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Region: Commonwealth of Liberty
[list]September 1955
[sub]The Tides Reversing, Pt. 1[/sub][/list]
[pre]T H E W E I G H T O F S C H O L L[/pre]
[list][sub]THE TIDES REVERSING A narrative RP series, for the CoL, surrounding the relationship between Joseph Gartner of the German Democrats (DPD) and Sophie Scoll (Ind.), and the development of one of Germany's minor parties into a major political player.[/sub][/list]
GARTNER RESIDENCE, FRANKFURT, New Provenance EVENING
[sub]FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| The rains poured lightly outside it was already rainy season in GERMANY, after all. The GARTNER RESIDENCE stood menacingly, a three-story home built in the 1920s at a time when Germany's economy was growing and there was still hope that the next day would be better than the present. The windows were misty, so any possible onlookers from the rainy outside were unable to witness the conversation taking place in the home's parlor. A cigarette between his two fingers, JOSEPH GARTNER - executive chairman of the German Democratic Party (DPD) - adjusted his glasses as he looked amicably on. Across him, on the other side of the fireplace, was SOPHIE SCHOLL - firebrand Independent, former anti-Volkist student resistance leader, and currently a growing star within the Bundestag, despite her lack of party affiliation. She had visited Gartner's home on request - the former was attempting to make a new ally, and potentially bring in a crucial member into his party ahead of the 1957 federal elections. |
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "Surely you are already aware of my position on affiliating oneself with a political party, yes?"[/list]
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "I am wholly aware."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "Then why did you invite me here? Surely you didn't just have a surplus amount of tea and biscuits you wished to expend."[/list]
| GARTNER smiled, taking a puff of his cigarette. |
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "Ms. Scholl, to put it bluntly - I think you have serious political potential. Bundeskanzler type of potential. Perhaps even Bundesprasident type of potential. Wishful thinking, I'm aware--"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "That's because it is wishful thinking, Herr Gartner. Germany would never take a woman for their president, much less for their chancellor. And I am not a Christian Democrat. I am not an [Adenauer] lapdog."[/list]
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "I am aware, Ms. Scholl. I am aware. I also know that you are an ambitious woman. You care about your country. I'm the kind of person who doesn't think what you, respectfully, have in your pants is relative to how well you can lead a country. Take Gloria Banza for an example -- she leads in an exemplary fashion, and is an example of what Germany could be."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "You're offering me the chancellorship and the presidency in exchange for joining your party? I'm afraid not, Herr Gartner. I'm no politician. I'm a public servant."[/list]
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "Is there a difference?"[/list]
| SCHOLL shifted in her seat, rolling her eyes ever so subtly. |
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "Politicians play pretend. Public servants do not."[/list]
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "I wholeheartedly agree--"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "Herr Gartner, please. Let's cut to the chase. You need me in your party so you won't lose your voters and accidentally hand over a supermajority of votes to Adenauer and his CDU. I, meanwhile, am focused on serving my constituency to the best of my ability and continuing to provide for the German people, in bright times or in dark ones. I'm sorry, but the differences between us are too large to overcome."[/list]
[list]| [sub]JOSEPH GARTNER, Chairman of the German Democrats[/sub] | "I ASSURE you, that is not the case--"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent Bundestag MP[/sub] | "Your projected vote share says otherwise, Herr Gartner. I don't play politics, because I don't think we should play with human lives and livelihoods of Germans. Guten tag."[/list]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[pre]| SEPTEMBER СЕНТЯБРЬ 1955 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
OPERATION ROSE FIELDS STRIKES BULGARIA:
KGB HANDLES GROWING ANTI-SOVIET SENTIMENTS IN BULGARIA!
ОПЕРАЦИЯ ROSE FIELDS ПОРАЖАЕТ БОЛГАРИИ:
КГБ СПРАВЛЯЕТСЯ С РОСТОМ АНТИСОВЕТСКИХ НАСТРОЕНИЙ В БОЛГАРИИ!
[pre]| Moscow has grown tired of the continued growth of Anti-Soviet sentiments in the Bulgarian government. Pro-Soviet Bulgarian politicians have been instrumental in aiding Moscow in the constant updates of the antics of the new General Secretary Bogdan Vhikov. It seems Khrushchevs indifference to the Bulgarian crisis in leadership has bit them in the back as Vhikov shows the extent of the growing disrespect towards the Soviets and counter-Revolutionary sentiments in the Balkan Republic. |[/pre]
[pre]| Ivan Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security would be tasked with the disposal of Vhikov by any means the Chairman saw fit. Serov organized ten KGB agents to take care of the problem in the Bulgarian Communist Party. The 3rd Airborne Division of the Soviet Red Army stationed in Botevgrad only 45km from the Bulgarian capital Sofia was told to prepare for possible civil unrest in the region, a worse case scenario for the Soviet Operation should things get out of hand. A diplomatic meeting to allow the Agents alone time with Vhikov. The Team showed as a diplomatic delegation from the Soviet Union to discuss the rekindling of good feelings with the Bulgarian General Secretary. Unbeknownst to him a drink given to him would be home to a poison. [/pre]
[pre]| Ricin would be dosed into Vhikovs drink and its prolonged kill time allowed the Team to keep the meeting at a realistic length concluding it with warm feelings between the two parties. |[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]ТРУДЯЩИЕСЯ МИРА ОБЪЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ![/pre][/list][/list]
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THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AFFAIRS - OCTOBER 1955
COMMISSION REPORTS; EUROPEAN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (ESTA) ESTABLISHMENT APPLAUDED BY ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES
BRUSSELS (Oct. 4) -- ACADEMIC and scientific communities in France, the Benelux, Germany and across the European Economic Community have applauded the move by the European Council of states to officially ratify Resolution 02/1955, which establishes the European Science and Technology Agency (ESTA). Building upon the vision with the creation of the EURATOM agency, the new ESTA - to be heavily funded and supported by the European Community of nations - is expected to lead efforts to boost literacy and graduation rates for high-demand degrees like engineering, medicine, biology and more. The Proposal, ratified 6-0-1, with the Benelux delegation in absentia, read as:
[list][pre]EUROPEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY (ESTA)
- Initial annual budget of $25,000,000, funded for by $2.5 million from each Member State annually
- Shall have programs facilitating for student exchanges, scholarship programs, new technology grants, and more
- To investigate the feasibility and act upon the potential for a European jet airliner and general European jet technology
- Cooperate closely with EURATOM to pull together additional resources for the development of nuclear energy for peaceful ventures[/pre][/list]
The agency is to be headquarted in Brussels, next to the European Commission and the European Council buildings. Academic communities across the continent have applauded the creation of the new agency, describing it as a step forward for European academia, and praising efforts by the Council to push for greater movement between member states by students seeking to study in other universities and colleges across the country. Scientific communities have also noted their interest in availing of the plentiful grants to work on development programmes in biomedicine, computer technology, and other up-and-coming technologies that could work towards the benefit of humanity.
ESTA is to be led by a director-general, which shall be approved by the Council every four (4) years with appointing powers rotating between the member states for every term.
The establishment marks the first major resolution passed by the Council since the entry of the Republic of Northern Epirus into the European Economic Community.
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https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1833247
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Mining Extensions - Decree 659
October 1955
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Everyone knows that coal ties every aspect of Romanian industry together. From Power Plants to Steel Mills and beyond, coal is an essential resource in the further development of The Socialist Republic of Romania. Producing an average of 18.541.09 Tons every year and with growing industrial development ahead, something had to be done.
| After some minor and non-violent strikes for increased wages and working conditions in various mines, especially in Valea Jiului, (Jiu Valley) Constantin Rotaru together with The Communist Party of Romania have agreed upon that something must be done for the mines and Romania and the miners working in them.
Through Presidential decree 659, Constantin Rotaru, General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of The Presidium of The Great National Assembly, President of The Socialist Republic of Romania, Supreme Commander of The Peoples Army, has started the national "Coal Extension" programme.
| This "Coal Extension" programme is meant to increase working conditions as well as the increase of productivity and morale of the Romanian miners.
Romanian mines will be equipped with modern and reliable equipment to increase production and to improve working conditions, while the miners will get an average salary raise of 25%, from 1.400 Lei to 1.750 Lei.
| The tragic mining incident of the 27th September 1953 in Petrosani, Jiu Valley where three miners lost their lives further indicated the need of the Romanian mines to change and to improve.
Today our and especially the miners dreams come true, all thanks to our dear and beloved leader, son of the Romanian people, Constantin Rotaru, General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of The Presidium of The Great National Assembly, President of The Socialist Republic of Romania, Supreme Commander of The Peoples Army. It is because of him we enjoy will continue to enjoy in a peaceful industrialized and prosperous Socialist state!
"Traiasca Partidul Comunist Roman in frunte cu al sau General Secretar, Tovarasul Constantin Rotaru, iubit si stimat conducator al Republicii Socialiste Romania! "
October 1955
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Cascadla, Ranponian, Nileia, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Bhaarat Lok
[list][list]OCTOBER 1955
[sub]Kubitschek Wins![/sub][/list]
[pre] E L E C T I O N D A Y [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Jucelino, Jucelino, Jucelino
For President of Brazil[/pre][/sub][/list]
SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY HEADQUARTERS, Brazil Toucan EVENING
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| The presidential election was close and vote counting was slow. With more than two-thirds of an estimated 10 million paper ballots counted, the winner was JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK¹, 54, grandson of a Silesian immigrant, ex-governor of Minas Gerais State. KUBITSCHEK ran with Communist endorsement, which, in public, he neither accepted nor rejected. His slogan: Power, Transportation and Food. Brazil can use more of all three. The first votes came from Rio and São Paulo, which gave ADHEMAR DE BARROS² a temporary lead, but KUBITSCHEK made slow progress after reports began to arrive from the inland states, notably Minas Gerais. [sup]The count: Kubitschek 2,277,000, Army General Juarez Távora 2,112,000, Barros 1,942,000.[/sup] The vice-presidential vote took an unexpected turn. Under Brazils rules permitting ticket-splitting, hundreds of thousands of voters who chose candidate BARROS also voted for candidate TÁVORAs running mate, a jurist named MILTON CAMPOS³. |
| CAMPOS was so close behind KUBITSCHEKs running mate, the leftist JOÃO (Jango) GOULART⁴, that there were still doubts. KUBITSCHEK may have expected his running mate Jango to lose. That result could actually improve KUBITSCHEKs prospects of taking office in routine fashion on inauguration day (Jan. 31). The military leadership that demanded President GETÚLIO VARGAS⁵ resignation does not like Kubitschek very much. He is a friend of ex-President VARGAS and a member of a pro-VARGAS party, the Social Democrats. The generals also dont like JOÃO GOULART, head of the Labor Party created by VARGAS and who served as VARGAS Labor Minister before being overthrown by the army. Public opinion is against a coup détat, and the generals are probably willing to go along with KUBITSCHEK. But they can keep an eye on Jango. If KUBITSCHEK assumes the PRESIDENCY OF THE REPUBLIC, he will bring to his tasks a sound record as a governor who built roads and public works, obtained loans, and attracted business capital to his state. When campaigning, he sings and sambas, sometimes with fascinating fervor; but he gets a lot of work done too. |
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[sub]¹ JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, was governor of Minas Gerais (1951-55) and 21st President of Brazil (1956-61).[/sub]
[sub]² ADHEMAR DE BARROS, was mayor of São Paulo (1957-1961) and governor of São Paulo (1947-1951 and 1963-1966).[/sub]
[sub]³ MILTON CAMPOS, was a Brazilian politician, teacher, journalist and lawyer. He was governor of Minas Gerais (1947-1951).[/sub]
[sub]⁴ JOÃO GOULART, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil until a military coup détat deposed him on 1 April 1964.[/sub]
[sub]⁵ GETÚLIO VARGAS, was twice President of Brazil (1930-1945 and 1951-1954).[/sub]
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Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Nileia, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Bhaarat Lok
OCTOBER,1955
Manuel A. Odría:Goes Against His Own Words
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Manuel A. Odría.Current Supreme Protector Of The Confederation,said in a speech on the day of his rise to the position.
[List][I]"Maybe with time,we could agree to do this revisioning but for now,don't expect it."[/I][/list]
Manuel A. Odría chooses to go against his own words by writing up a new constitution to replace the old.
[U]Changes Manuel A. Odría Made.
| With the fact that we have the position of the Supreme Protector Of The Confederation.With what we previously agreed to,it feels like the new position that was established is rather pointless."To represent the confederation on the international stage." That's the purpose of the position.To imply a single unified state to the international world.Rather then that,the position should be used to actually unify the two nations rather then keeping two separate presidents in control of two half's of the confederation.That is a product to produce failure if one gets replaced by a new politician who disagrees with their counterpart and could destroy the confederation.
| The matter of the other positions that exist,like the vice-president of both Peru and Bolivia will be destroyed and be replaced with the Vice-Protector.Peru prime ministry will also be destroyed but shall not be getting a replacement.
| A name like Peru-Bolivia may show that we are united,but I feel like the name doesn't work.While the name "Peru-Bolivia" may have historical and geographical significance, using the name "Andes" would be more inclusive, neutral, and respectful towards the shared cultural and environmental aspects of the region.
| The centralising of power would also help,streamline the process of getting out new policys.As with the old policy which made the confederation have a dual-presidency.If a policy that effects the two half's of the confederation,both presidents will have to decide if whether or not to pass or veto the bill which if the bill is extremely controversial and neither presidents agree over the outcome of the bill and both presidents enter a bitter relationship with one another.It could lead to the destruction of the confederation.
[U]The Passing Of The New Constitution
Manuel A. Odría would meet with his Bolivian counterpart,president Víctor Paz Estenssoro.To discuss the new constitution with the rest of government in the same room.They all would decide if the new constitution would be passed to replace the old constitution.
However prior to the new constitution being brought up to Víctor Paz Estenssoro,Manuel had gone and talked with bunch of other government officials on their thoughts on centralisation of the government.While there were a lot who agreed with Manuel that his new constitution is beneficial,there are those who disagree,while little they may be,still are a sizable voice.So Manuel bribed them to try and convince them although illegally to accept the passing of the constitution.
In the end,Manuel A. Odría new constitution would be passed with a bit of bribery.Víctor Paz Estenssoro,was against it but a majority of the government officials were for it.
[U]People's Thoughts On The New Constitution
The people located in Peru began feeling uneasy,as now Manuel A. Odría although showed that he was willing to do things democratically and fair to create the confederation.He went back to his authoritarian ways by forcing his only opposition,Víctor Paz Estenssoro.To be removed from his position and destroying the short lived dual-presidency system.The people in Bolivia,did not approve of their beloved former president,Víctor Paz Estenssoro being removed and jeered at Manuel A. Odría while he was making a speech at La Plaz.
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[list]October 1955
[sub]Gandhi's Health[/sub][/list]
[list][list][pre]राष्ट्रपति गांधी के गिरते स्वास्थ्य की अफवाह से उत्तराधिकार की तनावपूर्ण दौड़ की चिंता बढ़ी
RUMORS OF PRESIDENT GANDHI'S DECLINING HEALTH SPARK WORRIES OF TENSE RACE OF SUCCESSION[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]OCTOBER 1955 | अक्टूबर 1955[/sub][/list]
[list] | [sub]In 1952, the face of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi, secured a landslide victory for the position of India's first President in its new independent era. The election was the first regular election, since the 1950 special presidential vote that put Gandhi initially into power. He secured 84% of the vote against only 13% for his chief opponent, independent K.T. Shah. The victory was relatively well-received by the Indian public and enthusiastically welcomed by the governing Indian National Congress, who later in the year would win a historic mandate from the Indian people in the 52-53 general elections, to which Gandhi was party to. Questions about his health had not arisen then, but they certainly were now. In 1948, Gandhi had survived an assassination attempt at his home in Delhi, and rose within the ranks of the INC to secure his party's nomination for the presidency two years later. Now, however, his declining public presence and a more assertive position being taken up by the Prime Minister and de facto INC chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru, rumors about the President's declining health was swirling.[/sub] |
| [sub]The position of President of the Republic of India was a purely ceremonial position, aside from the also-ceremonial power of appointing the Prime Minister - usually the leader of the largest political party. Gandhi had held the position since its inception on Republic Day in 1950, and was not regularly party to the day-to-day politics of the country - that job was usually left to his INC partymates, elected officials, and to the Prime Minister, Nehru. However, Gandhi continued to promote his policy of "Satyagraha" (holding firmly to the truth) - a policy of nonviolence that had become the cornerstone of the Indian independence movement - across the country, despite the blatantly obvious religious divides that continued to plague the country. The Indian republic was a fragile one - the presence of the Muslim Pakistan to the northwest presented its own set of challenges, and within India itself, there was a substantial Islamic minority that was maintaining a fragile peace with the Hindu majority. Gandhi did his best to maintain the peace in his country, however, presenting himself as a "President for all Indians" and affirming his support for cultural openness and acceptance of all religions within India. He disavowed the Muslim League and others in his party who wished to separate Hindus and Muslims entirely, calling it a 'disgrace to the movement for which our comrades fought and died for', in reference to the independence movement of the 20s onwards.[/sub] |
| [sub]Starting in the fall of 1954, however, Gandhi began scaling back his public-facing commitments and pursuing more private, concealed activities as the ceremonial head of state. For example, he withdrew from his regular provincial tour that he did every summer, citing scheduling concerns, starting in 1955. Several high-profile events he was set to attend in the spring of 1955 were cancelled, causing rumors to begin to fester. Gandhi was already 86 years old - one of the oldest heads of state in the world. These rumors were only further festered by an image spread by the Indian media, presenting Nehru as chairing an INC internal party meeting that Gandhi usually led. For an elderly head of state to take a step back from public commitments was to be expected, but for him to step back from leading his party even symbolically was presenting new questions. When inquired, the Prime Minister [Nehru] affirmed his trust that the President 'would be able to serve out the reminder of his term', but said nothing more.[/sub] |
| [sub]The possibility of the President's declining health brought up uncomfortable questions, especially that of succession. The Indian National Congress (INC) was slowly falling out of the authority of the elder statesman president and more into the hands of Prime Minister Nehru and his family, who were establishing themselves within the party as an indomitable political force. Obviously, Nehru was a key contender to succeed Gandhi to the presidency, but barely anyone thought the Prime Minister would surrender his powerful role as head of government to serve as India's second president. There, too, were other factions within the INC vying for power, from centrists to more left-wing socialists who were fed up with Nehru's inability to push his social democratic agenda of land reforms and the suspension of agrarian feudalism. A power vacuum was something that the party was not ready for, and whether or not one would be created all depended on the status of India's "Father of the Nation".[/sub] | [/list]
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Nileia
[list]OCTOBER 1955
[sub]BEAUFORT-WEST/BEAUFORT-WES UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA[/sub][/list]
[list][list][pre]|2ND SESSION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY[/pre][/list][/list]
[LIST][LIST][pre]|2DE DE SITTING VAN DIE 4DE NASIONALE VERGADERING [/pre][/list][/list]
| After securing an expected victory in the past elections, set forth on minor and major changes in its first 5-year plan. In the areas of politics, culture, ethics, society and the environment the Government has sought to establish and begin to chart a new path of development. By establishing new state bodies and committees, proposing state infrastructure projects, enhancing education and environmental protection the Government has seen mixed results. At the 2nd Session of the National Assembly the Prime Minister alongside his ministers of state would relay and report the findings of their work, and the state of ongoing projects and elaborate [slightly] on the upcoming years work plan*.
The Prime Minister touched on several topics in the beginning of his speech. Firstly, the political development of the state and the creation of new bodies to assist in the long term planning of state objectives, as well as the day-to-day administration of the state. Of these, include chiefly the National Supervisory Assembly.
[list]Bast van Den Heever, Prime Minister: Over the past year the Government has worked tirelessly in the creation of new state bodies to assist in the overall governance of the Union of South Africa. The National Supervisory Assembly, an independent supervisory body has been successfully established with a wide range of audit powers to hold elected and unelected officials of the state accountable to their work, the constitution and the people of South Africa. The 30 member National Supervisory Assembly, under South African law, has the power to impeach, censure, audit and examine the credentials of elected officials and state civil servants. The Assembly may further, after thorough investigation, may propose corrective measures to the National Assembly if deemed necessary or to the bodies subordinate committees. The establishment of the body will ensure and maintain the strict following and application of the law and systematically and tirelessly work to eliminate all vestiges of corruption in government.
In our work over the past year, the Government with consultation from all sectors of society and with study of foreign systems has further established the National Consultative Assembly. The NCA, under South African Law, will serve as a political advisory body. Elected members of the National Consultative Assembly will have the power to advise and propose forward for the many political and social issues to the National Assembly, the National Supervisory Assembly, and other relevant government bodies. The establishment of this body ultimately serves to strengthen and expand South African democracy and gives individuals and organisations from all sectors of society increased representation and participation in democratic process and national construction.[/list]
To an applause the Prime Minister continued his speech further discussing relevant achievements in infrastructure and the economy. The Prime Minister specifically highlighted the beginning of construction on the Cape Town-Kaapstad Metro, the expansion of public transportation and relevant infrastructure across the Union, as well as job creation outside of raw material extraction. The Prime Minister further reported on the achievement of economic growth but doubled down on the need for comprehensive investment and reform to further unlock South Africas economic potential. The Prime Minister, with the support of his Economy Minister and the majority of the National Assembly set forth the target of expanding heavy and light industrial production with state backing, increase in worker production, joint-sourcing of more effective methods of resource extraction and furthering national reform of the financial environment. Nonetheless, the National Assembly found pleasure in the Prime Ministers report on the state of South Africas economy and economic development.
The Prime Minister, in listing the achievements of the government over the past year further highlights the cultural and social achievements in South Africa. He pointed out the increased popularity of association football amongst young people attributing to growth in the establishment of youth leagues, and the increase in spending on athletics products. The Prime Minister also highlighted the success of the World Invitational Championship and applauded Rugby South Africa and the Ministry of Sport for their joint effort in constructing and hosting a top tier international competition. Cultural and Social development in South Africa had also grown in the halls of education, with the Prime Minister reporting an increase in the enrollment in arts programs at the post-secondary level amongst all public universities, as well as the increase in arts production by professionals in all fields of art. Lastly, in the area of social development and harking on the overwhelming support of the National Assembly and the people, the Prime Minister set the date for a national referendum on the status of South Africa to take place on the 10 of January in the upcoming year. Reporting to the National Assembly, the Prime Minister set forward his target of providing additional monetary support to primary, secondary and post-secondary education institutes to expand and promote the development of the arts, and for the education ministry and other actors in society to seek out extraordinarily talented individuals and fully support them with the weight of the state. Further work targets included the exploration and founding of a top tier football league and supporting clubs in the acquisition of talent, supporting the existing rugby league and its governing body as well as sourcing funds to ensure that all participants in sport and art have facilities equipped to meet their pursuit.
The Prime Minister would continue his speech, further touching on aspects of legislative development, furthering education reform and state backing of the science and technological development of the state with the Prime Minister stating for South Africas need to build greater self reliance in science and technology. The Prime Minister laid out further work targets in the field of foreign relations calling on the state to construct a third path unique to South Africa and to chart a neutral course in international affairs. He further mentioned strengthening environmental protection through the expansion of the creation of state parks, and protecting endangered environments and animals.
[list]Bast van Den Heever, Prime Minister: .Elected officials must drive coordinated progress in material, political, socio-cultural and environmental terms, and we must pioneer a new and uniquely South African path to modernisation and development and create a new model of progress [/list]
The Prime Minister, with the backing of his Cabinet and the National Assembly, in the final ends of his speech remained confident in the state's ability to further its work progress and meet the targets set forth in the 1st and 2nd Sessions of the National Assembly. His plans on state development as of now appear to be a remarkable success but he will need to carefully tune his development strategy to the ever changing conditions of the international community. |
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[list][pre]T H E S L O V E N E R E P U B L I C S L O V E N S K A R E P U B L I K A[/pre][/list]
NIKOLA KOPRIVNIKAR OVERWHELMINGLY ELECTED SLOVENIAS AS FIRST CONSERVATIVE PRESIDENT
[list][sup]A STATE OF STEEL LIVENED BY ELECTRICITY
OCTOBER 1955[/sup][/list]
In 1955, for the second consecutive time, the Slovene electorate chose a President of a party opposing the legislative majority. Nikola Koprivnikar, 65-year-old independence leader and scion of the Slovene Peoples Party, was received by thundering crowds as he stepped off the train from Maadan in Ljubljana for his inauguration. No proper candidate had emerged to oppose him.
The gray-headed Koprivnikar was a veteran of Slovene politics and had garnered widespread popularity for his defense of the Republics anti-communist policy, as well as for his strong advocacy for the reinforcement of the free market economy and individualism in the face of the growing threat of Yugoslavist Bolshevism to the east. Koprivnikars campaigning for president had involved the overwhelming mobilization of all professions and demographics, spanning from industry workers and entrepreneurs to farmers and teachers. He presented himself as a defender of the freedom and rights of Slovenias citizens, while also proposing a politically sound national and fiscal policy that would look to stimulate the Republics economy and increase investment. Slovenia had been seeing an industrial revolution in the post-war years, but growth figureswhile still highwere nonetheless waning, and actions stronger than even Tomičs were in demand by the general public. Slovene conservatism differed sharply from American conservatism in that the defense of the free market still necessitated sweeping government intervention and corporate welfare; Koprivnikar was committed these, and above all else, a state of steel livened by electricity, which he famously promised at a campaign rally in Trst. The shift in presidential policy¹ was undoubtedly a harsher change from the reasonable but stern policy of outgoing president Vida Tomič.
Politics were already difficult on those of the left wing.² Under Koprivnikar, they were certainly to worsen. Though he presented himself as a balanced, wise overseer of the National Assembly, where mediation was needed and his peers surrounded him, a Koprivnikar in presidential power would likely see an intensification of his conservative beliefs, now unchecked by the need for compromise. Still, he was beloved by the majority; though thousands came to see Tomič invoke Moko, protector-goddess of women, in a farewell address, more than three times the crowds emerged for Koprivnikar. Nobody could doubt the arrival of a new era as he dramatically addressed the gathered Slovenes, a new energy injected into his aging body. Still, in a show of bravado, the outgoing President Tomič hiked up the stairs of the Presidential Palace and declared, Slovenia is yours, President Koprivnikar! Yours as ours!
[list][sup]¹ More emphasis exists on presidential policy in this timeline than in reality; the post of President in real-life Slovene is nearly fully ceremonial, but in this world, the office of the President still wields some powers in filtering legislation, foreign policy and domestic events.[/sup]
[sup]² The authoritarian semi-democracy of real life South Korea following World War II is somewhat reflected in Slovenia. Elections are only truly accessible to centrist and right-wing parties, and intimidation and censorship follow left-wing activists. The Republic lives in the shadow of Yugoslavia and its Red ambitions, and, in spite of Slovenias long democratic and intellectual traditions, a transition to an absolutely transparent democracy would only be fully possible when that threat was averted.[/sup]
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[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
MINISTÈRE DE LINTÉRIEUR[/pre][/list]
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MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR: THE SAAR A QUESTION OF YES OR NO
[sub]IVTH REPUBLIC | PARIS, OCTOBER 1955[/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF LIBERTÉ, MINISTÈRE DE LINTÉRIEUR - | The Saar has been under French control since the end of World War II when it was formally granted to the new French Republic as a protectorate. Prior to that it was also under French occupation following the Allied victory in 1918 and remained so until the Saar Status Referendum of 1935 which saw it reincorporated into Volkist Germany. Going even further, the region had been previously annexed by France in 1685 and occupied during the Revolution from 17901798 and the Napoleonic Wars, when it had been included in the First French Empire as the Sarre department between 1798 and 1814. Now the time had come for all Saarlanders to choose their destiny and fate.[/sub]
[sub]A packed little hall in the Saar mining town of Illingen crackled with excitement. Behind the stage, huge and threatening, a black eagle glared down from a red banner with the three initials of the new Saar Democratic Party or DPS slashed white across its breast. Party Chieftain Heinrich Schneider, a stocky, sad-eyed lawyer of 48, leaped onto the platform to speak. The crowd of coal minersyellow-haired youngsters and grizzled, Russian-front veteransstiffened in anticipation, ready to jump frenziedly at his every hoarse shout. "We are Germans!" cried Schneider, an oldtime Volkist whom had worked for the party's propaganda ministry during World War II. "When we vote on the 23rd, we will be the first Germans to show that Germans want to be reunified!" The miners rose, cheered, and burst first into "Deutschland Uber Alles" and then into "Deutsch 1st die Saar" (The Saar Is German), a song unheard since Heidler's fall.[/sub]
[sub]For three months such pro-German rallies have exploded almost nightly in the French-controlled, German-speaking industrial border basin of the Saar. They are a prelude to decision: the Saar's 960,000 citizens will freely vote, ja or nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would be "Europeanized," i.e., granted political autonomy under the new seven-nation Western European Union, and continued in its postwar economic union with France. A commissioner, probably British, would oversee the Saar on behalf of WEU, but an elected Landtag of Saarlanders would continue to run Saar affairs. The Saar's 13 million tons of coal and most of its 3,000,000 tons of steel a year would remain French-controlled, giving France about equal balance with the Ruhr-rich West Germans in the European Coal and Steel Community.[/sub]
[sub]It was however likely that this long-sighted plan to Europeanize the Saar would not be realized. Whipping up the old nationalist instincts among the German-speaking Saarlanders, ex-Volkist Schneider had pulled together three new pro-German parties into a "Homeland Front"skipping over the fact that it was the government of the homeland that was earnestly backing the Europeanization of the Saar. By the force of his devotion to the ideal of European unity, above and beyond the desires of nationalism, Konrad Adenauer had been able to check West Germany's yearning to own the Saar, but he had not been able to arrest the Saar's own case of Germanic nationalism. Under Schneider's lashing, personal attacks, the European status had become dangerously linked with the uncertain fortunes of its chief proponent, Saar Premier Johannes Hoffmann and his pro-French Christian People's Party. The pro-Germans made up a word for his supporters"Speckfranzosen", i.e., literally, bacon-Frenchmen; loosely, pro-French for material interests. They jeered at the portly Johannes Hoffmann as a longtime French puppet, and threw stones and stink bombs to break up his meetings. Whenever he appeared, crowds were on hand to beset him. When he addressed Brebach steelworkers last week, hecklers crowded outside the hall and yelled "Pfui!" when he left.[/sub]
[sub]Last week Konrad Adenauer and France's Premier Edgar Faure took off, in the midst of all their other perplexities, to meet in Luxembourg for an eight-hour session on how to save the Saar statute. Adenauer tried to get Faure to put off the referendum and pressure Premier Johannes Hoffmann into calling a Landtag election so that Saarlanders might vent their hostility on Hoffman without making the Saar statute an innocent victim of his unpopularity. However Paris and Bonn had explicitly agreed not to intervene in the Saar's decisionmaking, and so the two leaders agreed only to put out a vague statement saying that they still believed in "Europe." If the Saarlanders should vote nein, the French say that the Saar would simply remain French-controlled territory as before, its riches funneled into the French economy. Should the Saar nationalists win; they could not be expected to retire into the corners and stay quiet. The French recall what happened after Heidler won the Saar from them in another referendum 20 years ago. "German nationalism is looking for its first success in the Saar," wrote Marcel Edmond Naegelen, onetime French governor of Algeria, in Le Républican Lorrain of Metz, the formerly German capital of Lorraine. "If Germany succeeds, she won't stop there, and she will want to succeed elsewhere in the West." At any rate, onlookers waited uncomfortably for a vote that is crucial to the future not only of the 900-square-mile Saar, but of far bigger things: Franco-German amity and European unity.[/sub]
[sub] With France's offer to establish an independent "Saarland", under the auspices of the Western European Union (WEU), Saarlanders had a serious decision to make concerning their fate and destiny in a united Europe. With the referendum finally being held on 23 October 1955, Saarlanders rejected this plan by 67.7% to 32.3% out of a 96.5% turnout: 423,434 against, 201,975 for, despite the public support of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for the plan. The rejection of the plan by the Sarrois was interpreted as support for the Saar to join the Federal Republic of West Germany. Thus a date would have to be set for further negotiations and the signing of a formal treaty which would see the Saar handed back over to Germany. |[/sub]
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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!
