its members and propose and allocate funding from all members to construct mutually beneficial infrastructure. Heavy efficiencies would be put on increasing the connections between the member nations to help facilitate the growth of trade in the region with easement on trade. Member Nations would now be able to propose trade deals and infrastructure plans to be decided on by all Member Nations in the Trade Council by a Majority Vote. |[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]عمال العالم اتحدوا![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]KARKERÊN CÎHANÊ BIKIN YEK![/pre][/list][/list]
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CHIEF CHISANGULA PREACHES TRADITIONALISM IN THE FACE OF THE CHITIMUKULU
[list][sup]WHEN CHANGES ARE TOO GREAT
BEMBALANDJUNE 1952[/sup][/list]
Chitimukuluparamount chiefChilyamafwa II had been nothing short of revolutionary. He had institutionalized education, hosted Azanian engineers and even introduced laymen into the upper echelon of Bemba governance. With every action, however, comes an equal and opposite reaction. Chief Chisangula of the mbushi (goat) clan was the leading voice among traditionalist factions, and though his rhetoric was restrained by the strict Bemba code of class-etiquette, his criticisms of the Chitimukulus actions have been transparently clear. It is our responsibility as chiefs to uphold the Bemba way of life, ornamented by rich traditions and ancient customs, he spoke at one meeting of clan-chiefs in the late wet season of 195152. Hailing from a small village near the Bemba capital of Kasama, Chisangula had been a minor chief for years, but quickly rose to prominence amongst the traditionalist movement with his passionate speeches and carefully worded missives to the Chitimukulu. Chisangula was a vocal critic of the Chitimukulus decision to allow foreign engineers to build a bridge across the Chambeshi River, and warned that the newfound industrialization of Bembaland would result in nothing but forfeited traditions and the slow death of our culture. He was particularly adamant about the Chitimukulus decision to allow laymen to hold positions within the royal court, and wrote in a letter to the Chitimukulu that it is unnatural and contrary to the spirit of our people to allow those of lesser stations to ascend to national power. He also condemned the Chitimukulus decision to introduce a new system of taxation and his May 1952 decree that all lands in Bembaland be registered with the royal court.
In the face of such rapid change, Chief Chisangulas traditionalist rhetoric has gained noteworthy traction among the rural Bemba population and even some of the lesser chiefs. Despite the fact that his views have been largely disregarded by the Chitimukulu, they have been taken seriously by a great number of Bembas, who view them as a much-needed reminder of the importance of preserving their culture and traditions in the face of so-called modernization. For his part, Chisangula has been unwavering in his opposition to the Chitimukulus reforms and has vowed to continue preaching the importance of tradition in the face of what some view as an onslaught of foreign ideas and values.
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Margarita Rocha and Miguel Henriquez Guzmán Square Off in Tense 1952 Mexican Election
[list]GACETA UNAM NEWSPAPER[/B][/list]
[list][sup]Gadiel Portillo
June, 1952[/sup][/list]
As the 1952 Mexican election approaches, two candidates have emerged as the leading contenders for the presidency: Margarita Rocha, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and Miguel Henriquez Guzmán, candidate for the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP). Margarita Rocha is a seasoned politician with a wealth of experience in government. She received her education in Economics at The University of Chicago and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through an exchange program funded by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundation. She began her career as a policymaker for President Aleman and gained recognition for her work in his department of labor. She eventually rose through the ranks to become his Secretary of Interior. As the PRI's candidate, Rocha has advocated for industrialization through austerity measures, believing that this is the key to economic growth and stability in the country. However, this stance has put her at odds with some left-wing groups, who see it as a betrayal of the working class and a return to authoritarian policies.
Miguel Henriquez Guzmán, another UNAM alumni, on the other hand, is a charismatic and ambitious politician who has built a strong following among left-wing voters. As the candidate for the FMEP, an umbrella group for people and parties seeking an electoral alternative to the PRI, Guzmán has positioned himself as a champion of the working class and a defender of social justice. He has accused Rocha of being a U.S. Department of state plant, designed to shape the politics of Mexico to their imperialist liking, and has used this allegation to try and undermine her campaign. The accusations made by Guzmán have been met with fierce resistance from Rocha, who has firmly rejected them and insisted that she is "fully committed to the sovereignty and independence of Mexico" and that she will "never allow foreign interests to dictate the direction of our country." Despite these denials, the allegations have continued to dog her campaign, with many left-wing voters expressing skepticism about her true intentions.
As the election approaches, tensions rise, with civil unrest breaking out in parts of the country. The FMEP and its supporters have accused the PRI of using underhanded tactics to win the election, including voter intimidation and fraud. The PRI, in turn, has accused the FMEP of inciting violence and trying to destabilize the country. The U.S. Department of State has also announced that it will be observing the elections due to the communist party of Mexico joining the FMEP coalition, which earned 30% of the vote in the previous election. Despite the controversy surrounding the campaign, Rocha and Guzmán are formidable candidates with solid track records and clear visions for the future of Mexico. Rocha's experience in government and her commitment to economic development have won her many supporters, while Guzmán's charisma and dedication to social justice have earned him a loyal following.
In the capital, Mexico City, students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are following the campaign closely and are increasingly frustrated by what they see as a lack of genuine choices. "I'm really fed up with the way this election is going," says Maria, a 21-year-old political science student at UNAM. "It feels like we don't have any real options. It's either the PRI and their austerity measures, or the FMEP and their empty promises. It's like we're being forced to choose between the lesser of two evils." Many of the students interviewed expressed anger and disappointment with both candidates, Margarita Rocha of the PRI and Miguel Henriquez Guzmán of the FMEP. "I don't trust either of them," says Carlos, a 22-year-old economics student. "They're both just trying to get votes by saying whatever they think people want to hear. It's disgusting." Others, however, are more skeptical of Guzmán and his party. "I think the FMEP is just trying to create chaos and divide the country," says Elena, a 20-year-old history student. "I don't think they have any real solutions. I'm going to be voting for Margarita Rocha, but I'm not happy about it. It feels like we're being forced to choose the lesser of two evils." Yet, despite their anger and frustration, the students all agree on the importance of participating in the democratic process and making their voices heard. "I'm not happy with either candidate, but I'm going to vote because it's my right and my responsibility as a citizen," says Juan, a 22-year-old literature student. "I just hope that whoever wins will listen to the people's needs and work to make real change."
As the election approaches, the students of UNAM will be watching closely to see how the campaign plays out and who emerges victorious. Regardless of the outcome, they are determined to have their voices heard and to hold their elected leaders accountable for their actions. Two polls conducted by the UNAM students and the National Electoral Institute show differing results, with the UNAM poll showing a majority of respondents supporting Guzmán and the INE poll showing a majority supporting Rocha. It remains to be seen how these polls will translate to the actual election results, but one thing is clear: the Mexican people are deeply divided, and tensions are rising as the country prepares to choose its next leader.
[list][pre]UNAM Student Poll:
In a poll conducted among students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), a majority of respondents expressed support for the candidate of the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP), Miguel Henriquez Guzmán. Of those surveyed, 52% said they planned to vote for Guzmán, while only 30% said they would vote for Margarita Rocha of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The remaining 18% said they were undecided or would not be voting in the election. The poll, which a group of UNAM students conducted, received responses from over 500 students from various majors and backgrounds. While the sample size is not representative of the entire Mexican electorate, it provides insight into the views of a significant population segment.
National Electoral Institute Poll:
In a poll conducted by the National Electoral Institute (INE), most respondents expressed support for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidate, Margarita Rocha. Of those surveyed, 47% said they planned to vote for Rocha, while only 35% said they would vote for Miguel Henriquez Guzmán of the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP). The remaining 18% said they were undecided or would not be voting in the election. The poll, which the INE conducted, received responses from over 1,000 respondents from various regions and demographics. While the sample size does not represent the entire Mexican electorate, it provides a snapshot of public opinion on the candidates.[/pre][/list]
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DEVELOPERS OBTAIN LICENSE FOR MERCURY MINING EXPANSIONS IN IDRIJA
[list][sup]AN ENDEAVOR OF FIVE CENTURIES
SLOVENIAJUNE 1952[/sup][/list]
The Inner Carniolan town of Idrija was renowned for its mineral history. As the namesake of the inflammable crystal idrialite and the birthplace of Marko V. Lipoldthe father of Slovenian geologyit was unmatched in its background. Crossed by the Idrijca river and nestled comfortably in the Idrija Basin, the town had been the site of mercury mining since the fifteenth century, and folklore abounded about what lay under its earth: legends of Perkmandlc, a mischievous but ultimately protective gnome who warned miners of danger but also stole their shoes and blew out their lamps, filled the 700 kilometers of mining passages named Antonijev rov (Anthonys shaft). At its height, the labyrinthine minenow shutteredhad produced 13% of the worlds mercury from its unmatched veins of cinnabar.
In the fiercely competitive afterglow of Slovene independence, prospectorsfreed from the gauntlet of royal mandatesought new opportunities to bring Slovenia to the forefront of the international trade community. Valuk Jesenko, a young mining engineer from the village of Idrek who had distinguished himself at the University of Ljubljana, was among them. In the summer of 1952, soon after finishing school, he presented the municipal government of Idrijadownhill from his home villagewith geochemical analyses of the shafts lower levels demonstrating the previously undetected presence of further mercury and other minerals. He subsequently petitioned for a license to make expansions to the old shafts with modern machine tools to investigate further; modern methods, he promised, will raise this aged mine to heights heretofore unseen. Though they stipulated he must not interrupt the surface to any degree found nespodoben (indecent, obscene), demanding that any exposed rock must be concealed by trees and turned into a quarry lake at the projects end, Idrijas business authorities granted the request; such was born Idrek ivo srebro (IZS, Idrek mercury). A business loan from the Bank of Slovenia would see Jesenko outfitted with a cocktail of modern specialized measuring and drilling equipment to demonstrate the presence of cinnabar, and he would be eligible for further loans once the viability of such a venture could also be demonstrated.
Jesenko found his mercury. After just two days of drilling, a substantial cinnabar vein had been found just beyond the ending of an old passage in Antonijev rov. However, all was not yet well for the young prospector. Even if cinnabar was found, it would still require substantial drilling, blasting, and shoveling to extract. The extracted ore would then need to be transported to a processing facility, where it would be crushed and treated to extract the mercury content. This would be a much more arduous effort. However, whether IZS was to vertically integrate and open its own processing facility or contract another, the funds from the Bank of Slovenia were now open to Jesenkos venture. Indeed, over the next several months, Jesenko and a growing team worked tirelessly to expand what he had begun. The cinnabar vein would continue to yield substantial amounts of mercury, and IZS aimed to produce their first shipment of mercury from the Idrija mine before the summer of 1953 to a site chosen for a new in-company processing plant. By the decades end, Idrija would return to its roots as a producer and once more see the global market in the process.
