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[list]February 1942

[sub]The Nation at War[/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]THE COMMONWEALTH AT WAR: PRESIDENT QUEZON FLEES SOUTH TO CEBU AS THE EMPIRE OF THE RISING SUN INVADES

ANG COMMONWEALTH SA DIGMAAN: TUMAKAS SI PANGULONG QUEZON TIMOG TUNGO CEBU HABANG UMAATAKE ANG IMPERYO NG HAPON[/pre][/list][/list]

| [sub]On the 7th of December, 1941, Pearl Harbor, the main United States naval base in the Pacific Ocean, was bombed by Japanese aircraft. The next day, 8 December, the Commonwealth of the Philippines was attacked by Japanese forces, beginning the Philippine Campaign mere ten hours after the Pearl Harbor attack. Initial aerial bombardments on Manila and other strategic locations such as Corregidor Island and Clark Air Base took place, followed by the landing of Japanese marines and ground troops north and south of Manila. Seeing the immediate threat to Philippine and American personnel and civilians, President Manuel L. Quezon and his government fled southward to the city of Cebu, in Visayas, by airplane, leaving the Assistant Secretary for National Defense, Manuel Faustino Sr., to cooperate with forces in the region to defend Manila from foreign attack. With the lack of air cover (usually provided through Pearl Harbor), the American Asiatic Fleet based in Manila withdrew to Java on 12 December, leaving the force stationed in the archipelago to fend off the invading Japanese forces.[/sub] |

| [sub]Almost immediately, chaos ensued. With the fleeing of the government, the representatives of the people and the nation's president, thousands of Filipinos fled Manila fearing retribution by the Japanese and impending chaos in Manila and the surrounding cities. Local governments dispatched constables to keep the peace, mobilizing reservists and implementing mandatory conscription where possible, but failed to prevent the exodus of Filipinos. Vice President Sergio Osmena issued a radio broadcast from Cebu on 13 December in an attempt to rally the Filipino people and begin mounting a resistance. However, Japanese assaults in Mindanao and nearby islands in the Visayas chain further destabilized the Commonwealth and demoralized the population. General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the defending Filipino and American troops in the Philippines, was directed to leave alongside the naval forces of the United States Navy, as resupply was now practically impossible.[/sub] |

| [sub]Manila, declared an open city to prevent its destruction at the hands of the Japanese, was occupied by enemy forces on 2 January 1942, after MacArthur and the American and Filipino forces defending the capital withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula then to the island of Corregidor, guarding the entrance to Manila Bay. President Quezon visited troops on Corregidor three times, on 14 January, 27 January and 5 February respectively, before leaving for Australia. Vice President Sergio Osmena was left behind to lead the national government from Cebu and later from Corregidor, after moving himself and his Cabinet to join the US-Filipino forces at the island. With enemy landings and advances in Mindanao and Visayas, the national defense was looking more and more precarious as each week passed. President Quezon was kept up to date of enemy advances, as the vice president began the organization of guerilla forces to resist Japanese occupation.[/sub] |

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The Confederate Prussian Empire

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Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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MINISTRY OF INTERNAL SECURITY CREATED

February 1942

Created to face the dangers of internally moving hostile elements who have illegally vacated the Tribal States along with foreign actors from newly majority-rule Neighbors, the Ministry of Internal Security has been issued command over the Armed Militias who were formerly responsible for keeping these elements in check. Further they have been issued their own Budget and Armaments, along with Buildings in Salisbury and Lusaka to complement the existing smaller Offices that were issued to the Militias. Former RAF pilot William John Harper, having served as a Pilot fighting over Northern France in the 1940 campaign (and Dunkirk during the evacuation) as well as Malaysia in 1941 has been chosen as the newly appointed Minister to form and develop the INTAF. Now presiding over an estimated 12,000 Personnel the Ministry begins its life on a strong foundation, buts its duties would certainly require many more to match the extensive borders of the Federation, as well as hiring local agents within the Tribal States to ensure compliance.

Equipped for the moment mainly with Blackjacks (small bludgeoning weapons, used effectively by the Gestapo and Mafia as two period examples) and imported Browning Hi-Power Pistols, they shall no doubt become one of the most important and effective weapons of suppression for the Federal Government and as a result a main contributing force in continued minority governance.

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Canovia

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Philanialle

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The Confederate Prussian Empire

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Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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[list]1942년 02월 | 1942 February

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[sup]Chungking | 重庆[/sup]

Korean Provisional Government, Republic of China[list]

[sup]Prince Imperial Ui Declares War on Japan[/sup][/list]

| [sub]Early this morning Prince Imperial Ui, the leader of the Korean Provisional Government, announced the declaration of war against the Empire of Japan. The organisation announced its plans to assist the Allies in the retaking of the Korean Peninsula and Korea’s independence, it claims to be working with agents in Japanese Occupied Korea to disrupt Japanese supply lines.[/sub] |

| [sub]The Korean Provisional Army claims to have up to five-thousand troops ready to fight in China against Japan, these numbers are not confirmed by any outside organisation. It is believed that Korean Communist Guerrillas are also operating in the area and working alongside the KPA despite their ideological differences; uniting like the Chinese have done to fight a greater enemy.[/sub] |

| [sub]Meanwhile in Korea itself the declaration by the Korean Provisional Government has not reached many ears due to the effective control of media by the Japanese occupation forces. However those in the senior circles of the Prince’s Faction, now named the Changdeokgung Faction, had received early notice of the Provisional Government's intent, the declaration was met with widespread approval and the Faction began to make its first steps towards disrupting Japan’s operations in Korea.[/sub] |

| [sub]Yeom Dong-jin the leader of the Baeguisa (white shirt society), who had conducted small scale attacks on Japanese targets, was tasked with finding larger targets and working with the Changdeok Faction in order to carry out attacks. If Japan’s supply lines through Korea could be disrupted it would weaken Japanese forces fighting in China and northern Korea, allowing allied forces to push through quickly. It was left to Prince Imperial U to keep suspicion off the palace and the Changdeokgung Faction.[/sub] |

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Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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TOWN OF UŽICE CAUGHT IN WINTRY SIEGE AFTER PARTISAN UPRISING

[list][sup]TITO’S ALLIES GROW EVER BOLDER

YUGOSLAVIA—WINTER 1941–1942[/sup][/list]

The Royal Yugoslav Army was finally deployed to assist overburdened local law enforcement and military police after workers of the Đetinja river hydroelectric dam in the hill town of Užice declared support for Tito’s partisans and colluded with local communist partisans to occupy the town’s government offices on an early morning in February 1942. There, led by Tito ally and Užice native Nikola Ljubičić, they declared a ‘Republic of Užice’ in defiance of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the regency of Prince Paul. Red banners were unfurled over the snow-swept Užice Gymnasium as secondary education was postponed and partisans—many of them students themselves—turned the building into a makeshift headquarters. Armed with stolen weapons and hunting rifles, energetic groups of the town’s new ‘Red Guard’ subdued the local authorities and imprisoned them over the course of the day, and by nightfall young partisans in thick green coats with red armbands walked the streets in patrols. The only casualties in the sudden partisan takeover of the city were a government officer that opened fire on partisans at the local police station and the two young partisans—one man and one woman—whom he killed. By nightfall, the town of Užice had been relieved of royal government, the snow mostly unstained by blood. For the first time in the history of the Kingdom, a municipality was now completely out of the control of Belgrade.

Problems quickly hung over the head of the Ljubičić government of Užice, however. The bitter winter meant that the town had to rely fully on the food stores it domestically had, with no hope of receiving relief from outside—the impulsiveness of their winter attack was a wound in the movement’s success, and though they easily had enough for a few weeks, the thought was discouraging. Beyond that, at the dawn of the second day, a VOS agent in the town impressively shot Ljubičić through blinding snow from street level as Ljubičić stood at a second-story window, critically wounding him. The agent escaped in the veil of snow. Hours later, military police—who had set up a camp at the nearby village of Duboko overnight—seized a truck of six partisans in eastern Užice without a fight. The movement seemed to be fizzling out within forty-eight hours of its beginning, but an unexpected intensity arrived when partisan leader Josip Broz Tito himself emerged from the woods north of Užice to enhearten his followers. When Portuguese-made tanks that entered Royal Army service in the early winter rolled into eastern Užice from Duboko six days after the insurrection began—and after failed negotiations between the government of the Dragiša Cvetković and the partisans—they were actually met with fierce gunfire. They withdrew, and the Royal Army was forced to reckon with how to put down an actual rebellion before its seed sprouted. In the days following, a dozen tanks were positioned around the town and two gunboats were positioned downstream of it, sentinels in the icy water of the Đetinja. At least one hundred and fifty Yugoslav soldiers initially participated in the siege, and the numbers slowly built as the days progressed.

In the end, the siege lasted two weeks until the order was given to the Army to finally move in on Užice and retake the city. Wrathful fighting ensued, and the Užice Gymnasium was mauled by gun- and tank-fire. In the end, twenty-six partisans spilled their blood into the snow, of which fourteen died. They killed eleven riflemen of the Yugoslav Royal Army in the effort and even sunk one of the gunboats into the shallow but icy depths of the Đetinja. The elusive ‘Red Josip’ had somehow escaped the city—or, at least, was nowhere to be found when the Army entered the town—and by the month’s end, the town of Užice was back to relative normalcy, albeit with an increased army presence. Nonetheless, the memory of the ‘Užice Fourteen’ would never leave the minds of the partisans, and henceforth they would be instilled with a new boldness in their struggle against the Royal government, which now grew red with shame.

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[list][list]NOVEMBER 1940

TOKYO BAY, JAPAN — EAST ASIA[/list]

[list][list]日本! 日本! 日本!

[pre]ESCAPING TOKYO FOR THE SEA[/pre][/list][/list]

| Soaring low over the Tokyo Bay, two Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zeros race with each other, one trailing the other. Now three more Zeros join in the fray that is the training exercise. Coasting on the sea below is the mighty I.J.N. (Imperial Japanese Navy) Combined Fleet, her Japanese sailors standing at attention on all open deck levels. Still, motionless, facing the docks. In their pristine white sailor uniforms with neckerchiefs, the Japanese flag waves on a flagpole at the bow of the vessel. At the dock entrance of the I.J.N. Combined Fleet, standing in naval officer uniforms are the officers of the vessel. On their officer caps adorn an insignia consisting of a machine-embroidered gold bullion wreath with golden highlights depicting a nickel silver chrysanthemum at the peak, a cockade with a metal anchor and gold bullion. All these men have a serious and honorable expression. They speak to each other while standing at attention. |

[list][pre]LT. CMDR. MITSUO FUCHIDA[/pre] [sub]Destined to lead the attack on Pearl Harbor[/sub][/list]

[list]| LT. CMDR. MITSUO FUCHIDA, [sub]I.J.N.[/sub] | “I hope the new Commander-in-Chief doesn’t act like the coward most say he is.”

| LT. HAYATO UCHIDA, [sub]I.J.N.[/sub] | “Whatever people say, Yamamato is the military man we need to have as a leader. He believes in the value of the aeroplane.”

| LT. ICHIRO TAKADA, [sub]I.J.N.[/sub] | “But why a Vice-Navy Minister for such an important position?”

| CMDR. TAKASHI MATSUI, [sub]I.J.N.[/sub] | “Perhaps the political climate in Tokyo was detrimental to Yamamoto’s health. The Army is against him for opposing their policies.”

| LT. CMDR. MITSUO FUCHIDA, [sub]I.J.N.[/sub] | “Then the sea becomes your escape route. Now he has the entire fleet at his disposal to protect him.”[/list]

| The entire group of naval officers, still standing at attention, laugh with amusement at Yamamoto’s expense, who has yet to board. Now a younger sailor begins to blow on his bugle, a second one follows, now two more, all across the ship. With this, in the uniform of an admiral, white gloves and clearly an older man. |

[list][pre]VICE-ADMIRAL ISORUKU YAMAMOTO[/pre] [sub]Incoming Commander-in-Chief[/sub][/list]

| With the command of a standing officer, all the sailors stand ready. As Yamamoto walks down a red carpet laid on the main deck of the vessel, the naval marching band plays a somber Japanese naval march. Yamamoto salutes all the sailors he passes who stand in a row, saluting him back until he finally reaches the end. Passing Mitsuo, Hayato, Ichiro and Takashi. At the end, saluting back is a fellow Vice-Admiral. |

[list][pre]VICE-ADMIRAL ZENGO YOSHIDA[/pre] [sub]Outcoming Commander-in-Chief[/sub][/list]

| After the ceremony, the two Vice-Admirals descend the deck stair nearest to them and into the private quarters of the commanders. Here they share a laugh, discuss the transfer, the desire of the Navy not to fall under total Army influence and two nice glasses of Sake. |

[list]TOKYO, JAPAN — POSSIBLE SANCTIONS THREATEN[/list]

| Four men of his Imperial majesty, lord of ten thousand years’, the Konoe’s government are immersed in discussion. The serious face of the new Premier is clear to all as he paces around the room. With the German occupation of The Netherlands and France in May and June 1940, the Imperial Army showed discontent with Yonai's anti-German policy. In July 1940, Army Minister Shunroku Hata publicly criticized Yonai. After Hata resigned, Yonai soon resigned. The new Premier is of noble blood, despite not being a military man, he will do for now. He is nervous, adjusting his tie. |

[list][pre]PRINCE FUMIMARO KONOE[/pre] [sub]Premier of Japan[/sub][/list]

[list]| FUMIMARO KONOE, [sub]Premier[/sub] | “Washington’s position is against the war we are waging in China . . . and the Americans are angry that we are doing business with Herr Heidler. Now the government is threatened with an embargo on the raw materials the Empire needs. Either we improve our relations with Washington and withdraw from further pushing into Nationalist China . . .”[/list]

| The Premier strides across the room, turning the heads of the three seated men on armchairs with him towards a massive map of the world, with Japan and Asia at its center. |

[list]| FUMIMARO KONOE, [sub]Premier[/sub] | “. . . or find another source of resources we need in Indochina.”

| HIROSHI OSHIMA, [sub]Ambassador to Volk Germany[/sub] | “Why should we care about threats from the White House? President Roosevelt’s focus is on Europe, where Germany is winning even more victories over Allied armies.”[/list]

| Remaining quiet, the Minister of the Army cleans his glasses before placing them back on. |

[list][pre]GENERAL HIDEKI TOJO[/pre] [sub]Minister of the Army[/sub][/list]

[list]| HIDEKI TOJO, [sub]Minister of the Army[/sub] | “The time to strike is now. The European powers are withdrawing their forces from Southeast Asia to strengthen their armies in Europe.”[/list]

| The former vice-admiral of the combined fleet, now Minister of the Navy, Zengo Yoshida objects softly. |

[list]| ZENGO YOSHIDA, [sub]Minister of the Navy[/sub] | “We must be careful. The U.S. has American soldiers stationed in the Philippines and has moved its Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor.”[/list]

| In a fit of controlled rage, Hiroshi rises from his seat as the Premier takes his own seat, and points to the map. All the writing is Japanese, he points to Pearl Harbor. |

[list]| HIROSHI OSHIMA, [sub]Ambassador to Volk Germany[/sub] | “Yes, and that fleet is like a weapon to Japan’s head!”[/list]

| In April 1941, Premier Konoe is off to Berlin. Inside Heidler’s Chancellery, the three delegations: German, Italian and Japanese meet to ceremonially sign the TRIPARTITE PACT. With the signing of the TRIPARTITE PACT, Japan becomes the third member of the Axis Alliance. Operation Z’s strategy and planning are now underway in the first few months of 1941, the strike is projected to occur sometime in the late fall of 1941, somewhere in December, after objectives in Indochina are secured. |

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Afghanistaan

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Arcanda

Astarina

Bayside

Canovia

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Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

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Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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(Kuomintang) Republic of China / (國民黨)中華民國

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CHINA'S DEFENSE AIDED BY AMERICAN AND BRITISH LOANS

美 國 和 英 國 貸 款 支 持 的 中 國 國 防

[sub]February of 1942 | 1942 年 2 月

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The reporters assembled in the barren room on Chungking hill spoke about the news they had previously received. Finally, China's official spokesman, former Ambassador to Russia, Dr. T. F. Chiang¹ (no relation), entered the fray. As a man-of-the-world, he expressed no special excitement as he stated in flawless English: [/sub]

[sub]》DOCTOR T. F. CHIANG, Republic of China 一 “It is heartening to learn that President Roosevelt has written a note to Congress requesting a $500,000,000 loan to China, and that the British Government has stated its willingness to grant China £50,000.” [/sub]

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聚集在重庆山上空荡荡的房间里的记者们讲述了他们之前收到的消息。最后,中国的官方发言人、前驻俄罗斯大使蒋天福博士(无亲属关系)加入了战斗。作为一个世界级人物,他并没有表现出特别的兴奋,正如他用完美无瑕的英语所说:[/sub]

[sub]》蒋天锋医生,中华民国 一 “得知罗斯福总统向国会写照,要求向中国提供5亿美元贷款,英国政府表示愿意给予中国5万英镑,令人振奋。”[/sub]

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The Disease | 這種病:[/sub]

[sub]For four long years, China had fantasized of defeating the Japanese with help from the democracies. Aid on the size that China had hoped for had finally arrived. At current currency rates, the two loans mentioned would total about thirteen billion Chinese dollars. [/sub]

[sub]The reporters in attendance of Dr. Chiang would easily realize that each of those single dollars would be a boon to China, which had been suffering from a horrific and long-running episode of inflation一Largely caused by the country's monetary reliance on silver and the drastic effects of Japan's ruthless war of aggression. [/sub]

[sub]To those who had never experienced inflation, the phrase would seem meaningless. Yet, it was far from meaningless to the reporters on Chungking Hill. They understood that the budgetary problems during the war years had necessitated the government create a supply of money to address those issues. They were well aware that China's budgetary reform, the centerpiece of which had been the government's acceptance of the land tax, had not gone as planned. They were well aware that suspicion of the government's money had led to greedy and widespread hoarding of rice by many Chinese, wealthy and poor alike. [/sub]

[sub]More personally, the reporters were aware that Chungking's prices had soared a whopping two-thousand percent since the onset of Japan's war on China. (In U.S. Dollars, a packet of cigarettes would cost $3, a man's shirt would be at least $50, and a pair of medium-priced woman's shoes would cost some $160. A bottle of Scotch could be available for $60, while a quart of champagne would cost more than $200.) [/sub]

[sub]The Doctor who was harassed一Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. “Daddy” Rung is the man who was responsible for addressing and attempting to reel-in China's inflation, yet his Ministry had frequently been accused of exacerbating it. Rarely had a horse-and-buggy doctor faced such harassments as those the bomb-torn Chungking coolie-and-ricksha society had inflicted on aristocrat Dr. Kung, Confucius' “75th descendent”. Lack of faith in Chiang Kai-shek's government's finances had been a contributing factor to inflation. Some of his minions had even been accused of crimes far, far more serious than incompetence. As a result, the Generalissimo's faithful Dr. Kung would bear a substantial portion of the burden for putting the U.S. and British loans to good use. [/sub]

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四年来,中国一直幻想着在民主国家的帮助下打败日本。中国所希望的规模援助终于到来了。按当前汇率计算,上述两笔贷款总额约为 130 亿人民币。蒋博士在场的记者们很容易意识到,这些一美元对中国来说都是一个福音,而中国一直在遭受可怕而长期的通货膨胀——很大程度上是由于该国对白银的货币依赖和日本无情的侵略战争造成了巨大的影响。[/sub]

[sub]对于那些从未经历过通货膨胀的人来说,这句话似乎毫无意义。然而,对于重庆山的记者来说,这远非毫无意义。他们明白,战争年代的预算问题迫使政府必须提供资金来解决这些问题。他们很清楚,以政府接受土地税为核心的中国预算改革并没有按计划进行。他们很清楚,对政府资金的怀疑导致许多中国人,无论贫富,都贪婪地囤积大米。[/sub]

[sub]就个人而言,记者们知道,自从日本对中国开战以来,重庆的物价已经飙升了两千个百分点。 (以美元计,一包香烟要 3 美元,一件男士衬衫至少要 50 美元,一双中等价位的女鞋大约要 160 美元。一瓶苏格兰威士忌可以卖 60 美元,而一夸脱香槟的价格将超过 200 美元。)[/sub]

[sub]被骚扰的医生——财政部长H.H.“爸爸”Rung博士是负责解决和试图卷入中国通货膨胀的人,但他的财政部经常被指责加剧了通货膨胀。很少有一个马车医生面临像炸弹袭击的重庆苦力和人力车社会对孔子的“第 75 后裔”贵族恭博士那样的骚扰。对蒋介石政府财政缺乏信心是导致通货膨胀的一个因素。他的一些手下甚至被指控犯有远比无能更严重的罪行。因此,蒋委员长的忠实孔博士将承担很大一部分责任,以充分利用美国和英国的贷款。[/sub]

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The Therapy | 療法:[/sub]

[sub]Daddy Kung should be able to operate more successfully on the gangrene of inflation now that he possesses thirteen billion Chinese dollars in U.S. and British credit to play with. Dr. Chiang proposed the following methods for doing this: [/sub]

[sub]》A boost in confidence 一 “We are certain that our allies will continue to assist us.”[/sub]

[sub]Domestic bonds based on the American and British loans would be issued. The bonds would be marketed as long-term investments, with the intention that they would 1) absorb some of the irresponsibly issued banknotes, and 2) discourage some of the hoarding, which is a sort of short-term save. [/sub]

[sub]》The support of Chinese businesses. Small manufacturing based on inexpensive machinery that China can create would help relieve inflation by expanding the flow of commodities. Large-scale projects, like the construction of railroads using tracks ripped up from the Japanese-occupied area, could potentially aid the war effort. [/sub]

[sub]The loans would not be utilized to purchase items in the United States or the United Kingdom. Those were already accessible under Lend-Lease, and the main issue for China was not funding but bringing them in.[/sub]

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既然他拥有 130 亿中国美元的美国和英国信贷,那么他应该能够在通货膨胀的坏疽中更成功地运作。蒋博士为此提出了以下方法:[/sub]

[sub]》信心大增 一 “我们确信我们的盟友会继续帮助我们。” 将发行基于美国和英国贷款的国内债券。这些债券将作为长期投资出售,其目的是:1)吸收一些不负责任地发行的纸币,2)阻止一些囤积,这是一种短期储蓄。[/sub]

[sub]》中国企业的支持。以中国可以制造的廉价机械为基础的小型制造业将有助于通过扩大商品流动来缓解通货膨胀。大型项目,例如使用从日本占领区撕下的铁轨建造铁路,可能有助于战争努力。这些贷款不会用于在美国或英国购买物品。这些在租借协议下已经可以使用,而中国的主要问题不是资金,而是引进它们。[/sub]

[sub]

Long Night Watch | 長夜守:[/sub]

[sub]Finally, assistance had arrived. Dr. Chiang, and the Chiang for whom he spoke, may be forgiven for a speck of bitterness in saying, respectfully, that certain countries “sandwich a great deal of talk between acts.”[/sub]

[sub]Nonetheless, the Chinese, as usual, had handled their displeasure with dignity. Dr. Chiang closed the discussion on Chungking Hill by reflecting on China's years of battle, stating:[/sub]

[sub]》DOCTOR T. F. CHIANG, Republic of China 一 “Night fell early upon China's independence. But we persisted, hoping against hope. Then, at midnight, at the darkest hour, we were suddenly joined by stalwart and faithful comrades in arms.” [/sub]

[sub]“We are more confident than ever that, despite a few hours of darkness ahead, there will be morning and victory.”

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[sub]

终于,援助到来了。蒋博士和他所代表的蒋介石,在恭敬地说某些国家“在行动之间夹杂着大量的谈话”时,可能会有点苦涩,这是可以原谅的。尽管如此,中国人像往常一样,有尊严地处理了他们的不满。蒋博士通过反思中国多年的战斗结束了关于重庆山的讨论,他说:[/sub]

[sub]》蒋天飞医生,中华民国 一 “中国独立之夜早早降临。但我们坚持了下来,希望反对希望。然后,在午夜,在最黑暗的时刻,我们突然加入了坚定而忠诚的战友。我们比以往任何时候都更有信心,尽管前方还有几个小时的黑暗,但总会有早晨和胜利。”[/sub]

[sub]

1. Dr. T. F. Chiang who, to avoid being accused of nepotism, occasionally spells his name Tsiang.[/sub]

[sub]

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[list][list]JUNE 1941

TOKYO, JAPAN — EAST ASIA[/list]

[list][list]日本! 日本! 日本!

[pre]WE CANNOT JUST STOP HALFWAY[/pre][/list][/list]

| A proud four story government building. Before it on a flagpole waves the Imperial Standard of the Emperor and the Standard of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In and exit, enter Naval officers in a hurry, representatives of the Premier and the other branches of the military. Inside one of the ministry’s grand conference rooms, Admiral Yamamoto enters with Naval Minister Yoshida. In their naval dress whites, Yoshida closes the door behind them. They are alone. Each take a seat. Near them is a grand map of the Asian Pacific. |

[list]| ISORUKU YAMAMOTO, [sub]V-ADM. CMDR. of ENTIRE FLEET, I.J.N.[/sub] | “I feel like an idiot! Without evening consulting me . . .”

| ZENGO YOSHIDA, [sub]Minister of the Navy[/sub] | “Go on.”

| ISORUKU YAMAMOTO, [sub]V-ADM. CMDR. of ENTIRE FLEET, I.J.N.[/sub] | “The Army is determined to occupy Indochina . . . no hope of peace now. Having said this before, I’ll keep saying, if we fight the Americans, we can’t stop at Hawaii or San Francisco. We will have to march to Washington and dictate terms of peace in the White House! The Army that talks so lightly about war should think about this!”

| ZENGO YOSHIDA, [sub]Minister of the Navy[/sub] | “They want someone more militant to replace me, I’m no longer Minister of the Navy, I can’t do anything. I’m very sorry.”

| ISORUKU YAMAMOTO, [sub]V-ADM. CMDR. of ENTIRE FLEET, I.J.N.[/sub] | “Don’t blame yourself. The Army leaders are at fault, not you. l must get back to the fleet. There are a lot of things to do now that Operation Z will be put into action.”[/list]

| Both men rise, Yamamoto places his naval officer’s cap on again and exits the room in a huff. |

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[list][pre]January 1942 | SECOND WORLD WAR (Pt.2)[/pre]

[pre]HIS MAJESTY’s SOUTHERN ARSENAL – DOMINION OF SOUTH AFRICA;[/pre]

[sub]The world was shocked to hear of the success of Japanese naval and air forces in their surprise attack upon the United States at Pearl Harbor. The sleeping giant was awake at last, infused into the war, a shock of youthful energy and the determination that only such tragedy can bring. By and large, the success in repelling the Volkist advance around the globe was but one phase in the allied effort to beat back the great menace. Yet, with Japan expanding the war in the Pacific, South African planners study military reports as indicators of what new developments are needed to ensure a swift victory and lasting peace.[/sub]

[pre]LARGER CARRIERS ORDERED AS JAPANESE ATTACK ON AMERICA REINFORCES THE CAPABILITY OF NAVAL AIRCRAFT — HMSAS ATLANTIC, ZANJ, AND AGULHAS ENTER SERVICE AS PLANNERS FEAR OBSOLESCENCE;[/pre][/list]

[sub]Arriving in South Africa from Barrow-in-Furness shipyards in October of 1941, the two British built Ocean-class aircraft carriers finished their work up alongside their sister HMSAS Agulhas in Durban by mid-January of 1942. Their arrival was the cause of jubilation across the Dominion, especially on it’s sea shore, where thousands flocked to cliffs and piers, small boats and yachts alike to catch a glimpse of the two ships and their escorts. The three ship-strong class represent a great shift and indeed a technological leap for the Royal South African Navy who, just over ten years ago, had withered into a coastal defense force with barely any vessels of their own. Yet, today, the RSAN has grown to become the pride of the nation - securing victories over Italian and Ethiopian forces in East Africa, and over the Volkists during the on-going Battle of the Atlantic. Where once, planners advocated for and cultivated a “Cape Defense Fleet” centered around Cruisers, the global tension in months leading up to the war prompted members of the British Admiralty to call upon their South African counterparts to carry their weight for the Empire. To the glory of God, South Africa has answered that call.[/sub]

[sub]The acquisition of three new fleet Carriers prompted years of study and the reevaluation of the Navy’s Doctrine and policy maker’s opinion on the role of the Navy in expanding South Africa’s ability to become a substantial force in the southern hemisphere. Towards that end, the Ocean’s are both symbols of that goal, and the instruments through which it shall be attained.[/sub]

[sub]Based upon the modified HMS Indomitable sub-type of the Illustrious-class, the three Ocean-class carriers were built to pre-war specifications without the benefit that experience since January of 1939 has brought to the RSAN. After having observed the loss of HMS Courageous, HMS Ark Royal to U-Boat attacks and HMS Glorious to German battleships highlighted the importance of a substantial fleet of escorts to protect these vulnerable vessels - as well as an air wing capable of both striking enemy warships & land instillations, while also providing a Combat Air Patrol for early warning and defense. These lessons were bloody in their nature, but were received by the Naval Staff who ordered a number of new escorts, advanced carrier-borne aircraft, and even Submarines of our own to ensure that the fighting power of a Carrier force could not be compromised. Yet, what was not foreseen was the burst of advancements in aviation and naval technology in the last four years, which was the source of pause within the top echelons of the Navy. Would the three Carriers be obsolete by the time they encountered their first wave on the high seas; were the armor arrangement substantial enough to withstand the type of attacks experienced around the globe by the Royal Navy and it’s Allied counterparts. Even still, with new Jet Aircraft nearing the final stage of development in Britain, planners fully expect that the Ocean-class carriers will not be of sufficient size to take on those new air frames. Thus, with so many expectations on the longevity of the Ocean’s (or lack thereof), Parliament has agreed to allocate funding for the development of a new generation of carrier.[/sub]

[sub]To be called the Premier-class aircraft carrier, the family of two ships will feature the latest in naval technology with room to take on new equipment and eventually Jet-powered aircraft. Using the construction of the Oceans as a base of development, the new class of carriers will be larger in displacement, crew complement, defensive, and aircraft carrying capability while maintaining the Commonwealth’s traditional armored flight deck scheme. Core to the carrier’s design is the space set aside for the hanger, whose redesign would take notes from those operated by the Japanese Empire and those under construction in the United States. Unlike their British counterparts, the need for a “closed hanger” was minimal in the Southern Seas which were much more calm than that of the North Atlantic. However, despite original design specifications calling for a completely open hanger, the finalized design will have a mix of the two - so as to ensure the Carrier’s viability in rougher weather. This, coupled with four edge-deck lifts, will allow for the quick movement of aircraft from the hangar to the flight deck without interrupting launch or recovery operations.[/sub]

[sub]With a hangar height of 18 feet, two feet higher than that of the Oceans, the Premier carriers will be able to accommodate first generation jet fighters as well as future aircraft which many suspect will be, ever still, larger. This, coupled with a new power plant arrangement which will supply 200,000shp to the ship, will allow her to reach speeds up to 32 knots with an acceleration rate unprecedented for ships of her size.[/sub]

[sub]To be laid down at the very same shipyards in Durban which completed the Oceans, the twin Premier-class ships HMSAS John Molteno and HMSAS Walter Rubusana, named after early proponents of South Africa’s multi-racial political system, are expected to enter service between late 1944 and early-1945.[/sub]

[list][sub]Premier-class Aircraft Carriers;[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1727015[/list]

[pre] [/pre]

[pre]WAR EMERGENCY BUILDING PROGRAM CONTINUES WITH NEW CLASS OF DESTROYERS & FRIGATES;[/pre][/list]

[sub]Combat in the Indian Ocean and Red Sea off the coast of East Africa provided a great deal of experience for the RSAN staff. Combining data received form those actions with those from the Battle of the Atlantic, provided a clear picture for the state of the war at sea, and indeed the future of naval warfare at-large. The work horses of His Majesty’s Britannic Navy - Destroyers, Frigates, and Sloops - had proven increasingly effective in the role of submarine detection and combat, and in providing coverage for Convoys and larger surface combatants. Naval thinking throughout the interwar period led many to assume that the Great War doctrine of Destroyers being used as quick ‘torpedo’ boats had been supplanted as the need for larger, more versatile platforms grew with the sinking of thousands of tons of cargo beneath the waves. Indeed, when considering Italian advances in Destroyer design, as well as that of the Japanese Empire, South African design philosophy continued to evolve to meet these potential challenges to security on the high seas.[/sub]

[sub]The preceding ‘Zulu’ and ‘Alpha’ class destroyers were excellent platforms with high endurance, but were ill-suited to truly be multi-purpose ships needed in the various theathers of war. The Zulu-type were excellent interdiction support vessels, designed to supplement South Africa’s cruiser squadrons with additional anti-submarine and anti-air support. The Alpha's were well designed and proved to be more than capable Convoy Escort and Anti-Submarine warships, whose smaller size was a slight departure from the ‘super-Destroyer’ line, but had the benefit of increasing their range and speed. With the arrival of the Ocean-class carriers, and eventual arrival of the Premier-class carriers, the RSAN has identified the need to begin production of a next generation escort which could form the core of a Carrier escort force or operate as Flotilla leaders in large-scale fleet actions. Those new Destroyers, named the ‘C’ or ‘Charlie-class’ would be produced through the same frame of thinking as the Premiers - with longevity in mind, expanding the size of the ship substantially from the previous Zulu and Alpha classes, while ensuring simplicity of design to make switching out electronics and weaponry a more affordable option.[/sub]

[sub]To be armed with the latest in Commonwealth Radar and Sonar technology, the Charlies will begin entering service in mid-1943. Currently, the Navy has awarded contracts to private shipyards for 8 vessels of the class, however it is expected that more ships will be ordered to modified designs as the demands of the war evolve.[/sub]

[list][sub]Charlie-class Fleet Destroyers;[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1726643[/list]

[sub]In keeping with it’s review of the war effort, the RSAN has also identified the need for small and far cheaper vessels which could enter service quickly to supplement Convoy escort duties, and likewise serve as balanced combat platforms in the coastal regions of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Dubbed the Mammal-class Sloops of War, the twenty ships ordered, will take up the role of South Africa’s anti-submarine vessel of choice with an extensive supply of Depth Charges (configured for drop racks, and throwers), and new Hedgehog anti-submarine mortars entering service throughout the Commonwealth. With the latest in Sonar and Radar technology, these ships would also bring new anti-air capabilities to the fleet. Expected to begin entering service in late 1942 and early 1943, these ships will be immediately sent to front line service.[/sub]

[list][sub]Mammal-class Sloops-of-War;[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1726116[/list]

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[list][sub]FEBRUARY 1942[/sub]

THE YOUNG COLONEL[/list]

[sup]LIMA, Constitutent Republic of North Peru, Palacio Presidencial[/sup]

| Five years have passed since lieutnenant-colonel Víctor Germán Busch Becerra's ascent to power in the Perubolivian Confederacy. Hailing from Bolivia, having served during the Chaco War under his mentor, the colonel David Toro, Busch had in 1937 an abrupt and unexpected beginning in his country's politics. Just one year after Toro's seizure of power through a coup d'état, Busch had taken over, hoping to end the decade of political instability and economic depression that had plagued the Andine nation. One year on, a parliamentary convention drafted the country's new Constitution, introducing Social Constitutionalism. But with little political clout and knowledge, Busch could not navigate the coalitions formed by the country's political parties. As his patience ran thin with the parliamentary antics, in 1939, martial law was declared over the country. |

| With a reformist outlook, Busch set his mind to modernizing the Confederacy and renovating its laws, which, for more than a century, had been drafted by the aristocratic oligarchy of the country, landowners and mine-owners. With strong popularity owed to his wartime fame, he embarked on a series of decrees to enforce the new constitution, setting a minimum wage, paid leave, social security, the right to organize, and the recognition of indigenous communities, long exploited for their cheap labor. In the months that followed, an array of industries, ranging from mines to railways and refineries and banks, would be nationalized, to great public support, following in the footsteps of David Toro, whose high point was nationalizing the Standard Oil. The most important reform of all would be the mine currency one, with an eye to the country's prosperous tin industry. The Mining Currency Law ordered that all profits from the tin trade be returned to the Central Bank, and only then transferred back to stakeholders. The Law also forced all the companies that had so far kept their capital abroad to return it to Perubolivia for taxation, or be brought to trial as traitors. Doing so increased the country's income, but also stirred the ire of the Roscos - the powerful mining magnates and their associates. |

| In politics as well, Busch would find himself isolated despite his powers. While the old oligarchic order sought to turn back the clock on his reforms, the young colonel also found himself at odds with new reformist movements. Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and his Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA), a tightly-knit, anti-imperialist organization best described as internationalist and socialist, but with no ties to the Communist Party, as well as Victor Paz Estenssoro and his Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, stood to the left of Busch. On his right were the magnates and Óscar Únzaga de la Vega, head of the Falange Socialista Peruboliviana, a far-right party of Falangist inspirations. And in the world was a war, raging in Europe and Asia. Many foreign observers have so far been awed by Busch's ability to deftly exploit his fame and support to lead his reforms. But even with the best intentions, his throne is a fragile one, plagued by organizational weaknesses and corruption, and none of his enemies would renege at the opportunity of breaking it. |

[list][sup]"I conceived the reorganization of the parties as an ideal […]. I recognized the need for free democracy […]. I upheld the convenience of broad freedom of the press. But, I have seen that in its place debauchery has been imposed, and a subversive and demagogic fermentation has taken place that poisons the national environment. Faced with this reality, from today on I begin an energetic and disciplined government, convinced that this is the only way that will allow the invigoration of the Republic, internally and internationally."[/sup]

[list][sub]President Víctor Germán Busch Becerra, 1939, after declaring martial law.[/sub][/list][/list]

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[list]South Carolina Fights "Political Extremism"[/list]

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[pre]3 March 1942.[/pre]

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[list]South Carolina State Capitol, Columbia, State of South Carolina[/list]

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| The South Carolina State Legislature has passed three new laws as of 3 March 1942, all to go into effect on 1 June 1942. They include the Anti-Sedition Act, Labor Act, and Poll Act of 1942. All three laws are designed specifically to combat political activity counter to South Carolina’s status quo, deemed “revolutionary political extremism”. The laws were supported in the state legislature by Governor Richard Jedediah White, head of the Democratic Party machine that had run South Carolina politics since the 1880s — commonly called the Citadel Society after much of its members alma mater. White’s father had also served as Governor and Senator from South Carolina, before retiring in 1923.