VIVE LA FRANCE!
VIVE LEMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][spoiler=[sub]𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐌
𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐎𝐅 𝐋𝐈𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐘[/sub]]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[list][list]September 1955
[sub]Argyrókastron Institute for Economic and Social Development (AIESD)[/sub][/list]
ARGYRÓKASTRON, (Northern-Epirus) MORNING
| In the bustling city of Argyrókastron, a group of academics, activists, and experts have gathered to discuss the future of their young nation. They all shared a common vision of making Northern Epirus a prosperous and thriving member of the European Economic Community. After hours of brainstorming and debates, they finally agreed to form a Non-Governmental Organisation to promote the advancement of Northern Epirus. They called it the Argyrókastron Institute for Economic and Social Development (AIESD). |
| The AIESD has aimed to be a non-partisan organisation that would provide independent analysis, research, and recommendations to the government, businesses, and civil society on key issues affecting the economic and social development of Northern Epirus. The founders of AIESD recognise that the success of their nation would depend on a strong and dynamic private sector, a well-functioning public sector, and an engaged and empowered citizenry supported by the promotion of proportional political representational policies. |
| The AIESD would focus on two key areas, one area would be Economic growth and competitiveness. The AIESD would work to promote policies and initiatives that would attract investment, foster entrepreneurship, and enhance productivity and innovation. The second area would be Social and political inclusion and human development, AIESD would work to promote policies and initiatives that would reduce poverty, inequality, and political and social exclusion, and enhance access to education, healthcare, social services & political engagement. |
| The founders of AIESD, including its Director Prof. Demetrios Katsaros and its deputy director Dr. Luljeta Krasniqi, know that their work will be challenging, but they are determined to make a difference. They believe that by working together, they could help Northern Epirus realize its full potential and become a model of economic and social development in the Balkan region and indeed the European Economic Community. |
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[list][list]A German Connection, FMA's New Fighter/Interceptor[/list][/list]
[list][list][sub]October 1955[/sub][/list][/list]
[list][list][sub]Fábrica Militar de Aviones Hanger D Workshop, Córdoba, Kewtpuff[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]"It is in there gentlemen, just inside hanger D. FMA has made progress, albeit slowly. We are getting there though! That we are.." Reimar Horten would speak broken Spanish in a thick German accent as he points toward a huge complex in front of him. "The performance of the FMA I.Ae. Pulqui II has taught us many things over the past 5 years. Since then, engineers at the Fábrica Militar de Aviones have used gained knowledge to begin working on a new design, a more efficient and practical jet aircraft." He'd clear his throat. "I call it the FMA I.Ae. 48!" Horten would fumble with his keys, opening the side door in front of him as he escorts Jefe del Estado Mayor General de la Fuerza Aérea Platina, Carlos Mauriño, and several other high ranking Air force personnel into hanger D at the FMA workshop. Once inside, the men see the shape of a delta winged aircraft underneath a white tarp. Gen. Carlos Mauriño would turn to face Horten.[/sub]
[list][sub]Carlos Mauriño, Brigadier General and Chief of the General Staff of the La Platan Air Force: "Is this the aircraft, Señor Horten? It better be good for all it's worth and the funding we've allocated to you and your fanciful designs." He'd scoff. "Well then, let's see it."[/sub][/list]
[sub]Reimar Horten would smirk as he snaps his fingers, ordering several of the engineers nearest to the aircraft to remove the tarp and reveal the shell of the jet. Upon removing the tarp, the La Platan air force officials would stand in amazement, even Mauriño was left speechless.[/sub]
[list][sub]Reimar Horten, Head of Engineering at Fábrica Militar de Aviones (FMA): "Behold, my magnum opus! A shell yes, but she will fly one day. I ask you to send my gratitude to El Presidente for placing his trust in me. El Excelentísimo Señor Don Juan Domingo Perón gave me a chance to prove myself to the best of my ability, unlike that idiot Heidler. For that, I repay him ten fold."[/sub][/list]
[sub]The general staff of the air force make their way toward the shell of the concept fighter/interceptor, inspecting and admiring it. Unlike the Pulqui II, this design is noticeably bigger and has a delta wing, clearly meant to sustain it at high speed. Indeed, the shell of the prototype is truly a sight to behold, even without its internal components and finishing touches that will appear as progress continues. It could potentially be worthy of the status of a generation II jet once completed and tested.[/sub]
[list][sub]Reimar Horten, Head of Engineering at Fábrica Militar de Aviones (FMA): "Although in its early stages, we expect a test flight sometime in '59 and for it to enter service in the 60s, thanks to our dear friends over at Rolls Royce, who have partnered with us to acquire several Avon RA3 jet engines for the project. As you can see here, unlike the Pulqui II, the .48's engines will be located under the wings and not in the fuselage itself." Horten would point out where the intakes would be under the wings. He then points at the nose of the aircraft, clearly aerodynamic and designed for the specifications outlined by the La Platan air force. "Overall its shape and structure will allow it to potentially reach a high rate of top speed, if everything goes according to plan. Well gentlemen, what do you think?"[/sub][/list]
[sub]The La Platans would nod in approval as they deliberate amongst themselves. Meanwhile, Horten stands at a distance biting his nails as he waits to hear what they have to say and whether or not funding for his project will continue. More importantly, he's wondering if his life will be spared. After several minutes, the general staff finish their short meeting and turn to face the ex German engineer.[/sub]
[list][sub]Carlos Mauriño, Brigadier General and Chief of the General Staff of the La Platan Air Force: "Señor Horten, I must say that I underestimated you and your work. Clearly this project is on schedule and with the recent agreement by the British to assist us with the acquisition of jet engines, we believe that the 1959 deadline for a test flight is possible and that this concept meets all our specifications we outlined to the Fábrica Militar de Aviones a year ago. The FMA I.Ae. 48 has been given the green light to continue its progress and funding shall proceed as promised."[/sub][/list]
[sub]With the approval of the general staff of the air force, the FMA I.Ae. 48 project can move forward in earnest. Although the Pulqui II has been recently upgraded as part of President Perón's New Five Year Plan, and purchases of US aircraft have more than satisfied the nation's desire for a modern fleet capable of countering any threat, the FMA I.Ae 48 would be the pride of La Plata. Its potential as a symbol of La Platan technological advancement, engineering, and ambition cannot be understated. For the President of the United Provinces of the Rio de La Plata, it is imperative that Buenos Aires produce and operate a second generation jet aircraft to stay relevant on the global stage. As a consequence domestically, it could also boost the regime's overall support more so than it already has been thanks to the Excelentísimo Señor's modernizing of the country and stabilizing its economy, an economy that now can afford to pursue Reimar Horten, Kurt Tank, and many others' projects over the next several years to come.[/sub]
[list][sub]Specifications
Type: Fighter/Interceptor
Engine: 2 RR Avon of 2950 kg, or 2 RR Nene 101 of 2267 kg, or 2 Bristol Orpheus Bor of 2200 kg thrust
Max. Speed: Mach 2.2 (as per the Wikipedia article)
Landing Speed: 155 km / h
Weight: 16 800 kg MTOW
Wing Area: 50 m2[/sub][/list]
Timeline: Project began in '54, research and design will continue until '59, and it will enter service sometime in the 1960s
Wikipedia Article (In case you're interested): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._48
Reader's Note: The Project has been in progress for over a year IC and a mockup of the aircraft (minus its internal parts and other key design features), has been built specifically to showcase Horten's design to the head of the air force and his goons. Think of it like a sales pitch. The FMA I.Ae. 48 is not expected to be ready until at least 1959 and will not enter service until the 1960s
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TITO CLASS SUPERCRUISERS
October 9th 1955
In construction for two years now, with seven remaining (an estimated completion date for both by 1962) the Tito Class Supercruisers shall be the largest military Vessels ever built by Yugoslavia, though not the largest overall considering Yugoslavia's long history of maritime cargo ship construction. The Vessels shall become the sole Capital Class of the Navy, replacing the Kirov Class Light Cruisers which are more vulnerable. The Tito Class represents the peak of Yugoslav Naval Technology, and its cost reflects that being valued at the equivalent to the price of 12 Destroyers. It is therefore not lightly that the Navy was forced to accept orders from the Grand Marshal that these two Ships would become the last constructed Vessels for the Navy until at least 1965 (discounting overhauls of earlier Ships and already greenlit programs such as submarines).
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Specifications
Type : Super-Cruiser (Heavy Cruiser)
Crew : 1,200
Displacement : 20,180 tons
Length : 237 m (780 ft)
Beam : 28 m (91 ft)
Draft : 7.4 m (24 ft)
Installed Power : 62,624 HP developed by Eight Diesel Engines driving two Propeller Shafts
Speed : 32 Knots
Range : 10,000 nmi (19,000 km; 12,000 mi) at 20 knots
Sensors and processing systems : Arktur underwater acoustic communication system, 'Top Trough' air search radar, 'Low Sieve' air search radar, 'Knife Rest' air search radar, 'Slim Net' air search radar, 'Don-2' Navigational Radar, two 'Sun Visor' Fire control Radars, two 'Top Bow' 250 mm gun radars, eight 'Egg Cup' gun radars
Armament : 4x2 10 Inch (250mm) guns, 8x2 2 Inch (50mm) guns, 32x2 20 mm AA guns, 2x4 21 Inch Torpedo Launchers, 6x R-25 Vulkan Surface to Air Missile Launchers with Stowage for 24 Missiles, 4x P-15 Termit launchers with Stowage for 12 Missiles
Armor : 6 Inch Belt (152mm), 12 Inch Conning Tower (304mm), 4 Inch deck (101mm), 14.5 Inch Turret Sides (368mm) & 4 Inch Turret Tops (101mm), 14 Inch barbettes (355mm)
Special Features : Quadruple Torpedo Bulkheads below the waterline, Triple Bottom Hull, Reinforced Bulkheads and Watertight Doors, 50% Pump Surplus (50% more pumps than would usually be required for a Vessel this size to enable more efficient pumping operations), Autoloaders for Main and Secondary Batteries, Oxygen fueled generators (reduces exhaust making Torpedoes harder to see on the surface), Diesel Electric Auxiliary Power System in event of main Engine shutdown
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Upon completion while they wont be the heaviest Ships in the Adriatic currently, they will nevertheless pose a great threat to NATO naval power in the region. Being the first Yugoslav Vessel to carry Surface to Air Missiles the Vessel will also be somewhat of a frontrunner as it would make Yugoslavia the third Nation behind the Soviet Union and United States to mount SAMs on their Ships. A special addition to both Tito class Super-cruisers are two ornamental shield mounted on either side of the Bow, bearing the name of each town which donated money to complete the Ships and as a result sponsoring them.
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[list][PRE]Agosto - Octubre 1955[/pre][/list]
[list][list][list][list][pre]The Spanish Economic Miracle[/pre][/list][/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre] P L U S - U L T R A[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][I]MADRID[/I], Spainard
[sub][I]THE SPANISH KINGDOM OF SPAIN[/I][/sub][/list]
[list]| [sub] In recent months, Prime Minister Francis Álvarez's commitment to economic revitalization seems to be paying off ten-fold, according to reports by astute economists nationwide. Since winning a majority in La Asamblea Nacional, Alvarez has introduced staunching economic reforms in conjunction with the previous Ruíz administration(1948-1953) to rebuild the nation's economy. For the past two years as Prime Minister, Álvarez has focused primarily on domestic issues, and rightfully given the circumstances of which Spain notoriously has suffered quite a bit financially. Growth in significant sectors of the economy, but mainly in the industrial sector, has been significant, with major contributions to an open and unrestricted market attractive to foreign investment.[/sub] |
| [I][sub]The Prime Minister bragged about his economic endeavors with his European partners. His first trip abroad since becoming Prime Minister has been with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where he met with Sir Antony Eden. The history between the two nations is noteworthy, but modern times have declined with a view of "benevolent neutrality and pettiness." Álvarez's visit to London is to renew relations and set a new course for Anglo-Hispanic ties.[/sub] |
| [I][sub]Álvarez visited West Germany and met with the esteemed Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. Both have agreed to assemble and produce an assault rifle that both nations will use. Specifics are unknown at this time. It was a fruitful visit with a keen interest in investing in Germany's growing arms manufacturing sector as Spain continues to look for foreign investment in these areas. Thanks to EEC cooperation, investments in each other's economy have become more lucrative as Volkswagen, a prominent german auto-manufacturing company, will open its first factory in Bilbao.[/sub] |
| [I][sub]In Bilbao, many welcomed the new investment as a symbol of the country moving towards a more accessible and competitive market. However, opposition, mainly from the PSOE or the Socialist Worker's Party, fears that the country is driving down a dangerous path to favor corporatist interests and neglect the workers running heavy-duty factories. They believe the government should not force the private sector to pay more but instead take a laissez-faire approach as he believes in attracting more workers in the private sector; naturally, they will raise their earnings. It is now a growing concern and an agenda for the PSOE as they rally behind new worker's rights reforms that will force companies to ensure that workers in their pay "fair and respectable" earnings.[/sub] |[/list]
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Por siempre España; Siempre libre; Siempre Iguales[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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[list][list][sub]𝚅𝙸.1955[/sub]
[sub]IL LIBERISMO[/sub]
LIBERISM[/list]
[list][list][pre]Luigi Einaudi's liberismo in action,
One year on.
An orthodox, classical liberal approach.[/pre][/list][/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub]Palazzo Montecitorio[/sub]
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub][/list]
[list]| More than a year has now passed since Giuseppe Pella's popular, yet turbulent, period in office had ended. Since then, the octogenarian Premier, Luigi Einaudi, had succeeded in ruling over a deeply torn Democrazia Cristiana. Hardliner irredentists and moderates, classical liberals and interventionists, conservative Catholics and lay progressives, all had to come together and support his cabinet in spit of their factional allegiances, with external support from the Monarchists. In foreign policy, the no-waves policy had been respected until a regrettable scandal happened But overall, it had not been a tumultuous year. In terms of domestic policy, industrialization of the country continued as standards of living progressed, and cheap oil began to arrive from Egypt. |
| But in terms of economic policy, much had changed. Einaudi, an orthodox, and one might say, austere economist, has altered the interventionist path that the government took in the post-war years. Deeming the reconstruction of Italy complete Indicators had for a few years now shown that Italy's productivity in various sectors had caught up to its pre-war levels the government was now to withdraw from various areas of the economy. While it applied policies of rigorous spending balance before, making sure no debt was created and nothing was spent in in excess, Einaudi decided to further erase the guiding hand of the state in guiding economics "The state has accomplished its task successfully, and with flying colors. Continuing such policies in an era of economic prosperity would be a foolish mistake, and one we cannot condone as the guarantors of stability." Or so he declared, when he passed a controversial bill in Parliament that will de-nationalize Fiat by 1956, therefore re-installing the Agnelli family, which had closely cooperated with the Fascist regime, as the 35-year-old Gianni Agnelli, grandson of the company's original founder, is slated to take the reins next year. Other large companies, such as Finmeccanica conglomerate, have been told to rely less on government subsidies. The IRI will continue to materialize as the guiding hand of the government, but will no longer be headed by bureaucrats. Meanwhile, government subsidies will be cut across the board and taxes brought down to further the timid rise of the Italian urban middle class and above. |
| So far, many observers have been puzzled, and Italy seems to be one of the few countries in the West today to have taken this approach, which so strongly differs from the established Keynesian ideas it itself practiced in the wake of the post-war peace. In Parliament, the Communists and the Socialists have been outraged, and so have the unions, who are seeing a government that is staunchly siding in favor of newly-created "national companies", and abandoning their support for the workers. Sentiments are running high, especially among the well-educated qualified workers of the North, while recent migrants from the South, who have replaced their Northern counterparts at the bottom of the chain, are notably less involved. Meanwhile, wealthy industrialists, who have long been pushed aside In fact, since 1922 with the arrival of the PNF in power, and after 1944 with the strong influence of Communists in various cabinets Are finally seeing a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. Einaudi, owing to his influence and reputation, had succeeded where even De Gasperi had failed: Shaping a concrete policy for the Democrazia Cristiana, and quieting the rumble of its factions. Whether it will last into the future, only time will tell. |
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Commonwealth of Liberty
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[nation]AbaBemba[/nation]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Alzarikstan[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Anglo Channel[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Bayern Kahla[/nation]
[nation]Bescania[/nation]
[nation]Brazil Toucan[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Central Arstotzka[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]East Germany DDR[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Greater Kurdistane[/nation]
[nation]Hashemite Kingdoms[/nation]
[nation]Hatzburg[/nation]
[nation]Honghai[/nation]
[nation]Israelli[/nation]
[nation]Kewtpuff[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]La Granadinas[/nation]
[nation]Ma-li[/nation]
[nation]Maziya[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Moroavia[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nippon-Nihon[/nation]
[nation]Nonador[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Paseo[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Provenancia[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Reyzen[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Socialist Democratic Republic Romania[/nation]
[nation]Spainard[/nation]
[nation]Sri-Lanka[/nation]
[nation]Sudesam[/nation]
[nation]Taiiwan[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Black Star-[/nation]
[nation]The Sun States[/nation]
[nation]Turkiye 1st[/nation]
[nation]Ubertica[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation]
[nation]Vietnam SV[/nation]
[nation]Virnall[/nation]
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[list][list][sub]𝚅𝙸.1955[/sub]
[sub]L'ESERCITO, IL FIGLIO SENZA SOLDI[/sub]
THE ARMY, THE PENNILESS CHILD[/list]
[list][list][pre]No dime for the military:
An unspoken and controversial policy.[/pre][/list][/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub]Palazzo Montecitorio[/sub]
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub][/list]
[list]| In light of the continuing arms race in the Adriatic, the virulent anti-communism seeping through large portions of Italian society The Catholic Church, the DC, the royalty, the nobility, and former fascists all opposed it and the chill relations with the Slovene neighbor, one might be surprised to see the state's protector, the Armed Forces, granted so little attention. Since 1944, it had been a government policy to keep the Army malnourished and underfed, both financially and materially. With the government insistent on keeping an eye on its spending, which was once heavily constricted by the needs of post-war reconstruction, what could be spent had been directed at industrial or civilian projects, with an eye to recovering economic prosperity. But as the decade progresses, the Army remains the poor parent of the Italian state. Centrists from both left and right see no apparent use in it; there is little interest in defending Slovenia, and military needs in the Adriatic seem already taken care of by countries such as Yugoslavia [sup][nation=short]Ranponian[/nation][/sup], Greece [sup][nation=short]Adriatican Islands[/nation][/sup], France [sup][nation=short]Metropolitan Francais[/nation][/sup], and even Slovenia [sup][nation=short]Amsterwald[/nation][/sup], whose small forces could very well outmatch Italy's one day in the near future. Meanwhile, on the far-left, there is little incentive either, as re-armament would be seen as a fascist reminiscence and a fundamentally anti-East decision. Only the far right, Monarchists and neo-Fascists alike, seem adamant about modernizing the Army. But even there, division exists: The neo-fascist MSI, and indeed many former Fascist officers and veterans, are sour about the various institutional purges that took place after the war in order to rid the Army of any leftover fascist elements, and replace them, as had largely been the case throughout the 1910s and the 1920s, with officers from the old nobility. In short, even among the militarists, there was little agreement as to who would take the lead of a re-energized Armed Forces. |
| 15 divisions and five Alpine brigades make up the Regio Esercito, armed with mostly British and American equipment. The Regia Marina possesses few ships to date, most having been confiscated by the Allies or handed over. The Regia Aeronautica has fared a little better, originally granted American-made P-47s and P-51s, and equipped in 1952 with F-84G Thunderjets and F-86D Sabres, as well as more than 200 de Havilland Vampires license-built, it also counts within its ranks F-84F Thunderstreaks. The domestic aviation industry, unwilling to lose its pre-war talent, has started work on a few native aircraft which will see the light of day by the end of the decade: The Fiat G91, the Aermacchi MB-326, the Piaggio Aero P.166 and Agusta helicopters. For many within military circles, the relative disregard by the state is starting to become problematic; not to mention the gradual loss of wartime "talent", such as the elite Decima Flottiglia M.A.S, a renowned special tactics unit, now disbanded with its members fed to different units. Once the world's fourth naval power and a prime land and air power in Europe, with state-of-the-art designs, the Italian Armed Forces are today but a shadow of its former glory, leaving Paris, Athens, London and ultimately Washington, DC as the guardians of the Mediterranean. |
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Commonwealth of Liberty
[/sub]EVVIVA L'ITALIA!
]
[nation]AbaBemba[/nation]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Alzarikstan[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Anglo Channel[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Bayern Kahla[/nation]
[nation]Bescania[/nation]
[nation]Brazil Toucan[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Central Arstotzka[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]East Germany DDR[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Greater Kurdistane[/nation]
[nation]Hashemite Kingdoms[/nation]
[nation]Hatzburg[/nation]
[nation]Honghai[/nation]
[nation]Israelli[/nation]
[nation]Kewtpuff[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]La Granadinas[/nation]
[nation]Ma-li[/nation]
[nation]Maziya[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Moroavia[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nippon-Nihon[/nation]
[nation]Nonador[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Paseo[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Provenancia[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Reyzen[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Socialist Democratic Republic Romania[/nation]
[nation]Spainard[/nation]
[nation]Sri-Lanka[/nation]
[nation]Sudesam[/nation]
[nation]Taiiwan[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Black Star-[/nation]
[nation]The Sun States[/nation]
[nation]Turkiye 1st[/nation]
[nation]Ubertica[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation]
[nation]Vietnam SV[/nation]
[nation]Virnall[/nation]
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Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Hatzburg, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
LATOVICIA ÆTERNA: ASCENDANT SLOVENIA IN KOPRIVNIKARS PRESIDENTIAL VISION
[list][sup]NO DECELERATION, NO PAUSE
OCTOBER 1955[/sup][/list]
Smooth-speaking and ever-calm was newly elected President Nikola Koprivnikar. His legislative tenure as Speaker of the National Assembly had been defined by his ability to compromise and maneuver politically, and it garnered him praise from the full width of the political spectrum. These belied, however, the deep nationalism bred by his decades of struggle for Slovene independence. Who had seemed at least somewhat benign to those of the left revealed, throughout the campaign season and in the first months of his presidency, that his patriotism spilled into nationalism and anti-communism so charming and passionate that it would make Borut Blatnik blush. Above all, however, Koprivnikar believed in the absolute elevation of Slovenia as a linchpin of Central Europe.
The people of Latovicia¹ must become the most competitive in Europe, Koprivnikar ordered to a Ljubljana business forum soon after his inauguration. There can be no deceleration, no pausenew methods must be developed, new technologies found. This is in your hands. The replacement of the Inspector for Public Beauty with the stringent Dr. Bartolomej Hrovat and a crackdown on corruption were the first two acts in a string of political motions that analysts have found difficult to define along traditional paradigms. Though the leading jurist in Maadan during the interbellum period, Koprivnikar never made extensive writings on his own political beliefs until his campaign, and throughout all of it only conceded to being a meritocrat and shunning labels. He was a man of contradictions; he managed to be a supporter of breakneck technological progress but of tradition and Slovene cultural integrity, a proponent of anti-communism but of the gold-woven Slovene net which, even with its elements of democratic socialism, undergirded the poor. The neologism Koprivnikarizem (Koprivnikarism) has proven not especially popular but has few alternatives; Dom in svet characterized his emphasis on vigor as a pillar of Slovenia as nacionalni vitalizem (national vitalism), which Koprivnikar would come to preferalong with Slovenismbeginning in the spring of 1956.
He was, without doubt, the beneficiary of historical circumstances. Anti-communism in the face of Yugoslavian ambitions was so perfectly receptive to Koprivnikars nationalism that some expected him to eclipse Boris Furlan in the national memory. The public fervor surrounding Koprivnikar may be best epitomized by the dynamic response to his domestic and diplomatic doctrines, popularly referred to as Slovenia æterna (Slovenia Eternal), or, poetically, Latovicia æterna. A couplet served as its foundationUstvarjamo svet, Obhajamo dom; eden v sebi, Slovenia æterna (We build the world, we celebrate the home; one in itself, Slovenia eternal). The response was stultifyingthe chorus resounded across the Alps and the Sava. It would become ubiquitous, even iconic, and the personality cult around Koprivnikar seemed to become even more vigorous in its wake. The slogan seemed to have set afire the first year of his presidency, and, though the President never endorsed any strict interpretation of it, Koprivnikar himself apparently believed it to represent the mutual, simultaneous advancement of the Slovene homeland and its presence abroad.
The first cornerstone of Slovenia æterna, the area requiring the most consideration and forethought for Koprivnikar, was the city of Ljubljana. The ancient capital could be seen as the primary engine of Koprivnikars national philosophy; from the first murmurings of LjubljanaCity of Peace and Culture, to the refurbishing of the Tivoli City Park, to the legislative and juridical warrants to pedestrianize the historic center of the city, Koprivnikars attentions were first devoted to the decongestion and revitalization of the City of Slovenes. Mayor Marko Ravnikar fast lent himself as an essential figure to Koprivnikars cause, but it was the President himself who bore the primary torch. It was he who inked the legislation for the creation of the new boulevards and the park, who made multiple visits to the ancient castle of the city, and who advocated for the beautification, reconditioning, and preservation of Ljubljana. Sophistication and cultureas opposed to modern, congested developmentwere his primary vehicles. The Koprivnikar presidencys inaugural Ljubljana project served as both a symbolic guide and physical template for Koprivnikars broader goals for national autonomyit was, at once, a message to the power of what a Slovene Ljubljana could be and an example of the sort of meritocratic, self-sufficient Slovenia that Koprivnikar envisioned.
The coming months will see Koprivnikar bend the diplomatic corps to his vision and begin domestic projects in earnestincluding those inspired by the Ljubljana precedent. Time will tell if his vision of an ascendent, eternal Slovenia will come to fruition, but with the accession of Nikola Koprivnikar to the presidency came an inevitable redefinition of Slovenism.
[list][sup]¹ A poetic name for Slovenia in this universe predicated on the ancient Celtic Latovici tribe of Pannonia Superior.[/sup]
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[list][list]At The Bottom of the World[/list][/list]
[list][list][sub]Background[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]Platine expansion southward began by in large in the late 1870s, during which a series of conquests and subjugations of local native populations occurred, resulting in the expansion of La Plata into what is now modern Patagonia, securing its agricultural self sufficiency. By the 20th century, the United Provinces of the Rio de La Plata had gained total control of the Southern Cone and had moved beyond South America, crossing the Southern Ocean and landing in Antarctica, a continent Buenos Aires had long claimed parts of, but had not settled up until that time. On January 22nd 1904, Alberto Acuna hoisted for the first time in an official way, the flag of La Plata on the land claimed by the State as the Province of Antarctica. The location of this historic event became the Orcadas base, the oldest existing today with a permanent human settlement. Fast forward half a century, and the La Platans have since expanded their settlements in the territory they claim as theirs. One such example of a large settlement is Villa Las Estrellas, which supports a year round population of 150 people. The town, although small, is a slice of La Plata in an otherwise inhospitable environment. With a town hall, a small medical center, and even a church, Villa Las Estrellas is a testament to La Platan ambition and their heritage as sons and daughters of the famous conquistadores of old who claimed La Plata centuries ago.[/sub]
[list][list][sub]October 1955[/sub][/list][/list]
[list][list][sub]Somewhere beyond Villa Las Estrellas, Provincia Antártica La Platina, Kewtpuff[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]"It's so damn cold here, Ricardo! We need to get inside quickly. It's October for Christ's sake!" 28 year old geologist Alfredo Mesonero Sanchez would shout to his colleague as he shivers. Sanchez and several other La Platans were documenting Antarctica's mineral makeup and collecting samples for study. The men are now on their way back to Villa Las Estrellas's geological center, a fair distance away on foot. His long time partner and friend, Ricardo Maria Ovejero, trails not too far behind him with a bag full of sediment and rocks. "Would you just hurry up!"[/sub]
[sub]"Quit being such a baby, Alfredo! We're almost there, just a few more miles. You alright back there boys?" Ovejero would turn around and ask the rest of the crew if they were alright and they shouted in the affirmative. "See, they're fine, Alfredo! Just keep walking."[/sub]
[sub]The wind was beginning to really blow now and the geologists could feel the cold Antarctic air on their reddened faces. As they continue on their journey, their visibility starts to disappear as the fierce wind kicks up snow from the ground. Not to worry though, the La Platans were prepared for this potentiality and a series of flags had been placed along their route beforehand so the crew could tell where they were going based on a series of checkpoints if visibility became an issue.[/sub]
[sub]"Alright boys, let's stick together now. No need to panic, just follow the flags." The men make sure to stick close to one another as they walk in a line, following the pre positioned markers and hoping that none of them had moved due to the current weather conditions. After 20 minutes of walking, the geologists spot the lights of Villa Las Estrellas, civilization at last. Sanchez, Ovejero, and the others would cheer as they begin the final trek toward the town. Once they arrive, the men quickly make their way to the Evita Perón Center for Geology and shuffle inside before closing the door behind them.[/sub]
[sub]Upon entering the building, Sanchez takes off his thick jacket and snow pants, breathing a sigh of relief. "That was a close one Ricardo, did you see how the weather changed? We shouldn't be doing this stuff in October." The other men in the room would laugh their asses off upon hearing this, taking off their gear and thick clothing as well.[/sub]
[sub]"You are such a chicken, Alfredo." Ovejero's response would generate even more laughter from the men, causing Sanchez to turn red in embarrassment. "We're fine, we made it. The flags worked as intended." He'd say as he makes his way to the coffee machine and pours Sanchez a hot cup of coffee, handing it to him. "Most importantly, we've got the samples. Drink up, stay warm. You did good out there. You've done your country proud, done the President proud."[/sub]
[sub]Sanchez would nod in agreement as he sips his coffee. Soon, the rest of the crew pour themselves fresh cups of warm coffee and sit down, discussing the events that just occurred and their plans going forward with regard to the geological samples. All in a day's work in Provincia Antártica, La Plata's final frontier.[/sub]
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
[sub]RIYADH CIRCUS OCTOBER 1955
| After three days of talks in Riyadh, Kurdish-Hashemite negotiations end without a settlement. |[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1849044
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
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[list][pre]T H E S L O V E N E R E P U B L I C S L O V E N S K A R E P U B L I K A[/pre][/list]
RELENTLESSNESS IN SLOVENISM: THE ASSIDUOUS NATIONAL PROJECTS OF NIKOLA KOPRIVNIKAR
[list][sup]NEVER PAUSING, NEVER ENDING
NOVEMBER 1955[/sup][/list]
Provincial tradition held that, in the first months of November, the birds of the forest fell unusually silent: it was the calm of the birds, or mir ptic. However, when Nikola Koprivnikar ceremonially inaugurated a new thermal power plant at otanj in the autumn of 1955, they seemed to be pausing just for him.
In his opening speeches, the new President managed to electrify the nation in a way that neither Furlan nor Tomič had before him. His opening projects in Ljubljana and promises of an eternal Slovenia simply struck the Slovenes the right way; whether it was because it came from such an articulate orator or because the last few years of Yugoslavian and Italian debacles had worn on the population was difficult to say. No matter the source, this was the start of an infusion of fervent enthusiasm and a call to arms as Koprivnikar set out to prolong post-war economic growth with unprecedented zeal. Before he could truly begin, however, his government hurled upon him the questions of finance and the necessity of spending. Koprivnikar was keenly aware that another decade of heavy-handed government interventionism would serve to stifle competition and fast determined that the administrative shift from economic guardianship to mere watchfulness would need to begin around 1960. Until then, however, he fully intended to inject the Slovene economy with its final round of potent industrial subsidiaries and government-led projects. These would, of course, necessitate considerable funds. Koprivnikar and the new government of Slovenia under Sergej Kraigher thus resolved to supply the greatly expanded fiscal agenda with a diverse set of sources. Firstly, the traditional aristocracy of Slovenia was to be hemmed in, inheritance laws capped to prevent any long-term concentration of wealth among a specific class. Though socially conservative, Koprivnikar felt the existence of old money infringed upon the silver bounds of his beloved meritocratic ideals. Still, privileges seized, the immediate economic impact of such a move was minor; more tangible forms of wealth extraction, such as an investment series set up via the New Slovenian Investment Funda meticulously managed cash cow for the new stateand slightly raised rates of taxation would provide more essential sums for the flurry of development Koprivnikar envisioned. Koprivnikar also secured substantial loans from the Bank of Styria, confident that certain projects would, in the end, fund themselves with two-fold returnshe touted this fiscal principle as logiko rasti, or the logic of growth.