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[list][sub]𝚅𝙸.1952[/sub]
[sub]NASCITA DELL'ENI[/sub]
THE BIRTH OF ENI[/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub]
| "Italy will sustain itself with its own resources. Prosperity is just around the corner." It was with such terms that in 1949, a man provoked a frenzy in the press, and saved Agip, the stagnant state oil company, from impending death. It turned out that the fields of the Po Valley only contained a sliver of the alleged riches in oil and methane, but at this point, it mattered little. The man hired in 1945 to liquidate the Fascist state company had turned its fortunes around. His gamble had been a success: Agip was given exclusive rights to oil resources in the Kingdom of Italy, and in two years was restructured to make it a viable venture. The man is Enrico Mattei, a former Fascist-turned-Partisan, who changed sides in 1943 and was known among fellow fighters for the thorough organizational skills he demonstrated while coordinating units affiliated to the Democrazia Cristiana in the Social Republic between '43 and '45. At the end of the war, at 39, he was handed control of Agip with the chief task of dismantling it. Silently, he had worked to the opposite, sensing that soon, Italy would rise from the ashes. In Mattei's mind, a state oil company would be vital for the future. As the years passed, many in the DC saw that he was right. His rise within party circles had occurred concurrently He is now a Deputati and has the ears of many in Rome. |
| Today, he stands justified. The recovery from the war in Italy and Europe is well underway. The American market is growing at breakneck pace, and the Korean War has launched even stronger demand for processed and raw materials. In consequence, Italian industries need more fuel, a demand that will not be answered in full by the scarce domestic ressources already exploited by Agip. A new company, the Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI), or National Fuel Board, has therefore been created by the De Alcide government, absorbing Agip. Mattei has been named Chairman. Its first great works will include the construction of a nationwide network of modern pipelines and gas stations, and a petrochemical plant in Ravenna, all due to be completed by the end of the decade. In the immediate future, ENI also looks towards Africa to source its oil; more particularly, talks have begun with Egypt [sup][nation=short]Kotakuan II[/nation][/sup] concerning exploration and exploitation. |
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(CCP) Peoples Republic of China / (CCP) 中华人民共和国
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CHAIRMAN MAO DIRECTS FOR THE MOBILIZATION OF THE PROLETARIAT TO CRUSH ANTI-REVOLUTIONARY SENTIMENT!
毛主席指示要动员无产阶级粉碎反革命情绪!
[sub]May 1952 | 1952年5月
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BEIJING, CAPITAL PROVINCE | 北京,首都[/sub]
[sub]The Peoples Republic had been fully absorbed at this point by the Peoples of China. From Xinjiang in the East to the Occupied Territory of Formosa in the West, China had mostly bowed out of the latest of its many Warring States eras in favor of law and order. It was clear, however, that some bonds of Chinese society would not be dismantled so easily - at least for the moment. The social and cultural fabric of China was still tightly woven together by Confucian principles. While these ideals had mostly been swept away under the New Revolutions earlier in the century, and movements to upheave the traditional social order especially by the new Communist government in the Thirties, the dogma of Confucianism and the morals set into motion by his ideals remained a powerful force in China. Thus, the Maoist ideology that guided the Communist Party was still in some way strongly modeled off Confucianist ideals, in the sense that a national hierarchy was to be established, maintained and defended. Crucially, the Maoist ideology directed that the collectivist spirit was to triumph over that of the individualist spirit, and the cooperative spirit was to triumph over that of the competitive spirit.[/sub]
[sub]The new state furthermore mandated that information be controlled to maintain state stability. Hundreds of years of Chinese internal instability had taught this to the leadership of the new Peoples Republic under Chairman Mao, who understood that great sacrifices had to be made in order to ensure the continuance of his regime and that of his fellow CCP successors. In a meeting with top members of his government, the Chairman urged his colleagues to recognize the gravity of stability in a country such as ours, pointing out the need to prove we can do what other dynasties was unable to and insure the universal success and stability of the Chinese proletariat and its Peoples Regime. Thus was an effective call for thought control, a modernized version of the old thought control that was so familiar to the Chinese at the end of the original Warring States era; All official histories shall be burned, ad those who permit the concealment of prohibited works of literature of any way or form must go before the local civil and military authorities so these works may be burned.[/sub]
[sub]Thus was the irony, when an Ancient policy of mass control was to be utilized by the regime that sought to eradicate that exact Ancient world, despite the cultural and historical riches presented. The present, the Chairman argued, mattered more than the past ever did.[/sub]
[sub]The edict to purge contradicting works at the end of the original Warring States Era was promulgated by the First Universal Emperor more than two hundred years before Christ himself came onto the Earth, when China was modernized. Twenty-two hundred years later, the Chairman proclaimed from his grand seat in authority in Beijing that literature and art must become a part of the revolutionary machine, rather than a clog in the wider proletariats fight for true freedom and security. The Chung Hua Book Company, one of the longest lasting printing presses in China and in the world, was forced to present all of its published works to investigation by government agents. Less than 14% were approved and retained; the rest were destroyed and never reproduced, not under the watch of the Maoist government. From January to December of the last year, in the Shanghai office of Chung Hua alone, a total of 237 tons of works were destroyed and sold as waste paper. In Hsiangtan, the Hunan provincial government burned 17,000 book cases belonging to a priceless potential. Such, one official lamented, was the price of stability.[/sub]
[sub]The Commercial Press, yet another major publication company in the country that dated its history to the late 19th century, was also reorganized. [/sub]
[sub]Beyond these covert, discreet actions, embarked upon by the state security forces, the Chairman furthermore called on the involvement of the proletariat in the crushing of anti-revolutionary sentiment. He decried destabilizing elements in society and urged his supporters to prevent them from instigating chaos and terror once more over our great country. This policy of involving the proletariat directly in the fight against information, however, had yet to gain traction - for the moment.[/sub]
[sub]人民共和国此时已被中国人民完全吸收。从东边的新疆到西边的福尔摩沙占领区,中国已基本退出了其众多战国时代的最新阶段,转而支持法律和秩序。然而,很明显,中国社会的一些纽带不会那么容易被拆除--至少在目前。中国的社会和文化结构仍然是由儒家原则紧密地编织在一起的。虽然这些理想在本世纪初的新革命和三十年代新的共产党政府颠覆传统社会秩序的运动中大多被扫地出门,但儒家思想的教条和他的理想所树立的道德观在中国仍然是一股强大的力量。因此,指导共产党的毛泽东思想在某种程度上仍然是以儒家思想为蓝本,即建立、维护和捍卫国家等级制度。最重要的是,毛泽东思想指示集体主义精神要战胜个人主义精神,合作精神要战胜竞争精神。[/sub]
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[list][pre]June, 1952 | Bahri, Khartoum, Province, The Commonwealth Of Sudan[/pre]
THE UNIONIST SPLIT, AWADALLAS NATIONAL HOMELAND PARTY EMERGES[/list]
From 1925 to 1952, the party of Nile Valley Unity would finally face its greatest existential crisis ever yet. Dedicating the last 27 years since the aftermath of the Khartoum revolt of 1925, the White Banner League had sought to free Sudan of British colonial rule and reintegrate the Sudanese people back into the fabric of a great Egyptian empire inhabiting much of the Nile valley. More than a decade later with Sudanization picking up pace in the wake of the Second World War, that League would become organized into Sudans largest political faction, the National Unionist Party of the NUP.
The existence of the National Unionist Party had time and time again displayed its unwavering loyalty to King Farouk of Egypt and the Egyptian monarchy and sovereignty over the Sudanese people, only for those long decades of the Egyptian monarchy to come to a swift end by the middle of the century. On the 21st of September, 1951, the long-standing Egyptian monarchy would, at last, come to an end with the proclamation of the Egyptian Republic, and the exile of King Farouk from Egypt, effectively ending the Egyptian crowns sovereignty over Sudan after essentially a century over maintaining Egypts dominion over the Sudanese people after months of revolution sweeping the streets of Sudans neighbor to the north.
The monarchy was now gone, and the NUPs last ties to Egypt were now swiftly cut without even a legitimate heir to the throne who would become an opponent to the Republic. For years now the Unionist has suffered some division amongst its ranks, the partys power had mostly been derived from northern Arab nationalist who saw the unionist as the only party of northern supremacy over the Sudanese nation. The exile of Farouk had now dealt a damaging blow to the legitimacy of the party that had long seen King Farouk as a symbol of the ideals of Nile valley unity, Egypts monarchy itself had a legitimate claim to Sudan, its only disputer being the English monarchy that maintained Sudans dominion. The Egyptian Republic however does not have a claim to Sudan, and adding to the fact that its president Mohamed Naguib is himself half Sudanese, the Egyptian Republic following a state visit by Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla to Cairo in November had also forever cemented Egypts recognition and respect to the independence of the Sudanese Commonwealth.
The dreams of Nile Valley unity under the Egyptian empire are now undoubtedly dead, the Unionist faction now stood fractured in the face of Egypts revolution last year. As the 1952 elections creep closer in Sudan, Azheris party would now undergo what would be described as a split. A faction still loyal to maintaining the ideology of northern supremacy and the Arab nationalist movement sweeping through Egypt and Syria would go on to create their political group filled with Arab nationalist sentiment, this party to be established would go on to be led by Babiker Awadalla, a former reporter of the SBC. Awadallas party would be called the National Homeland Party (NHP), which aims to spread Arab nationalist sentiment in Sudan. The top priority of Awadallas party is to reunite Sudan with the Arab world, either under a political organization or a single state, the NHP shall focus its political strength on moving Sudan closer and closer to the Arab world, also including Sudan's ascension into the Arab League.
While the NHP faces heavy criticism and attacks from Sudans left and center wings of the political theater for the NHPs anti-African and Arab supremacist sentiment, Azheris National Unionist Party would begin its largest transformation yet. In what could be described as a complete 180 by the political community, Azheri had rebranded the NUP into its new name, the Democratic Unionist Party or the DUP. Azheris vision for the rebranding of his party entirely centered around what had been transpiring amongst the ranks of the party and its supporters, as the years went on both Egypt and the worlds recognition of Sudanese independence has begun to affect Sudanese identity and identity that only continued to grow stronger amongst its citizens.
By the time of Sudans dominion in 1950, most Unionist supporters only voted for the NUP believing that Azheri was the best conservative and non-western candidate that would best lead Sudan, not into a union with Egypt but into a new age of Sudanese conservatism. It only took the Egyptian revolution to open Azheris eyes to this voting base; he had transformed the party by joining the DUP into the bandwagon of Sudanization and upholding the tenets of Sudanese self-rule and conservative democratic values.
As the Sudanese people begin to go to the polls for the 1952 parliamentary elections, Azheri would begin to campaign the DUP as an entirely new party, any mentions of Nile valley unity had been entirely replaced by reaffirmed sentiments of Sudanese national unity, and begin a rather dirty smear campaign against the Khalil administration and the commonwealth party, which he had labeled as a puppet organization of a dying empire desperate to stay alive. Azheri would also go on to call Awadalla and his new faction traitors and name the Homeland Party an Arab version of the Confluence movement and its failures.