These three laws sought to defend the de-facto one-party state that White and his Citadel Society allies lorded over. The Anti-Sedition Act, proposed as an alleged war-time measure, sought to prohibit the publication of pro-Volkist or pro-Communist media in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Schenck v. United States. The law thereby bans the publication of pro-communist or pro-Volkist opinions in the State of South Carolina. Pro-communist opinions are defined broadly, including: "support for the integration of the races, support for the collectivisation of agricultural lands, support for collectivisation of private businesses, support for sodomy, and appeals to atheism." The new law carries a penalty of one-year imprisonment, or a $5,000 fine or both.

The Poll Act of 1942 is a measure to increase South Carolina’s poll tax from $14 to $50, with exemption for those who’s direct ancestors voted prior to 1 January 1861. The law aims to "maintain high standards within the South Carolina electorate", by increasingly limiting the electorate to white upper- and middle-class southerners and a small black upper-class.

The Labor Act of 1942 will officially bar integrated workers unions, effectually prohibiting the nation’s two largest labor unions: the AFL and CIO. Instead South Carolina will establish two “state-supervised” labor unions; the Association of South Carolina Labor for blacks and Confederation of South Carolina Labor for whites. The South Carolina Democratic Party privately wishes to use these seperate labor unions to direct higher paying public works and war production jobs to white southerners, ensuring their support in state and national elections for in perpetuity. The state’s Department of Labor will oversee both unions, nominally claiming their independence but holding powers to repress union labor "in the interest of the common good." These measures aim to maintain the superiority of the upper class, who have been threatened by the inroads made by labor unions in recent years. Under the guise of combatting political extremism, the state’s ruling class and party elite seeks to uproot any rising threats to their dominance. |

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RETURN OF TRUE DEMOCRACY IN ARGENTINA, END OF THE “INFAMOUS DECADE”

[list][list]October 1941[/list]

Democracy in Argentina was stolen in 1930 with the military coup from the General Uriburu who attempted to bring corporatist and fascist values in Argentina. After 2 years of a failed attempt to revolutionize the society to fascist values, Uriburu was replaced by General Pedro who then created the Concordancia that would rule for 10 years through fraudulent elections.

Indeed, the Great Depression directly caused the end of the Argentinian exceptionalism and brought chaos to a once prosperous society. This drove elements of the military to seize power from an old and ill president that was once successful in the post-war period but had now fallen into inaction in front of the biggest crisis the nation would endure.

The beginning of another War in Europe would create tensions in the nation and a desire of change started to grow in the heart of the average Argentine, especially after another fraudulent election that brough Castillo in power. Unrest and insurgency in Patagonia changed the balance of power in the nation. Indeed, the “suicide mission” of the expeditionary force led by Colonel Perón was surprisingly successful with the glorious return and parade in the streets of the men who captured the leadership of the PPF. The most surprising part was when the parade ended in front of the Casa Rosada, the Presidential Palace.

Indeed, Perón liberated Wladimirovich and both demanded that the President bring change to the political stage and call free and direct elections, without any fraudulent attempt to change the outcome. With the crowd getting larger and a seemingly united front of young military officers, Socialists, farmers, workers, Syndicalist and even liberal elements of the society putting pressure of the leadership of Argentina, President Castillo had no choice but to agree to those terms.

Elections were called in early October 1941, with Robustiano Patrón Costas representing the Concordancia. His chances of winning the electoral race would have been slim if the opposing forces were more prepared and were not infighting while trying to decide who would face him. Nevertheless, with the chances of Costas winning the elections growing larger, the military leadership expressed its disunion with he Concordancia and especially Costas, who represented a too extreme and reactionary element of the society. Generals like Rawson or Ramirez, who fervently supported the Concordancia and were even part of the previous government, called for a more balanced candidate to be elected.

General Farell, a more liberal military leader, proposed his candidacy with his protégé, the young Colonel who allowed all this process to happen. But, while seeing popular support growing, many liberals criticized yet another military incursion in the civilian life and democratic process.

Who would be a good candidate to defeat the Concordancia and reunify Argentina under a legitimate leadership?

One candidate finally arose from the ashes of the previous democracy. Indeed, this new candidate was a previous Ambassador to France and a previous president who had popular support and brought prosperity to the nation, developing the oil and automotive industry, for example. This new candidate, who was banned from elections under the Concordancia and was forced into exile in France for many years, was no less than Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear. Indeed, this candidate had immediately the general support with many remembering the good years of his presidency and the good advancements he brought to the nation. His deeply rooted liberal and democratic values were representative of the masses’ desire of change and return to normalcy. Nevertheless, the candidate also caused worry that his close ties with the United States during his presidency would cause problems with the relations with the United Kingdom, the biggest trade partner of the nation even during the War in Europe.

Despite those questions being unanswered and the attempts of Costas and Castillo to describe their opponent as old, ill and unfit for the new reality of Argentina, de Alvear won the elections with 67% of the votes. Indeed, the new President was election on an electoral program that would bring reforms and his own ministries would consist of a Covenant of different political opinions and thoughts, with syndicalists, classical liberals, workers, farmers, liberal military, and others being represented and listened to. For example, the Minister of War was the General Edelmiro Julián Farrell, a more liberal General of the former Concordancia, the new Ministry of Labor would be represented by the ambitious and well-articulated Colonel Perón who had affinities with the workers and their demands. He would also be member of a new committee on the effects of the military coup of 1930 and the reconciliation process to begin in order to reunify the nation.

On October 7th 1941, Democracy was finally back in Argentina. But, the nation was far from being stable and the society would watch carefully the new elected President and his cabinet.

The defeated Concordancia was far from disappeared and the conservative and aristocratic sphere of power was still looming over the head of the nation, ready to prowl at any mistake of the new President.

Moreover, the international events were creating a more unsure and unstable situation for the nation, tearing apart the loyalties of Argentines, immigrants, and their descendants, especially with the majority of the population with lineage to Italy. The nation was also teared apart by the traditional influence of Great Britain and the new and more insisting influence of the United States, each one looking to become or stay the hegemon in Latin America and sway their influence on the region. The exports situation of Argentina was also in danger despite the comparative advantage of the nation in agricultural product exports with the trade lines growing unsafe, even close to the shores of the nation

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Adriatican Islands

Afghanistaan

Alaroth

Amsterwald

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Connomia

Finlandee

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kotakuan Ii

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

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Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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[list][list]SEPTEMBER 1941

[sub]M.A.G.I.C.[/sub][/list]

[pre] D E C I P H E R I N G T H E J A P A N E S E E M B A S S Y [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes,

but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice

weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of

the warm-hearted in different scales.

Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives

in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a

Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

To some generations much is given.

Of other generations much is expected.

This generation of Americans has a

Rendezvous with Destiny.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

MAIN NAVY & MUNITIONS BUILDING — EVENING

[sub]WASHINGTON D.C., Paramountica[/sub]

[sub][pre]HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES NAVY[/pre][/sub]

| The Main Navy & Munitions Buildings were constructed in 1918 alongthen known as B Street on Washington, D.C.'s Potomac Park — to provide temporary quarters for the United States Military. Both buildings were constructed by the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, with the United States Department of War occupying the Munitions Building. To make the buildings more resistant to fire, the buildings were constructed using concrete. With solid construction, the temporary buildings remained in use long after the end of World War I — In August 1939, the Secretary of War relocated his offices from the overcrowded State-War-Navy Building to the Munitions Building. Tucked away in a secret room of the Naval Department, managed by the Signals Intelligence Service (SIS) and the United States Navy's Communication Special Unit — |

[list][list][sub]Was MAGIC, combining the government's cryptologic capabilities in one organization dubbed the Research Bureau. Intelligence officers from the Army and Navy (and later civilian experts and technicians) were all under one roof.[/sub][/list][/list]

| Although they worked on a series of codes and cyphers, their most important successes involved RED, BLUE, and PURPLE. Their main focus was to decode Japanese messages, mainly focused on the Diplomatic Channels which entered the Japanese Embassy in Washington D.C. — — Behind lock and key, a blackboard with printed white letters displays who may know about the MAGIC system telegrams. They read as follows: |

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

[pre]THE PRESIDENT[/pre]

[pre]SEC. OF STATE

SEC. OF WAR

SEC. OF THE NAVY[/pre]

[pre]ARMY[/pre]

[pre]GEN. G. C. MARSHALL

BRIG. GEN. L.T. GEROW

BRIG. GEN. S. MILES[/pre]

[pre]NAVY[/pre]

[pre]ADM. H. R. STARK

RADM. R .K. TURNER

CAPT. R. E. INGERSOLL

COMDR. A.H. McCOLLUM

LT. COMDR. E. WATTS

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

| As a decoder sits at his station, facing the wall which displays a world map of the United States’ Naval Bases, which above it display FIVE CLOCKS that read: TOKYO  — NEW YORK ° WASHINGTON — LONDON ° PARIS — MOSCOW — BERLIN ° ROME. Two men enter the room, both high ranking military officials. |

[list][list]LT. CMDR. ALVIN D. KRAMER

[sub]Naval Intelligence - OP-20-G[/sub][/list][/list]

| The first man has combed gray hair and a stern face, created after decades in the United States Navy. Clad in an American naval uniform, a black double-breasted suit jacket with gold buttons, and a white collared shirt with a black tie. Polished leather black shoes. |

[list][list]COLONEL RUFUS G. BRATTON

[sub]Chief of Army G-2, Far Eastern Section[/sub][/list][/list]

| The second man is an equally stern-faced man, but this time bald a tad bit younger. Clad in a tan U.S. Army overcoat, underneath it is his Army Officer uniform.  He cooperates with this machine, Operation Magic, which as stated decodes anything that enters the Japanese embassy, even faster than the Japanese can decode their own secret messages, that’s why they call it Magic — He proceeds to take off his overcoat, revealing the standard issued light tan collared shirts and ties with his officer lapel pins. He proceeds to head to the board, open it and picks up a black chalk. He proceeds to strike out President Roosevelt’s name from the board. |

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

[pre]THE PRESIDENT[/pre]

[pre]SEC. OF STATE

SEC. OF WAR

SEC. OF THE NAVY[/pre]

[pre]ARMY[/pre]

[pre]GEN. G. C. MARSHALL

BRIG. GEN. L.T. GEROW

BRIG. GEN. S. MILES[/pre]

[pre]NAVY[/pre]

[pre]ADM. H. R. STARK

RADM. R .K. TURNER

CAPT. R. E. INGERSOLL

COMDR. A.H. McCOLLUM

LT. COMDR. E. WATTS

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

[list]| COL. RUFUS G. BRATTON, [sub]U.S. Army[/sub] | “No use, Al. I spoke to General Miles, and he took it up with General Marshall. The order stands. The President is off the Ultra list.”

| CAPT. ALVIN D. KRAMER, [sub]U.S. Navy[/sub] | “That’s incredible. Withholding information from the President.”

| COL. RUFUS G. BRATTON, [sub]U.S. Army[/sub] | “A security man found a copy of one of our intercepts in a wastebasket at the White House. The truth is, the Brass don’t trust some of the men close to the President.”

| CAPT. ALVIN D. KRAMER, [sub]U.S. Navy[/sub] | “Does anyone trust anyone anymore? Do you even trust your own wife?”

| COL. RUFUS G. BRATTON, [sub]U.S. Army[/sub] | “Do you?”[/list]

| KRAMER glances at BRATTON. |

[list]| CAPT. ALVIN D. KRAMER, [sub]U.S. Navy[/sub] | “As to come to think of it, I believe I do.”[/list]

| Just then, a YOUNG SECRETARY from the outer room, where a dozen MEN and WOMEN help decode the messages, enters the room. |

[list]| MISS CAVE, [sub]Naval Office Secretary[/sub] | “Part two of number 1390, Colonel. Tokyo to embassies in Washington and Berlin.”

| COL. RUFUS G. BRATTON, [sub]U.S. Army[/sub] | “Thank you, Miss Cave.” [sup](reads over it, hands to KRAMER)[/sup] “The Japanese are moving south to occupy French Indochina.”

| CAPT. ALVIN D. KRAMER, [sub]U.S. Navy[/sub] | “This is big trouble.”[/list]

| BRATTON picks up his briefcase, taking the paper from KRAMER, and slips it into the case. |

[list]| COL. RUFUS G. BRATTON, [sub]U.S. Army[/sub] | “Yep. Well Ultra list or not, someone has to tell the President about this one.”[/list]

| BRATTON proceeds to pick his Officer Cap from the coatrack and steps outside of the room, on his way to the White House, the largest issue with the MAGIC decoding system is only a few people in the Intelligence Department knew about it and overall: As soon as each piece of information was read by each party, it was destroyed and never connected to the previous ones. |

[list][list][list][pre]The M.A.G.I.C. system continued to cipher messages coming into the Japanese embassy, assuming if a strike ever was to come to America, the Embassy would be the first to know — unaware of the sheer distrust the Japanese had for their own diplomatic core — M.A.G.I.C. remained focused on the Embassy and did not shift focus to Naval communications.[/pre][/list][/list][/list]

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[list][sub]MARCH 1942[/sub]

[sub]The Axiom Telegram[/sub][/list]

[list]| [sub]DAS AXIOM-TELEGRAMM, TEIL 1[/sub]

[sub]| THE AXIOM TELEGRAM, PART 1[/sub][/list]

—

| [sub]KONRAD ADENAUER was seated in the office of his penthouse suite, at the Hotel Astor in New York. The hotel served as the unofficial meeting place for the Valkyrie Coalition, that served as the unofficial government-in-exile of Volkist Germany. As such, the Coalition's top leaders, including Adenauer and co-chief and SPD party leader KURT SCHUMACHER, resided in the hotel for the time being. His door was slightly ajar when his secretary, GRETA, appeared.[/sub]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "Herr Adenauer?" [/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Yes, Greta, come in. What is it?" [/list]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "A telegram, sir. It appears to be either a joke of some sort, or some sort of coded message." [/list]

| [sub]Adenauer's attention was immediately peaked. From a visiting friend, Jans Falkner, he learned of a code used by 'liberal elements' within the Volkist government, transported to him personally for use by the Koalition 'if needed', Falkner had said. The Koalition Secretary-General pulled out a heavy dusty book, On War by Carl von Clausewitz, and placed it on his desk, fanning away a wisp of smoke before him from his cigarette.[/sub]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary General |[/sub] "Over here, Greta dear, quickly. What's it read?" [/list]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "To Herr Konrad Adenauer, residing in Hotel Astor, New York City, the United States of America. With the best greetings. Delivering this telegram on behalf of Klaus Fuchs, 2nd Division, Konigsberg Institute. The fly-swatter production rates are doing well. Up 9.7% in the last quarter alone. We believe the market will soon be dominated by ourselves, or at least good resistance will be put up against the dominating corporation. Within Fernell, dominating group, supporters have been seen. Axiom Forschung could proceed well, proper funding being sought. Proper support being sought. Endorsement required. End." [/list]

| [sub]Adenauer's cigar fell out of his mouth. He stood up, and looked out the window, watching as, in the distance, New Yorkers drove about and walked to their jobs as the day began. His assistant watched curiously onwards as she read the telegram again, trying to make sense of it.[/sub]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "Dabbling in . . . the fly-swatting business?" [/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "No, no, heavens no . . . this is much better than that. Very good, very good. Put Schumacher on the phone right now, tell him its of great importance." [/list]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "Y- Yes sir." [/list]

| [sub]Greta got up from the seat, still slightly confused, before scurrying out of the office to inform Schumacher, who was most likely still asleep. Adenauer smiled as his eyes glanced over a dated Times article about the entry of the U.S. into the Second World War. He kept the old article, dated to 13 December of last year, because of the importance it held. The importance it held in the War. The importance it held in keeping alive the possibility that the Allies could win, that the Volkists could be ousted.[/sub]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "He's on the phone, sir." [/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Wonderful. Now, please excuse me, Greta, grab a bite if you wish." [/list]

[list][sub]| GRETA WINKELHOLM, Secretary |[/sub] "Thank you, sir." [/list]

| [sub]Greta bowed herself out of the office and gently shut the door as Adenauer sat down, unbuttoned his grey coat, and picked up the phone.[/sub]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Kurt, my friend, we must talk now. It is of paramount importance." [/list]

[list][sub]| KURT SCHUMACHER, Koalition Executive Director |[/sub] "What is it now, Herr Adenauer? And at nine o'clock in the morning. Did the morning paper bring more bad news?" [/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "No, we have good news. Very good news. From Germany." [/list]

[list][sub]| KURT SCHUMACHER, Koalition Executive Secretary |[/sub] "About what?" [/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Valkyrie." [/list]

| [sub]There was a grunt of disbelief from the other end of the phone.[/sub]

[list][sub]| KURT SCHUMACHER, Koalition Executive Secretary |[/sub] "Surely not. What about Fernell?"[/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Within Fernell, dominating group, supporters have been seen. It is finally happening, Kurt." [/list]

| [sub]Schumacher sighed.[/sub]

[list][sub]| KURT SCHUMACHER, Koalition Executive Secretary |[/sub] "Possibly. Who knows?"[/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "Myself and Greta. We must communicate this to someone, the British Foreign Office, perhaps."[/list]

[list][sub]| KURT SCHUMACHER, Koalition Executive Secretary |[/sub] "You're insane. This isn't credible evidence, not yet at least."[/list]

[list][sub]| KONRAD ADENAUER, Koalition Secretary-General |[/sub] "If insanity is what it takes to save Germany and return it to the light, I'm more than willing to do it, and I am more than willing to die trying."[/list]

[pre]TO BE CONTINUED.[/pre]

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Paramountica

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Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

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Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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[list][list]OCTOBER 1941

[sub]America First[/sub][/list]

[pre] L I N D B E R G H & A M E R I C A F I R S T [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]There′s a new day in view,

There is gold in the blue,

There is hope in the hearts of men,

From the plain to the hill,

From the farm to the mill,

FOR THE ROAD IS OPEN AGAIN![/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

VENUE, MANHATTAN CENTER — EVENING

[sub]NEW YORK, NEW YORK, Paramountica[/sub]

| The Manhattan Center, one of New York City’s premier venues for hosting events. The city, much like the country, is engulfed with high anxiety. As events continue to flash newspaper headlines about the events in Europe and Asia, many Americans are worried about two things: The desire to keep out of the war, and the desire to defeat the Axis. On the side of the first, not only to keep out, but also a Volk-Sympathizer — we now read the headline of the Manhattan Center marquee: |

[list][pre]MANHATTAN CENTER

AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE

—

COL. CHAS. LINDBERGH

—

KATHLEEN NORRIS - SEN. WALSH[/pre][/list]

| Hundred attend tonight’s rally, waving American flags, they cheer for the men and women on stage. Tonight’s main speaker is CHARLES LINDBERGH, famous Aviator and American Hero, this is the Volk-Sympathizer and avid enemy of U.S. involvement in the World War. Standing before the podium, whose platform is covered by a forest of microphone stands, Mr. LINDBERGH is already deep into his address. Clad in a dark navy blue suit and red tie. His call is to abandon America’s friend and ally, Great Britain Gb. |

[list]| CHARLES LINDBERGH, [sub]American Aviator[/sub] | “. . . France has now been defeated; and despite the propaganda and confusion of recent months, it is now obvious that England is losing the war. I believe this is realized even by the British government. But they have one last desperate plan remaining. They hope that they may be able to persuade us to send another American Expeditionary Force to Europe and to share with England militarily as well as financially the fiasco of this war . . . I have been forced to the conclusion that we cannot win this war for England, regardless of how much assistance we extend . . . The time has come when those of us who believe in an independent American destiny must band together and organize for strength. We have been led toward war by a minority of our people. This minority has power. It has influence. It has a loud voice. But it does not represent the American people . . . That is why the America First Committee has been formed — to give voice to the people who have no newspaper or newsreel or radio station at their command; to the people who must do the paying and the fighting and the dying if this country enters the war.”[/list]

| LINDBERGH and the America First Committee will now begin to rally against any involvement into the war. Hundreds of thousands of citizens agree, including John F. Kennedy, who donates $100 dollars to America First, the son of the former Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Who was relieved by President Roosevelt from his Ambassadorship, rightfully so, as he hated the British and attempted to rally U.S. support against any support towards the British, who were and are under siege — Since the war began in 1939, Americans have seen and heard about the devastation in Europe. But none the less, most Americans agree the threat of Germany is not enough to cost American lives. As the months progressed, Lindbergh will increase his attacks. Rallying those who agree with him against what he saw as the three main groups driving the United States to war: The British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt Administration. Nonetheless, President Roosevelt was not deterred from aiding the British, as well as the greater Allied cause. |

[list][list][list][pre]Lindbergh and the America First Committee were denounced by both Republican and Democratic leaderships, including a wide array of condemnations from America’s most prominent religious and social leaderships on the issue of America First’s rampant anti-Semitism and conspiracies against President Roosevelt.[/pre][/list][/list][/list]

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[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

北太平洋 (NORTH PACIFIC)[/list]

[list][list]ログ! ログ! ログ!

[pre]DAYS BEFORE THE SEVENTH DAY[/pre][/list][/list]

| The waves of the chilling and dark Pacific Ocean clash upon the bow of the flagship of this attack, the I.J.N. Combined Fleet. It leads the six Japanese aircraft carriers and escorts. At the bridge, the naval officers commanding the vessel are surrounding their captain, after a buzz from the ship’s intercom, he speaks into the Combined Fleet’s bridge microphone in a serious and proud tone. |

[list]| [sub]CAPT. of the I.J.N. Combined Fleet[/sub] | “In a message the Commander-in-Chief . . . he wished everyone good luck. That, plus the imperial Proclamation . . . has undoubtedly stirred your loyalty to the Empire. The success of this mission depends on surprise. lf we achieve it . . . the code words “ログ! ログ! ログ!” (Tora, Tora, Tora) will be sent out. The hours for battle are approaching. . . I will say few words compared to our usual pep talks. Instead I shall hoist the famous “Z” flag beneath which, Commander-in-Chief Yamamoto led his fleet to victory in the historic battle against the Russians over our defense of Manchuria years ago!”[/list]

| All across the Combined Fleet, and the whole 1st Strike Fleet, the sailors and pilots respond with 万歳!万歳!万歳! (BANZAI!, BANZAI!, BANZAI!), or 10,000 Years To The Emperor! Soon, Japan shall strike at the heart of the American Pacific fleet . . . Operation Z. |

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Adriatican Islands

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Alaroth

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Arcanda

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Metropolitan Francais

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New Provenance

Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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[list][sub]FEBRUARY 1942[/sub]

ORGANIZING MILITARY SOCIALISM[/list]

[sup]LIMA, Constitutent Republic of North Peru, Palacio Presidencial[/sup]

| In five years of rule, President Busch had continued his predecessor's experiment: A new ideology, both practical and theoretical, born out of an unholy alliance, military socialism. Military socialism was, in 1936, the union between the military, the workers' movements, and left-wing parties. It gave birth to the current Constitution and the biggest social reforms enacted since Marshal Santa Cruz unified Perubolivia one century earlier. However, since Busch's coup, political parties had been left out; only apolitical workers' organizations remained. Busch had led the nation since the Coup of '39 as a solitary man, ruling from above and issuing decree upon decree in military-like fashion, with only a very close circle of confidants. However, it was clear that such a leadership style would not last. The irruption of "mass parties", from the APRA to the Falanges, demonstrated a clear need to solidify Busch's public approval into a modern political party. Indeed, the reformist of today could not rule like the caudillos of yesterday. |

| A new formation would therefore be born, Busch's own party, called the Movimiento Nacional de Reforma y Renovacion (National Movement of Reform and Renovation, MNRR). Enrique Baldivieso, former Vice-President and Socialist politician, would assist the Young Colonel in this endeavour. The MNRR aimed at being a "mass party", capable of rivalling the others whenever martial law would end and a return to normal politics would happen — Anything to avoid the headaches provoked by the multi-party cabinets headed by Busch before the Coup of '39. But the President did not have any pleasure creating this party. It was clear to everyone involved that Busch thoroughly disliked politics and parties, having little patience for, and knowledge about, the inner workings of party and parliamentary mechanics, preferring instead the clear-cut military rigor that made him who he is today. Therefore, Baldivieso would be charged with the administration of the new party. From its inception, the MNRR registered large public support; more than one million members flocked to it during the first month, and Busch's clan rapidly unified around it, while the opposition denounced it as a personalist party. There is some truth to that assertion, as Busch remains alone at the top; some even compare the baby-faced colonel to an only child not wanting to share the toys. But there was also some less factual content: Busch did not like to involve his family in politics, and relied solely on his subordinates. And, as far as one could see, there was not an ounce of corruption in the man. |

| The second part of organizing military socialism came through the streamlining of government decisions. Seeking to eliminate intermediaries and create a lean structure, where there would be no place for delays, corruption or idling, many Ministries would be consolidated into the hands of a few trusted ministers, hand-picked by Busch among those who had served him before and after '39. Some, like Baldivieso (Head of the MNRR and Minister of Propaganda) and José Luis Bustamante y Rivero (Minister of Justice and Government) were from the world of politics or law; some others from the military like Felipe Manual Rivera (Defense); even businessmen who had converted to military socialism such as Dionisio Foianini (Mining & Petrol, Developement, Communications, Sanitation); and then unionists were also represented at various sub-ministerial levels. The remodeled cabinet of 1942 would be noted for its diversity, a testimony of Busch's changing attitudes. |

| And, lastly, to eliminate corruption, stringent rules and punishments would be created by decree. Just like company presidents who did not repatriate their wealth to Perubolivia, those accused of corruption, whether in government, parliament or the nationalized companies, could now be tried as traitors to the country — And possibly face the shooting squad. While the nation was still far from a real purge, the measure struck deep into people's hearts. And even if harsh punishments, mandatory countersignatures, and reinforced screening of important officials — one measure that may be difficult to implement, due to aliases and an at-best spotty record of archive-keeping — would not be enough to eradicate deep, endemic corruption, it was more than anyone in government had done before. A genuine breakthrough for the Andine nation, and a measure that would at least decrease the current level of corruption.|

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[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

北太平洋 (NORTH PACIFIC)[/list]

[list][list]ログ! ログ! ログ!

[pre]THE SEVENTH DAY[/pre]

[sub]https://youtu.be/LuGdhx68Q50?t=55[/sub][/list][/list]

| In the early morning hours of the quiet Sunday, Operation Z’s strike force fleet is now in position. One of our Japanese submarines was spotted and sunken by the American ship, U.S.S. Ward at 03:42 Hours. But it was too late . . . |

[pre]Aircraft Carriers of (Operation Z);[/pre]

[list][pre]░▒ Akagi (Latinized from 赤城)

░▒ Kaga (Latinized from 加賀)

░▒ Sōryū (Latinized from 蒼龍)

░▒ Hiryū (Latinized from 飛龍)

░▒ Shōkaku (Latinized from 翔鶴)

░▒ Zuikaku (Latinized from 瑞鶴)[/pre][/list]

[pre]Aircraft with the Carriers (1st Wave);[/pre]

[list][pre]░▒ 1st Wave includes 183 planes, led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida.[/pre][/list]

[pre]Aircraft with the Carriers (2nd Wave);[/pre]

[list][pre]░▒ 2nd Wave includes 171 planes: 54 B5Ns, 81 D3As, and 36 A6Ms, commanded by Lieutenant-Commander Shigekazu Shimazaki.[/pre][/list]

| At 07:02 Hours, the Americans at Army’s Opana Mobile Radar Station on Oahu spot the incoming Japanese fighter planes. Before 08:00 Hours, our fighter planes descend upon the sleeping American harbor, with their engines roaring they quickly drop their payloads on the targets which they practiced on models for so many months. The first sighting of our Japanese fighters by the American Commander Logan C. Ramsey on Ford Island. Noticing a low-flying plane, Logan initially believes it to be a U.S. pilot but then notices a bomb being dropped. “AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR, THIS IS NOT A DRILL” is transmitted via telegraph from Ford Island by the Americans. The first bombs strike Wheeler and Hickam. The FIRST STRIKE is SUCCESSFUL, and so is the SECOND STRIKE. ログ! ログ! ログ! . . . ログ! ログ! ログ! . . . ログ! ログ! ログ!. Triumphantly, the mission is a success. Despite some resistance from U.S. airmen, the mission went far better than expected by those back in the Tokyo war rooms. These brave Japanese pilots and sailors have brought an immense pride to Japanese homeland and the Emperor, by crippling the U.S. Pacific Fleet. BANZAI! |

| From the bridge of escorting battleship, I.J.N. Combined Fleet, Admiral Yamamoto watches his aircraft carriers and airplanes return from the two strikes. A sense of profound pride and honor sweep his entire body as his white gloved removes the binoculars from before his eyesight. Next to him, the captain of the Combined Fleet watches with the same feeling of admiration. |

[list]| [sub]CAPT. of the I.J.N. Combined Fleet[/sub] | “Commander-in-Chief, you have brought us an honor that few men throughout the history of this Empire have also been able to call their own. His Majesty, the Son of Heaven, no doubt looks forward towards your continued command of the mighty Imperial Pacific Fleet! BANZAI!”

| ISORUKU YAMAMOTO, [sub]V-ADM. CMDR. of ENTIRE FLEET, I.J.N.[/sub] | “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”[/list]

| As naval officers around them, and men all across the fleet shout 万歳! (BANZAI!) repeatedly, Yamamoto’s expression turns into an unnoticeable grim expression of what lies ahead. As he mentioned to the former Minister of the Navy, they cannot just stop halfway. |

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March,1942

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NEW PUBLIC RAILWAY SYSTEM

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With the so called "car for the people" that is the Koreta-1 reputation for being a unsafe vehicle.New ways for citizens to get from point A to B has become important as to ensure that workers could get to work on time and students could get to school on time.Most citizens have been choosing to walk to work or school over anything else this meant that cases of workers/students showing up late are at a high,which lowers the efficiency of the economy as students who show up late are most likely to not succeed in academics if they can't pick up the subject faster then the rest meaning that when they go to work they would be less qualified for their job.

To counter this,the concept of a new public railway system has been floating around the parliament for weeks as it is viewed as a good source of income as since the automobile the Koreta is unpopular people will most likely choose using the public railway over their own automobile if they own one.With the bonus that this will create many new job opportunities which could be of value in the future of public transportation in the nation and it should slightly reduce the amount of students/workers showing up late.

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IN MALAY

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Dengan apa yang dipanggil "kereta untuk rakyat" yang merupakan reputasi Koreta-1 sebagai kenderaan yang tidak selamat. Cara baharu bagi rakyat untuk pergi dari titik A ke B telah menjadi penting bagi memastikan pekerja dapat pergi bekerja tepat pada masanya dan pelajar boleh sampai ke sekolah tepat pada masanya.Kebanyakan rakyat memilih untuk berjalan kaki ke tempat kerja atau sekolah berbanding perkara lain, ini bermakna kes pekerja/pelajar yang datang lewat berada pada tahap yang tinggi, yang merendahkan kecekapan ekonomi sebagai pelajar yang datang lewat. berkemungkinan besar tidak berjaya dalam akademik jika mereka tidak dapat mengambil subjek dengan lebih cepat maka selebihnya bermakna apabila mereka pergi bekerja mereka akan kurang layak untuk pekerjaan mereka.

Untuk mengatasinya, konsep sistem kereta api awam baharu telah berlegar-legar di parlimen selama berminggu-minggu kerana ia dilihat sebagai sumber pendapatan yang baik memandangkan kereta Koreta tidak popular, orang kemungkinan besar akan memilih menggunakan kereta api awam berbanding kereta mereka sendiri. kereta jika mereka memilikinya. Dengan bonus bahawa ini akan mewujudkan banyak peluang pekerjaan baharu yang boleh menjadi nilai pada masa depan pengangkutan awam di negara ini dan ia akan mengurangkan sedikit jumlah pelajar/pekerja yang datang lewat.

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SLOVENE MOVEMENT PASSES LETTERS TO DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS IN BELGRADE

[list][sup]WITH LOVE FROM LJUBLJANA

YUGOSLAVIA—SPRING 1942[/sup][/list]

The recent government siege that ended a partisan takeover of the town of Užice seemed to opponents of the regent Prince Paul’s rule to be a symptom of the regency’s inevitable collapse. The Yugoslav government and its daunting VOS—an increasingly vigorous secret police force directly loyal to the Prince and his dictatorship—had tried to prevent any press from accessing Užice during and after the siege. Nonetheless, word spread quickly throughout the country of how partisans held a town for weeks against government assault. Separatist and socialist activity saw an immediate uptick, and in the following month, several diplomatic missions in Belgrade—the capital of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia—received letters hand-written by separatist coordinator Franc Snoj. Snoj, who continues to evade capture, has been the organizer of the Slovene independence movement within Yugoslavia in affiliation with his London-based colleagues Boris Furlan and Miha Krek of the Committee for an Independent Slovenia (OSS). The letters insisted, pointing to the recent siege, the lack of democratic processes in the country and the near-absolute rule of the regent, that the collapse of the rule of Prince Paul was not only inevitable but morally necessary. They implored foreign governments to stop any material or ideological support for the Prince and turn their attention instead to the independence movements. Snoj promised that “when Slovenia breathes anew”, it will return any aid from abroad several times over.

The responses to the letters were of particular interest. The notes themselves were directed at governments not overburdened by war—the buckling Soviet Union and Great Britain, for example, were exempt—but still given to some belligerents, as in the case of the United States. The Estado Novo, which has not chosen to enter the conflict, gave a measured response; their diplomatic staff requested of Snoj that he prove that the Western powers backed the Slovene movement as he claimed in his message. Only when Snoj cited direct quotations from the American president at the Arcadia Conference were the diplomats of the Estado Novo satisfied to give Snoj an affirmative response, pledging support to the movement. The small Zairean mission in Belgrade—made up of a cozy, wood-paneled rented office and only two full-time staffers—impressively saw that the message reached First Representative Gloria Banza herself. Banza took pity on the Slovene movement in their quest for liberation, pledging a sum of $3,000 (1941) and offering refuge to Slovene activists in Leopoldville should the situation in Europe deteriorate further. Her acts were met with a letter of thanks written by Chairman Boris Furlan of the OSS, promising that the Zairean state would be afforded a larger diplomatic mission when “Ljubljana rules” and expressing optimism for a friendship between the two states. The United States even paid the letters some attention despite the calamitous attack on Hawai’i in December 1941. Surplus arms were pledged, as was $60,000 (1941) in funding for the movement on the ground. The Americans 8j9q8epy implied that the Slovenes ought to begin a more active resistance to the Axis collaborationist government of Yugoslavia, weakening the German and Italian invasions of Europe. However, as of the present, armed movements have only partially materialized and most Slovene resistance remains political.