Koprivnikars list of ambitions for the nations resources was, even as it was known just a month into his presidency, long and comprehensive. The Koprivnikar plan, as the economic pillar of Slovenia æterna came to be called, encompassed an abundance of industrial and infrastructural megaprojectsa colossal industrial port and shipbuilding complex at Omialj on Krk, only a few kilometers from Reka; a truly standardized power grid for Slovenske electrarne, meant to communicate and coordinate energy production and push electricity to the furthest corners of Slovenia; an immensely sophisticated hydrological engineering scheme set to irrigate the Brkini Hills and Istria to spin off a massive agricultural output; and, the holy grail of the Koprivnikar plan, referred to as odločitev (the decision): a motivated, worker-focused socio-economic campaign to make Slovenia luxuriate in an environment of classless meritocracy, with access to education and industry equal to the most advanced societies of Europe and the world. In this, cultural institutions were prioritized alongside economic ones; strategic sallies into the ever-expanding realms of education, healthcare and public media allowed renewed national reports to be dispersed through radio, television, newspapers and journals all espousing the bright regional vision of Koprivnikar with a saturatedbut cautioussuppression of the apathy of the past. In total, Koprivnikars public works befuddled his opponents, mainly austere spenders and aristocrats, who accused him of wasting the nations resources on hubris-driven pet projects. Koprivnikar is a man of rhetoric, argued Ivan Antončič, a spokesperson for the Pretnar estate. His speeches are full of lovely phrases about making Slovenia into a kind of technological paradise, overlooking the financial implications of such massive shifts. Strangely, however, his massive governmental projects did not inspire great controversy among the general population, and surprising support from Carinthian socialists and social democrats seemed contrary to his hardline anti-communism. It fast became clear that Koprivnikars alleged anti-leftism, previously thought to define his campaign, was realized more in anti-Yugoslavism than in domestic repression; rather than seek to oppress any faction of the population, Koprivnikar seemed devoted to the notion of an integrated enterprise of Slovenes, earnestly collaborating in common progress but staunch as ever in opposition to Titoist influences.
The Furlan-Gosar government of the early independence era had played more to unity than economic projects and was lighter on pushing industrial projects and social initiatives. Vida Tomič had it harder still, battling a reticent legislature concerned with military spending after several Yugoslavian provocations. Koprivnikar, however, was devoid of obstacles. A brief cooling of relations with Yugoslavia and widespread support for his national vitalist agenda afforded him the political capital to embark upon his aggressive national works with near-unanimous support from the legislature. Working often into the night and appearing regularly and unrelentingly on national radio and television, as well as in public, Koprivnikar defied his status as the oldest of the three Slovene presidents. Those close to him would eventually subject him to the title of raketa (rocket) for his tirelessness. Day by day, Koprivnikars national plans advanced into reality. In just a month and a half, he had laid the framework for a presidency of untiring labor.
Nonador, Paramountica, Spainard, Arcanda, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
NOVEMBER 1955
New Transportation System / The Seaman Web is finished!
The New Transportation, which began 5 months ago in June of 1955, has been finished and is opened for use, with Austin Holland, cutting the ribbon to open it up officially. It has been 1 week from its opening and thousands of people have flooded to the newly named, Seaman Web Train station, named after Lukely Seaman, creator of the New Station. Transportation has been widely accepted, appreciated, and unusually faster than most Coal-Trains. However many environmentalists have been questioning whether it will have a heavy impact on the environment on the local environment. The Seaman Web now spans from Aukland to Wellington, making it one of the widest railways ever seen in New Zealand. The new jump from the slow steam engine to coal fuel/fossil fuel has sparked great hope, making the Government fund even more in science than it has ever done before, with the goal of using electricity as energy,
Many people are hopeful that we step forward with the new developing technology. Nuclear Energy, though costly and deadly, can be very efficient, however, the Union State Council has voted strongly against this use of Energy, though many Nuclear Energy Radicals, urge the Prime Minister to use the Energy, though it's negatives outweigh the profits.
Government Burns more Money.
The Current known GDP of New Zealand, is 3.5 Billion USD, and much of it is used for Welfare, Social policies and much more. Currently, in the West Side of New Zealand, a rebellion and some Gang members started to rob many shops and incited anarchy, sparking discord among many people with the choice of the Government spending even more money on Military and Law Enforcement, around 35 Million USD is being spent on the police force, 70 Million on SWAT teams and 525 Million on the Military, each shared by the Land forces, Air force and the Naval Forces. Many people wonder why the government started spending on the Military though only the police and the SWAT are needed, but "In case of any disaster, Terrorism, etc, we should always be vigilant as we never know what shall happen", states Austin Freeman, the Prime Minister. The PM cannot be blamed, as many disruptions in the west coast of New Zealand, and much more political unrest still exist.
In a world filled with uncertainty, violence and superpowers, we should be vigilant, aware and strong.
Nonador, Spainard, Arcanda, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Allbania, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
WEAPONS FROM AMERICA
October, 1955
Kingdom of Laos
After a month's long negotiation with the United States, the United States agreed to ship mass quantities of small arms to supply the Royal Lao Army. Rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars, landmines, and vehicles have been sent over and will be put into service after proper training is complete.
The weapons shipments have been the first major victory of the Committee of Security, led by Crown Prince Sisavang Vatthana, with him looking to not only improve the Lao Army, but also get Laos to become closer with the western sphere.
The weapon shipments have caused anger from the Neutralist and Leftist factions in government, with Prince Souvanna Phouma, the leader of the Neutralist faction, and Prince Souphanouvong, the leader of the Leftist faction, denouncing the weapons shipments, with both sides claiming this is the start to the "Destruction of Lao sovereignty.", and that it may cause tensions with North Vietnam and China.
In response, the Crown Prince stated that he believed that "Alligning with the United States is the only way our Kingdom can survive in its current form, and I will do everything to ensure our security and survival."
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[list][list]NOVEMBER 1955
[sub]Revolution of November 11[/sub][/list]
[pre] T E I X E I R A L O T T [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT was an important
Brazilian military and political figure who
prevented a coup détat from occurring,
thus guaranteeing Kubitscheks inauguration.[/pre][/sub][/list]
[sub]The Preemptive Coup of Marshal Lott.[/sub]
CATETE PALACE, Brazil Toucan AFTERNOON
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| After a year in which Vargas resigned at the behest of military leaders, the army overthrew another President in a revolution. It was a coup to prevent a coup, a preventive revolution. Brazilian army officers like to think of themselves as the true defenders of constitutional government. An ardent supporter is Lieut. General HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT¹, 61, leader of the revolt. War Minister Lott had emerged as an armys staunch opponent of the faction called golpistas the military and civilian leaders who advocate a golpe (coup) to prevent President-elect JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK² from taking office on January 31. |
| A crisis began a fortnight ago, involving LOTTs right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This turned into a test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, President JOÃO CAFÉ FILHO³ had to leave the presidency due to health problems, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, CARLOS LUZ⁴, took over as Brazils Acting President. LUZ was against LOTT in the affair of the golpista army colonel. Lott handed in his resignation to the President and LUZ appointed a golpista general as the new War Minister. That night, after telephoning trusted army mates, LOTT initiated what Brazilians labeled the anti-golpe. In the early hours of the morning, troops invaded Rio. By morning, the city was in Lotts hands. Navy and Air Force men remained loyal to LUZ, but later withdrew without firing a shot. LUZ had fled on a Navy cruiser. The Chamber of Deputies declared LUZ unable to serve, his successor was Senate Vice President NEREU RAMOS⁵, next in line according to the Constitution. RAMOS reappointed LOTT as War Minister. The following morning, ex-President LUZ sent a radio message to President RAMOS informing that he had decided to comply with the order of the National Congress and return to Rio. After the success of LOTTs daring anti-golpe, Brazil seemed calmer than it had been in months. |
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[sub]¹ HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT, was a Brazilian military and political figure.[/sub]
[sub]² JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, was governor of Minas Gerais (1951-55) and 21st President of Brazil (1956-61).[/sub]
[sub]³ JOÃO CAFÉ FILHO, was the 13th Vice President of Brazil (1951-54) under President Vargas and the 18th President of Brazil (1954-55).[/sub]
[sub]⁴ CARLOS LUZ, was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, teacher and journalist who served as acting president of Brazil from November 8 to November 11, 1955.[/sub]
[sub]⁵ NEREU RAMOS, was a Brazilian political figure. He briefly served as interim president of Brazil.[/sub]
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Vargorie
[list]November 16-18, 1955
[sub]The Return of the Sultan: The restoration of Mohammed bin Yusef (Mohammed V) to the Moroccan throne as the rightful Sultan of Morocco.[/sub][/list]
[sub]Ever since Sultan Mohammed V's removal and exile and being replaced by his cousin Mohammed ben Arafa in 1953, unrest and riots have been happening throughout Morocco. Jews, Arabs, and Berbers were all united against the French and had a single goal: restoring Mohammed V as Sultan and full independence of Morocco. When the French government, in June, 1955, agreed to give Morocco its independence and set a date when independence would happen, they tried to give the credits to their puppet Sultan, but it backfired as the Moroccan people know that the credits should have gone to their true sultan, Mohammed V, and not the pretender. This caused the already unrest and riots in Morocco to increase further, along with people going on strikes. Two months ago, the French government tried to contain and subdue the rebellion by stationing more troops in the sultanate, but even then it was ineffective as not only did the Moroccans intensify the rebellion to put even more pressure on the French government, but the nationalist created a paramilitary force called the Jish Etteḥrir (جيش التحرير), the Moroccan Army of Liberation. Following the example of Algeria's National Liberation Front (FLN), the Moroccan Army of Liberation would combat the French forces and their paramilitary group and protect the rioters.[/sub]
[sub]The French government, having realized that they had lost control of the country and not wanting to fight a two-front war with the Moroccans and the Algerians, decided that they had no other choice but to bring Mohammed bin Yosef and his family back from exile and restore him as sultan. Upon hearing the news of Mohammed V returning from exile, the Moroccans celebrated all over the country, and on November 16, Mohammed V, along with his family, finally returned to Morocco from exile as the restored Sultan of Morocco. At the same time, Mohammed ben Arafa announced his abdication as Sultan and returned the throne to his cousin. By the end of the day, Mohammed V was restored to the throne as Sultan of Morocco, along with his wife and children. As for Mohammed ben Arafa, he went into exile to the south of France and was escorted out of the country by the French for his safety from angry mobs. Two days later, on November 18, Mohammed V came to the balcony of the royal palace in Rabat, where he delivered his speech to everyone throughout the Sultanate.[/sub]
[list][B]Mohammed V, Sultan:[/B] [sub]"In the Name of Allahthe Most Compassionate, Most Merciful. Because of your noble sacrifice, we have finally forced the French to agree to our demand for independence and my return to the country as your sultan. I will be eternally grateful to all of you for your support in this holy struggle. I therefore now proclaim that the "minor jihad" (الجهاد الأصغر) of securing independence officially ended and proclaim the beginning of the "major jihad" (الجهاد الأكبر) of collectively building a new Morocco. Although it may take time and hard work to complete this task of rebuilding the nation, I believe we, Arabs, Jews, and Berbers of this nation will come together and create a new and modern Morocco, one that will be respected throughout the world as a true and modern nation on par with the United States and other countries in the west and the Arab world with the same glory as we once had before the dark days of colonialism. May Allah will that this dream come true."[/sub][/list]
[sub]With the return of their rightful sultan and France agreeing to give Morocco its independence, the revolt in Morocco has ended and people return to their daily lives to help the sultan with the rebuilding of the country and prepare it for their independence. Soon the dark chapter of Moroccos history will come to an end and the new and bright chapter. One of liberty, freedom and restoration of great glory will come to fruition soon.[/sub]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
[list]November 1955
[sub]An Interview With A Prince[/sub][/list]
[pre]P R I N C E H A N U E L[/pre]
GYEONGBOK PALACE
[sub]SEOUL, SEOUL CAPITAL AREA, Rutannia MIDDAY[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1842618
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Arcanda, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Hashemite Kingdoms, Vargorie
NOVEMBER,1955
Islam The One True Path
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Prime minister,Aisy Rayyan commissioned for a new policy to be written up in parliament to alter the religious side of Maziya.26 days later,a draft was given to Aisy to be finalised and approved.
[U]The Draft
| Islam would become the official national religion of the Republic Of Maziya.
| The Republic Of Maziya denounces all other religions in the nation.
| Practice of other religions in the Republic Of Maziya can only be done from home and not in temples or other religious sites for prayers.If a individual has been found taking parts in activities of other religions in public they will receive a light fee to pay.
| Schools will loose holidays associated with other religions and only maintain Muslim holidays.
| Everyone,Muslim or non Muslim will have to take part in the fasting period.So the non Muslims have to experience the same things the Muslims have to experience year round.The only exceptions to these,would be the unhealthy or those who suffer from a physical or mental problem from birth.
| If a child is given the religion of Islam by their parents or a individual converts to Islam.They cannot convert to another religion and are forever Muslim as long as they live in the Republic Of Maziya.
[U]Aisy Rayyan To The Media
After reading it.Aisy Rayyan gives his signature to approve the new policy dubbed the "Islam Jalan Yang Benar" policy.Aisy Rayyan soon took to the press to release the information about the new policy by holding an interview.In the interview he states.
[List][I]"Maziya,is a Malay nation.The other ethnic groups just reside here.As far as I'm concerned their religion is just a side attachment to Maziya,meanwhile Islam is the one true religion to lead the way for a truly Malay nation."[/I][/list]
The media used that statement and highlighted it in their newspapers by making it one of the first things the readers will see.
[U]Reaction Of The People
While the Malays were either more then happy with the policy or were indifferent as it doesn't change anything for them.The Chinese and Indians took it as a sign that the government is infact attempting to route out any form of ethnic unity in favour of a fully Malay nation and culture.A group of Indians created a minor faction called the "Maziyan Democratic Hindu Party" otherwise abbreviated as the "MDHP" or "MDH" and a group of both Chinese and Indians created another minor faction called the "Maziyan Buddhist Party"/"MBP" or "MB",as a response to the new policy.
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
[list][sup]Commonwealth of Australia / Gemenebest van Australië
[/sup]
THE LEGACY OF ARTHUR CALWELL
[sub]Commonwealth of Australia | November '55
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[list]
[sub]
There have been millions of free men who have settled in Australia since Convict George Barrington penned these comments about coming to the country. Nonetheless, immigrants are often viewed with suspicion in every country since they are presumed to have left their home country either for the greater good of their own country or because of political or economic necessity. The final remnants of the emigration stigma were only eradicated in the decade following World War II, thanks to Australia's massive and well-planned immigration scheme. This time last week, Barbara Porritt, standing happy, landed in Melbourne to the sound of the drums. After arriving in 1945, she represented the one millionth person to settle in Australia. [/sub]
[sub]Former Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes warned his country after World War I to populate or perish, but it took the devastation of World War II to bring the nation's over seven million residents face to face with the dangers of their isolation from the rest of Asia.[/sub]
[sub]We may have only 25 years to... justify our exclusive possession of this continent, Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell said at the announcement of a new massive immigration scheme. [/sub]
[sub]
FRAGMENTED BIASES
Australia's immigration teams picked the cream of Europe's D.P. crop by moving quickly and realistically, prioritizing carpenters and builders. When the International Refugee Organization's supply of refugees ran out, Calwell negotiated bilateral agreements with Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and Malta to ensure a steady influx of new arrivals to Australia. He also encouraged tens of thousands of Americans to leave the country and make a new life for themselves Down Under (thereby balancing the loss of 10,000 Australian girls who married G.I.s and went off to the U.S.). [/sub]
[sub]Because of Calwell's guarantee that half of all immigrants would be British, a trial batch of 848 young men (aged 15 to 35) from the Baltic states helped to break down the remaining barriers to immigration in Australia. Calwell now says A majority British population is of no concern to us. Aussies are exactly what we're looking for.[/sub]
[sub]Immigrants began pouring into Australia on government-subsidized passenger liners, cargo ships, and borrowed U.S. ex-Army transports, and soon a new dilemma arose一assimilation. Any British children, or those under the age of 15 are granted Australian citizenship automatically. One in five people would have to wait five years. English classes for new arrivals begin aboard the ships themselves, and continue throughout the statewide system of hostels and receiving camps, where newcomers reside for free (on average, for six months) while they wait for employment to become available. [/sub]
[sub]
WE ARE THE NEW AUSTRALIANS
Calwell came up with the label New Australian to replace the derogatory terms that had previously been used to describe immigrants. That notion remained. Hundreds of clubs were established as part of a Good Neighbor movement that sought to foster friendships between the indigenous people of Australia and the settlers who had recently settled the country. Nonetheless, there have been problems associated with attempts at assimilation. For example, the more conservative British Medical Association stands adamantly opposed to registering European doctors. Hardworking immigrants volunteered to work in the rain and were met with indignation from the Trades and Labor Council, which had guarded labor's victories for the past half century with jealous fervor. Meanwhile, the Communists circulated among dockworkers the message, Most immigrant Bails are fascists opposed to unionism. Nieuw Hollanders and Aboriginals remained skeptical of the intentions of the immigration scheme. As the population grew, so did the crime rate, and many Australians were alarmed to see a new weapon among the criminals' arsenal一the knife. Ultimately however, the greatest obstacle was the unwillingness of many Australian women to marry foreign nationals. [/sub]
[sub]Nonetheless, few immigrants have gone home (6% of British immigrants, 2% of others), and the country's economists credit immigrant labor with significantly increasing energy generation by 81% in seven years and black coal production by 36%. Thousands of prefab houses have been imported to ease the burden on the country's housing industry, which has constructed enough dwellings in the past three years to house 900,000. There is just one other severe shortage, and that is of workers, in an otherwise growing economy that has showed only tiny signs of recession. Over sixty thousand work opportunities are currently available for immigrants.
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Nonador, Paramountica, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
{ November 1955 }
Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa
Peoples Republic of Poland
| On the morning of the 18th of November, Secretary General Bierut took a walk with his cabinet outside of the Congress hall in preparation for his speech on the state of the Republic and its relationship to Poland and her safety. In the period of rebuilding since the end of the war, numerous projects have taken place across the nation to rebuild and restore a lost and broken national spirit and infrastructure. The common phrase, Poland is not yet lost, had still persisted even after the countrys capitulation to the Germans.
Something in particular that was on Bieruts mind was the concern of the Western nations that had joined them in the war, in their seeming looming influence around the world. He foresaw their capitalist influence growing as the years went by, and especially with the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The coming together of the Eastern Bloc nations had signaled to the world that a new era was on the rise. Such an era would be spoken on in the Secretarys speech in Congress in the coming days. |
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Arcanda, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Commonwealth Services Cricket
yo its the official university of british columbia ask me anything
THE CROWN PRINCE'S PLAN
November, 1955
Kingdom of Laos
The Crown Prince convened a meeting with several of his closest allies in government, including Prince Boun Oum, former Prime Minister Phoui Sananikone, and several other cabinet members and local officials.
The Crown Prince began speaking,
"Thank you all for coming here today, I want to say from the beginning that this meeting will decide much of the future of Laos. As we all know, our government is very divided right now. The neutralists and leftists have been constantly fighting to take power from us.
The fact is, if we don't crack down on them, we will fall, we need unity, we need stability.
I have a plan for this, I cannot guarantee it will work but I believe it is our best shot.
The first stage of the plan will be to solidify military support for us, this will be one of the easiest parts as we already have a lot of connections there, I entrust some of the local officials to help me with this and make sure the forces stationed in their regions support us, we will raise the defense budget and the salaries of generals and officers to appeal to them, and my committee will deal with anyone left over.
The second stage of the plan will be to solidify public opinion, I have hired a team of artists to create pro-western and anti-communist posters, music, and pamphlets, I was thinking of portraying neutralists and leftists as puppets of North Vietnam and Communist China, as foreign agents trying to enslave Laos, as corrupt gangsters, I'm open to more ideas.
The third and final stage will be the actual cracking down part, with the military and public against the Neutralists and Leftists, we will be able to root them out, arrest them, take them out of government, and ensure they have no power left."
A local official stood up and interrupted the Crown Prince,
"Listen, this sounds real shady, morally I feel uncomfortable about this, how are we better than them if we arrest them for just being against us?
The Crown Prince responds calmly,
"I understand your moral qualms, but as I said before, I think this is our best bet, you know what's worse than arresting some people? Having this entire country fall apart and collapse into a bunch of tiny warring factions with tens of thousands of deaths. Toughness is necessary. I trust that you all will cooperate with me. I'll have my people regularly communicate with you all through secure channels. "
Paramountica, Arazistan, Spainard, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Maziya, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]OOC Note[/sub]]Work of historical fiction inspired by real events.
Opinions/song lyrics not my own, of course.
NS Mods: This isn't, in any way, an endorsement of the ideologies mentioned.[/spoiler]
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[sub]𝙸.1955[/sub]
[sub]LA VENDETTA DEL PRINCIPE NERO, I[/sub]
THE REVENGE OF THE BLACK PRINCE[/list]
[list][list][pre]"We will carve a tombstone,
Engraved in this humble soil.
Death to Badoglio, we are the Republican Fascists!
Death to the King, long live Graziani! We are the Republican Fasces.
We will carve a tombstone,
On a wh0re's skin:
Death to the House of Savoy!"[/pre]
[sub] Fascist Chant, 1944 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YolsR17CgJA ][/sub][/list][/list]
ROMA, REGNO D'ITALIA
[sub]Borghese Villa[/sub]
[sub][nation=flag]Arcanda[/nation][/sub][/list]
[list][list][sup]6:45 PM[/sup][/list][/list]
[list]| A small cohort of vehicles stood parked on the gravel path leading to the Borghese Villa, a Roman revival residence sitting on the outskirts of Rome, surrounded by tall pines and cypresses. The sound of brakes and tires screeching on the gravel was heard one last time and a cloaked figure huddled inside. Only the living room was lit. An outside observer, who would conveniently peer through the window, would see a hulking, balding, thick-lipped figure towering over the others, jaw thrust forward, and piercing blue eyes set deep into his face. The new man enters, and the towering figure turns, produces a fascist salute and then embraces him. Cigarettes are lit and wine is served on the table. |
| Inside Colonel Junio Valerio Borghese's home The man had just welcomed his latest guest is a lively atmosphere. The stocky character reminisces, laughs and drinks. A scion of Italy's most prestigious noble house, the Borghese House, he is an ardent Fascist and a war hero. Called the Black Prince, he carried out numerous raids during the war, at the helm of the feared and renowned Decima Flottiglia MAS, an elite underwater commando unit, and the first of its kind. From Gibraltar to Alexandria, where two British [sup][nation=short]Great Britain GB[/nation][/sup] battleships were put out of service in '41, his raids were the bane of the Allies. In '43, he joined the Fascist North, and converted his unit into a ground-based fighting force Not once firing at their southern brethren, not once committing war crimes, but losing about 80% of its men in the dusk of fascism, against a seemingly unstoppable enemy. After the war, he served four years in prison, before becoming one of Italy's most hardline neo-fascist. A lively and down-to-earth man despite his origins, he has alienated much of his fellow nobility in the process, who despise fascists. Around him tonight were his loyal wartime brethren-in-arms: Mario Giorgini, Vittorio Moccagatta, and a few others. Vengeance was on their mind. A terribly sour and vindictive kind. |
| Putting down his glass, Borghese opened the discussion with a booming voice as the room fell silent. |
[list][sup]| Junio Valerio Borghese: |[/sup] "Camerati... We are assembled here as the loyal group of fighters and Fascists we've always been. As we all know, we have long wished for payback. Payback against the traitors, the bourgeois scum, the Savoyard crooks. This day has come Ermanno, if you will, bring the map."[/list]
| The others at the table nod and approve in hushed voices. Something had been brewing, and that something was growing clearer and clearer as the years passed, and as they all went back to civilian life after stints in jail or abroad. Unlike in Germany and Japan, former Fascists had been treated especially leniently after the war. While the nobility had entirely purged them from the Royal Army, regaining their former domain, many had become influential politicians or businessmen. |
| The map was laid down. It was an anomalous map for the time, showing Venezia Giulia as it is, occupied by Slovenia [sup][nation=short]Amsterwald[/nation][/sup]. Borghese would point to the city of Pula, in Istria. |
[list][sup]| Junio Valerio Borghese: |[/sup] "The Slovene parasites have taken our cities, and as you know, the Savoyard scum in Rome is no longer interested in reclaiming them. Worse of all they are now using Italian ships, while our country is practically de-fanged and incapacitated. What we must do, comrades, is strike. The Nautilo submarine in Pula, and then the former Giulio Cesare, our confiscated battleship, moored at the Soviet [sup][nation=short]OsivoII[/nation][/sup] base in Ploče-Zlata [sup][nation=short]Ranponian[/nation][/sup]. Mario ?"
[sup]| Mario Giorgini |[/sup] "We have reached our allies. Our troops are ready to start, and they too want to make the enemy pay its overdue debt in blood. Of course, acquiring the necessary materials will be a costly and dangerous affair, but nothing outside of our collective reach. One large fishing boat, one pleasure yacht, three or four manned torpedoes, and explosives. Plans from wartime intelligence will be acquired. Practice can take place at a discreet cove on the Adriatic, of our choosing, and compliant Carabinieri will make sure our men are not disturbed. Then, the operation itself will take place next Autumn, on a calm night. Of course, the boats, while easy to camouflage here, will not grant us the silent advantages of our submarines of old Our troops are well aware that any interception will spell their death, and they are more than willing to make the final sacrifice. Now, we too, must commit. Such discussions have taken place for a long time, and now, action is calling."[/list]
| The assembly murmured. Then, shouts of approval. |
[list][sup]| Junio Valerio Borghese: |[/sup] "There is ample time to organize, comrades. Let us pledge in blood that this pact will be respected to its bitter end Be it victory or death. We bind ourselves to vengeance. Once accomplished, we will go back to where we were before. The hour for the fight has long ended, and it is no longer up to us to lead it. But one grand finale, my dear friends, to let them know Fascism is alive, Fascism will go on, and Italians shall never die."
"A NOI !"
[list]A NOI![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Commonwealth of Liberty
[/sub]EVVIVA L'ITALIA!
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[nation]AbaBemba[/nation]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Alzarikstan[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Anglo Channel[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Bayern Kahla[/nation]
[nation]Bescania[/nation]
[nation]Brazil Toucan[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Central Arstotzka[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]East Germany DDR[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Greater Kurdistane[/nation]
[nation]Hashemite Kingdoms[/nation]
[nation]Hatzburg[/nation]
[nation]Honghai[/nation]
[nation]Israelli[/nation]
[nation]Kewtpuff[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]La Granadinas[/nation]
[nation]Ma-li[/nation]
[nation]Maziya[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Moroavia[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nippon-Nihon[/nation]
[nation]Nonador[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Paseo[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Provenancia[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Reyzen[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Socialist Democratic Republic Romania[/nation]
[nation]Spainard[/nation]
[nation]Sri-Lanka[/nation]
[nation]Sudesam[/nation]
[nation]Taiiwan[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Black Star-[/nation]
[nation]The Sun States[/nation]
[nation]Turkiye 1st[/nation]
[nation]Ubertica[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation]
[nation]Vietnam SV[/nation]
[nation]Virnall[/nation]
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
*stares aggressivly* welp i don't think this region is made for invented nations but it's ok; i wonder if there are free spots avaible on the map are they? Because It looks quite cool i am not going to liee.... i want to be there; Well can you guys please direct me a place which has not been picked yet? Because i am quite good at Roleplaying and i would like to join this comunity if i can, BUT only if i can :D (please tell me i really want answers)
Arazistan, Ranponian, Kewtpuff
November 1955
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Constantin Rotaru, beloved and esteemed leader of The Socialist Republic of Romania has held a meeting with important members of The Communist Party of Romania in which they discussed the future of the Republic, it`s industry and it`s foreign relations.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=socialist_democratic_republic_romania/detail=factbook/id=1849805
November 1955
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Arcanda, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Jasumaa, Adriatican Islands, Van Diemens Landt, Hatzburg, Al-Morocco, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
[list]December 1955
[sub]The Tides Reversing, Pt. 2[/sub][/list]
[pre]T H E T R A I L B L A Z I N G T W O[/pre]
[list][sub]THE TIDES REVERSING A narrative RP series, for the CoL, surrounding the relationship between Joseph Gartner of the German Democrats (DPD) and Sophie Scoll (Ind.), and the development of one of Germany's minor parties into a major political player.[/sub][/list]
TROTZEN HALL, MUNICH, BAVARIA PROVINCE, New Provenance LUNCHTIME
[sub]THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY[/sub]
| The bustling city life of Munich worked about the pair of women, somewhat unrecognizable except to the eye of an astute political observer one took a sip of their hot tea, while the other observed a package delivery truck that departed just outside, after dropping off a package at the apartment building on the other side of the street. Dressed in a dark blue dress, and with a small white hat to accent her outfit, was ANNEMARIE REGNER a member of the SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (SPD) and a rising star in the party; she was steering her superiors, ERICH OLLENHAUER and WILLY BRANDT, towards a more progressive and women-equal policy agenda. Seated to her opposite was none other than the great SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent politician and a storied war hero. Both women held an amicable relationship with one another, and occasionally went out on lunches such as this to discuss policy. This time, however, the topic at hand was specially different |
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Sophie. We've known one another for so long. Surely you've considered the prospect?"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "The prospect of what? The presidency or party membership?"[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Both, really."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "You already know how I feel about aligning myself to this party or the other. No offense, the Social Democrats are great colleagues to work with, especially on that intelligence bill we worked on between each other. And the presidency? You must've had too much to drink already."[/list]
| With an exasperated look on her face, REGNER put her wine glass down and chuckled. |
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "I haven't had that much yet. And I'm being serious, Scholl. I really doubt Konrad [Adenauer] is going to run for the presidency, and [Bundesprasident Theodor] Heuss is term-limited. You have a chance to make history, much like that Banza woman in Zaire."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "Don't get me wrong. Gloria Banza has my utmost respect - she represents trailblazers like us and how in a world changing as fast as ours, we've got a shot at something like leading a country for the first time. But not me. Not now. I'm not cut out for the presidency, and the time isn't ripe."[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Oh, bother! The time is always not ripe with you. Isn't there a phrase, 'Carpe Diem'? Seize the day. Take opportunities."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "There is frankly no opportunity here to begin with. The Social Democrats could just field Ollenhauer or Brandt-"[/list]
| REGNER laughed. |
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Brandt? Willy Brandt? The Willy Brandt? For the presidency? No no, he's more cut out for the chancellorship. Might as well field him against Adenauer in '57."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "Either way, you get my point. The time isn't ripe for a female Federal President. We have too much on our plate, and the Women's Convention still needs to mature. We've done so much, but have we done enough? For the minorities? For working women?"[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Why, Fraulein, you're sounding like a Social Democrat!"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "Oh, give it up already! You already know how I feel about joining any party. I just said it."[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Yes, my friend, no need to repeat yourself. You're a good woman. A strong one. Presidential material, perhaps!"[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "Certainly not. The stigma exists. Maybe not in Zaire, but in Europe, the home of traditional conservatism, it certainly does."[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "Certainly so! We can't deny that there remains . . . opposition to a trailblazer like you or I becoming president someday, but it never hurts to try. And you wouldn't believe what people are saying behind the scenes."[/list]
[list]| [sub]SOPHIE SCHOLL, Independent (Ind.)[/sub] | "And what is that?"[/list]
[list]| [sub]ANNEMARIE REGNER, Social Democratic Party (SPD)[/sub] | "That a war hero turned Bundesprasident sounds like a hell of a head of state."[/list]
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[list][list]DECEMBER 1955
[sub]State of Siege[/sub][/list]
[pre] D E F E N D E R S O F T H E C O N S T I T U T I O N [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]There were debates in the Chamber of Deputies
and the Federal Senate, but in the end both
houses voted for the state of siege.[/pre][/sub][/list]
[sub]The Brazilian Congress votes for the State of Siege.[/sub]
NATIONAL CONGRESS, Brazil Toucan NIGHT
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| Army tanks, trucks and armored cars invaded the federal capital; they obediently stopped at a red light and drove on to fulfill their mission. About 600 men armed with rifles, bazookas and machine guns surrounded the Catete Palace (Presidential Palace). It was not another coup, but a sequel to Lieut. General HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT¹s preventive revolution. War Minister TEIXEIRA LOTT, had summoned the troops to DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION against Brazils so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that supports a coup to prevent the President-elect JUCELINO KUBITSCHEK² and the leftist Vice President-elect JOÃO (Jango) GOULART³ from taking office next January. TEIXEIRA LOTT supposedly doesnt have much admiration for KUBITSCHEK, but he is proud to be a DEFENDER OF THE CONSTITUTION, thus, he will ensure that the MOST VOTED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE in the presidential election is duly sworn in. |
[list][pre]WHO IS PRESIDENT?[/pre][/list]
| JOÃO CAFÉ FILHO⁴, who left the presidency due to health problems, was succeeded, in rapid order, by the Chamber of Deputies Speaker CARLOS LUZ⁵ who was removed by TEIXEIRA LOTT on suspicion of favoring the golpistas, and Senate Vice President NEREU RAMOS⁶, no golpista. After LUZ accepted being removed, CAFÉ FILHO suddenly decided that he felt well enough to take over the Presidency of the Republic again. TEIXEIRA LOTT visited him at a nursing home in Rio, saying that the army could let him return to Catete if he agreed not to make any changes to the government. |
[list]| [sub]JOÃO CAFÉ FILHO, Former President of Brazil[/sub] | I am the President of the Republic. I will not accept or discuss terms.[/list]
| After his doctors declared him fit. CAFÉ FILHO communicated to the National Congress that he would return to office as of this date. But Rio had soldiers and policemen acting under TEIXEIRA LOTTs orders. When CAFÉ FILHO returned to his apartment near Copacabana Beach, army troops and police surrounded the building, keeping him under house arrest. After a long debate, Congress sided with RAMOS, declaring that CAFÉ FILHOs previously recognized impediment remains in effect until further deliberation by Congress. CAFÉ FILHO asked the Federal Supreme Court to annul the Congress decision. It seemed likely that the court, for constitutional reasons, would have to side with CAFÉ FILHO. Brazils Acting President RAMOS has called on Congress to vote on a state of siege, a modified form of martial law that suspends, along with certain other rights, the right to appeal an injunction against government actions. The CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES and the FEDERAL SENATE discussed and voted for a 30-day state of siege. |
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[sub]¹ HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT, was a Brazilian military and political figure.[/sub]
[sub]² JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, was governor of Minas Gerais (1951-55) and 21st President of Brazil (1956-61).[/sub]
[sub]³ JOÃO GOULART, was a Brazilian politician who served as the 24th president of Brazil until a military coup détat deposed him on 1 April 1964.[/sub]
[sub]⁴ JOÃO CAFÉ FILHO, was the 13th Vice President of Brazil (1951-54) under President Vargas and the 18th President of Brazil (1954-55).[/sub]
[sub]⁵ CARLOS LUZ, was a Brazilian politician, lawyer, teacher and journalist who served as acting president of Brazil from November 8 to November 11, 1955.[/sub]
[sub]⁶ NEREU RAMOS, was a Brazilian political figure. He briefly served as interim president of Brazil.[/sub]
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Fiji islands
The Diary
December 1955
[Sofia, Bulgaria]
The following is an extract from Politburo member Anton Yugovs diary.
