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[list][list]HUSSEIN BIN TALAL PROCLAIMED KING OF THE ARABS IN BAGHDAD

7 July 1955 - Baghdad, Baghdad Capital District, Arab Kingdom[/list][/list]

| A massive caravan of limousines and armored cars drive down Tariq al-Malik, the main road leading through the center of Baghdad. Soldiers sit with their legs and firearms hanging out of the backs of trucks as thousands of citizens gather along the side of the road, waving the flags of Iraq, Jordan, and the Arab Revolt. Police presence is high as, within the middle of the convoy, a car carrying King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan speeds through the streets, the young Hashemite monarch waving out at his new subjects with a smile and a wave. His arrival in Iraq, sponsored by the revolutionary interim government, had seen him fly from the Jordanian capital of Amman directly to Baghdad to avoid the possibility of assassination attempts in an overland route. After landing in Baghdad's main airport to a slough of military and political figures, the King had met with Regent Nuri al-Said in private to officiate the King's coronation before entering the cars, bound for al-Zuhoor Palace. |

| The armored convoy is both preceded and followed by columns of Iraqi infantry and cavalry, the cavalry mounted atop perfectly white steeds. The throngs of Iraqi citizens, many starved and weary from the civil conflict which had taken hold of the nation since the death of King Faisal II, cheer on King Hussein as the convoy approaches the palace. Security is tight, but for the most part, the desperate Iraqi people welcome the former King's cousin with open arms and shouts of jubilation. |

| After arriving at the Palace, the coronation ceremony begins. In order to ensure security, only a couple dozen state officials and a few hundred military officials and officers are allowed to witness the coronation directly, with media also being present. The cameras record as King Hussein and Regent al-Said stand opposite of one another, surrounded by a semi-circle comprising members of the Iraqi cabinet, general staff, an political elite. Regent al-Said, a presiding judge, and various other officials engage in the ceremonial dialogue before the cameras and all those in attendance before ultimately presenting the crown jewels of Iraq to King Hussein. At the conclusion of the hour long ceremony, King Hussein swears an oath to Iraq and her people before accepting the crown jewels and being declared King of Iraq. |

| Upon his coronation, a 21-gun salute is performed by QF 25 pounder guns of the Iraqi Army to celebrate the crowning of the new King. As the gun salute is being performed, King Hussein appears before the press once again to announce the unification of the crowns of Iraq and Joran into a single, Hashemite dynasty as the Arab Kingdom, with himself as the first King of the Arabs. In his address, he comments on his grandfather's enthronement of King of the Arabs in 1916, and announces that the Arab Kingdom comprising Iraq and Jordan will be its own state with no direct claims to the Sharifian Caliphate of the First World War. He also promises to the Iraqi and Jordanian people that he will work towards the complete and total modernization of the Arab Kingdom and that the new country will respect the rule of law and the rights of man. |

Otsla, Grand Indochina, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Teymour, 2Nd New England Commonwealth

Claim: West Germany

History:  On 4–11 February 1945 leaders from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union held the Yalta Conference where future arrangements regarding post-war Europe and Allied strategy against Japan in the Pacific were negotiated. They agreed that the boundaries of Germany as at 31 December 1937 would be chosen as demarcating German national territory from German occupied territory; all German annexations after 1937 were automatically null.Â

The conference agreed that post-war Germany,  would be divided into four occupation zones: a French Zone in the far west; a British Zone in the northwest; an American Zone in the south; and a Soviet Zone in the East. Berlin was separately divided into four zones. These divisions were not intended to dismember Germany, only to designate zones of administration.

In the dominant post-war narrative of West Germany, the Nazi regime was characterised as having been a 'criminal' state, illegal and illegitimate from the outset; while the Weimar Republic was characterised as having been a 'failed' state, whose inherent institutional and constitutional flaws had been exploited by Hitler in his illegal seizure of dictatorial powers. Consequently, following the death of Hitler in 1945 and the subsequent capitulation of the German Armed Forces, the national political, judicial, administrative, and constitutional instruments of both Nazi Germany and the Weimar Republic were understood as entirely defunct, such that a new West Germany could be established in a condition of constitutional nullity. Nevertheless, the new West Germany asserted its fundamental continuity with the 'overall' German state that was held to have embodied the unified German people since the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848, and which from 1871 had been represented within the German Reich; albeit that this overall state had become effectively dormant long before 8 May 1945.

In 1949 with the continuation and aggravation of the Cold War (witness the Berlin Airlift of 1948–49), the two German states that were originated in the Western Allied and the Soviet Zones became known internationally as West Germany and East Germany. Commonly known in English as East Germany, the former Soviet occupation zone, eventually became the German Democratic Republic or GDR.

With severe disarmament being impacted upon West Germany it's reliance upon the allies in all matters has become apparent. However this meddling has caused strife and discontent in members of government. Even with the Nazi party being disbanded and outlaw, several former members continue to meet in secret with plans and ambitions for a fourth Reich.

System of Government: Federal parliamentary constitutional Republic.

Resume:  I don't have any links to share as I took a long break from nation states.

Nasaira, bro put this application in your factbook or a dispatch at least.

[list][B]ຄວາມຕາຍຈາກຟ້າ! • DEATH FROM THE SKY![/list]

[sub]June 1954 | Along Route 1, Luang Prabang Province, Kingdom of Laos[/sub]

When all seemed to be lost, morale depleting with each falling soldier, hours passed like agonizing days until a small sortie of outdated Boulton Paul Defiant turret fighter-interceptors arrived as promised. The rotor-powered aircrafts buzzed through the sky with distinction, sending the guerrillas into a frenzy as many projected their aim skyward and others fled into the dense jungle. The Boulton Paul Defiants, equipped with no forward firing armaments, bore specially-designed light-duty bomb racks on each wing, enabling an individual plane to boast a 33.96kg payload between four 20mm incendiary bombs. As fear enveloped enemy positions, the RLAF flew low and fast above the greenery, swiftly dumping their wing munitions upon the unfortunate Pathet Lao guerrillas below, raining down burning death, scorching the trees with an explosion that ignited purely to flame and slaughtered ruthlessly in it's path. The devastation of each combined payload turned the general area around Nam Bak into an inferno, with guerrillas running from the blaze completely overtaken by fire, begging to be killed.