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[list]APRIL 1942

[sub]MADRID — SPANISH REPUBLIC [/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]| EL MUNDO EN GUERRA: UNA REPÚBLICA FRÁGIL[/pre][/list][/list]

[LIST][LIST][pre]| THE WORLD AT WAR: A FRAGILE REPUBLIC[/pre][/list][/list]

From the ashes of a destructive and murderous civil conflict, the republican government finds itself struggling to effectively govern the whole of Spain. The alliance between the Republican Union, Republican Left, Catalan nationalists and communists, the Socialist Workers Party, and the Communist Party has since 1940 failed by nearly every metric as competing interests of the various parties fail to align on even the most basic of issues. This failure of governance and the overall weakness of the Spanish state has allowed for nationalists to take control in ‘non-Castilian regions’ and has further placed the fragile republic in a peculiar position as the world has entered a new stage of devastating global conflict.

Catalan nationalists and communists played an essential role in the fight against francoists during the civil war. Their support of the republican government and the subsequent alliance of the people, parties and interests ultimately led to the republic's defeat and survival. Despite said support for the continuation of the republican system, they remained nationalists with the interests of Catalans and Catalonia at the forefront of their politics at the regional and national levels. In terms of the failure of governance, Catalans held the greatest stake with their outright unwillingness to compromise which has undoubtedly restricted the movement of government. Finding themselves in a politically powerful position and recognising the weakness of the central government, said act of unwillingness is beneficial for the purpose of extracting major concessions, one of which potientially sovereignty.

Fragility of the republic in an era of global conflict, one driven by similar foes defeated during the Spanish Civil War, has left the Spanish state in a particularly vulnerable position. Spain with a battle tested and hardened fighting force is surely capable of meeting the task of expelling fascism from Europe. However the government lacks the political will to do so. Despite all parties agreeing on the defence of the peninsula, disagreement on declaring war without credible support from the Allied powers restricts Spain from entering the conflict. Furthermore, the Spanish public remains wary of war, only being free from civil conflict for two years. Though disagreement exists in Madrid, inaction is not viable and could potentially lead to destruction of the country. With the fascists at the doorstep, all understand that conflict is inevitable. However, whether the government will muster the will to act or wait is unknown.

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[list]APRIL 1942

[sub]BARCELONA — CATALAN STATE *[/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]| EL MÓN EN GUERRA: DECLARACIÓ SOBRE LA SOBIRANIA I LA INDEPENDÈNCIA DE L'ESTAT CATALÀ[/pre][/list][/list]

[LIST][LIST][pre]| THE WORLD AT WAR: DECLARATION ON SOVEREIGNTY AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE CATALAN STATE[/pre][/list][/list]

Catalan nationalists had proven to be an invaluable force of support for the republican government during the civil war. After the victory of Franco, nationalists possessed widespread support in the catalan countries and dominated the local political sphere. At the national level, they too played an important role and possessed disproportionate power placing the interests of Catalans at the forefront of their politics. For two years their nationalist bloc, in a position of unusual extreme power, refused to cooperate with other coalition parties without widespread concessions favourable for their respective regions. Said power combined with the weakness of the government to act, emboldened the nationalist bloc to be ever more bearish in their goals. After lengthy negotiations and compromise amongst themselves the representatives of the regions decided to jointly issue the Declaration on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Catalan State. The declaration proclaims the following:

[list]Generalitat de Catalunya, Corts Valencianes i Corts Balears expressant la voluntat dels pobles i països catalans amb l'objectiu de crear una societat democràtica, partint dels requisits de la garantia integral dels drets dels homes lliures i de les llibertats, respectant els drets nacionals de totes les persones, cuidant per al ple desenvolupament polític, econòmic i social dels pobles catalans, reconeixent la necessitat de creació de l'estat constitucional, amb l'objectiu d'aprovar la sobirania i l'autogovern del poble català, reconeixent la necessitat de la creació d'un estat constitucional i amb l'objectiu d'aprovar la sobirania i l'autogovern. -govern del poble català PROCLAMAR la supremacia de la sobirania estatal de Catalunya, la independència d'un estat català, la plenitud i indivisibilitat de les autoritats de l'estat dins el seu territori, i la igualtat en les relacions exteriors entre els estats sobirans.

Parliament of Catalonia, Cortes Valencianes and Cortes Baleares expressing the will of the Catalan peoples and countries aiming to create a democratic society, proceeding from requirements of the comprehensive providing of the rights of free men and freedoms, respecting the national rights of all people, caring for full political, economic and social development of the catalan peoples, recognizing need of creation of the constitutional state, aiming to approve sovereignty and self-government of the Catalan people, recognizing need of creation of a constitutional state and aiming to approve sovereignty and self-governance of the Catalan people PROCLAIM the supremacy of state sovereignty of Catalonia, the independence of a Catalan state, the completeness and indivisibility of the authorities of the state within its territory , and equality in external relations amongst sovereign states.[/list]

The declaration of sovereignty and independence sent shockwaves throughout the current administration and the whole of Spain. The outright refusal of the “Spanish Project”, one which has been bound by blood, infuriated members of the Cortes Generales, but most importantly the President of the Republic. Despite the outrage, the president and his administration were bound by the threat of fascists who in two years have gained complete control of France and Europe. Troops could not be committed to regain control of the regions as they would very likely be needed to defend the entirety of the peninsula against Axis onslaught. However, the government could not recognise their unilateral declaration as appearing weak may only invite bad actors to further destabilise the state. Therefore, the President would pursue a more focused path of only ensuring the region will contribute to men and resources for inevitable conflict, and in return put off the issue of sovereignty until after the war. Determined in his action, secret negotiations would undergo however the result of the negotiations would be unknown for a time.

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[list][list][list][pre]GRANDE ESTADO NOVO

A UNIÃO-ESTADO PLURICONTINENTAL DAS NAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS

GLÓRIA A DEUS, GLÓRIA A SALAZAR, GLÓRIA A VARGAS[/pre][/list]

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KING MANUEL II RETURNS TO THE THRONE AMID NEGOTIATIONS WITH GRAND MARSHAL CARMONA AND THE NATIONAL UNION BLOC

[sub]1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 1942 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| Large scale demonstrations in Brazil and Portugal from Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, the clergy, Indigenous populations, and traditionalist leadership of the National Union Bloc (Bloco da União Nacional) over the past three months for the return of the Portuguese monarchy to some degree. Since the removal of the Monarchy, the position of Grand Marshal progressively replaced the position of a Monarchy without the formal distinction of being royal. However, per stabilization of internal development and the return of Brazil into the Portuguese Domain, the larger population centers of the Estado Novo still venerate the times of monarchist traditionalism and assured stability. This is larger due to the growth in Patrianovism - a right wing traditionalist ideology that advocates for monarchism within Portugal in addition to what is considered the "Caminho de Oito Pontos":[/sub]

[list]Creed – Roman Catholicism should be made mandatory in every institution;

Monarchy – A responsible monarch should be able to rule and govern freely. The monarchy is the basis for syndicalist municipalism;

Portuguese Fatherland and Race – Affirmation of the Portuguese people in every stance: religiously, physically and economically;

New Method of Administrative Division – The Portuguese Empire should be divided into smaller provinces and regions, solely for administrative reasons, to prevent regionalism and consecutively separatism

Syndicalist Organization – Both spiritual and economical productions should be organized in syndicates.

Imperium - Imperial capital at the center/heart of the Empire

Diplomacia de Jeová - Foreign relations based on Christianity

Cidades de Deus - Special agreement relationship with Ibero-America.[/list]

[sub]The growth of Patrianovism was attributed to the expansion of new industrial, academic, academic and manufacturing zones primarily in Brazil but slowly into Angola, Portugal, Mozambique, and East Timor. As global wars continue around the Empire and per the strict yet brittle neutrality policy of the Portuguese Empire, the ideology of Patrianovism and the National Union Bloc were able to gradually integrate within a bubble of peace. As Patrianovism and Salazar's corporatism began to blend, so too did the ideas of a unique governance institution that reincorporates the monarchy in juxtaposition with the Office of the Grand Marshal to culminate a government of balance and institutional security for both the monarchy and Grand Marshal. The growth of this ideology grew sympathy among the ranks of the National Union Bloc, the clergy, military and intelligence agencies, prompting further political and social stresses upon Salazar and Vargas to avoid any potential schisms and to negotiate with both the Braganza Royal Family and Patrianovist leadership.[/sub]

[sub]Additional tenets of Patrianovism includes:[/sub]

[list]Corporatism

Anti-Democracy: Rejection of the participation of the masses and political parties since:[/list]

[list][list][sup]The power is exclusive to the monarch;

The masses themselves were in favor of a form of government led by a powerful figure (such as a King or a General) instead of politicians who were apathetic to their well-being;

Different political parties would lead to the polarization and the separation of the population;

They transform public goods into private property;

They work against the cooperation of municipalities;

The various political factions worked against national unity.[/sup][/list][/list]

[list]Patrianovism also accuses the various political parties of being the same conglomeration, but only with a different name to disguise themselves. They also accuse parties of having predatory manners and of trying to take the reins, with the intent of striking the Traditional Order, seeking the benefit of becoming an organization with no accountability to the nation.

Anti-Republicanism: The complete opposite direction of municipalism, proposed as the state where the community esteem each other, work for each other and conspire for the greater good. They also expressed that this form of government, much like the "anti-Luso action of the 1820s", is a barbarian-imported political scheme, "...an idea of Portuguese, but never a Portuguese idea...", similar to a tyrannical invader, damaging traditional and sacred institutions of a genuine Portuguese domain. For them, the Republic is the eternal restart in that the republican government always has a setback, never learning to grow. Meanwhile, in the monarchical government, there exists a linear growth towards prosperity. The republican form of government – demoralized, disorganized and improvident – would also be the nest for caudillos, dictators and tyrants, whereas the monarchical form of government would be the best suited to preserve order and liberty. Arlindo Santos characterized the republic as an oppressive, bureaucrat, incompetent, un-pious, immoral and demoralized form of government.

Traditionalism

Immigration & Racial Problems: Corresponding to the beliefs that the Republic was "anti-national", the movement has discontent with the branqueamento policy, that promoted immigration to the Estado Novo Empire from various European countries, especially from Italy and other Mediterranean nations, and from Japan. The Patrianovists believe that those immigrants steal away jobs from natives and the Portuguese.[/list]

[sub]The power of this growing movement could no longer be ignored as the moderate National Syndicalists and Integralists began to demonstrate their new alignment to Patrianovism to bring the call to return the Monarchy and diminish potential sources toward permanence of Republicanism ideals and institutions. These political storms in Brazil, Angola, Timor Leste, and Mozambique surely prompted a large stress upon Lisbon for major political decisions to be made. Continual meetings between Vargas, Salazar, Manuel II, and Carmona gave the public a view that institutional reconstruction was being negotiated and considered for the sake of the Empire. This came to be true as newsletters discussed the impending return of House Braganza into politics. This appeared to be true as the Grand Marshal and Manuel II would be seen together during public functions along with members of the clergy, National Union Bloc, and military officials. This process culminated into a declaration entitled A Restauração do Domínio Português e Ressurreição da Moralidade Social - prompting the return of the monarchy with Manuel II as Rei do Império Português e Primeiro Cidadão do Grande Estado Novo while initiating a new checks and balance form of governance between the King, the Grand Marshal, President of the Estado Novo, Vice-President of the Estado Novo, and the National Union Bloc's domination of the government.[/sub]

[sub]The restoration of the monarchy would come with a limited, balancing capacity to serve in juxtaposition to the Grand Marshal. The coronation of Manuel II onto the returning throne commenced in Lisbon in front of a crowd of 2.4 million people from across the Portuguese Domain. Taking his oath with the Patriarch of the Estado Novo Catholic Church, Manuel II would be crowned and motioned to sit in his throne as the Estado Novo's national anthem played, balloons let go, and a small military parade commenced. Manuel II and Grand Marshal Carmona's throne armchairs would be positioned next to each other in a signal that both are equal in stature and importance for the functioning and maintenance of the Portuguese Empire and the global footprint. Vargas and Salazar's armchairs were positioned slightly to the side on the right behind both the King and the Grand Marshal. The observation deck where all four men were positioned was filled with Integralists, National Syndicalists, Patrianovist "White Shirts", the clergy, members of the GSI, and commanding officers across military branches. That marked a new chapter for Portugal: a complete execution to any and all potential hopes for Republicanism and democratic ideals in the Empire. The marriage of traditionalism, conservatism, third way Salazarism, and monarchism has constructed the perfect bastion of concentrated authority and power in the hands of syndicate industrialists, the Church, the military, economists and financiers, and House Braganza - true Roman Catholic corporatism.[/sub]

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[list][list][pre]UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS!

GLORY TO GOD!

THE BASTION OF CATHOLICISM![/pre][/list][/list]

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April,1942

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SECOND-EVER ELECTION

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What was supposed to be the second ever election for the nation had been postponed by a year and a few months to ensure stability in the government and to make sure plans towards preparations for the threat that are the Japanese empire were done accordingly.However with no signs of a Japanese invasion,the second election would be held on the first of May,1942.However with political parties being in it's relative infancy in Maziya,compared to other countries there shouldn't be any new major rivals towards the current M.R.P (Maziyan Republic Party) being head of government for another six more years,with their only rival being the communist party.The sultan,Zahier Al Hafiz has yet to come out to the public on whether or not he will be joining the election this year.

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IN MALAY

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Apa yang sepatutnya menjadi pilihan raya kedua untuk negara itu telah ditangguhkan selama setahun dan beberapa bulan untuk memastikan kestabilan dalam kerajaan dan untuk memastikan rancangan ke arah persiapan menghadapi ancaman yang merupakan empayar Jepun dilakukan dengan sewajarnya. tanda-tanda pencerobohan Jepun, pilihan raya kedua akan diadakan pada pertama Mei, 1942. Walau bagaimanapun dengan parti-parti politik yang berada di peringkat awal relatifnya di Maziya, berbanding dengan negara-negara lain tidak sepatutnya ada saingan utama baru terhadap M.R.P semasa ( Parti Republik Maziyan) menjadi ketua kerajaan selama enam tahun lagi, dengan satu-satunya pesaing mereka ialah parti komunis. Sultan, Zahier Al Hafiz masih belum mendedahkan sama ada beliau akan menyertai pilihan raya tahun ini atau tidak.

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[sub][list]|THE DURRANI SAGA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1|[/sub][/list]

[sub][list]April 10, 1942[/sub][/list]

THRONE ROOM, THE ARG, KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — DAY

[sub]Within the Arg, Emir Muhammad Abdul Rahim sits on his throne inside the throne room with his younger son, Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Majeed Khan. He is waiting for the arrival of his grandson and heir, Crown Prince (Shahzada) Rehmatullah Khan. A few minutes later, Rehmatullah Khan arrived and entered the throne room, and he then walked toward his grandfather until he was halfway between him and the Emir. Rehmatullah Khan bowed to his grandfather, the Emir, to show his respect, then stood up and began to speak.[/sub]

[list][B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Hello there grandfather. It seem like you need me for something?”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Hello my beloved grandson, and you are right that I do need you for something. Something important.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”What is it grandfather?”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Would you tell my beloved grandson and your nephew about the situation Sardar?”[/sub]

[B]SARDAR ABDUL MAJEED KHAN DURRANI, Prime Minister:[/B] [sub]”Certainly, father.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]Prime Minister Sardar Abdul Majeed Khan look toward straight at his nephew’s eyes and began to speak.[/sub]

[list][B]SARDAR ABDUL MAJEED KHAN DURRANI, Prime Minister:[/B] [sub]”We have received reports that a few tribes loyal to the former monarch, Amanullah Khan, and the Hazaras of the southern part of the Hazarajat region started an uprising against us, wishing to see Amanullah Khan and the Barakzai dynasty restored to the throne.”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”But that’s not all, right my son?”[/sub]

[B]SARDAR ABDUL MAJEED KHAN DURRANI, Prime Minister:[/B] [sub]”That's right, father. We also receive a report that they begin attacking towns and villages loyal to the government and us, especially attacking and killing every Jews they see their sight on.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]Under the rule of the Barakzai dynasty, many anti-Jewish laws were passed and imposed on the Jews, which caused them to flee the country. Once Emir Muhammad Abdul Rahim came to power and the Durrani dynasty was restored, all the anti-Jewish laws were repelled, and the Jews were declared citizens of Afghanistan. The Emir offered to Afghan Jews in exile to restore all their property if they returned to Afghanistan. This was because Jews allied themselves to the Durrani faction in the Civil War. After all, Muhammad Abdul Rahim promised to end all anti-Jewish laws and restore all of their rights. Another reason is due to both his religious belief and political decision. Muhammad believed that the Jews, as the People of the Book, should be protected and treated equally with the Muslims. He also thought that ending the anti-Jewish laws and restoring their rights would bring an economic boom to the country since some of the Afghan Jews had a connection with the Jews in the west who were either businessmen or bankers. The Emir appointed an Afghan Jew as his Minister of Finances.[/sub]

[sub]As a result, the lives and the rights of the Afghan Jews increased significantly and many Afghan Jews, who left the countries centuries ago, began to return to Afghanistan. The Jewish population increased from 3,300 in 1929 to 10,00 in 1940. However, this caused resentment and anger from the tribes who supported the Barakzai Dynasty and the Hazaras, who began to attack the Jewish populations whenever there was an uprising again Emir Muhammad Abdul Rahim’s rule. As a result, the government started giving weapons to the Jews as a means to defend themselves against any attack.[/sub]

[list][B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Now do you understand the situation, my beloved grandson?”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Yes I do, grandfather, and I’m not surprised that another uprising is happening again. But it is horrible what they are doing to the Jews.”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Indeed, my beloved grandson. It is both my duty and your future duty to protect the Jews as Emir and as faithful Muslims, which is why we will immediately set off with the Army and put down the uprising quickly and effetely.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”We, grandfather?”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”That’s right. Your uncle and I will take half of the army toward the north to put down the uprising and the attack on the Jews by the tribes loyal to Amanullah Khan. At the same time, you will take the other half of the army and head toward the south to put down the uprising and the attack on the Jews by the Hazaras of the southern part of the Hazarajat region.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”I am honored that you are giving me a chance to lead an army and put the rebellion, grandfather.”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Indeed my beloved grandson. Even though you receive military training, this will be your first time leading an army into battle. So I will have one of my top generals to be at your side as your military adviser.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”I will accept your proposal, grandfather.”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]” Good. Now Sardar my son, is the army fully ready and assembled?”[/sub]

[list][B]SARDAR ABDUL MAJEED KHAN DURRANI, Prime Minister:[/B] [sub]”Yes father, the army is fully mobilized and is ready to go on your order.”[/sub]

[B]EMIR MUHAMMAD ABDUL RAHIM, Monarch:[/B] [sub]”Then this meeting is adjourned. Let us move out and put down this uprising quickly and effetely.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]Emir Muhammad Abdul Rahim got up from the throne and immediately left the throne room, with Sardar and Rehmatullah Khan following behind as they prepared to leave Kabul to put the uprising.[/sub]

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April,1942

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THE ROYALIST PARTY

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With the second election starting on May the first 1942,the sultan of Maziya.Zahier Al Hafiz has founded his own political faction to enter.They would be called the "Royalist Party" the Royalist Party would be a political faction intend on gathering up people's votes to get the sultan and his future successors to reclaim full power over Maziya rather then just being a figure head with very little political power which will become even smaller with each passing generation,as agreed in the Election Act of 1936.

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IN MALAY

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Dengan pilihan raya kedua bermula pada Mei 1942 pertama, sultan Maziya.Zahier Al Hafiz telah menubuhkan puak politiknya sendiri untuk masuk. Mereka akan dipanggil "Parti Diraja" Parti Diraja akan menjadi sebuah puak politik berhasrat untuk mengumpul undi rakyat untuk mendapatkan sultan dan bakal penggantinya untuk menuntut semula kuasa penuh ke atas Maziya dan bukannya hanya menjadi ketua tokoh dengan kuasa politik yang sangat sedikit yang akan menjadi lebih kecil dengan setiap generasi yang berlalu, seperti yang dipersetujui dalam Akta Pilihan Raya tahun 1936.

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British Malaya,April 1942

[B]PLAN TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY OF TRANSPORTING SUPPLIES TO COAST LINE

British Malaya,roads quality aren't the best.Most cities roads still are using earth roads which are terrible for wheels of a automobile,because of this fact efficiency of transportation is very low as only the more richer states (Malacca,Kuala Lumpur,etc) could afford replacing their earth roads with asphalt.This fact has rendered the trading based economy of Malaya to be less effective then it should be with the fact that goods aren't being transported to the coast line fast enough to send over supplies to other countries.

In light of this situation it would be decided that by April 1945,there should at least be asphalt roads all around Malaya which are linked from a tin or rubber factory to the coast line to increase efficiency of supplies being sent over for trading.The next thing to be added was the introduction of railways being built just for the purpose of supply travel towards the coast line for the same reason as the roads being replaced.This would allow British Malaya to push for more bigger trades in exchange for more cash we could be used to develop more,better infrastructures.

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The Kingdom of Thailand - A Brief History of the Paradise in Indochina

The new regime of 1932 was led by a group of colonels headed by Phraya Phahol Pholphayuhasena and Phraya Songsuradej. In December they produced a constitution—Siam's first—which included a national assembly, half appointed and half indirectly elected. The people were promised that full democratic elections would be held once half the population had completed primary education—which was expected to be sometime in the 1940s. A prime minister and cabinet were appointed and a facade of constitutional rule was maintained.

Once the new government had been established and the constitution put into effect, conflict began to erupt among the members of the new ruling coalition. There were four major factions competing for power: the older conservative civilian faction led by Phraya Manopakorn Nititada (Mano); the senior military faction led by Phraya Phahol; the junior army and navy faction led by Luang Phibunsongkhram; and the young civilian faction led by Pridi Phanomyong. The first serious conflict arose in 1933 when Pridi was given the task of drafting a new economic plan for the nation. His radical programme called for the nationalisation of large tracts of farmland as well as rapid government-directed industrialisation. It also called for the growth of higher education so that entry into the bureaucracy would not be completely dominated by royalty and the aristocracy. However, the plan was condemned immediately by most of the government factions as being communist. Because of its attack on private property, the members of the conservative clique were the ones most alarmed by Pridi's plan. They urged the Mano government to adopt policies that would reverse the course of the "revolution". However, when Phraya Mano attempted to do this, Phibun and Phraya Phahol launched a second coup that toppled the Mano government. Phraya Pahon was made the new prime minister, and his new government excluded all of the royalists.

The counter-revolutionary rebellion occurred which aimed to reinstate absolute monarchy, but failed.  Prajadhipok's conflict with the government eventually led to abdication. The government selected Ananda Mahidol, who was studying in Switzerland, to be the new king. Later that decade, the army wing of Khana Ratsadon came to dominate Siamese politics. Plaek Phibunsongkhram who became premier in 1938, started political oppression and took an openly anti-royalist stance. His government adopted nationalism and Westernisation, anti-Chinese and anti-French policies.

In 1939, there was a decree changing the name of the country from "Siam" to "Thailand". Modernisation was also an important theme in Phibun's new Thai nationalism. In addition to requiring that all Thais salute the flag, know the national anthem, and speak the national language, the mandates also encouraged Thais to work hard, stay informed on current events, and to dress in a Western fashion. Patriotism was taught in schools and was a recurrent theme in songs and dances. At the same time, Phibun worked rigorously to rid society of its royalist influences. Traditional royal holidays were replaced with new national events and royal and aristocratic titles were abandoned. Ironically, he retained his aristocratic surname. Even the Sangha was affected when the status of the royally sponsored Thammayuth sect was downgraded. Meanwhile, all cinemas were instructed to display Phibun's picture at the end of every performance as if it were the king's portrait, and the audience were expected to rise and bow. Phibun's prestige was so increased that he was able to bask in a feeling of being truly the nation's leader.

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[pre]| MAY 1942 |[/pre]

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

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

THE BALKAN THEATER RAGES:

THE CARPATHIAN AND BULGARIAN FRONTS RAGE WITH PARTISAN AND MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS OCCUR BETWEEN ROMANIAN & BULGARIAN SOLDIERS AGAINST THE AXIS INVADERS!

БАЛКАНСКИЙ ТЕАТР БЕШИТ:

НА КАРПАТСКОМ И БОЛГАРСКОМ ФРОНТАХ ПРОИСХОДЯТ ПАРТИЗАНСКИЕ И ВОЕННЫЕ СРАЖЕНИЯ МЕЖДУ РУМЫНСКИМИ И БОЛГАРСКИМИ СОЛДАТАМИ ПРОТИВ ЗАХВАТЧИКОВ ОСИ!

[pre]German forces would continue the Assault against Soviet forces in the east as they push farther and farther into southern Russia. Although a much tougher nut to crack would be the fierce resistance in the Carpathian Mountains and the Bulgarian mountain ranges of the Rila, Pirin, Rodope, and Central Balkan. Leftist, Nationalist, and former military partisans have gained a large stronghold in the mountains making them capable to severely disrupt German movements in the Balkans causing the Danubian plain to be home to at least 3 large terror attacks against German and Italian forces in the Balkans and the supplies of these armies to be limited as supply convoys are routinely ambushed and stolen from by Partisan forces in the Balkan regions. Leaders of socialist Romanian and Bulgaria, Petru Groza and Vasil Kolarov are reported to be leading the partisan movements after escaping capture from German and Italian forces in Bucharest and Sofia. An estimated size of 200,000 Balkan Partisans were reported to Moscow to inform Comrade Stalin of the progress of the Partisans in the region in obstructing Axis operations. Partisans reports to Moscow boast about their ability to effectively sneak upon German forces especially in the foothills where stories of Partisans sneaking into German camps and stabbing German forces in their sleep are common, they also boast about their ability to out-shoot Italian forces due to the partisan knowledge of the terrain and their ability to make their forces seem larger than they are to Occupation forces. Moscow has expressed their gratitude to Balkan partisans with promises of Liberation Day to come and for their sacrifices to come to fruition when the communist flag once again flies across all of the Balkans.[/pre]

[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]

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| BANZA MANSION, LEOPOLDVILLE |

[sub]April, 1942[/sub]

| The mansion had been expanded vastly since we last visited. Beautifully decorated and lavishly made up, it looked as if there was no conflict raging in the world. Since 1940, this mansion has become the epicentre of political, economic and social power of Zaire. Hosting the First Representative of Zaire, Gloria Banza, it also hosts her multitude of guests on a daily basis, from government officials to friends and families. It is the place to be if anything is to be worked out, and Mrs Banza makes sure that the mansion is always prepared. But it also hosts those that are starting to be uncomfortable for some, such as Colonel Ferreira, a man who had been a silent adviser to Gloria and a lover...it would seem.

Making her way rapidly through the corridors, Ferreira would be following her, with only his nightrobe on despite it being daytime. Rushing her way into the living room, Gloria would turn around quickly before noticing Ferreira and stopping herself in the tracks. Fixing her hair in the mirror that hanged in the corridors, she would shake her head. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Where do you think you're going?"[/list]

[list][ FERRERIA, Colonel ]: "Well, I thought you might want me there."[/list]

| She would look at him shaking her head before kissing him on the lips. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Fabian and I need to speak. Clearly it's something important. I don't want him to see you."[/list]

| Smiling at him, she would take a deep breath and head off. Ferreria would bite his lips slightly before silently making his way to the edge of the corridor, just enough to listen to the conversation unfold. In the meantime, Gloria would already be taking a seat with Fabian opposite of her. Gloria would pour them sold cold tea before smiling at him. Fabian Nigoye was a close friend of Gloria, and the Head of the Finest Zairian Assembly, the leading body of the country. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Surely Fabian I don't have to be at every sitting of the Congress."[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "You don't Gloria. But I'm not here to scold you about it. There is a more pressing issue."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Everything is a pressing issue in our country, darling."[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "It's about you."[/list]

| Gloria would turn his gaze at him. She would put her glass down and lean forward. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "What about me?"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "There are talks about removing you, from the position."[/list]

| Taken aback, she would smile confusingly. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "You can't remove me. Whatever for?"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "The members of the nationalistic and Christian wings believe that...that you cannot lead Zaire. You cannot lead us into our next wave of reforms, especially against tribe leaders...if you're a single woman."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Single woman?"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "Yes. They believe that you have to marry."[/list]

| Gloria would shake her head before bursting into laughter and getting up. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Goodness! Here I am pushing the women of our country into work, into education! Here I am making deals with the Americans for the love of God, but I need to have a husband to lead?! What nonsense is that!"[/list]

| Fabian would sigh slightly. |

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "Gloria...I know that it might seem so, but if we are to move on in our progress...what validation, what right does a single woman with a child have to go against tribe leaders? To push our country further? None."[/list]

| Gloria would turn her gaze towards him as he got up. |

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "That is why I came. To warn you. They are giving you a month to marry."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "And if I don't?"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "They will motion for your removal. Both wings combined have enough seats to push this through."[/list]

| Gloria would take a seat. Fabian would take a seat beside her. |

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "We have made such great strives for Zaire. Only two years, and look how far this country has come on, in a time of war! Don't let such a silly thing as marriage ruin it. Marry, quick."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "With who? A month...the love of my life died, Pascal is dead."[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "I have a potential candidate for your marriage. Alexander. Your photographer."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "Excuse me?"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "He's half-Belgian. And he's a very well spoken and educated. A perfect candidate. It would keep the wings in check. I've asked him already. He would be up for it. To help you. To help Zaire."[/list]

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "You did what?!"[/list]

| Gloria with fury in her eyes would storm up. |

[list][ GLORIA, First Representative ]: "How dare you go behind my back like that. I am not a pawn in your game, or anybody else's game! I will marry who I want!"[/list]

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "You will marry who you have to marry if you want to continue leading this country. If you want to remain within your position. If I were you, I'd take the offer and be happy. Saves us all a lot of hassle. And gives you a safety net."[/list]

| Gloria would look upon Fabian. The two would exchange a long silent gaze before, with a defeated expression, Gloria would look away. |

[list][ FABIAN, Head of Finest Assembly ]: "Great. I'll make sure that necessary steps are arranged. It's for the best Gloria. Anyway. I shall see you later on today. Good Day."[/list]

| Fabian would get up and after a moment of silence, leave off. Ferreria would come out as Gloria would be looking away. |

[list][ FERRERIA, Colonel ]: "Everything okay?"[/list]

| Gloria would look at him before holding tears in and rushing off past him. |

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| FIRST REPRESENTATIVE OF ZAIRE MARRIED |

[sub]19th of May, 1942[/sub]

| First Representative of Zaire, Mrs Gloria Banza, has officially remarried! Mrs Banza was married to Pascal Banza, who died of a heart attack earlier in 1940. In a tragic moment of events, Mrs Banza became a widow and a single mother. However, not for long as she has been rescued now! Alexander de Mutte, a thirty-four year old half-Belgian half-Zairian photographer and fashion designer has married Mrs Gloria Banza. The marriage was an open one, and hundreds attended it. Mrs Banza beautifully made her way in a long white gown. Mrs Banza, however, has decided to remain with her current surname, but the children of Mrs Banza and Mr de Mutte will take on the father's surname. Mr Alexander de Mutte will also be given the title of the First Gentlemen of Zaire. In her press release, First Representative Gloria Banza stated that "...I am very pleased and happy that I was able to find a husband yet again...it will be a good occasion to show that Zaire shall be led, at least for the next eight years, by a loving and caring family..." |

[spoiler="Despite our marriage institution being private, the position that I now hold is the first as such in history of Zaire. Therefor, I need to pave the way for the future First Gentlemen and Ladies about what the role shall entail...a great challenge!" - First Gentleman of Zaire, Alexander de Mutte]

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May,1942

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THE ELECTION SO FAR:THE M.R.P

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With the M.R.P founder current prime minister, Juaidi Asyrafil being one of the creators of the current republic system they use.It was obvious he would run for re-election with of course expected lots of support for his run,however the biggest surprise was that the M.R.P has effectively been running a election against itself.As prime minister,Juaidi Asyrafil and head of parliament,Aisy Rayyan are going head to head in the election,both being members of the M.R.P have divided the support for the M.R.P.

Juaidi has received a majority of the people's votes but a surprisingly large amount of votes had been given to Aisy,which is definitely surprising.However the election winners are still yet to be clear.

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IN MALAY

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Dengan pengasas M.R.P sebagai perdana menteri semasa, Juaidi Asyrafil menjadi salah seorang pencipta sistem republik semasa yang mereka gunakan. Jelas sekali dia akan bertanding untuk pemilihan semula dengan sudah tentu mengharapkan banyak sokongan untuk pencalonannya, namun kejutan terbesar adalah bahawa M.R.P secara berkesan telah menjalankan pilihan raya menentang dirinya sendiri.Sebagai perdana menteri,Juaidi Asyrafil dan ketua parlimen,Aisy Rayyan akan berhadapan dalam pilihanraya,kedua-duanya ahli M.R.P telah membahagikan sokongan kepada M.R.P.

Juaidi telah menerima majoriti undi rakyat tetapi jumlah undi yang sangat besar telah diberikan kepada Aisy, yang pastinya mengejutkan. Bagaimanapun pemenang pilihan raya masih belum jelas.

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May, 1942

[list][list]Poznan, Poland[/list][/list]

[list][pre]It’s a warm spring morning in Poznan, dew covers grass, windows, and automobiles as the humidity is high. The people begin to wake up and go about their daily lives as occupied civilians. Some go to work in factories to keep the German war machine running and its homes filled with appliances and other goods. While others are bussed to surrounding fields, working to feed the mouths of the growing German Empire.[/pre][/list]

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[list][pre]Pawel Lavoski and his wife Monika, both factory workers, prepare to leave their home and make way to their munitions plant.[/pre][/list]

[list][pre]Monika sets a cup of coffee down in front of Pawel, as they engage in their morning conversation before heading to work.[/pre][/list]

Monika - Here you go love.

Pawel - Thank you my darling.

[list][pre]He chuckles.[/pre][/list]

Pawel - You know this is the only way to keep me going at the start of the day

Monika - oh trust love, I know.

[list][pre]Pawel looks down at the daily paper, distributed by their volkist occupiers. He reads the headline aloud…[/pre][/list]

[list][list]“Southern Russia Soon to Fall”[/list][/list]

[list][pre]His face changes, and he looks to his wife[/pre][/list]

Pawel - Monika… this isn’t looking like it’s going away any time soon.

Monika - I worry for the future of our son, Pawel. This isn’t the world we thought we were bringing him into.

Pawel - You’re right Monika, I’ll be damned if he’s raised to work in this empire. We.. we have to do something.

[list][pre]His stare into nothingness as he contemplates the very future of his family worries Monika.[/pre][/list]

Monika - What’re you thinking love? Are you okay?

[list][pre]Pawel slips into a flashback; he’s fighting on the frontlines during the height of the German invasion. His company is completely overwhelmed by the firepower of their invaders and is nearing obliteration when he spots an opportunity to flee with some remaining squads into a nearby forest not yet taken by invading forces. Without hesitation from himself or others, they all took the easy way out. Though grateful to be alive to see his son grow into a toddler, he regrets not laying his life for his country… but is there a greater reason for such?[/pre][/list]

Monika - Pawel?

[list][pre]He’s shaken out of his horrifying memory.[/pre][/list]

Pawel - Sorry Monika, I’m just… I’m worried.

[list][pre]He then changes the subject to a work-related topic, and the two go about their day. But Pawel is beginning to have new thoughts on their new ways of life.[/pre][/list]

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

FRENCH BUREAUCRACY

MINISTÈRE DE LA GUERRE[/pre][/list]

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MINISTRY OF WAR: FREE FRENCH COLONIES & THE CONTINUED WAR EFFORT

[sub]FREE FRANCE | ALGIERS, MAY 1942 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| HELM OF WARFARE, TROISIÈME RÉPUBLIQUE - | Life outside of Metropolitan France or Vichy France has gone on virtually undisturbed aside from the raging war effort which has been picked up by the colonies. With immense industrialization efforts having been completed or nearing completion by the dawning of the war's outbreak, many large cities and towns in French Africa and elsewhere like French Indochina were hastily ordered into wartime production efforts. Upon Metropolitan France's doomed capitulation to the German Wehrmacht; supported by the infamous German Luftwaffe, all of France's loyal colonies immediately fell under the new Free France regime with troops loyal to Charles de Gaulle and the Resistance movement being placed in colonial capitals and cities to avoid the likelihood of them falling into the hands of Axis powers. Those colonies now continue on with the war effort completely cut off from Paris, but hold the same end goal at heart. While most of the Free French command structure positioning itself in London alongside allied counterparts, other cities like Algiers, Dakar, Casablanca, Tunis, Saigon, and Da Nang becoming hubs for outlying commanders and wartime production efforts. [/sub]

[sub]Tank and other armour factories in Algiers, Tunis, and Dakar would serve as the main hubs for France's continued war efforts while also hosting shipbuilding facilities and plane factories. Casablanca, Saigon, and Da Nang would serve primarily as shipbuilding hubs and centers for commerce across the empire. The Trans-Saharan Railroad would serve as an efficient way of transporting the 680,000 troops stationed in French Africa along with supplies and equipment. Likewise in the Levantine colonies, Damascus and Beirut are the obvious hubs for production and commerce with mostly crude oil being the necessary commodity coming out of this region. The Levantine Railroad would serve in much of the same capacity as that of it's Saharan counterpart. General Charles de Gaulle had decreed the Levantine's security to be absolutely paramount to Free France's continued war efforts as not enough oil is being produced in Africa alone to sustain such efforts. Although oil production is being slowly increased to supply the rising demand from allies and Free French Forces. The Free French Navy is by far the biggest user of crude oil aside from the army. The diminished Free French Aeroforce comes in 3rd place. [/sub]

[sub]Currently the Free French Navy is conducting freedom of maneuverability operations alongside allied fleets in order to ensure supply lines stay open and that the Allies remain in control of the seas. Four out of Eight of France's aircraft carriers have been stationed in or near Great Britain with the other 4 scouring the seas near French Indochina and other French possessions in the Pacific in order to prevent the Japanese from making any attempted attacks. General Charles de Gaulle has recently ordered an uptick in joint naval operations with allied navies now that France's fleet strength has been reorganized and resupplied well enough to take on a more combative roll. Likewise he has ordered that colonial troops be sent to the frontlines alongside our British and American allies in order to help keep the German's at bay. The French Embassy in Moscow has also reached out on de Gaulle's behalf to offer trained pilots for the Soviet Air Force. |[/sub]

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[list][list][pre]VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!