December 11th.
It has been some time since the KGB had Vhikov removed. The rats have left the sinking ship and their quest for Home Rule Communism lays as dead as he does. No official announcements have been made. Vhikovs death was not acknowledged anywhere and the election was cancelled.
Valko is planning to take back full control. I know he was not aware of the Soviet plan, the fear in his eyes as Vhikov tried to wrestle power away from him suggests as much, but he will now reclaim what he feels was wrongfully stolen from him in the first place. He may be Prime Minister already, but soon he will be Bulgarias sole governor. I do not like him and I do not understand him, but he is the only man who can rebuild whatever is left of our relationship with the Soviets, and our choices are Moscow or nothing.
I do not talk to the people anymore. My heart feels heavy knowing I cannot lead them. My chance to be Prime Minister of this Peoples Republic has been and gone. It will never come again. My opportunity to resign has also gone. The KGB watch closely to see which politicians are going to flee. If I go now, I risk marking myself out as a potential opponent. I do not oppose Chervenkov, I am no revolutionary, just a patriot, but that does not mean I wish to serve under him again.
When the heat dies down we shall flee. I plan to take the family to the far south and live out the rest of our days in solitude on whatever god forsaken state pension I am afforded, though I feel even this is more of a dream than a concrete plan anymore. I should have resigned after the Zhivkov affair, the loudmouth idiot who nearly destroyed our political careers was a more honourable way to go than under the fist of a foreign power.
I shall write again in the new year when the dust has settled, until then my votes will be neutral, my comments few and my head down. Survival is crucial.
Yugo
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[list]DECEMBER 1955
[sub]BEAUFORT-WEST UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA[/sub]
[sub]BEAUTFOR-WES UNIE VAN SUID-AFRIKA[/sub][/list]
[list][list][pre]|NEW LEGISLATION EMPOWERS GOVERNMENT TO MAKE BOLDER DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS[/pre][/list][/list]
[LIST][LIST][pre]|NUWE WETGEWING BEMAGTIG DIE REGERING OM DRAPER ONTWIKKELINGSAKSIE TE DOEN[/pre][/list][/list]
[LIST][LIST][pre]|UMTHETHO OMTSHA UXHOBISA URHULUMENTE UKWENZA Inyathelo loPHUHLISO OLUNDOQO[/pre][/list][/list]
| One of the major tasks of the Government in its five year plan is to provide the guaranteed housing promised and stated under law. In the first year, several rounds of legislation was passed to not only guarantee this right for all South Africans, but to also begin preparations for the mass housing construction effort. Construction of housing had begun several months before the Prime Minister delivered the Government's Work Report to the 2nd Session of the National Assembly in October 1955. Although little mention of the Housing For All Campaign was mentioned, construction of prefabricated 5-7 story mixed use units in Cape Town-KaapStad, George and Port Elizabeth have already begun and have neared completion. As the new year quickly approaches, hundreds of sites across the country will break ground in an effort to provide housing for all citizens regardless of income and social status. In order to hasten the acquisition of lands for housing development the National Assembly, on advice from the Housing and Development Committee (HDC) and the Ministry of State Development, has passed the Land Acquisition Act to support state housing and other developmental goals.
The Land Acquisition Act builds upon previous legislation, and primarily serves to broaden and strengthen government power to acquire land for public benefit or utility. Similarly the law provides fundamental rights for land and property owning citizens and other legal residents and details settlement of such acquisition. The Land Acquisition Act allows the Government to acquire land for any public purpose. In greater detail, as pertaining to the act, the Government may acquire land:
[list]For Any Public Purpose; By any person; corporation or statutory board for any work or an undertaking which, in the opinion of the Minister of State Development, is of public benefit or of public utility or in the interest of the public; or for any residential, commercial or industrial act.[/list]
The Land Acquisition Act does not provide the citizen and legal resident landowner the right to object to State Acquisition. However land and property owners will be compensated at a rate agreeable by both parties below or at that of the market. The passing of the Act has already seen the HDC and Ministry of State Development acquire 682km^2 of land to meet the goal of housing all South Africans as well as other state development projects. The legislation amongst the ruling parliamentary majority has been heralded and an outright victory for South Africas development and by the public who will soon be placed in thousands of units. Opposition parties however warn such an act can lead to serious abuses of power and have called on the National Supervisory Assembly to closely monitor both the Housing For All Campaign, as well as the ministry. Nonetheless, with the act passed and the campaign underway the Government has become increasingly confident in its ability to meet its yearly work goal and that of its five-year development plan. [B]|[/B]
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[list]DISPATCH WORKS | B R I T I S H M O S K I T O
C O A S T[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1849978
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[pre]| DECEMBER DESEMBA 1955 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]CPK ★ COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA
Ukoloni na Ulinzi wa Kenya UUK |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
BLOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS:
THE MAU MAU BATTLE WITH COLONIAL FORCES, LEFTISTS ORGANIZE THE POOR AND DESTITUTE!
VITA YA MAU MAU NA NGUVU ZA UKOLONI, WAKUSHOTO WAWAANDAA MASKINI NA WASIO!
[pre]| Thousands upon Thousands of Mau Mau and suspected Mau Mau civilians now lay dead or rotting in jails of the Colonial forces of Kenya. Still Mau Mau resistance sustains committing acts of violence against white settlers and Native loyalists. Amnesty was offered earlier in the year causing an uproar in the settler community for its leniency towards the Native threat. This offer was quickly rescinded as attacks against settlers continued. The Mau Mau have begun to cultivate a negative relation with none Kikuyus in the colony, ineffective in their efforts and attacks on Native people grew the divide in the people from their supposed freedom fighters. The people have begun begging for alternatives, the left has answered this call. |[/pre]
[pre]| Leftist circles have begun to grow in Nairobi, Mombasa, and Eldoret. Pio Gama Pinto, Makhan Singh, and the recently escaped Bildad Kaggia who have begun to organize in secret near the town of Meru utilizing the nearby dense forests and Mount Kenya to be able to host larger rallies away from the oppressive eyes of Colonial Forces. By the end of December in Meru a conference would be held discussing the formation of an organization to begin assisting the rural people of Kenya devastated by the Mau Mau rebellion and Colonial discrimination with Mutual Aid programs by members of the newly formed Peoples Revolutionary Action Bloc. A coalition of leftists across the spectrum attempting to provide a peaceful alternative to Mau Mau and building up a Leftist populace across the countryside and urban centers of Kenya. The effective heads of this Bloc would be Pinto, Singh, and Kaggia all of them distancing themselves from their responsibilities in other organizations they found themselves a part of to focus on the building block of a true Socialist front in Kenyan Politics. |[/pre]
[pre]| The PRAB would begin to seek out foreign endorsement, but needing secrecy would form a spy ring known as the Ngumi Nyekundu ya Kenya {NNK} Kenyas Red Fist colloquially in the PRAB. This force is made up of twenty Agents and under the command of Bildad Kaggia. These agents were chosen for their capabilities to travel and communicate outside of Kenya with relative ease. The NNK would initiate building relationships with two socialist states in particular The Peoples Republic of China Peking Zhongguo & The Peoples Commonwealth of Yugoslavia Ranponian. These communications would provide a multiple of asks towards the socialist states mostly economic for its upcoming hearts and mind operation {Operation Red Hands} and to support Leftist Kenyans visiting China and Yugoslavia to build up the political bloc of the Organization in the teachings of Mao, Tito, and Marx to bring back home and reinvigorate the workers and farmers of Kenya into reshaping Kenyan identity with Socialist ideals inside it! |[/pre]
[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]WAFANYAKAZI WA DUNIA WAUNGANA![/pre][/list][/list]
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DECEMBER,1955
Manuel Ponders About The Possible Future
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Manuel A. Odría sits in his office in La Plaz,while writing down his next big decision to improve transportation of the country.Manuel began to think in his head and reflect on his past actions.Manuel had a sense of that one day the people,most likely those of the upper class.Will one day rise up against him to remove him from office with force and his legacy will forever be tarnished as not the man who seek to modernise his nation but as a authoritarian.The thoughts of where his legacy could go,lingers in Manuel head.
Manuel tries to brush away at those thoughts and continue writing down plans for improved transportation.But in the place of the thoughts of his legacy,came the thoughts of his downfall.While Manuel centralised the confederation to keep it from falling apart,he didn't think of the possibility that it could fall apart in the event of the Supreme Protector death.Manuel himself isn't a very young man anymore,he is 58 years old.While still healthy,he still feared that if he does pass away.The confederation could collapse if there is no obvious successor.Manuel took out another piece of paper to begin writing a new policy on the matter of successions in the chance that the Supreme Protector does pass away.
However while writing the new policy,Manuel thought back to the jeers he received from the people when he was making a speech at La Plaz on the new policy that centralised the government but removed Víctor Paz from office.Manuel began to think about how maybe the middle class people will rise up sooner then expected to remove Manuel from office.Manuel began to think in his head.Wondering if he should legalise opposition party's.He began to think of what could happen if he does.He thinks that,with his current trajectory of his popularity he would most likely loose any elections once there is a legalised opposition.
Manuel A. Odría puts away all of his paper into a cabinet,and just sat down in his chair to ponder his thoughts.
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[list][list]July 1954
[sub]Suez during Geneva[/sub][/list]
[pre] T H E S U E Z [/pre]
[sub]The Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.[/sub] [sup]A Series¹[/sup]
72 YEARS of GLORIOUS INTERFERENCE[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1850527
[list][sub]This occurs alongside the Geneva Summit of 1954, hosted in Cascadla.[/sub]
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[sub]¹ A Series: THE SUEZ, events covering the Suez Canal Zone; the Suez Canal was opened in 1869, the canal instantly became strategically important, as it provided the shortest ocean link between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean. Currently a focal point of tensions between great Britain and Egypt.[/sub]
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[sub]THE LONG STANDOFF DECEMBER 1955
| After negotiations with the Kurds fail, Hashemite forces dig in at the border. |[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1850640
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| FINEST ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS; THE CANDIDATES |
[sub]12th of December, 1955[/sub]
| The elections to the National Congress have taken place, and the results of these elections will most likely dictate who becomes the next Head of the Finest Assembly, after the resignation of MARIE IZURU was announced. These Congress elections, unlike many before, are crucial for the ruling party, as the Congress will decide who co-leads the country for the next four years and who will help Mrs Banza lead the party into the 1960 First Representative elections. |
POPULAR VOTE ELECTION RESULTS BASED ON REGIONS;
[list]ZAIRE ENRICHI;
LIBERAL WING - 18 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +2 Seats
LEFT WING - 2 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -2 Seats
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ZAIRE INDUSTRIEL NORD;
LEFT WING - 12 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -6 Seats
CENTRAL WING - 8 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +6 Seats
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ZAIRE INDUSTRIEL SUD;
LEFT WING - 12 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -7 Seats
CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING - 6 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +5 Seats
LIBERAL WING - 2 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +2 Seats
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LA DIAMENT DU ZAIRE;
LIBERAL WING - 15 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -5 Seats
CENTRAL WING - 5 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +5 Seats
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BEAUTE DU ZAIRE;
CENTRAL WING - 13 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +8 Seats
LIBERAL WING - 6 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -5 Seats
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT WING - 1 Seat in the National Congress had been gained / -3 Seats
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PERLE DU ZAIRE;
LEFT WING - 19 Seats in the National Congress had been gained / +2 Seats
LIBERAL WING - 1 Seat in the National Congress had been gained / -1 Seat
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VOTES FROM THE FINEST ASSEMBLY;
LEFT WING - 50 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / +5 Seats
CENTRAL WING - 18 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -1 Seat
LIBERAL WING - 8 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / -4 Seats
CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING - 4 Seats in the National Congress have been gained / N/A
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OVERALL COMBINED ELECTION RESULTS FOR THE NATIONAL CONGRESS;
LEFT WING will have 95 Seats in the National Congress / -8 Seats
LIBERAL WING will have 50 Seats in the National Congress / +9 Seats
CENTRAL WING will have 44 Seats in the National Congress / +18 Seats
CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING will have 11 Seats in the National Congress / +1 Seat[/list]
| The Left Wing has lost its majority as quickly as they gained it. The victory that Izuru secured two years prior is gone now, and the wings in the Congress now stand at an important decision of who will win the elections. LEFT WING has put forth its new leader, CELESTINE BEDUNI to the position of the Head of the Finest Assembly. Whereas the LIBERAL WING and the CENTRAL WING united, and placed forth CELINE MERKAZI for the position. Furthermore, ESTELLE HUDURU has also put herself forward for the position. So what does that mean for the country? Well, currently the Left Wing stands at 95 seats, the united Liberal-Central coalition stand at 94 seats, Estelle Huduru has the backing of Mrs Gloria Banza, and as such the final decision will go down to the 11 members of the CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING. Each of the candidates will be pledging to them, exactly them. But who exactly are the candidates?
CELESTINE BEDUNI is the 36 year old member of the National Congress since 1951. Born on 12th of July, 1919, Beduni comes from a poor family that was once forced to work in the fields of rubber, forced to do so by the Belgians. Beduni gained his education in 1944, studying at the Career School of Manufacturing & Wood Work. He then, in 1949, became the member of the party and in 1951 he was elected into the Congress. He served in the Workers Rights & Pensions Committee between 1953 and 1954. Beduni, unlike many of his colleagues is a fresh face. Known for his charisma and charm, Mr Beduni despite his size comes across very sweetly. His main program ideals are those of following Izuru's path, expanding state owned companies, creation of larger security for workers of the country and the creation of an International African Workers Unite Program to aid workers around Africa in fighting exploitation.
CELINE MERKAZI is the 32 year old veteran of the Zairean Politics. Merkazi was one of the founding members of the National Liberal Revival Party since its creation in 1942, she was extremely active in North-East Zaire where she originally comes from. In 1945 she formalized her education by gaining a degree in Social Studies and African-European Relations at the University of Elisabethville. Merkazi was part of Nigoye's cabinet serving between 1942 and 45 as the Expert of African Relations & Tribes Matters, then between 1946 and 50 as the Expert of International Affairs; in 1951 she joined Izuru's cabinet as the Expert of African Affairs & European-Zairean Trade until 53, when she openly opposed Izuru's attack on the Church. Merkazi is a hard-necked backdoor politician who has survived many, and her experience is massive in dealing with Zairean politicians and international leaders. Merkazi's main policies include small business encouragement, expansion of infrastructure, increasing spending on the military and deepening ties with United States and with the Multilateral Conference members; Iran, South Africa & Ethiopia.
ESTELLE HUDURU is the new face of Zairean politics, highly supported by the First Representative Banza. Born on 12th of April, 1923, Huduru is an independent candidate for the position of the Head of the Finest Assembly, the first as such in the history of modern Zairean democracy. Studying economics at the Career School in Southern Zaire at first, Huduru managed to fly off to London to study Economics & International Economics until her return to the country in 1954 where she began to teach at the University of Economics in the capital city. In 1955 she was appointed by Banza as the Expert of Economics, and after Izuru's resignation she became a temporary replacement. However, in tat time, she managed to push through some light economic changes, and her report has shown an incredible growth in the Zairean economy. Huduru's main promises include a complete transformation of the taxation system, expansion of private industries in Zaire, deepening ties with the British Empire and France, and the creation of new towns around Zaire.
All three candidates showcase very different strengths, but only one can win. January the 16th is when the National Congress will elect the new Head of the Finest Assembly, and everything points at the Christian-Democrats being the defying choice-maker in this situation. Should they decide to go with Huduru, they will give Banza a kiss. Should they elect Beduni, they will warm up with a wing that has ignored them since 1951. Should they elect Merkazi, they will still be left out of the coalition. In either of the cases, they have much to weigh up but it seems that the next four years are indeed in their hands. |
[spoiler="Merkazi is a veteran of politics; Beduni is a vicious idealistic visionary and Huduru is a fresh faced pragmatic of economics, their chances are very even, it all depends on what the country needs right now."]Ababemba
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WE HAVE BITCOINS
Say what?!
[list]December 1955
[sub]Long live the King[/sub][/list]
[list][sub]THE PASSAGE OF THE THRONE[/sub][/list]
GYEONGBOKGUNG PALACE
[sub]SEOUL, Rutannia EARLY MORNING[/sub]
| The sun's light slowly peaked through the trees glistening on the morning dew of the Palace gardens, the world seemed to be enveloped in a still and calming atmosphere as Seoul slowly awakened from its slumber. Inside the Palace the usual morning rounds of the household staff had just got underway as they prepared breakfast for the royals, and awoke them from their sleep. The quietness of the morning was shattered by the clattering of cups and plates; as two servants rushed out of the master bedroom, occupied by Prince Imperial Uihwa. |[list]
| [sub]BAEK NAM-KYU, Chamberlain[/sub] | Do not let anyone into that room, until I return. Understand?[/list]
| The female member of staff stared blankly at him almost in a state of shock, her mouth slightly agape. Baek would shake her gently. |[list]
| [sub]BAEK NAM-KYU, Chamberlain[/sub] | Do you understand?
| [sub]CHAI SOO-MIN, Maid[/sub] | Y-yes, of course[/list]
| Baek would run off down the corridor as she finished her sentence, causing a few heads to turn as other staff members had made their way up the corridor to see what the commotion was about. Chais pale complexion and heavy breathing as she leant on the door made it painfully obvious what was happening. Prince Uihwa had passed away in his sleep. As the household staff fell into a state of shock, it was quickly interrupted as Lady Kim Su-deok came running down the corridor in her nightgown followed quickly by Prince Haneul, Baek and other senior staff members. |
| Although the era of the Kingdom had faded, the institutions of Koreas government were informed of the passing, Prince Uihwas influence during the occupation could not be understated. Just under an hour after the discovery several cars zoomed off from the Palace grounds; one towards the Blue House, another towards the National Assembly. In the Assembly representatives rushed through, being accompanied by security as the Speaker was called out of the chamber to be given the news. Meanwhile across the city in the Blue House, another representative calmly walked through the corridors towards the President's office once again accompanied by security members. Entering the office, he politely bowed to President Rhee who at once understood what had happened, nodding respectfully back as the door was closed to the office. |
| Meanwhile back in the National Assembly, the Speaker of the House re-entered the chamber calmly, politicians across the chamber eyed him inquisitively. It wasnt often that the Speaker was rushed out of the chamber on urgent business, calmly standing at his station in front of his colleagues hed calmly read the note hed been handed shortly beforehand. |[list]
| [sub]LEE KI-POONG, Speaker[/sub] | Gentlemen, it is with great sadness to announce that his Imperial Highness, Prince Uihwa, passed away this morning of old age. His family wished to inform me of these ongoing events, and I believe it is important to inform you all. I know many in this chamber look favourably on the attempts made by his Highness to keep Korea alive through the Provisional Government, and usurp his own son. Later today I will offer a session for members to make tributes and statements, for now the session will be suspended for half an hour.[/list]
| News of Prince Uihwas death quickly spread to the press, which began drafting up their newspapers for the next day, while Koreas news programmes quickly scrambled to interrupt their own programming to bring news of the event. For a country that had ridden itself of monarchy, the actions of Prince Uihwa had cemented his position as a key figure in Korean history, and the reaction to his death would prove this fact fully. |
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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YUGOSLAV ASSOCIATION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND
December 1st 1955
The Yugoslav Association for the betterment of Mankind was formed on December 1st 1955 to serve as the primary conduit for Yugoslav Humanitarian aid to mainly Countries suffering from poverty or lower than desirable access to food and water. The Association has decided to issue aid in a form more positive to local growth rather than stifling local industries, this is because the aid issued shall be purchased from within the same Country. As an example if Town A is sponsored then the Association will actively buy foods from the towns in the area to issue food aid on a year-round basis. Advertised by the Foreign Ministry as "Local Food for Local Mouths" it is an alternative method of feeding poverty stricken locals than the current western method of buying expensive home-grown foods and then exporting them to third world nations.
Where it is not applicable to buy from local farmers such as many Middle Eastern Regions, food shall be sourced from nearby Nations. Overall Food shall not be sourced in any instance from Yugoslavia, thus making the only "foreign" aspect of the "foreign aid" the Funds used to finance it which shall come from Yugoslavia itself.
Currently selected Villages for the Program* :
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- Haikota, Eritrea
- Umm Santah, Sudan
- Wadera, Ethiopia
- Aboorey, Somalia
- Barsalogho (RL Burkina Faso)
- Nyamwage, Tanzania
- Tot, Kenya
- Husayniyah, Saudi Arabia
- Mahjil, Yemen
- Ra's ar Ru'ays, Oman
- Caconda, Angola
- Chintapalle, India
- Negeriagung, Indonesia
- Sajeni, Liberia
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*In the Event you dont want this aid at the moment due to ideological reasons then ignore this, it will apply whenever you allow it IC. If you for example would only allow this aid from 1958 onwards then the operations in your town will assumed to start from that date onwards.
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[list][list]The Kingdom of Greece, The Greek Line: A Flourishing Fleet, A Grand Hellenic Fleet!, December 1955
Το Βασίλειο της Ελλάδος, Η ελληνική γραμμή: Ένας ακμάζων στόλος, ένας μεγάλος ελληνικός στόλος!, Δεκέμβριος 1955
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[list][list][list]Adriatican Islands - The Greek Line! - Η ελληνική γραμμή![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre]| GREEK LINE FOR THE WORLD: | ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΉ ΓΡΑΜΜΉ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΚΌΣΜΟ: |[/pre][/list][/list]
[list]| As investments continue pouring into the Greek Line along with the launch of its two flagship ocean liners, the TSS HELLAS and the TSS BYZANTINE in 1953, and subsequently followed by the laying down of two smaller ocean liners at the Maera Shipyard in Trst, Slovenia, named after two former kings of Greece, the TSS ALEXANDROS and the TSS GEORGIOS, the Greek Line was easily one of the fastest growing companies in Greece and the Region. The line's popular tourism advertisements and campaigns to Greece have exponentially increased Greek tourism, and have been credited to attract 30% of the Greek tourist market in 1955 alone. The line was also popular with the Greek government, with the Tsaldaris Administration funding 40% of the construction of the two flagships in 1952. All this work however finally bore fruit on the 1st of March, 1955, as the first purpose-built Greek Line ship set sail from Piraeus. |[/list]
[list]| The ship that left Piraeus that day was the TSS HELLAS, the flagship of the Greek Line. A grand celebration was given to the ship, with an estimated 15,000 spectators watching her leave port. The HELLAS left port with 3,769 passengers and 967 crew, a packed maiden voyage. The ship sailed through the Aegean Sea, following the Trst - Rome - Cherbourg - New York route, a leisurely maiden voyage spanning 10 days. On board, passengers enjoyed jolly festivities and amenities, such as luxury dining in the ship's Grand Salon and her many A La Carte restaurants. There were also large public spaces such as the ship's main staircase, beautifully encased in Greek marble and paintings, the beautiful oak and gold furnished smoking room, the Reading and Writing Room where an abundance of Greek literature could be found, and of course the cabins, with even Cabin Class cabins being top of the line for their class. For the children, a large playroom was located just aft of the Grand Salon, furnished with beautiful hand made toys and with activities for children to do while their parents are away. |[/list]
[list]| The HELLAS arrived in New York with a grand welcome, thousands of spectators came to see the brand new ocean liner, proudly showing off her yellow and blue funnels - a symbol of Hellenic power and might. The ship left for the other side of the Atlantic once more on the 12th of March, and so began her legendary career. |[/list]
[list][list][pre]""Ενώ οι Γιουγκοσλάβοι συνεχίζουν να ενισχύουν τα ναυτικά τους όπλα και τις πολεμικές τους προσπάθειες, το έθνος μας έχει επικεντρωθεί στον πολιτικό του σκοπό, τα πλοία για την ειρήνη πρέπει να πω. Το Hellas και το Byzantine είναι μερικά από τα σπουδαιότερα υπερωκεάνια της εποχής, και ελπίζω ότι θα χτίσουν μια καριέρα που θα συγκριθεί με το βρετανικό Mauretania και το Olympic, ή το America και το SS United States του κ. Francis William Gibbs, κάποιον που θαυμάζω πολύ. Η Ελληνική Γραμμή είναι σίγουρα περήφανη για αυτά τα πλοία, σύμβολο της ελληνικής δύναμης και ισχύος."[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][pre](English: "While the Yugoslavians continue to build up their naval arms and their war efforts, our nation has focused on its civilian cause, ships for peace I must say. The Hellas and the Byzantine are some of the greatest ocean liners of the era and hopefully will build up a career that will match the British Mauretania and the Olympic, or America and the United States of Mr. Francis William Gibbs, someone whom I greatly look up to. The Greek Line is certainly proud of these ships, a symbol of Greek power and might.")[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][pre]- CEO of the Greek Line, Basil Goulandris[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
[list]| The TSS Byzantine similarly followed her sister, however not as much excitement as the two were practically identical. The Greek Line is a company that has the potential to rival the likes of the Cunard Line and the United States Line, and a sign that Greece is growing, not only in her civilian sectors but in all major and minor sectors. |[/list]
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[list][pre]T H E S L O V E N E R E P U B L I C S L O V E N S K A R E P U B L I K A[/pre][/list]
LAND RECLAMATION PLANNED IN THE GULF OF TRST FOR A COLOSSAL SHRINE TO THE NATION: THE ISLE OF DOMICIJAN AND CITY OF PANCANA
[list][sup]TO STAND ASTRIDE THE WATERS
DECEMBER 1955[/sup][/list]
President Nikola Koprivnikar was keenly aware that the post-war soaring of the Slovenian economy was fleeting. By the end of the decade, the Slovene government would need to relinquish its guiding hand on the economy to competition, lest it strangle industry into stagnation. The time for the final great strides of the boom had come, meant to set the Slovenian economy in motion for the many years ahead.
Koprivnikar and the government of Sergej Kraighereager to work with the new president, abask in the firelight of Koprivnikars charm and the afterglow of independencethus set their sights on a luminous triumph to mark the end of the beginning of a new era. Together, the Kraigher-Koprivnikar government sought to bring to life something that would define Slovenian nationhood for a century to come: a great shrine to Slovenia, epitomizing its centuries-long struggle for selfhood. The symbolic placement of such a shrine was obvious. In just under a month, the Ministers agreed that it should be placed in the northern waters of the contested Gulf of Trst (Italian Trieste), where anchoring Slovenian nationality would take a further step toward the wholesale Slovenification of the region. So, in late 1955, explorations on the subject began: the Malnar Group, contracted by the Eritreans for the construction of a port at Hashmet and now assuming the role of Slovenias senior infrastructural and construction firm, was tasked with spearheading the Domicijev otok (Isle of Domicijan) project.¹ With the coastal marinas and dockyards of the area to be preserved by canals, the Bay of Pancana (Italian Panzano) was to be almost entirely reclaimed and turned into an effective island through the construction of a nearly four-mile limestone breakwater in a project that would ultimately take years to secure and stabilize. It was a monumental aim, but it had precedent; such reclamatory projects were increasingly commonplace and, in the case of the Netherlands, had endured for centuries.
The plans formulated by the ministerial commission on the project did not end at the mere creation of an island, however; their ultimate objective was scarcely captured by the word grandiose. By December, they and the Malnar Group had determined that the island would feature a planned cityPancanain the Vienna Secession style, hosting an enormous complex of monuments to the Slovene state that would be consulted on by the now-83-year-old masterful Slovenian architect Joe Plečnik.² Crowning the very middle of the newly formed isle would stand a forty-meter statue of prestressed concrete, inscribed at its foot with the words inscribed at the entrance of the Slovenian National Assembly: nočemo umreti! (we refuse death!). Structured by a series of marble pillars, the entrances to the island would be adorned by a heavy phalanx of statues, inscriptions of past glories and sobering evocations of the national commitment to freedom. It was to be a massive effort: the largest undertaking of the newborn Slovene state. The investors and patrons were plentiful and international, with considerable emphasis pleased on the potential of the island for tourism. Of the whole effort, it was estimated that 80% of the total finances were to be secured through individuals and corporate investors, with the remaining 20% to be provided by public funds as well as a revolving pool of subsidies provided to developmental entities.
Determining broad goals and grand funding schemes was the expedient and easy part of the project and was indeed finished in just two months. What they had set in motion, however, would take years. The Malnar Group would begin surveying the Bay in the spring, and true work on reclaiming its land would only commence in late 1957. Though only a few meters deep, the Bay would surely prove challenging to tame, and numerous hitches meant that optimistic dates for complete reclamation were centered around 1961. The Malnar Group could develop the specifics of the city and monuments in the meantime, but their construction would add additional years to the project. Still further predicaments remained: the industrial southeastern fringes of nearby Trič (Italian Monfalcone) would need to be shrouded in trees, kept from view of Pancana to preserve its immaculate design. Administrative questions as to the status of a planned city would also need answering, and who would be invited to reside in it was an equally interesting question. Above all, however, the isle and its monuments served the purpose of nation-building; in spite of the sprawling complications and financial outlays attached to it, the project was to be politically and publically approved. Any local objections to the Isle paled in the shadow of the cult of Koprivnikar.