The unexpected aerial strike took the Communists off guard and thus paid the price as Royal Lao troops from the 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion began advancing from their previously futile position, taking no care to waste ammunition on the burning men. The smoke of the burning incendiary coated the air and hampered visibility within the village area, which was a complete 'ground zero' of charred huts, land, and dead or dying bodies. The screams of the severely burned and the still burning permeated as disoriented enemy militants struggle to cling to their life and their feet, their faces black and their lungs scorched by smoke. The body of what was a woman laid charred almost to a literal crisp on the ground, clenching to an SKS rifle. It was unclear, and with visibility conditions hardly improving as the smoke slowly clears, how many enemy guerrillas were killed by the strike, though it was very clear any that did not flee the village were all very much dead. Royal Lao Army soldiers cheered and whistled to their 'aces', so they called them, in the sky as the smoke finally cleared after the incendiary fires quelled, claiming a large acreage of scorched Earth in it's wake. The pilots in the sky thumbs-upped each other for a "job well done", in their first sortie as Private-First Class Airmen while they flew back to base in formation.

Captain Phetsivilay radioed back to the Royal Lao Army Military Region One Headquarters in Luangprabang, notifying them of the enemy withdrawal back northeast toward occupied Phongsaly province following the more than successful aerial strike. The 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion was ordered to pull out of the area and retreat back down Highway 13 to Luangprabang before the enemy reorganizes and launches another offensive. Much to the relief of the Royal Lao Government, the Imperial Army of Vietnam (IAVN) deployed it's 1st Division, based out of Hue, to the Royal Lao Army Headquarters of Military Region Three (M.R. III), based in Savannakhet, where they will be temporarily stationed until ordered to travel north to the frontlines alongside RLAF forces within a matter of days. Priority in the north however is to defend Luang Prabang considering Royal Lao forces in Military Region One (M.R. I) are outnumbered by the 40,000-strong Communist forces actively recruiting from the locally sympathetic in occupied Phongsaly. Luang Prabang being the Royal Capital, the defense of her was paramount in the survival of the Lao Kingdom. If Luang Prabang were to fall, only 312 kilometers seperate the nation's administrative capital from the Communist invasion.

Alone and initially led by an incompetent Lieutenant-Colonel, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Battalion, consisting of only 800 personnel, managed to fulfill their objective well, hold out for as long as possible, with as little as possible, against an immeasurably larger force and under extreme circumstances. Ultimately, they did just so, and would be welcomed in the religious capital as heroes of the Lao Kingdom by the Royal elite. Captain Solasak Phetsivilay was due for promotion for his bravery, cunning, exemplary leadership, and service in the field of combat. In September 1954, Solasak Phetsivilay was awarded the Medal of Military Valor and the Order of Civic Merit for his meritorious and courageous service, followed by a swift promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel.

[list][B]ເສັ້ນໃນດິນຊາຍ! • A LINE IN THE SAND![/list]

[sub]June 1954-December 1955 | Luang Prabang Province, Kingdom of Laos[/sub]

Strengthened and emboldened by the support of the Imperial Vietnamese Army, General of the Army, Sounthone Pathammavong was quoted as saying that the Lao-Vietnamese alliance "drew a line in the sand" against the Marxist invasion and it's sympathetic cadres. A quote that was subsequently echoed by a series of fierce 'push back' engagements against the Pathet Lao once the IAVN 1st Division, alongside a few reinforcement infantry and artillery battalions of the Royal Lao Army, reached Military Region I via Route 1 – North within 14 hours. The joint RLA-IAVN force battled out numerous tit-for-tat operations against the Pathet and Viet Minh guerrillas, whom almost never made for an upfront confrontation, costing lives and war materials throughout a protracted campaign in northern-central Laos.

The battles caused all local populace to flee the countryside to the royal capital, causing a refugee crisis to befall the holy city of Luang Prabang. Clogging the roads and highways with peasants and monks escaping the warfare, Ox-drawn carts hauled whatever little possessions these people had left, as well as family members on the back, infants wrapped to their mothers. At the same time, columns of soldiers, both Lao and Vietnamese, go the opposite direction up the road, to the battlefront. Royal Lao soldiers straddle heavy M1918A3 BAR and M1919A6 Browning support rifles on their shoulders, pass around cigarette packs, bullet belts, and ammunition canisters to one another along the road. These scenes were broadcast across public television news programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, exposing Western society to the intensity of the civil war in Laos, a country roughly the size of the US state of Idaho.

Invoking response from the United States Office of the President directly, it was openly assured that the US would continue supporting the Royal Lao Government, however with the recent Geneva Convention declaring conditions in attempt to decrease tensions in Indochina and globally, it conceded that Laos could not have foreign military bases or participate in any foreign military alliance, but allowed a small French military training mission to support the Royal Lao Army. In effort to curtail this, the United States Department of Defense established the Programs Evaluation Office on December 13, 1955, a covert paramilitary mission to the Kingdom of Laos. Staffed by 12 retired American military and reserve personnel, the PEO skirted the conditions of the Geneva agreement by it's civilian staffing. Retired Brigadier General Rothwell H. Brown, who reported to the Commander in Chief Pacific Command, heads the office. Alongside the covert training of a so-called "Secret Army" of some 23,000 Hmong peasants, the PEO would serve as a simple conduit for US military materials supplied to the Royal Lao Armed Forces, making no followup beyond delivery, remaining within the confines of the Geneva agreements.

In light of these developments however, numerous attempts to establish contact with Captain Kong Le and his company of French-trained Royal Lao Paratroopers, have failed, leaving many questions unanswered pertaining to their whereabouts and overall condition. An entire year of complete radio silence from the airborne unit was more than disconcerting, considering French-advised jump troops have come to be known as the cream of the crop of Royal Lao combat forces, capable of surviving just about any environment, particularly the jungle and it's inherent perils. Subsequently, the Royal Lao Army Airborne decided to deploy a search and rescue team from the 11th Laotian Parachute Battalion of the Airborne Mobile Group 15 (GM 15) to locate, assist, and withdraw elements of the 1st Laotian Parachute Batallion from far-eastern Military Region I, a region marred by treacherous and ever-changing terrain customary with the dense rainy season.

With a 190-man jump, paratroops of the 11th Parachute Battalion were apart of the second series of airborne operations in Military Region I in effort to expulse Pathet and Viet Minh invaders from the border areas of eastern Luang Prabang Province. The jump was commanded by Lieutenant Deuane Sunnalath from the 2nd Parachute Batallion, known for his excellence on the field as displayed in previous jumps and high praise from his French senior advisors, was hand-selected for the assignment. The PEO promised the arrival of airlift capable craft such as helicopters and cargo transports to improve airborne combat operations and airmobile logistical efficiency. The Programs Evaluation Office's guarantees were a level of immeasurable support for the Forces Armées Du Royaume, on top of the multi-faceted arms shipments being periodically delivered until 1956, courtesy of Washington DC. With support mounting at their backs, the days of the Pathet Lao seemed numbered in wake of the large-scale rigorous training and modernization program emboldening the Royal Lao Armed Forces.