VIVE LA FRANCE!

VIVE L’EMPIRE![/pre][/list][/list]

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May,1942

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THE ELECTION SO FAR:THE M.Z.C.P

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Over at the communist party,side of the election it's the second most popular political faction of the three current factions.Fong Wei Yuan who is the current head of the communist party and takes charge of the communist party in parliament as well has been able to gather quite a bit of support,since the party founding back in 1937 with the amount of things the communist party had done for the nation in assistance with the M.R.P via parliamentary actions.However it comes as no surprise that with recent studies showing that the current demographics of voters for the communist party are the Chinese,as the communist party has taken extensive measures to make sure the discriminated Chinese population gets a chance to compete with the other much more favoured ethnic groups.

Fong Wei Yuan on the 12th of May made a speech on his opinions of the current ruling faction,the M.R.P.

[B]"Maziya,a you could say fairly underdeveloped nation over here in SouthEast Asia.It has suffered poor management to decent at best,the worst part of the current ruling bodies,the M.R.P management style is their inept ability at controlling the blatant racial discrimination against my fellow Chinese,we as the Maziyan Communist Party have made it our goal to balance this problem of discrimination since we were formed back in 1937.We've created new job opportunities for the Chinese population specifically made to be separated away from the rest to avoid discrimination in the work and school place and if I become the prime minister I'll make sure to fix this discrimination issue to make sure that complete cooperation with all races that live in our nation is accomplished."

Although Fong Wei Yuan speech had good points,the people in the crowd had mixed expressions.

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IN MALAY

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Di parti komunis, di sebelah pilihan raya, ia merupakan puak politik kedua paling popular daripada tiga puak semasa. Fong Wei Yuan yang merupakan ketua parti komunis dan mengendalikan parti komunis di parlimen juga telah dapat mengumpul sedikit sokongan, sejak parti itu ditubuhkan pada tahun 1937 dengan jumlah perkara yang telah dilakukan oleh parti komunis untuk negara dalam membantu M.R.P melalui tindakan parlimen. Walau bagaimanapun, tidak mengejutkan bahawa dengan kajian terbaru menunjukkan bahawa semasa demografi pengundi bagi parti komunis ialah orang Cina, kerana parti komunis telah mengambil langkah yang meluas untuk memastikan penduduk Cina yang didiskriminasi mendapat peluang untuk bersaing dengan kumpulan etnik lain yang lebih disukai.

Fong Wei Yuan pada 12 Mei membuat ucapan tentang tokoh pemerintah semasa, M.R.P.

[B]"Maziya, boleh dikatakan negara yang agak kurang membangun di sini di Asia Tenggara. Ia telah mengalami pengurusan yang lemah hingga ke tahap yang terbaik, bahagian yang paling teruk dalam badan pemerintah semasa, gaya pengurusan M.R.P adalah keupayaan mereka yang tidak cekap dalam mengawal yang terang-terangan. diskriminasi kaum terhadap rakan-rakan Cina saya, kami sebagai Parti Komunis Maziyan telah menjadikan matlamat kami untuk mengimbangi masalah diskriminasi ini sejak kami ditubuhkan pada tahun 1937. Kami telah mencipta peluang pekerjaan baharu untuk penduduk Cina yang dibuat khusus untuk dipisahkan daripada selebihnya untuk mengelakkan diskriminasi di tempat kerja dan sekolah dan jika saya menjadi perdana menteri, saya akan memastikan isu diskriminasi ini dapat diselesaikan untuk memastikan kerjasama yang lengkap dengan semua kaum yang tinggal di negara kita tercapai."

Walaupun ucapan Fong Wei Yuan mempunyai mata yang baik, orang ramai mempunyai ekspresi bercampur-campur.

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[B]EL TUMTAPA: LA FÁBRICA EN LA COLINA!

[sub]July 1893—March 1942 | Tumtapa Hill, Managua D.N., Republic of Nicaragua[/sub]

In 1893, a bold and daring political revolt led by the Democratic Party's "liberales" brought about the end of three full decades of rule by Granada's Conservative Party elite. At the forefront of the uproar, José Santos Zelaya, an ambitious Liberal statesman with a progressive docket aimed especially at increasing the Republic's national sovereignty in governance, military affairs, and economics, even if at risk of conflicting with the interests of foreign investors. Upon becoming President of the Republic late-July of that year, Zelaya enacted numerous policies within the first year of his administration, progressive socio-economic schemes that vastly improved public education, expansion of the Pacific Railroad, establishment of national steam ferry lines, and enacted amendments to the constitution that provided for equal rights, property guarantees, habeas corpus, compulsory vote, compulsory education, the protection of arts and industry, minority representation, and the separation of state powers.

Alongside these reform programs, Zelaya began a build-up of the Nicaraguan Army and it's subordinate branches, including the Guardia Fronteriza, a paramilitary unit of police auxiliaries charged with the defense of the national boundaries, law-enforcement in rural territories, and responsibility for the fringes of the country's vast frontier, locally referred to as "El Oriente". As hundreds of young Nicaraguan men were summarily conscripted into Army service impending a major campaign to penetrate the Mosquito Coast, President Zelaya personally reviewed the standing military forces available, some 1,700 mixed-unit infantry, light artillery, grenadiers, and mounted cavalry, along with an additional 1,000 Guardia Fronteriza in service across the Orient. In order to support the demands of military growth, Zelaya's administration deemed necessary the similar expansion of national military infrastructure, followed closely by the decision to construct the Nicaraguan Republic's first small arms ammunition factory on the summit of Loma de Tumtapa, with Managua lying at the foothills below, completed January 1894 and on-time for the Army expedition into the Mosquito Reserve the following month, complete with a smokeless powder production facility and a 30-metre shot-tower producing 1,000 tons of shot annually in accordance with military demands.

By 20 November 1894, after ten months of intermittent skirmish with the Nicaraguan Army, the Miskito 'Zambo' forces of the British-supported Mosquito Kingdom, along with the Hereditary Chief of the Miskito Nation, Robert Henry Clarence, capitulated to the Republic's military incursion which had reached and now occupied Bluefields, capital of the autonomous Mosquito Reserve. Their territory had now been formally incorporated into the Republic of Nicaragua, a triumphant moment for Zelaya's presidency, and in the nation's history. The ball shot used by Nicaraguan conscripts present there were smelted at El Tumtapa.

The "factory on the hill", as the mill at El Tumtapa had come to be well-known, would serve it's nation yet again, some thirteen years later, in a crucial tipping point in Nicaraguan history. As tensions began to rise with the Republic of Honduras in January 1907, the Hondureño government of then President, Manuel Bonilla Chirinos, accused Managua of supporting Liberal Honduran exiles led by deposed predecessor incumbent, Terencio Esteban Sierra, against it's very own Conservative Junta. A group of exiles, soon thereafter penetrated into territories lying along the border, and were summarily routed, pursued back into Nicaraguan territory by Honduran Army forces under the command of General Teófilo Cárcamo. Seeking refuge at a Nicaraguan border post situated at the crossing known as Los Calpules, wherein Cárcamo's troops sieged, and afterward, razed the post to the ground until being expulsed by a local patrol. The attack on Nicaraguan soil stoked irrevocable crisis between the two Republics, as President Zelaya López's Government appealed to the San Salvador-based Court of Arbitration, all while simultaneously situating a dense concentration of forces along the northern border with Honduras. A month later, February 1907, a second incursion by Hondureño military forces was reported at the border post, Tapacales, in Nueva Segovia, and once again sent trailing back across the border, though serving to massively exacerbate the ensuing political crisis.

When the Court informed Zelaya López that the request against the Republic of Honduras would be taken only on the condition that Nicaragua's northern border demilitarize. This proposal, revealing the clear biases of El Salvador as an ally of Honduras, was denied outright by Zelaya, who instead organized a General Campaign Plan a week later and appointed Camilo Castellón Lacayo, Minister of War and Navy, head of military operations. Subsequently, the Nicaraguan Army was divided into five Army Groups charged with the defense of five corresponding border sections. Month-long tensions would finally come to head on 17 March as a joint Salvadoran–Honduran invasion was heralded to fruition by intense artillery barrage of Nicaraguan positions, sparking the legendary and historically significant Battle of Namasigüe. There, the Nicaraguan Army was vastly underestimated by the combined numbers of El Salvador and Honduras, fielding some 3,000 and 2,000 respectively. However, the Nicaraguan forces, numbered at just over 1,700 on the eve of battle, would find themselves not only in superior defensive positioning, but better connected to supply routes, and once again well-stocked with various ammunitions manufactured proudly, in Managua, at El Tumtapa.

Well prepared for the invasion, the out-numbered Nicaraguan Army deployed the use of foreign supplied Maxim machine guns and Gatling systems, of which the invading Salvadoran-Honduran Armies were unaware. These rapid firing weapons systems, alongside well-stocked munitions stores, allowed the Nicaraguan forces to devastate the enemy ranks and effectively dispelled from Namasigüe on 23 March, when the final Nicaraguan charge forced a full-scale retreat of joint Salvadoran-Honduran troops to the town of Maraita, then further north, to the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, within just six days from the onset of battle. On 27 March, Nicaraguan troops entered the city, raising the largest Nicaraguan tri-color ever flown into battle over the Presidential Palace, and afterward the capital was surrendered to an occupation. President-General of Honduras, Manuel Bonilla Chirinos, was deposed in absentia after making a fleeting escape to Isla de Amapala in humiliation of the great national defeat as the ironclad monitors, Momotombo and Angela, of the Nicaraguan Navy threatened to bombard the port of Isla de Amapala until Bonilla officially handed over power as a signatory of the Amapala Peace Treaty on 11 April, 1907.

As the cross-border tensions concluded with a triumphant Nicaraguan victory over two combined regional Armies, the national sentiments of the Nicaraguan population remained fervent in the years following the end of the war, tethered in large part with the El Tumtapa ammunition factory and it's efforts to keep up with military demands throughout these crucial eras in history. Given it's historic value as a symbol of Nicaraguan patriotism and national development, the facility sat atop Loma de Tumtapa was officially purchased by the Conseca Armament Company, or 'C.A.C.', a defense firm owned by Emiliano Javier Conseca Estrada, a close associate of the Somoza Family and chief of the National Guard's presidential escort and close protection unit. Under the ownership of CAC, the facilities at Tumtapa Hill are subject to major necessary infrastructural upgrades aimed at expanding the plant to allow the manufacture of larger, modern artillery ordnances. From it's inception in 1894, to it's most recent privatization at the hands of Compañía de Armamento Conseca as of March 1942, the original facilities will continue to stand as a national monument and heritage site as the planned new facilities will continue their unwavering service to the Republic's military.

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[list]April 1942

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Santa María de la Santísima Trinidad, Cundinamarca Department, Triestado de las Granadinas

[sub]On December 31st 1941 the Tristate of Granada would sever all relations with the Empire of Japan in response to the Japanese 1st Air Fleet’s surprise attack on the United States Naval Station Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii. The bold operation by Imperial Japan on Pearl Harbor would set a precedent that the Americas are no longer outside the scope of foreign incursion, becoming the central argument that would lead to the passing of the Emergency Production Act requiring all businesses to accept and prioritise contracts given by the Secretariat of War and giving the president near universal control over resources they deem necessary for national defence. [/sub]

[sub] Due to the enactment of the Emergency Production Act almost immediately after its signing Shipyards across Granada would see the first signs of emergency production as orders of both Granadine and Portuguese designed warships ships begin to line drydocks along the coast, protection of shipping lanes and distant naval bases in the Galapagos and San Andres archipelagos deemed priority. [/sub]

[sub]New contracts would made for construction of the following vessel classes:[/sub]

[list][sub]• TG Viajera Class Light Carriers[/sub]

[sub]• TG Congreso de Angostura Class Battlecruisers[/sub]

[sub]• EN São Malco-Class Heavy Cruisers[/sub]

[sub]•EN Santo Abercio-Class Light Cruisers[/sub]

[sub]•EN Marcílio Dias-class destroyers[/sub]

[sub]•TG Pez Espada Class Submersible Heavy Torpedo Boats[/sub]

[sub]•TG Pez Lanza Class Submersible Light Torpedo Boats[/sub]

[sub]•EN Rafael Diesel Electric Submarines[/sub][/list]

[sub]Previous contracts, extended or uncompleted, made for the construction of the following vessel classes:[/sub]

[list][sub]•TG Exploradora Class Fleet Carriers[/sub]

[sub]•EN Duoro Class Destroyers[/sub]

[sub]•EN Afonso de Albuquerque Frigates[/sub]

[sub]•EN Carioca-Class Corvettes [/sub][/list]

[sub]Between January 16th and January 28th 1942 the Pan-American Conference would be held in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, Estado Novo, organised in wake of the Japanese attack and the United States’ entry into the Second World War. Despite offers of economic and military aid, Granada would refuse to sever ties to the remaining Axis Powers of Volkist Germany and the Kingdom of Italy, hesitant of jeopardising lucrative oil export agreements with the Rome-Berlin Axis, instead choosing to accept some aid in exchange for reverting most export goods once destined for Japan to the United States, leasing a portion of the Baltra Naval Base to the United States Navy and allowing the United States Reconstruction Finance Corporation to purchase large quantities of strategic resources unopposed, pivotal for depriving the Axis of materials like platinum to which the State of Colombia would be their only source. [/sub]

[sub]On the 16th February 1942 the Neuland Gruppe, a wolfpack of German and Italian submarines, would launch Operation Neuland, an extension of unrestricted submarine warfare into the Caribbean Sea. Their opening operation would see a coordinated attack on the Dutch island of Aruba, home to two of the largest oil refineries in the world, in an attempt to disrupt vital Allied fuel production during which German submarine U-502 would ambush and sink the Granadine Lake Maracaibo class oil tanker Monagas in the Gulf of Venezuela killing five and stranding twenty six. Outraged by the sinking of a Granadine vessel, Generalísimo Diego Adielo Di María would convene congress the following morning and officially break all ties with Berlin and Rome. Granada would reproach Washington to broaden cooperation and aid in the vein of the previous offers, becoming a recipient of the Lend Lease Act. [/sub]

[sub]On March 17th 1942, Granada and the United States would sign an agreement that would grant the former millions in military assistance. The agreement would be signed with favourable terms to Granada including purchase of military equipment at half the regular cost and without interest. Other favourable loans and grants would soon follow including tens of millions from the Export-Import Bank for highway construction, agricultural programs, improvement of oil refining and exploration improvement and assistance and the construction of hydroelectric plants. To counteract the decline in oil exports to the Axis Powers the United States would begin to negotiate a fifty-fifty split on oil revenues between private oil companies, mainly Standard Oil and Shell Oil, and the government owned Tropical Oil company.[/sub]

[sub]In April 1942, after extensive talks with United States Ambassador to Granada Francis Corrigan and Grandine Ambassador to the United States Alberto Lleras Camargo and congressmen across the country the positive sentiment towards support of the Allied powers would begin to proliferate the legislature in Santísima Trinidad. Soon the Congress of Granada would convene once more to deliberate official allied support, the sinking of the Monagas and subsequent harassment of oil shipping through the Caribbean fueling fervent anti-Axis opinion from coast to coast. Despite this, a declaration of war on the Axis Powers remains a dividing line between lawmakers and amongst the executive. [/sub]

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[list][sub]MAY 1942[/sub]

[sub]There Shall be No More Shame[/sub][/list]

[list]| [sub]FÜR DAS VATERLAND, EGAL WAS PASSIERT: TEIL 1[/sub]

[sub]| FOR THE FATHERLAND, NO MATTER WHAT: PART 1[/sub][/list]

—

| [sub]The War was not going in Germany's favor, not at the moment, at least. Many in the High Command, from regular staffers with little influence to members seated directly on the High Command itself, were somewhat dissatisfied with the way the Chancellor was running the war. Aggressiveness, a lack of care for Germany's dwindling manpower and resources, a fury that enveloped himself and those around him. None, however, called him out publicly, due to the danger of doing so. Some called him insane, others called him overly confident in the Staat's military strength. Most stayed silent, merely sighing whenever they were handed orders that contradicted previous ones, or directives that called for entire corps to march into their graves. Dissatisfaction, as many know, can lead to a spark lighting. A spark of resistance, or at the very least, a spark for a call to reform.[/sub]

| [sub]Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Alexander von Baumann, a commanding general stationed in Paris, France, was one of these men. One of those who sighed upon receiving their un-strategic, disorderly directives. He had remained silent, unwilling to speak out against the authorities, fearing for his wife and children, who were still in Germany. No longer would he allow Germany's men to be slaughtered, he thought. No longer would he allow Germany to be humiliated. There shall be no more shame for the Fatherland, no matter what. A knock on the door disturbed his thoughts.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "Who is it?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]UNKNOWN VOICE |[/sub] "Fly-swatter delivery. Great urgency." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "What branch are you from?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]UNKNOWN VOICE |[/sub] "Konrad-on-Wasserfall. Urgent." [/list]

| [sub]Von Baumann stood up and opened a door, revealing a stern-faced man in spectacles. He carried with him a briefcase and an only slightly noticeable grin at the edge of his lips. Von Baumann chuckled as he allowed the man in and shut the door behind him, being sure to lock it. They proceeded to their seats as the deputy chief of staff lit a cigar.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "We're safe here. What news do you bring?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "The customers at Konrad-on-Wasserfall have received their deliveries. They are . . . extremely satisfied, but are concerned about competition. And discovery." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "I said we are safe. Please, speak English, my mind is going to explode if you keep speaking in code." [/list]

| [sub]Adler took off his hat and lit a cigar.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "In that case, Herr Baumann, I deliver great news. Herr Adenauer and his government-in-exile in America have replied, they are extremely satisfied with the progress we are making. Slowly but surely we will reclaim what was once ours and what was once belonging to Germany: Honor." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "Is that it?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "What do you mean is that it?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "That's all the news? You come out here from America, risking your life and mine, to tell me Adenauer and his lackeys are happy with the recent developments? You understand the situation involving your brothers and sisters, correct?" [/list]

| [sub]Adler shifted in his seat uneasily, before nodding in regret.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "I cannot argue against that, Herr Baumann, but that is not all. I have this letter." [/list]

| [sub]Adler extracted from his briefcase a dull yellow letter, with words inscribed on the front and what appeared to be bits of sand tucked in the creases. Von Baumann curiously took the letter and opened it.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "This . . . this is real? Authentic? Can you verify?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "I can guarantee it. My informants in Tripoli have confirmed it and sworn up and down that it is authentic. If you would like, you can verify with the general himself." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "What are you talking about? I'm not going to the bloody North African front and both you and I know that." [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "Next month. Early June. The general will be coming home for his wife's birthday, to Berlin. Perhaps he could stop over in Paris on his way, have a little chat with the Deputy Chief of Staff. I'm sure the conversation would be very productive." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "And if the letter is forged and he is still a loyalist?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "Good luck then." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "So be it, then. Do what you must do. But you must leave, immediately. You may be feeling cocky since you've snuck passed the Gestapo several times now, but don't. These are dangerous times, for people like you and your brothers and sisters. We can't take risks. You can't take risks, with your daughter and your wife." [/list]

[list]| [sub]HERMANN ADLER, German Businessman |[/sub] "I understand, Herr Baumann. Moira's already worried as is, with me making these trips frequently. But I'll take care, fret not." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff |[/sub] "Well, you'd better. Rough times are coming for the German Staat, and Lord knows neither of us wish to be in the center of that storm." [/list]

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[list][list][sup]𝙼𝚊𝚢, 𝟷𝟿𝟺𝟸[/sup]

𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐀 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆

𝓣𝓮𝓱𝓻𝓪𝓷, 𝓢𝓪'𝓭𝓪𝓫𝓪𝓭 𝓒𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓵𝓮𝔁, Otsla

[sub]𝔓𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔔𝔲𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔥𝔞𝔥, 𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔄𝔣𝔣𝔞𝔦𝔯𝔰[/sub]

[I][sup]A year had passed since the Iranian Empire was forced to concede to the Allies' demands. Iran cut off its diplomacy and trade with the Reich and declared support for the Allies by the end of 1941. For Reza Shah, it was an absolute humiliation to his authority as the 'King of Kings.' While Reza had succeeded in avoiding an invasion, it came at the cost of Iran hosting foreign troops within its borders. The Persian Corridor seized was now used by the British and Americans to transport millions in equipment to the CCCP. To save face, the Imperial Army was allowed to manage security over the various checkpoints. Giving the image that Iran was not under foreign control. Despite this, the general public was unhappy with recent events. To many Iranians, this was a blatant colonial occupation. The Iranian clergy openly spoke against the foreign 'kaffir', and some more radical clerics slandered his majesty in low voices. The military was not without its rumors and grievances—many young officers were especially agitated by this national disgrace. One, in particular, Mostafa Khodadad, was on relief one day and witnessed an American GI harassing an Iranian woman. He swiftly stepped up to confront the American but was pistol-whipped by another American from the back. They then proceeded to attack this young man while he was down.[/sup]

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May,1942

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THE ELECTION SO FAR:THE ROYALIST

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The newly founded Royalist Party has very little members in comparison to the other factions as the sultans reputation had gone completely south with his poor management of the nation,as his excessive spending on military albeit for a good cause,in defending the land and then proceeding to get into two consecutive wars,one was a civil war then the next was the Greek-Maziyan war,with the fact that Greece was a ally of Maziya made it worst as the sultans diplomatic skills began being doubted after that event and with him loosing the first election back in 1936,being the final nail in the coffin.The Royalist Party,who's goals entirely revolve around reputing the sultan back in control of the nation with the other political factions still being around in parliament to ensure that the sultan doesn't do anything without receiving words from those with other views on how things should be run.

Because of the sultans present reputation,expectations for his chances of winning are slim if not,impossible.After the elections are over the Royalist Party would receive seats in parliament,although the amount of Royalist members for parliament are currently unknown

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IN MALAY

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Parti Diraja yang baru diasaskan mempunyai sedikit ahli berbanding puak lain kerana reputasi sultan telah pergi sepenuhnya ke selatan dengan pengurusan negara yang lemah, kerana perbelanjaannya yang berlebihan untuk ketenteraan walaupun untuk tujuan yang baik, dalam mempertahankan tanah dan kemudian meneruskan. untuk memasuki dua peperangan berturut-turut, satu perang saudara kemudian perang Yunani-Maziyan, dengan fakta bahawa Greece adalah sekutu Maziya menjadikannya lebih teruk kerana kemahiran diplomatik sultan mula diragui selepas peristiwa itu dan dengannya kehilangan pilihan raya pertama pada tahun 1936, menjadi paku terakhir dalam keranda. Parti Diraja, yang matlamatnya sepenuhnya berkisar pada reputasi sultan kembali mengawal negara dengan puak politik lain masih berada di parlimen untuk memastikan sultan tidak t melakukan apa-apa sahaja tanpa menerima kata-kata daripada mereka yang mempunyai pandangan lain tentang bagaimana perkara itu harus dijalankan.

Kerana reputasi sultan yang ada sekarang, jangkaan peluang baginda untuk menang adalah tipis jika tidak, mustahil. Selepas pilihan raya selesai, Parti Diraja akan menerima kerusi di parlimen,walaupun jumlah ahli Royalis untuk parlimen pada masa ini tidak diketahui.

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[list][sub]JUNE 1942[/sub]

[sub]Moths to a Flame No Longer[/sub][/list]

[list]| [sub]FÜR DAS VATERLAND, EGAL WAS KOMMT: TEIL 2[/sub]

[sub]| FOR THE FATHERLAND, NO MATTER WHAT: PART 2 [/sub][/list]

—

| [sub]The room was hazy and filled with smoke from constant smoking. The blinds were drawn, and only two lamps provided lighting. Inside, a stern-faced but anxious man sat in his armchair, waiting impatiently. He glanced about the room, as if he hadn't searched it several times already for hidden compartments where a Gestapo agent might be hidden. In desperate times, one was always never thinking straight. As he perused his papers carefully, his thoughts drifted about. Germany was losing the fights on the Eastern Front. In North Africa, British successes were most likely serving as a prelude to a massive American push that would decimate the Nordafrika Korps. The Battle of the Atlantic was largely turning against Germany as the United States began mass producing transport ships at a rate so astonishing one wouldn't ever believe it. The general's thoughts was interrupted by a patterned knock. Five quick knocks, followed by two long ones and three short ones.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "Come in. Remain as silent as possible." [/list]

| [sub]Inside entered another general, dressed in the usual Wehrmacht commanders' uniform, but decorated with medals, awards, and various other recognitions. It also appeared to be modified for use in the desert, as shown by the taut neck flaps and the gown-like shape of the lower portion of the uniform. The man's chiseled face gave off no emotion as he shut the door and took his place on the sofa before the Deputy Chief of Staff, tossing his gloves to the spot next to him.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "So you are the famous Desert Fox? The commander of the Ghost Division?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "Formerly." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "Beg your pardon?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "I was formerly the commander of the famed Ghost Division. I now serve in North Africa." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "Right, right . . . so, you addressed a letter to me, Herr Rommel?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "So I did. Regarding the . . . fly-swatters?" [/list]

| [sub]Baumann stifled a groan.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "There is no need to use code here, we are safe." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "How can you be so sure? For all we know the Gestapo is right outside, waiting for the order to arrest and kill us." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "I assure you, I've spent the better part of the morning ensuring that we are safe here. You have my word, General." [/list]

| [sub]Rommel took a few moments to consider it. He himself was already risking his life by making this sudden deviation to visit the Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff under such secretive circumstances. Nonetheless, he nodded, albeit with a hint of hesitation.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "Very well then. I assume you are already briefed as to why I am here? Why I sent that letter?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "Yes . . . you are unsatisfied with the regime, they don't meet your expectations as a tactician and a military commander." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "That is an understatement, Herr Baumann. They are sending men in Russia to die. In North Africa, we are told to go on suicide runs only to secure for ourselves enough fuel to last a mere week. A week, Herr Baumann." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "I understand your concerns-" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "Then why no action? Why has nobody spoken up? Why has nobody told the Chancellor: Herr Leder, it is now perhaps necessary that we rethink our strategy to tackling this Second Global War. This must be done to prevent us from being decimated." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "You know why." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "I do not, honestly. We possess influence over large masses of trained elite soldiers, prepared to kill if necessary for their fatherland. If that entails eliminating those detrimental to the success of the German war machine, then . . ." [/list]

| [sub]Baumann looked up in surprise. He had yet to hear someone suggest such insanity.[/sub]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "Do you understand what you are saying? That is treason, plain and simple. We could be killed merely for considering it." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "That is precisely why I am here, Herr Baumann. That is precisely why I chose to contact you, and your organization. To contact Adenauer's so-called coalition for Germany and its people. Because they're willing to listen. The Chancellor is not. And if it is for the fatherland, I am willing to die if it means the Staat will live a hundred years, a thousand years!" [/list]

[list]| [sub]ALEXANDER VON BAUMANN, Wehrmacht Deputy Chief of Staff[/sub] | "What you are proposing is insanity, pure and simple." [/list]

[list]| [sub]ERWIN ROMMEL, The Desert Fox[/sub] | "Invading Russia was insanity. We are merely reversing the insanity with more insanity. Do what you must, say what you will. But I'm fighting this fight for Germany, for my brothers and sisters. I pledge allegiance to the Germanic people, not to one man." [/list]

| [sub]Baumann was left absolutely speechless as Rommel stood up, grabbed his gloves, and walked out swiftly.[/sub]

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[sub]ᴛᴇɢᴜᴄɪɢᴀʟᴘᴀ — ʀᴇᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄᴀ ᴅᴇ ʜᴏɴᴅᴜʀᴀꜱ[/sub][/list]

[list][pre]𝓔𝓵 𝓔𝓷𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓑𝓪𝓷𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓻𝓸: Aqui no ay oro verde![/pre][/list][/list]

[sup]The name "Honduras" is "depths" in Spanish. The term could either refer to the bay of Trujillo as an anchorage, fondura in the Leonese dialect of Spain, or to Columbus's alleged quote that "Gracias a Dios que hemos salido de esas Honduras" ("Thank God we have departed from those depths"). This is fitting for a country like Honduras. Since its inception, the land has been the target of many foreign adventures. The most infamous being the invasion of the American filibuster, William Walker, who sought to establish a pro-slavery government in the region. Walker would be stopped, however, after his execution by firing squad, near the site of the present-day hospital, on September 12, 1860. One would think the defeat of walker would bring a new age of sovereignty and prosperity to Honduras. Whoever thought that was an idiot. During the first half of the 20th century, the economy of Honduras was dominated by US companies such as the United Fruit Company, the Standard Fruit Company, and the Cuyamel Fruit Company, which established huge banana plantations along the north coast. These companies quickly made bananas the country's main export product in exchange for significant concessions from the Conservative governments. In this way, foreign capital depended on banana plantations and thus would determine factors in Honduran politics. In exchange for infrastructure developments and essential services, significant accommodations would be made to American interests. Because of these dirty deals between the companies and the government, Honduras would earn the title of 'The Banana Republic,' a label that would be slapped on itself and many other Central American nations.[/sup]

[sup]During the administration of Miguel Rafael Dávila Cuéllar, the United States tried to put an end to the Central American conflicts through the Central American Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1907. However, from 1920 to 1923, there were seventeen uprisings or coup attempts in Honduras. This further contributed to the country's political instability. Vicente Mejía Colindres took office in 1929 with high hopes for his administration and nation. Honduras seemed to be headed for political and economic progress. But many of Mejía Colindres's hopes were dashed with the onset of the Great Depression. The financial instability already mixed with evergrowing agitation among the country's poor caused Colindres to be beaten by General Tiburcio Carías Andino in the election of 1932.[/sup]

[sup]Doctor and General Tiburcio Carías Andino governed Honduras dictatorially during the Great Depression. During his government, the country's fiscal situation improved remarkably; he modernized the armed forces and slightly improved education and infrastructure in Honduras. In addition, it brought order and a feeling of relative peace that the country had not had, although it had to use repression. At the beginning of WW2, Honduras officially declared war on the Axis alongside Nicaragua. Not because of any feelings of sympathy for pollacks or democracy, as Carías himself was attracted to the European fascist model of government. But keeping in the good graces of America was of greater importance. Honduran merchant ships would be attacked by German U-boats. In return, Carías would enact a national decree in which all German private property was seized by the state, and all germans deported for security reasons.[/sup]

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[list][pre]June, 1942 |Al-Manaqil, Gezira, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of The Sudan[/pre]

INDUSTRIALIZING COTTON[/list]

Al-Manaqil sits at the very center of several larger population centers on the Sudanese fertile plain. It serves as a crossroads junction between Khartoum, the Farmlands in the east, and cities such as Sennar and Wad Medani, as well as train connections to Nyala and Obied in the west, as well as Kordofan and Darfur. On the east side of this tiny town, construction continued on the series of tiny canals and waterways that had cut through the fertile plains that had been established as a result of the colony’s Gezira Scheme water irrigation plan. or just known as the Gezira Plan.

The Gezira Plan has been in effect for the last two decades in an effort by the colonial government of Khartoum to increase agricultural productivity in the Sudanese province of Gezira. 49% of the primary crop grown in Sudan is cotton, which is found on the Gezira farmlands. The local villagers in the area harvested the cotton by hand after its four-month period of growth, and then packed it up ready for shipment by train or ship north to Khartoum. In Khartoum, a small portion of the raw cotton crops harvested and shipped from Gezira will be routed to a number of spinning mills, while the vast majority will continue by train east to Port Sudan, where they will be loaded onto ships bound for the Empire's industrial centers in the British Isles and elsewhere.

But now, as a result of the war plaguing the industrial centers of Europe, along with the advancement of cotton cultivation harvesting, the colonial government had made advancements in getting more and more cotton spinning and textile mills established and operational all up and down the Sudanese Nile Valley from Atbarah to Sennar. The sudden implosion in the progress of the cotton industry in Sudan was named the "Cotton Revolution'' as more Sudanese farmers found themselves off their legs in the cotton fields and into the cotton and textile mills in the newly industrialized cities of Wad Medani, Kosti, Sennar, and Khartoum.

The industrialization of the cotton plains is set to bring a number of jobs to the Sudanese civilians as well as help the Sudanese war effort with the allied forces. Sudan now finds itself in control of its most precious raw resources to date. Being in control of the Sudanese cotton industry gives Sudan the ability to now expand the colony’s economy from just the cultivation and harvesting of cotton to also using its fibers for the production of clothing, textiles, yarns, bedding, household items, and much more.

The industry also seeks to make use of the plant’s stalks and leaves for the production of pressed paper and cardboard, while the seeds could be used for the production of cooking oil, cattle feed, and fertilizer, therefore providing the industry with more access to jobs and production to be made within Sudan. Despite the new industrialization of cotton cities situated within the major cotton production farmlands of Gezira, Kassala, and El Funj Provinces, more mills are on track to be set up at Tokar, Sudan’s only growing farming town on the Red Sea coast. Another series of factories are ready to be set up on the shores of the Nile in Dongola Province, where 13% of the colony’s cotton production is situated as well.

The colony also wishes to take advantage of Gezira’s irrigated farmlands, which are also home to the colony’s major production of peanuts, sorghum, and wheat. Khartoum is also seeking to advance the livestock, cattle herding, and millet industries in the western provinces of Kordofan and Darfur.

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1st-12th Of July,1942

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ELECTION VICTOR AND AFTERMATH

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As the one month voting time comes to a end,on the first to eighth of July,1942.The votes were recounted to make sure that everytime was right,on the ninth of July the votes would be scrutinized to the best possible to make sure that nobody sent in two votes and on the tenth of July it would be announced that the MRP specifically,Juaidi Asyrafil not Aisy Rayyan have won the election of 1942 continuing the MRP position as the ruling figures of Maziya for another 6 years till the next election.

With Juaidi victory in the election,Aisy Rayyan was relegated back to head of parliament of the MRP.Meanwhile for the Royalist Party,they were gonna only receive 5 seats in parliament taking 3 seats from the Communist MZCP and 2 from the MRP,with the Royalist Party now having positions in the parliament it would be decided that the sultan,like the leaders of the other parties would be allowed to partake in parliament meetings whenever he wants to unlike before where the sultan would be only invited sometimes to partake in parliament meetings and on the 11th of July,a closed doors parliament election took place.Like before the MRP parliament leader,Aisy Rayyan would win with 51% however it was close as the communist party gained 48% of parliament support for them to become the new head of parliament as since their arrival they've taken large steps in parliament actions,meanwhile the Royalist only gained 1% of the votes.

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IN MALAY

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Memandangkan masa satu bulan mengundi akan berakhir, pada 1 hingga 8 Julai, 1942.Undian dikira semula untuk memastikan bahawa setiap masa adalah betul, pada kesembilan Julai undi akan diteliti sebaik mungkin untuk memastikan bahawa tiada siapa yang menghantar dua undi dan pada kesepuluh Julai akan diumumkan bahawa MRP khususnya, Juaidi Asyrafil bukan Aisy Rayyan telah memenangi pilihan raya 1942 meneruskan kedudukan MRP sebagai tokoh pemerintah Maziya selama 6 tahun lagi sehingga pilihan raya akan datang.