As Khalil campaigns to seek re-election for a second term as Sudans Prime Minister, the Liberals will begin to open new campaign fronts in the north to combat any growing Arab nationalist sentiment, the communist to campaigning in Sudans industrial cities in competition with the Nationalist Confluence Workers Party that seeks to make a re-emergence in the post-colonial government. The Umma Party too would seek support amongst Sudans rather more Islamist and religious regions, primarily in the Quran belt found in Darfur and Kassala, and finally, with Awadalla campaigning for Arab nationalism, all the political organizations of Sudan had been set in their race for the position of the government.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
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[list]여름 1952 | 1952 June
[list][sup]Korea | 한국[/sup][list]
[sup]The Fall of Pyongyang[/sup][/list]
| The battle for Pyongyang had been long and fierce, the fighting had lasted for almost half a year, the embattled KPA forces had turned the city into a fortress. The RoK strategy had assumed that the city would fall within the first few weeks, but the dogged determination of the KPA to hold the city had proved more powerful. Reinforcements travelling from the north had become bogged down in the fight for Wonsan which had been captured a week earlier. |
| Several senior figures within the DPRK government had become trapped inside the city with no viable route out; several members of the Supreme Peoples Assembly as well as Kim Il-sung. General Secretary Kim had opted to remain in the city when it came under siege publicly declaring that his absence could worsen the morale of the troops in the city, although not untrue his capture could aid his own mission agreed upon with the Yi Family several months ago. Kim had built up a loyal inner circle who shared his views that the continuation of the war was detrimental to the whole of Korea and its people, by building up a network in a united Korea they could achieve their aims on a broader scale. |
| Nevertheless the fierce fighting to hold Pyongyang in the name of his uncle had cost both sides dearly, overall both sides had lost thousands of troops, international agencies estimated somewhere near 11,000 had died during the siege. A communication between the senior leaders of the communist forces in June gave the impression that they knew reinforcements werent coming and that they would not be able to hold out much longer. Mere weeks later officials were openly discussing an unauthorised surrender. |[list]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: Surrender is an option that should be on the table. Our food supplies are low; our morale is non-existent. I am a loyal man, but I know a lost cause when I see one.[/sub]
[sub]Kim Tu-bong: That is treason, surrender has not been authorised by Premier Kang, it would send a message of weakness to the west![/sub]
[sub]Han Hui-jin: Death following the ransacking of the city sends a message of weakness too. Our people are starving while we await an authorisation that will never arrive.[/sub]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: Han is correct. I will authorise the surrender, we cannot let our people die needlessly.[/sub]
[sub]Kim Tu-bong: Needlessly? This is a war for communism, for a greater Korea![/sub]
[sub]Kim Il-sung: A war that has killed nearly a million and displaced millions more; we can achieve our aims reunified, how can you not see that.[/sub][/list]
| The arguments over a surrender in Pyongyang went back and forth for many hours, the lead up to the arguments could largely be seen as a power struggle between Kim Il-sung and Kim Tu-bong, Tu-bong being seen as Premier Kangs second in command. In Pyongyang he was outnumbered by Il-sung loyalists; on June 6th a letter of surrender was officially sent out as KPA troops stood down their positions. Shortly thereafter troops of the RoK rolled into the city and began rounding up KPA troops; both Kims and the other senior politicians were arrested to be put on trial in Seoul, an unexpected move by the Rhee regime, but one that could be used as a bargaining chip in future peace negotiations. |
| Unknown to the public Kims arrival in Seoul was received with a large fanfare by the Rhee Government, his capture was seen as a huge win for them, but also a huge win for unity. Kim was a popular figure across the whole of the peninsula enjoying the support of vast swathes of the lower classes and indeed some government insiders. The Rhee Governments new aim was to try to use Kim to their advantage and help convince the DPRK to surrender completely in favour of unity. For Rhee there were ulterior motives to this, if he could convince other senior figures in the north that Kim was on his side he could move to end this war quickly. For Kim, if he could gain Rhees apparent trust he could use this to create a network of people at the heart of any future Korean Government. |
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Margarita Rocha Wins Mexican Presidential Election Amidst Controversy and Civil Unrest
[list]GACETA UNAM NEWSPAPER
[sub]Gadiel Portillo
July, 1952[/sub][/list]
As the sun rose over Mexico on July 1, 1952, citizens across the country began to line up at polling stations to cast their ballots in the presidential election. After a contentious campaign marked by accusations of voter intimidation and fraud, the country was eagerly anticipating the outcome. As the votes were counted, it became clear that Margarita Rocha, the candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was the winner, with 52% of the vote. Rocha, a seasoned politician with a wealth of experience in government, had run on a platform of economic reform and industrialization. Her message resonated with voters across the country. Her opponent, Miguel Henriquez Guzmán of the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP), was gracious in defeat and issued a concession speech in which he congratulated Rocha and called for unity. "I want to congratulate President-elect Margarita Rocha on her victory," Guzmán said. "This has been a hard-fought campaign, but now it is time for us to come together as a country and move forward. I urge all my supporters to accept the results and respect the people's will."
Rocha, widely expected to win the election, gave a triumphant victory speech in which she thanked the Mexican people for their support and outlined her vision for the country. "I am honored and humbled to have been elected as your next president," Rocha said. [I]"I promise to work tirelessly to fulfill the mandate you have given me and to build a better, stronger, and more prosperous Mexico for all our citizens." The victory of Margarita Rocha marks a significant milestone for women in Mexican politics, as she is the first woman to be elected president in the country's history. It is also a victory for her party, the PRI, which has been in power for much of the 20th century. Rocha's victory will likely bring stability and continuity to the country, as she has a strong track record of experience in government and a clear vision for the future. Rocha has faced numerous barriers and challenges as the first woman to be elected president. Despite making up over half of the population, women have historically been underrepresented in Mexican politics. Rocha's victory is a testament to her strength and determination, and many hope it will pave the way for more women to enter the political arena.
Despite the election's peaceful outcome, there were some incidents of civil unrest in states where Guzmán held a majority. Police cars were set on fire, and protests were expected in those respective states. The Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), responsible for overseeing the election, condemned the attacks on poll workers and the destruction of IFE buildings. "We strongly condemn the violence that has taken place in the aftermath of the election," the IFE said in a statement. "We call on all citizens to respect the rule of law and the democratic process. We must come together as a country and move forward peacefully and constructively."
The Mexican Communist Party (MCP), a vital member of the Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP) umbrella group, expressed shock and outrage at the outcome. The MCP, which had thrown its support behind FMEP candidate Miguel Henriquez Guzmán, accused the PRI of using underhanded tactics to win the election and called on Guzmán to contest the results. In a statement released shortly after the election, the MCP condemned Guzmán's concession speech and accused him of betraying the working class by giving up without a fight. "We are deeply disappointed by the outcome of this election," the MCP said in a statement. "We believe serious irregularities may have affected the outcome, and we call on Miguel Henriquez Guzmán to challenge the results. We cannot accept the legitimacy of a PRI victory achieved through fraud and intimidation."
The MCP's condemnation of Guzmán's concession sparked widespread outrage among FMEP supporters, who accused the party of trying to undermine the democratic process. In addition, many saw the MCP's call for a challenge to the results as an attempt to sow division and create chaos in the country. Despite the backlash, the MCP stood by its position and vowed to continue fighting for the rights of the working class. "We will not be silenced by those who seek to divide us," the MCP said. "We will continue to fight for the rights of the working class, and we will not be deterred by those who seek to undermine our efforts. We will run candidates in the midterm elections as the Socialist Party of Mexico and continue to fight for a better future for all Mexicans." The MCP's defiance has sparked fears of further unrest in the country, with some worried that the party's refusal to accept the results could lead to more violence and instability.
The move has sparked concern among political analysts, who warn that the MCP has a serious chance of winning the midterms due to the fact that 70% of the FMEP's vote came from registered communists. "The MCP is a formidable political force in Mexico, and the fact that they are running under the socialist label will make them more appealing to a wide range of voters," said Professor Maria Rodriguez, a political science professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). "This is a serious threat to the stability and continuity of the PRI's rule, and the government needs to take it seriously." Professor Rodriguez went on to say that the PRI's victory in the presidential election was by no means a mandate for the party and that the MCP's strong showing in the midterms could lead to a shift in the political landscape of Mexico. "The PRI cannot afford to take the MCP lightly," she warned. "They need to engage with them and listen to their concerns to maintain their grip on power."
The MCP is expected to continue its civil disobedience and protests, and it remains to be seen how the PRI will respond. "This is a critical moment for Mexico," Professor Rodriguez said.
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[list]July 1952
[sub]Social Moderatism[/sub][/list]
[pre]S O Z I A L E R M O D E R A T I S M U S[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is presently led
by Kurt Schumacher, a veteran politician and the current Leader of the Opposition.