[spoiler=ON THE FRONTLINES: LAOS AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNISM]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Stahlrahm

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

Concorrdia

The Reunified German Reich

Aprosian Empire

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis[/spoiler]

Otsla, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour, 2Nd New England Commonwealth

1955

An Election for the Soul of a Nation

Across the colony of West Africa men and women went to the poll booths today. They would take part in an election for the very fate of their nation.

Up to the election date the Keïta Imperial Party rushed around the colony with Modibo giving fiery speeches to local villages. In these speeches he spoke of a mythologized past of a Malian Empire that all of the world looked at hungry with envy. Modibo promised a restored Keïta dynasty would bring unity, peace, and prosperity to the entire colony. He also promised a fast track to independence, as France could no longer protect its colonies from the outside world, and West Africa must take its military, and diplomacy into its own hands.

Election Results

Keïta Imperial Restoration Party:

Chairman: Modibo Keïta

Seats: 300/500

•Malian Imperial Restorationism

•West African Nationalism

•Socialism with West African Characteristics

•Pan-African Cooperation

All West African Muslim League

Chairman: Mamadou Dia

Seats: 100/500

•Islamism

•West African Nationalism

•Islamic Socialism

Various separatist and communist Groups

Seats: 100/500

The Keïta Imperialist Party Wins the Majority of Seats:

Modibo Keïta celebrated a massive victory over his opposition, the cult of the Keïta was able to sway voters, especially those living in more disparate villages. Modibo gave the following speech among his supporters shortly afterwards.

“The people of West Africa have spoken and they have put their faith and trust into me and the Imperial Dream of a Malian Federation. We in French West Africa demand the immediate preparation for independence from France. We demand the ratification of our own constitution made by and for the people of our new nation. We hold no ill will towards France and offer business, trade, and military ties but the time has come for France to go home.”

French West Africa is in Open Defiance

Otsla, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour

[list][list]Peruvian Public Radio

January 15, 1956, 17:00[/list][/list]

[list]"Hello, fellow people of Peru! It is 17:00, and time to start your evening radio news. Today, the Peruvian Telecom Corporation was founded with the purpose of providing telecom services to Peruvian residents. This private corporation is among one of the corporations that have arisen from the Capitalist policies of the government. In other news, the government has authorized the construction of five new dams and other power plants in order to fulfil the demand for electricity in Peru. In a major surprising move, the Peruvian government has begun to redistrict the city of Lima in order to clean up the city and make the city more 'aesthetic'. In other news, the Peruvian government has been sweeping through the government and military offices and positions in order to locate any person who holds anti-capitalist views, similar to the APRA and Popular Action Party. Those found to be aligned with communism or socialism shall be arrested and imprisoned until those persons are cured of their allegiance to such evil ideologies. In other news, the economy has seen a boost in revenue due to the pro-business and pro-industry policies that have been enacted this year. Many mining companies have commenced vast survey efforts in Peru in order to expand production of critical resources. In other news, the Education Department of the Peruvian government has set forth guidelines for schools, implementing a standardized curriculum. Some details outlined on the information documents about the standard education, includes lessons on why socialism and communism are failed ideologies. A few mentions in the same documents, indicate that capitalism and economics is a heavy focus in order to get everyone knowledgeable and involved in the economy. In other news, the Peruvian government has issued arrest warrants for several members of the banned party, the APRA. These fugitives should be considered armed and dangerous. In other news, the Peruvian government has commenced construction of highways that will connect to the normally isolated cities and towns in the Amazin Rainforest within Peru. Once complete, the government hopes that this will further connect and unify the people of Peru.....That is all for today's news. Tune back in tomorrow for more Peruvian news broadcast."[/list]

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour

2Nd New England Commonwealth wrote:1954

An Election for the Soul of a Nation

Across the colony of West Africa men and women went to the poll booths today. They would take part in an election for the very fate of their nation.

Up to the election date the Keïta Imperial Party rushed around the colony with Modibo giving fiery speeches to local villages. In these speeches he spoke of a mythologized past of a Malian Empire that all of the world looked at hungry with envy. Modibo promised a restored Keïta dynasty would bring unity, peace, and prosperity to the entire colony. He also promised a fast track to independence, as France could no longer protect its colonies from the outside world, and West Africa must take its military, and diplomacy into its own hands.

Election Results

Keïta Imperial Restoration Party:

Chairman: Modibo Keïta

Seats: 300/500

•Malian Imperial Restorationism

•West African Nationalism

•Socialism with West African Characteristics

•Pan-African Cooperation

All West African Muslim League

Chairman: Mamadou Dia

Seats: 100/500

•Islamism

•West African Nationalism

•Islamic Socialism

Various separatist and communist Groups

Seats: 100/500

The Keïta Imperialist Party Wins the Majority of Seats:

Modibo Keïta celebrated a massive victory over his opposition, the cult of the Keïta was able to sway voters, especially those living in more disparate villages. Modibo gave the following speech among his supporters shortly afterwards.

“The people of West Africa have spoken and they have put their faith and trust into me and the Imperial Dream of a Malian Federation. We in French West Africa demand the immediate preparation for independence from France. We demand the ratification of our own constitution made by and for the people of our new nation. We hold no ill will towards France and offer business, trade, and military ties but the time has come for France to go home.”

French West Africa is in Open Defiance

[list][list]FRENCH REACTIONS TO WEST AFRICAN ELECTIONS

2 January 1956 - Dakar, Senegal, Federation of West Africa[/list][/list]

| The French Union's governing body has made clear its official stance on the Federation of West Africa's most recent internal elections, which has seen a monarchist party sweep and declare victory. The monarchist party, a bloc led by Malian Prince Modibo Keita, has declared the Federation of West Africa as a greater Malian state under a reformed Keita Dynasty and has begun calling for the immediate withdrawal of France and the French Union from not just the Sudanese Republic, but from the entire Federation. French Union officials have responded to President Modio's election with disdain, seeing the election of Modibo as 'the election of a reactionary and nativist demagogue poised to ruin the internal workings of the French Union in West Africa' according to an anonymous source close to French Union President Charles de Gaulle. |