Dengan kemenangan Juaidi dalam pilihan raya, Aisy Rayyan telah diturunkan semula ke ketua parlimen MRP. Manakala bagi Parti Diraja, mereka hanya akan menerima 5 kerusi di parlimen mengambil 3 kerusi dari MZCP Komunis dan 2 dari MRP, dengan Parti Diraja yang kini mempunyai jawatan dalam parlimen akan diputuskan bahawa sultan, seperti pemimpin parti-parti lain akan dibenarkan untuk mengambil bahagian dalam mesyuarat parlimen bila-bila masa dia mahu tidak seperti sebelum ini di mana sultan hanya akan dijemput kadang-kadang untuk mengambil bahagian dalam mesyuarat parlimen dan pada 11 Julai, pilihan raya parlimen tertutup telah berlangsung.Seperti sebelum ketua parlimen MRP, Aisy Rayyan akan menang dengan 51% namun ia hampir kerana parti komunis memperoleh 48% sokongan parlimen untuk mereka menjadi ketua baharu parlimen kerana sejak ketibaan mereka mereka telah mengambil langkah besar dalam tindakan parlimen, sementara Royalist hanya memperoleh 1% undi.

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| TRANS-ZAIRE RAILWAY - CONNECTING ZAIRE |

[sub]18th of June, 1942[/sub]

| The Trans-Zaire Railway, which started it's construction in 1936, has came to a spectacular and celebratory end six years onwards. The Railway now officially links the major cities of Zaire, creating a large economic, social and political opportunity for Zaire and it's people. All the major industrial rising sites, mining towns and cities, and the countryside towns have also been linked up to the railway, marking the Trans-Zaire Railway as a riveting success for the Banza administration. The official opening of the railway occurred in Elisabethville where the First Representative Gloria Banza, took the train to Leopoldville amidst international and native press. Mrs Banza stated that "...the trans-railway of Zaire has brought Zaire up to par to the modern world, in some level of degree...people of Zaire will now be able to commute freely around the country, and money will be made...".

Furthermore, the Trans-Zaire Railway will only add further benefits onto the already establishing and growing links to the trade and civilian infrastructure that Zaire has made with Estado Novo, the French Free colonies, the British Colonies, Rhodesia and South Africa. The railway and road development between Zaire and Estado Novo has expanded rapidly. The December Agreement of 1940, began the establishment of a tourist and trade railway alongside the Zairian coast and the Angolan coast. The Trans-African Port Initiative between Zaire and Estado Novo, will link up to the Trans-Zaire Railway, allowing Zairian industrial sites to be linked to Estado Novo ports and Estado Novo industrial sites be linked to Zairian ports. The same goes for South Africa, who will now, thanks to the Trans-Zaire Railway, be quickly linked to Zairian ports as Zaire expands it's railway and road infrastructure with South Africa, allowing Zairian civilians and goods to reach South Africa and it's ports. Major strives have also taken place between Zaire and the Free French Colonies, the British Empire and Rhodesia, despite the raging war. The strives have been seen as extremely benefactory for all sides, as Zairian resources are able to reach the Free French and the British Empire quicker and more secure.

The growth of the infrastructure is already benefiting the Zairian economy greatly, making Zaire one of the growing economies of the war. The further support from the United States is also speeding the process, and the link that has occurred between Zaire with South Africa, Estado Novo, British Empire and the French Free Colonies is starting to mark Zaire as a uniting hub of trade between those states and places. It greatly connects all of them, and is bound to increase their trade, aid and tourism within Africa.

[list][ GLORIA BANZA, First Representative of Zaire ]: "Le chemin de fer Trans-Zaïre est une belle création du progrès, de la technologie, de l'économie et des gens. C'est un symbole de ce qu'est le Banzaïsme et de ce que le Banzaïsme fera pour nous tous. Notre connexion croissante et en expansion avec l'Estado Novo, l'Afrique du Sud, les Britanniques, les Français et les Américains est un signe unificateur que le Zaïre est destiné à être une grande nation de grands peuples. Notre aide aux alliés, dans leur courageux combat pour le lendemain, ne fait que soutenir le Zaïre dans sa croissance. Nous unissons les peuples d'Afrique, quels qu'ils soient, dans la beauté de la paix et du commerce, en embrassant nos différences et en mettant de côté nos rivalités insignifiantes, des rivalités qui ne profitent à personne." |[/list]

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The New Delhi Tribune/नई दिल्ली ट्रिब्यून July 2nd 1942 6 दिसंबर, 1942

[sub]Volume 16, Issue 1 /खंड 16, अंक 1[/sub]

[sup][Singer Deenanath Mangeshkar Passes Away At 42!!!][/sup]

[sup]42 साल की उम्र में दीनानाथ मंगेशकर का निधन !!![/sup]

[sup]Sad news today as well-known Marathi theatre actor, a Natya Sangeet musician and a Hindustani classical vocalist. Deenanath Mangeshkar had passed away following an few week long illness where he was declared deceased on the 2nd of July, 1942. It is believed that alcohol may had played a role in his illness, with accounts before his illness and eventual death that he had taken to drinking following financial hardships during the height of the Great Depression.[/sup]

[sup]प्रसिद्ध मराठी रंगमंच अभिनेता, नाट्य संगीत संगीतकार और हिंदुस्तानी शास्त्रीय गायक के रूप में आज का दुखद समाचार। दीनानाथ मंगेशकर का कुछ सप्ताह की लंबी बीमारी के बाद निधन हो गया था, जहां उन्हें 24 अप्रैल, 1942 को मृत घोषित कर दिया गया था। ऐसा माना जाता है कि शराब ने उनकी बीमारी में एक भूमिका निभाई हो सकती है, उनकी बीमारी और अंतिम मृत्यु से पहले के खातों के साथ जो उन्होंने ली थी। महामंदी की ऊंचाई के दौरान वित्तीय कठिनाइयों के बाद पीने के लिए।[/sup]

[sup]Deenanath Mangeshkar started taking singing and music lessons from Shri Baba Mashelkar at the age of five. He was also to become a disciple at Gwalior school. He was fascinated by the variety and aggressive style of Gayanacharya Pundit Ramkrishna bua Vaze and became gandabandh shagird. In his youth, he travelled to Bikaner and took formal training in classical music from Pundit Sukhdev Prasad, father of Pundit Mani Prasad, of the Kirana Gharana. He joined the Kirloskar Sangeet Mandali and the Kirloskar Natak Mandali at the age of 11. Later, he left Kirloskar Mandali, and formed Balwant Mandali with his friends Chintamanrao Kolhatkar and Krishnarao Kolhapure. This new group had Gadkari's blessing, but shortly after the group was formed; Gadkari died in January 1919.[/sup]

[sup]Deenanath's good looks and melodious voice won him popularity in the Marathi theatre. So much so that the then giant of the Marathi stage, Bal Gandharva publicly declared that he would welcome the entry of Deenanath in his organisation "by throwing a carpet of rupee coins under his feet". During the period of 1935, he produced 3 films, one of them being Krishnarjun Yuddha. It was made in both Hindi and Marathi, and a song from it, sung by and filmed on Deenanath. Deenanath also studied Indian classical music under Ramkrishna Vaze. He also studied astrology.[/sup]

[sup]Partly out of his interest in astrology and numerology, he believed that dramas with 5 letters, with anuswar (diacritical) on the third letter, were lucky for him. Examples : Ranadundubhi (रणदुंदुभी), Rajsanyas (राजसंन्यास), Deshkantak (देशकंटक).[/sup]

[sup]The dramas produced by Deenanath were extremely popular amongst the masses due to his masterly presentation of the songs composed by Vaze Bua and the patriotic content.[/sup]

[sup]दीनानाथ मंगेशकर ने पांच साल की उम्र में श्री बाबा माशेलकर से गायन और संगीत की शिक्षा लेना शुरू कर दिया था। उन्हें ग्वालियर स्कूल में भी शिष्य बनना था। वह ज्ञानाचार्य पंडित रामकृष्ण बुआ वाज़े की विविधता और आक्रामक शैली से मोहित हो गए और गंधबंध शगिर्द बन गए। अपनी युवावस्था में, उन्होंने बीकानेर की यात्रा की और किराना घराने के पंडित मणि प्रसाद के पिता पंडित सुखदेव प्रसाद से शास्त्रीय संगीत का औपचारिक प्रशिक्षण लिया। वह 11 साल की उम्र में किर्लोस्कर संगीत मंडली और किर्लोस्कर नाटक मंडली में शामिल हो गए। बाद में, उन्होंने किर्लोस्कर मंडली को छोड़ दिया, और अपने दोस्तों चिंतामनराव कोल्हाटकर और कृष्णराव कोल्हापुरे के साथ बलवंत मंडली का गठन किया। इस नए समूह को गडकरी का आशीर्वाद प्राप्त था, लेकिन समूह बनने के कुछ ही समय बाद; जनवरी 1919 में गडकरी की मृत्यु हो गई।[/sup]

[sup]दीनानाथ के अच्छे रूप और मधुर आवाज ने उन्हें मराठी थिएटर में लोकप्रियता दिलाई। इतना ही नहीं मराठी मंच के तत्कालीन दिग्गज बाल गंधर्व ने सार्वजनिक रूप से घोषणा की कि वह अपने संगठन में "अपने पैरों के नीचे रुपये के सिक्कों का एक कालीन फेंककर" दीनानाथ के प्रवेश का स्वागत करेंगे। 1935 की अवधि के दौरान, उन्होंने 3 फिल्मों का निर्माण किया, उनमें से एक कृष्णर्जुन युद्ध थी। यह हिंदी और मराठी दोनों में बनाया गया था, और इसका एक गीत, दीनानाथ द्वारा गाया और फिल्माया गया था। दीनानाथ ने रामकृष्ण वेज़ के तहत भारतीय शास्त्रीय संगीत का भी अध्ययन किया। उन्होंने ज्योतिष का भी अध्ययन किया।[/sup]

[sup]आंशिक रूप से ज्योतिष और अंकशास्त्र में उनकी रुचि के कारण, उनका मानना ​​​​था कि 5 अक्षरों वाले नाटक, तीसरे अक्षर पर अनुस्वार (विशेषक) के साथ, उनके लिए भाग्यशाली थे। उदाहरण: रणदुंदुभी (रणदुंदुभी), राजसन्यास (राजसंन्यास), देशकंटक (देशकंटक)[/sup]

[sup]दीनानाथ द्वारा निर्मित नाटक वज़े बुआ द्वारा रचित गीतों और देशभक्ति सामग्री की उनकी उत्कृष्ट प्रस्तुति के कारण जनता के बीच बेहद लोकप्रिय थे।[/sup]

[sup]Deenanath Mangeshkar has been married twice in his life with his first wife was Narmada (later renamed "Shrimati" by her in-laws). She was the daughter of Gujarati Seth Haridas Ramdas Lad – a prosperous businessman of the town of Thalner (between Dhule and Jalgaon (Khandesh), Maharashtra. Deenanath and Narmada were married in 1922. Deenanath changed his wife's name to "Shrimati". She was 19 at the time and Deenanath was 21. They had a daughter named Latika, who died in her infancy. Deenanath's wife died shortly thereafter.[/sup]

[sup]His second wife was his first wife's sister. Her name was Shevanti. Some sources claim that Deenanath renamed his second wife "Shrimati" as well, however it is widely agreed that in reality, he renamed her "Sudhamati". The marriage of Deenanath and Shevanti was solemnised at a quiet ceremony within the house in 1927. Shevanti's mother chose not to attend. Deenanath and his second wife had five children: Lata, Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath. Their first child was named Hema. But Deenanath called her Lata in memory of his deceased daughter. The name stuck and it is by that name that his legendary eldest daughter, Lata Mangeshkar, is known today.[/sup]

[sup]दीनानाथ मंगेशकर ने अपनी पहली पत्नी नर्मदा (बाद में उनके ससुराल वालों द्वारा "श्रीमती" का नाम बदलकर) के साथ अपने जीवन में दो बार शादी की थी। वह गुजराती सेठ हरिदास रामदास लाड की बेटी थीं - थालनेर शहर (धुले और जलगाँव (खानदेश), महाराष्ट्र के बीच के एक समृद्ध व्यापारी। दीनानाथ और नर्मदा की शादी 1922 में हुई थी। दीनानाथ ने अपनी पत्नी का नाम बदलकर "श्रीमती" कर दिया। वह थी उस समय 19 और दीनानाथ 21 वर्ष के थे। उनकी लतिका नाम की एक बेटी थी, जो बचपन में ही मर गई थी। इसके तुरंत बाद दीनानाथ की पत्नी की मृत्यु हो गई।[/sup]

[sup]उनकी दूसरी पत्नी उनकी पहली पत्नी की बहन थीं। उसका नाम शेवंती था। कुछ सूत्रों का दावा है कि दीनानाथ ने अपनी दूसरी पत्नी का नाम "श्रीमती" भी रखा, हालांकि यह व्यापक रूप से सहमत है कि वास्तव में, उन्होंने उसका नाम "सुधामती" रखा। दीनानाथ और शेवंती का विवाह 1927 में घर के भीतर एक शांत समारोह में संपन्न हुआ। शेवंती की मां ने शामिल नहीं होने का फैसला किया। दीनानाथ और उनकी दूसरी पत्नी के पांच बच्चे थे: लता, मीना, आशा, उषा और हृदयनाथ। उनके पहले बच्चे का नाम हेमा था। लेकिन दीनानाथ ने अपनी मृत बेटी की याद में उन्हें लता कहा। यह नाम अटक गया और इसी नाम से उनकी सबसे बड़ी बेटी लता मंगेशकर को आज जाना जाता है।[/sup]

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Alaroth

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Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

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[list]July 3rd 1942

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Santa María de la Santísima Trinidad and Washington D.C.

[sub]On the 23rd of June, mere days before another congressional hearing on the potential entry of Granada into the Allied Powers of the Second World War itself spurred by the sinking of SS Monagas by Volkist Germany in February, another ship the schooner SV Resolute would be sunk by a German U-boat near the Grenadine Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. Increasingly likely by the day the sinking of the Resolute would make Granada’s entry into the Allies a foregone conclusion. [/sub]

[sub]The subsequent congressional hearing would prove to be the last on the matter with an overwhelming approval of Granadine ascension. On the morning of July 3rd 1942, prominent diplomat Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo would arrive in Washington D.C. adding his signature to the Declaration by United Nations, officially making the Tri-State the twenty-seventh member of the titular United Nations, informally the Allied Powers. He would guarantee to Washington that a declaration of war on the Axis powers would be made within a year of signing. [/sub]

[sub]With immediate effect essential resources such as oil, gas and platinum would be marked as war-time priority, to be sold first and foremost to the United States, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union until the defeat of the Axis Powers. Additionally San Andres Naval Base would be partially leased to the United States. Despite the lack of an official declaration of war, Granada would become a key player in the Battle of the Caribbean to combat Volkist Germany and the Kingdom of Italy’s unrestricted submarine warfare campaign in the West Indies and off the coast of Colombia and Venezuela States.[/sub]

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Adriatican Islands

Alaroth

Al-Yemen

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Arcanda

Astarina

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Bayside

Canovia

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Kewtpuff

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Manatolia

Metropolitan Francais

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Islahh

Israelli

Persiaa

Philanialle

Pontianus

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Rutannia

Saldat

Somerania

Swedenn

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

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[list][sub]JUNE 1942[/sub]

[sub]The German Working Class[/sub][/list]

[list]| [sub]DIE NÖTE DER DEUTSCHEN ARBEITERKLASSE UNTER DER LAST VON KRIEG UND VERSORGUNGSDEFIZITEN[/sub]

[sub]| THE HARDSHIPS OF THE GERMAN WORKING CLASS UNDER THE STRAIN OF WAR AND SUPPLY DEFICITS[/sub][/list]

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[sub]| BERLIN | With the advent of the Second Great War also came the advent of intense supply deficits and strains on the German industrial system, and, as a direct result, on the German working class as well. Despite Germany having well-established industry as a mostly flat, Central European state with well-built connections (formerly) with its neighbors, Germany still depended substantially (but not entirely) on imports from foreign countries to keep the economy running. Most of these imports came from countries that now viewed Germany negatively for its exploits in Poland, France, the Low Countries, North Africa, and now in the Soviet Union. As a result of embargoes, the collapsing of friendships and sinking of supply ships by the United States and Royal Navies, supply deficits in Germany became widespread, affecting all levels of society but most primarily the working class.[/sub]

[sub]Prior to the War, Germany's working class had been in a state of rapid recovery and economic development. The militarization and revival of industries in the 1930s by the Volkist government brought Germany popularity for its government and economic activity with which it could revive its economy and various industries. Germany recovered rapidly from the Great Depression compared to some of its neighbors, who were hesitant to use militarization as a way to develop their economies and facilitate a recovery from the Depression of the early 1930s. The outbreak of the Second Great War, however, changed everything. The national economy turned solely to producing weapons of war rather than producing export-capable materiel, and as a result of the breakout of hostilities a massively smaller number of nations now wished to purchase goods and services from the German government. In the words of a senior trade diplomat in the German diplomatic corps;[/sub]

[list][list][sub]"The War has, despite its numerous benefits to Germany politically, given the government a form of horrifying scent that is scaring away investors, buyers, anyone who wish to purchase German goods and products. The economy will suffer, but on which level it will do so remains unknown."

[list]— UNKNOWN, Senior Trade Diplomat, German diplomatic corps[/sub][/list][/list][/list]

[sub]As the war dragged on, supply began to collapse as an ever-larger share of Gemany's foodstuffs and survival supplies were directed away from the suffering working class to the frontlines, which as is were already struggling from logistical problems thanks to partisan groups and a general lack of logistical organization. Working class-men were forced to work over 12 hours a day, with minimum pay, thanks to a lack of labor laws and the authoritarian state of Germany's government and the absolutist state of its military High Command. Even as they worked harder than ever, they were unable to get their hands on sufficient food and supplies for their families as a result of supply redirection and rationing, among other policies implemented by the wartime German government.[/sub]

[sub]Starving on some days was prominent among +35% of the population, but no more than half. Despite this, support for the war continued to remain high, with nationwide polls sanctioned by the German Government indicating a 97% approval rating for the war, although independent experts and foreign analysts state the number is dubious to say the least. However, thanks to the ideological hold the DVP has over the German public, the possibility of revolution by the people remains unlikely, considering the sheer strength and size of the German Wehrmacht, sworn in allegiance to the Chancellor, and the strength with which the ruling party suffocates German society in ways only seen in Russia and other barbaric nations.[/sub]

[sub]Despite these factors, however, hope for Germany's political opposition, the Valkyrie-Koalition, still remains in the Wehrmacht's upper commanders. Exposed to the true situations and issues facing the country and suffering under the strategic deadlock of the war imposed by the Chancellor's 'excessive' demands, in the words of one senior commander in North Africa, these commanders are likely to be more suceptible to wanting change, and as such it is safe to assume that a military coup could be deemed more likely than a popular revolution, despite the probable dissatisfaction and majority-of-the-population status held by the German working class, who continue to suffer under the strains of wartime, despite the propaganda machine saying otherwise.[/sub]

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EMBOLDENED REVOLUTIONARIES WREAK HEIGHTENED HAVOC ACROSS THE KINGDOM

[list][sup]THE DARK LEGACY OF UŽICE

YUGOSLAVIA—SUMMER 1942

[B]LISTEN TO THIS POST: https://archive.org/details/amsterwald5july2022[/sup][/list]

Now emboldened by the temporary partisan takeover of the town of Užice and growing promises of foreign support, the Committee for an Independent Slovenia has become bolder in its operations against Prince Paul on the ground. Evenings and weekends now see massive demonstrations filling the streets of Ljubljana, Maribor and Kranj, and community aid is lavished onto striking government workers hoping to bring the federal infrastructure in Slovenia to a halt. A ‘feeling of kinship’, as ground organizer Franc Snoj put it, has ‘sprouted’ among the great part of Slovenes, especially those in urban areas. Swelling in numbers, the independence movement in Slovenia is widening but has remained largely civil—the only exceptions so far have been in attempts for police to hold back protesting crowds, which have occasionally been met with physical violence. Far from home and facing a population increasingly united in antipathy for rule from Belgrade, federal police and military forces in Slovenia are facing all-time highs in desertion; worse still is that ethnic Slovenes in urban police forces seem unwilling to do anything to counter or dissolve independence protests.

Much grimmer than these maneuvers in Slovenia, however, have been the independence movements of Croatia and Bosnia, and the partisan movement of ‘Red Josip’. The violently nationalist Croatian Ustaše, which organized King Alexander’s assassination in 1934, has widened its acts of terror to involve brutal killings of Serbs and federal workers in the Banovina of Croatia. The newly-formed Hrvaška fronta (“Croatian Front”)—the more legitimate independence movement in the country—has done little to disavow or discourage them, and the Ustaše now haunts the federal and Serb presences in the Banovina. The Croat movement has maintained an uneasy alliance with a similar Bosnian movement under Dr. Džafer Kulenović, an admirer of the Croat group and formerly a member of the pro-Croat Muslim youth organization Svijest (“The Awareness”). The stirring ethnic conflict has deflated the morale of federal Yugoslavists—though the Slovene, Croat and Bosnian movements are materially disadvantaged, they have a sweeping momentum that has shaken local governments.

Unshaken, however, is communist Josip Broz Tito. After fleeing the siege of Užice, Tito resumed insurgent activities in the countryside of Serbia. Slovenia and Croatia, each of whose independence movements have militantly anti-communist elements, are currently seen by the partisan movement as not worth the effort required to replenish their numbers and organize in the regions. Regardless, Tito has worked boldly in the hills and forests of north-central Serbia, gathering anti-monarchist forces in such numbers that they largely suffocated the town of Zrenjanin into a mob-rule-like state of suppression by July and are creeping ever nearer to Novi Sad week by week, leaving dozens of dead federal police and Royal Army men in their wake. The response of Prince Paul has been bitter, but lackluster. Federal police are increasingly demotivated, and for all of Paul’s hope to crush the uprisings with an iron fist, he has found it very difficult to work when his tools are crumbling in his very hands.

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[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

[sub]Rick’s Cafe Americain I[/sub][/list]

[pre] C A S A B L A N C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, or auto, or foot, across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca . . . and wait — and wait — and wait—[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

OLD MOORISH NEIGHBORHOODS — AFTERNOON

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| A week before Pearl Harbor — — At first only the turrets and rooftops are visible against a torrid sky. The facades of the Moorish buildings give way to a narrow, twisting street crowded with the polyglot life of a native quarter. The intense desert sun holds the scene in a torpid

tranquility. Activity is unhurried and sounds are muted. |

[sub]POLICE STATION, CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO — AFTERNOON[/sub]

| A POLICE OFFICER takes a piece of paper from the typewriter, turns to a microphone, and reads. |

[list]| STATION POLICE, [sub]Vichy Morocco[/sub] [sup](Into Radio)[/sup] | “To all officers! Two German couriers carrying important official documents murdered on train from Oran. Murderer and possible accomplices headed for Casablanca. Round up all suspicious characters and search them for stolen documents. Important!”[/list]

[sub]OLD MOORISH SECTOR — CONTINUOUS[/sub]

| An officer BLOWS his whistle several times. There is pandemonium as native guards begin to round up people . A police car, full of officers, with SIREN BLARING, screams through the street and stops in the market. Some try to escape but are caught by the police and loaded into a police wagon. At a street corner TWO POLICEMEN stop a White CIVILIAN and question him. |

[list]| POLICE OFFICER #1, [sub]Vichy Morocco[/sub]: | “May we see your papers?”

| CIVILIAN, [sub]Free French Spy[/sub] | “I don't think I have them on me.”

| POLICE OFFICER #1, [sub]Vichy Morocco[/sub] | “In that case, we'll have to ask you to come along.”[/list]

| The civilian pats his pockets. |

[list]| CIVILIAN, [sub]Free French Spy[/sub] | “Wait. It's just possible that I...Yes, here they are.”[/list]

| He brings out his papers. The second policeman examines them. |

[list]| POLICE OFFICER #2, [sub]Vichy Morocco[/sub] | “These papers expired three weeks ago. You'll have to come along!”[/list]

| Suddenly the civilian breaks away and starts to run wildly down the street. The policeman SHOUTS "Halt! Halt!", but the civilian keeps going. A very young and attractive refugee couple from the Netherlands watch as the civilian passes. They've

been thrust by circumstances from a simple country life into an unfamiliar and hectic world. A shot RINGS out, and the man falls to the ground. Above him, painted on the wall, is a large poster of Marshal Petain, which reads: |

[list][list][pre]JE TIENS MES PROMESSES, MEME CELLES DES AUTRES[/pre]

— Marshall Petain, Etat Francais![/list][/list]

| The policeman frantically searches the body, but only to find, to their shock, Free French literature and a photo of the Free Frenchman, CHARLES DE GAULLE, who is despised in Vichy France. |

[sub]PALAIS DE JUSTICE, CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO[/sub]

| We see an inscription carved in a marble block along the roofline of the building: "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" We see the the facade, French in architecture, then the high- vaulted entrance which is inscribed "Palais de Justice". At the entrance the arrested suspects are led in by the police. |

[sub]SIDEWALK CAFE, CASABLANCA — CONTINUOUS[/sub]

| A middle-aged BRITISH COUPLE sit at a table just off the square, and observe the commotion across the way in front of the Palais de Justice. The police van pulls up. The rear doors are opened and people stream out. A vague FRENCHMAN man, sitting at a table nearby, in a tan suit, bowtie and holding a tan pith helmet, watches the English couple more closely than the scene on the street. |

[list]| ENGLISHWOMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "What on earth's going on there?”

| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "I don't know, my dear.”[/list]

| The European walks over to the couple. |

[list]| SUS FRENCHMAN, [sub]Pith Helmet[/sub] | “Pardon, pardon, Monsieur, pardon Madame, have you not heard?”

| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | " We hear very little, and we understand even less.”

| SUS FRENCHMAN, [sub]Pith Helmet[/sub] | “Two German couriers were found murdered in the desert... the unoccupied desert. This is the customary roundup of Refugees, Liberals, and uh, of course, a little something for Monsieur Macron, the Pre-Fect of Police . . . Unfortunately, along with these unhappy refugees the heap of Europe has gravitated to Casablanca. Some of them have been waiting years for a visa!”[/list]

| He puts his left arm compassionately around the ENGLISHMAN, and reaches behind the man with his right hand. |

[list]| SUS FRENCHMAN, [sub]Pith Helmet[/sub] | “I beg of you, Monsieur, watch yourself. Be on guard. This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere, everywhere!”[/list]

| The Englishman seems to be taken aback by this sudden display of concern. |

[list]| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | " Ha, ha, thank you, thank you very much!”

| SUS FRENCHMAN, [sub]Pith Helmet[/sub] | “Not at all. Au revoir, Monsieur! Au revoir, Madame!”[/list]

| He leaves. The Englishman, still a trifle disconcerted by the Frenchman's action, watches him as he leaves. |

[list]| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "Au revoir. Amusing little fellow. Waiter!”[/list]

| As he pats both his breast and pants pockets he realizes there is something missing. |

[list]| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "Oh. How silly of me.”

| ENGLISHWOMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "What, dear?”

| ENGLISHMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | " I've left my wallet in the hotel.

| ENGLISHWOMAN, [sub]Refugee of Great Britain Gb[/sub] | "Oh.”[/list]

| Suddenly the Englishman looks off in the direction of the departed Pith Helmet Frenchman, the clouds of suspicion gathering. Interrupting overhead is the DRONE of a low flying airplane. They look up. |

OUTSKIRTS AIRFIELD — AFTERNOON

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| A Junkers JU-52 Aircraft cuts its motor for landing. It SWOOPS down past a sign atop a building at the edge of the airport. The sign reads "Rick's Cafe Americain" As the plane lands a Volk symbol on its tail is clearly visible. It taxis to a stop as a group of officers march into formation in front of it. Behind them stand a detail of native soldiers keeping guard. In the group is CAPTAIN LOUIS MACRON, a French officer appointed by Vichy as Pre-Fect of Police in Casablanca. He is a handsome, middle-aged Frenchman, debonair, but withal a shrewd and alert official. With him are HERR HEINZE, the German consul, CAPTAIN TONELLI, an Italian officer, and LIEUTENANT CASSELLE, Macron's aide. When the plane door opens, the first passenger to step out is a tall, middle-aged, pale German with a smile that seems more the result of a frozen face muscle than a cheerful disposition. On any occasion when MAJOR HELLEWEGE is crossed, his expression hardens into iron. |

[list]| HERR HEINZE. [sub]German Embassy Consul[/sub] | “It is very good to see you again, Major Hellewege.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE. [sub]German Army[/sub] | “Thank you. Thank you.”[/list]

| Heinze introduces Hellewege to Macron. |

[list]| HERR HEINZE. [sub]German Embassy Consul[/sub] | “May I present Captain Macron, Police Prefect of Casablanca. Major Hellewege.”[/list]

| Macron salutes. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Unoccupied France welcomes you to Casablanca.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE. [sub]German Army[/sub] | “Thank you, Captain. It's very good to be here.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Major Hellewege, my aide, Lieutenant Casselle.”[/list]

| As they acknowledge each other, Captain Tonelli barges in front of Casselle and salutes Hellewege. |

[list]| CAPT. TONELLI, [sub]Italian Army[/sub] | “Captain Tonelli, the Italian service, at your command, Major.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE. [sub]German Army[/sub] | “That is kind of you.”[/list]

| But Tonelli gets no further than that as Hellewege turns again to Macron. They walk away from the plane, Heinze following, with Casselle and Tonelli bringing up the rear, engaged in a heated exchange of words. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “You may find the climate of Casablanca a trifle warm, Major.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE. [sub]German Army[/sub] | “Oh, we Germans must get used to all climates, from Russia to the Sahara. But perhaps you were not referring to the weather.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | [sup](sidesteps the implication with a smile)[/sup] “What else, my dear Major?”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE. [sub]German Army[/sub] | “By the way, the murder of the couriers, what has been done?”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects.”

| HERR HEINZE. [sub]German Embassy Consul[/sub] | “We already know who the murderer is.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE, [sub]German Army[/sub] | “Good. Is he in custody?”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Oh, there is no hurry. Tonight he'll be at Rick's. Everybody comes to Rick's.”

| MAJ. HELLEWEGE, [sub]German Army[/sub] | “I have already heard about this cafe, and also about Mr. Rick himself.”[/list]

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1942-1946 ECONOMIC PLAN OF ACTION

11th of June 1942

With a large portion of the Demographic strength of Rhodesia now abroad fighting the Axis on every possible Front, the Home front was never more important to the efforts of not just the Rhodesian but Allied War Effort. Prime Minister Godfrey Huggins led the charge for a renewed determination of Industrialization and perhaps most importantly the creation of a domestic arms industry to remove Rhodesia from the British Supply Chain. While on the surface this removed Rhodesia from the British supply chain and thus helped their war effort greatly, it also made a great leap towards independence as Rhodesia especially under current Minority Rule could never realistically achieve and maintain Independence without "something to back it up".

The 1942-1946 Economic Plan of Action masterminded by both Huggins and Minister of Finance Jacob Hendrik Smit aims to solve many issues that have long plagued the colony, such as an underutilization of Farming and Logging Machinery by Companies (who opt for less efficient employment of less educated tribal workers) and a lack of finances for the establishment of many sectors. With extremely low interest loans available now for virtually any warring Country, especially on the side of the Allies, Rhodesia plans to take full advantage of this for development of the foundation of its Economy.

TARGETS IDENTIFIED AND SET BY THE PLAN :

MILITARY - Aircraft Production : Currently Rhodesia possesses two Aircraft plants, the largest of which is in Salisbury and is currently producing Manchester Bombers and the smaller of the two in Lusaka producing Hurricanes. Annual Production for the Salisbury Plant has been rated at 120 Manchester Bombers per year, while the Plant at Lusaka has been rated at around 72 Hurricanes per year (efficiency for both being increased since production was ramped up in 1938). The 1942-1946 Plan calls for one large Single Engine Factory at Bulawayo (which is already connected by Rail to Salisbury) with a total annual production of around 120 Aircraft to be constructed by the start of 1944. One additional Bomber Plant with a targeted production of 62 Aircraft per year is to be constructed in Lusaka near the existing Hurricane Plant. These constructions are to provide a reasonable devolution of Production so as to not closely lump them together in the unlikely event of an attack.

MILITARY - Tank Production : Production of Tanks and heavily armored Vehicles, while sufficient, is too devolved into around 9 different plants which vastly decreases efficiency. Current annual production stands at around 800 Vehicles of various types, but the Plan proposes that this could be increased to 960 per year if Production was localized into two major production areas (Firstly Bulawayo and Secondly Lusaka). Main issues with so many smaller Plants is that if one plant has a surplus of one component they cannot easily share this surplus with another Plant as in some cases it leads to a drive of up to 800 miles. Completion of the localization Project, due to the fact that Machines and labor are already present is expected to be completed by January of 1943. Offsetting the costs, the existing Production Buildings shall be sold at low cost to local producers of mainly civilian products.

MILITARY - Arms Production : Identified as sufficient by the Plan, however by 1944 the Plants are to receive modernized Production Components which are to be commissioned in Salisbury.

MILITARY - Munitions Production : Identified as sufficient however a focus on Quality is to take place post 1944 with a switch to Tungsten core Shells for Tank and Anti-Tank Weaponry using locally sourced Tungsten.

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AGRICULTURE - Corn : Corn production currently stands at 1,900 MT per year, around half of which stems from Federal lands. This is a very large failure for the Country as a whole as it means that a land area roughly one third the size of the Tribal Farmlands account for a similar share of production due to Mechanization and focuses on Efficiency along with an increasing use of insecticides since 1939. The Government aims to work very closely with the Tribal lands to set up a means to tackle this issue by 1946, and to have leveled yield levels between Federal-Tribal by 1950. This change would increase production (assuming only Tribal yields increase and the total Corn producing lands stay constant) to around 5,100 MT per year. Such an increase would serve to massively increase nourishment received by Tribal Citizens along with general exports of Foodstuffs to the wider world.

AGRICULTURE - Wheat : Wheat production is currently limited to around 155 MT per year, mainly due to initial problems with the climate which have been actively tackled and researched by Rhodesia since the early 1920s. The current 155 MT is an extremely low amount, and due to the European origin of the minority Government had always been a focus to provide "Bread for the British" which quite simply was not economical due not just to the previously mentioned climate but also because of a focus on Southern Rhodesia which generally is even drier than the North. As a result the Government has opted to relocate its programs to Northern Rhodesia and Northern Malawi which receive more average rainfall and thus have an increased capacity for Wheat production. This would free up existing Wheat farms in Southern Rhodesia to producing goods with higher rates of yield. The change in location along with new insecticides means the Government estimates an increase in Production to 225 MT by 1945.

AGRICULTURE - Cotton : Already one of the largest producers of Cotton in Africa, Rhodesia currently turns out 640 MT of Cotton mainly produced on Tribal lands and picked by hand. The Government shall administer the application of Machinery in coordination with Tribal Governments in order to reduce this reliance on hand-picking and as a result increase throughput and yield.

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INDUSTRIAL - Copper : Rhodesia is the largest producer of Copper in Africa and in fact one of the largest globally at a total production figure of around 735,000 tons per year. This is compared to 2,900,000 tons in the USSR and around 1,300,000 in the United States. One of the largest issues in mining throughout Rhodesia is the reliance on hugs numbers of workers and a lack of many machines. To combat this, the Government has prepared to create a 3 million Pounds Bond (150 Mln pounds today) which is a huge amount and almost unheard of within the Colony to fund the program. But the importance of Copper within the war and predictably for Electronics once the war would be over is immense, and after all Rhodesia does possess much of the African Copper Belt which it must take full advantage of. With all Modernization efforts taken into account as well as the opening of several new mines it is estimated that Rhodesia can increase its annual output from 735,000 tons to 950,000 tons per year by 1944.

INDUSTRIAL - Iron Ore & Steel : Despite a relatively large Steel Industry which so far has been more or less sufficient for domestic needs, Iron ore Production and indeed reserves have been lacking. The low reserves making economical recovery for any large Company unlikely, the Government has announced it shall nationalize the sector and utilize larger amounts of Machinery to exploit existing Iron mines to their full potential without relying on a mainly artisan and labor intensive method as it currently stands. Assuming all plans of modernization are successful production would rise from just under 11,000 tons to around 19,000 tons. One new Steel Plant is however being planned in the Malawian Capital of Lilongwe despite currently meeting demand, produce there planned to be utilized for extensive post war Infrastructure plans.