Schumacher has served as the chief opposition deputy in the German Bundestag
since 1949, and has advocated for anti-US, anti-European Unity and anti-integration
politics. With the Cold War's divisions deepening and support for NATO and the
European Community, Schumacher's leadership in the SPD has been contested by
Erich Ollenhauer, a moderate social democrat who played key roles in uniting
the left, center and the right of the party in the 1949 federal elections. Ollenhauer
is pro-NATO, pro-US and strongly pro-European Unity.[/pre][/sub][/list]
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY HEADQUARTERS, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| Since the party's return to Germany in the 1949 federal elections, where they placed second, with 32.9% of the vote, against 35.1% for the CDU/CSU party, the German Social Democrats have been led by the firm grip of Kurt Schumacher, a veteran politician who dates back to the Weimar days of the party, and the incumbent Leader of the Opposition in the German Bundestag. Schumacher has defined his leadership of the SPD and of the Official Opposition against the coalition government between the CDU/CSU, FDP and the Konservatives with his hardline anti-Western policies and partial Marxist and Eastern sympathies. Of course, in 1949, this did not matter much to German voters, who supported his social positions, especially on matters like welfare and state-backed healthcare programs. However, with the Cold War's divisions deepening rapidly, concerns about Schumacher's continued opposition to German involvement in 'Western machineries' like NATO, the European Community, and others have been growing. Within the party, worry for the 1953 elections are mounting, as many believe that Schumacher's radical isolationism coupled with economic prosperity and growth seen under the CDU/CSU government could lead to a massive landslide defeat, which could knock the SPD out of the position as the leading party of the left. In fact, rumors of a 'New Coalition' party being formed to replace the SPD as a 'true moderate left-leaning, pro-Western alternative' have been circling around, furthering worries among the SPD leadership. |
| As expected, at this point, the SPD was no longer as unified politically as it once had been. In the '49 federal elections, the party had been sharply divided between former members of the German Communist Party (KPD) and moderate social democrats who viewed these members with apprehension. There, too, were the economically right but socially left members of the party, who essentially opposed the other two sides for being radically socialist. These three wings had been unified behind Schumacher's campaign for the chancellorship and shortly thereafter the presidency by former diplomat and renowned moderate Erich Ollenhauer. He had successfully negotiated for a unified SPD among the three wings in 1949, allowing for the competent performance they displayed in that election. Ollenhauer pulled his professional negotiating and compromising traits from not only his history as a former diplomat, but also from his much more moderate, but still left-leaning, stances on various issues. Crucially, Ollenhauer was an enthusiastic supporter of NATO and the European Community, and nowadays often criticized his superior, Schumacher, for voicing opposition to 'a collective of nations that would benefit not only Germany but her people and freedom for millions of others across the world as well'. |
| With the sharp debate over social welfare breaking out in the Bundestag, in a fight initiated originally by the Social Democratic deputies who supported massive social welfare nets for the German populace, the division in the SPD began showing, as well. Since the Twenties, the party had been sympathetic to Marxists and far-left communists in Germany, in an effort to appeal to a broad range of leftists, from moderates to communists. This policy has continued under Schumacher, however he has since disavowed the KPD and denounced its equivalent in the German Democratic Republic, calling it (and the GDR itself) as 'illegitimate and a spit in the face of what Germany and Germans stand for'. However, elements of his own party, spearheaded by the moderate Ollenhauer, were demanding change. 'Considering the threat posed by the Reds to the East, it is clear who is the legitimate enemy of the German people and of their rights and their freedoms,' Ollenhauer told a conference of moderate SPD deputies, in May of this year. Schumacher has shot back, along with loyalist supporters, decrying Ollenhauer as 'discriminatory and radically hyperpartisan', with the Leader of the Opposition proclaiming the SPD as 'the party of unity and the party of all sides of the left', to the ire of many moderates in his own party who were starting to shift as did the rest of the world in light of the Cold War and the role of Marxist-Leninist socialism in the Soviet Union. |
| Of course, Schumacher still held support among his own party. According to a poll held internally by an audit committee, 57% of SPD party members said they would still support Schumacher if a leadership contest were to be held. However, among the preferred candidates to 'succeed or replace the incumbent Party Chairman', Ollenhauer polled highest, with 39% of party members saying they would support Ollenhauer, from the same poll as aforementioned. While the margin between 57% of the party and 39% of the party is, of course, massive, it was still a shift from 74% for Schumacher and only 26% for other candidates in the wake of the 1949 federal election, as the party chair flew high on the heels of a successful 1949 election bid, albeit one that fell slightly short of winning a plurality and thus allowing them to form a government. |
| However, it is ardently clear that the tides are indeed changing. Ollenhauer could make a bid for the leadership, some sources close to him say, before the imminent 1953 federal elections, where the Social Democrats could either clinch a victory over the CDU/CSU against all odds, or suffer the consequences of continuing to appeal to Marxists and far-left communists - however small that diaspora may be in an increasingly pro-Western country as the Federal Republic. 'It is clear,' Ollenhauer said, 'That change has to be made, in order for us to appeal to a larger base of voters, and insure that we do not support policies or persons who support dastardly ideas such as the division of Germany'. This, the latter said in an interview with Die Zeit on the second of July, of this year. |
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[list][list]JULY 1952
[sub]Commies v. Lacerda[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] L A C E R D A I S T H E E N E M Y [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
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| For the Communists, their greatest enemy is CARLOS LACERDA¹, editor of the Rios Tribuna da Imprensa, who since his youth has been the main opponent of the red menace in Brazil. Lacerda was now in yet another fight against the communists. He has placed photographic evidence on the front pages of newspapers letters, government records, police reports that Brazils foreign ministry is wholly Communist-dominated. Listing names, dates and places, Lacerda cited nine officials as Reds. The Communists favorite man, said Lacerda, is Diplomat ORLANDO LEITE RIBEIRO, a personal friend of the Communist Leader LUÍS CARLOS PRESTES². After Leite Ribeiro took over the foreign ministrys administration department in mid-1951, communists were brought into the ministry and those already in the foreign service were promoted. |
[list][pre]A communist woman has been hired as a code clerk, she will learn diplomatic codes and read top secret messages; a Communist consul in the Dominican Republic was sent to Greece and promoted to chargé daffaires; another consul was promoted in El Salvador to chargé daffaires.[/pre][/list]
| Only one of the nine identified as Reds responded to Lacerdas accusations. NORMELIO RAMOS, a ministry official, wrote a letter stating that he was not connected to the Communist Party. Lacerda printed the letter along with the reply: |
[list][pre]In the 45 elections, NORMELIO RAMOS was registered in a Communist cell . . . He was registered as a Communist Party member under the number 5/420. If he wants more details, let him give us a power of attorney so we can get certified copies in his police dossier.[/pre][/list]
| The foreign ministry replaced El Salvadors chargé daffaires with another consul, announced that a three-man commission would be formed to investigate Lacerdas allegations. Another Rio newspaper, Correio da Manhã, also commented on communism in Brazil. It was said that CISNEIROS DO AMARAL, a government attorney serving as chief prosecutor for a group of army officers who were Communists. Cisneiros is a hard-headed prosecutor. He did not care about the states own evidence, refusing to admit the authenticity of documents that the prisoners themselves had identified. The explanation for Cisneiros stubbornness: he has a long history of Communist affiliation. Cisneiros boss announced that he was no longer handling the case. |
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[sub]¹ CARLOS LACERDA, was an editor of Rios Tribuna da Imprensa, affiliated with the National Democratic Union party, candidate for the Chamber of Deputies in 1954 and governor of the state of Guanabara (1960-65).[/sub]
[sub]² LUÍS CARLOS PRESTES, was General Secretary of the Brazilian Communist Party (1943-80), being a faithful defender of the communist revolution.[/sub]
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[list]1952년 07월 | 1952 July
[list][sup]Seoul | 한성[/sup]
Republic of Korea[list]
[sup]The Meeting of Ideologies[/sup][/list]
| Walking through the streets of Seoul youd struggle to believe that it was less than a year since the city had been recaptured by UN forces, the city had been on a big clean up effort with new construction projections also beginning to pop up. President Rhee in his usual arrogance believed the war was already won and had begun to solidify his position and get the Korean economy up and running. Japan had provided a good literacy base to work with as well as key infrastructure, but developing a successful industry would require the end of the war and reunification with the more industrious north. |
| Across the city inside the grounds of the Blue House the place was electrified as employees scuttled around the premises, the surrender of Pyongyang and the capture of key figures had caused a buzz amongst many. Now the arrival of the captured General Secretary and war hero, Kim Il-sung, has generated a further buzz. No matter your ideological beliefs Kim was viewed as a hero, who fought tirelessly against the Japanese occupation, the man was quickly ushered into the main room of the Blue House where the two men respectfully bowed to one another. The mutual dislike of one another was obvious but the two men believed it would be best to leave this to one side for the meeting. |[list]
[sub]Pres. Rhee: General Secretary Kim, an honour to finally meet you. Please take a seat, Im sure youre aware we have much to discuss.[/sub]
[sub]Gen. Sec. Kim: Thank you Mr. President, Im sure we do indeed. Any subjects in particular to start?[/sub]
[sub]Pres. Rhee: Premier Kang, youre uncle, I am aware you surrendered without authorisation. It may seem direct, but you understand there is a war to win for me. Are other figures in the DPRK likely to turn against him?[/sub]
[sub]Gen. Sec. Kim: No. Im sure you are aware Im quite an independent thinker, I knew that holding Pyongyang for longer than we did would cost lives. Reinforcements werent coming. Kangs position is weakened; since the breakout from Busan his authority has begun to crumble, with Pyongyang now under your control it is unlikely that hell be able to hold on much longer. I wouldnt expect a conventional surrender though.[/sub]
[sub]Pres. Rhee: So most of the officers and troops remain loyal to him? I expect well find pockets of resistance long after the war officially ends.[/sub]
[sub]Gen. Sec. Kim: Loyal to him? Some. Fight in defence of communism and hatred of you? Yes. Many of the men who fight truly believe in the vision and society communism can offer, and dislike what you stand for. Now I believe you should be able to voice what you stand for and I should too. Our two sides are no better than one another when it comes to that. You have banned communism and trade unions, the DPRK has banned anything that isnt on the left-leaning spectrum.[/sub]
[sub]Pres. Rhee: So legalising Communism following a peace treaty could allow for proper unity. You know I would have difficulty in convincing many of those around me and I myself am sceptical such a move would be the best for Korea. It threatens democratic values.[/sub]
[sub]Gen. Sec. Kim: If you wish to fight this work for the next seventy years, then be my guest to keep it illegal. Communists sharing power doesnt have to end democracy, likewise neither does capitalism. We just disagree on how to look after the people of Korea, and is that a healthy debate to have?[/sub]
[sub]Pres. Rhee: I will see what can be done, but this war must come to a quick end if we are to make Korea thrive in this new global world that seems to be forming around us.[/sub][/list]
| The meeting would last for several hours, several hours of two men who were sure of their beliefs sizing one another up. Certain that soon they would be competing against one another, Kim was left with the impression that Rhee was merely a wordsmith who knew what to say, but believed little in what he actually said. Democracy or no democracy Rhee wouldnt go quietly into the night if the tide turned against him. On the other hand, Rhee knew Kim was a smart man underneath that appearance of a guerilla war hero, he would be one to keep a close eye on. An illusion of choice is what Kim offered the Korean people, but he knew that letting him get too popular would end his own reign, much like the Yi Family whose power he quickly dispatched with haste. |
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PRI Celebrates Strong Showing in 1952 Chamber of Deputies and Senate Elections
[list]GACETA UNAM NEWSPAPER
[sub]Gadiel Portillo
July, 1952[/sub][/list]
Mexico City, Mexico The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has issued a statement celebrating its strong showing in the 1952 chamber of deputies and senate elections. The PRI, which won the presidency with Margarita Rocha's victory on July 1, 1952, won 68 percent of the seats in the chamber of deputies and 60 percent of the seats in the Senate. This marks a significant victory for the party, which has been in power for much of the 20th century. "We are thrilled with the results of these elections," said PRI spokesperson Javier Rodriguez. "This is a mandate from the people for our party to continue to lead Mexico into the future." Rodriguez praised Rocha's victory and leadership, saying that the PRI's strong showing in the legislative elections was a testament to her popularity and the support of the Mexican people. "Margarita Rocha has proven herself to be a strong and capable leader," Rodriguez said. "The people have placed their trust in her; we are confident she will lead our country with distinction." The PRI's victory in the legislative elections is expected to bring stability and continuity to Mexico, as the party has a strong track record of experience in government and a clear vision for the future. However, the PRI's strong showing has also sparked criticism from other parties, who accused the party of using underhanded tactics to win the elections. "We strongly reject these baseless accusations," Rodriguez said. "We ran a clean and fair campaign, and the people have spoken. We urge all parties to respect the democratic process and accept the results."
The Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP) has expressed disappointment at the results of the 1952 chamber of deputies and senate elections. The FMEP, which threw its support behind presidential candidate Miguel Henriquez Guzmán, won 32 percent of the seats in the chamber of deputies and 40 percent of the seats in the Senate. While the party had hoped for a stronger showing, it said it would respect the people's will and work to build a better future for all Mexicans. "We are disappointed with the results of these elections, but we respect the people's decision," said FMEP spokesperson Maria Hernandez. "We will continue to fight for the values and principles we believe in and work to build a better future for all Mexicans." The FMEP's showing in the legislative elections has sparked widespread speculation about the party's future, as the Mexican Communist Party (MCP), a vital member of the umbrella group, has announced plans to run candidates in the upcoming midterm elections as the Socialist Party of Mexico. This leaves the fate of the FMEP uncertain, as many MCP supporters are expected to switch to the new party. However, the FMEP said it remained committed to its principles and would work to build a strong coalition in the face of the MCP's departure. "We will continue to work with like-minded parties and groups to build a coalition that represents the needs and concerns of all Mexicans," Hernandez said. "We believe a strong and united FMEP is the best hope for a better future for our country."
The MCP, meanwhile, hailed its gains in the chamber of deputies and Senate as a victory for the working class. The party, which won 22 and 31 percent of the vote, said it was confident it would continue to make gains in the midterm elections and beyond. "We are thrilled with our showing in these elections, and we believe it is a testament to the strength of the working class in Mexico," said MCP spokesperson Carlos Martinez. "We will continue to fight for the rights and needs of ordinary people, and we are confident that we will make even greater gains in the future."[list]
[sup]Chamber of Deputies
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) -- 109 seats (68%)
Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP) -- 52 seats (32%)
⤷ Mexican Communist Party (MCP) (within FMEP) -- 36 seats (22%)[/sup]
[sup]Senate
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) -- 77 seats (60%)
Federation of the Mexican People's Parties (FMEP) -- 51 seats (40%)
⤷ Mexican Communist Party (MCP) (within FMEP) -- 39 seats (31%)[/sup][/list]
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Romanian Administrative reform
July 1952
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Comrade General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, Constantin Rotaru has approved the proposal to bring back the "counties", changing the previous regions. The new counties map is based on the interbelic era map of Romania, though sadly not including Bessarabia, North Bukovina and Cadrilater. In total there will be 56 counties, with Bucharest acting like it`s own county, separated from the County of Ilfov.
July 1952
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[sub]Cold War era[/sub]
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[list]June 1, 1952
[sub]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, the new Prime Minister and the once and future King.[/sub][/list]
[list]Parliament building, Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon[/list]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Soon-to-be PM (in his head):[/B] [sub]Finally, the time of my ascension to power has come.[/sub][/list]
[sub]Said Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah in his head as he was walking toward the center of the parliament building to be appointed as the new Prime Minister of Ceylon. Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah continues thinking in his head.[/sub]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Soon-to-be PM (in his head):[/B] [sub]My journey to power was a long and hard one. I was born on June 12, 1923, as the heir to the deposed royal house of Kandy. My family was once the ruler of the Kingdom of Kandy, the last independent Sinhalese Kingdom on the island of Lanka. My family fought to protect Kandy and the Sinhalese people's freedom from Western Colonial Powers. However, everything changed on March 2, 1815, when Kandy, the Royal Family, and the Sinhalese people were betrayed by nobles who sold not only the soul of Kandy but the soul of Lanka to the British in their Kandyan Convention. As a result, my great great uncle, the last King of Kandy and the Sinhalese people, Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, and the entire Royal family were sent into exile into India, living only on pensions received by the colonial government in Lanka. That was the world and situation I was born in.[/sub][/list]
[sub]As Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah was thinking in his head, he was in the center of the parliament building where he was about to be sworn in as the Prime Minister of Ceylon. Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah continues thinking in his head.[/sub]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Soon-to-be PM (in his head):[/B] [sub]It was in this situation I decided to one day restore the Sinhalese Monarchy to Lanka, free the island from colonial rule, and restore our family to the Lankan throne. I spent my childhood and teenage years completing my education in law and politics. By the time I received my degree in law and politics, I left India to return to Lanka, now known as Ceylon, in 1943, a few years after I became head of the former royal family after my fathers death. It was hard to be pro-independence during the war, as many prominent members of the independence movement were arrested by the colonial authorities and put to jail. However, I managed to evade being captured and possibly exported back to India thanks to my colleagues, friends, and supporters and hid in the mountain, where I continued publishing treatises and pamphlets on Lankan full independence and the restoration of the Sinhalese monarchy. During this time, I became one of many prominent leaders of the independence movement thanks to my writings and other activities, and some of the most famous Buddhist monks and religious leaders sent letters to me, recognizing me as the rightful heir to the Sinhalese throne.[/sub][/list]
[sub]As Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah continued thinking, it was time for him to swear the oath of office, the last step before he became the new Prime Minister. But, as he was beginning to say the oath, Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah was still thinking about his past.[/sub]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Soon-to-be PM (in his head):[/B] [sub]After the war was over in 1945, the people pressured the colonial government to release the Ceylonese independence leaders from prison. Other fellow members of the Ceylon National Congress and I rallied our followers to begin a series of peaceful protests to demand Ceylons independence. It was in 1946 that the Ceylon National Congress started to dissolve itself and many leaders, including myself, formed different independence parties, with me establishing the Sri Lankan Nationalist Royal Party (SLNRP). The 1947 election for Ceylon resulted in SLNRP gaining many seats in the legislature but did not achieve the majority we needed. So we entered into a coalition with the United National Party (UNP), the party which has the most seat in the legislature, along with the Sinhala Maha Sabha and the Tamil Congress. The dream of independence for the Island of Lanka was finally achieved when Ceylon became independent on February 4th, 1948.[/sub][/list]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Soon-to-be PM (in his head):[/B] [sub]However, what I despised the most about that event was that Ceylon would have a Dominion Status like Australia and Canada, meaning that the British Monarch would remain as Ceylons head of state, in other words, as King of Ceylon. This was not only a personal insult to me, as I am the rightful King of Lanka, but also a reminder that Lanka was not truly free from colonial rule. So me and my party left the coalition with the UNP. I decided that for Ceylon to truly be free from colonial rules and for me to become its king, my party must achieve the majority seat in the next election for me to become Prime Minister. So in 1951, me and some of the prominent members of SLNRP began traveling throughout the country to convince people to vote for us in the upcoming elections. We made many campaign promises to the people about ending many colonial-era institutions that were still around, along with ending the privileges of the white and Tamil minority influence and dominance they still have over the island of Lanka. We also made many other promises, including many wishes of the Sinhalese nationalists. When the election day finally came, I wasnt so sure that my party would win the election, but surprisingly, the result has shown that SLNRP has won all the seats needed in the House of Representatives to form a majority government without relying on a coalition. This is where I am right now, finishing saying my oath and officially becoming the new Prime Minister.[/sub][/list]
[sub]As Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah was finishing remembering the past, he finished saying his oath of office and became the new Prime Minister of Ceylon. But, as he waved to the cheering crowd of some of the MP, he began to think one last time.[/sub]
[list][B]Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, Prime Minister (in his head):[/B] [sub]Now that I finally became Prime Minister, I will begin laying the groundwork for ending Ceylon's dominion status and restoring the Sinhalese monarchy. Although as much I want to get rid of the British Monarch immediately and proclaim myself as King, I know that now is not the right time to do it. I must be patient and need to enact many plans that will lead to the restoration of the Sinhalese monarchy. My advisers have told me that it will take at least about ten years for my dream to come true. My family waited for a hundred years to get our throne back, I am willing to wait another ten years to make that dream come true. I am Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah, and I will one day become the King of Sri Lanka.[/sub][/list]
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We back! ^>^
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[list][list]SEPTEMBER 1952
[sub]Vargas Nationalism[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] O I L N A T I O N A L I S M [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]It is the duty of men who militate in all
sectors of public life, in all spheres of
Government, in all party associations,
to dedicate their efforts to the good
of the People.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
RIO DE JANEIRO, NATIONAL CONGRESS MORNINGTIME
[sub]THE UNITED STATES OF Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| It has become clear that Vargas nationalism is increasingly plunging Brazil into an international-trade crisis. Brazil is half a billion dollars in the red because it cannot produce enough to pay what it owes and lacks the investment capital to increase her production. Vargas Finance Minister, HORÁCIO LAFER¹, cut imports in half to balance the books but that wasnt enough. With all current export industries, except the coffee industry, having prices high enough to compete on the world market, the nationalists refused to develop likely new exports with the help of foreign capital. |
[list][list]▌[sub]Oil imports from Brazil are $270 million a year, equivalent to 14% of the total spending for commodities from abroad. Some oilmen believe that Brazil has a sixth of the worlds oil reserves. But when President Vargas recently visited the Bahia oilfield, he dipped his fingers in Brazilian oil and held it up for his constituents to applaud, Brazils production was 85,000 barrels a day. Congress has been nationalistic enough to delay the day when Brazil will be self-sufficient in oil. For eight months, a bill that would allow foreign companies to collaborate with the government in the development of oil in the country was denied.[/sub]
▌[sub]Brazil has a third of the worlds deposits of manganese. About three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed manganese in the State of Amapá, near the Amazons mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, secured a loan from the U.S. Export-Import Bank and expected to produce $50 million in manganese per year. Brazils nationalists refused to approve of this. At a manganese mine in Urucum, near Corumbá, on the border with the Andes (it could produce 500,000 tons a year and earn $20 million in foreign exchange for Brazil), a U.S. Steel Brazilian subsidiary has been waiting for about four years for the approval of the Government of Brazil, but Brazilian politicians argue among themselves whether it is too dangerous to have foreigners so close to the border zone.[/sub][/list][/list]
| Now that Brazil needs money, this nationalism has caused foreign investment in the country to decline. Foreigners worried about Brazils restrictions on sending profits abroad, Washington credit bureaus stopped making loans under the Joint Brazilian-U.S. Development program. About seven loans, totaling $58,300,000, can no longer be released to Brazil. In an attempt to overcome the trade crisis, Rio was considering borrowing up to $200 million from the United States against Brazils gold reserve. That would just be to alleviate the crisis. It would not help Brazil manage its own resources. After ten months, the Chamber of Deputies approved PRESIDENT GETÚLIO VARGAS² oil bill. If the Senate also approves without any changes. Brazil will be together with Mexico and Iran, where oil is nationalized. |
| Faced with the extreme nationalism that dominates Brazil, the bill will establish Brazilian Petroleum Corp. (Petrobrás) operating under the supervision of the National Petroleum Council. Petrobrás will have the right to explore, exploit, refine and distribute the countrys oil. The five U.S. and British companies that currently import and distribute oil and oil products will be able to continue to do so. But other than that, foreigners are out. The government will own 51% or more of Petrobrás $500 million stock; no foreigner and no Brazilian married to a foreigner can obtain a Petrobrás share. Unlike the oil revolutions that took place in Mexico and Iran, the government will not seize most of Brazils private plants. There is no oil-processing industry to expropriate. Brazilian production is only 1.5% of the oil it needs, all of which already belongs to the government. Has only small refineries. When Brazilian communists and nationalists shout, THE OIL IS OURS!, theyre shouting about the oil thats underground. And without the risk capital and know-how of the foreign oil companies, the oil is likely to stay there. |
| Under the Vargas governments new plan, not only will Brazilians continue to pay more than $200 million a year in foreign currency for oil products, but they will also have to pay new taxes on imported oil. The revenue that will be raised with the new taxes will be applied to Petrobrás oil explorations. Part of the money will also be used to build new roads. The most that Brazilians politicians opposing the new law can say is that in a few years, after this nationalist wave has receded, a new and workable law could be passed. |
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[sub]¹ HORÁCIO LAFER, was Minister of Finance (1951-53) under the Vargas government.[/sub]
[sub]² GETÚLIO VARGAS, was twice President of Brazil (1930-1945 and 1951-1954).[/sub]
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| KOMARA KURDISTANÊ |
The Light of the Newroz Revolution, Part One
[sub]| Amed Capital District
| February-May, 1952[/sub]
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Power slips from President Barzani's hands as the Kurdish nation is swept up in the tide of revolution.