| Since his election, Modibo has referred to himself not as President-Elect or President, but as His Majesty and Emperor of Greater Sudan. The French Union, of which the internationally recognized West African Federation is a part of, has refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of this title, maintaining the existence of the West African Federation as a strictly democratic federal union within the republican system of the French Union. In all official references to Modibo, the French Union and French officials have strictly referred to him as His Excellency, President of the West African Federation, excluding the use of any royal titles or acknowledgement of royalty. High Commissioner Bernard Cornut-Gentille, representing the affairs of the French Union in West Africa, has stated the French Union's complete rejection of any noble hierarchy in any French colonies in Africa beyond Tunisia and Morocco: 'In the French Union's Constitution, it expresses that all French Union members are to be strictly, wholly democratic and adhere to the republican values and of liberty. The only exceptions to this are in Tunisia and Morocco, both protectorates of the French Republic itself. West Africa is just as Equatorial Africa, or as Madagascar- a democratic republic with a deep respect for the right of man and the rule of law, not the rule of one man over the law.' The High Commissioner, appointed by De Gaulle after the formation of the French Union in 1952, has been charged by the President to meet with Modibo Keita to discuss what France has called an illegitimate claim to royalty- it remains to be seen whether President Keita will accept this request. |

| President de Gaulle, for his part, directly commented on President Modibo's calls for an immediate withdrawal of France from the West African Federation, stating in an interview with Le Quotidien that '... it is the position of the French Union that it has the right as provided in the Constitution of the French Union, of which the West African Federation is a signing party, that the Associate States of the French Union such as the Kingdom of Tunisia, the West African Federation, and the Equatorial African Federation are all fully sovereign and independent. The French Union maintains its position to manage the foreign affairs and the economic affairs of these states, however in all matters of internal management, these states are in complete control of their own destiny. The Constitutions of the associated states have been made in the interests of the rights of the people and express the clear fundamentals of these states as independent countries within the French Union'. |

| General Paul Aussaresses, in charge of the military district of West Africa, has garnered controversy by stating that the French Forces in West Africa 'will continue to uphold the rule of law and the right of the French Union to manage the affairs of its members by any means necessary', seen by some in the French Union as an endorsement of military violence against dissenters. In a later statement, General Aussaresses doubled down on these comments. Within West Africa, alongside the West African Federal Army, the French Republic itself hosts units of the French IVth Army, consisting of roughly three regiments of Algerian and Moroccan infantry. The French Foreign Legion additionally operates in large numbers within the Federation, as it has since its early colonization. |

Grand Indochina, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

Emperor-President Modibo departs to Dakar

in the meantime he begins ordering local militias to prepare should negotiations turn ugly.

Czabalkia

2Nd New England Commonwealth wrote:Emperor-President Modibo departs to Dakar

in the meantime he begins ordering local militias to prepare should negotiations turn ugly.

| After the arrival of the President in the Federation's capital of Dakar, he is escorted by French Union police to the headquarters of the French Union's consulate in West Africa. Security is tight as the meeting involves to of West Africa's most important figures- the locally elected leader of the West African Federation, and the selected representative of the Union as a whole to the Federation. After being escorted to the High Commissioner's office, the two men shake hands and sit. |

[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Mr. President, President De Gaulle very much appreciates your presence today. Your willingness to cooperate with President De Gaulle and the French Union has shone a good light on your judgement."[/list]

Grand Indochina

Czabalkia wrote:| After the arrival of the President in the Federation's capital of Dakar, he is escorted by French Union police to the headquarters of the French Union's consulate in West Africa. Security is tight as the meeting involves to of West Africa's most important figures- the locally elected leader of the West African Federation, and the selected representative of the Union as a whole to the Federation. After being escorted to the High Commissioner's office, the two men shake hands and sit. |

[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Mr. President, President De Gaulle very much appreciates your presence today. Your willingness to cooperate with President De Gaulle and the French Union has shone a good light on your judgement."[/list]

Emperor-President Keïta:

It is in the best interest of both of us to keep stability. I came here today to at least attempt peaceful negotiation and prevent any bloodshed.

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia

2Nd New England Commonwealth wrote:Emperor-President Keïta:

It is in the best interest of both of us to keep stability. I came here today to at least attempt peaceful negotiation and prevent any bloodshed.

[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Stability is key to a prosperous future for West Africa, Mr. President, and France has a serious desire to ensure the political and cultural unity and stability of West Africa as it continues its path towards independence. The calls which you and your camp have been making in recent weeks- calls for the immediate withdrawal of the French Union in all facets from West Africa- all that would do is result in the total destabilization of the Federation. President De Gaulle wishes to oversee a slow and gradual independence which will give Africa time to properly develop and be integrated into the modern world."[/list]

Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, 2Nd New England Commonwealth

Czabalkia wrote:[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Stability is key to a prosperous future for West Africa, Mr. President, and France has a serious desire to ensure the political and cultural unity and stability of West Africa as it continues its path towards independence. The calls which you and your camp have been making in recent weeks- calls for the immediate withdrawal of the French Union in all facets from West Africa- all that would do is result in the total destabilization of the Federation. President De Gaulle wishes to oversee a slow and gradual independence which will give Africa time to properly develop and be integrated into the modern world."[/list]

Emperor-President Keïta

”Then respect the choice for immediate independence you may still hold military bases and other positions and we will even welcome advisors, but our minds are firmly set on pursuing immediate independence. We do not desire bloodshed or war but even the democratic will of the people to reestablish a monarchy has been under question by your officials.”

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Miwok-

2Nd New England Commonwealth wrote:Emperor-President Keïta

”Then respect the choice for immediate independence you may still hold military bases and other positions and we will even welcome advisors, but our minds are firmly set on pursuing immediate independence. We do not desire bloodshed or war but even the democratic will of the people to reestablish a monarchy has been under question by your officials.”

[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Mr. President, the decision regarding the pace of independence of former French territories in Africa has already been established when the French Union was created in 1952. West Africa, just like Madagascar and Equatorial Africa, has been given provisional autonomy, an autonomy far greater than almost any other former colonies in Africa. However, the violent nationalism which your party and your government has been promoting stands in the face of the decision which was made by the tribal and political leaders of West Africa and the government of the French Republic when West Africa agreed to receive autonomy and join the French Union. West Africa, like France, has a commitment to oversee a nuanced and measured independence process which has already begun and will only last a few more years. Additionally, the West African Federation has made an agreement with the French Union upon independence promising its guarantee to democracy and the republican institutions so long as it is in the French Union- therefore, the French Union has and will continue to refuse to recognize the legitimacy of a West African Empire so long as West Africa remains within the French Union as it pursues independence."

Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, Miwok-

Czabalkia wrote:[list]BERNARD CORNUT-GENTILLE, High Commissioner of West Africa: "Mr. President, the decision regarding the pace of independence of former French territories in Africa has already been established when the French Union was created in 1952. West Africa, just like Madagascar and Equatorial Africa, has been given provisional autonomy, an autonomy far greater than almost any other former colonies in Africa. However, the violent nationalism which your party and your government has been promoting stands in the face of the decision which was made by the tribal and political leaders of West Africa and the government of the French Republic when West Africa agreed to receive autonomy and join the French Union. West Africa, like France, has a commitment to oversee a nuanced and measured independence process which has already begun and will only last a few more years. Additionally, the West African Federation has made an agreement with the French Union upon independence promising its guarantee to democracy and the republican institutions so long as it is in the French Union- therefore, the French Union has and will continue to refuse to recognize the legitimacy of a West African Empire so long as West Africa remains within the French Union as it pursues independence."

Emperor-President Keïta:

Then I'm afraid there is nothing else to speak about. Let it be known I tried peace and was denied independence for my people by white colonial devils. I pray you come to your senses before your head ends up on a pike sailing into the Volta River.

With no further words the Emperor-President departs to Mali where he orders militia mobilization

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Miwok-, Teymour, Pacifica Occidentalis

2Nd New England Commonwealth wrote:Emperor-President Keïta:

Then I'm afraid there is nothing else to speak about. Let it be known I tried peace and was denied independence for my people by white colonial devils. I pray you come to your senses before your head ends up on a pike sailing into the Volta River.

With no further words the Emperor-President departs to Mali where he orders militia mobilization

| As President Medibo attempts to leave the French Union headquarters, he is instead detained by members of the French Union soldiers present on the grounds for treason against the French Union. The announcement is made via the radio of the detainment of President Medibo in Dakar due to treason against the French Union and the Constitution of the West African Federation, and that the French Union has recognized Senegalese politician Abdoulaye Mbaye, Speaker of the West African Federation, as the rightful President of the West African Federation. In French Sudan, where President Medibo had declared the establishment of the illegitimate Malian Empire, French Union forces are deployed in Bamako, Segou, Timbuktu, Gao, and other large cities. The forces are deployed due to President Keita's former calls for pro-Keita militias to organize in Mali before he had departed to Dakar, and the expectation of violence by Keita's armed supporters. |

Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, Miwok-, Teymour, Pacifica Occidentalis

West Germany

[sub]04JANUARY1956 | FRANKFURT/ WEST Germany[/sub]

The defeat of the Third Reich was still fresh in the minds of many of the population,  looking back on what they considered was the glory days of Germany and of the German people. However the war brought all of the dreams of empire to an end and now Germany was divided and one half was under the occupation of the communist while the other half choked under the pressure from the allied nations that governed them.

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Wilmer Schmid, a fast talking diplomat and former member if the Nazi Party had been making plans to rebuild the might of Germany as it had been. However for this to be accomplished the allies would need to be persuaded.

OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY From: Wilmer Schmid

To: -French Foreign Affairs Office

To whom it may concern. The West German government would like to extend a welcome to open diplomatic channels in order to discuss the possibility of limiting some of the restrictions placed on our nation at the end of the war. We do understand that the war was a horrible event that should never have happened, however to continue to punish a nation for it'spast is itself barbaric and takes us to the dark ages. Please take our request in consideration. [/box][/align]

Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Teymour, Pacifica Occidentalis

[list]MARCH 1954

CAIRO, EGYPT — MIDDLE EAST[/list]

[list][list][sub][pre]وطن - عمل - استقلال

The Homeland - Labour - Independence

REOPENING THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE[/pre][/sub]

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[list][sub]"When we speak of the tragedy of Palestine, or of the refugees, or of Dier Yassin, or of the rights of the Arabs. We receive blank stares! The Palestinians cry out everyday: “Help us, help us! Our homes are destroyed, we have no water to drink, no shoes for our feet, no food for our children, we have nowhere left to go, why aren’t you helping us?!” And yet, the world only offers silence. With ignorance and disrespect, they dare to ask us: what connects Egypt to Palestine? They want us to speak of these lands as foreign to us, but the lands and the Arabs that live on them are part of our family! How can you separate Gaza from Alexandria? Damascus from Khartoum? Jerusalem from Jeddah? Or from Baghdad? Cairo from Tripoli? How can we possibly separate them? Yes they may be within the borders of different countries, but the unity of the Arabs is so powerful it encompasses them all! The rights of our brothers and sisters in Palestine are non-negotiable and must be fulfilled. We want nothing more than to see them return to their homeland, to their villages and to their homes. Despite great difficulties, we are happy to see a glimmer of hope radiate from Gaza. The Arab people in Egypt are proud of the Arab people in Palestine, and how they have taken the steps to form a stable government. Our fate rests with the steadfast and resilient citizens of Palestine. It is in the interest of all of us that the Palestinian National Council continue to thrive as a model for all oppressed peoples who are taking back their dignity - agonizing step after agonizing step!"[/sub]

- JAMAL ABDEL NASSER[/list]

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[list][sub]The Palestinian National Council was proclaimed in the city of Majdal during the 1948 Palestine War, a city allocated to the Arabs per the defunct UN partition plan of the former-British Mandate. It operated on the basis of local ‘popular councils’ and allegiances with regional Bedouin tribes in southern Palestine. Most crucially, the Palestinian moderates which created the body, namely Musa Al-Alami, were willing to agree to the UN Partition Plan, correctly predicting that Arab-governments would be unprepared to defend the Palestinians. Al-Alami was proven correct. At the time Egypt’s government was unwilling to commit itself fully to the conflict, being pushed to do so due to internal public pressure. Syria’s army had no substantial gains to show for its participation in the war, and the Hashemite Monarchy in Jordan had struck a secret deal with the Jewish Agency which allotted the former ownership of the West Bank. Following the Arab defeat, the city of Majdal was consolidated into the Zionist occupation, and the National Council had no choice but to relocate south to Gaza. Qaddab was more concerned with how the blunders of the war would affect his credibility with the army and Egypt’s public, less so its implications for the Palestinians. Thus, the Palestinian National Council was given what was left of Egypt’s insignificant gains in Palestine, to rule over. Ignored by Cairo and by Egypt’s military representatives in Gaza. However, Musa Al-Alami was to prove in his own words: “that we will not be forgotten because we will build a functional state.” The Palestinian National Council was converted from a political body to a legislative body. By 1950, Palestinian society had arguably reached a level of plurality unforeseen even in the region’s other democracies. A liberal-secular People’s Party stood at the centre of the government, occupying 25 out of the 50 seat legislature. However, social democrats, religious conservatives, independents, religious minorities and even marxists had all gained varying degrees of representation in the opposition camp. By the 1950’s the state had set up its own civic policing force, tax code and even a court system. It created a constitution to be a model for a future Palestinian state beyond the armistice lines.