INDUSTRIAL - Coal : Current output standing at around 8,200 tons per year it is a pitifully small amount despite southern Rhodesia sharing in the Coal belt running from South Africa up to Malawi. A main point of contention for this industry was the reserves there being found after tribal land protection laws were put into place, thus removing the ability to exploit many locations of keen interest. The Government as a result has offered financial incentives to the Tribes in the south-east of the Country to allow Coal exploitation by a newly created Government firm under the condition that it enact reasonably high standards of pay for Tribal workers to be employed there. Under the Plan, assuming these mines produce an average resembling existing mines in Rhodesia production could increase to as much as 64,000 tons by 1945. While this would not cover the total national usage of coal, it would allow for the Nations Industrial Production to be entirely fueled by Rhodesian mined coal and thus establish severe security.

INDUSTRIAL - General Consumer : Consumer Goods factories were growing at a steady pace pre-war, though had stalled upon the start of the war because of a lack of manpower (that being the mainly white factory workers who are now employed in the Armed Forces). While the Government is still unwilling to allow wider migration into Federal lands, they have offered to grant Consumer Goods Companies not just the Buildings freed up from the Tank Plants, but also low interest Government loans and Bonds for the construction now of Buildings to be used at the end of hostilities for new Factories. This would lay a reasonable foundation for more Factories once the war has ended, and direct the money flowing back into the Consumer goods market post-war to flow into an existing pool of possible production. Additionally the Government has pledged that Trucks built for wartime usage, once returned to Rhodesia upon the end of the war would not be maintained as a whole but instead many hundreds or perhaps thousands would be granted to Companies that had great pre-war demand for said Trucks. Rail after all does not exist throughout all parts of the Nation and many areas still rely on Trucks even with the wartime rationing on Fuel.

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[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

[sub]Rick’s Cafe Americain II[/sub][/list]

[pre] C A S A B L A N C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, or auto, or foot, across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca . . . and wait — and wait — and wait—[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN — NIGHT

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| The neon sign above the door is brightly lit. Patrons arrive and go in through the front door. From inside we hear sounds of MUSIC and LAUGHTER. The song is "It Had to Be You." |

[list][pre]RICK’S CAFE PARAMERICAIN[/pre][/list]

| We follow a group of patrons inside. |

[sub]RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN, CASABLANCA — NIGHT[/sub]

[list][list][list]https://youtu.be/yW-BTc9oeyc[/list][/list][/list]

[list]| SAM, [sub]Pianist & American[/sub] | “ It had to be you~ it had to be you~

I wandered around, and finally found the somebody who!

Could make me be true~ could make me be blue~

And even be glad, just to be sad thinking of—!

Some others I've seen, might never be mean!

Might never be cross! or try to be boss!

But they wouldn't do—

For nobody else, gave me a thrill, with all your faults, I love you still~

It had to be you, wonderful you,

It had to be you! ”[/list]

| Rick's is an expensive and chic nightclub which definitely possesses an air of sophistication and intrigue. SAM, a middle-aged African-American, sits on a stool before a small, salmon-colored piano on wheels, playing and singing while accompanied by a small orchestra. All about him there is the HUM of voices, CHATTER and LAUGHTER. The occupants of the room are varied. There are Europeans in their dinner jackets, their women beautifully begowned and be jeweled. There are Moroccans in silk robes. Turks wearing fezzes. Levantines. Naval officers. Members of the Foreign Legion, distinguished by their kepis. Two men sit at a table. |

[list]| REFUGEE MAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “Waiting, waiting, waiting. I'll never get out of here. I'll die in Casablanca…”[/list]

| His companion seems uninterested in his dilemma. Sympathy is evidently in short supply in Casablanca. At another table a very well-dressed WOMAN talks to a MOOR. She has a bracelet on her wrist. No other jewelry. |

[list]| REFUGEE WOMAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “But can't you make it just a little more? Please.”

| CASABLANCA MOOR, [sub]Jewels Trader[/sub] | “I'm sorry, Madame, but diamonds are a drug on the market . Everybody sells diamonds. There are diamonds everywhere. 2,400 Francs.”

| REFUGEE WOMAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “All right.”[/list]

| On to another table where two CONSPIRATORS talk. |

[list]| CONSPIRATOR #1, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “The trucks are waiting, the men are waiting. Everything is—”[/list]

| He stops abruptly as two German officers walk by. A REFUGEE and another MAN converse at another table. |

[list]| ROUTE MAN, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “It's the fishing smack Santiago. It leaves at one tomorrow night, here from the end of La Medina. Third boat.”

| REFUGEE MAN, [sub]From North Omaha[/sub] | “Thank you, oh, thank you.”

| ROUTE MAN, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “And bring 15,000 Francs in cash. Remember, in cash…”[/list]

| On the way to the bar we pass several tables and hear a Babel of foreign tongues. Here and there we catch a scattered phrase or sentence in English. CARL, the waiter, is a jovial German refugee with spectacles. He walks, tray in hand, to a private door, over which ABDUL, a large, burly man, stands guard. |

[list]| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Open up, Abdul.”

| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “Yes, Herr Professor.”[/list]

| Abdul opens the door and Carl goes into the gambling room. Back in Germany, Carl was one of Berlin’s most respected Mathematical Professors, sadly he was part of the race most hated by the Volk. |

INT. GAMBLING ROOM, RICK’S CAFE PARAMERICAIN, CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO — NIGHT

| There is much activity at the various tables. At one table TWO WOMEN and a MAN play cards. They glance at another table. One of them calls to Carl. |

[list]| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | “Uh, waiter.”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Yes, Madame?”

| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | ““Will you ask Rick if he'll have a drink with us?

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Madame, he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen him!”

| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | “What makes saloon-keepers so snobbish?”

| GAMBER MAN, [sub]from Metropolitan Francais[/sub] | “Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Paris.”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Paris is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.”

| GAMBER MAN, [sub]from Metropolitan Francais[/sub] | “We have something to look forward to!”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “And his father is the bellboy!”[/list]

| Carl and the group laughs. The overseer walks up to a table with a paper in his hand. Then we see a drink and a man's hand, but nothing more. The overseer places a check on the table. The hand picks up the check and writes on it, in pencil, "Okay-Rick." The overseer takes the check. We now see RICK, sitting at a table alone playing solitary chess. Rick is an Aramerican of indeterminate age. There is no expression on his face — complete deadpan. There is a commotion at the door as people attempt to come into the gambling room. He nods approval to Abdul. Then a GERMAN appears in the doorway in a tuxedo, straight from Volk Germany, wealthy and a favorite banker of the Fuhrer. Abdul looks to Rick who glances back toward the open door and nods "no". Abdul starts to close the door on the man. |

[list]| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “I'm sorry sir, this is a private room.” [/list]

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Paramountica wrote:[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

[sub]Rick’s Cafe Americain II[/sub][/list]

[pre] C A S A B L A N C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, or auto, or foot, across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca . . . and wait — and wait — and wait—[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN — NIGHT

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| The neon sign above the door is brightly lit. Patrons arrive and go in through the front door. From inside we hear sounds of MUSIC and LAUGHTER. The song is "It Had to Be You." |

[list][pre]RICK’S CAFE PARAMERICAIN[/pre][/list]

| We follow a group of patrons inside. |

[sub]RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN, CASABLANCA — NIGHT[/sub]

[list][list][list]https://youtu.be/yW-BTc9oeyc[/list][/list][/list]

[list]| SAM, [sub]Pianist & American[/sub] | “ It had to be you~ it had to be you~

I wandered around, and finally found the somebody who!

Could make me be true~ could make me be blue~

And even be glad, just to be sad thinking of—!

Some others I've seen, might never be mean!

Might never be cross! or try to be boss!

But they wouldn't do—

For nobody else, gave me a thrill, with all your faults, I love you still~

It had to be you, wonderful you,

It had to be you! ”[/list]

| Rick's is an expensive and chic nightclub which definitely possesses an air of sophistication and intrigue. SAM, a middle-aged African-American, sits on a stool before a small, salmon-colored piano on wheels, playing and singing while accompanied by a small orchestra. All about him there is the HUM of voices, CHATTER and LAUGHTER. The occupants of the room are varied. There are Europeans in their dinner jackets, their women beautifully begowned and be jeweled. There are Moroccans in silk robes. Turks wearing fezzes. Levantines. Naval officers. Members of the Foreign Legion, distinguished by their kepis. Two men sit at a table. |

[list]| REFUGEE MAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “Waiting, waiting, waiting. I'll never get out of here. I'll die in Casablanca…”[/list]

| His companion seems uninterested in his dilemma. Sympathy is evidently in short supply in Casablanca. At another table a very well-dressed WOMAN talks to a MOOR. She has a bracelet on her wrist. No other jewelry. |

[list]| REFUGEE WOMAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “But can't you make it just a little more? Please.”

| CASABLANCA MOOR, [sub]Jewels Trader[/sub] | “I'm sorry, Madame, but diamonds are a drug on the market . Everybody sells diamonds. There are diamonds everywhere. 2,400 Francs.”

| REFUGEE WOMAN, [sub]From Amsterwald[/sub] | “All right.”[/list]

| On to another table where two CONSPIRATORS talk. |

[list]| CONSPIRATOR #1, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “The trucks are waiting, the men are waiting. Everything is—”[/list]

| He stops abruptly as two German officers walk by. A REFUGEE and another MAN converse at another table. |

[list]| ROUTE MAN, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “It's the fishing smack Santiago. It leaves at one tomorrow night, here from the end of La Medina. Third boat.”

| REFUGEE MAN, [sub]From North Omaha[/sub] | “Thank you, oh, thank you.”

| ROUTE MAN, [sub]Free French[/sub] | “And bring 15,000 Francs in cash. Remember, in cash…”[/list]

| On the way to the bar we pass several tables and hear a Babel of foreign tongues. Here and there we catch a scattered phrase or sentence in English. CARL, the waiter, is a jovial German refugee with spectacles. He walks, tray in hand, to a private door, over which ABDUL, a large, burly man, stands guard. |

[list]| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Open up, Abdul.”

| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “Yes, Herr Professor.”[/list]

| Abdul opens the door and Carl goes into the gambling room. Back in Germany, Carl was one of Berlin’s most respected Mathematical Professors, sadly he was part of the race most hated by the Volk. |

INT. GAMBLING ROOM, RICK’S CAFE PARAMERICAIN, CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO — NIGHT

| There is much activity at the various tables. At one table TWO WOMEN and a MAN play cards. They glance at another table. One of them calls to Carl. |

[list]| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | “Uh, waiter.”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Yes, Madame?”

| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | ““Will you ask Rick if he'll have a drink with us?

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “Madame, he never drinks with customers. Never. I have never seen him!”

| GAMBER LADY, [sub]from The Netherlands[/sub] | “What makes saloon-keepers so snobbish?”

| GAMBER MAN, [sub]from Metropolitan Francais[/sub] | “Perhaps if you told him I ran the second largest banking house in Paris.”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “The second largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Paris is now the pastry chef in our kitchen.”

| GAMBER MAN, [sub]from Metropolitan Francais[/sub] | “We have something to look forward to!”

| CARL, [sub]Jewish Refugee[/sub] | “And his father is the bellboy!”[/list]

| Carl and the group laughs. The overseer walks up to a table with a paper in his hand. Then we see a drink and a man's hand, but nothing more. The overseer places a check on the table. The hand picks up the check and writes on it, in pencil, "Okay-Rick." The overseer takes the check. We now see RICK, sitting at a table alone playing solitary chess. Rick is an Aramerican of indeterminate age. There is no expression on his face — complete deadpan. There is a commotion at the door as people attempt to come into the gambling room. He nods approval to Abdul. Then a GERMAN appears in the doorway in a tuxedo, straight from Volk Germany, wealthy and a favorite banker of the Fuhrer. Abdul looks to Rick who glances back toward the open door and nods "no". Abdul starts to close the door on the man. |

[list]| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “I'm sorry sir, this is a private room.” [/list]

[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “Of all the nerve! Who do you think... I know there's gambling in there! There's no secret. You dare not keep me out of here!”[/list]

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New Provenance wrote:[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “Of all the nerve! Who do you think... I know there's gambling in there! There's no secret. You dare not keep me out of here!”[/list]

| Soon enough, the owner of the establishment, RICK, proceeds to walk up. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Yes? What's the trouble?”

| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “This gentleman—”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

Paramountica wrote:| Soon enough, the owner of the establishment, RICK, proceeds to walk up. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Yes? What's the trouble?”

| ADBUL, [sub]Moroccan Guard[/sub] | “This gentleman—”[/list]

| The German interrupts and waves his card. |

[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “I've been in every gambling room between Tokyo and Berlin and if you think I'm going to be kept out of a saloon like this, you're very much mistaken!”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

New Provenance wrote:| The German interrupts and waves his card. |

[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “I've been in every gambling room between Tokyo and Berlin and if you think I'm going to be kept out of a saloon like this, you're very much mistaken!”[/list]

| At this moment JAKOV, a small, thin man with a nervous air, tries to squeeze through the doorway blocked by the German. If he were an American, JAKOV would look like a tout. He gets through and passes RICK. |

[list]| JAKOV, [sub]Free French spy[/sub] | “Uh, excuse me, please. Hello, Rick.

”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Hello Jakov.”[/list]

| RICK looks at the Volk German calmly, takes the card out of his hand, and tears it up, handing it back to him, clearly not a fan of Volk Germans. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Your cash is good at the bar.”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

Paramountica wrote:| At this moment JAKOV, a small, thin man with a nervous air, tries to squeeze through the doorway blocked by the German. If he were an American, JAKOV would look like a tout. He gets through and passes RICK. |

[list]| JAKOV, [sub]Free French spy[/sub] | “Uh, excuse me, please. Hello, Rick.

”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Hello Jakov.”[/list]

| RICK looks at the Volk German calmly, takes the card out of his hand, and tears it up, handing it back to him, clearly not a fan of Volk Germans. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Your cash is good at the bar.”[/list]

[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “VAT!? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!!”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

New Provenance wrote:[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “VAT!? DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!!”[/list]

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “I do. You’re lucky the bar is open.”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

Paramountica wrote:[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “I do. You’re lucky the bar is open.”[/list]

[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I SHALL REPORT IT TO THE ANGRIFF!...YOU DESPISE ME, DON’T YOU?”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

New Provenance wrote:[list]| SCHAFFER, [sub]Volk German Financier[/sub] | “THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS. I SHALL REPORT IT TO THE ANGRIFF!...YOU DESPISE ME, DON’T YOU?”[/list]

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “My friend, if I gave you any thought, I probably would.”[/list]

Nonador, Philanialle

Paramountica wrote:[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “My friend, if I gave you any thought, I probably would.”[/list]

| The Volk German storms off, tossing the pieces of his card into the air behind him. |

Nonador, Philanialle

New Provenance wrote:| The Volk German storms off, tossing the pieces of his card into the air behind him. |

| Meanwhile RICK heads back, to meet with JAKOV. JAVOK is a Refugee mover, aiding people from all across Europe who venture into Casablanca on their way to Lisbon, Alzarikstan from which they may fly directly to the New World, to Freedom in the United States of America. Here he asks Rick to harbor two Letters of Transit — signed by General de GAULLE, of the Free French Forces Metropolitan Francais, good to pass custom checks all the way from here to New York. Cannot be rescinded, not even questioned. RICK agrees to do so, provided they will be hidden. RICK leaves the gambling room and goes into the main room. |

Nonador, Philanialle, Puerto Somoza

[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

[sub]Rick’s Cafe Americain III[/sub][/list]

[pre] C A S A B L A N C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, or auto, or foot, across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca . . . and wait — and wait — and wait—[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN — NIGHT

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| RICK stands and looks up at the revolving beacon light from the airport, after making a woman who adores him leave the cafe. It intermittently sheds its light on RICKs face. MACRON sits at a table on the cafe terrace, watching this evening's performance. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Hello, Rick.”[/list]

| RICK walks over to him, this whole time he has sported on a white tuxedo with a black bowtie. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Hello, Louis.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “How extravagant you are, throwing away people like that. Someday they may be scarce.”[/list]

| Rick sits down at the table. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “You know, I think now I shall pay a call on Yvonne, maybe get her on the rebound, huh?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “When it comes to women, you're a true democrat.”[/list]

| As they talk, Italian Captain Tonelli and Vichy French Lieutenant Casselle walk by toward the entrance of the cafe. Casselle talks non-stop and Tonelli tries. They both stop, salute Macron, and walk into the cafe. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “If he gets a word in it'll be a major Italian victory.”[/list]

| RICK chuckles. RICK and MACRON look up when they hear the BUZZ of a plane taking off from the adjacent airfield. The plane flies directly over their heads. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “A plane to Lisbon.” (pause) “You would like to be on it?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Why? What's in Lisbon?”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “The Pan-Am clipper to America.”[/list]

| RICK doesn't answer. His look isn't a happy one. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “I have often speculated on why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.”[/list]

| RICK still looks in the direction of the airport. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “It was a combination of all three.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “I was misinformed.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Ah!”[/list]

| Now we enter again to meet and notice the rest of the Cafe . . . |

[list][list][sup]A Massive Civilian RP in Wartime — Now is the

perfect scene to introduce your own character,

or continue to RP the ones already established,

everything beyond this point is Improv. The Characters

beyond reach are the ones I RP, which shall be Rick.

This should be fun ^>^[/sup][/list][/list]

Nonador, Paseo, Philanialle, Pontianus, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Great Britain Gb, Vancouver Straits, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance

Paramountica wrote:[list][list]DECEMBER 1941

[sub]Rick’s Cafe Americain III[/sub][/list]

[pre] C A S A B L A N C A [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]With the coming of the Second World War, many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully, or desperately, toward the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point. But not everybody could get to Lisbon directly, and so, a tortuous, roundabout refugee trail sprang up. Paris to Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, then by train, or auto, or foot, across the rim of Africa to Casablanca in French Morocco. Here, the fortunate ones, through money, or influence, or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon, and from Lisbon to the New World. But the others wait in Casablanca . . . and wait — and wait — and wait—[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN — NIGHT

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| RICK stands and looks up at the revolving beacon light from the airport, after making a woman who adores him leave the cafe. It intermittently sheds its light on RICKs face. MACRON sits at a table on the cafe terrace, watching this evening's performance. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Hello, Rick.”[/list]

| RICK walks over to him, this whole time he has sported on a white tuxedo with a black bowtie. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Hello, Louis.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “How extravagant you are, throwing away people like that. Someday they may be scarce.”[/list]

| Rick sits down at the table. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “You know, I think now I shall pay a call on Yvonne, maybe get her on the rebound, huh?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “When it comes to women, you're a true democrat.”[/list]

| As they talk, Italian Captain Tonelli and Vichy French Lieutenant Casselle walk by toward the entrance of the cafe. Casselle talks non-stop and Tonelli tries. They both stop, salute Macron, and walk into the cafe. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “If he gets a word in it'll be a major Italian victory.”[/list]

| RICK chuckles. RICK and MACRON look up when they hear the BUZZ of a plane taking off from the adjacent airfield. The plane flies directly over their heads. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “A plane to Lisbon.” (pause) “You would like to be on it?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “Why? What's in Lisbon?”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “The Pan-Am clipper to America.”[/list]

| RICK doesn't answer. His look isn't a happy one. |

[list]| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “I have often speculated on why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.”[/list]

| RICK still looks in the direction of the airport. |

[list]| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “It was a combination of all three.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Waters? What waters? We're in the desert.”

| RICK, [sub]The American[/sub] | “I was misinformed.”

| CAPT. MACRON, [sub]Pre-Fect of Police[/sub] | “Ah!”[/list]

| Now we enter again to meet and notice the rest of the Cafe . . . |

[list][list][sup]A Massive Civilian RP in Wartime — Now is the

perfect scene to introduce your own character,

or continue to RP the ones already established,

everything beyond this point is Improv. The Characters

beyond reach are the ones I RP, which shall be Rick.

This should be fun ^>^[/sup][/list][/list]

[list]December 1941

[sub]CASABLANCA[/sub][/list]

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAIN — NIGHT

[sub]CASABLANCA, VICHY FRENCH MOROCCO, Metropolitan Francais[/sub]

| A middle-aged man, perhaps in his early forties, lit a cigar as he stepped out of a little dingy taxi and into the cover of the cafe. He tucked his left hand into his coat pocket as he smoked with the other, watching the taxi drive away for a moment as the lights of CASABLANCA flickered in his spectacles. The man sighed as he strained to carry his briefcase into the cafe. Taking a seat at one of the more obscure tables, the man waved down a waiter as he took his coat off and removed from its left pocket a small notebook and an envelope. He made sure to keep those two belongings safe, for his life depended on it. |

[list]| [sub]GERMAN ARRIVAL, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Good evening, if I could have a glass of champagne that would be great."[/list]

[list]| [sub]WAITER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Of course, sir. A few minutes, if you please. And may I have your name?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]GERMAN ARRIVAL, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Martin."[/list]

| The waiter nodded and silently made his way to the bartender at the other end of the room, leaving MARTIN to his thoughts. His eyes darted about nervously. He shook occasionally, and took deep breaths to keep himself calm. He was almost there, he thought. Just a little more, a little more patience, and his wait would be over. The cafe door burst open, and Martin's eyes turned to the new arrival. He wore a fedora and a grey suit, above which he wore a thick winter coat. An odd get up for Casablanca, even if it was winter time. Martin and the man locked eyes, and he approached his table and curtly spoke; |

[list]| [sub]GREY-SUITED MAN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Doctor Adler?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Uh- Th- That would be me, yes."[/list]

| The man nodded silently and, after giving the cafe a brief search with his sharp eyes, would take a seat in front of the doctor. From his coat pocket he took out several papers and a blue rectangular pad, a passport. He glanced around once more before taking out a pen and writing down a note with which he used to communicate with the doctor, writing: Where do the eagles fly? |

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Uh- To the north?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]GREY-SUITED MAN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "You sound unsure."[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "To the north. To the north, yes. Sorry, I'm just-"[/list]

[list]| [sub]GREY-SUITED MAN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Nervous. I understand, many clients are like that. My name is Andre Herstellen, I'm your courier. Your brother sent me."[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Hermann-? Isn't he hiding-"[/list]

| The grey-suited man chuckled heartily. A woman nearby in one of the other tables smiled at the seemingly serious and joyless man displaying a hint of happiness and humanity. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRE HERSTELLEN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Hiding? [sub](chuckles)[/sub] Heavens, no. Your brother's uh . . . on a business trip. [sub](Cautiously)[/sub]"[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Where . . ?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRE HERSTELLEN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Paris."[/list]

| Martin gulped nervously. Learning that his brother was in the center of Occupied France wasn't that much of a calmer on the nerves. Thankfully, the waiter arrived, nodded to ANDRE, and delivered Martin's drink. |

[list]| [sub]ANDRE HERSTELLEN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Now that you have your drink, we must talk. There is a man here, his name is Rick, he will provide to you the remaining things you need to leave for Lisbon. There you will fly to America."[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "My papers?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRE HERSTELLEN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Yes. Identification, documents, anything you might need. Your real name will not be used. According to my boss, you'll be flying under the name of Elias Hoss, a psychiatrist returning home to New York on a business trip."[/list]

[list]| [sub]DR. MARTIN ADLER, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "And, uh, where is this Rick-?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]ANDRE HERSTELLEN, Cafe Americain[/sub] | "Through that stairwell, to the casino room. You will show this red card to the guard, he will let you in. Ask for Rick, he will explain the rest."[/list]

Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Philanialle, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Puerto Somoza

[list][list]FEBRUARY 1942

[sub]Dark Times of War[/sub][/list]

[pre] C H U R C H I L L I A N E L O Q U E N C E [/pre]

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

King George VI —

From Canada to the Indian Raj,

from Australia to Nigeria, from

the Caribbean to East Africa —

H.R.H. reigns united an Empire,

Commonwealth, & Allied War Effort.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

HOUSE OF COMMONS, THE PARLIAMENT — MORNING

[sub]LONDON, ENGLAND, Great Britain Gb[/sub]

[sub]SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNRNFhk0Hk[/sub]

| For three days, the PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL and the Labour Party argued fiercely. So Parliament gave Churchill a vote of confidence he asked for — 464-to-1. Only a single vote was cast by JAMES MAXTON, one of three ultra-left Independent Laborites in Parliament — More importantly, 67 members of the House did not vote. In the majority of Parliament the vote was not sincere; it just seemed necessary. After that, the Opposition continued to criticize Churchill. The vote seemed necessary, because no matter what they say against the PRIME MINISTER or the men around him, few men and women can imagine any other leader than Churchill leading Great Britain during the war. Furthermore, among these few Brits are hard-shell Conservatives, they are totally against the alliance between Great Britain and Socialist Russia and want to restore post-war Great Britain as a Conservative paradise. The majority of Parliament was determined not to give them any encouragement. But, with or without a vote, Parliament accepted Churchillian eloquence. |

[list]| WINSTON CHURCHILL, [sub]The Prime Minister[/sub] | “Nobody here needs to be resentful . . . there are . . . people who talk and behave as if they are preparing for this war with great armaments . . . Great Britain has been fighting this war for two and a half years and we can barely keep our heads up. [Russia] Despite British needs, Stalin got exactly what he asked for. [North Africa] I can’t tell you what’s waiting for us . . . we have an arrogant and skillful opponent . . . whether you call it victory or not, it must be considered . . . a highly profitable transaction. [Second Front] Imagine what would have happened if we had given in to this [to open a second front]! Every ton of British ship, every flotilla, every plane, the force of the Royal Army would have been committed and fighting for their lives, these Far East and Middle Eastern problems might have paled in comparison to the fact that there might have been a scenario with the issue of another much worse Dunkirk.”[/list]

| The PRIME MINISTER declared that the British Royal Navy sunken ships PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE were ordered to go to Singapore in hopes of changing Japan’s mind about the war. No aircraft carriers were sent along with them, as all but one British aircraft carrier were being repaired. |

[list]| WINSTON CHURCHILL, [sub]The Prime Minister[/sub] | “While the Royal Army faces the Germans and Italians from Europe to the Nile Valley, we have never had the power to provide defense to the Far East . . . 60,000 brave men were indeed stationed in Singapore, but priority was under the Nile Valley. For this decision taken, in its broad strategic aspects and also in its diplomatic policy towards the Russians, I will assume full responsibility. [Personnel] Why, therefore, should I be called upon to choose scapegoats and blame generals and sacrifice my loyal and trusted colleagues and friends? scandals, inefficiency or misbehavior . . . will not be investigated. [Production] Arms production in Great Britain is huge . . . and it’s increasing remarkably . . . We’re producing twice as many weapons as we did at the height of the Great War period. [United States] When I spent time at President Roosevelt’s home, I established relationships with him not only of companionship but also of friendship. We can say anything to each other, no matter how bad.”[/list]

| The PRIME MINISTER said he would appoint the American DONALD NELSON to the post of Minister of Production to represent the Dominions in the high councils of war. After the PRIME MINISTER finished speaking, the opposition realized that Churchill had not given an answer that would prove that Great Britain’s war councils, both productive and military, are outdated and bureaucratic, whose output can be over 40%. Although Churchill was certain that Britain was not capable enough to protect Malaya, he did not explain the fact that the British high command incorrectly believed that Malaya could repel a possible attack. His apologies for his military past were little guarantee for the future. |

| Among those who debated with the PRIME MINISTER, one was the Conservative Sir JOHN WARDLAW-MILNE, who said: |

[list]| SIR JOHN WARDLAW-MILNE, [sub]Conservative M.P.[/sub] | “In the desire and determination to win this war, this Government is for me like a great shining light, so I will support it. But when it comes to other matters, I’m afraid it’s not like a bright light and in their determination not to change any system we’ve worked on for years.”[/list]

Nonador, Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Philanialle, Otsla, Pontianus, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, East Germany Ddr, Vancouver Straits, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Russian Kongo

[list][list][list][pre]GRANDE ESTADO NOVO

A UNIÃO-ESTADO PLURICONTINENTAL DAS NAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS

GLÓRIA A DEUS, GLÓRIA A SALAZAR, GLÓRIA A VARGAS[/pre][/list]

______

GSI BEGINS OPERATIONS IN CATALONIA TO ESTABLISH NETWORKS AND COORDINATION WITH CARLISTS in Victoria Harbor

[sub]1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, JUNE 1942 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| The instability in Spain has always caught the attention of Grand Marshal Antonio Carmona and President Antonio Salazar. Seeing Spain as a prime location for adversarial ideologies, especially ones hostile to the Estado Novo and Roman Catholic corporatism, to blossom and destabilize the entirety of the Iberian Peninsula and potentially bleed into the greater Mediterranean region. Upon extensive conversations with Director of the GSI Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, it was agreed upon to send covert operatives into the recently declared independent Catalonia with the intentions of establishing networks and coordination with Carlist factions. In the view of King Manuel II, it would be most beneficial for the Estado Novo that Carlists resume full control of Spain in an effort to solidify a stabilized Iberian Peninsula but an even more stable Ibero-Americas strategic partnership. The GSI would be reinforced by members of the Diretoria de Inteligência Estratégica e Operações Especiais (DIEOE) and the Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado (PIDE). Classified as highly sensitive operations for the stabilizing and continuation of the Iberian Peninsula, the Grand Marshal appointed Deputy Grand Marshal Francisco Craveiro Lopes to oversee these operations in addition to formulating a new syndicate to manage resource allocation, manpower, and strategic guidelines for operations.[/sub]

[sub]The agents would seek to enter Catalonia via ship into Barcelona to begin formulating operation cells and intelligence fusion centers that looks to write HUMINT and SIGINT reports from within Catalonia to send back to Lisbon while also keeping an eye on other operating factions that could be for the Carlist cause, against the Carlists, or relatively neutral. Back in the Estado Novo, the National Council on Mass Media, Entertainment, and Public Welfare would begin printing newsletters promoting the Carlists cause in addition to fabricating events of Carlists discrimination and anti-Estado Novo sentiments in Spain. Seeking to garner extensive political support from the public, the Grand Marshal would begin planning with the Commandant of the Legião Portuguesa (Portuguese Legion) to begin preparations to potentially embark upon covert operations in Spain via Casablanca to support Carlists.[/sub]

[sub]The Legião Portuguesa will support the intelligence agency operations by providing additional equipment and weaponry should the need to conduct espionage and sabotage occur.[/sub]

[list]______[/list]

[list][list][pre]UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS!

GLORY TO GOD!

THE BASTION OF CATHOLICISM![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]EMBRACE GOD AND

THE ESTADO NOVO[/sub]]

Adriatican Islands

Alaroth

Alzarikstan

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayern Kahla

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Federated Arab Emirates

Finlandee

Free Kievan Rus

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

New Provenance

Nileia

Nonador

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Osivoiii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Paseo

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Sudesam

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

Zabrowka[/spoiler]

Nonador, Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Otsla, Pontianus, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, Great Britain Gb, Vancouver Straits, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, La Granadinas

[list]JULY 1942

[sub] CUBAN WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST GOVERNMENT & COMPANIES[/sub][/list]

[pre]R E P U B L I C A D E C U B A [/pre]

CONGRESO DE LA REPUBLICA

[sub]HAVANA, Bescania — MIDDAY[/sub]

| Cuba is one of the most underdeveloped countries in Central America, particularly exacerbated during the previous Great Depression and current global war. Hundreds of thousands of people are unemployed with hundreds of thousands more living in shanty towns, one million have emigrated and infant mortality at an all time recorded high. Strikes have been met by brutal force under the regime of Generalissimo Batista but lack of experience has proven no deterrent to the Cuban working class. Over 400 companies have registered disputes. One of the most significant of the strikes was within CAC, the semi-state raw sugar company which accounts for a large percentage of global exports. It showed whose side the supposedly 'distributist' government is on. CAC workers had a history of militancy. In 1941 three workers had been murdered by the Cuban paramilitary police force during a strike. On May 22nd, 1942 an assembly of CAC workers demanded the purging of all distributist and Batista sympathisers in the company and the election of union representatives to the administration council, which was in effect a council for the bosses. When it was discovered that some of the representatives had raised their salaries the union came under a lot of criticism. In June an assembly of maintenance workers reduced their 44-hour week to 40 hours by refusing to work the extra four hours |

| Another assembly, held without union officials, drew up a list of demands including the purging of staff who showed "anti-working class attitudes", wage increases and the right to reconsider collective contracts whenever the workers pleased. The demands have not been accepted by the government, so in response the workers have declared a general strike, elected a strike committee and posted pickets. All international sugar exports from Cuba have been halted. The new Minister for Labour, a Batista loyalist and prominent Distributist, has called on the workers to resume work while Partido de Acción Unitaria (Batista’s ruling party) rank and filers opposed the strike within CAC. The CAC workers have stood fast and eventually the government was forced to send the military to occupy several dozen sugar plants in order to arrest the strike committee. Two hundred workers were initially sacked but were reinstated after mass demonstrations and threats of further strikes. The 40-hour week is to be gradually introduced in the aftermath of the strikes. |

[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔

[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]

Adriatican Islands

Afghanistaan

Alaroth

Amsterwald

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Connomia

Finlandee

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kotakuan Ii

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

North Omaha

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

[/spoiler]

Nonador, Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Otsla, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Russian Kongo

Bescania wrote:[list]JULY 1942

[sub] CUBAN WORKERS STRIKE AGAINST GOVERNMENT & COMPANIES[/sub][/list]

[pre]R E P U B L I C A D E C U B A [/pre]

Amsterwald

[sub]sorry forgot to tag you in this for your region RP calander thing[/sub]

Amsterwald, Ranponian

Bescania wrote:Amsterwald

[sub]sorry forgot to tag you in this for your region RP calander thing[/sub]

Should already be there—I keep a close eye on the RMB for new additions, so no worries!

Bescania, Ranponian

[list]1st July 1942

[sub]A Young Illinois State Senator From Chicago Has Big Plans[/sub][/list]

[pre]A N E W A G E F O R I L L I N O I S[/pre]

ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, STATE CAPITOL

[sub]SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, Paramountica — MORNING[/sub]

| The first legislative session was held within the Illinois state Capitol in 1877, with the growth of the state increasing the need for more file storage and office space than the Old State Capitol allowed. Today, it is still the center of the Illinois government. The building is topped with a 405-foot dome and is a convention of Renaissance Revival and Second Empire Style architecture, highlighting the true beauty of the land of Lincoln. A young Illinois State Senator, from Chicago, made his way into the Illinois State Capitol and across the winding marble floor corridors to make his eventual way into the Illinois Senate. He stood at 6’3”, clean shaven, dark brunette hair and deep piercing blue eyes that could look through your very soul . . . but that wasn’t what made the young senator such an attractive character. There is no trait more attractive to the Illinois electorate than calm empathy, and this young man had all that and more in abundance. His strength, however, was also his downfall . . . with what he held in natural charisma he lacked crucial political experience to truly unleash the potential he held which was as clear as day. At the end of the day, he is a 32 year old working-class Chicagoan with the world at his feet - but he has to conquer Illinois first. The young senator entered the chamber, much to the smiles of his Democrat colleagues who had already taken their seats. He took his seat next to EDWARD J. BARRETT (D), the former Illinois Treasurer and Auditor of Public Accounts. |

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |” Mornin’ James, wanna grab a sammich later? I need to conversate with you in private . . . or at least somewhere less conspicuous” [/list]

[list] | [sub]JAMES SANDERSON, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] | " Yeah of course Ed’, we’ll find a place . . . perhaps the Smith’s Diner in downtown Springfield? We haven’t had a good catchup in a while, and I could do with some pop . . .”

[/list]

| Edward J. Barrett was somewhat of a father figure to James Sanderson, the youngest senator in the Illinois Senate. He needed that sort of guidance, an experienced helping hand in the terrifying world of politics. Power is a lot like real estate. It’s all about location, location, location. The closer you are to the source, the higher your property value. For Sanderson, Barrett was not only a father figure but the key to reaching the top of the Illinois government. His closeness to a respected Illinois politician skyrockets his own value. Who knows what's after Illinois for Sanderson? Congress? The Senate? The Presidency? |

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |”Sounds great, you must say hi to your ma’ from me” [/list]

[list] | [sub]JAMES SANDERSON, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] | "I will do Ed, I wil— ”

[/list]

| Sanderson was interrupted by the President of the Senate, Arnold P. Benson, a Republican from Batavia. |

[list] | [sub]ARNOLD BENSON, Illinois Senate President (R )[/sub] | "The regular session of the 50th General Assembly will please come to order. Will the members please be at their desks? In place of invocation, the Senate will observe a moment of silence in respect for the lives lost during this Second Great War. Please feel free to reflect or pray silently during this time”

[/list]

| Members of the Illinois Senate would observe a moment of silence, remembering the lives lost at Pearl Harbour at the hands of the Japanese. |

[list] | [sub]ARNOLD BENSON, Illinois Senate President (R)[/sub] | "Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Senator Barrett, please lead us in the pledge . . .”