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The pace of Kurdish politics increased rapidly in the aftermath of the KNPs 4th General Congress. President Barzanis move to elevate socialists, leftists and many military officers to senior leadership in the party was immediately followed by a purge of remaining senior conservative leadership, including Surreya Bedirxan and General Zoran Musaresan. Due to the proximity of the events and the closed nature of Kurdistans media, news of both of these developments reached the public at virtually the same time. In the most popular state-owned papers, citizens were told of the rise of defenders of the people'' within the Party and their patriotic victory over oligarchic plotters. The events sparked public demonstrations and activity across Kurdistan, both for and against the Partys realignment. The western city of Semsur (otl Adiyaman) was the site of rare anti-party protests. Led by local fundamentalist clerics, several thousand citizens turned out just days after the Congress. Similar scenes played out in many rural towns and villages across Kurdistan, where Islamism and traditional culture still dominated political views.
The new Politburo acted swiftly in relaying orders to provincial secretaries and local cadres. Party members and supporters took to the streets en masse to counter-protest and demonstrate in support of the Party. They were joined by other leftists from newer minor political groups like the Revolutionary Party of Kurdistan and Kurdish Workers Party. In several cities, this spiraled into days of violent street clashes. When the National Police were deployed it became clear the state apparatus was favoring one side as left-wing protestors went essentially ignored. For weeks from February on, unrest continued in the nation. But conservative elements simply lacked the momentum or resources to challenge both mobs of violent leftists and the police simultaneously. Though the information would never become public, government estimates reflected as many as 500 civilians killed and 6,000 arrested in the first weeks. For the average citizen, the sudden hemorrhage of political tension and violence mightve been highly concerning. But to the ambitious young officers and cadres of the KNP, it was an ideal opportunity.
The Party had an unparalleled capacity to project its message to the average Kurd, both from state and party-operated sources. When Surreya was ousted, his role as Communications Minister was taken concurrently by the KNPs new Information Secretary, Col. Mahmoud Celali. He began to push an increasing number of radical and revolutionarily-toned pieces and articles. Most were penned by senior party and military figures, with more than a few attributed personally to President Barzani. The essays touched on various ideological topics and nearly all were noted departures from the KNPs official policy stances. Politically the writings had no single ideological underpinning, at least not a historically precedented one. Instead, they seemingly drew from many sources, including elements of Marxism-Leninism, republicanism, anti-imperialism, islamism, and a more refined sense of Kurdish nationalism. They also expressed much camaraderie with figures of the Egyptian Revolution and openly praised the rule of the Revolutionary Command Council. The essays were published widely, drowning out international news and even reporting on the protests. Impassioned radio readings by names like Ibrahim Ehmed and Gen. Mazar Remman garnered tens of thousands of listeners.
This campaign drew out larger numbers of public supporters than ever before. Many Kurds, inspired by the Egyptian Revolution, now saw the potential for the same in their own country, this time including the support of state leaders. Fervor continued to build and finally reached a fever pitch in April when President Barzani held a massive rally in Amed that was attended by over 20,000 of the citys residents, mostly hand-picked members of the KNP. In thunderous speeches they extolled the Partys new virtues, calling for the redistribution of wealth, the expulsion of foreign influence from the Middle East, the placement of all political power in the hands of the people, and continued efforts to strengthen and defend the Kurdish nation, as well as its identity and culture. They vowed that the KNP would fulfill these goals and construct a new system that embodied the will of the masses. It was here the Father of the Nation made a startling announcement: with the backing of the National Assembly, most provisions of the 1940 Constitutions would be abrogated, and all executive and legislative power would be transferred to the office of the President for a period of 4 months. President Barzani invoked the holiday of Newroz (lit. New Day), the Kurdish New Year, and vowed this authority would be used to construct a new socialist and democratic system and usher in a golden era for Kurds. Directly following the rally, a presidential decree ushered in martial law and ordered the nationwide deployment of the Kurdish Army and National Police to crush unrest and restore order. Within days they had succeeded and the Army was in total control of the nation.
Privately, essentially the entire course of events had occurred against the Presidents will. In truth, the last months were the culmination of Barzanis slow slip from power in Kurdistan. Fear and distrust of his tribal comrades in the Independence War had driven the President to favor the military and political left, hoping to avert his ouster by rivals. But once in control of the Politburo and key governmental posts, those same leftist officers began to pressure Barzani for increasingly radical reform. Realizing his mistake, the President gave such concessions, now trying to avoid yet another coup from former allies. Soon the once absolute power in Kurdistan had found himself sidelined within his own party and government. Still President, the military now propped him up as the face of their revolutionary reforms, capitalizing on his popularity and reputation as a founding father and victorious general. The move pinned Barzani politically, as his personal association with the effort made it impossible for him to ever disavow it and his nominally absolute authority made any argument of usurpation hard to make publicly.
Now in control of the country, with armed Kurdish troops walking the streets of Amed, the Army and leftists began to act. Among them, a clear leader had begun to emerge: General Mazar Remman, the Deputy-Speaker of the National Assembly. Despite holding little official power, Remman had become the leading ideologue of Kurdistans left and an influential member of the military establishment. Dubbed the Hero of Elazig for his critical leadership during the 1938 Battle of Elazig, Remman became publicly popular after the war and was elevated to Chief of Staff of the Kurdish Army from 1942-47. In this capacity he became increasingly outspoken on foreign policy and economic issues, repeatedly denouncing Iran, Turkey, and wealthy domestic landowners. But his firebrand reputation lost him the favor of President Barzani and many conservatives. As a result, he was forced into de facto retirement with his position as Deputy-Speaker meant to keep him away from real power and the public eye. The attempt failed, however, as Remman only used the posting to further involve himself with the civilian wing of the Kurdish left.
The most overt sign of President Barzanis weakened position was the return of Remman to a military role in early May. He returned not as Chief of Staff of the Army but as Chief of the Central Command (3C) and de facto commander of the entire Kurdish military. The military left had succeeded in forcing Barzani to sideline the previous 3C, Ahmed Barzani, his own brother, and longtime right-hand-man. Ahmeds ability to realistically control the Kurdish military had always been a matter of debate but it became clear now that the Barzani family no longer commanded the loyalty of the military and security services.
With the country secured and political power safely in its hands, the military left moved quickly. On May 23rd, President Barzani signed a decree, penned personally by General Remman, officializing their next step. Executive and legislative power would be transferred to the new National Revolutionary Council, composed of 12 members. Barzani would retain the title of President and serve nominally as the body's Chairman. 5 of the Councils members were from the Kurdish Army, 1 from the Air Force, 1 from the National Police, and 5 civilians. None were personal allies of President Barzani. Indicative of the new balance of power in Kurdistan, General Remman was made Deputy-Chairman and in the same decree appointed Minister of Defense. The body was granted a 24-month mandate to oversee the drafting and adoption of a new constitution, to be approved by a plebiscite. The 1940 constitution would remain only to grant continuing legitimacy to Barzanis office of President, but the National Assembly was officially dissolved and oversight of the Council of Ministers was transferred to the Revolutionary Council.
In his name but against his will, revolution had come to Mustafa Barzanis Kurdistan.