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[list][sub]"We, the people of the Republic of Palestine, a home of Arabs, Armenians, Christians, Muslims and Jews, freely and solemnly declare and establish this Constitution. In pursuit of freedom, justice, dignity and democracy and led by principles of self-determination, the Charter proclaims a new social contract, based upon mutual and peaceful coexistence and understanding between all strands of society. It protects fundamental human rights and liberties and reaffirms the peoplesÂ’ right to live free from persecution.

Under the Constitution, we, the people of the Republic, unite in the spirit of reconciliation, pluralism and democratic participation so that all may express themselves freely in public life. In building a society free from authoritarianism, tyranny, colonization and the occupation of our country, the Charter recognizes PalestineÂ’s territorial integrity and aspires to maintain domestic and international peace.

In establishing this Constitution, we declare a political system and civil administration founded upon a social contract that reconciles the rich mosaic of Palestine through a transitional phase from colonization, war and destruction, to a new democratic society where civic life and social justice are preserved."[/sub][/list]

[list][list]- PREAMBLE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF PALESTINE[/list][/list]

[sub]Egypt’s president gave a charismatic speech in the assembly of the Palestinian National Council in Gaza on March 1st 1954, outlining a new commitment to the cause of Palestinian self-determination. This poses as a fundamental break with the ‘policy of ignoring’ used by Egypt’s government up until Nasser, and is likely a sign that his vision of a more unified Arab consensus is very much on the political agenda. Nasser was accompanied by Foreign Minister Abbas Sohliyeh to oversee a policy that Nasser has called “one people two states” in his regular Arabist fashion. Egypt’s army had maintained a presence in the Gaza Strip since 1949, unofficially protecting it. The ambiguity of this relationship was likely a symptom of the lack of confidence the past Egyptian political establishment felt towards Gaza’s Palestinian leadership. The Republican Party had seen this as a situation which benefited the Zionist occupiers above all else, permitting them to make the argument that Egypt had no right to speak on Palestinian independence due to its presence in Gaza. Now, however, that establishment is gone. And the visit of the President asserts that the Republic of Palestine shall be treated by his administration, as a sovereign state, with its own institutions, which Egypt will befriend, not occupy. The nature of these relations are broad. Sitting next to Palestinian Foreign Minister Ahmed Hilmi Basha, and in front of President Nasser, the two-governments agree to a ‘Treaty of Friendship’ entailing Egyptian defence guarantees as well as cooperation to Palestine including an ‘understanding that the Republic of Palestine join the United Nations by at least January 1956’, ‘the recognition of the Republic of Palestine as a sovereign state’ and a commitment ‘to resist the unjust occupation of Arab land and the persecution of the Arab people.’ Egypt now stands as the first country to recognize an independent Palestinian entity, and is calling upon other Arab and non-Arab governments to follow in its example.

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[spoiler=✯ 𝐑𝐏𝐂 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃, 𝐄𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐄 𝐍𝐒! ✯]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Stahlrahm

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

Concorrdia

The Reunified German Reich

Aprosian Empire

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis

Lux Lumen[/spoiler]

Nonador, Otsla, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Pacifica Occidentalis

[pre] Addendum to my previous post. Consider this Part 2, so to speak.[/pre]

[pre]Year of the Water Snake

December 31 | 1953 [/pre]

中国各营的冲锋!

[sub]The Charge of the Chinese Battalions![/sub]

2030: PLAAF aircraft have engaged the air wing of the French carrier Joffre, docked in port in Tchan-Tung. A costly but tactically significant battle rages in the air, with China suffering several losses of aircraft and personnel. French Me-716s and MiG-15s are engaged in a fierce duel above northeastern Shandong, with both sides taking heavy casualties.

Employing tactics learnt by the Allies during the Second World War, Liu Yalou decides to take a risky move by assaulting the carrier itself, since its escorts are currently being attacked, and attacking, Chinese MiGs above. Despite the technical superiority of the French aircraft, the PLAAF possesses the numerical advantage at a ratio exceeding 10:1, and the High Command is willing to commit considerable losses to secure this objective.

Chinese artillery immediately begins a massive bombardment at the maximum possible fire rate toward the port, laying down a hail of explosive and death that has little tangible effect, but spreads chaos and confusion among French soldiers as they hasten to their posts. Rockets rain down on the Joffre in a furious storm, exploding into a starburst of death and leaving the ship itself largely intact, but affecting the French soldiers on deck.

A large scale aerial assault on the Joffre is likely to succeed, since it will take the form of a three-pronged offensive. Chinese MiGs above the city will harass French CAP aircraft, thereby occupying the majority of the aerial defence. Meanwhile, torpedo bombers (Tu-14) assault the French carrier from the waterline, in numbers not lesser than 55. Carrying 7 torpedoes each amounting to about 1000kg in ordnance weight, each of these poses a massive threat to the carrier. Their heavy armament means that they are resistant to AA fire to a great degree, and are used primarily to draw French ship-based artillery and defensive armaments away from the third and final prong: Pe-2 dive bombers, circling at 14.000 feet well out of range of French AA. A horde of Pe-2 bombers numbering 200 swoops down at speeds exceeding 250 knots and releases their load of incendiaries, high explosive and napalm before climbing rapidly out of range. The diversion of French AA fire means that these aircraft are able to proceed despite sustaining heavy losses.

Chinese soldiers onshore watch with bated breath as bombs rain on the Joffre from above while torpedoes race through the water towards its hull. There is a sudden flash of napalm striking steel as the explosives make simultaneous contact with the ship, and massive roar of ordnance as several explosions light up the ship, causing great plumes of water and hissing steam. The PLA aircraft have suffered losses in excess of 150, but the objective appears successful: the survivors limp back to base with their pilots glancing downward triumphantly at the now-cratered deck of the Joffre, exulting as they see the ship now listing in the water, its deck rendered unusable. With their prized asset in such peril, it is expected that the French will make efforts to withdraw it lest it be sunk.

Otsla, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Teymour

[pre]Year of the Wooden Sheep

November 30 | 1955 [/pre]

亚洲起飞!

[sub]Asia Alight![/sub]

The Maoist Burmese People's Republic under Aung San has aligned itself formally with Beijing, providing to the People's Republic of China a useful base from which to conduct operations in Southeast Asia to intervene in ongoing civil wars on the side of the Communist Viet Cong and Pathet Lao. Southeast Asia has always and will always be China's backyard, and thereby traditionally within the Chinese sphere. The artifacts of the Century of Humiliation have wrested from China its traditional hegemony over the region, and the ongoing pro-Maoist uprisings provide China with a useful- indeed, crucial- tool in reinstating it.