[/list]

SMITHS DINER, DOWNTOWN

[sub]SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, Paramountica — AFTERNOON[/sub][/list]

| Following the conclusion of the Illinois State Senate session, Bennett and Sanderson made their way downtown to the Smith’s Diner. What exactly was Barrett planning to disclose? Not wanting to speak on private matters in the senate was understandable, but this felt more . . . serious. James and Ed took their seats in the diner, the young senator called the waiter over to order a soda. |

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |”Nice place, you been here before?” [/list]

[list] | [sub]JAMES SANDERSON, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] | "Yeah I come here occasionally, now . . . what is it you wanted to talk to me about?”

[/list]

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |”Can we at least eat firs — ” [/list]

[list] | [sub]JAMES SANDERSON, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] | "Nah Ed, I wanna know now”

[/list]

| Barrett let out a defeated sigh and leant back in the diner seat, with his hands firmly presiding on the back of his head. |

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |”Ahh, fine. Might as well let it out, I wanted you to be the first to know that I’m not standing in my seat for the local elections - this political business. . . I’m just too old for this kid. I’m retiring. But before I do, I want to endorse you for the Federal Senate elections in November. You’ve got some potential kid. You’re young, and you have a hell of a growing fan base” [/list]

| Sanderson was taken aback by such news, he had lost his prized real estate within the Illinois State Senate but gained a powerful endorsement for an even greater prize at the same time .. . the House of Representatives.. |

[list] | [sub]JAMES SANDERSON, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] | "I . . I don’t know what to say Ed, are you sure about retiring? I’m honoured and all for the endorsement, a little surprised to be honest. I’ve never considered the November elections, I mean I’d need to hand myself to the democratic primaries . . . you think I could win?”

[/list]

[list]| [sub]EDWARD J. BARRETT, Illinois State Senator (D)[/sub] |”I wouldn’t endorse you if I thought I was betting on a losing horse, James. You’ll do just fine.” [/list]

TO BE CONTINUED

[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔

[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]

Adriatican Islands

Afghanistaan

Alaroth

Amsterwald

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Connomia

Finlandee

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kotakuan Ii

Metropolitan Francais

Nevbrejnovitz

New Provenance

Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

North Omaha

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

[/spoiler]

Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Amsterwald, Otsla, Kotakuan Ii, Great Britain Gb, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Provenantica

[list]JULY 1942

[sub]ALBACETE , CASTILLA-LA MANCHA — SPANISH REPUBLIC [/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]|EL MUNDO EN GUERRA: TRATADO DE ALBACETE FIRMADO[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]|EL MÓN EN GUERRA: TRACTAT D'ALBACETE SIGNAT[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]|THE WORLD AT WAR: TREATY OF ALBACETE SIGNED[/pre][/list][/list]

Catalonia’s declaration of sovereignty and its exit from the Spanish Republic came at a trying time for a country reeling from the civil war and on edge due to war in Europe. Such an act infuriated the President of the Republic, who had attempted to draw the undivided attention of the government to potentially supporting the allied war effort. Despite the fury of the president, in reality he was in little position to object to the sovereignty declaration of the region. Spain was in no position to commit troops to a region well endowed with military experience, and he lacked the public support for another conflict in Iberia. Attempts to negotiate outside of the discussion of sovereignty and in relation to support a war effort would fall on death ears as the President of the Government of Catalonia refused any such meeting without recognition of the region's uncontested sovereignty. Weeks of stalled negotiations would eventually come to an end as the frail Spanish Republic and its nerve-shocked president would finally come to terms with the reality of the situation. An agreement between Madrid and Barcelona would be reached, but on conditions that would satisfy Madrid. Conditions however did not matter, as Companys and his new republic, after centuries of occupation, would be free from Madrid.

The agreement reached between the two was fairly simple. The Government of Spain would recognise the legitimacy of Catalonia’s declaration, and forever drop claims to the region. Catalonia would further agree to provide no verbal, material or covert support for “rogue sovereigntist” movements in Spain, and would enshrine in its constitution the protection of minority language rights, principally those of Castilian speaking citizens. In terms of the ongoing conflict in Europe, Catalonia along with Spain will place troops of its nascent armed forces at the Pyrenees and agreed to common defence throughout the duration of the war. A separate agreement on non-aggression would also be signed, however the agreement recognising Catalonia’s sovereignty would be of satisfaction to the Spanish government. Even with so-called conditions, the agreement would satisfy the newborn Catalan authorities, who had successfully managed to gain its independence. With said agreement signed, a new state enters the world confident in its ability to play an important role in international affairs, and ready to join the cause in defeating global fascism.

[spoiler=𝘾𝙊𝙈𝙈𝙊𝙉𝙒𝙀𝘼𝙇𝙏𝙃 𝙊𝙁 𝙇𝙄𝘽𝙀𝙍𝙏𝙔

[sub]Detailed, Creative, Storytelling[/sub]]

Adriatican Islands

Alaroth

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayern Kahla

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Connomia

Finlandee

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Metropolitan Francais

New Provenance

Nileia

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

[/spoiler]

Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Otsla, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Russian Kongo

[list]SHOWA 16 | DECEMBER 1941[/list]

[list][list]日本の攻撃!!!

[pre]NIHON ATTACK!!![/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] A R T I S T I C Q U E S T I O N [/pre]

FOREIGN MINISTRY (外務省) — AFTERNOON

[sub]TOKYO, Philanialle[/sub]

| Before the Tokyo government announced that it wanted to negotiate with Washington, the Japanese stance was quite firm. |

[list]| HIDEKI TOJO, [sub]Premier[/sub] | “Both the British and the Americans want to be in the troubled waters of East Asia . . . For the honor and pride of humanity, we must eliminate this habit from East Asia out of revenge . . .”[/list]

[list][list]「イギリス人もアメリカ人も、東アジアの問題のある海域にいたいと思っています。 人類の名誉と誇りのために、私たちは復讐から東アジアからこの習慣を排除しなければなりません。」[/list][/list]

[list]| SHIGENORI TOGO, [sub]Foreign Minister[/sub] | “Washington is doing everything possible to forcefully impose principles and rules on East Asian nations that are not adapted to a real situation.”[/list]

[list][list]「ワシントンは、現実の状況に適応していない東アジア諸国に原則と規則を強制的に課すために可能な限りのことをしている。」[/list][/list]

| A formation of five Japanese planes flew from northern Indochina to Kun Ming on the Burma road, these planes dropped bombs on supply depots and convoys of armed trucks. Japanese troops continued to march into Indochina. Imperial Japanese Forces had 100,000 troops ready to attack the Burma road that could come from any direction: northwest through Yünnan province, west through Thailand and Burma. Leading an attack on Thailand would also be difficult for the Japanese, due to the swampy and mountainous terrain. The Japanese troops would meet the Thai Army and then the British and Indian troops. But such an attack, if successful, would give Japan control of Thailand’s rice and tin resources and cut off allied aid to China. Perhaps Tokyo’s desire to talk to the US was simply a way to prepare in Indochina. |

Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Russian Kongo, Maziya

[list]SHOWA 17 | APRIL 1942[/list]

[list][list]

[pre]THE CHERRY BLOSSOMS[/pre][/list][/list]

[pre] M O M E N T O F H O P E [/pre]

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

何千年もの幸せな統治があなたのものになります。

私の主よ、今の小石が何であるかまで、支配してください、

強大な岩に団結した年齢によって成長するでしょう、

その由緒ある側面は苔のドスラインです。

Thousands of years of happy reign be thine;

Rule on, my lord, till what are pebbles now,

By age united to mighty rocks shall grow,

Whose venerable sides the moss doth line.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

ASAKUSA, UYENO & SHIBA — MORNING

[sub]TOKYO, Philanialle[/sub]

| The whole world already knew what the Imperial Army and Navy were doing everywhere, but little did they know what life was like for an ordinary citizen in the Japanese homeland: a gentle breeze was hovering over Tokyo. It was a time of year when people looked at the pink and white cherry blossoms in the parks. On weekends, thousands of working Japanese families crowded the alleys of the working-class neighborhoods of Asakusa and Honjo, where residents nervously hung dark gray curtains in their humble homes. It could be on foot, by bus or by train, they would go to the parks — to Asakusa, with its great red temple of Kwannon; to Uyeno, with its museums and galleries; or to Shiba, with its tree-covered shogun tombs. For the people who walked looking at the flowers, the days seemed to have more hope. For years, the ever-obedient and jaded Japanese patiently wondered why, despite the arrogance of Japanese generals, the Empire had not triumphed in the war; why did the youth of Japan keep going to China, if their remains ended up coming back to Japan in boxes. But now this was almost unbelievably different. His Majesty’s subjects could now look almost defiantly into the skies where foreign bombers were expected. Glorious were the victories of the Empire. Instead of being attacked from the air, Japan was driving out Westerners so that a New Asia could be built. |

[list]| HIDEO HIRAIDE, [sub]Navy Spokesman[/sub] | “Ever since we conquered Java, our Empire seemed to be on the defensive while the Allied powers were on the offensive.”[/list]

[list][list]「私たちがジャワを征服して以来、連合国の勢力が攻撃的である間、私たちの帝国は防御的であるように見えました。」[/list][/list]

| He warned that Japan could likely be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for its newly conquered raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem. But the Japanese people may, in part, dismiss his words as the wholly admirable caution of the brilliant Japanese naval command. The power of the Empire was manifest. The war could go on for a long time, as Premier Tojo had already warned, but the tide of defeat had turned and now it was a thunderous wave of victory heading south. The Emperor will even deign to show himself, mounted on a white horse, to hear his subjects shout 玉砕! 玉砕! 玉砕! (BANZAI! BANZAI! BANZAI!) repeatedly. In the parks, people cried as the brass bands played Kimigayo. |

Paramountica, Arcanda, Paseo, Victoria Harbor, Otsla, Pontianus, Ranponian, Nileia, Puerto Somoza, New Provenance, Maziya, Ubertica

[list][list][list][pre]GRANDE ESTADO NOVO

A UNIÃO-ESTADO PLURICONTINENTAL DAS NAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS

GLÓRIA A DEUS, GLÓRIA A SALAZAR, GLÓRIA A VARGAS[/pre][/list]

______

ESTADO NOVO COVERTLY PIVOTS ALLEGIANCES REGARDING YUGOSLAVIA (Amsterwald)

[sub]1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 1942 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| Continual negligence demonstrated by Prince Paul of Yugoslavia prompted great disappointment between both King Manuel II and Grand Marshal Oscar Carmona. Seeing Prince Paul as a potential ally, this imagery of the Yugoslav monarchy would be soured by continual reporting from the GSI poured into Lisbon from their posts in Yugoslavia. However, there was a sudden pitch made by a field agent in Yugoslavia for the Estado Novo to potentially save face and begin to side with the Slovenes and Croats, more particularly, the Catholics. Upon being informed of the current dynamics of Yugoslavia, King Manuel II and Grand Marshal Carmona came to an agreement to formulate a multi-faceted operation toward Yugoslavia to prompt the development of a broad Catholic-based coalition that would include shifting the Estado Novo's support away from Prince Paul and toward Boris Furlan and the Committee for an Independent Slovenia. The end objective is to removal of Prince Paul and the establishment of a Slovenian Republic and an empowered base of Catholic Croats.[/sub]

[sub]Simultaneously, Grand Marshal Carmona has prompted the GSI to begin providing the Committee for an Independent Slovenia, Borin Furlan, Catholic Croats, and Slovenes vanilla folders of intelligence regarding the current Yugoslav regime and Prince Paul operative locations in addition to gathered intelligence on the Communists covertly to demonstrate the Estado Novo's genuineness to seeking a reversal in current depictions of the EN among particular afflicted groups in Yugoslavia. This new direction has prompted President Antonio Salazar to begin the establishment of Slovene Republic support groups and rally events across Portugal proper while approving the writing of Slovene and Croat grievances within Empire wide newsletters and fireside chats by prominent National Union Bloc leadership. To take the seriousness of the Estado Novo's pivot to the next level, King Manuel II officially invited Boris Furlan to Lisbon not only to garner public legitimacy to Furlan's grievances but also for the King to issue Furlan a genuine apology (in private) for the Estado Novo's support of Prince Paul without full understanding of the Yugoslav situation. It would be with this willingness that the Estado Novo would halt any production of weaponry intended to go toward Yugoslav and redirect the produced weapons back to Estado Novo's military development while also allowing for some small arms to begin being smuggled to the Croats.[/sub]

[sub]Collectively, the goal is the formation of a broad Catholic-based coalition that is supportive of the Estado Novo and Catholic League while seeking the removal of Prince Paul and the establishment of a Slovene Republic.[/sub]

[list]______[/list]

[list][list][pre]UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS!

GLORY TO GOD!

THE BASTION OF CATHOLICISM![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]EMBRACE GOD AND

THE ESTADO NOVO[/sub]]

Adriatican Islands

Alaroth

Alzarikstan

Annyeong Korea

Arcanda

Astarina

Bayern Kahla

Bayside

Canovia

Cascadla

Federated Arab Emirates

Finlandee

Free Kievan Rus

Great Britain Gb

Jersey Republic

Kewtpuff

Kotakuan Ii

Maziya

Metropolitan Francais

New Provenance

Nileia

Nonador

Nosautempopulus

Osivoii

Osivoiii

Paramountica

Irelaand

Islahh

Paseo

Philanialle

Pontianus

Ranponian

Rutannia

Somerania

Sudesam

Teymour

The Confederate Prussian Empire

Tallahan

Vancouver Straits

Peking Zhongguo

Victoria Harbor

Zabrowka[/spoiler]

Nonador, Paramountica, Paseo, Amsterwald, Philanialle, Otsla, Pontianus, Kotakuan Ii, Ranponian, Nileia, Puerto Somoza, Russian Kongo

[list]July 1942

[sub]Sacramento's Golden Governor[/sub][/list]

[pre]T H E G O L D E N G O V E R N O R[/pre]

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC LUNCHEON, CALIFORNIA STATE CAPITOL

[sub]SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, Paramountica — NOON[/sub]

| The state of CALIFORNIA. Known alternatively as the GOLDEN STATE, California stood on the westernmost coasts and hills and valleys and mountains of the United States's mainland territories. The gold rush in the 1800s had spurred the Californian economy and its rapid population growth. Industrialization turned it into a buzzing hive of economic and sociopolitical activity. The state switched consistently between Democrats and Republicans, leaning sometimes to one and sometimes to the other, it truly depended on the circumstances. The outbreak of the Second Great War placed the State in an intriguing position. It was now going to be transformed into the centre for United States military activity in the Pacific, through the behemoth port cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, where the Navy already had a significant presence. Rapid industrialization caused by the start of the War and later the involvement of the United States into the same lead to rapid economic growth and financial recovery from the Depression. Attributed to this was GOVERNOR CULBERT L. OLSON's push for the implementation of New Deal policies on all levels of California society. Despite receiving opposition from the conservative Democrats and the capitalist Republicans in the State Legislature, Olson was able to garner enough support to push the Roosevelt government's policies through in the early portions of his term. Now, he sat with those very same Democrats, the very same who opposed him in '39 and '40, and the very same who continued to oppose him at most junctions. |

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | ". . . And then the marooned man says, 'You're not telling me you've got a set of golf clubs in there?'" [/list]

| Hatfield's — the State's Lieutenant Governor — table burst into laughter. Seated around it were California's top Democrats, including HIS EXCELLENCY, GOV. CULBERT L. OLSON, the Despised Democrat, as some liked to call him — albeit privately. |

[list]| [sub]CULBERT L. OLSON, The Governor (D)[/sub] | "Please, gentlemen, let's finish our meals first before we get to the tomfoolery."[/list]

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | [sub](Taking a swig)[/sub] ". . . Come on, governor, let's have a little fun. No wonder your support in the State Legislature is in the tanks." [/list]

| Another round of laughter from the people 'round the table. Olson chuckled as well. |

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | "Surely we have the time to relax a bit, right, governor? We've been spending way too much time debating the feasibility of the New Deal here in the Golden State. [sub](Chuckles)[/sub]" [/list]

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "Well, we didn't need to do much debating on that, because it worked right off the bat, didn't it?" [/list]

| Hatfield and the gentleman seated directly next to him, W.P. RICH, the President Pro Tempore, turned to Jones. JONES was one of the leading members of the progressive wing of California Democrats, alongside Gov. Olson. Opposed to them, HATFIELD led the conservative wing of California Democrats, and as a result he had lead a group of California State Legislators to oppose the implementation of select NEW DEAL legislation in California, W.P. Rich included. |

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | "That's debatable, that's for sure. But we've done this already, and we've got better things to do. Like talking about November." [/list]

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "What's there to talk about? It's still six months off, and we have separate discussions for it, right?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | "Everything. Governor Olson here has re-election to think about, and he just might lose." [/list]

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "And why is that?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]CULBERT L. OLSON, The Governor (D)[/sub] | "Because I'm not anti-progress like they are."[/list]

| Jones laughed, as Hatfield crossed his arms in disbelief. The two leaders of the two chambers of the California State Legislature never got along well, perhaps due to their political misalignment, or to their personal differences. |

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "Surely not. California is a progressive state, at least more progressive than most." [/list]

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | "There's a reason men like me win, Moseley. And the Republican candidate could easily be powerful, someone like Warren. So you- [sub](Pointing to Olson)[/sub] -need to prepare, as soon as possible." [/list]

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "Warren? The Attorney-General?" [/list]

[list]| [sub]CULBERT L. OLSON, The Governor (D)[/sub] | "Yes. Warren's more influential than you think, Will. And he's considering a run for governor, so we'd better watch out. Different in belief, united under democracy, correct?"[/list]

[list]| [sub]WILLIAM MOSELEY JONES, Speaker of the Assembly (D)[/sub] | "Yes sir." [/list]

[list]| [sub]GEORGE J. HATFIELD, Lieutenant-Governor (D)[/sub] | "Damn right. Better you than a Republican." [/list]

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Alzarikstan wrote:ESTADO NOVO COVERTLY PIVOTS ALLEGIANCES REGARDING YUGOSLAVIA (Amsterwald)

[sub]1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 1942 [/sub]

FURLAN VISITS LISBON IN TRIUMPH FOR SLOVENE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT

[list][sup]THE TIDE TURNS ON THE REGENT PRINCE

LISBON—SUMMER 1942[/sup][/list]

The authority of Prince Paul’s throne crumbled further as Boris Furlan made a triumphant appearance in Lisbon with Miha Krek, Leonid Pitamic, and other independence activists on behalf of the Committee for an Independent Slovenia in July 1942. Invited by the king himself, the Slovenes were humbled to meet a head of such a leading state; they put their grievances with monarchism far aside as they were welcomed into the gleaming port city and capital of the Estado Novo. Though the Portuguese intelligence community had provided significant support to Yugoslav intelligence and armed services, helping them to eliminate key partisans and wound Tito himself, Yugoslavia—near-bursting with ethnic tension—was not in any condition to be held down by a 40% plurality of mostly-royalist Serbs. Even the Estado Novo’s help was not enough to stave off separatist thought, and the partisans were only strengthened in their resolve when deaths spread among them. Frustrated with the Prince’s failure to keep the peace in his country, the Estado Novo had thus withdrawn their help and shifted it to the predominantly Catholic Slovenes and Croats. Furlan, the leading international figure in anti-Yugoslav separatism, was the clear choice of guests to demonstrate the Estado Novo’s shifted allegiances.

[list][sub]“We are truly grateful that the international community shares our vision of a democracy for Slovenes. Our people are no less deserving of a nation than the Lusophones of the Estado Novo, and we hope to share in their passion and patriotism.”

— Boris Furlan, Chairman of the Committee for an Independent Slovenia, July 1942[/sub][/list]

What time Furlan and his colleagues had in Lisbon was mostly dedicated to fundraising and appeals for popular support. On their third day in the city, the highlight of the trip came in that Boris and Vera Furlan personally met King Manuel II, newly crowned just three months ago. The Furlans seemed to leave the meeting with a positive personal impression of the King, and on returning to London, Boris described him as an ‘astute statesman’—Chairman Furlan made no comment, however, on how genuine the King’s feelings were about desiring freedom for the Slovenes. Though unaware that the Estado Novo was supporting the Catholics in Croatia in covertly smuggling weapons to their violent liberation movements, Furlan was still likely cognizant that this was a political move for the King. The Portuguese monarch surely hoped to put the Estado Novo on the good side of post-Yugoslav Catholic democracies, should they come to be. He did so for good reason—indeed, the ‘Christian socialism’ of Andrej Gosar seemed increasingly popular among Slovene independence activists, and the Estado Novo could leverage that into their accession to the Catholic League if Gosar or his allies were to come to power in the ‘Slovenia’ of the future. For now, though, Furlan readily accepted the endorsement of the world’s fourth-largest economy as Prince Paul receded further into hopelessness in Belgrade.

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[sub][Resistance Propaganda posted in tavern restrooms across occupied Poland, found in Krakow by a young impressionable Polish man, Hugo Bucki][/sub]

JUNE, 1942

[list]POLISH RESISTANCE NETWORK[/list]

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[list][pre]POLISH WORKERS RESIST, MANY DEAD AND MISSING[/pre][/list]

[list][pre]As Poland continues to remain subject to brutal occupation by the growing Volkist war machine, our country suffers tremendously from the loss of so many of our beloved family and friends. Taken away to work camps, or outright murdered, our people continue to face blunt and violent retaliation for any form of resistance.[/pre][/list]

[list][pre]Last May in Poznan, 300 forced manufacturing laborers went on strike to demand better working conditions in their factories. Orchestrated by two patriots, Pawel Lavoski and his wife Monika, the strike came after the death of two workers, Józef Bona and Teresa Plucińska, who fell into a pit of molten metal due to the lack of protective railings. Józef lost balance and found himself hanging for his life, Teresa had attempted to save him but ultimately both ended up falling to their fate. [/pre][/list]

[list][pre]On Monday, May 18th, after days of quiet planning the strike commenced, and immediately events heated up. After only two hours of striking, a regiment of 500+ German soldiers arrived on site and demanded an immediate dispersal stating, "There will be no repercussions if you get back to work now!" This did little to deter the brave 300 Polish men and women demanding better conditions. After only waiting 5 minutes, the regiment began advancing on the crowd with tear gas deployed. Over 150 were formally arrested, while others were brutally beaten and dragged away. Only 5 were confirmed dead on scene. A week later though, a young child playing in a field outside of the city stumbled across Volkist soldiers pushing dirt over a mass grave said to hold over 75 people. The organizers of the strike are yet to be found after, but so are another 100 plus workers who put their lives on the line to demand better conditions for Polish laborers.[/pre][/list]

[list][pre]The events in Poznan are yet another example of the blatant oppression our people face in the height of our occupation by the Germans. These are not our liberators, far from our friends, and never to be trusted. They will kill you within your own heartbeat if they sense disloyalty to their party and country. We must do more to resist them! They can try to kill us, but they cannot kill us all![/pre][/list]

[list][pre]To our fellow countrymen and women, sleep peacefully knowing that the resistance grows everyday, and soon we will bring the fight to our occupiers once and for all!

Remember comrades, in time we will win, but only when we act together can we liberate ourselves.[/pre][/list]

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[list][pre]General Wiltold Pilecki "We shall avenge Poland!"[/pre][/list]

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[list][pre]Stay Vigilant[/pre][/list]

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[list]July 1942

[sub]The Guerilla Fighting Begins[/sub][/list]

[list][list][pre]THE PHILIPPINE GUERILLA RESISTANCE TO JAPANESE OCCUPATION BEGINS WITH FERVOR AND STRENGTH

ANG PAGLABAN NG GUERILLA FORCES NG PILIPINAS SA PANANAKOP NG MGA HAPONES AY NAGSISIMULA KASAMA NG LAKAS[/pre][/list][/list]

| [sub]With the fall of the Commonwealth of the Philippines following the capture of Corregidor Island and the Bataan Peninsula, the resistance to Japanese occupation scattered into the dense jungles and the massive countrysides of the Philippine archipelago. The Japanese occupation would be opposed by active and successful underground and guerilla activities, that its supporters claim will only increase over the years. The commanders of these separated, isolated and self-dependent groups made contact with one another, clashed over who controlled which territories, and began to formulate joint plants to assist the return of American forces to the archipelago. These guerilla groups would engage in the gathering of important intelligence, collected ahead of the anticipated establishment of operations by Pacific Forces commander General MacArthur dedicated to retrieving these intelligence and using them to tweak an eventual liberation plan for the Philippines.[/sub] |

| [sub]Various guerilla forces were formed throughout the archipelago, ranging from groups of USAFFE forces who refused to surrender, a group led by Colonel Macario Peralta in the Visayas region that spanned several different islands, another led by Major Ismael Ingeniero in Bohol Island, and another in Negros led by Captain Salvador Abcede. The island of Mindanao, being the farthest from the core of the Japanese occupation (Manila), held the second largest number of guerillas, at over 9,500 and counting. These groups were scattered, separate, hungry and desperate for anything that could result in the progression of their cause, which was to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation. Despite this, however, the leaders of various groups were already in the process of communicating and potentially even preparing to consolidate under one flag, which some called the Philippine People's Army (PPA).[/sub] |

| [sub]Another resistance group was organized in Central Luzon known as the HUKBALAHAP (Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon), or the People's Anti-Japanese Army, organized shortly after the fleeing of President Quezon under the leadership of one Luis Taruc, a communist party members since 1939. It grew rapidly, bringing in peasants, workers and anti-Japanese oriented Filipinos alike, growing its numbers at a rate not seen before. While it grew to over 16,000 by late July of 1942, their activities in Luzon were severely hampered due to the heavy Japanese presence and infighting between various guerilla groups, including clashes between Hukbalahap and American-led guerilla units. [/sub] |

| [sub]Disjointly, these groups would form the guerilla resistance against the Japanese occupiers in the Philippine islands. Despite all odds, they would gather minor success after minor success, perhaps blowing up an IJA convoy here, or assassinating a local commander there, or seizing a supply truck or two. Small victories but victories nonetheless. Slowly, but surely, the guerillas believed, these small victories would eventually amount to the Philippine flag flying over the archipelago once again.[/sub] |

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[list][list][list][pre]GRANDE ESTADO NOVO

A UNIÃO-ESTADO PLURICONTINENTAL DAS NAÇÕES PORTUGUESAS

GLÓRIA A DEUS, GLÓRIA A SALAZAR, GLÓRIA A VARGAS[/pre][/list]

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ESTADO NOVO AIR FORCE COMMAND APPROVES TROGON-44 LONG RANGE TRANSPORT MARITIME RECONAISSANCE BOMBER AIRCRAFT

[sub]1ST GREATER ESTADO NOVO ADMINISTRATION | LISBON & RIO DE JANEIRO, JULY 1942 [/sub][/list]

[sub]| With recent attraction to the Trogon-42 by Egypt, Cuba, Nicaragua, and South Africa, the Estado Novo Air Force Command prompted to take innovation and ingenuity multiple steps further: Trogon-44. The Trogon-44 was intended to be a similar structure to the Trogon-42 but far larger. With the Estado Novo being located on multiple continents instead of a concentrated geographic landmass, it is vital, per the strategic defense policy, to develop the Navy and Air Force as priority branches of the military to be able to accomplish two key goals: (1) defend the territory and integrity of the Portuguese Domain and (2) to secure Portuguese maritime trade and economic interests to sustain long term economic growth and political influence.[/sub]

[sub]With the Trogon-42 is able to travel 3800 miles, an accomplishment after 6 years of R&D into propellers and engines, the Trogon-44 is intended to extend that range to 4850 miles as the aircraft will acquire 6 radial piston engines and 3-bladed propellers. The Trogon-44 would be compatible with the deployment of the Trogon-42 in addition to operating as a force projection for both the Air Force and Navy in their operations. The construction of the Trogon-44 would be very similar to the Trogon-42 thus decreasing the necessity for a long enduring R&D process; however, what would be an additional perk to the Trogon-44 would be the capacity to drop larger torpedoes, increased bombing payload, and the entry of the air-to-sea guided munition entitled the Marcão-933.[/sub]

[sub]As the Estado Novo becomes more daring in its STEM projects and imagination, the Trogon-44 was approved for the following specifications:[/sub]

[list][pre]Crew: 10

Length: 114 ft 4 in

Wingspan: 168 ft 3 in

Height: 24 ft 7 in

Powerplant: 6 × Motorav Ignacio-AVB122 14-cylinder two-row air-cooled radial piston engines

Propellers: 3-bladed constant-speed propellers

Maximum speed: 310 mph at 22,340 ft

Range: 4,850 miles (Transport Range Ops)

Combat range for Reconnaissance: 6,000 miles

Combat range for Bomber Mission: 5,300 miles w/4,800 lbs of bombs

Armament

Guns:

2 × 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon in dorsal turrets

1 × 20 mm MG 151/20 in tail

2 × 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 machine guns at waist

2 × 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131s in gondola

4 x MG 131 quadmount manned turrets, one in tail and one in nose.

Hardpoints: 4 with a capacity of 4,000 lbs each

Rockets/Missiles: 4 x Marcão-933

Torpedoes: 2 x Assunção TA-44[/pre][/list]

Assunção TA-44:

[list][pre]Mass: 1900 lbs

Length: 18 ft.

Diameter: 20 in.

Maximum Range: 2300 yds

Warhead weight:720 lbs high explosive

Engine: Wet-heater 8-cylinder radial engine

Maximum speed: 48 mph[/pre][/list]

[sub]During command meetings, it was demonstrated by syndicate representatives and military officials that the Estado Novo's military projects must incorporate multi-purpose capabilities while continual expanding on new technology and increased research and development on failed projects. With this discussion, a variant to the Trogon-44, entitled Trogon-44 SA (Santo Ajudante - Patron Saint of the Sea), has been approved forward beyond the design phase as it is explicitly designed to carry 1 x 30" Heavyweight Torpedo being designed by both the Triestado Granadinas and the Estado Novo entitled the DPE S1.1 Tronido and a long-term secret project called the DPE S1.2 Relampago 30" Heavyweight Ballistic Assisted Torpedo. The S1.2 has been determined to be a long-term project as the Estado Novo continues to make advancements in ballistic rocketry science and technology in Brazil.[/sub]

[sub]It is believed that the initial Trogon-44 will be completed in 1944-1945 and the Trogon-44 SA will be completed mid-1945-1946.[/sub]

[list]______[/list]

[list][list][pre]UNION-STATE OF PORTUGUESE NATIONS!

GLORY TO GOD!

THE BASTION OF CATHOLICISM![/pre][/list][/list]

[list][spoiler=[sub]EMBRACE GOD AND

THE ESTADO NOVO[/sub]]

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[list]DISPATCHWORK[/list]

[sub]Work In Progress[/sub]

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[pre]| JULY 1942 |[/pre]

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

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

OPERATION GREY WOLF:

YUGOSLAVIAN PARTISANS TO BEGIN RECEIVING SOVIET ASSISTANCE IN ARMS AND TRAINING AS THEY BECOME A MORE PROMINENT FRONT IN THE DESTRUCTION OF VOLKISM AND CENTRAL EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM!

ОПЕРАЦИЯ СЕРЫЙ ВОЛК:

ЮГОСЛАВСКИЕ ПАРТИЗАНЫ НАЧНУТ ПОЛУЧАТЬ СОВЕТСКУЮ ПОМОЩЬ В ВООРУЖЕНИИ И ПОДГОТОВКЕ, ПОСКОЛЬКУ ОНИ СТАНУТ БОЛЕЕ ЗАМЕЧАТЕЛЬНЫМ ФРОНТОМ В РАЗРУШЕНИИ ВОЛЬКИЗМА И ЦЕНТРАЛЬНО-ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО ИМПЕРИАЛИЗМА!

[pre]The Mountain ranges of the Balkans have become a haven for long term partisan activity with partisan forces begin successful in defending the regions from German and Italian penetrations and incursions due to Geography and loss of Axis morale in the region from Partisan activity. Reports would be delivered to Comrade Stalin on the situation of Tito and his army and where they lie in goals for their own Revolution. Comrade Stalin would begin to have personal correspondence with Comrade Tito on what he believes the Yugoslavian Partisans need in order to wage protracted warfare against the Yugoslavian Government and possibly Axis forces in-country. Operation Grey Wolf would start with the sneaking into Yugoslavia 100 battle hardened Balkan-Soviet Partisans to assist in the training of more elite Yugoslav units, alongside the shipment of numerous small arms and explosives to the Yugoslavs.[/pre]

[pre]Weapons sent to the Yugoslav Partisans[/pre]

[pre]- 3,000X Mosin-Nagant Carbines [/pre]

[pre]- 2,000X SVT-40 Rifles[/pre]

[pre]- 1,000X Nagant M1895 Revolver[/pre]

[pre]- 500X Mauser C96 Pistol[/pre]

[pre]- 500X Federov Avtomat[/pre]

[pre]- 500X PPD-34[/pre]

[pre]- 500X PPSH-41[/pre]

[pre]- 300X DP-27[/pre]

[pre]- 200X DS-39[/pre]

[pre]- 1,000X F1 Grenade[/pre]

[pre]- 500X RPG-40 Grenade[/pre]

[pre]- 200X PTRD-41 Anti-Tank Rifle[/pre]

[pre]These shipments would target Yugoslav Partisans all along the Romanian-Bulgarian-Yugoslavian border away from the sight of Axis and Government forces, these weapons would them be disseminated into Yugoslav units throughout the country as Comrade Tito saw fit as Comrade Stalin and Comrade Tito began to build a stronger relation with each other, Comrade Stalin would soon call Yugoslavia a new front in the war for Proletariat Revolution.[/pre]

[list][list][pre]WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE![/pre][/list][/list]

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[list][pre]August, 1942 |Abu Dulayq, Gezira, The British Imperial Crown Colony Of The Sudan[/pre]

KHARTOUM TO ASMARA, ESTABLISHING CONNECTIONS[/list]

In December of 1940, the Sudanese Parliament convened in a session where the delegations representing the Kassala provinces called upon Parliament to enact an emergency wartime plan for the construction of two important railway lines, vital to the eastern fronts of the country. One line would directly connect the city of Kassala to the capital and main transit and logistical hubs in Khartoum, while the other line connects to the industrial city of Atbarah in the Berber Province, further up the Nile river.

The proposal had succeeded as it was pushed by representatives from Khartoum, Gezira, Berber, and Kassala itself. The Parliament had voted unanimously, believing it was for the good of the colony and for the good of the Imperial effort to secure the region through better transportation and supplies to the allied forces in Kassala.

Almost two years later now, Khartoum announced the completion of its Atbarah to Khartoum line in the spring of this year, beginning operations of transporting supplies by rail back and forth between the interior cities and the start of the supply routes starting at Kassala and branching out throughout the Eritrean territory for the Allied troops stationed there.

With the second route nearing completion in the Gezira provincial town of Abu Dulayq, east of Khartoum, Parliament announced the establishment of a new rail line aimed at bolstering faster and stronger transportation and communications with troops stationed outside Sudan's domain in Eritrea.

The train line, which will use the Khartoum to Kassala rail line, will be extended further to connect to the Eritrean capital, Asmara, as well as connections to a number of important towns between Asmara and the Sudanese border, such as Keren, Akurdet, and Barentu in western Eritrea.

Despite criticism, the colonial government maintains its position on the construction of the Khartoum-Asmara rail line as critical to the Sudanese Defense Force's military interests as well as the Empire's geopolitical advantage in the Red Sea. Many have accused Sudanese nationalist factions that sponsored the tracks of establishing cultural, political, and economic ties with the Sudanese forces' occupied territories.

[list]AL-NASRU LENA!

AL-NASRU LE SUDAN![/list]

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THE WILL OF PRINCE PAUL: ROYAL ARMY MUSTERS TO DEFEND NOVI SAD

[list][sup]A MAN OF WASTED TALENTS

YUGOSLAVIA—SUMMER 1942[/sup][/list]

Prince Paul rued the fate of his Kingdom. Those around him could testify to that he was no cruel man or Nazi sympathizer—he was merely duty-bound, and had been forced to make difficult choices to protect his country from invasion and rebellion. He did not seek violence, nor the absolute authority he had been left by the royal dictatorship of King Alexander. In fact, if Alexander had not been shot in a Ustaše conspiracy in France, Paul likely would have been content as an obscure aristocrat, enjoying the privileges and culture of high society. But Alexander had been shot, and Prince Paul was now on the throne. He could always crown the young heir Peter, who had just turned eighteen, but, as he often asked himself, how would he be fulfilling his duties by handing a collapsing nation to an eighteen-year-old? Since the beginning of King Alexander’s royal dictatorship, the Yugoslav throne is a supremely powerful position, and a King Peter II crowned now would mean ruination for it. Paul would have to rule as a strict regent for today, fighting off the rising tide of separatism and communism in his country. For years, Slovenes, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, and Albanians had been slowly turning against him, as had communists in all groups. Now, the pace of opposition to the regent was quickening as Soviet weapons bled over the border and foreign powers—most recently the Estado Novo, a former ally of the Prince—supported separatists. The only demographic which remained in his favor was that of Serbian nationalists, but that this would be enough seems yet unlikely; these made up only a portion of Serb society, much of which had—frustrated by Nazi collaborationism—turned to partisan loyalties.