[list][sup]¹ Domitian or Domicijan was an eighth-century saint in Carantania, a medieval Slovenian polity.[/sup]
[sup]² Multiple styles and projects were proposed for the island by the commission; eventually, the Vienna Secession proposal won out to emphasize the link between the city and Ljubljana, where the Vienna Secession works of Plečnik dominate.[/sup]
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Notícias da Pátria (NP)
Government Announces a National 5-Year Plan
Today the National Council of Corporations and Syndicates announced the creation of a 5-year plan for Portugal.
First the bill was introduced by Marcelo Caetano. This Final President of Portugal returned to duty as a respected high-ranking member of the Council of Corporations. Firstly Caetano began by deriding Marxist socialism as a bastardization of true socialism and workers' thought. Then he decried unregulated market capitalism as a danger to workers and entrepreneurs. Then he finally introduced the bill, by this point multiple members of the Council of Corporations had to be woken up after falling asleep.
The First Five-Year Plan of the Estado Novo, entailed the rapid transformation of Portugal from a largely agrarian state, into an industrialized one. This five year plan seeks to rectify the failures of Salazarism which idealized and pushed for an agrarian economy, at the expense of the industrial sectors, which were not only left to lanquish, but also suffer from over regulation. The First Five Year Plan would provide funding and support for the expansion of the Lisbon Industrial Zone.
The second provision of the plan included the construction of the Port of Sines. This great artificial port is planned to be upon finishing the largest industrial zone in Iberia. The Liquid Bulk Terminal would be the largest liquid bulk terminal in the country. With six jetties natural beds down to 28 metres, it has the capacity to receive ships up to 350,000 tones, and allows the simultaneous handling of different products (crude, refined products, liquefied gases and other liquid bulks). There are also the Container Terminal, Liquified Natural Gas Terminal, Multipurpose Terminal, and a Petrochemical Terminal. It's estimated this port will take 5 years to complete, and will operate every day, for 24 hours a day.
The third and final provision will cover the transformation of farming. Farmers had generally been protected from the regulation and heavy hand of the Salazar government. Salazars moral favoritism of farmers over industrial workers resulted in generous tax breaks, large subsidies, and large economic autonomy. Caetano called for the end of these tax breaks, scaling back small farm subsidies, as well as, ending their land protection that prevented encroachment by large farms. Furthermore, the plan calls for the funding of large land plot farms with mechanization and industrialization. Large farms would be free to pursue buying land from under lazy or inefficient small farmers to increase productivity.
The opposition to the bill which was roughly 37 members was allowed to speak. These members were mainly from rural workers' syndicates, as well as, small farmer syndicates. These opposition members chastised the 5-Year Plan for being discriminatory to small and impoverished farmers who made up the backbone of the nation. Furthermore they pleaded for other farmers' representatives and small businessmen to join their side to stand against this planned erosion of rural life.
Prime Minister Vicente would then call for a move to vote. In a vote of 202 For, and 48 Against, the First National Five-Year Plan was passed.
It should be noted the importance of this bill. Not only will it help industrialize our economy, but it was an important statement to the world. We are not some fascist dictatorship, but instead a corporatist state, in which every section of society has direct representation in government. We have shown here today that we are unshackled from party politics, and representatives truly fight to represent their sections of society.
Deus, Pátria e Familia
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[list][list]January 1956
[sub]Crown & Country[/sub][/list]
[pre] D I S P A T C H W O R K ¹[/pre]
LONDON, Great Britain Gb EVENING[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1655060
[list][sub]Brought to you by Putnam, Powell & Lowe; an advertising agency London, England.[/sub]
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[sub]¹ DISPATCHWORK, dispatches/factbooks designed by Para in the Commonwealth of Liberty (COL)[/sub]
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[list][list]JANUARY 1956
[sub]The Smiling President-Elect[/sub][/list]
[pre] P R E I N A U G U R A T I O N T O U R [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Hail, precious banner of hope!
Hail, august symbol of peace!
Thy noble presence to our minds
The greatness of our motherland does bring.[/pre][/sub][/list]
THE CAPITOL, Paramountica AFTERNOON
[sub]WASHINGTON D.C., Paramountica[/sub]
| Prior to his January 31 inauguration, smiling President-elect JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK traveled to the U.S. and visited President DWIGHT EISENHOWER, the two shook hands. After posing for the press, the President invited him to eat bacon and eggs. KUBITSCHEK was in a hurry, as he had an appointment to be in Washington to address the U.S. Congress. Without speaking English very well, the President-elect spoke to Ike in Portuguese, translated by Brazils Washington Ambassador JOÃO CARLOS MUNIZ. After the conversation with the U.S. President, KUBITSCHEK returned to the Brazilian commercial plane that had brought him from Rio. Stops ahead on his preinauguration tour: Washington, New York, London, Paris, Bonn, Brussels, The Hague, Rome, the Vatican, Madrid, Lisbon all in 17 eventful days. |
| Warned that foreign governments may refuse to give him full President-elect treatment before Brazils Electoral Court officially declares him President-elect, KUBITSCHEK announced the postponement of the trip. Messages from Paris, Rome, Brussels, Madrid, Lisbon, Bonn and The Hague said that Kubitschek would be treated as President-elect, certified or not. The U.S. State Department confirmed the same. London was almost removed from the list until the Foreign Office learned that an audience with Queen Elizabeth could be arranged. KUBITSCHEK returned to his original schedule and flew north with a group of 26 officials and journalists. In Washington, KUBITSCHEK found Secretary of State JONH FOSTER DULLES and Treasury Secretary GEORGE HUMPHREY. On his way to the Capitol, the smiling President-elect, 80 minutes late, found the House adjourned and half the Senate absent. With the translator at his side, he gave a seven-minute speech to the Senate and received five rounds of applause. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President-elect[/sub] | Our nations have the same ideals, the same feelings, the same respect for human dignity.[/list]
| At a luncheon, a toast presented Kubitschek as a man who had done well in HORATIO ALGER style. Brazils President-elect, 54, grew up in poverty. He worked nights at the medical school as a telegraph operator, eventually became a surgeon, and then gave it all up to go into politics. Elected governor of the state of Minas Gerais, he made his name as a builder, with a long list of roads, power plants and schools. Running for President, he promised to do the same for Brazil and ended up winning last Octobers election. After the election, KUBITSCHEK announced his plans to travel abroad before inauguration day. In addition to wanting to draw foreign attention to Brazils economic problems, he wants to make it clear that he has no connection with the illegal Brazilian Communist Party. KUBITSCHEK is a middle-roader, a founding member of the moderately conservative Social Democratic Party, but accepted a leftish Labor Party leader as his Vice-President. Furthermore, he failed to reject the Communist Partys endorsement. Inevitably, opponents also labeled him a left winger. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President-elect[/sub] | I am not indebted to the Communists.[/list]
| During his three days in Washington, KUBITSCHEK attended two state dinners (hosts: Vice President RICHARD NIXON, Secretary DULLES), where there were handshakes and speeches. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President-elect[/sub] | Brazil remains the greatest ally of the United States in the Southern Hemisphere, with its feet firmly in the camp of democracy. The feeling of freedom and progress in the United States could strengthen, if necessary, my deep democratic convictions and my confidence in the destiny of the free world to which our two nations belong.[/list]
| He had his greatest success as a speaker at a luncheon at the National Press Club, which was called the most cynical audience in the world. After the success in the United States, the President-elect still had a busy schedule, things would have to be done quickly, but in the best possible way. After his world tour, KUBITSCHEK will return to Brazil for his inauguration and will be the President who will govern the largest nation in the Southern Hemisphere. |
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| Much like the situation over the Eastern Alps, the willingness to act on the case in Rome was not high. However, with the proceedings dragging on, and to once again avoid handing over potential ammunition to the irredentist faction within the Democrazia Cristiana, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, helmed by a moderate a scion of the De Gasperi faction, one Giulio Andreotti, was tasked by Prime Minister Einaudi to pursue the repatriation. However, one had to find what could be exchanged. In a letter penned by Andreotti to the Minister of Justice Aldo Moro, he mused on the possible contents. |
[list][pre]Signore Honorable Moro, it has come to my pressing attention lately that we have to find some way to hand over imprisoned Slovenes [...] This business is most unpalatable to much of us, and we must act quickly and silently if it is to remain under the radars of our less conciliatory colleagues. In this state of mind, Signore, I informally ask that we find some ten or twenty imprisoned Slovenes to be sent across the border in exchange of roughly the same amount of Italian prisoners and this Colonel, who, by the way, is long retired from active duty. Respectfully yours, Signore Hon. Andreotti, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[/pre][/list]
| The letter would reach Moro in the afternoon, and both Ministers would share a private dinner afterwards. Moro had found twelve Slovenes currently jailed. Four were hardened criminals, six had been convicted on minor charges, and oddly enough, there were also two prostitutes. |
[list][sup]| Minister of Foreign Affairs Giulio Andreotti: |[/sup] "Are you certain this is what we should send over?"[/list]
[list][sup]| Minister of Justice Aldo Moro: |[/sup] "Criminals for criminals, yes, what else would they expect? Prisoners of war and others as such were released long ago, between '44 and '45. Both those under the Kingdom and those under the Republican government, which was not recognized and therefore whose judicial authority was declared null upon reclaiming the rest of the territory."[/list]
[list][sup]| Minister of Foreign Affairs Giulio Andreotti: |[/sup] "Well, then..."[/list]
| The two men knew other for a decade, and bending the rules for the sake of some stability would be agreed on jointly. The case was big enough as it was, and it would be another affair entirely to ask the King himself to issue royal pardons to the jailed Slovenes Indeed, while the prisoners of war were handed over during the tumultuous years of conflict, there had been since then no such exchanges, and the two countries had nothing resembling a convention on extradition. Hence, Moro would need to find judges to commute and then proceed to an early release of the jailed Slovenes. Meanwhile, newspapers affiliated with the Democrazia Cristiana were asked to stop publishing on the case of the Colonel. It was hoped that this way, the air could be sucked out of the irredentists' lungs, and the arrangement could be made with the Slovenes without waves. The list of prisoners was sent to Ljubljana: 12 incarcerated prisoners (to be liberated in January of ('55) against the Colonel, his horse, and 10 other Italians in Slovenia. |
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Post self-deleted by Allbania.
14-15,JANUARY,1956
CRR-2 Unveiling
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[U]January | 14 | 1956
The company,Loke Senjata unveils their newest weapon.A pistol that is meant to be the successor and improvement in every way to its predecessor the CRR-1.The successor being titled the CRR-2.It was shown to the army,with the soldiers being allowed to test it out.The soldiers who tested it out remarked on how weird that one barrel was shorter then the other.During the unveiling,Loke Bao Yi went ahead and started talking about the new weapon with the Minister of Defence,Faramir Farhad.To promote the CRR-2 as a superior "next generation revolver for Maziya" to replace it's predecessor the CRR-1.
[U]The Differences Made
| The core aspects of the CRR-1 were carried over such as it's double barrel and dual magazines.
| The barrels were made on purpose to have the top barrel be longer then the bottom barrel with the top barrel being 3.5 inches long and the bottom barrel being 2.5 inches long.The barrels were made with different length to allow for more accuracy relating to its next function.
| The method of reloading was tried to be improved upon,as a major flaw of the CRR-1 was it's long reload time.The change made to remedy this issue slightly was a lever to manually rotate the magazine so the user can have one hand rotating the magazine and the other hand being used to reload it without having to take out the entire magazine to reload.The lever being the revolvers hammer which if pushed down is used for its intended purpose but if pushed up it activates the gear that rotates the magazine.However if the system every does fail,the user could always resort to the CRR-1 method of reloading by taking out the magazine and putting in each ammo then putting the magazine back in.This also allows the user to turn the double barrel into a single barrel by only loading one of the magazines instead of both.
| The handle of the revolver would be the first Maziyan made weapon that utilise rubber ( natural not synthetic ) as it's material instead of wood.With the rubber being molded to create a curve.
| It also has 6 rounds of ammunition in each magazine instead of the CRR-1,4 rounds.
| A flaw discovered was that if someone were to fire all 6 rounds in rapid succession within both magazines without taking a few seconds break in-between each shot and reload.The gun would start to suffer from an overheating problem but it's believed that it is not likely to happen except in fight or flight situations.
[U]January | 15 | 1956
Minister of Defence,Faramir Farhad sat down at his desk deciding if the CRR-2 should be brought in.Considering the rising threat of the Maziyan People's Liberation Army,he decides that having a new weapon shouldn't hurt them but strengthen their chances of winning if fighting ever does break out.Faramir sent a letter to Bao Yi informing him,that his CRR-2 will be allowed for usage in the military,with the only condition being that it be produced in limited production rather then full mass production to give them actual battle experience with the new revolver.Once the verdict is out on the fate of the CRR-2 production,Bao Yi will either have to stop production or keep them limited or be gifted full mass production of the CRR-2.
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[list][list][sub]25.𝙸𝚇.1955[/sub]
[sub]LA VENDETTA DEL PRINCIPE NERO, II: OPERAZIONE "Z"[/sub]
THE REVENGE OF THE BLACK PRINCE[/list]
[list][list][pre]"When Ancient Rome seemed conquered,
The undefeated X Legion arose,
Vanquishing the barbaric enemy in the field,
Rome regaining peace with honor.
Upon the reviled 8th of September '43,
The traitor abandoned his fatherland,
But the X Flotilla rose from the sea,
And took up arms to the cry 'PER L'ONORE!'
X Flotilla, our Flotilla,
That ridiculed England,
Victorious at Alexandria,
Malta, Suda and Gibraltar,
Already victorious on the sea,
Will now win on the land!
TO VICTORY!"[/pre]
[sub] Fascist Chant, 1944 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNJ-eCNgDM0 ][/sub][/list][/list]
5 MILES OFF PULJ, THE SLOVENE REPUBLIC
[sub]Aboard the Stelle di Neptune[/sub]
[sub][nation=flag]Amsterwald[/nation][/sub][/list]
[list][list][sup]0:45 AM[/sup][/list][/list]
[list]| The cool of the early Fall waters did not seep through the divers' suits as a small crane on the fishing vessel lowered their manned torpedoes into the water. For what had been called Operazione "Z", they had all checked one last time their gear, and were ready for action. Not a noise was produced, nor any lights were on. One murmur and they went on their way "A NOI!". They had trained for many nights on secluded areas over the Adriatic Coast, before departing that one night from a small fishing village on the Po Delta. Slowly bringing back their instincts The instincts of an elite force of diver commandos, who had excelled during the war before being purged from their units. Sacrifices had been made, and the men that had answered the bloody call to vengeance made by the Black Prince were those who were most bent on avenging the lost honor of the unit; those who had no forgotten their 80% casualty rate against the much better-armed and prepared American and British troops in '44 and '45 Those who until their last breath had stuck together, side-by-side, for the honor of the DECIMA FLOTTIGLIA MAS. Silently, two teams of two divers each, riding two Siluro a Lenta Corsa started their deathly course, under the glistening sea lit by the New Moon. |
| Arriving in the Bay of Pulj [Pola] , which had long been studied thanks to wartime intelligence dossiers, the two teams finally saw their target. The Neptuno, now the Sava. Now just ten meters submerged, the divers slowed their craft to a half; deftly, each detached their SLC's warhead and carried it to the bow and stern of the Sava, planting them via the pull of a powerful magnet. Time fuses were set. As they swam back to the torpedoes, each diver made the "O.K." sign. In a ultimate show of bravado, one surfaced by a deserted quay, spray-painting: "LA DECIMA VI SALUTA - TRIESTE È ITALIANA". The writing, badly scribbled and half-erased above the waterline, was still clearly readable for any decently-sighted person. Thirty minutes after the frogmen's departure, an explosion ripped through the harbor of the city. Arriving back at the Stelle di Neptune, they ditched the heavy human torpedoes and left with the rest of the crew. |
8 MILES OFF THE PLOČE-ZATA NAVAL BASE [sup][nation=flag]OsivoII[/nation][/sup], SFR YUGOSLAVIA
[sub]Aboard the Principe Giliberto[/sub]
[sub][nation=flag]Ranponian[/nation][/sub][/list]
[list][list][sup]0:50 AM[/sup][/list][/list]
[list][list][sup]| Mario Arillo: |[/sup] "Camerati, the time has arrived. Remember the honor of the Decima. A NOI!"[/list]
| Arillo A man well in his fourties, head full of curly dark hair Saluted after sternly looking at his watch. Only the wind lightly flew through the sails of the yacht, which had reached Yugoslav waters on sail power only, for fear of being detected, after leaving Vieste the previous day. A single human torpedo was lowered into the water, dangerously tipping the yacht on its side Despite the higher stakes, only one crew of divers would man the operation, as two craft would have slowed the yacht. Holding onto the railing but seemingly without a care in the world, the martial Arillo directed his steel-eyed glare at the far-away coast, which was for now a very thin dark stripe on the horizon. The SLC had "Memento Audere Semper" painted on its side "Always remember to dare". Tonight's operation was indeed daring, and the reason why Mario Arillo, the Black Prince's right-hand during the war, had been named its leader. On just a single torpedo, two divers would penetrate Yugoslav waters and then the Soviet base to lay a single mine on the aft of the Novorossyisk, formerly Giulio Cesare, a once-Italian battleship taken after the war. They had only three hours to do so, an exceedingly small time period, after which the yacht would depart without them. |
| Soon, the port waters were reached by the divers. At 20 meters deep, the men could nearly walk on the seafloor as they left their torpedo on the outside of the port to avoid detection. Both would then carry the heavy mine Already ticking for explosion and lift it to the hull of the Soviet ship, planting it at a convenient position that would slowly but surely sink the ship, perhaps not as quickly as the Sava, sinking it nonetheless. Once done, the divers left the harbor and rejoined the yacht, abandoning the SLC out at sea. The Principe Giliberto sailed back to the Italian shores, while the bomb on the Novorossyisk detonated. No calling card had been left this time, but it was assumed that if the other crew had successfully completed their mission, the curious coincidence of two formerly Italian vessels being sunk the same night would speak for itself, in addition to the military intelligence that the Soviets could likely retrieve to establish the origin of the explosives used. All would designate only one culprit: The elite Decima Flottiglia MAS. And as two ships sank, the men of the Decima avenged l'onore. |
[list]A NOI![/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Commonwealth of Liberty
[/sub]EVVIVA L'ITALIA!
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[nation]AbaBemba[/nation]
[nation]Adriatican Islands[/nation]
[nation]Alzarikstan[/nation]
[nation]Amsterwald[/nation]
[nation]Anglo Channel[/nation]
[nation]Arcanda[/nation]
[nation]Bayern Kahla[/nation]
[nation]Bescania[/nation]
[nation]Brazil Toucan[/nation]
[nation]Canovia[/nation]
[nation]Cascadla[/nation]
[nation]Central Arstotzka[/nation]
[nation]Connomia[/nation]
[nation]East Germany DDR[/nation]
[nation]Great Britain GB[/nation]
[nation]Greater Kurdistane[/nation]
[nation]Hashemite Kingdoms[/nation]
[nation]Hatzburg[/nation]
[nation]Honghai[/nation]
[nation]Israelli[/nation]
[nation]Kewtpuff[/nation]
[nation]Kotakuan II[/nation]
[nation]La Granadinas[/nation]
[nation]Ma-li[/nation]
[nation]Maziya[/nation]
[nation]Metropolitan Francais[/nation]
[nation]Moroavia[/nation]
[nation]Nevbrejnovitz[/nation]
[nation]New Provenance[/nation]
[nation]Nileia[/nation]
[nation]Nippon-Nihon[/nation]
[nation]Nonador[/nation]
[nation]Nosautempopulus[/nation]
[nation]OsivoII[/nation]
[nation]Paramountica[/nation]
[nation]Paseo[/nation]
[nation]Peking Zhongguo[/nation]
[nation]Pontianus[/nation]
[nation]Provenancia[/nation]
[nation]Ranponian[/nation]
[nation]Reyzen[/nation]
[nation]Rutannia[/nation]
[nation]Socialist Democratic Republic Romania[/nation]
[nation]Spainard[/nation]
[nation]Sri-Lanka[/nation]
[nation]Sudesam[/nation]
[nation]Taiiwan[/nation]
[nation]Teymour[/nation]
[nation]The Black Star-[/nation]
[nation]The Sun States[/nation]
[nation]Turkiye 1st[/nation]
[nation]Ubertica[/nation]
[nation]Vancouver Straits[/nation]
[nation]Victoria Harbor[/nation]
[nation]Vietnam SV[/nation]
[nation]Virnall[/nation]
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Nonador, Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Vancouver Straits, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Maziya, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Hashemite Kingdoms, Turkiye 1St
Logrel,economicoyee
[list]November, 1955
[sub]Ceylonese-Iranian defense and friendship treaty.[/sub][/list]
[sub]After three months of negotiation, Prime Minister Kandi Ramamurthy Rajah and the Iranian diplomatic representative, Vailollah Fallahi officially came to agreement between the two nations, and officially signed the Ceylonese-Iranian defense and friendship treaty into effect. This treaty not only establish friendly relationship between Ceylon and Iran, but also created a defense pact in which both country would defend each other if they were invaded by other country. The treaty also include trade agreement, expanded economic cooperation, allowing Iranian businesses in Ceylon, joint maritime cooperation, and cultural relations between the two nation. Ceylonese Parliament officially ratified the treaty and is now in full effect. This treaty will not only bring Ceylon into a potential relationship with other Persian and Gulf countries, but also further increase Ceylonese defense against any potential threats against its sovereignty.[/sub]
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St
[list]November 1955
[sub]The Rise of the LDP[/sub][/list]
[pre]HATOYAMAs DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND OTAGAs LIBERALS MERGE TO CREATE THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JAPAN![/pre]
NATIONAL DIET BUILDING
[sub]TOKYO, Nippon-Nihon MORNING[/sub]
[sub]With the 1954 general election proving that Shigeru Yoshida could no longer command the confidence of the National Diet and the general public, as well as witnessing the political division within the Liberal Party Japans main political party saw its influence dwindle as members began to defect to Hatoyamas Democratic Party, or becoming independents for the rest of their terms. In an effort to keep his party united and stop further defections to the Democratic Party, Shigeru Yoshida would resign as prime minister with the National Diet electing Ichirō Hatoyama as his successor. In an attempt to secure a majority within the House of Representatives, Ichirō Hatoyama would call for a snap election, which saw a massive increase in seats for the Democratic Party, although still short of the necessary seats needed to form a majority. Governing as the leader of the largest political party in the National Diet, the Democratic Party became the main opponent to the Liberal Partys influence and governance in Japanese politics.[/sub]
[sub]Several months after the February 1955 elections, talks between high members of the Democratic and Liberal Party were underway with proposals of merging both parties in an attempt to unite against the increasingly popular Japan Socialist Party (JSP). Leaders such as Ichirō Hatoyama, Shigeru Yoshida, Taketora Ogata, Mamoru Shigemitsu, Nobusuke Kishi, Hayato Ikeda and others would create the Liberal Democratic Party with ideologies such as conservatism, Japanese nationalism and corporate statism (as well as branding the party as catch-all). With a goal of steering Japan away from any socialist or communist revolution or uprising the Liberal Democratic Party would adopt some policies that were often preached by social democrats, in hopes of bringing voters to the party.[/sub]
[sub]With the announcement of the merger between the Liberal Party and the Democratic Party, seats within the House of Representatives changed to reflect the new parties within the National Diet, with the Liberal Democratic Party holding 287 out of 467 seats, thus making the Liberal Democratic Party the largest party in the National Diet, and securing a majority needed to form a government. The Japan Socialist Party (L) and the Japan Socialist Party ( R ) would together merge to create the Japan Socialist Party-United (JSP) with 166 seats, becoming the official opposition in the National Diet. With 14 other seats belonging to Independents (12), another party (1) and the Japanese Communist Party (1) the Era of the Liberal Democratic Party would now begin.[/sub]
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Cascadla, Ranponian, Vancouver Straits, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Qysaland, Turkiye 1St
January,19-20,1956
So,It Begins...
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[U]19th of January,1956
[U]5:30 A.M
Yap Wei Bai,sat in her room.A small room located above a [I]kopitiam[/I] (a type of coffee shop popular in SEA) which her family owns.She hasn't slept a wink as she sits there,thinking to herself.
[List][I]"What do we do now?[/I][/list]
She felt like,maybe it's time to finally launch a full lethal operation and start her rebellion against the government.
[List][I]"It's been long overdue now.Now is the time to act."[/I][/list]
She think to herself.
[U]8:00 AM
she changes out of her night clothes into her [I]cheongsam[/I] (also known as the qipao.Around this time it was popular for Chinese women to wear it as standard clothing.) She leaves her room to walk the streets to get some ideas for how she's gonna plan out her first lethal operation,against just the local police force.
[List][I]"If we fail at this operation,I know I have failed."[/I][/list]
She thought to herself as she walks around.She passes by a part of Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi called "Wei Yuan Alley" as it was the area Fong Wei Yuan,had his office at during his time fighting the Japanese and lived at whenever he could get away from the city.She looks down the alley and walked down it to purchase a singular hibiscus.After that she walked and got onto a [I]rickshaw[/I] (a rickshaw is a type of transport which utilises a carriage but a person is carrying it along instead of an animal) she went to the address where Fong Wei Yuan direct family lived.There she met Fong Wen Xi,the only child of Fong Wei Yuan.She talked with Fong Wen Xi,who wasn't very young but not too old.Just the right age where she could influence the daughter of Fong Wei Yuan to her views.Once she had to leave she gave Fong Wen Xi the hibiscus she bought and got on another rickshaw to head back.
[U]7:55 PM
Yap Wei Bai,argued a bit with her mother because she is yet to get married and she has blatantly refused any attempts to get an arrange marriage set up for her,while eating dinner at the kopitiam her family owns.She went up to her room and began writing down her plans.After that she finished her nighttime schedule and went to sleep.
[U]20th of January,1956
[U]1:00 PM
Yap Wei Bai woke up.She wore her cheongsam and went out to write letters and sent them to the post office for them to be sent to her most loyal subordinates in the Maziyan People's Liberation Army.
[U]5:00 PM
With a bit of promoting a rally throughout the afternoon,Yap Wei Bai went to address in the rally about her plans to finally take lethal actions,to the people.
[List][I]"We shall ambush the police who are going to be on duty as we all know due to the curfews there will policemen posted around nearly every corner of the town.So those who may harbor feelings of hatred towards them after our peaceful march of protest.You can take it out on the ones you ambush.We all shall wear our uniforms.No point hiding at this point,the people of the rest of nation should now be aware of our existence.After we've ambushed the police on duty,we shall storm the police headquarters once again.This time armed with whatever weapon we all have.Some of us may have guns,some of you may not.Some of us might make out of this alive,some of us may not.But we will succeed in this operation,when our last drop of sweat has reached the ground!"[/I][/list]
The people cheered as finally they can take lethal action.
[U]11:00 PM
After multiple successful ambushes on the police on duty,a few were injured or lost but the ambushes were a success.Those who didn't have guns stole the police firearms.Now came the hard part,the main push.Attacking the police headquarters.
Once the Maziyan People's Liberation Army arrived at the headquarters,using the CRR-1 they stole from the dead body's of policemen some of the members entered the building with open fire.Soon more members of the Maziyan People's Liberation Army were entering the station with guns drawn and whatever makeshift weapon they have on the ready.It was a firefight inside of the police station.By the time the gunfire finally stopped,nearly every policemen in the station were dead or injured.Those injured were taken by the Maziyan People's Liberation Army to be put somewhere else in the meantime.
Soon the division of the army stationed at the town entered area and open fire on the unsuspecting Maziyan People's Liberation Army.But soon after realising they were there,the Maziyan People's Liberation Army starting shooting back.The sounds of gunfire went throughout the entire day all the way to 5:00 AM.While the Maziyan People's Liberation Army came out of this encounter with many injured and few dead the army division wasn't as lucky.Those which survived till 5:00 AM ran away in retreat but those who couldn't were taken by the Maziyan People's Liberation Army to be put in the same place as the captured policemen.
Yap Wei Bai,noticed a gun she has never seen before.She picked it up,it was a double barrel revolver.The CRR-2 everyone who weren't taking away prisoners,went and started looting the dead body's for equipment that could be used.
[List][I]"Just like that.So it begins..."[/I][/list]
Yap Wei Bai think to herself.
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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Pontianus, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Qysaland, Turkiye 1St
The National Unity Act
January 1956
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Our dear, brave and esteemed leader, Constantin Rotaru, the General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of The Presidium of The Great National Assembly, President of The Socialist Republic of Romania, and Supreme Commander of The People's Army, issued a decree called "The National Unity Act" banning the use of the Hungarian language in public and excluding ethnic Hungarians from the Communist Party of Romania.
The decree came into place after a further evaluation of the Hungarian riots in 1953, where Hungarians staged an anti government and anti Romanian protest, killing and injuring countless lives.
| Jakab Krisztián, a Hungarian former member within the Communist Party, publicly criticized the ban, calling it "A violation of Human Rights and discrimination of our people".
Krisztián has been arrested and charged with subversive activities against the state.
He was swiftly tried and sentenced to a lengthy prison term, effectively silencing any further opposition to the ban and other discriminatory policies.
Krisztián is also believed to have worked on the 1953 Hungarian riots yet currently evidence is scarce.
| The ban was justified by our beloved leader as "necessary to maintain unity and a sense of national identity within Romania". He argued that "allowing the use of Hungarian in public would only serve to divide the population and create a barrier to communication between different groups."
| Romania and the Romanian people under the guidance our beloved and esteemed leader, Comrade Constantin Rotaru, General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of The Presidium of The Great National Assembly, President of The Socialist Republic of Romania, and Supreme Commander of The People's Army are headed for a bright future, where everyone is living in a Industrialized and peaceful Socialist state!
"Traiasca Partidul Comunist Roman in frunte cu al sau General Secretar, Tovarasul Constantin Rotaru, iubit si stimat conducator al Republicii Socialiste Romania! "
January 1956
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Qysaland, Turkiye 1St
| CELINE MERKAZI WINS THE VOTE |
[sub]17th to 20th of January[/sub]
| On 17th of January, the newly elected National Congress would be making one of the most important decisions for the country, and the most important decision that this branch of the government can actually make. The Head of the Finest Assembly was to be elected, and three candidates came forth amidst the open spot after Marie Izuru's resignation in September of last year. One of the three candidates will become the second in the country, and the head of the governing body of the country and its structures. The three candidates were ESTELLE HUDURU, an independent economist who served as as Expert to Economics in 1955; CELESTINE BEDUNI, the new Left Wing leader who served in the Workers & Pensioners Committee between 1953 and 1955; CELINE MERKAZI, the Central Wing leader who served as the Expert of African Relations & Tribes between 1942 and 1945, Expert of International Affairs between 1946 and 1950 and as an Expert of African Affairs & European-Zairean Trade between 1951 and 1953.
It was clear since the election of the National Congress that the final decision was going to be made by the members of the CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING, after Huduru was endorsed by First Representative Banza, the Left Wing gained a majority and the Central and Liberal Wings formed a coalition. However, the Christian-Democrats found themselves divided in their votes, which has led to the victory of CELINE MERKAZI.
[list]CELINE MERKAZI - 100 out of 200 Votes ( 50 Votes from LIBERAL WING / 44 Votes from CENTRAL WING / 6 Votes from CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING )
CELESTINE BEDUNI - 95 out of 200 Votes. ( 95 Votes from LEFT WING )
ESTELLE HUDURU - 5 out of 200 Votes. ( 5 Votes from CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING )[/list]
The lack of support for Miss HUDURU comes out of the set ways of the National Liberal Revival Party and their opposition to independent forces within the party, and even with Mrs Banza's endorsement, only 5 out of 200 members of the Congress actually voted for Huduru. The downfall of the Left Wing in securing the leadership for BEDUNI comes out of five years of Izuru's rule, who pushed aside all the other wings, especially the Christian-Democrats towards obscurity. MERKAZI'S victory comes out of a unified front created by the Liberals and the Centrals, and the Christian-Democrats would clearly rather see Merkazi in charge than another Left Wing leader.