Colonial regimes, remnants of 19th Century Western imperialism, have dominated indigenous politics in Southeast Asia for decades, whether directly under the control of Western powers such as Singapore, or being governed by corrupt regimes propped up by the West. Liberation and independence movements similar to the Burmese Popular Front that liberated Burma from Japanese occupation after the Second World War have taken root all across Southeast Asia, most notably the Viet Cong in northern Vietnam, and the Pathet Lao in Laos. However, US and French aid to the incumbent regimes has provided the bourgeois dictatorships with an edge over the Communists in terms of superior training and equipment, despite the Communists retaining tremendous popular support in a region where typically government has been exploitative and practically incompetent.

Both parties originated ultimately from Ho Chi Minh's ICP, but have taken different paths since, and experienced varying degrees of success. The Pathet Lao is as of now embroiled in a costly war of attrition with the RLA, centred around the Laotian province of Luangprabang. Conversely, the Viet Cong have experienced far more success, effectively occupying both the northernmost provinces (Tonkin) as well as large sectors of Cochinchina. After what was tantamount to a French withdrawal from both of these states, both the RLA and the ARVN appear to be reliant on US aid to prop up what amounts to an illegitimate regime lacking in popular support.

The provision of "great power" assistance to both of these states has as mentioned unbalanced what should have been a victory for Communism in Asia. Despite the disadvantages, it is a testament to the tenacity of these guerrillas that they have endured and indeed excelled under such conditions of adversity.

However, China, the "big red mark" on the map to the North, has not been idle in its efforts to act to support the revolutionaries, manifest in its most remarkable aspect by the meteoric rise to power of Aung San's Maoists in Burma. Burma and Southern China will therefore act as a staging ground for large-scale Chinese involvement in both the Laotian and Vietnamese civil wars.

Guerrillas in Laos have been plagued by air strikes and aerial bombardment by RLA aircraft, including Bristol Beauforts and Mosquitoes obtained largely from the US and British Empire. The absence of effective air support for the Communists has affected their ability to conduct a sustained insurgency, with their supply lines being disrupted and their troops being harassed aerially.

However, the CCP Standing Committee has, after extensive deliberation, decided to assist in the Communist struggle through the provision of 3 Volunteer Aviation Divisions each to both Laos and Vietnam, numbering no less than 250 aircraft each. These shall be the newly acquired Shenyang J-5 highly advanced fighters, based off the Soviet MiG-17B, and the Shenyang J-2, a licensed production of the still-formidable Soviet MiG 15bis. In addition to these will be bombers; Tu-4 strategic bombers and H-5 heavy jet bombers, combined with ground attack aircraft in the form of Tu-SBs and Pe-2s as well as Il-10s.

These will operate in two wings per theatre- of which there are two, namely Laos and Vietnam. Wing A-1 and A-2 will handle Laos, with Wing A-1 having fighter aircraft (J-2s and J-5s) and Wing A-2 handling bombers, ground attack aircraft, and reconnaissance (done with the newly acquired Be-6 seaplanes). Wing A will operate from airbases in Shan State, Burma, that is those at Kengtung, Lashio and Namsang, all of which are less than 200km from the border with Laos.

Wings B-1 and B-2 will be devoted to Vietnam, and their composition will be similar to that described above. They will operate out of Yunnan province, at the airfields constructed by the ROC in the Second World War at Kunming and Jinghong.

These aircraft will be supplemented in their number by transport aircraft in both theatres, as well as 2 divisions of combat engineers.

Engineers will first of all infiltrate into the Laotian and Vietnamese jungle via Communist-held territory, and escorted by guerrillas of the above-mentioned organisations. Once within Laotian and Vietnamese territory, they will begin the rapid construction of inconspicuous dirt strips to function as airfields in both the Laotian and Vietnamese jungles. This will be done in such a way that the strips resemble from the air either fallow rice fields or cleared-out forest, with all fueling pumps, material stores etc being dug underground for concealment and protection from air raids. These airfields, numbering 20 in total with 10 for Laos and 10 for Vietnam, will be designed in such a way that they are flat and usable enough for fairly large Chinese transport aircraft such as the An-2 and Li-2, as well as gunships in the form of Yak-24s and Mi-1s, which will be staffed by volunteers of the PLAAF and bear napalm and anti-personnel rounds.

The operation of said air force will be as follows:

Fighter aircraft will engage RLA and ARVN fighter aircraft and destroy them through their massive technological and training superiority. They will also intercept and down any RLA or ARVN bombing raids by shooting down their aircraft.

Be-6 seaplanes operating off the Mekong will function as reconnaissance and light attack aircraft, using their superior performance while being escorted by J-2s to patrol and survey the jungle at low altitude, marking and reporting RLA and ARVN positions to be conveyed to the Communist guerrillas and the volunteer force.

Once the positions of the capitalist forces are known, preliminary bombing raids will be conducted by the bombers to target any heavy weaponry systems, AA guns, and fortifications.

Helicopter gunships will then move in on their positions, spraying napalm to kill personnel from above, and using their miniguns to provide suppressive fire for guerrilla assaults on the ground. They will also target and destroy any armour the capitalists may field. Again, they will be escorted by fighters, and accompanied by ground attack Il-10s which will strafe and demoralise the RLA/ARVN forces.

The transport aircraft (specifically chosen for their rugged and adaptable nature) will operate from airfields in China and Burma to bear armaments, supplies, medical equipment, and combat advisors to positions in the jungle where they will meet with guerrillas, assisting them tactically through the advisors and tangibly through the airbridge that will keep Communist forces supplied once air superiority over Indochina is secured.

Additionally, the second division of combat engineers will begin immediate construction of a trail leading from the mountains of Yunnan to both northern Laos (till the extent of the PL advance) and northern Vietnam (again, till the extent to which the VC has advanced). Chinese trucks will bear arms (cheap Type 56 assault rifles, 57mm AA cannon, S-25 SAM installations, 130mm AA guns, and mortars and field artillery), food, medical supplies etc. The use of air superiority over the region will be utilised to ensure that the trail is kept open and running at all times, with guerrillas being trained in logistical tactics etc. to help ensure this.

Finally, the Burmese People's Liberation Army will be trained effective immediately for both offensive and defensive operations to the east.

[spoiler=tags]Miwok-

Grand Indochina[/spoiler]

Otsla, Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, Miwok-, Teymour

[list][B]ຄວາມບໍ່ສະບາຍທາງອາກາດ! • AIR INFERIORITY![/list]

[sub]December 1955 | Kingdom of Laos[/sub]

With the direct intervention from the People's Liberation Air Force on behalf of the invading Pathet Lao and Viet Minh, the Royal Lao Air Force ordered a branch-wide grounding of all aircraft and planned aerial sorties as to conserve what aircraft the Air Force does have remaining in it's small, outdated inventory. In comparison to the threat posed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich jets, the aerial firepower needed by the Royal Lao Air Force fell overwhelmingly short, forcing the very humiliating and reluctant grounding. Angered Royal Lao Air officers alongside Major General Phoumi Nosavan whom requested Air Force assets from the US Department of Defense in August 1954 but was denied, demanded to meet with the purveyors of the Programs Evaluation Office, and were granted permission for a meeting with retired Brigadier-General Rothwell H. Brown.