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[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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[list]SEPTEMBER 1952
[sub]ORO VERDE: LOS FRUTOS DE TU TRABAJO[/sub][/list]
Guayaquil, Estado Guayas, Gran República de la Nueva Granada
[sub]Bananas first entered the periphery of the essential components of the Granadine economy in the 1920s during the decline of Cacao in the Ecuadorian States along the Guayaquil watershed. The local Arriba strain that grows along riverbanks could not compete with the lower maintenance varieties grown in Colonial Africa, central and western states of Granada for the exponentially increasing global demand and the attempts to grow the sturdier varieties would only cripple Arriba cultivation pushing consumers who desired the higher quality strain away and towards the cheaper and well established planters in Colombia and Venezuela.[/sub]
[sub]As a coup de grâce fungal outbreaks of Witches Broom and Pod Rot among cacao plantations would ravage both the Arriba and imported varieties in the late 1910s through the early 1920s resulting in a 12 percent drop in average production leading to their position as the second highest cocoa producing area in Granada behind the Colombian States to be usurped by the Venezuelan states whose plantations remained unaffected. In a bid to save the rapidly deteriorating agricultural industry in the area the government would court the United Fruit Company to acquire investment, machinery and expertise to reorient the cacao planters to the Banana market. [/sub]
[sub]Despite having operated in Granadine Colombia and former Granadine Panama since its inception in 1899 the United Fruit Company would not jump at the opportunity in Ecuador due to increasing regulations limiting their ownership to avoid their monopolisation of the Granadine Banana Market during the height of the Banana Wars and local opposition resulting from the 1928 Banana Massacre in Ciénaga. However, with the conclusion of hostilities and the resumption of unrestricted seaborne trade after the Second World War, United Fruit introduced essential agricultural technology and investment to the hundreds of independent planters in the region while adhering to restrictions on the possession of acreage in the country. The unique relationship between Granadine planters and historically domineering multinational fruit companies, small farmer friendly regulations and the presence of experienced local exporters has propelled Granada to the largest exporter of Bananas in the world. The Green Gold or Oro Verde as its called is now a staple in Granadas economic triad alongside Oro Negro, Black Gold or Oil and Pepa de Oro, Seeds of Gold or Cacao. [/sub]
[sub]In 1948 then Secretary of Finance and the Treasury Clemente Yerovi Indaburu would envision the complete uncontested dominance of the Granadine Banana Market over those of Central America who frequently suffered setbacks due to tropical storms and the ushering of a Banana Boom similar to the Cacao boom of the late 1800s. Himself the leader of the Farmers' Association of Los Ríos and the Coastal Agriculture Chamber he would encourage and facilitate innovation and expansion in the market, including the purchase of redundant World War Two ships to be used as refrigerator vessels to extend fruit life in transit by Simón Cañarte Barbero, the opening of the market to the Republic of China through Granadine-Chinese businessman Segundo Wong Mayorga and the proliferation of export knowledge by Luis Noboa Naranjo the countrys biggest local exporter. His commitment to the agricultural prosperity of the country would see his appointment as the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development in 1950 as his tenure as Finance Secretary came to an end. [/sub]
[sub] Throughout the next two years Indaburu and acting Secretary of Finance Manuel Perez Guerrero would continue efforts to further the Banana and agriculture industry as a whole through the financing of rural and port infrastructure to assist the movement of persons and goods. Under the Gaitán administration they would oversee the funding and construction of dozens of bailey bridges and permanent fixtures, dirt and paved roadwork and extensive work to ports such as those of Guyaquil, Barranquilla and Puerto Cabello. By 1951 they would receive the help of Senator Galo Plaza Lasso who would push for the creation of a farm credit service to offer financial services to the countries thousands of independent farmers.[/sub]
[sub]In September of 1952, Secretary Indaburu would see his vision come to pass, president Gaitán would acknowledge Indaburus phenomenal achievements of increasing the production of Granadine Bananas by 421 percent in four years with a joint state visit with his entire cabinet to the port of Guayaquil, the largest banana export hub in the world due to Indaburus efforts. There the president would christen the hundreds of ships acquired by local and multinational exporters under Indaburus watch to facilitate the banana trade as the The Banana Fleet, marking the beginning of the Banana Boom. The growing number of Banana Boats and prominence of their home ports has raised questions of increased spending on the Granadine Navy and civilian shipbuilding. [/sub]
[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔
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The Former United States And The Enclave
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| 1952 ; THE YEAR OF SUCCESS |
[sub]September, 1952[/sub]
| TV Sets make their way over, consumerism hits the people, Gloria Banza dazzles once again, Marie Izuru strikes with new welfare reforms and glam and glitz hits the nightlife of Zaire! 1952 so far has become the shimmering year in Zairean history. Twelve after independence, Zaire finds itself in a completely new reality than that of 1940.
The Nigoye's Economic plan that had been implemented since 1941 has found its success and it seems that Izuru's administration and the people of Zaire are starting to feel the effects of the economic plan that was aimed to create an economic boom, a boom that is happening with a growth of the economy and the consumerist market. In early 1952, first TV sets have made their way into Zaire and from March Zaireans have been charmed by the new technology from the United States. Households are buying out the TV sets, with radios being omnipresent already. Six new TV stations have appeared across Zaire, with four new entertainment programs appearing within the country, programs which now reach people all around the country. Two of the programs are a real hit, them being NIGHT WITH BORONGO and TWO, THREE, FOUR. But the consumerism strikes further in June, with the country seeing a rise in fashion stores, luxurious goods and manufactured goods stores appearing all around. A refrigerator is a must these days, as we hear amidst the streets of Zaire. Both imported goods and domestic goods find a balance so far in being needed by the people. Products from France, Germany, USA and UK are sought after, whilst the Zairean goods are a necessity.
But as the consumerist market grows in Zaire, the need for live entertainment does too. Since July, the country has been under the spell of daylight cafes and nightlight bars that are now a must in major cities and towns of the country. The cafes, which in their simple beauty attract the housewives and the youth during the day make for a beautiful getaway from the rush of the moment. Whilst the nightlife bars and clubs are rocking the night away with youth and fun hungry men and women with live music, drinks and dances. The growing elites also find themselves charmed by the most top end club in Zaire, GLITTERY. Filled with the top musicians of the country such as CHARLES DUBUKU, the charming most listened to singer in Zaire, and ANNETTE OBODI, the stunningly exquisite star of the rising Zairean film industry.
Amidst the love of life that Zaireans are now discovering, comes in the politics of Gloria Banza. In January, Mrs Banza charmed the West Germans with her diplomatic mission. It was a moment for the media, as Mrs Banza strolled the the streets of Frankfurt. But the visit wasn't just for looks, it brought an extensive deal with West Germany that foresees a large trade deal between the two countries, followed by a much needed cultural and educational exchange, opening of markets for West Germans and Zaireans entering West Germany and a friendship pact signed between the two states. The deal has already brought quite a number of the recovering West Germans into Zaire. With the Zairean coast and the Zairean South turning into a tourist gateway, it seems that Mrs Banza's mission for the next year will be to attract tourists from all around the world. However, Mrs Banza has also commented on the statements made by King Baudouin, comments which have been positive ( can be found on the quotes ).
But as Mrs Banza dazzles amidst the international community, the Head of the Finest Assembly, Mrs Marie Izuru works hard at home. The WELFARE PROGRAM FOR ZAIRE had been passed in May, which sets out new welfare reforms for the country. The WPZ introduces the Universal and Free Healthcare ( which was passed in 1951 ) into motion. Furthermore, it establishes the free university and college education for all in Zaire, introduces the Parent Bond which will give each new parent around 120 Zairean Dorees for the first two months. It introduces the disabled care program which will give severely disabled unable to work citizens of Zaire, 200 Zairean Dorees a month alongside with free public transport and direct access to a professional carer for every two weeks. The WPZ also brings forth the mandatory work program which will enlist those out of work for more than three months. For the first two months, whilst job searching, the WPZ will pay out 150 Zairean Dorees a month. If by the second month one does not find employment, the state will push them into state employment by working on the national railways, highways and construction sites. The Mandatory Work Program also introduces the Job Seeking Institutions which will help employees and employers to connect around the country in order to gain work. Housing Free Association has also been created, which will be in charge of constructing new housing around the country to which citizens will be allocated to, and will only have to pay the rent of 60 Zairean Doreees each month. The Constructions have of new state housing has began in early June of this year. The welfare program introduced by Mrs Izuru has brought her popularity ratings significantly up, making Mrs Izuru one of the most liked politicians of the country, with only Mrs Banza ahead of her.
1952 is proving to be the turning year of Zaire, as the old way and the old country has died. The new is rising. The poverty, the oppression and the problems of the old Zaire are fading as the new optimistic, self-determined and opulent Zaire is rising to its feet. Zaire is no longer an ex-African colony that sits idly in the history cards. Zaire is a self-determined opulent nation that is becoming Africa's beaming face. |
[spoiler="...this year is bringing Zaireans into modernity and consumerism...it's a victory of the capitalistic dream and the nightmare of the communistic ideals..."]
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[list]October 1952
[sub]A Future for All[/sub][/list]
[pre]T H E O L L E N H A U E R P L A N[/pre]
[list][sub][pre]In August of 1952, in Bonn, Kurt Schumacher, the hardline
Leader of the Opposition and chief official of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),
passed away at the age of 56. He had served in the Weimar Republic and for the
Valkyrie resistance in New York, before failing to seize the chancellorship in the
'49 election. Schumacher's death was received somberly by his party, but the path
forward was already being laid down.[/pre][/sub][/list]
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY HEADQUARTERS, BONN, New Provenance
[sub]THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| On the morning of AUGUST 20TH, the German nation awoke to the most somber of news. Earlier that morning, just before the printing of the morning papers, Kurt Schumacher had passed. The hardline isolationist leader of the German Social Democrats, Schumacher had generated a sense of vigor within the party, but brought with him the controversies of his various policy stances, especially on foreign relations and the Soviet Union particularly. Schumacher had in recent weeks been meeting with top party apparatus members, in an effort to consolidate support exactly a year before the 1953 general elections, where the SPD was projected to lose by a landslide thanks to economic progress made by the CDU/CSU and its coalition of center-right parties. Against Schumacher was Erich Ollenhauer, a Social Democratic leader and a renowned moderate. A former diplomat, he believed in Western institutions and was more acceptable politically to pro-Western left-leaning voters and to independents, who were crucial to allowing for a plurality to be gained by any one party in the German Bundestag - the factor that decided who would clinch the Chancellorship and the chance at government. In the NEW YORK TIMES; |
[list][pre]THE NEW YORK TIMES, BONN, Germany, Aug. 20 - Dr. Kurt Schumacher, one-armed, one-legged Social Democratic leader, died in his bed this morning of a circulatory ailment. He was 56 years of age.[/pre][/list]
| Schumacher's death was received somberly by his party, with top leaders - Ollenhauer included - offering their condolences and extending their support to the embattled leader's family. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visited the Schumacher residence on the 22nd of August, and was in attendance of the funeral on 25 August alongside other top government officials. Across the country, there was a somber atmosphere, but nothing more. While respects were paid and Schumacher was laid to rest with honor, him having been a key figure in supporting the German government-in-exile during the War, not many in his own party were looking forward to what had previously been shaping up as a leadership fight between Schumacher and Ollenhauer, which could have decimated the party's '53 chances. By the next month, however, Ollenhauer was already moving the pieces into place; the path forward was already being laid down. |
| As de facto deputy to Schumacher, Ollenhauer attended to securing the reins of power in the SPD immediately. With the support of top party donors and leading politicians, he secured the position of Leader of the Opposition in a Bundestag vote among his own party deputies that saw him secure 120 of the 137 SPD members of the Bundestag's support. With the '53 federal election approaching rapidly, Ollenhauer assured supporters and donors of the party's unity in a convention of the party leadership at the SPD party headquarters in Bonn in late September. During that September 23 conference, and later speaking to policymakers in the Bundestag in early October, he laid down his plan to 'reform the party'. |
[list][pre]ERICH OLLENHAUER - "It is presently clear that our party does not perfectly represent the will and interests of the German people and the German voter. This has to change. It is my intention, if you choose to support me as party chair, to insure the success of our party at the next election, whilst fighting even harder than ever for the betterment of German society, at the expense of none. We are not the party of the Kremlin, nor are we the party that governs the authoritarian East. We are the party of the worker, we are the party of the ordinary German, and we are the party of those who have been disenfranchised and have yet to be supported by the elite-oriented Federal Government. We will insure that. It is time for us to stop standing for Marxism, and start standing for Germany. It is time for us to stop standing by on the world stage, and start standing up for our allies. It is time for us to start standing up for all Germany."[/pre][/list]
| Ollenhauer was, by definition of the word, making the party more moderate. Previously, Schumacher had appealed to Marxists by refusing to outright condemn the Soviet Union and opposing German membership in NATO, to the ire of many within his own party. Growing opposition to this, and growing support for moderate leadership that was pro-NATO, pro-West, but also pro-welfare and pro-worker, as was that being promoted by Ollenhauer, saw the internal party leadership begin to fracture shortly before Schumacher's death. Already, in the months prior, the party had been dreading the time when Ollenhauer would challenge Schumacher for the leadership. Whether it be for the better or for worse, Schumacher passed in August and a leadership contest was avoided. |
| Already, Ollenhauer was setting the wheels into motion. Changes to the party constitution and manifesto was slated to be voted on and likely passed in the next SPD National Convention in February, ahead of the federal elections in August, and Ollenhauer moved to have his party vote in favor of CDU/CSU legislation that would see Germany further allow for the strengthening of economic ties with the West, and Washington and London in particular. It marked a drastic departure from the SPD of Schumacher, which voted against German entry into Western institutions, and was prepared to vote against ratifying the treaty that would see the formation of the European Economic Community. On that matter, however, Ollenhauer partially agreed that open borders would 'compromise German opportunities'. Nonetheless, he affirmed that he viewed European unity as 'a key priority'. |
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[list][pre]OCTOBER, 1952 | Parliament House, Khartoum Province, The Commonwealth Of Sudan[/pre]
THE KHALIL-AZHERI TICKET, 1952 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS[/list]
In the 1952 Parliamentary elections, Sudan would have completed its third successful democratic elections, a great aspect of this nations newfound liberties. However, the 1952 elections would be the first in Sudanese history to determine the next government tasked with leasing the home rule government of the Sudanese commonwealth. This after all was the first election since the proclamation of the Commonwealth and the first election with a meaningful difference to the faith of the nation, this election would also allow Sudan to elect a Prime Minister that would Inturn be given the job of representing the Sudanese nation in the face of the global community.