It was believed that Merkazi would form her new Assembly with experts mainly from the Liberal and Central wing, but that could not be more further from the truth. On the 20th of January, three days after being elected and after her meeting with the First Representative Banza on the 18th of January, Merkazi has stunned the press, commentators and the Congress. Her list of candidates for the Assembly, and their wing association had been released to the First Representative, a list that has been approved.
[list]THE FINEST ASSEMBLY OF EXPERTS 1956 TO 1959
HEAD - CELINE MERKAZI ( CENTRAL WING )
AGRICULTURE - OSCAR LUBUDI ( LIBERAL WING )
SOCIAL WELFARE - CELESTINE BEDUNI ( LEFT WING )
HEALTHCARE - JEAN OKANI ( CENTRAL WING )
HOUSING & INFRASTRUCTURE - PHILIPE YUBUDI ( LIBERAL WING )
ECONOMICS & INDUSTRIES - CATHARINE LANDRY ( CENTRAL WING )
EDUCATION - ROLANDE USANDI ( LEFT WING )
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - AFRICA - MIRIAM UBUKI ( LIBERAL WING )
FOREIGN AFFAIRS - WORLD - CHARLES LUTKE ( CENTRAL WING )
FOREIGN TRADE - WEST & NEUTRAL - ESTELLE HUDURU ( INDEPENDENT )
FOREIGN TRADE - EAST - GASPARD KAMBA ( LEFT WING )
JUSTICE - HAMELIN KUTUR ( CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING )
CULTURE & INNOVATION - MARGOT OKOMBI ( CENTRAL WING )
ENERGY - ANSEL SYLLA ( CHRISTIAN-DEMOCRAT WING )
MODERN TECHNOLOGIES - ROCH BOSO ( LIBERAL WING )
MILITARY - MARCO TURURI ( CENTRAL WING )[/list]
In such bid, Mrs Merkazi has combined all the wings into the Assembly, proving that she is indeed focused on governing and on uniting the party together. Unlike NIGOYE in the 40s, where he pushed aside the newer Left Wing and Izuru in the early 50s pushing aside the Liberal Wing, Mrs Merkazi has merged them all into the same government. However, others suggest that Mrs Merkazi is playing a smart game by keeping her allies close but her enemies closer. Both BEDUNI and HUDURU managed to be appointed into the government, into spheres they're competent in. It is obvious that from the get-go Mrs Merkazi is introducing a new type of governing style and politics into the country. |
[list][ CELINE MERKAZI, Head of the Finest Assembly ( Translated to English ): "The notion that wings and ideologies shall dominate the party, the government and therefore the country, is a notion that will be cut by me quickly and swiftly. In order for us to govern with the best force, the best people, the best ideas, we must continue to stand united as when we're united, so is Zaire. I will not allow foolishness, in the shape of falsely promising ideologies to dominate and influence Zaire. I will not allow division to occur, nor will I allow anyone to divide us into tribes of ideological wars. Practicality, common sense, logic and the understanding of the needs of Zaireans is what shall guide me in decision making, not whether a reform is swinging more to the left or to the right. I do not care to appease ideological agitators, political opportunists or simple idiots. I am honored that the Congress has chosen me as the Head of the government, but, pride will not lead me, humbleness, logic and hard facts shall lead me. As only based on those three principles, can we achieve success."
[spoiler="Merkazi is a veteran of Zairean politics. She, like nobody else, understands how to unite people, a skill that is a necessity to lead, to change, to create."]Ababemba
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Israelli, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Qysaland, Turkiye 1St
[sub]PREMIERE OF THE BLACK CHANNEL JANUARY 1956[/sub]
[sub]| The Black Channel (DE: Der Schwarze Kanal) is an evening programme covering West German news with Marxist commentary. |[/sub]
Inspired by: Paramountica
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1851749
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[/spoiler]
Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Israelli, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Adriatican Islands, Maziya, Brazil Toucan, Qysaland
{ November 1955 }
[list][list][list]Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa[/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][list]Peoples Republic of Poland[/list][/list][/list]
[list][list]Location: Warsaw, Central Committee of the People's Republic, Bierut Square[/list][/list]
| The building came under a hush as General Secretary Bierut took to the podium. Many people were looking on with excitement and eagerness, while others still sat with scowls on their face, as they knew that this outright declaration of openess for Poland, would be for the detriment of the nation's people, as well as the government. |
[list][list][list][list]"To start off, I would like to thank everyone here that has persisted in believing that the revolution must be secured for a better world. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed, nor have your sacrifices gone without mourning. This mourning, leading to a new morning and dawn for our great nation. For years, the Polish spirit has been one of resilience and great strength, especially during times of great struggle and conflict. We as a people of various ethnicities and backgrounds have always pulled together for the sake of mutual survival and prosperity. However, this begs the questions, what are we are lacking, and how can we act as one to promote the revolution at home and abroad, with the aid of our comrades? We must always hold before us the idea that we can and will prosper, no matter the circumstances. In the last war, though our armies may have been defeated, our spirit prospered and thrived in a condition that seemed bleak as the blackest of winter nights in the countryside. We have always pressed on, and we will continue to do so.[/list][/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][list]We will reach out to our Russian allies in the East for help in our education system, in our industry, and in our joint military training which will start very soon, and see the Polish military be ever stronger in this coming decade, than it has within the last 200 years. With that, comes new and improved layouts and plans for armored vehicles, tanks, as well as aero fighters and warships. These will aid in our continued security and prosperity, as we seek to secure the revolution and our people. We will also make new investments in our industry, with a 5 year plan being developed by our Finance and Infrastructure Committee. This will seek to provide the Polish people with new jobs, better working conditions, as well as new and updated equipment to boost industrial efficiency. This will enable our country to compete with the west, as well as be a strong, central hub of industrial might within Europe.[/list][/list][/list][/list]
[list][list][list][list]Alongside the economy, we will seek to invest in foreign aid with our new technology sharing program with Warsaw Pact members. The new project, being named, the Copernicus Accords, will see Polish scientists travel and seek work in eastern bloc nations on behalf of the Republic, as well as provide ease of immigration for scientists of other COMECON member states, to Poland. This comes with us opening our nation up once more to the outside world after a harsh and grueling rebuild of our nation. Warsaw, once a pile of rubble, is continuing to be rebuilt into a city of the Socialist Ideal. Fashioned by the hands of the worker's for whom this republic is named after, the monarchic and archaic history of the past that lays under the ash, will soon be forgotten. The world will know Poland for what it truly stands for, and what we as one people, represent. And that is a nation united, a people with the utmost resilience, and a dream that will propel us forward into a new era of socialism for all. Thank you."[/list][/list][/list][/list]
| With the end of the speech, came a rapturous roar from the crowd. However, others did not take too kindly to the speech, sighting that it was too early to open the nation up in such a way, before it was rebuilt. Not only would the nation appear weak to visiting nationals, but would seem like a laughing stock for not even having its capital city fully rebuilt after a major war. Only time would tell the truth, and whether or not it would be a good idea. |
[spoiler=[sub]Workers of the world, unite![/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
]
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Spainard, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Israelli, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan
METHODS TO DEFLECT FROGMEN + SOVIET WRECK ACQUIRED
3rd of January 1956
With the recent sinking of a Soviet Battleship within Yugoslav Waters, with Frogmen being suspected for carrying it out, the Yugoslav Navy has announced multiple new regulations to kill Frogmen on approach in order to avoid such occurrences in the future. Firstly, All Naval Installations shall be required to conduct a high frequency Sonar Ping on random intervals. Such Pings are known to kill people at short range if they are underwater and nearby (in a most painful and brutal way that i probably cant mention on NS), but are nevertheless to be accompanied by smaller surface patrol craft. The Navy has given its Soviet counterparts its full assurances that such an occurrence would not take place again within Yugoslav Waters, and that any individuals considered to be possible perpetrators would be handed over to the KGB.
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The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry further completed the purchase of the sunken Battleship at the cost of 1,000,000 Dollars, the weaponry still onboard is to be salvaged and utilized in static defenses along the coastline. In Particular Yugoslav Divers have identified the following Weapons along with articles that would still be usable :
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8x of the 13x 305mm guns still considered salvageable to be installed in single-mount Batteries at the mouth of the Bay of Kotor
11x of 12x 120mm guns still considered salvageable to be installed in single-mount Batteries around the Ploče Naval Base
13x of 14x 76.2 mm guns still considered salvageable to be donated by the Yugoslav State to various Warsaw Pact Museums
12x of 37 mm 70-K guns still considered salvageable to be donated by the Yugoslav State to various Warsaw Pact Museums
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All remaining Oil among with other possible environmental hazards are to be removed from the Vessel as part of cleanup operations, while the two huge Boilers that powered the Battleship are to be cleaned and installed in a large warehouse nearby with all of the weaponry, machinery and electronics that Yugoslavia would keep for its own Museums, to form a new "Novorossiysk Memorial Museum" which will include tributes to its sailors. Duration of the cleanup Operation is estimated to take 13 months of almost constant work, after which however the Bay will be completely open to operations once more.
Paramountica, Spainard, Arcanda, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Israelli, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, East Germany Ddr, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan, Qysaland
[list][list]January 1956
[sub]Ordem e Progresso[/sub][/list]
[pre] D I S P A T C H W O R K ¹[/pre]
BRAZIL, THE LAND OF TOMORROW[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795141
[list][sub]Brazil is a predominantly tropical country famous for its extensive Amazon lowlands; however, highlands cover most of the national territory. Brazils physical features can be grouped into five main physiographic divisions: the Guiana Highlands in the North, the Amazon lowlands, the Pantanal in the Central-West, the Brazilian Highlands (including the extensive coastal ranges), and the coastal lowlands.[/sub]
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[sub]¹ DISPATCHWORK, dispatches/factbooks designed by Para in the Commonwealth of Liberty (COL)[/sub]
Paramountica, Spainard, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Adriatican Islands
Hello. Im brand new. Just wanted to say hey.
Cascadla, Kewtpuff, Kabushiki Gaisha Sega
[list][list]FEBRUARY 1956
[sub]TAMADON-E BOZORG[/sub][/list]
[sub][pre] H O V E Y D A' S L E G A C Y [/pre][/sub]
[list][list][sub][pre]O Cyrus, Great King, King of Kings
Achaemenian King, King of the Land of Iran.
I, Shahanshah of Iran, offer thee salutations from myself and from my nation.
Rest in Peace, for we are awake, and we will always stay awake.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]
TEHRAN,
[sub]Alzarikstan[/sub]
[list][pre]PEOPLE'S MUJAHIDEEN ORGANIZATION OF IRAN FORMED![/pre][/list]
| Leadership of the Party of the Nation of Iran announced from the foyer of the National People's Parliament of Iran the formation of a new security arm of the PNI called the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran. The PMOI has been designated to be one of the primary security forces of the PNI to safeguard the Islamic Socialist institutions and ideology while providing extensive protection to the Prime Minister of Iran and senior leadership of the PNI. Toward the end of the announcement of the PMOI, Hassan Abshenasan was appointed as the first Commander for the PMOI and is a self-professed "Hoveydist Islamic Socialist to the Core & Soul". The PMOI is expected to further operate in conjunction with law enforcement and intelligence agencies in addition to operating as paramilitary organization to serve as a force multiplier for the Iranian armed forces against foreign adversaries; however, the main duty is protection of the regime. PMOI Commander Hassan Abshenasan has declared in his oath and swearing of allegiance that it is the priority of the PMOI under his leadership to become a premier guardianship to carry the Islamic Socialist movement forward and uplifting the Iranian heritage. Moreover, Hassan Abshenasan put on notice any and all political parties that did not merge with the PNI and gave a stern warning that any attempt to sabotage, subjugate, or exploit the Islamic Socialist movement will be questioned; however, the core purpose of the PMOI is to sustain and protect the Iranian peace at all costs. |
| After the announcement, enlisted members of the PMOI were present outside the parliament building with flags of Iran and portraits of Hoveyda and the Shah. Moreover, in a sign of solidarity and a commitment to the cause, members of the PNI and PMOI gathered outside for prayer. The entire moment would be televised on television and talked about on the radio for the world to see. Something remarkable was occurring in Iran under Hoveydist Islamic Socialism. Azeris, Arab Iranians, Kurdish-Iranians, Iranians, and Balochs personnel of the PMOI gathered in Tehran to listen to this announcement. After the prayer, in a rare sighting, Prime Minister Hoveyda appeared at the front steps of the Parliament building surrounded by leadership of the PNI as he waved the PMOI and shocked bystanders to see their Prime Minister. Dressed in a black suit with a green lapel pin for the PNI and another lapel pin of the flag of Iran. |
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Paramountica, Arazistan, Spainard, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan, Hogriderland-Antianimegrad
Unstoppable Unity: Romania and Iran
February 1956
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
| Our beloved and esteemed leader, brave son of the people, Constantin Rotaru, General Secretary of The Communist Party of Romania, President of The Presidium of The Great National Assembly, President of The Socialist Republic of Romania, and Supreme Commander of The People`s Army, sat down for a meeting with his excellency Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, the Prime Minister of Iran. The two leaders came together to discuss matters of mutual concern and create a stronger friendship between their two nations.
| The meeting took place inside Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest, the President`s residence.
As they sat across from each other, our dear leader began the discussion by praising Iran's recent advancements in technology and industry. He expressed his desire to see Romania and Iran work together to achieve similar goals, stating that a closer partnership would benefit both countries.
His excellency, Prime Minister Hoveyda responded in kind, thanking Rotaru for his warm welcome and expressing his admiration for Romania's achievements in the fields of science, industry, and engineering. He agreed that a stronger alliance between the two nations would be of great benefit to both peoples.
| The conversation then turned to matters of trade and economic cooperation.
Iran and Romania have already signed a trade agreement back in July-August 1954, however the two countries are looking forward to more cooperation.
Comrade Rotaru proposed a number of joint ventures between Romanian and Iranian businesses, highlighting the potential for mutually beneficial partnerships in sectors such as energy, agriculture, and manufacturing. Prime Minister Hoveyda responded positively to these proposals, noting that Iran had a wealth of natural resources and skilled labor that could be put to use in joint ventures with Romania.
| The two leaders also discussed the importance of cultural exchange and education. Rotaru highlighted Romania's rich cultural heritage and expressed his hope that more Iranian students would come to study in Romanian universities. Hoveyda responded by expressing his own country's deep appreciation for art, literature, and music, and proposed a number of cultural exchange programs that would allow the peoples of Romania and Iran to learn from each other.
| Both of the leaders addressed themselves final messages and thanked each other for their time.
Prime Minister Hoveyda:
"The Socialist Republic of Romania and the Empire of Iran share a remarkable friendship that defies the limitations of ideology and is based on the foundations of logic, reason, and what is best for the national interest. Bucharest and Tehran are developing a friendship and bond with the well-being of our peoples at the center of every negotiated agreement, recommendation, and policy suggestion. It is the undeniable truth that Bucharest has a friend in Tehran as the people of Iran knows for certain they have a friend and comrade in Bucharest."
Comrade Rotaru, beloved and esteemed leader of the Romanian people, continued by adding:
"I would like to begin by expressing my heartfelt gratitude for the acceptance of our invitation to visit The Socialist Republic of Romania. Your leadership has been instrumental in driving Iran forward, and I commend you for your unwavering dedication to the progress and prosperity of your nation. I am confident that under your stewardship, Iran and Romania will continue to develop trade and diplomatic relations in order for not only the better of our two nations, but to the respective regions they belong to.
With open minds and hearts, there is no limit to what the two nations can achieve by working together for a better future.
Long live the friendship between The Empire of Iran and The Socialist Republic of Romania!"
"Traiasca Partidul Comunist Roman in frunte cu al sau General Secretar, Tovarasul Constantin Rotaru, iubit si stimat conducator al Republicii Socialiste Romania! "
February 1956
Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Cascadla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Maziya, Greater Kurdistane, Brazil Toucan, Hogriderland-Antianimegrad
February,1956
Long Development Ends
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Loke Bao Yi,calls the minister of Defence.Informing him that the XPE-2 has finally been given a finalised iteration.With Loke Bao Yi giving it the weapon designation of JAR-56.With it's letters standing for.
[B]Jungle Automatic Rifle
With the 56 standing for its year of production.The XPE-2 has had a very long development life (1939-1956) and with it being used by the
People Of Maziya Anti Japanese Army back in the second world war.Soldiers who fought against the Japanese,who used it knew that it was an effective weapon back during its development period so the thought that the finalised version should be the best possible version and fixed whatever problems the in-development iteration that was the XPE-2 had.In short,the JAR-56 was gonna be utilised by the military.
[U]JAR-56 Specifications
| Designed for medium to long range combat,so it was built with a 20 inch long barrel to give it a necessary amount of range required to fill in its intended purpose and give it a bit of lightness so it is easier to maneuver around the areas where it was expected to be used in:the jungles and rural towns.
| With one of the requirements for the XPE-2 being a low recoil automatic rifle.It was designed to be gas-operated action to reduce the recoil.
| It has simplistic internal components to make it easier to maintain and repair.
| It has a closable vent piece on the side of the gun to let air move through the gun to cool down its components,if it ever overheats.Which is likely due to the humidity of the jungles in South East Asia.It was made to be closable so that if the soldier ever falls into a river,water won't go inside of the gun and to also prevent a massive amount of dust from collecting inside the gun.
| It is designed with a 20 round magazine,so the user could still have a sufficient amount of munition,makes the gun lighter and cheaper to produce since it doesn't require so much ammunition.
| It has a wooden stock and the part where the soldier is expected to use his second hand to grip the gun to control it's recoil better is also made of wood.
| The handle of the gun is made out of natural rubber after learning how good it was when the CRR-2 had used rubber instead of wood for its handle.
| On the side of the gun has a part to put in a strap made of leather which is meant for the soldiers to wear to make it easier on the soldiers arm muscles in a prolonged operation.
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[spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Brazil Toucan, Hogriderland-Antianimegrad
[list][list]FEBRUARY 1956
[sub]First Day of Work[/sub][/list]
[pre] T R O P I C A L R O U T I N E S [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Hail, precious banner of hope!
Hail, august symbol of peace!
Thy noble presence to our minds
The greatness of our motherland does bring.[/pre][/sub][/list]
CATETE PALACE, Brazil Toucan MORNINGTIME
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| When the new President of Brazil, JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, finally left the presidential office at 9 p.m., at the end of his first day at work, Catete Palace staffers expected that hourly load to decrease soon. But the President kept coming to the office at 7 a.m. and working 12-to-14-hour a day. Those who survived KUBITSCHEKs new workload had just about decided that the change in Catetes tropical routines was permanent. Even before the President signed a bill approved by Congress ending the state of siege imposed by an interim government, KUBITSCHEK withdrew military patrols around Catete. KUBITSCHEK canceled the guard ceremonies traditionally held every time the President entered or left the Presidential Palace. In order to make the seat of executive power more efficient, he personally oversaw a full redeployment of office space. He reduced Catetes staff from 586 to 392, closed the three palace kitchens that served lunch (on the house) for about 200 officials. The new rule: Catete staff will be entitled to an hour of lunch, but will have to pay on their own. |
| The President himself, accompanied by one adviser, went to a simple restaurant, ordered a lunch of black beans and pork. Although he hasnt worn a hat for 25 years, he did wear one of the four Homburgs he bought in London during his preinauguration tour. Determined to save money to fight the inflationary government deficits, the President instructed his ministers to scan departmental budgets and pare away any padding. He hopes to cut the general budget drawn up by the previous government by at least 7%. To carry out the five-year development program Energy, Transport and Food. KUBITSCHEK first needs to attract foreign capital to Brazil. KUBITSCHEK talked to potential American and German investors and got quick action on at least one project. A team of Mercedes-Benz automen arrived in Rio from Germany [sup]New Provenance[/sup], spoke with the President and promptly accelerated the project for a truck factory. |
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Maziya
[list][list][sub]February, 1956[/sub]
[sub]Coalition Government Forms[/sub][/list]
[list][sub]Foundation of a true multiparty democracy or a shift of power?[/sub]
[list][list][sub]How happy is the one who says I am a Turk! - National Motto[/sub][/list][/list]
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Negotiations
[sub]Ankara, Republic of Turkey Afternoon[/sub]
[list][sub]The Democrat Party now finds itself in a parliament where it no longer has an absolute majority and is surrounded by other factions vying for power.[/sub][/list]
- With the unexpected results of the 1955 elections, the Menderes administration found itself in a parliament it no longer dominated, and easily outnumbered by its opposition. To avoid the collapse of his government and the possible destruction of his party, Menderes entered into talks with the only other sympathetic party in parliament, the Republican Nation Party, which was made up of Turkey's firmly nationalistic right-wing voters who had lost faith in Menderes' own party to deal with the country's foreign threats. Will Menderes succeed and keep his power, or will he fall? -
[list]| [sub]Osman Bölükbaşı, (Republican Nation Party) Party Leader [/sub] | Menderes. It's time to take action. Our negotiations and discussions have dragged on for far too long. With the start of a new year, we have an opportunity to usher in a new era. The deal I'm proposing is more than fair and will ensure that your party remains in power while also representing our interests fairly. It's up to you to decide whether to accept this offer or risk losing control of your party to the opposition[/list]
| Menderes had avoided this day for as long as he could, dragging talks as long as he could in an attempt to force the RNP to concede as much power as he could. But Bölükbaş is a seasoned politician who made every attempt almost pointless standing firm with his demands. Menderes is forced to choose between losing power or side with hardline nationalists, threatening his envision path for Turkey in the region, but as long as he controls enough key positions, all he needs to worry about is the next election. And with this deal he could barely manage it. |
[list]| [sub]Adnan Menderes, (Democrat Party) Party Leader [/sub] | ... you drive a hard bargain Bölükbaş.
| [sub]Osman Bölükbaşı, (Republican Nation Party) Party Leader [/sub] | Politics, as you know, is for those who are willing to make sacrifices in order to win. And you must make sacrifices if you want to play the game. Are you willing to make those decisions or will you lose to those who will?[/list]
| Menderes sighed and grab the contract from the table one last time, going over which seats were assigned to each party before signing the agreement and forming the coalition as a legal entity. Now he's ensuring his continued power, if only for a few more years until the next election. |
Coalition Positions;
(1) Prime Minister - [Democrat Party]
(2) Deputy Prime Minister - [Republican Nation Party]
(3) Ministry of State - [Democrat Party]
(4) Ministry of Justice - [Democrat Party]
(5) Ministry of National Defense - [Republican Nation Party]
(6) Ministry of the Interior - [Republican Nation Party]
(7) Ministry of Foreign Affairs - [Democrat Party]
(8) Ministry of Finance - [Republican Nation Party]
(9) Ministry of National Education - [Democrat Party]
(10) Ministry of Public Works - [Democrat Party]
(11) Ministry of Health and Social Security - [Republican Nation Party]
(12) Ministry of Customs and Monopolies - [Democrat Party]
(13) Ministry of Transport - [Democrat Party]
(14) Ministry of Establishments - [Republican Nation Party]
(15) Ministry of Economy and Commerce - [Republican Nation Party]
(16) Ministry of Agriculture - [Democrat Party]
(17) Ministry of Labor - [Republican Nation Party]
[list][list][spoiler=[sub]Written for the RMB Screen of the[/sub]
COMMONWEALTH OF LIBERTY
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Adriatican Islands, Maziya, Greater Kurdistane, Brazil Toucan, Hashemite Kingdoms
[list][list]February 1956
[sub]Rio de Janeiro[/sub][/list]
[pre] D I S P A T C H W O R K ¹[/pre]
THE SEAT OF THE BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795233
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1795483
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1815967
[list][sub]The Federal Government of Brazil (Governo Federal) is the national government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, a republic in South America divided in 24 states and a federal district. The Brazilian federal government is divided in three branches: the executive, which is headed by the President and the cabinet; the legislative, whose powers are vested by the Constitution in the National Congress; and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in the Supreme Federal Court and lower federal courts. The seat of the federal government is located in Rio de Janeiro.[/sub]
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[sub]¹ DISPATCHWORK, dispatches/factbooks designed by Para in the Commonwealth of Liberty (COL)[/sub]
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Ma-Li
YUGOSLAV OVERVIEW FACTBOOK
Muchas gracias to Paramountica for creating the wonderful banner and granting me the template for this overview factbook, which in the future shall include a wiki and complete links to all Yugoslav Affairs.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1852305
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie, Ma-Li
[list]February 1956
[sub]Deutschland, Our Home[/sub][/list]
[pre]D I S P A T C H W O R K[/pre]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1736779
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¹ DISPATCHWORK, dispatches/factbooks designed by Para in the Commonwealth of Liberty (COL)[/sub][/list]
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The Bamako Conference Part 1: An Unholy Alliance
February-March 1956
Léopold Senghor's hands were sweating and he was an absolute nervous wreck. He had been a writer for many years, writing during the Second World War, and post-war, and had become one of Africas most famous and well known writers. He had taught in Paris, survived concentration camps, and been elected numerous times. Despite this now hear he was terrified before an audience of his peers. His eyes scanned the crowd of around 250 men, all representatives of the various constituent parts of the French West African Federation.
Most of these men were on Senghors side, liberal conservatives, social democrats, and democratic socialists, were the ones he could most rely on. He was most worried about the African Socialists, and the African Nationalists.
On the African Nationalists was Daniel Kablan Duncan, Hamani Diori, Sidi el Moktar N'Diaye, Akrud Ag Ihemma, and Louen Ag Ould, and Gnassingbé Eyadéma
Meanwhile, the African Socialists were more fractured. The main leaders were Mathieu Kérékou, Cheikh Anta Diop, Cheikh Anta Dio.
Senghor could reliably cobble together the votes of Nicholas Gruntizky, Maurice Yaméogo, Christophe Kragbé Gnagbé, and Louis Beavogui.
Finally, Senghor shook away the thoughts and began to speak.
LS: Gentlemen, and Comrades, welcome to Bamako, firstly I graciously thank Mr. Keïta for hosting and helping in paying for this conference
| Everyone politely claps for Senghor, and Keïta.[/I]
LS: Thank you, thank you, We are here today to discuss the merging of all of our political parties, factions, and clubs, and the creation of a framework for an independent nation. Gentlemen we all know the French colonial rule is ending (this is followed by enthusiastic cheering), yes yes, everyone knows it, only the most ultranationalistic, or deluded Frenchman can deny it. But in their eventual fall we must ask ourselves, what of Africa? I see only two options for us that lay ahead. Either we become bickering small states, unable to achieve economic, political, or social stability, or instead we can become a might United Federation. Marching forwards into the future together, prosperous, and strong. Today we shall discuss the terms by which this new nation shall form and take. Firstly I will lay out my terms and vision, and then I will invite others to speak, and hear their opinions, views, and disagreements. Then we will reconvene and attempt to find a middle ground.
| Senghor looked into the crowd, there was some enthusiastic murmuring and discussion from the Socialists, and his loyalists; he smiled happily. His eyes scanned further over to the left and he frowned. The African Nationalist bloc sat with their arms crossed their eyes burning holes into him. If looks could kill, thered be nothing left of Senghor. Nonetheless he coughed, straightened his tie and steadied himself on stage with his hands on the podium and began to give his actual proposal.[/I]
LS: Well let us begin. There are 3 major areas I wish to touch upon, that I, and those that have already agreed to join my party have laid out. Those areas are social, economic, and political.
We must recognize the changing world we live in. We must catch up, improve the rights of our own workers, women, and reduce some of our old practices. While we must take pride and keep the foundations of our cultures; however, we must recognize and cast down that which is barbaric, archaic, and holding us in the past. Most notably, slavery, caste systems, and isolationism from the wider nation.
As we join the world economy as our own state we would and must recognize the fact we are incapable and weak to complete independence. We lack a sizable middle class, large scale irrigated agriculture beyond subsistence, and a large amount of small businesses. In order to ensure we do not collapse we must stand with France for the time being. We must use their help economically, peg our currency to theirs, and supplement our economy with free trade.
Politically I believe we can all agree Africa is not ready for a developed multi party democracy. The idea in itself is entirely foreign to us, and even in European countries with long histories of multi party democracy they are divided, and rife with stories of government collapses, and infighting. In order to institute the reforms necessary to ensure our state develops, we must have a strong one party system, at least for now.
Now I will cease my incessant talking at you all, I hope you all think over my proposal, and I will await to hear your responses.
| Senghor left the stage to an explosive applause from his representatives, half applause from the socialists, and muted grumbling from the nationalists.
The group would then break for a few days to discuss amongst their various representatives. Senghor remained sick with anticipation spending days in a small office in Bamako, where he would be wracked by nervous sickness spending his nights sleepless, and his days vomiting.
Until one day he received a visitor to his office, Modibo Keïta one of the organizers of the conference. Senghor knew Keïta, he was charismatic, and witty, but entirely unaware of the complexities of a modern economy and running a state.
With a grin that chilled Senghor to the bone, Keïta slithered into his office.
MK: Comrade Senghor, you arent looking so good. Is the weight of this Conference getting to you?
LS: Please, Mr Keïta do not patronize me. We both know this conference is important. The future of West Africa depends on its success. If it fails I can hardly imagine the trajectory of the continent, division, warfare, coups, a new round of foreign colonization.
MK:No, no comrade I am not patronizing you at all! I also am very worried about the future of West Africa, and that is why Im here. I want to offer us a way to a truly mutually beneficial future.
| Senhor leaned back in his chair thinking for a moment, was it better to side with this communistic snake? Hed have a hard time selling it to his own party, not to mention the concessions Keïta would extract out of him. Nonetheless, Senghor also knew without Keïta it was likely the entire Federation idea would dissolve as French Sudan laid at the heart, culturally and literally, or the concept of the Federation of Mali. Was he really willing to sacrifice his own ideals to unify this state?
Senghor shook his head, he already knew the answer. He had to do it for them, all of them, their eyes frozen in perpetual death in those camps while Senghor was left to walk free. He had been so lost in thought he hadnt noticed Keïta had helped himself to a bottle of French Wine that Senghor had been given by the Pierre Messmer himself.
LS: I have considered your offer, and I would be open to an alliance. But I must know now, what is it that you are expecting out of this?
MK: Come on Comrade dont play dumb. We both know I am not the most interested in statecraft, and administering a nation. Thats why I need you. Youre a strong administrator, and are exceedingly intelligent. But we both also know you need me. All I ask, is that when this new state forms, we establish a power sharing agreement. I will be the President of the Federation, a mostly symbolic figurehead with some minor concessions on veto rights, and you can have all you dreamed of as Prime Minister. All Ill ask is some minor economic and social concessions.
| Senghor blinked in amazement. Not only had Keïta recognized his relative inexperience and disinterest, but he offered a genuine solution. While no doubt there would be some attempt to increase his own power in the future, for now a mutually beneficial alliance laid open. Senghor got to his feet and reached out grabbing Keïtas hand clasping it.
LS: Mr Keïta, you have a deal. Now lets discuss concessions, and the votes you can deliver me.
| As the two men began to work vigorously through the night, Senghor felt reinvigorated and hopeful for the future. Progressively the two became more drunk through the night, and for a small moment they seemed like genuine friends; rather than scheming political rivals.
Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie
Urban Renewal is a Must To Keep Up With Demand, Says Head of The Ministry of Public Works!