[list][sub]“Prince Pavle of Yugoslavia is a figure both unique and uniquely tragic in modern Serbian history. His was the story of a perennial outsider; a sophisticated art-lover thrust into the murky world of Balkan politics; an incorrigible Anglophile forced into unsavory deals with England's enemies; a gentleman in a world of perfidious rogues. Always at pains to square the demands of personal integrity with those of the ‘art of the possible’, he was ultimately unloved in Belgrade, mistrusted in Berlin and scorned in London.”

— Historian Srdja Trifković, 1997[/sub][/list]

Replenished with Soviet weaponry, the partisans of ‘Red Josip’ assailed the city of Novi Sad in August 1942, instigating the first true act of war among the factions of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The siege of Užice was an isolated incident—this was not. Coordinated partisan units numbering at least three thousand in total, who had mustered in Zrenjanin for months but had a forward operating base at Kać, marched through the eastern quarter of the city on the 13th of August and were only stopped when soldiers of the 7th Infantry Division—a task force sent there preemptively by the Yugoslav Royal Army’s High Command—made a stand at the Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal, preventing the partisans from crossing. Lieutenant General Milutin Nedić, former Chief of Staff of Yugoslavia’s Armed Forces and who had devised defense plans for a German invasion from the north several years prior, commanded the force and was apparently intent on using the Canal as a barrier against the approaching partisans. The Yugoslav Army had so far been slow to act and poorly mobilized in dealing with insurgent activities, but as the gravity of the political situation in the country continued to grow heavier, Prince Paul threatened punitive action against the High Command if they did not at least partially mobilize to deal with the partisans, giving them full room to deal with them as they could. They were joined by many local chetniks (“troopers”), who constituted volunteer forces primarily made up of vigilant anti-communists.

General Nedić was not intent on defending the whole of Novi Sad because, coldly, he was not comfortable doing so with the scant resources he was given. Even though they outnumbered the partisans, leaving soldiers spread out across the entire town and its suburbs would leave them far too susceptible to ambushes. Besides, a much larger Yugoslav task force was already on the road between Belgrade and Zrenjanin under the command of Lieutenant General Milorad Petrović, a highly respected war hero who was one of many commanders withdrawn from the northwestern part of the country to confront the partisan problem in Serbia. So long as Nedić could occupy the attackers against Novi Sad, perhaps Petrović could wipe out any in Zrenjanin and approach the partisan force—the Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, as it was styled—from the rear. Optimistically, Tito himself would be found and eliminated. The whole of the fighting was not so clean and straightforward, though—treachery and assassinations were widespread, and before Petrović even reached Zrenjanin, the fighting between the Royal Army, royalist militias and partisans had become a bitter struggle by tooth and nail.

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[B]¡PRESERVANDO LA HISTORIA NAVAL DE NICARAGUA!

[sub]11 April, 1907—11 April, 1942 | Puerto Corinto, Departmento de Chinandega, República Nicaragüense[/sub]

To Nicaraguans, as with many other cultures peoples across the globe, history is a critical piece of a much larger picture that serves to stem national reverence and pride among countrymen. It is a universal connection which zealously binds those together toward a cause, breathing life into the faiths and political ideals that shape a people, their nation, and their ideologies. Perhaps the most important lesson learned throughout history, however, it remains ever changing, awaiting to be written no matter your theism or party allegiance. This would come to ring true for Nicaraguans in July of 1893, after 30 years of uncontested rule by a Conservative Junta, the tables would forcefully turn at the hands of a Democratic Party uprising, and the country bore witness thereafter to a 14 year administration of reform, progress, and advancement, and expansion unlike the fragile Republic had ever seen under José Santos Zelaya.

The Liberal President's endeavors led to a great many deals and acquisitions, equally as many enemies, though most aren't as relevant as the build up of the Republic's first maritime composition with the purchases of several ironclad and tin-screw monitors being inched out of service from the United States Navy and State Naval Militias alike, efforts made by President José Santos Zelaya seen the procurement of a line-up of these such vessels from the U.S. Government. The aging, yet still battle-capable, and sea-worthy ironclad monitors were commissioned into service with the young Nicaraguan Navy throughout Zelaya's administration up through it's final acquisitions in 1904, Momotombo and Angela. Serving as flagship of the Navy, Momotombo, an iron-hulled, tin-screw Amphitrite-class monitor was considered the most modern and capable of the entire Nicaraguan fleet at this time, having been laid down in 1874. [I]Angela, formerly USS Onondaga, was a true-to-name, coal-burning dinosaur of an ironclad monitor and the only vessel ever built in her class, laid down in 1862.

The pair of ships, alongside an American civil vessel, the S.S. Chicago, and the officially unrecorded though widely believed presence of Momotombito, 'Little Momotombo', a much smaller displacement monitor of the Neosho-class, would mark a vital moment in Nicaraguan Naval history on 1 April 1907 when the Government of Manuel Bonilla Chirinos fled the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, to Isla Amapala, situated just off the southern Pacific Coast within the Gulf of Fonseca after the defeat and utter collapse of an attempted Salvadoran-Honduran invasion of Nicaragua. There, tense negotiations were held between the Nicaraguan military brass and Presidente-General Bonilla regarding the conditions of his Government's formal surrender. As talks managed to stretch for the next nine days, the captains of both Angela and Momotombo complained of their crew's increased weariness being moored at sea, merely at the behest of negotiations with the remnants of Bonilla's military administration, and further threatened to lay waste to the Island's quaint port via bombardment from the sea.

Before sun peaked over the horizon on the tenth day of negotiations, 11 April, the Nicaraguan captains signaled one another with Morse lamps in the offshore fog of the night, relaying orders through code to take battle stations and begin priming main weapon batteries in preparation for full Naval bombardment by first light. The signal lamp code-talk was intercepted, however, by Captain Robert M. Doyle of the S.S. Chicago, anchored near the Nicaraguan vessels offshore. Subsequently, Doyle's decisive action and quick-witted thinking thereafter saved Amapala Island's seaport from obliteration by Momotombo's 254mm main battery, and Angela's devastating pair of 381mm Dahlgren guns, as Doyle and crew prepared ahead. When came time, Chicago placed herself in the trajectory of their fire before either of the monitor's guns could open up, and allowed the winds to guide her further into the Gulf, eventually docking herself at Amapala Island's seaport, the intended target, buying negotiators ample time for the eventual signing of the Amapala Peace Treaty of 1907, later that day. As good as the Treaty stripped Bonilla of his power and dismantled his Government, it also served to end what could have been invariably more years of war between the Central American Republics of Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador had not been for this particular moment in history.

As the 35th anniversary of 11 April 1907 rears, the event is recognized by modern Nicaraguan historians as a tipping point in the nation's naval and general history, a testament to the rising value, strength, and military confidence of the Nicaraguan Republic. Resulting from this reverence, a group of preservationists made up of wealthy, influential families from major coastal cities along the country's Pacific Coast have come together to fund a national historical preservation society and restoration of Momotombo, left Nicaragua's last sea-capable monitor after Angela and most of her crew were lost in a munitions explosion caused by main battery misfire during a live-fire drill in 1909. Currently, Momotombo is stored on land in a dry slip within the Port of Corinto. The preservation society project would similarly seek the monitor to bear a ceremonial purpose in the Marina de Guerra de la Guardia Nacional once restored, a standing testament to the Navy's humble, yet proud origins.

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[list][list]JUNE 1940

[sub]Eire Against Everyone?[/sub][/list]

[pre] D E V A L E R A N E U T R A L I T Y [/pre]

[list][list][sub][pre]Muineen Water (1940) —

I know a small lake that sails the palest shadows,

Trailing their frail keels along its waveless sand;

And when isles of grey turf are sunning in its shallows

The far hill is a blue ghost on that land.

Down there my wild heart is startled by the quiet:

The very stones are spying; each tree is a pry;

The light declares against me and exiled from brightness

I stray from those waters invaded by the sky.

But when the sedges fling their bridge of whispers

On waves no moon has hooked, then surely I find,

As that lake into its own dim presence,

A dark calm sinks into my mind.

— F. R. Higgins, Irish Poet[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

DAIL EIREANN, THE OIREACHTAS — AFTERNOON

[sub]DUBLIN, Great Eire[/sub]

| The only British Commonwealth country that did not declare war on Volk Germany, the DE VALERA’s Republic of Eire took a neutral position. His policy of neutrality was such a success in the first nine months since the start of the war that the TAOISEACH DE VALERA even considered holding general elections. But recent events would change that. Terrified Irishmen quickly forgot the hatred established since the civil war. Even WILLIAM COSGRAVE, who was the President of the Executive Council (1922-32), now Leader of the Opposition, rose from his chair and supported the TAOISEACH. Saying “We must all be brothers in one holy cause,” De Valera formed an all-party National Defense Council made up of three ministers, three representatives from Fine Gael and two men from the Labour Party. The main objective of this Council, whose creation would prevent the holding of secret sessions at the Dail, was to elaborate the national security policy, to advise the Government without taking executive measures. The Government then called up all regular troops (7,000) and reservists (30,000), putting the Irish Army ready for war. The TAOISEACH announced the start of a recruiting campaign, forming the Local Security Corps, where the job was to repel parachute invaders. The Irish Navy expected shortly to double its forces. Meanwhile, on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, a department store has placed anti-aircraft guns on its roof. |

| Ireland’s hatches were as closed as they could be, except for one thing — the extremist-nationalist I.R.A., advocating the unification of all Ireland under his own style of fascism, which maintains a completely underground government of its own. Since 1938, the 7,500 members have followed the bomb-Britain policy of 46-year-old, super-radical CHIEFTAIN SEAN RUSSEL. There is reason to believe that the intransigent I.R.A.-sters are being financed by the Volks, mostly by way of the U.S. Angered by these fifth columnists, the TAOISEACH advocated arrests and intense police searches for hidden I.R.A. weapons. |

[list]| EAMON DE VALERA, [sub]First Taoiseach of Eire[/sub] | “The freedom we all have was bought at a high price. In this land that we tread, there must be no treacherous hand to give our freedom.”[/list]

| The REV. MICHAEL BROWNE, came with the support of the Catholic Church. |

[list]| REV. MICHAEL BROWNE, [sub]Bishop of Galway[/sub] | “Any Irishman of this land who collaborates with any foreign nation to attack the authority of his own land will be guilty of a crime against the law of God, and there will be no excuse for such a crime — not even the pretext of resolving division or ensuring unity.”[/list]

| While the bishop warned that the Volks were the most viable invaders, the TAOISEACH has not yet abandoned his policy of neutrality, hoping the Irish can keep Volk U-boats out of Cobh harbor and British cruisers away from Lough Swilly. Eire was neutral against everyone. |

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(Kuomintang) Republic of China / (國民黨)中華民國

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THE STRUGGLE TO ENSURE CHINA’s SURVIVAL: 1/2

確 保 中 國 生 存 的 鬥 爭

[sub]July of 1942 | 1942 年 7 月

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The anniversary of the Japanese attack on China was observed this week on July 7. Millions of Chinese soldiers and civilians, who have bravely resisted Japan for five years, did not rejoice. The Chinese felt a sense of urgency when they heard the term anniversary, for the war they had endured for five years was reaching a critical stage. The situation on China as of July 7, 1942 was not one to envy:[/sub]

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7月7日,本周是日本侵华周年纪念日。英勇抗日5年的数百万中国军民,欢欣鼓舞。中国人一听到“周年”这个词,就有一种紧迫感,因为他们已经忍受了五年的战争已经到了关键的阶段。 1942 年 7 月 7 日中国的情况并不令人羡慕:

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July 7, 1942 | 1942 年 7 月 7 日:[/sub]

[sub]The Japanese attrition has severely damaged China's entire national fabric, which has experienced horrific moral and material shocks over the past seven months. Instead of improving her situation, she has discovered that the Allies have multiplied her current troubles. The humiliating losses endured by both the United States and Britain confound her. Her so-called lifeline, the Burma Road, has been severed, preventing vital supplies from reaching China. She may never get the other half of the troops back from Burma. A fresh assault has been launched by Japan with the aim of capturing Kunming and dealing a final blow to the country by seizing its remaining railway lines. [/sub]

[sub]China Will Consume — China probably won't fall apart due to economic instability alone. The awful food issues that plagued every aspect of Chinese life in the previous year are no longer a concern. In addition to guaranteeing the maximum amount of necessities for the army and government servants' consumption centers, bumper spring wheat crops and probably certainly good fall rice crops are also anticipated to leave a significant surplus. Since the Dragon Boat Festival, when prices often climb, rice and wheat flour prices have decreased, demonstrating the effectiveness of government price control. The meal plan appears secure. [/sub]

[sub]China Will Recover — However, the Chinese economy's biggest problem continues to be the overall shortage of goods. This has caused significant price increases, causing the political program to become quite challenging. However, some astonishing advancements have been made over the last three months. The government currently manufactures cotton and provides it to machine spinners at set prices. It provides yarn to weavers so they can weave cloth by crossing it with hand-spun yarn. The cloth is then given to the Commodity Administration at fixed prices, and the Commodity Administration then sells it in government stores for twenty-five percent less than market rates. People are currently queued up in the streets of Chungking to purchase this cloth. According to authorities, there will be adequate clothing for both the army and the general public. Even government institutions have begun supplying uniforms to their employees. [/sub]

[sub]China Will Stockpile — Undoubtedly, the scarcity of certain commodities still motivates people to stockpile. The best opportunities for profit are provided by modern medicines for hoarders and smugglers. With the justification that “three tons of quinine are worth three tons of firearms,” the government of India grants flying precedence to medical supplies. The government declared that American Red Cross supplies were arriving and would be thrown into the market in an effort to discourage stockpiling. In Chungking, the government even established quinine stores where patients could purchase and use the drug. [/sub]

[sub]China Will Generate — China won't have a chance to develop its industry as long as it is cut off from equipment and raw materials. The plan to establish a strong industrial foundation has been given up. The government is focusing on making greater use of the industries that are already in place by assuming control of spindles and looms where private interests have not yet installed them. In certain situations, the government has removed electric plants that lit small villages due to power shortages.[/sub]

[sub]Industrial cooperatives now have more significance because of isolation. The tagline, “Membership doubled, production tripled within six months” was chosen by the government in June along with a vote to increase their capitalization to 100 million Chinese dollars. Production will go more quickly thanks to the over 5,000 skilled workers who escaped from Hong Kong. [/sub]

[sub]China Will Protect — There have been several notable changes in finance. The budget that was created with the assumption that the Burma Road would remain open has now been reduced. Millions of dollars had already been spent on the Burma Road when building stopped, but millions more won't be. Since there is no longer a method to export goods, the barter deal with the U.S. has saved close to a billion dollars. The extensive maintenance of Shanghai institutions, such the courts, has been discontinued, and the initiative to develop roads has come to an end. However, revenue from land taxation in kind, one of the largest social experiments of the war, has produced collections that are 2% higher than anticipated. The Central Government seized control of provincial finances at the start of this year. Districts can still manage their own finances, though. [/sub]

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日本的减员严重破坏了中国的整个民族结构,在过去的七个月里,中国经历了可怕的道德和物质冲击。她不但没有改善自己的处境,反而发现盟军让她目前的麻烦成倍增加。美英双方遭受的屈辱性损失让她感到困惑。她所谓的“生命线”缅甸公路已被切断,重要物资无法抵达中国。她可能永远无法将另一半军队从缅甸带回来。日本发动了新的进攻,目的是占领昆明,并通过夺取其剩余的铁路线对该国进行最后一击。[/sub]

[sub]中国将消费 — 中国可能不会仅仅因为经济不稳定而分崩离析。过去一年困扰中国人生活方方面面的可怕食品问题不再令人担忧。除了保证军队和政府公务员消费中心的必需品的最大数量外,预计春小麦丰收和秋季大米作物也将出现大量盈余。端午节以来,物价高涨,大米和面粉价格有所下降,体现了政府价格调控的有效性。膳食计划看起来很安全。[/sub]

[sub]中国将复苏 — 然而,中国经济的最大问题仍然是整体商品短缺。这导致价格大幅上涨,导致政治计划变得相当具有挑战性。然而,在过去的三个月里,取得了一些惊人的进步。政府目前生产棉花并以固定价格提供给纺纱厂。它为织布工提供纱线,以便他们可以通过与手纺纱线交叉来编织布料。然后将布料以固定价格交给商品管理局,商品管理局随后在政府商店以低于市场价 25% 的价格出售。目前,人们在重庆街头排队购买这种布。据当局称,军队和公众都会有足够的衣服。甚至政府机构也开始为员工提供制服。[/sub]

[sub]中国将囤积 — 毫无疑问,某些商品的稀缺性仍然促使人们囤积。现代药品为囤积者和走私者提供了最好的获利机会。以“三吨奎宁抵三吨枪支”为由,印度政府给予医疗用品飞行优先权。政府宣布美国红十字会的物资即将运抵,并将投入市场以阻止囤积。在重庆,政府甚至设立了奎宁专卖店,供患者购买和使用。[/sub]

[sub]中国将产生 — 只要切断了设备和原材料,中国就没有机会发展自己的工业。建立强大工业基础的计划已经放弃。政府正致力于通过控制私人利益尚未安装的锭子和织机来更多地利用已经存在的行业。在某些情况下,由于电力短缺,政府已经拆除了照亮小村庄的发电厂。由于孤立,产业合作社现在具有更大的意义。政府在 6 月选择了“会员翻倍,产量在六个月内翻了三倍”的标语,同时投票决定将其资本增加到 1 亿美元。有超过5000名技术工人从香港逃出来,生产会更快。[/sub]

[sub]中国将保护 — 金融领域发生了一些显着变化。假设缅甸公路将保持开放而创建的预算现在已经减少。建设停止时已经在缅甸公路上花费了数百万美元,但不会再花费数百万美元。由于不再有出口货物的方法,与美国的易货交易节省了近 10 亿美元。上海法院等机构的大修已经停止,道路建设的主动性也告一段落。然而,实物土地税收收入是战争中最大的社会实验之一,产生的收藏品比预期高出 2%。今年年初,中央政府接管了省级财政。不过,各地区仍然可以管理自己的财务。

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Amsterwald Just wanted to say great stuff with the Annual Ledger, thanks for making it its a lot easier to keep up now so amazing work!

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Ranponian wrote:Amsterwald Just wanted to say great stuff with the Annual Ledger, thanks for making it its a lot easier to keep up now so amazing work!

Caught me as I was updating it—thank you! I figured many of us don't have time to read up fully, so I'm glad to help out. Either way, it's a neat way to contextualize what we're doing.

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LEND LEASE FOR THE SOVIETS! / RHODESIA BEGINS PRODUCTION OF JOINTLY DESIGNED TANKS

5th of August 1942

Keeping in line with the Mother Country who had been sending vast sums of equipment and materials to the Soviets to fight the Germans, Rhodesia has followed suit utilizing its small Navy to organize a small scale convoy to the Country bearing the brunt of the Volkist onslaught. Escorted by three Tribal Class Destroyers a total of 39 Convoy Vessels would make their way from South Africa through the Atlantic, around the north western flank of Iceland until reaching their final destination of Murmansk. Merging with a large American Convoy around Iceland to decrease the chance of a successful attack by German U-boats, the Convoy carrying vital materials made it almost without mishap to the Soviet Union. The return voyage would later see it bring back minerals vital to the Rhodesian production sector such as manganese and wood (as was common with all lend lease to prevent a ship returning empty).

Carried on the Convoy were the following :

- 182x Matilda II Infantry Tanks (161x working order, 21x as spares. Britain having sent 1,000+ in 1942)

- 212x Valentine Infantry Tanks (173x working order, 39x as spares. Britain & Canada having sent 3,000+ in 1942)

- 12,000x tons of Shells & other Munition types

- 59x spare AEC A190 diesel engines (Valentine Engine)

- 82,000 pairs of 1927 Pattern 10085 boots

- 50,000 Army issue Blankets

[spoiler=- 112,000 48 hour Ration packs Mk.42]

Full pack containing the following items making up a 4,000 calorie ration:

- 1x instruction kit (printed in Russian)

- 1x single box 20 piece Cigarettes

- 2x Hexamine fuel tablet + thin three-legged stand

- 10x Biscuits

- 2x Oatmeal blocks

- 2x tea-sugar-milk (each producing 2 pints of tea)

- 2x Raisin Chocolate slabs

- 2x Chocolate slab

- 8x individually packaged single Boiled Sweets

- 2x packets of Chewing Gum

- 2x Meat Extract Cubes

- 2x Salt packet

- 4x Sugar tablets

- 4x Latrine Paper pieces

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Rhodesia in its war effort was not just desperate to assist the wider Allied Powers in the global struggle, but also urging onwards its workers and economic strength to show the world Rhodesia's progress in the half decade leading up to the conflict, a progress the Government does not wish to slow even now when shells are flying. One key belief in the Government (both IRL and IC) is that to achieve independence under the Colony's own terms post-war, it must be totally committed to the war no matter the cost. The Tribal laws had helped them achieve this by reducing militancy and increasing productivity in the Tribal regions in exchange for less government oversight and intervention. The only alternative (the path taken IRL) was to abandon the until now existing Tribal protections and attempt to force the native population into the factories (which led to mass dodging IRL and did not succeed), something Parliament had decided against in 1939 as the conflict was beginning.

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In 1940, Rhodesia had begun developing two separate Tanks with the South Africans that would fill the needs of both Nations and finally cut the reliance for Tanks that was creating a burden for the British war effort in Europe (ref. : https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=47788852). Now those tanks were beginning to roll off production lines in Factories in Rhodesia formerly producing Crusader and Valentine Tanks after two years in development and testing. Both Tanks utilizing the Rhodesian made Model V-2 V12 diesel Engines, the plans for which Rhodesia had received from the U.S.S.R they were formidable weapons of war that would carry the two Imperial Comrades through the conflict that lay ahead.

[spoiler=UNIVERSAL TANK Mk.I — NEXT GENERATION GENERAL PURPOSE TANK (1942)]

LENGTH: 18.5 Feet

HEIGHT: 8.3 Feet

WIDTH: 8.6 Feet

WEIGHT: 25 Tons

CREW: 4 (Driver, Gunner, Loader, Commander)

POWERPLANT: 1 x Model V-2 V12 diesel engine [600 hp (450 kW)] [Rhodesian-made]

SPEED: 30 MPH on-road, 18 on rough terrain

RANGE: 150 Miles

MAIN ARMAMENT: 1 x Ordnance QF 6-pounder

SECONDARY ARMAMENT: 1 x Browning .303

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[spoiler=LOCUST LIGHT TANK — NEXT GENERATION LIGHT/SCOUT TANK (1942)]

LENGTH: 16.7 Feet

HEIGHT: 8.5 Feet

WIDTH: 7.8 Feet

WEIGHT: 18 Tons

CREW: 4 (Driver, Gunner, Loader, Commander)

POWERPLANT: 1 x Model V-2 V12 diesel engine [600 hp (450 kW)] [Rhodesian-made]

SPEED: 45 MPH on-road, 35 on rough terrain

RANGE: 93 Miles

MAIN ARMAMENT: QF 4.5 Inch

SECONDARY ARMAMENT: 2 x turreted Browning .303[/spoiler]

Unlike the British Tanks Rhodesia had been producing up to now, both shared many vital spare parts which had previously caused vast bottlenecks in Rhodesian arms production. With these two standardized designs Rhodesia would be able to replace its existing tank stocks and more efficiently assist in bringing down the menace of fascism across the globe. Unlike the initial production specifications in which South Africa had voiced a potential usage for the 7.92 mm Besa MG, Rhodesia had opted to solely operate the Browning .303 due to its existing production lines for that cartridge and thus ease of supply and spare barrels.

Already however Rhodesia is working on new variants, the main and currently adopted variation efforts are as follows :

- Universal Tank Mk.II (1943) :

[list]- Modified and bigger cast Turret to house the Ordnance QF 17-pounder Anti-Tank Gun (76.2 mm)

- Additional Rear mounted Fan to assist cooling the powerful Model V-2 V12 Engine

- Adjusted design to increase Frontal Armor from 76mm to 84mm

- Reworked Suspension change from Coil spring to Christie suspension System, with expected speed rise from 30MPH onroad to 36MPH (offroad from 18MPH to 22MPH)

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- Locust Light Tank (1943) :

[list]- Redesigned cowling to assist cooling the powerful Model V-2 V12 Engine

- Reworked Suspension change from Coil spring to Christie suspension System, with expected speed rise from 35MPH onroad to 40MPH (offroad from 21MPH to 28MPH)

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KINGDOM OF IRAQ/مملكة العراق

August 1942 | Project Arafat | مشروع عرفات

The Kingdom of Iraq, modern day Mesopotamia and Babylon has been the center of the Islamic golden age in the past and part of countless empires yet, it has lagged behind the world in technological advancement and has not yet experienced the full industrial revolution due to imperialism and internal instability through greed of tribe leaders attempting to seize wealth.

Due to this, most of the population including even those in central Baghdad, continue to live in huts and straw houses of a bygone era.

Therefor, King Faisal I in discussion with his advisors have begun Project Arafat; a plan to urbanize Iraq including the southern region of Al-Hajara/Al-Anbar alongside constructing roads and traintracks to major destinations and trading villages.

This would all be possible by inviting foreign expertise such as French and British architects, engineers and teachers. Baghdad being the capital would see the heaviest construction of apartments and commercial sectors to accommodate current population and the projected future growth of the capital. the project would also include importation of heavy machinery to exploit new methods of construction and using new farming technology for higher yields from crops.

For a population to continue growing and prospering, sufficient food supplies are necessary to sustain them. irrigations alongside the Euphrates has began beginning from the northwest of Baghdad leading down into Basra in slow succession. Government subsidization supplemented by existing banks allowing loans with low interest rates for the people to use to open up businesses.

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BORIS FURLAN SHOWN CHUCKLING AS HE IS SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA

[list][sup]THE UNFORGOTTEN SEPARATIST

LONDON—SUMMER 1942[/sup][/list]

The British press had a joyous time with Professor Boris Furlan, Chairman of the Committee for an Independent Slovenia, in August 1942. That month, a newspaper reached the Committee’s office revealing that the absolutist government of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, unable to take decisive action against the Slovene separatists while thoroughly occupied fighting partisans around Novi Sad, had symbolically sentenced Furlan to death in absentia. Within a few weeks, however, a photograph showing the Professor laughing while pointing to a Yugoslav newspaper report of the death warrant had become widely circulated among Slovene expatriates. He was accused of treason on vague grounds, citing dubious examples of nationalist disruptions in the Drava Banovina—increasingly called ‘Slovenia’—to which Furlan was actually unrelated. Though the gesture was intended to be a symbolic punishment by the Yugoslav courts, it was received as blunderous. The lack of evidence and clumsy accusation merited humored remarks from Furlan, who joked that “they must have spent all of their bullets shooting at Tito

[list][sub]“A court decree sentencing Professor Furlan, which was smuggled out of Yugoslavia and received here . . . revealed the strange case of the refugee’s being sentenced for a ‘crime’ committed in his country some time after he had left Yugoslavia.” — New York Times, September 1942[/sub][/list]

Furlan recently returned from a triumphant visit to Lisbon and is an increasingly popular character abroad for his charisma and ever-growing passion for the end of Prince Paul’s failed rule in Slovenia. A favorite of British and American authorities and now having personally met King Manuel II of the Estado Novo, his name is increasingly well-known, and his colleagues do not doubt that he will play a key role in the newborn Slovene state should it come to be. One of many left-wing intellectuals disgusted by the absolutism of Prince Paul but disillusioned with communism due to partisan violence, Furlan continues to campaign in London for funding and support for Slovene separatism. He insists that any foreign powers interested in his cause open discussions with the Committee.

[list][sup]NOTE: In real life, Italian authorities sentenced Furlan to death in June 1942 during their occupation of Yugoslavia while he was in London, claiming he had formed a liberation group he had no part in two months after he had left Yugoslavia for Turkey. The event, which produced a wonderful picture (https://i.imgur.com/g3Hf2Yi.png) of Furlan laughing at his death warrant, was definitely worth adapting to this timeline.[/sup][/list]

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[list][list]UMHLABA WABANTU | IN ZULU

DIE BANTOEWERELD | IN AFRIKAANS

ILIZWE LABANTU | IN XHOSA

THE BANTU WORLD | IN ENGLISH[pre]

7 AUGUST — 1941[/pre]

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

[list][list]____________

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[pre]PARLIAMENT PASSES MASSIVE “XUMA-MADELEY ACT”, IN SUBSTANTIAL AMENDMENT TO THE SOUTH AFRICA ACT AND REPEAL OF NATIVE LAND ACTS OF 1913 & 1936;[/pre][pre] [/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| CAPE TOWN — Over a year ago, the leaders of South Africa’s four major parties emerged from the Prime Minister’s Cape Town residence to announce the formation of a national unity government, to address the crisis abroad and here at home. Having negotiated an accord which would see the collective priorities of each party have a fair opportunity on the floor of Parliament, South Africa entered into an unprecedented era of social change and political consensus. Conservatives and Progressives, Libertarians and Socialists found common ground in a once-in-a generation break in the intense partisanship that defined the “interwar period”. Having been given a mandate over the Labor, Commerce, and Interior Ministries, members of the South African Labour Party and ANC were able to secure floor time for some of the most pressure pieces of legislation South Africa has ever seen. Fair Wages for Natives, strengthening the legal backing for Collective Bargaining, and other reforms were codified to law swiftly over the last sixteen months. So much so were these pieces of legislation receiving multi-partisan support that spokesmen for the Government have boldly declared that as the world continues to be gripped by war, South Africa has set itself to reap such economic and social benefits as never before seen before in the post-war era.[/sub]

[list][pre]”The people of Azania spoke with such clarity last year, that the Government must be responsive. Our future must be built upon harmonious coexistence… morality and justice… not a continuation of policies and a socioeconomic trajectory initiated by Imperialism against natives… and Oppression against poor and Afrikaaner whites. We as a people must renegotiate the relationship between government and the governed.. Citizen and Citizen… and pen a new social contract; a ‘Compact With Azania’..”[/pre][sub]— Dr. AB Xuma, Deputy Prime Minister (Minister of Internal Affairs) and ANC Leader[/sub][/list]

[sub]In a piece of legislation dubbed the Xuma-Madeley Act, Parliament initiated a program of Land Reform such that 100 years of systemic displacement of Afrikaaners, the Poor, and Aboriginals can be rectified. With constitutional provisions which would Amend the South Africa Act of 1909, the Dominion would be reorganized into nine ‘home’ provinces, for the nine great tribes/peoples of South Africa. Capeland for the “Capers” – whites of British and Mixed descent, Namib – for whites of Afrikaaner heritage and the natives of that province; Botswana – primarily for Aboriginals of Tswana descent; Lesotho for the Sotho peoples; Ilizwe primarily for the Xhosa people; Limpopo primarily for the Pedi, Tsonga, and Venda peoples; Kwazulu primarily for the Zulu people; Eswatini for the Swazi; and Highveld primarily for the Afrikaaners. Contrary to the homeland system of early South African history, this new form would not be an expansion/reinstitution of segregation - but work to govern the program through which land would be systematically redistributed.[/sub]

[sub]”Proportional Parity” is the term being applied to describe the land reform program, through which the national government would begin to purchase agricultural land from private owners and begin to resale them to the populace in a manner proportional to their population in a given province. For example, if the population of Capeland is 50% Caper (white) and 32% Colored (mixed), then 50% and 32% of agricultural land would be sold to people of Caper and Colored heritage respectively. Applying this principle nationally, it is hoped that such would unlock access to the greater economy for natives, and likewise be a form of anti-trust policies which would see the great plantation or ranch styled compounds replaced by small family farms for South Africa’s 10 Million citizens.[/sub]

[sub]As a political reform, the redrawn provincial boundaries would be coupled with a redistribution of parliamentary representation to achieve a “fair” balance between the diverse peoples of South Africa. Each of the ‘native’ provinces would receive 16 seats, which the Capeland and Namib provinces receiving 19 seats each. Directly joined with a push to apply citizenship to the remaining Clans of South Africa, universal sufferage in the Dominion – once a dream – is now to become a reality during the next General Election in 1946. With such a democratization, Members of Parliament granted the restyling of South Africa — removing it’s geographic name from the institution of the Act forward, and replacing it with the ancient name Azania, with a new National Flag and Coat of Arms to slowly replace the old.[/sub]

[sub]With a prospective ‘end-date’ of 1952, the national government hopes that this land reform can be achieved — from which point, citizens can freely sale and purchase land in whatever manner they deem fit, with the termination of the Parity system once it’s goals are achieved on a provincial basis.[/sub]

[list][sub]Read More About The Policy Here;[/sub]

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1729371[/list][/list]

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[sub][list]|THE DURRANI SAGA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2 PART 1|[/sub][/list]

[sub][list]April 15, 1942[/sub][/list]

DAYKUNDI PROVIENCE, AFGHANISTAN — DAY

[sub]After four days of walking, Crown Prince Rehmatullah Khan and half of the Afghan Emiri Army arrived at their destination in Daykundi Province. After resting for a day, the army is refreshed, and they march toward the location of the rebel Hazaras army camp, where they will put down the rebellion in the south. A few hours later, Rehmatullah Khan and half of the Afghan Emiri Army arrived near the camp, but the Rebel Hazaras army was alerted of their coming from their spy. Rehmatullah Khan knew that defeating the rebel army here would end the rebellion in the south. So the Rebel Hazaras army formed a formation and was ready to battle against Crown Prince Rehmatullah Khan and the Afghan Emiri Army.[/sub]

[list][B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”So the time for battle is upon us.”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”Your Royal Highness, the army is in complete formation and is ready to engage the enemy at your command.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Good general Abdul-Ali. Tell me, did our spy say if there was anyone other than the rebel army living in those camps?”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”Yes, your Royal Highness, the spy said that the families of the rebels are living in the camp.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”General Abdul-Ali, when we defeat the rebels, no harm will come to their families, especially the women and children.”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”If I may, your Royal Highness, I advise you to reconsider your decision. If the rebels’ families are allowed to live, they will most likely rebel against us again to avenge their fallen relatives someday. They might even assassinate you. His Highness the Emir would…”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”I understand your concern, general Abdul-Ali, but I’m not like my grandfather. I don’t kill the innocents just because they’re related to the rebels and the guilty, even if it is for the safety and security of the Emirate.”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”But your Royal Highness...”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”No, but general. I’m not asking you; I’m giving you and the soldiers a direct order. You and the soldiers will not, under any circumstances, kills the rebels’ family, especially the women and children. If any soldiers disobey this order and kill the family, they will be put to death. Do I make myself clear, general Abdul-Ali?”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”Yes, your Royal Highness. We will obey your command.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Good general. Then tell the soldiers my command and the penalty that comes with disobeying my order. After that, we will commence the attack and crush the rebel army.”[/sub]

[B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General:[/B] [sub]”As you wish your Royal Highness.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]General Abdul-Ali Abdali went to inform the soldiers of the Crown Prince's orders and warned them if they failed to follow the order, they would be put to death. Then once the Crown Prince gives the signal, general Abdul-Ali orders the soldiers to commence the attack against the rebel army. A minute later, the Afghan Emiri Army and the Rebel army engage. The battle between the two armies lasted for a few hours, and the fight between two was long and bloody. In the end, the Afghan Emiri Army crushed the rebel army completely, with only a moderate casualty on the Afghan Emiri Army side. Then as ordered by the Crown Prince, the rebels' family was spared, and no harm befell them.[/sub]

[list][B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Your Royal Highness, we have won the battle and completely crushed the rebellion. Most soldiers have also followed your orders, and the rebels’ families were spared, although we have caught some soldiers attempting to disobey your order and trying to kill the families. But we managed to stop them from killing the families, and they were executed.”[/sub]

[B]REHMATULLAH KHAN DURRANI, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”Good general Abdul-Ali. Tell the soldiers that we will return to Kabul at once after we gathered the wounded. No doubt my grandfather and uncle have already crushed the rebellion in the north and are heading back to Kabul as we speak.”[/sub]

[list][B]ABDUL-ALI ABDALI, General, Crown Prince:[/B] [sub]”As you wish your Royal Highness.”[/sub][/list]

[sub]After gathering the wounded, Crown Prince Rehmatullah Khan and the remaining half of the Afghan Emiri Army begin the journey back to Kabul, carrying the wounded with them.[/sub]

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