Though Sudan had maintained relative stability within the first two years of the countrys existence, certain foreign aspects had of course still altered the political climate in Sudan. The Egyptian Revolution in the latter half of 1951 with just 9 months to go before the elections induced a large split amongst the ranks of Sudans largest party. Egypts revolution which oversaw the exile of King Farouk had delivered a crushing blow to the quarter-century-old agenda of the former National Unionist Party, which saw Farouk as the ideal leader for the unity of a Nile Valley state. Without Farouk, the leader of the NUP Ismail Azheri, whose support for the king had been weighing in recent years amongst the growing push of Sudanese nationalism, had quickly mobilized what remained of his party towards the support of Sudanese national unity and serving as the countrys first pro-independence conservative political party to be known as the Democratic Unionist Party, effectively becoming a much larger rival to the incumbent Khalil administration and the Commonwealth Party.
Despite Azheris quick maneuvers in preserving the party, the Unionists suffered heavy losses with the split that saw the creation of a northern Arab nationalist party aimed at the liberation of Sudan from what its leader Babiker Awadalla had seen as, a British occupation and interventionism in the Arab homeland. This party which would be named the National Homeland Party (NHP) would itself make great strides in the polls amongst the Arab population centers of the north and eastern Sudan, the rural regions of Berber, Dongola, Halfa, and the Red Sea regions have all established themselves as the very core of Arab nationalist sentiment in Sudan.
Speaker of Parliament, Sir Symes would announce through the Sudanese Broadcasting Corporation and the British Broadcasting Corporation in Khartoum the official results of the Sudanese Parliamentary Elections of 1952, he would assign the number of seats each political party running in the campaign would gain out of the 136 seats available. The number of seats would entirely depend on the percentage of votes each party had acquired from the votes cast by Sudans literate adult males who have the voting power as ordained by the commonwealths constitution of 1950.
[list]1952 ELECTION RESULTS BY SEATS
136 Available Seats, 68 Need To Create Government
Commonwealth Party (BCP) 27 Seats
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) 25 Seats
Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) 23 Seats
Liberal Party (LP) 22 Seats
National Homeland Party (SCP) 16 Seats
Umma Party (MUP) 14 Seats
Nationalist Party (NWCP) 9 Seats
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As per tradition and with the addition of the NHP, the 7th political party in the national political theater, and coupled with an unrelenting will by Mahgoub and the nationalists to continue their crusade for Sudanese ultra-nationalism, all political parties competing in the 1952 elections had collectively failed to reach the 68 seat mark needed in order to create a government. No party would even cut close to reaching the 40-seat mark, let alone 60. However, thanks to some deep negotiations between Khalils Commonwealth and Azheris New Democratic Unionist, the fears of a grid-locked government would be quickly alleviated with the DUPs entry into Khalils centrist coalition for the government. Despite the fragile unity, Azheri would go on to serve in Khalils administration under the newfound cabinet position of Deputy Minister of the Commonwealth of Sudan (DMCS). The position of Deputy Minister would essentially be the second in line of succession to the Sudanese governments chain of command, along with serving as the right-hand man to the Prime Minister, serving in his place within the affairs of parliament in the PMs position if need be.
Both Khalil and Azheri would be sworn in as Prime and Deputy Minister by Governor-General Knox Helm, and in turn, the Speaker of Parliament would also hold a confirmation that would reinstate all the members of Khalils cabinet back into their ministries as they had been appointed in the last two years. Along with also swearing in all the newly elected members of parliament.
With every revolving year, the Khalil administration continues to set one precedent after the other in defining and expanding the powers of the executive office through the establishment of bureaucratic and civil services. Through this, Khalils executive authority would also attempt to strengthen the legislative branch by uniting a large number of the parties represented in parliament under his coalition of a centrist and moderate-lead government. It is through this great fortress of stability as Khalil would call it, can Sudan survive the onslaught of Arab supremacist, communists, and ultra-nationalist political and religious extremists that would attack this coalition from across the political field. It is in this central authority that the young Sudanese nation is guarded and preserved in growth, a progress that the Khalil administration is determined to defend.
[list]GOD SAVE THE KING!
AL-NASRU LENA!
AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]
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SLOVENIA TAKES ON EGYPT IN OPENING MATCH OF THE ISTRIAN INVITATIONAL
[list][sup]NIGHT OF THE NEWBORN NATIONS
SLOVENIAOCTOBER 1952[/sup][/list]
During any other year, the historic seaside fortress city of Kidriče would be quiet on a crisp October evening, aglow only with quiet groups of tourists and warm local businesses. In 1952, however, the city was electrified. The eight-nation off-season Istrian Invitational brought nations from three continents to pitches in southern Slovenia, placing them in a dramatic knockout tournament after two weeks of practice play in the regions modest footballing venues. It was no World Cup, and the nations in attendance were only those who volunteered their attendance in response to Slovenias open invitation in 1951. Still, it was the largest international affair the region had yet seen, and the locals appeared accordingly. Slovenia had been historically outmatched by their Croat and Serb opponents in the royal Fudbalski Savez Jugoslavije, but the dawn of the new Republic afforded a new fervor to national sportsmanship. Thus, in the opening match of the Invitationalbetween Slovenia and Egypt (Kotakuan Ii)the stadium was overbrimming with spectators from around the Republic. In truth, newborn nations played a large part in the tournament: Slovenia, Egypt, Burma and West Germany were all nascent in their own way, and enthusiasm thus abounded. Scarcely one year after the declaration of the Republic of Egypt, an impassioned red-clad Egyptian team captained by Abdul Al-Maghrabi strode onto the field of the citys E. Janeič Stadium.
Warm greetings were exchanged with the blue-and-gold-clad Slovenian national team of captain Ivan Toplak and coach Maksimilijan Mihelčič. The 21-year-old Toplak had won the Slovenian First League championship for NK Enotnost just months prior and was already a national celebrityhis entrance elicited particularly furious cheers. The match to come was more than a test, however. It was nearly insurmountable. Ninety minutes of furious play resulted in a 11 draw with a particularly well-practiced Egyptian team, with goals scored in the final twenty minutes by captain Al-Maghrabi and Slovenian forward Edvard Hočevar. It was only in penalties that the Slovenian team was able to edge out a victory over their Egyptian opponents. In spite of a home-field advantage and decades of participation in Yugoslavias national league, the Slovenes were largely stumped by a stubborn and energetic Egyptian squad. Still, Slovenia came away with a 43 win in the penalty shootout. That same week, West Germany (New Provenance) fought for a 31 victory over Scotland in Puljs Roman-era arena. In the small resort town of Portoro, England (Great Britain Gb) and Burma (Ubertica) fought a truly thrilling match between the red-and-white clad Englishmen and the navy-sporting Burmese team of captain Suk Bahadur Thapa. Though only attending in solidarity with the also-newborn Slovenia, Burma fought ferociously and managed to draw England 00, only giving in with a 13 penalty shootout that ultimately favored the English. Lastly, a fresh green-and-white Arabian (Sudesam) squad under captain Abdulmajeed Kayal squared off against blue-and-white Greeks, also in Kidriče; the resulting match drew a surprising amount of local press for the charisma of the Arabian captain Kayal, though the Greek team triumphed in a 20 victory.
The second round, which will feature matches between West Germany and Slovenia and England and Greece, is set for later in the month.
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23 August, Day of Liberation!
23 August 1952
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| 23 August is the day Romania switched sides in World War II to the Allies marking the end of the criminal German Puppet government. Today mass parades are scheduled in honour of our beloved leader. Comrade Constantin Rotaru, General Secretary of The Romanian Communist Party, President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly, beloved son of the Romanian People gave a speech on behalf of this special day:
| "Today we celebrate the Liberation of Romania from the Fascist fiend, It is today 8 years ago that Romania switched sides to the victorious Allies in order to establish an orderly Socialist Nation. After the execution of the vile Marshall Ion Antonescu on the 1st June 1946, Romania officially decided it`s future as a Socialist Nation in an unbreakable friendship with the other Socialist Nations of Europe and the World. 8 Years have passed, Fascist fiends are still hiding in our Workers Republic and we have the duty to clean the country of all the enemies of the people. The Legionary... or should i say Fascist ideology is a vile and Cruel identity filled with hatred towards other ethno-religious groups, skin colors etc... which cannot be tolerated in "The New Romania"! The only benefit of the Fascist ideology is the undying love for the Motherland, which should not be a decision, but a duty!. We all have the duty to protect this Piece of Land and all the lands populated by Romanians for example Northern Bucovina and Bessarabia, which in 1940, were illegally occupied by the Red Army. This was an act that will be never again be tolerated! I was a prisoner during the Interbellic period and during the war. What the Germans and Russians did to my other Colleagues is unexplainable. To be completely fair, i sometimes wonder how i escaped alive. But let`s forget all the bad things of history, and let`s celebrate this day along with every citizen of This Proud Nation!"
"Eroi au fost, eroi sunt încă
Şi-or fi în neamul românesc!
Căci rupţi sunt ca din tare stâncă
Românii orişiunde cresc!"
23 August 1952
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.