[list][list][sub]February 1956[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]It has been a year since the Segundo Plan Quinquenal was concluded in 1955, culminating in the transformation of the Rio de la Plata's economic landscape into a modern industrial one. To keep up with domestic/foreign investment and business ventures within Buenos Aires and other cities, the Ministerio de Obras Públicas, under the command of Pedro Mendiondo, has firstly authorized the construction of a new business complex in the heart of the Retiro and San Nicolás neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires. Dubbed the 'Catalinas Norte Gateway', this envisages the construction of a highway that will extend from Tigre to La Plata, as well as rezoning Catalinas to allow for the construction of office buildings of up to 70 floors. Lots have already been sold to Aerolíneas Platinas, Conurban S.A, IBM, Impresit Sideco, Kokourek S.A, SEGBA (the state-owned city electric utility), Sheraton, and the Rioplatanese Industrial Union (UIP). The new economic district will be a model for future development in Buenos Aires as well as other prominent La Platan cities such as Montevideo, Santiago, and Córdoba. In Santiago specifically, the rise of Japanese investment will be most felt as the recent La Platan-Japanese negotiations in Tokyo between Prime Minister Ichirō Hatoyama and President Juan Dimingo Perón, have bore fruit. The Ministerio de Obras Públicas believes firmly that a new economic district there will be the financial heart of La Platan Pacific trade and business, dealing with La Platan interests in East Asia, specifically Japan and potentially Korea (to be decided) as well. Japanese car manufacturers like Nissan, Toyota, Isuzu, and Hino, that will operate under the Industrias Aeronáuticas y Mecánicas del Estado brand in the Rio de la Plata as per negotiations, will be headquartered in Santiago.[/sub]
[list][sub]Pedro Mendiondo, Minister of Public Works: "I think it is in the interest of the state to pursue this endeavor in earnest. The Americans in Buenos Aires and to a lesser but growing extent, the Japanese in Santiago, have been investing in our country recently. With new businesses entering the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata, the secondary sector of the Rioplatanese economy will facilitate job growth and meet the demands of an ever growing population and their desire for goods."[/sub][/list]
[sub]Meanwhile, 113 kilometers away in San Antonio, the port there will be expanded to keep up with the increase in Pacific Ocean shipping between the West Coast of the Rio de la Plata, the West Coast of the United States, and East Asia. Puerto San Antonio will contain 52 berths, encompass 225 acres, and have a draft depth of 11 meters. In addition, rail facilities will be constructed to allow for the transportation of goods and other products to and from the Puerto San Antonio via Ferrocarriles del Estado Platino, La Plata's state run railway. The recent acquisition of EMD diesel-electric locomotives have also been taken into account by the Ministerio de Obras Públicas, resulting in their approval of a refueling station and maintenance shop near the expanded port. It is the hope of President Juan Dimingo Perón, that the port there, will one day rival the Puerto de Buenos Aires on the east coast of the country, and lead to further development beyond the Andes. The ministry expects the plan to be concluded within a decade and usher in a new era for the Southern Cone.[/sub]
[list][list][sub]Palacio de Pedro de Valdivia, Morandé 59, Santiago, Kewtpuff[/sub][/list][/list]
[sub]Several well dressed individuals could be seen standing over a model of Santiago's new business district with a plaque labeled 'Santiago de La Plata' in front of the miniature representation of the city to showcase how it will look once completed. Several of the men are holding hand pointers and pointing out specific sections of the model and asking questions. One of these men is President Perón himself.[/sub]
[list][sub]Juan Dimingo Perón, President of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: "...and this is where the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota will be headquartered, sí?"[/sub][/list]
[sub]Pedro Mendiondo, Minister of Public Works, and overseer of the development projects all throughout La Plata, approaches Perón with his hand pointer and points out the building as he nods.[/sub]
[list][sub]Pedro Mendiondo, Minister of Public Works: "Sí, sí Excelentísimo Señor! This building right here will be home to Toyota's headquarters, naturally under the IAME brand of course, as per your request, a request the Japanese have honored and one that I shall see completed."[/sub][/list]
[sub]Perón nods slowly as he clicks his tongue, walking around the model of the city, inspecting every detail, making sure everything is perfect. For the President is perfect, and his projects must also be perfect.[/sub]
[list][sub]Juan Dimingo Perón, President of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata: "Very good, Pedro, very good. I'm impressed. Carry on then, as you were. I will be back next week to inspect your plans for Buenos Aires and San Antonio."[/sub][/list]
[sub]With that, the Dictator of the Southern Cone leaves Señor Mendiondo's office. Several of the men present, who are undoubtably his aides, follow close behind. Mendiondo is left to continue discussions with the rest of the gentlemen still remaining.[/sub]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, New Provenance, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie, Ma-Li
[list]February 1956
[sub]The Bombay Riots[/sub][/list]
[list][list][pre]एक तार द्वारा एक साथ आयोजित: बॉम्बे में नृजातीय भाषाई सीमाओं पर भड़के दंगे, भारत की विविधता और विभाजन पर प्रकाश डालते हुए
HELD TOGETHER BY A STRING: RIOTS ERUPT IN BOMBAY OVER ETHNOLINGUISTIC BOUNDARIES, SPOTLIGHTING INDIA'S DIVERSITY AND DIVISION[/pre][/list][/list]
[list][sub]FEBRUARY 1956 | फरवरी 1956[/sub][/list]
[list][sub]Since the dawn of her independence, India with its multitude of ethnic groups remains at times draught with tension. More of a continent within a nation than a nationstate of a singular people, a state panel has been diligently redrawing boundaries to accommodate the 14 major language groups' demands for their own state for the past two years. The 16 million Maharashtrians of Bombay state have always been predicted to cause the most problems, especially since they had to share a state the size of California with 11 million Gujaratis, who they resent and thus so, tensions exploded as New Delhi sought to quell with posthaste.[/sub]
[sub]The Maharashtrians were a fierce and powerful people that once dominated all of central India. It didn't help that most Gujaratis were shopkeepers by trade and caste, a difference of military might and economic commerce. Yet, during the era of the British Raj, imperial authorities were successful in defeating militant violence and boosting morale among the trade merchants. The once-proud Maharashtrians are now the West Coast's work force, while the Gujaratis have slowly taken over the city of Bombay, India's financial capital and largest city. The Gujaratis who both employ yet are resented by the city's larger population of Maharashtrians.[/sub]
[sub]A bilingual state was acceptable to the Gujaratis, however not to the Maharashtrians. The city of Bombay was proposed as the capital of their proposed state. Prime Minister Nehru offered a solution last week in which the state of Bombay would be split in two, with each linguistic group receiving its own territory, and the city of Bombay would become a distinct, bilingual area managed by the federal government in New Delhi.[/sub]
[sub]Morarji Desai, the Chief Minister of Bombay State and a frequently talked-about candidate to succeed NEHRU, knew that this was the time the Communists had been waiting for. Desai had police round up 435 top members of the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, and the United Maharashtra Party before sunrise. Likewise, the Communists had made plans for just such a scenario. Covertly trained replacements sprang into action immediately. Hundreds of thousands of Maharashtrian workers followed their lead and poured out of docks, textile factories, and railroad shops into the streets, where they chanted, DOWN WITH THE FEDERAL REGIME!" The rioters destroyed lampposts and fences, blocked streets with stones and fuel drums. They desecrated images of federal governors by smashing statues and burning effigies. Outraged crowds, numbering as high as 10,000 people, attacked and robbed police stations, sacked local businesses, and terrorists destroyed trains, threw rocks at buses, and torched automobiles.[/sub]
[sub]These outraged crowds, many carrying black protest flags and homemade spears, rampaged through the streets of Bombay. Police pulled up their trucks in a tight circle around major intersections, mimicking the formation of covered wagons in western films found in America, and engaged in fierce gun engagements with stone-throwing demonstrators. From the safety of the circle, they sent out raiding parties into the surrounding area, capturing dozens of rioters before returning with their captives to the police intersections. During six days of riots, 56 people were confirmed deceased by authorities, however unconfirmed reports put the number closer to 250. Several thousands were hurt, and many more are locked up.[/sub]
[sub]In Calcutta; The Chief Minister, Desai, saw the city of Bombay burn from his home high above the city. Desai, a native of Gujarat, had cautioned the Prime Minister against creating new states based on language. He lamented that the violence in Maharashtra had undermined India's reputation as a model of nonviolence abroad. Democracy in India becomes mobocracy and India is slashed to pieces if the government caves to Maharashtrian violence. A need to form a national identity beyond local cultures was a requirement for the Indian federal state to endure.[/sub]
[sub]The communists would be overjoyed, and they were already pressing their advantage. They went on strike, causing chaos in Calcutta, to get more of Bihar State for West Bengal. Rioting broke out among Sikhs in Amritsar, and a Sikh leader warned of a possible replay of the "Bombay drama" in the Punjab if Sikh demands were not granted. Prime Minister Nehru made an emotional appeal to Congress leaders, moving many of them to tears as he defended the need for federal intervention into the Bombay Crisis.[/sub]
[sub]"Who thrives if India does not seek unity, and who declines if India endures?"[/sub][/list]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie, Ma-Li
[list][list]FEBRUARY 1956
[sub]The Smiling President I[/sub][/list]
[pre] I N A U G U R A T I O N D A Y [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Hail, precious banner of hope!
Hail, august symbol of peace!
Thy noble presence to our minds
The greatness of our motherland does bring.[/pre][/sub][/list]
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, Brazil Toucan AFTERNOON
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| In the bustling city of Rio de Janeiro, everyone could hear the sound of church bells, scream of sirens and thud of artillery salutes mixed with the sounds of the flower-bedecked CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES in Rios TIRADENTES PALACE, but viewers seemed to ignore the background noise or the colors of the tropical flowers. Everyone paid attention to a man in a white tie and black tailcoat. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President[/sub] | I swear to uphold, defend and obey the Constitution of the Republic, and to maintain its union, integrity and independence.[/list]
[list]| [sub]FLORES DA CUNHA, Chamber of Deputies Speaker[/sub] | I proclaim you, Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic for a period of five years.[/list]
| After the oath of office, with applause, joy and fireworks, the new President of Brazil rode from Tiradentes Palace to Catete Palace, passing by cavalrymen in plumed ceremonial helmets and also by army tanks, remembering that Brazil was still in a state of siege. At Catete, Acting President NEREU RAMOS took the green-and-gold sash from his chest and handed it to the new President of the Republic. |
[list]| [sub]NEREU RAMOS, Former President of Brazil[/sub] | Mr. President, you are taking office at a time of great change and great hope.[/list]
| And with that, JUCELINO KUBITSCHEK, 54, assumed the Presidency of the Republic, his duty will be to govern a half-formed, painfully growing giant of a nation, greater in area than the U.S., greater in its 58 million population than France [sup]Metropolitan Francais[/sup] or Britain [sup]Great Britain Gb[/sup], but still a LAND OF THE FUTURE, its past a tangle of good intentions and bad techniques, its present clouded and uncertain. Brazils new President has made a promise to his countrymen not just to deal with the old and urgent problems of inflation and debt, but to push and pull the nation a long way toward the bright dream of tomorrow in his own phrase, to achieve FIFTY YEARS PROGRESS IN FIVE. KUBITSCHEK is a man of talent in the field of politics and a remarkable capacity for work; he will need both. Showing what he knows how to do as a politician, he broke protocol on the balcony of the Catete Palace a few minutes after taking office. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President[/sub] | I promised that I would enter this Palace that houses the executive power of this country with the Brazilian people. I will keep that promise.[/list]
| He ordered the guards to open the gates and let in the huge crowd who were chanting his name. Still wearing the presidential sash, he blended in with the visitors who were talking to him. He hugged and greeted each of them. He made a brief, unscheduled speech from the balcony. |
[list]| [sub]JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK, The President[/sub] | I will work for order, justice and the welfare of the people.[/list]
| WE ARE WITH YOU, JUSCELINO! someone yelled, and everyone yelled in agreement. One of the first official acts of the new President was to decree the end of press censorship imposed by the interim government in November. A few days later, he asked Congress to lift the state of siege effective February 15, ten days ahead of schedule. As a gesture to show he does not expect violence, KUBITSCHEK plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. In the early hours of the morning, the President attended his first Cabinet meeting at 7 a.m., reminding ministers that he firmly intends to push forward his economic program and uphold a high standard of administrative morality. That night, the President hosted a banquet for the 59 foreign delegations gathered in Rio. At Catete Palace the next day, KUBITSCHEK met with Vice President RICHARD NIXON and Assistant Secretary of State HENRY HOLLAND to discuss Brazils need for U.S. help to boost its economy and deal with the Communists. |
Paramountica, Spainard, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Vargorie, Ma-Li
[list]February 1956
[sub]The People's Campaign[/sub][/list]
[pre]T H E P R E C A M P A I G N[/pre]
| With the 1957 FEDERAL ELECTIONS approaching, the national PRE-CAMPAIGN is in full swing. The governing Christian Democrats under Chancellor Konrad Adenauer have been quietly maneuvering to prepare for a strongly-financed campaign to secure the much-desired 50% of the vote - which would under Germany's D'Hondt election system allocate them a total majority in the German Bundestag. Adenauer had presided as Chancellor since 1949, and was widely popular (despite his strong personality and lack of affability in the public) thanks to his presiding over what many now call the German economic miracle - essentially every statistic is on the up, and negative statistics like unemployment and workplace incident rates are falling. The chancellor had spent the late months of 1955 beginning the traction for the '57 campaigns emphasizing in a speaking tour in Bavaria that the economic state of the country was 'thanks to the great men and women of the Christian Democrats'. Behind the scenes, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard - himself a rising star and one of the most likely politicians to succeed Adenauer to the chancellorship should he step down - maneuvered quietly in the background to keep the economic wheels of the Federal Republic turning - after all, if economic downturn suddenly took effect before the election, the effects on the results would be catastrophic. |
| The prime opposition party, the Social Democrats (SPD) under the moderate social democrat Erich Ollenhauer, had spent its time in opposition since 1949. At first a quietly pro-Marxist and anti-capitalist party, Ollenhauer had swept in after the death of former opposition leader Kurt Schumacher, introducing a series of reforms that moderated the party and transitioned it over to a big-tent, left-wing social democratic alliance of workers and unions. This had proven effective on the local level, with the various Lander seeing an uptick in seat allocations to the SPD. While the Christian Democrats were performing immensely well on the national level, the SPD were regarded as the plurality leader on the level of the German states. Despite the skyrocketing economy behind Adenauer and the CDU/CSU, Ollenhauer affirmed at a party conference in December of 1955 that 'all hands' would be on deck in 1957 in their attempt to take the Bundestag and hopefully form a government. |
| The minor parties themselves were also initiating various levels of preparations. The collapsed Konservatives had evaporated from essentially every single ballot across the country, leaving the German right with barely any representation, except for within the most right-wing factions in the CDU (which composed a 'superminority' of the party). The Free Democratic Party (FDP) was a liberal progressive party that had been relegated to the status of third-largest party in the country since the 1949 federal election. Under the helm of the stabilizing Franz Blucher, and Bundesprasident Theodor Heuss, the party had fared well enough that they secured concessions from the Christian Democrats in exchange for serving in a coalition government with them. This arrangement was cordial and effective at giving Germany a stable government, but the FDP still aspired for higher goals - potentially even the chancellorship, should the time be right. Slightly more to the right than the CDU would be the fourth minor party, the German Democrats (DPD) under Joseph Gartner would also aspire to secure kingmaker status in the government - most realistically through a coalition with the CDU where they would extract concessions to guarantee more military funding, austerity, and other policies. These parties are unlikely to secure themselves the plurality and thus a shot at the chancellery, but they could play a role in coalition negotiations and could play a role in government moving forward. |
| By January, fundraising efforts were already in full swing. Chancellor Adenauer was frequently meeting with elite supporters and backers who had supported the CDU when it surged electorally in the 1953 election, and in the 1949 election when they barely secured government. The Chancellor emphasized that the economy and the European Community project would be the primary focuses of the 1957 campaign, and massive efforts to secure CDU plurality control of the various Lander would also be made. Ollenhauer's Social Democrats would begin planning a comprehensive framework for a 1957 People's Campaign (Volks-Kampagne) that would aim for higher public enthusiasm and participation in SPD campaigning efforts. The FDP would begin assembling analyst teams to prepare for an ad campaign on their behalf (in previous federal elections, the FDP had proven unusually proficient at advertising campaigns), while the DPD under Gartner would begin making preparations to have candidates stand in as many Bundestag districts as possible. |
| More likely than not, the German media is stating, the primary issues of the 1957 campaign will be the economy and foreign affairs. Adenauer and the CDU are expected to exploit the fact that they presided over extreme economic successes on the campaign trail, while the SPD are expected to focus more on foreign affairs 'failures' by Adenauer. The SPD was sure not to offer any form of opposition or distaste for the European Community (despite some reservations from isolationist factions within the party), but would instead focus on criticizing the CDU failure to 'guarantee a non-nuclear future for our children and grandchildren'. Ollenhauer had himself personally rejected a campaign by the SPD that would paint the CDU as socialist sympathizers due to the possibility of it backfiring. This early into the campaign, however, it is hard to say - but certainly, the chancellery could be open to the taking once more for the first time since 1949, as Adenauer grows older and he has yet to confirm explicitly whether he intends to run as party leader in 1957 or not. |
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Ma-Li
MARCH,1956
Station In Flames
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[U]Before The Attack
| A division was sent out to stay nearby "Jalan Fong Wei Yuan" to be on the lookout for any signs of the Maziyan People's Liberation Army making moves outside of Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi.Nearby to the road was a small train station connected to the capital city with the rail way mostly being used to transport over food from farmlands into the capital city to provide food for the people.With this specific station being the greatest contributor to transporting farm food towards the capital city.With the potential threat that the Maziyan People's Liberation Army possessed,the soldiers were sent there to secure the safety of such a strategically important station.
| However to the confusion of the soldiers who were being sent over there,with one soldier talking about it while they sat in their APC.
[List][I]"I don't understand,why would we be sent over to such a rural part of the nation.Surely this "Liberation Army" can't be that bad"[/I][/list]
The soldier said to,his Major.The Major himself was confused saying:
[List][I]"It's probably because they've managed to eliminate the towns local authorities and the division that was stationed there.Maybe that division were poorly trained,I don't see how trained soldiers could be defeated by some random villagers.They didn't tell us much on what happened there before they dispatched us."[/I][/list]
Things went on as soldiers,speculate on the possible threat that these people could be before they reached their destination.
| Once they reached their location their colonel,the highest ranked official sent to manage the division.Called everyone to attention and line up.
[List][I]"Based of what I heard,on the ride over to here.Many of you speculate on what a major threat these people possess.Remember people.These are just a bunch of villagers who havent been trained harshly before.The most trained and skilled individuals over there were just people who fought against the Japanese as part of the People Of Maziya Anti Japanese Army.I was one of them.Meanwhile you all are officially trained soldiers who even the youngest here have at least 2 years of experience of training.All that I'm trying to say is...They should be a easy opponent to squash."[/I][/list]
After that they all went to set up their post with the soldiers there still being trained and being assigned duty's.
[U]The Attack
| One night,everyone in the outpost was asleep except for those who were stationed for night duty.Outside of Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi,was Jalan Fong Wei Yuan.Which leads to another small town where the division was posted at.The road itself was surrounded by jungle so the Maziyan People's Liberation Army,had a small batch be sent out to travel through the jungle to reach the small town,to gather some supplies from the small town without knowing that there was a military division stationed there.
| Once the batch arrived at the town they were spotted by soldiers on night duty and a fire fight began.The soldiers who were sleeping woke up from the sound of gun fire and went out of their base with guns at the ready to join the fire fight.The colonel stayed back a bit to observe the madness,the colonel couldn't see very well in the poorly lit town so he thought the small batch of 20 was more then that.So he began yelling for a temporary retreat to at least those who could hear him.They retreated into their base.Those who couldn't hear the call for retreat continued the fire fight.
| Eventually one of the 20 in the batch ran all the way back to Kampung Hutan Tersembunyi to ask for reinforcements before leading them to the small town with now a additional 11 more men.Soon the small groups of soldiers who didn't hear the yell for retreat were being picked of as they didn't have a central command to manage their small divided groups.Although the main purpose of the first batch was to just try and gather supplies from the locals,they spotted the train station and decided to tamper with the station rails by damaging the rails as much as they can.Then setting fire to the station.
| Soon their attention was redirected at the soldiers in their base.The base was made out of wood with the roof out of zinc.In the base there is a door on the floor for emergency escapes.They were briefly considering using it to try and jump them but the colonel stopped them.The batch of the Maziyan People's Liberation Army.Soon creeped up the stairs in the base,those who showed up without guns had spears one of them walked past a window and was shot.
| Those who had spears tried to angel their spears to poke through the windows without being seen.Once they thrusted their spears it managed to hit a few soldiers.Those who had guns ran it and bust open the door to start laying down fire.The colonel began ordering his soldiers to try and find cover and stay away from any windows.However it was all for not and the colonel sat there with a bullet through his shoulder,bleeding out.The soldiers who lived including the colonel were take away to be prisoners.
[U]Aftermath
| Those back in the army HQ in the capital city,started wondering what happened to the division that was sent out to the small town.As there have been no reports coming from the division for a week.They decided to send out a scouting party to see what's going on in the area.
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paramountica, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Ma-Li
[list][list]March 1956
[sub]The West Indies[/sub][/list]
[pre] C A R I B B E A N ¹[/pre]
THE WEST INDIES, Great Britain Gb A SUMMIT[/list]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1853286
[list]
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[sub]¹ CARIBBEAN, Empire events concerning Great Britain's holdings in the Caribbean proximity. [/sub]
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Paseo, Amsterwald, Victoria Harbor, Pontianus, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Metropolitan Francais, Osivoiii, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Van Diemens Landt, Hatzburg, Brazil Toucan, Ma-Li
[list][list]FEBRUARY 1956
[sub]The Smiling President II[/sub][/list]
[pre] T H E P L A N O F G O A L S [/pre]
[list][sub][pre]Hail, precious banner of hope!
Hail, august symbol of peace!
Thy noble presence to our minds
The greatness of our motherland does bring.[/pre][/sub][/list]
CATETE PALACE, Brazil Toucan MORNINGTIME
[sub]RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Toucan[/sub]
| Brazilian President JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK will make a hurried three-week trip through the United States and Europe, to make allies and bring foreign investment to Brazil. The trip also served to boost KUBITSCHEKs prestige and give Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on the kind of man they voted for. Even his supporters will probably be surprised by him. There have been Brazilian Presidents who have been generals, statesmen and intellectuals, but never a business President. KUBITSCHEKs economic plan is presented in a 247-page document drawn up in 1955 and a brain-trust panel headed by LUCAS LOPES, an engineer who headed the electricity program in Minas Gerais. To implement his plan of goals, the President will establish an Economic Development Committee, composed of key administration officials and economic technicians. KUBITSCHEK expects private capital to do most of the development job. The KUBITSCHEKs goals program: |
[list][list]▌[sub]POWER: Electricity production will be expanded from the current 3,000,000 kilowatts to 5,000,000 by 1960. This will require around $300 million worth of imported equipment.[/sub]
▌[sub]TRANSPORTATION: Government-owned railroads that are currently inefficient will be improved; construction of 6,200 miles of roads; improvement of existing roads. Purchase of 50-odd ships of various tonnages to reduce ocean freight bills.[/sub]
▌[sub]MINING & MANUFACTURING: Increase coal production; increase iron ore exports from the current 1,600,000 tons per year to 10,000,000 tons. Encourage the manufacture of locomotives and heavy machinery; create an automobile industry that will produce 100,000 cars, jeeps, and trucks a year by 1960.[/sub]
▌[sub]OIL: KUBITSCHEK faces the Brazilian nationalism imposed by ex-President Vargas, which keeps foreign capital out of oil development. The Brazilian state-owned Petrobrás extracts 6,500 barrels a day, around 3% of consumption. The new President is going to prevent the oil import bill, around $280 million per year, from increasing with the increase in national consumption.[/sub][/list][/list]
| Even with imports controlled by the government, Brazil accumulates exchange deficits. The two main products that the country exports, coffee and cotton, are subject to price fluctuations. Half of Brazil's export earnings go to debt service, ocean freight, oil and wheat; for machines, raw materials and other imports reaches around $700 million per year about $12 per Brazilian. The shortage of foreign exchange stifles the countrys economic growth, reducing Brazil's ability to repay foreign loans and pay for capital goods. Brazilian external debt: $1.7 billion, about $900 million owed to the U.S. KUBITSCHEK expects his development program will help Brazil fight its old enemy, inflation. The dilemma here is how to finance the governments part of the program while alleviating monetary pressures. In recent years, the governments habit of printing money to meet budget deficits has kept inflation in a dizzying spiral. Retail prices nearly doubled in three years, rising faster than wages. The drop in wages has left Brazilian workers resentful of the government. |
| To move forward, President KUBITSCHEK will have to attract a lot of foreign capital to Brazil. Repeatedly during his preinauguration tour, KUBITSCHEK said his government would welcome foreign investment. For the programs energy and transportation sectors, the government will need loans from the U.S. Government. U.S. aid is needed to repay Brazils existing foreign debts. Just at inauguration time, the U.S. Export-Import Bank announced equipment loans totaling $55 million to Brazilian state-owned companies. In addition to the economic problems facing the country, President KUBITSCHEK has political concerns. Among the military, the preventive revolution left resentments strong enough to give a headache if the government fails. Vice President JOÃO GOULART, barred by the constitution to do anything more than preside over the Senate, must follow his own political path, focusing on the 1960 elections. KUBITSCHEK is still suspected, both in Brazil and abroad, of having made some kind of deal with the Reds; everything he does or says related to Communism will be examined for signs that he is paying a debt. And Brazils Communists are moving; they are under orders from Red Russia to wage an intense comeback campaign this year. |
| The problem of political rewards preoccupied KUBITSCHEK even before his inauguration. In forming his Cabinet, he had to consider the demands of political allies and his need for strong Congressional support. What emerged next was a line-up that seemed rather old-fashioned and politicized for a new government with a dynamic program. In at least two key Cabinet positions, however, KUBITSCHEK made his first choices: as Finance Minister, Federal Deputy JOSÉ MARIA ALKMIN; as War Minister, Gen. HENRIQUE TEIXEIRA LOTT. To keep his campaign promises despite all his political and economic obstacles will be a difficult task for energetic President JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK. |
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THE SLOVENE AIR FLEET: BUDGETARY WOES AND THE CLOSE-FISTED MASTERS OF THE ALPINE SKIES
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MARCH 1956[/sup][/list]
In the dry, icy skies above the Julian Alps, a teal- and gold-lined jet pierces the red light of dawn. It streaks, dipping and diving, from which shrieks escape and echo across the mountaintops. One of sixty jets in the Slovene Air Fleet, the Čebela Č7 is its pilots pride and joy. But the Slovene Air Fleet, for all its enthusiasm, faces significant financial woesa situation compounded by its small size. In the wake of the Second World War, air operations in the Slovenian Republic were limited, and some squadrons thus became severely underfunded, pinching at pennies to stay afloat. The governmental budget was not unlimited, or even extensivethe ambitious civil projects of the Slovene administration meant that corners had to be cut in military fields, even if politicians insisted on the robustness of Slovenias defenders. Regardless, the citizen-airmen of the Slovene Air Fleetmany of whom gained their first experience in the Warpersevered. From Ljubljana to Trst to Gradec, they focused on procuring old and outdated warplanes from the old Kingdom, scraps of which they cleverly modified and maintained. The first Čebela Č7 fighter, for instance, was built from second-hand Sabrejet parts. Over time, Slovene pilots developed novel techniques for maneuvering such jets through the choppy winds of the Alpine mountains.
Indeed, though the Air Force was one of the few fields where Slovenia stood to outpace the neighboring red behemoth, economic strains demanded personal greatness among Slovene airmen. Some of their most daring creations were inter-mountain flights: adaptation to the high terrain of northern and western Slovenia. The narrow channels and ridges of the mountainsides often made typical flight paths impossible. But the most skilled of the Slovenian Air Fleet could navigate such conditions, evading peaks and speeding through freezing, gusty air whirling between the peaksa way to outmatch opponents rather than outarm them. The sight of a Slovene jet weaving and soaring through the mountaintops fast became part of the folklore of the Republics rugged Alpine culture. Indeed, what Slovene pilots lacked in funding, they aimed to make up for with ingenuity. Still, they would not have to suffer so for long. The spring of 1956 would see President Nikola Koprivnikar secure a much-needed influx of military modernization under the benevolent hand of the United States. This budget increment varied across the military fields, of coursebut it was in the skies above the Julian Alps that it had the greatest impact. Nonetheless, the most formative decade of the Fleet had passed; at its core would remain the intrepid spirit of the Alpine aviators, those men and women who conquered the winds and heights of the mountains with nothing, and who would make unflinching, close-fisted use of whatever they had.
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INVESTING IN THE FUTURE - YUGOSLAVIA INTRODUCED TRADE ACCOUNT LOANS FOR FRIENDLY NATIONS
March 5th 1956
The Yugoslav State has today introduced "Trade Account Loans" as a method of assisting in the development of friendly Nations without indebting them too heavily in terms of their Government Budget and Interest repayments. The theory is simple, if Yugoslavia were to loan a Nation 100 million Dollars then as a result that Nation would have a negative Trade Loan balance. However every time said country imports goods from Yugoslavia the "profit" achieved by those trade deals actively pay off the loan and its inherent interest rate. As a result while a National Government might borrow 100 million, if its private Citizens are responsible for say 40% of the trade following that loan, the Government itself would have effectively only paid off 60%, a huge discount compared to traditional loans while Yugoslavia itself would be no worse off than before.
Some within the Economic Ministry have advertised it as a "Mutual Growth Agreement", that being that Yugoslavia can loan out its surplus Dollars to friendly Nations and said Nations then receive incentives to grow their Private and Government trade with Yugoslavia, and all of this without creating additional unsustainable interest expenditure as said Nations would still be importing Goods rather than simply giving away their hard earned money.
As an Example :
- Country A takes out a loan of 100 million, they import 50 million worth of goods every year and 20% of that (10,000,000) is profit for the Yugoslav State, this means that after roughly 10.5 years the entire initial loan of 100 million plus the interest of 5 million is repaid while enabling the Nation to have greater benefits as the "repayments" are in the form of trade. Existing trade ties from Private firms could therefore be used to fund Government loans, expanding the possibilities of financing public works. For Yugoslavia itself it would be no worse off, as the loan would be repaid in whole regardless, however it could potentially incentivize further trade to create further loans, thus increasing growth of Yugoslav exports.
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[pre]| FEBRUARY ФЕВРАЛЬ 1956 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]USSR ★ UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик CCCP |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
20TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION:
KHRUSHCHEV CEMENTS A NEW ERA OF SOVIET THOUGHT!
XX СЪЕЗД КОММУНИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ПАРТИИ СОВЕТСКОГО СОЮЗА:
ХРУЩЕВ ЗАКРЕПЛЯЕТ НОВУЮ ЭРУ СОВЕТСКОЙ МЫСЛИ!
[pre]| A cloud of mystery surrounded the 20th Congress, delegates in a swarm of confusion and inquiry on what the new First-Secretary Khrushchev. His first Congress, he understood the immense importance of the situation. On the first day a call for all to stand for the memory of those lost since the last meeting would bring mentioning of the passing of Comrade Stalin, but instead Khrushchev named Stalin in the same breath as Klement Gottwald and others. Taking some importance away from the death of the supposedly loved Comrade Stalin. For the ten day Congress meeting, Khrushchev made repeated sly remarks towards a possible new direction how leadership will work in the Union and a complete shift in attitudes. |[/pre]
[pre]| Soviet delegates received notification early in the morning of an unscheduled session for delegates to attend. As the delegation filtered into the room, Khrushchev began his morning speech focusing on making efforts to not again elevate a single man to such a status he took upon supernatural characteristics akin to those of a god. A sense of guilt could be heard on the First-Secretarys vocals. He stated he was guilty of the distortion of some of the most basic principles of Marxist-Leninism. Khrushchev released numerous testimonies from the Great Comrade Lenin espousing his wishes to block Stalins attempts to become leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After a slew of insults towards Stalin written by Lenin, but spoken by Khrushchev the audience met these statements with nervous laughter. As the laughter ended Khrushchev brought up the lies Stalin told to facilitate the massive purges that took place in the Soviet Union, to the shock of the crowd. He did continue to praise the Communist Party for being able to withstand the negatives and false narratives spewed by Stalin. Khrushchev called the Party a victim of the crimes of Stalin, not an accessory to them. The speech ended with a revolutionary call by Khrushchev to End the Cult of Personality and to return to the revolutionary fight for the transformation of society! |[/pre]
[pre]| Khrushchevs Thaw has officially begun and Congress elected! |[/pre]
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[pre]| MARCH MACHI 1956 |[/pre]
[list][list][list][pre]CPK ★ COLONY AND PROTECTORATE OF KENYA
Ukoloni na Ulinzi wa Kenya UUK |[/pre][/list][/list][/list]
FUNDING SECURED:
WITH FUNDING SECURED THE PRAB CAN COMMENCE ITS OPERATIONS ACROSS KENYAS NATIVE COUNTRYSIDE!
FEDHA IMELINDA:
HUKU UFADHILI UTAKAOPANDA PRAB INAWEZA KUANZA SHUGHULI ZAKE KATIKA NCHI ASILI YA KENYA!
[pre]| Funding came from a multitude of sources, some foreign and some domestic. Domestically, Trade Unions began with initial funding to build up the first wave of resources followed by donations and volunteering of labor and materials by the growing roster of members in the PRAB. Internationally China and Yugoslavia would agree to fund the PRAB covertly to provide the majority of funding for PRAB operations in the coming months. |[/pre]
[pre]| Operation Red Hands would focus on assisting farmers in the Southwest of Kenya with building irrigation ditches, constructions barns and buildings, donating new farming equipment, building fences, and procurement of livestock for very discounted prices to farmers. Trade Unionists, a part of the PRAB, would begin negotiations with buyers of agricultural products in the countryside to bring fair prices to farmers as part of the PRAB programs. |[/pre]
[pre]| With funding secured through foreign and domestics routes the PRAB has begun to implement programs in Southwest Kenya for its start with talks of increasing the outreach of programs to Northern Kenya and Northeast Kenya in a attempt to build a relation with Somali herders and communities in the east.[/pre]
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[sub]NEUES DEUTSCHLAND MARCH 1956[/sub]
[sub]| Walter Ulbricht pens a reflection on the 20th Congress of the CPSU for Neues Deutschland. |[/sub]
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1853384
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[list]March 1956
[sub]Magsaysay and Eisenhower[/sub][/list]
[pre]B L O S S O M I N G P A R T N E R S H I P S[/pre]
| The relationship between the THIRD REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES and the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA had been firmly close ever since independence was secured almost a decade ago, in 1946. All three presidents since then - Manuel L. Quezon (NP), Manuel Roxas (LP), and now RAMON MAGSAYSAY (NP) - had maintained a strong and firm relationship with the United States. Even as an independent nation, many Filipinos still looked up to the West as the icon and model for a development of the nation and Filipino society as a whole, and the Philippine government stood to benefit from strong ties with the United States. To Washington, a close alliance with the Philippines supported the EISENHOWER administration's aims of CONTAINTMENT of the communist threat - something the staunchly anti-communist Magsaysay was passionate about. This special relationship was re-affirmed with the visit of PRESIDENT MAGSAYSAY to Washington in from 3 to 9 March of 1956, arriving at HYDE FIELD in Maryland on the morning of the 3rd. |
| Meeting with PRESIDENT EISENHOWER and U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES at the White House, President Magsaysay and his delegations discussed the special strategic partnership between Washington and Manila, the Soviet Union and the rise of the Communist regime in China, and most specially, VETERANS BENEFITS. In the wake of the war, the Philippine government had been pushing for pensions and benefits for veterans who supported efforts to liberate the country from Japanese occupation. This bill was finally ratified by President Magsaysay in a 1955 bill that expanded benefits to veterans of the Filipino-American War and the Philippine Revolution as well. Securing support from EISENHOWER - himself a veteran military commander who was widely hailed as the commander who presided over the successful D-Day invasions in 1944 - Magsaysay secured support for a US-Philippines program to have the U.S. federal government provide their own benefits and pensions for Filipino veterans of the Second World War who 'contributed on some magnitude or other to the success of Allied Forces in the liberation of the Philippine Islands'. The Philippines' OFFICE FOR VETERANS was subsequently requested to begin a census to identify the number of veterans eligible for the pension and benefits agreement, which would not take effect for some time until the U.S. CONGRESS would be able to pass it. |
| On MARCH 5, 1956 - before a JOINT SESSION OF THE U.S. CONGRESS - President Magsaysay addressed the U.S. government. He emphasized the 'strong collective brotherhood' between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America, and urged the Congress to 'continue standing' in solidarity with the Filipino peoples 'as the global fight against tyrannical menaces continue into tomorrow'. |
[list]| [sub]RAMON MAGSAYSAY, Philippine President[/sub] | ". . . There is no doubt in my mind that the unending friendship between the United States and the Philippines continues to stand strong and will continue to stand strong. Despite intervening global forces and events that seek to dissuade the Free Powers of the World from combating the forces of communism and tyranny that pose the gravest threat to our societies, we have stood together in solidarity, through the rains and despite the thickest of the suns. Our peoples have stood with one another ever since the start of the century, and in a World War our brave men and women fought side by side for a free Philippines - free to make its own decisions, its own choices, and take on its own responsibilities. We have our own responsibilities and duties. Our generation, our men and women, we have been tasked with the duty of fighting for a future where our children can live their lives in peace. A world where they can raise their own without fear of unnecessary conflict or conscription into the deathly hallows of war. A world where humanity can be free to create, to hope, to love, and to fulfill the duties and meet the obligations presented unto them by God. The enduring Filipino-American relationship is a step forward towards that world - and I stand here today, honored and humbled of the support your country has provided to mine."[/list]
| The existing mutual defense agreements between the Philippines and the United States were also re-affirmed in a signed agreement, and between the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE and the PHILIPPINE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE an agreement was signed for the donation of surplus rifles, helmets and anti-personnel artillery from the wartime was agreed upon, to help bolster the Philippine defense forces as global anxiety regarding the tightening Communist-Capitalist conflict continued. President Magsaysay departed Washington on the evening of the 9th of March from HYDE FIELD - a reaffirmation of the US-Philippines relationship completed. |
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MARCH 1956
KIWI POST
Drug Escort busted in East Cape Coast
A Drug Escort has been busted by the Special Police Department of East New Zealand (SPDENZ). Around 1000g of Methametaphine and 1500g of Cocaine, supposedly being transported by some Pirates abroad, were brought by the English Mafia Familly of the Johnsons, with proof of witnesses stating that the Drugs were bought by the Familly, with high-ranking smugglers confirming such purchase made by the Johnsons. Ever since the rapid increase of funding for the police, we believe that the Johnsons have lost influence and power, with many members leaving due to the Police capturing dealers, members and other people related to the Johnsons. It is said that their main operations base is a Casino in New Plymouth or a Bar in Gisborne, though no exact name of the Casino or Bar is confirmed, the Special Police Department of East New Zealand continues to work with the Special Police Department of North New Zealand. Commissioner Barry of SPDENZ and Deputy Commissioner Theodore of SPDNNZ is leading the combined teams to crack down on the Mafia and might do a big blow to the Drug Dealing business in New Zealand. Many people applauded the effort, but during the economic recession of New Zealand during the 1920s and the 1940s, selling drugs in the black market, was the only thing helping the people to be above the line poverty, and able to pay their taxes and so much more, so if the same crises ever happen, whatever shall happen to the normal person if it may happen again? Only time shall tell and Only God shall help.
|Please be alert and report of any suspicious activity in your area/family/friends. Please report any found illegal substances, and if any citizen has it please hand it over to the nearest Police Station only. If anyone is caught in the act of using such illegal substances or caught purchasing or selling them, you will either have a 1000 New Zealand Dollar Fine or a lifetime sentence, only varying on your actions and involvement in this drug conspiracy|
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[list][list][list][pre]RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
FRENCH BUREAUCRACY
MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE NATIONALE[/pre][/list]
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MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE: NEGOTIATIONS OR ALL OUT WAR WITH THE ARABS AT HAND
[sub]IVTH FRENCH REPUBLIC | PARIS, MARCH 1956 [/sub][/list]
[sub]| HELM OF WARFARE, MINISTÈRE DE LA DÉFENSE NATIONALE, FRANÇAIS RÉPUBLIQUE - | In Paris the atmosphere was reminiscent of the bitter closing days of the Indo-China war. Editorialists summoned their darkest tones, politicians warned of "the line of last defense," headlines cried: TO LOSE ALGERIA IS TO LOSE FRANCE. Premier Guy Mollet, in the center of it all, havered uncomfortably. Once again irresolution was at the helm in France.[/sub]
[sub]Minister Resident in Algeria Robert Lacoste hurried back to Paris in a mood of desperate urgency, and with a proposal that combined threat and promise. He asked for another 200,000 men to reinforce the 230,000 troops already in Algeria, and for a huge investment program in Algeria totaling $570 million. Not until order was restored, he argued, should France negotiate with the rebels. The most influential man in Mollet's Cabinet, Minister-Without-Portfolio Pierre Mendès-France, backed Lacoste's military plans, but demanded that the government open negotiations with the rebels at once.[/sub]
[sub]By instinct and his Socialist upbringing a pacifist and anticolonialist, Guy Mollet did not like the role he was cast in. Lacoste's 200,000 men would mean transferring French troops from elsewhere in Europe where they are much needed at NATO's helm to prop-up defenses against Eastern aggressors. On the other hand, talk of negotiations with "the murderers of French women and children" would antagonize thousands of voters. For eight hours the Cabinet debated and argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program of $270 million and the dispatch of 75,000 troops. These could be obtained without any special call-ups or by robbing France's NATO forces. General Augustin Guillaume, chief of the French General Staff, who as Morocco's Resident General dethroned Sultan Ben Youssef two years ago, resigned in protest. He was replaced by General Paul Ely, whose name to Frenchmen unfortunately calls up the last despairing days of Indo-China.[/sub]
[sub]Mollet took to the air, appealing to the rebels: "If you lay down your arms, free and loyal elections will be organized within three months after the end of the combat and acts of violence." But "first, the guns must be silenced." He promised to discuss a new deal with the elected leaders that would respect "the originality and rights of the Muslim community," but he reiterated the familiar refrain: "Algeria is and will remain indissolubly linked to France." If these offers were rejected, "France would then be constrained to mobilize all her resources to insure by every means the security of the population."[/sub]
[sub]Mollet's program did not sit well with anybody. "A fake attempt to negotiate peace and half measures to prepare for war!" cried Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber in L'Express which is the newspaper of the Mendès-France camp, and this week gave up its costly attempt to become a Parisian daily and went back to being a weekly. The left-wing Combat warned: "It is the Indo-China solution. The shameful war by petits paquets (little packets), the blood spilled uselessly, with the prospect of an increasing extension of hostilities, capped by a new Điện Biên Phủ." The government itself was showing telltale signs of dissension, and Mendès-France was talking of quitting.[/sub]
[sub]In Algeria 300 were killed in one of the bloodiest weeks in the 16 months of crisis. In theory, if it comes to war in Algeria, the odds should favor the government, which has 230,000 French soldiers pitted against perhaps 15,000 armed rebels. However as seen in Indo-China, the rebels can count on the encouragement, tacit support or at least the silence of 8,000,000 Algerians.|[/sub]
[sub][list][pre]¶ In Morocco, "Black Crescent" terrorists went into action after a three-month lull, tossing bombs that injured 18 in Rabat, Marrakech and Casablanca.
¶ In Tunisia, where the ruling Neo-Destour moderates cracked down on dissident extremists last month, terrorists were operating so freely last week that French Commissioner Roger Seydoux wondered publicly whether Tunisians are up to the job of keeping the peace.
¶ In Algeria, moderates were not to be found, and the only sounds Nationalists made were gunshots. Touring the Aures mountain battleground, new Governor General and Minister Resident Robert Lacoste met Foreign Legionnaires who had just fought their way out of an ambush. In one of the bitterest battles of Algeria's little, undeclared war, eight Legionnaires and 48 rebels had died.[/pre][/list][/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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| DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF KURDISTAN - KOMARA DEMOKRATA KURDISTANÊ |
The Strength of the Defense Forces Secures the Sovereignty of the Revolution!
[sub]| Hêwler, Southern Defense District
| 21 March, 1956[/sub]
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Kurdistan celebrates a defiant Newroz holiday, showcasing the progress of its rearmament and the vast influence of the EKNS apparatus.
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Across the independent Democratic Republic of Kurdistan, a liberated and sovereign people celebrate the holiday of their deliverance. Newroz, literally New Day in Kurdish, has become a crucial symbol of the Kurdish nation. Signifying the beginning of spring and the new year for Kurds, it also holds deep significance as a symbol of Kurdish nationalism and liberation. Since beginning their self-styled Newroz Revolution in 1953, the left-nationalist EKNS government has made it a symbol of the regime and injected socialist imagery into the holiday. Nearly 16 years after signing the Treaty of Diyarbakir, the Kurdish nation endures.
On the 21st of March 1956, hundreds of thousands turn out for parades and organized celebrations. Party cadres, police, paramilitaries, soldiers, students, factory workers, and labor leaders march the streets in every major city. In the southern city of Hêwler the young regime has chosen to create a spectacle. The city has a population in excess of 200,000 and is the largest in the Southern Defense District, comprising the lands illegally claimed by the Hashemite Federation. A massive military parade there is made the centerpiece of the governments propaganda effort. Elite units from Kurdistans revered 27th Armored and 33rd Motor Rifle Divisions marched along with elements from the radical Peoples Revolutionary Guard. They showcase Kurdistans newest equipment, including AK-47 rifles, T-54s MBTs, BTR-152 APCs, and BM-14 MLRS systems. Artillery pieces and anti-tank guns were towed en masse along with throngs of mechanized and motorized infantry. Mig-17 jet fighters and Il-28 jet bombers streak by overhead, putting the capability of the Peoples Air Force on full display. The troops are mostly young men, most of whom have no memory of a nation other than Kurdistan. It is the dedication and fervor of these men, their willingness to spill their own blood for People and Party, that secures Kurdistans sovereignty.
Forgoing even more elaborate celebrations in Amed, President Remman attends the parade in Hewler along with members of the EKNS Politburo and National Defense Council. The Party engineered a seemingly impromptu moment wherein planted supporters seem to goad President Remman into delivering a speech by daring him to denounce the Hashemites once more. All according to plan, the Mashal delivers a 20-minute monologue. Addressing the prolonged military standoff at the Hashemite-Kurd border, he asserted that Kurdistan would never accept a reversal of the Treaty of Diyarbakir and would never cede territory to the Federation. Remman swore the Peoples Army would fully enforce Kurdish territorial sovereignty, and that Kurdistan would never relinquish its unanimously recognized control of the territory. The speech, full of the nationalist verve and revolutionary rhetoric the Mashal is known for, is broadcast to expectant radios across the nation.
A major portion of the parade emphasized the military alliance with the Soviet Union, whose territorial guarantee is regarded as the linchpin of Kurdish foreign policy. The Soviets too have given Kurdistan an elevated position as an indispensable part of their own Middle East policy, extending considerable financial and material support to Amed. As was warranted by the event, a high-level delegation from Moscow attended the parade. Marshal Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Minister of Defense, sat with senior Kurdish officials along with Samand Siabandov, the Soviet Ambassador. Below, infantry from the Soviet 191st Motor Rifle Division march alongside their Kurdish counterparts. Above, nuclear-capable Tu-16 strategic heavy bombers display the fullest weight the Soviets can bring to bear.
Simultaneously in Amed, the Defense Ministry convenes a planned press conference with state media. The reporters, nearly all from the National News Bureau, ask questions from lists provided by the Defense Ministry itself. The event is implicitly understood to be a farce put on for the few foreign correspondents and reporters admitted into the country. Though they arent allowed to ask questions, their writing carries word to the true audiences in foreign capitals and embassies. The only speaker is 62-year-old General Ardan Reswan, Kurdistans Minister of Defense, First Deputy-Secretary of the EKNS, and Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Council. As President Remmans closest confidant and ally, Reswan is thought by many to be his de facto successor despite in fact being older than Remman. He has personally overseen the government's rearmament program and party propaganda has endeavored to turn him into a household name. In a measured tone, a far cry from his Presidents mercurial style, the general gives his performance. He announces that the Defense Forces have initiated a multi-day string of military training exercises across the Southern Defense District.
At the Riya Soresgeri Base outside Hewler, the Seventh Army is alive with activity. The units headquarters commands the bulk of ground forces in the Southern Defense District and would be the crucial command in any war with the Hashemites. It controls a force last said to be around 80,000 but one that is growing all the time as the government nears the completion of its rearmament program. This includes the bulk of Kurdistans armor and mechanized units. Under the operational control of the Seventh Armys HQ, the 12th Air Wing comprises a large part of Kurdistans current offensive aerial capacity. This includes its modern jet fighters and bombers, as well as its precious strategic bombers. It is from this base that rehearsals of the secretive Operation Kaveh is directed. The operation is the first phase of the defense of Kurdistan, modeled against a prospective Hashemite surprise attack on the threatened provinces. If successful, the operation would blunt the Hashemite effort and set the stage for a possible Kurdish counterattack.
Just after the Newroz holiday, exercises commence across the borderlands of threatened Hashemite-Kurd border. Thousands of personnel rehearse their plans, mobilizing and deploying to forward defensive positions on short notice. Air-defense crews train to repulse bombing raids. Mechanized infantry and armor practice defensive maneuvers, chiefly aimed at preventing the encirclement of West Mosul and the defense of Erbil. Aircrews scramble on short notice, prepared to affirm Kurdish aerial superiority. Migs screeched across the skies above West Mosul, dancing just off the river's edge. Heavy artillery and rocket batteries practice targeting Hashemite bases and shelling major crossing points on the border. Border reconnaissance monitors closely, lest the Hashemites ignored the public announcement of the exercises and intentionally misconstrue the exercises as genuine. The event was a not-inexpensive show of force but had a single goal: to very clearly communicate the consequences of war to the Hashemite Federation.
The plan reflects the priorities of Kurdistans leadership, chiefly their wish that it never be implemented. Admittedly uncommon for a radically-inclined military dictatorship, the consensus amongst the regimes policymakers was not in favor of a regional war. While Kurdistan held the military and diplomatic upper hand, it was generally felt that to seek war with the Hashemites would be to overplay that hand and that even a defensive war represented an immense risk to the nation. Through their leader, Deputy-Secretary Ibrahim Ehmed, they had successfully convinced President Remman that giving excessive attention to the military would impede domestic progress, eroding the regimes legitimacy. Therefore if Kurdistan was forced into war with the Federation, the military's plans center around the effort to drive Hashemite forces from the country as quickly as possible, rather than attempt to seize land from Iraq. As long as it exists, Kurdistan would hope to use its current military upper hand to bring the Hashemites to negotiation as quickly as possible. If necessary, there were plans for offensives into Mosul and in the Zagros Mountains to threaten Sulaymaniyah, but such operations were understood mostly as bargaining chips to force the Hashemites to the negotiating table.
The propaganda aspect of the exercises was played up to massive effect across Kurdistan. State and Party news published dramatic photos of Kurdish soldiers on the move and tanks rolling across desert fields. The 7th Armys exercises were lauded as a dramatic show of force to put rowdy Hashemites in their place. And in this rare case, they were largely telling the truth. President Remmans policy has thus far been based on the belief that if the Hashemites could not be made to acknowledge the Treaty of Diyarbakir, they could at least be convinced that war is an unattractive option. While Baghdad would surely accuse Kurdistan of provocation and destabilization, those in Amed prayed the exercises' true message would still be understood and perhaps grudgingly accepted.
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[spoiler=[sub]Glory to the New Day! Glory to Kurdistan![/sub]
KOMARA DEMOKRATA KURDISTANE
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Arcanda, Amsterwald, Osivoii, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, East Germany Ddr, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Vargorie, Ma-Li, Bhaarat Lok
(Hello! Sorry for disrupting but, can someone give me a brief rundown of the roleplay? Do we select real life nations, instead of our own? And if yes, may I be Het Nederland?
Again, sorry for disrupting, its just that the Q&A didnt help too much.)
Ranponian, Kewtpuff
we select mainly IRL nations tho if two spots are open you can apply to combined them for a unique country. Id recommend TGing Paramountica though he knows all the rules and can help you find the one for you c:
Brazil Toucan
[list]March 1956
[sub]Military[/sub][/list]
[list][list] A NUCLEAR AMBITION
EIN NUKLEARER EHRGEIZ
UNE AMBITION NUCLÉAIRE
UN'AMBIZIONE NUCLEARE
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ZURICH
[sub]SWITZERLAND, THE HELVETIC REPUBLIC[/sub]
| On a late Thursday afternoon, professor and renowned physicist Dr. Paul Scherrer would be sitting in his office on the top floor of the modern Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. The room would be spacious and furnished with a minimalist desk, leather chairs, and bookshelves filled with scientific journals and textbooks, all of which he had contributed to. Proudly displayed would be his degrees, doctorate, and resulting 1936 Nobel Prize. Through the large, corner windows would be a panoramic view of the city from the Institutes position on a hill. The sun setting behind distant snow-capped mountains on the horizon would cause a warm glow to fall over the city. As head of the Department of Physics, Scherrer would be surrounded by charts and graphs that showing the progress of the country's nuclear program when he would get an unexpected knock at his open door. President Max Petitpierre would walk into the room, looking serious. He would sigh as he sat down across from the professor. |
[list]| Doctor PAUL SCHERRER, [sub]Head of Physics at Zurich Institute of Technology[/sub] | "Good afternoon, Mr. President. To what do I owe the pleasure of this visit?"[/list]
[list]| MAX PETITPIERRE, [sub]President of the Helvetic Republic[/sub] | "I've come to discuss The Program. As you know, our government has been funding your research for a decade now, but we've been receiving pressure from some quarters. Some are even calling to pull the plug on the project. It will not be so easy to secure further support this time."[/list]
| Scherrer would nod, understanding the concerns of those who opposed the development of Swiss nuclear weapons. The dangers of atomic bombs would be well-known, and there would always be the possibility that such weapons could fall into the wrong hands, but Scherrer would be convinced that the threat of a nuclear war would be too great to ignore and that the Helvetic Republic would need to be prepared for any eventuality. For this reason, the government had been funding his research since the secret agreement to begin work on a weapon of mass destruction for the Swiss military at the end of World War II. For the past few months, Scherrer would have been putting his attention into continuing the governments support for his project. A new bill would be on the table for consideration by the Council of States to increase military funding. Although the earmark for the nuclear program had been intended to be conspicuous, some members had caught on and would be skeptical. |
[list]| Doctor PAUL SCHERRER, [sub]Head of Physics at Zurich Institute of Technology[/sub] | "Mr. President, I understand the concerns that some people have raised, but I believe that the nuclear program is essential to our national security. We cannot afford to be caught off guard if other nations begin to use nuclear weapons against us. We have always pursued armed neutrality. We stay out of war not only because we have no interest in attacking our neighbors, but because our neighbors have no interest in attacking such a well-defended nation. In this new world of ours, we have fallen behind. The United States and the Soviet Union are both well-armed with these types of weapons. We have no true 'allies', so unless we have our own to show for, we have no guarantee of our safety. We cannot fully trust even the Americans while we are still this vulnerable. Let us not also forget the valuable civil use of this research. Nuclear power could hold great potential as a backup to our current power generation methods should our coal supply be cut off or one of our dams sabotaged."[/list]
[list]| MAX PETITPIERRE, [sub]President of the Helvetic Republic[/sub] | "I understand your position, Dr. Scherrer, but we must also consider the risks of developing such weapons. We could potentially make ourselves a target, or worse, contribute to the further escalation of tensions between the major powers. The increased armament of the Soviets and Americans is because of their mutual possession of weapons of mass destruction in the first place."[/list]
| Scherrer couldn't help feeling frustrated by the slow progress of the nuclear program. Already, his team would have produced enough enriched uranium from their fuel supplies to begin the use of a full-scale test reactor. The ultimate goal would still be to build a nuclear weapon, but the government had yet to give them the green light to move forward with that important side of their research. |
[list]| Doctor PAUL SCHERRER, [sub]Head of Physics at Zurich Institute of Technology[/sub] | "We've been working on this project for several years now. We are so close to achieving our goal in the near future. If we could just get the funding we need to take the next steps, I'm confident that we could have a working research reactor within the next couple of years, and then a full mockup for our own prototype nuclear weapon by the end of the decade.[/list]
| Petitpierre would hesitate, his eyes flickering back and forth as he would consider Scherrer's words. He would know that the decision the Swiss government would make could have far-reaching consequences, both for Switzerland and for the world at large. He would also know that he had a responsibility to do what was best for his country and to ensure that the Helvetic Republic would not be caught off guard in the event of a war on its doorstep. |
[list]| MAX PETITPIERRE, [sub]President of the Helvetic Republic[/sub] | "I will endorse your bill to give your project the boost in funding it needs. Before you respond, I want you to understand that this is not a decision I've made lightly. We must proceed with caution, and always keep in mind the potential of our actions to change the world, for better or for worse."[/list]
| Scherrer would nod again, feeling a sense of relief and excitement wash over him. He would know that there were still many challenges to overcome, but he was confident that with the government's full support, they could succeed in their mission With the presidents vocal approval to the members of the Council of States, the bill would almost certainly pass without further problems. As Petitpierre would stand up to leave, Scherrer couldn't help feeling a sense of optimism and hope for the future. The road ahead would be difficult, but he would be working towards a noble cause: to protect his country and its people from the dangers of nuclear war. |
[spoiler=A NUCLEAR FUTURE?
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Arcanda, Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Ma-Li, Bhaarat Lok, Newauroria
[list]April 16 1956
A New Flag
[sub]Newauroria EVENING[/sub]
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After much debate and consultation the House of Commons and The Senate (The former the lower house and the latter the upper
house of Canadian parliament) has decided to change its flag to the new design that both the lower and upper house have
unanimously agreed upon the design by George Stanley and Alan Beddoe.
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One of the reasons for this change is because the Canadian public sees its current flag as too closely
associated with its colonial past and the British Empire.
Another reason is national identity exploration and reflection, many Canadians felt that a new
flag design was needed to better represent Canada as an independent nation.
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The new flag will be adopted tomorrow. Its design features a red field with a white square in the center,
which contains a red stylized maple leaf, a symbol long associated with Canada.
Image Link To New Flag: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Flag_of_Canada.svg
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[spoiler=[sub]A - Gawr Gura[/sub]
A New Flag
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Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Maziya, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Ma-Li, Bhaarat Lok
| CELINE MERKAZI; THREE MONTHS IN OFFICE BRING FORTH CHANGES |
[sub]20th of March, 1956[/sub]
| Only three months into her tenure as the Head of the Finest Assembly, CELINE MERKAZI has began her reforms and changes. With her government composed of all wings in the Congress, much of the reforms have been passed without a single interruption, a situation that has not been since 1942, when the Congress was founded. The first three months have been dubbed as successful by the Zairean media, showcasing that Merkazi is gaining the trust of the people and trust from the First Representative. ||
FOREIGN AFFAIRS ; A SHOCK
| One of the major decisions that she Merkazi has pushed is the announcement, in February, that an American base will be established at the coast of Zaire. The First Representative Banza and her American counterparts signed the official documents, which will see the base come to life by the end of September of this year, with the base to be then fully developed by Spring of 1957. The base, in the eyes of Merkazi, is a security needed for Zaire, a country which is starting to enrich itself and its resources are becoming a necessity around the world. The newest economic report released showcases just how much Zaire trades with the world and to what degree ( ). The base that will appear, is also a symbol of how strong the Zairean-American bond has grown.
Another breakthrough came with the Zairean-Yugoslavian Trade Agreement, and after four years of being frozen, Merkazi managed to persuade the First Representative Banza to pass the agreement, therefore putting the two countries onto a path of trade. The deal was worked out in 1952 by Marie Izuru and the leader of Yugoslavia, but after backlash from Banza and Slovenia, the deal was frozen, until now. Mrs Merkazi suggested that the deal needs to go into fruition, to better the economy of Zaire. |
| DOMESTIC POLICY - MONEY |
| The FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE has been passed which will be introduced in January of 1957. The Family & Individual Insurance is broken into two compartments, which will be monitored and supervised by the newly established National Insurance Institute. The first compartment covers families. Those that are married and have one or more children under the age of 21, will be covered by the National Family Insurance. The amount to be paid into the Insurance will be changed accordingly to the average income increases/decreases across the public. The amount paid into the insurance for 1957 - 1959 will be as follows;
[list]* Those earning between 1,000 and 6,000 will pay 12% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 6,001 and 15,000 will pay 19% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 15,001 and 30,000 will pay 26% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 30,001 and 60,000 will pay 40% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning above 60,001 will pay 49% of their income into the Insurance.[/list]
The Family Insurance shall cover the following costs;
[list]* Free Healthcare Access.
* Free Medicine Access for those below the ages of 21 and above 72.
* Free Education Access.
* Family Holidays once a year to the resort of choice within Zaire.
* Free Childcare Access for those that are in work.
* Coverage for Sick Leave and/or Maternity Leave.
* Free Funeral Costs[/list]
The Rates for Individuals are slightly different, and cover everyone who is not married and/or does not have children.
[list]* Those earning between 1,000 and 6,000 will pay 8% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 6,001 and 15,000 will pay 12% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 15,001 and 30,000 will pay 20% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning between 30,001 and 60,000 will pay 37% of their income into the Insurance.
* Those earning above 60,001 will pay 48% of their income into the Insurance.[/list]
The Insurance shall cover the following for the individuals;
[list]* Free Healthcare Access.
* Free Education Access.
* Bonus Support in form of 1,000 a year for those working more than one job.
* Coverage of Sick Leave.
* Coverage of Funeral Costs.[/list]
The introduction of the Family & Individual Insurance will come with the eradication of the income tax. Instead, the government will take 60% of profits from state owned companies and use the funds for public spending. In accordance to Huduru Report from 1956, the state owned companies bring enough revenues for the government to comfortably spend the money into public needs. The introduction of the FII also comes with lowering taxation on smaller and medium businesses, and on lower taxes on foreign companies establishing themselves in Zaire, with the first year of being in Zaire having the lowest tax possible.
However, the FII reform introduces the Employers Aid Tax, which means that that every employer in the country will pay, depending on the income of the company, a certain amount of tax towards the FII in order to support the system.
[list]* Small Businesses will pay up to 6% of tax from revenues.
* Medium Businesses will pay up to 12% of tax from revenues.
* Large Businesses will pay up to 18% of tax from revenues.[/list]
According to Mrs Merkazi, the new system is intended to push productivity among the businesses and encourage further business activity in Zaire, whilst taking care of the public by reducing their tax from their hard work and instead enlisting them onto an Insurance policy situation that will cover them for all their necessities, leaving more money in their pockets to spend and save up. The large taxation reform has come with a certain unease amidst the Left Wing, but, the National Congress has passed the reform and so did the First Representative. Many economists suggest that the market will find new life as the economy continues to grow, with more money being spent and more businesses to appear.
In any event, the first three months have been very eventful for Mrs Merkazi and her reforms and decisions are starting to shape her politics and her political personality. In her press interview, Mrs Merkazi spoke about her ideas and her vision for the next four years. |
[list][ CELINE MERKAZI, Head of the Finest Assembly ]: "Je crois à l'aspect pratique de la politique. C'est la raison pour laquelle j'ai commencé dans ce monde. Le manque de sens pratique et le traitement barbare infligé à mon peuple par le gouvernement belge à l'époque m'ont plus appris que n'importe quel livre d'école. La voie du succès, pour un pays comme le Zaïre, est celle de la pratique et non de l'idéologie ! La bouffonnerie idéologique ne fonctionne que dans les pays très développés, pourquoi ? Parce qu'ils sont au stade de l'épuisement. Ils ont besoin d'un coup de pouce. L'Allemagne a eu besoin d'un coup de pouce en 1939, et regardez ce qui s'est passé. Nous n'avons pas besoin d'une poussée idéologique, nous avons besoin d'une approche pratique. Nous créons un État, une économie, un gouvernement, une culture, une société dès le départ et nous réussissons jusqu'à présent. Mais si vous allez un peu trop à gauche, un peu trop à droite, vous aurez de gros problèmes. Ma vision du Zaïre est franchement pratique, suffisante et honnête. Le public a besoin de soutien, les entreprises ont besoin de liberté. Je suis ici pour apporter les deux."
[spoiler="Merkazi is showcasing her approach to politics in a very blunt and practical way. She doesn't care what you think, she cares about practical solutions."]Ababemba
Socialist Democratic Republic Romania
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Amsterwald, Socialist Democratic Republic Romania, Cascadla, Ranponian, Metropolitan Francais, New Provenance, Kewtpuff, Van Diemens Landt, Brazil Toucan, Turkiye 1St, Vargorie, Ma-Li, Bhaarat Lok, Newauroria
Assembled with Dot's Region Saver.
Written by Refuge Isle.