The Programs Evaluation Office, temporarily working from a former tenement building in downtown Vientiane, opened it's gates up for a 4x4 Willy Jeep staffed with disgruntled Royal Lao Air officers, driven personally by Nosavan who dawns a pair of aviator sunglasses below his furrowed brow, a red beret fixtured over his neat trimmed hair. Considered the "Iron Fist" of the Royal Lao Armed Forces, Major General Phoumi Nosavan is a military strongman by all accounts, and a loose cannon when in regard to cooperating with US support channels. Nosavan seethed at the notion of being considered a puppet, or Laos a proxy, of Washington DC, setting him apart from many (though not all) within the Corps of Officers of the Royal Lao Armed Forces whom otherwise welcomed the US training and support.

The officers, with Phoumi Nosavan at lead, entered the building which was now a large makeshift office space for the clandestine US civilian personnel operating in Laos, with men shuttling around classified documents to other offices within the building. The officers were led to the desk of Rothwell H. Brown, Head of the Programs Evaluation Office and Commanding Officer of the 1st Provisional Tank Group in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Goodmorning, Mr. Nosavan, I was told by my secretary you'd be stopping by, I didn't know you were bringing the whole gang with ya..."

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "These are my Air Force officers, they can do nothing with the inferior aircraft in our arsenal. No more games, Mr. Brown, we need firepower!"

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Your English is pretty good, I'm surprised. So, am I to assume you're going to ask me to get the Department of Defense to approve the request you made for aircraft last year?"

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "That is precisely what you are to assume."

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "I see you're a man of few words, I also see you haven't bothered giving me the respect of removing your sunglasses while you speak to me, but irregardless of your petty behavior, I have come to understand that the Chinese People's Liberation Air Force has officially intervened on behalf of the Pathet Lao invasion. The aircraft you requested in 1954 were not necessary against a guerrilla force with absolutely no aerial support. However, those circumstances seem to have changed now that Mao is sinking his claws into Indochina. Not even we knew China's involvement would sink this far."

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "You will support the request then?"

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Yes, I will deliver the request with my personal endorsement to the Department of Defense. I cannot say how long this process will take, but I will ensure the Defense Department is made well aware of the situation on the front. That's the best I can do. Is this satisfactory?"

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "This is."

[I]Upon confirmation, Major General Nosavan saluted the retired Brigadier-General and exited the office, his accompanying Air Force officers in tow.

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "That's one cocky son of a bitch..."

[spoiler=ON THE FRONTLINES: LAOS AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNISM]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Stahlrahm

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

Concorrdia

The Reunified German Reich

Aprosian Empire

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis[/spoiler]

Otsla, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

Gaia Major wrote:[spoiler=RP THEME]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL25h_xqIzY&list=PLlO0ckvbly9XD-2deWfpqKfSTRUifmuKQ&index=4[/spoiler]

[pre] Year of the Water Dragon

1953: December 31 [/pre]

入龙!

Enter the Dragon!

[pre] The French Concessions of Tchan Tung, comprising the cities of Yantai and Weihai, have long been a thorn in the new self-respecting Chinese nation's side. A relic of the loathed Century of Humiliation, the French Union has refused to return this Chinese clay to the People's Republic, citing that since the treaty was made with the now-moribund Qing, any of its contents must be considered null and void due to their refusal to recognise the PRC as the successor state of the aforementioned. Their refusal to concede these territories through peace has left the Chinese no choice but to win them back by force, as the[/pre] CCTF and NEFF [pre]were instructed to do. What follows is the Chinese account of the Battle of Tchan-Tung (Shandong), wherein Chinese troops move via the Hubei line to a suitable assault position, and begin the assault on French Tchan-Tung. [/pre]

|On a Ridge Overlooking French Tchan-Tung|

[sub]The CCTF moves under cover of night to within striking range of French Shandong. The Hubei LineÂ’s rail takes them to within 25 km of the city, from where they travel to the hill range surrounding the city via foot and by concealed civilian truck. The heavily forested slopes are used to conceal their advance to the extent possible.

Lieutenant Jin Youzhi stands atop a hill, one of many surrounding the French cities of Yantai and Weihaiwei at a distance of about 20km. He glances at the French Foreign Legion personnel laughing and making merry at its outskirts, at the sleek ships gliding along its mirror-like port waters. It is time, he thinks to himself as a north wind rustles the leaves towards his purported target.

Lowering his binoculars, he turns back to his men who straddle the crests of the hills with their artillery positions.

He breathes a single, potent word: “Fire.”

And so, the dragon wakes.[/sub]

1800: About 100 MiG 15s and 200 Il-28s of the 23rd, 3rd, 4th, and 18th Aviation Divisions of the PeopleÂ’s Liberation Army Air Force take off from bases at Rizhao, Qingdao, Shanghai and Tianjin. Upon reaching the French cities,100 Il-10s from Rizhao (12th Aviation Division) are escorted each by a pair of MiGs, and armed with napalm, air-to-ground rockets, and 1500kg of high explosive.

The MiGs use their cannon armed with incendiaries to locate and ignite French artillery and anti-air batteries, taking heavy losses in the process.

However, once identified, Il-10s, designed for this very purpose, engage the batteries with bombing runs, in order to eliminate the majority of anti-air capability. The French coastal artillery downs several Il-10s in the process, although their low rate of fire cripples their ability to make significant dents in the air force. Engaging artillery emplacements, a pair of Il-10s dive from about 10000 feet, well out of range of the artillery, and loose about 40 rockets in rapid succession. As they dive, they enter a storm of lead as French anti-air throws up a mighty fury at them. However, the rockets momentarily strike the ground and the roar of anti-air grows silent. The Il-10s wheel upward and join their MiG escorts circling above at altitude.

Once the anti-AA bombing runs are completed, the Il-28 heavy bombers approach Yantai and Weihaiwei from the northeast, the PLAAF airfield at Tianjin. These heavy bombers will be tasked to the neutralization, along with assistance from La-9 ground attack aircraft, of French armour and heavy artillery.

La-9s swoop low from their cruise altitude, firing anti-personnel rounds at French infantrymen, who sustain heavy casualties. The lack of personal anti-air weapons means that they are unable to defend against assault from the air, and many exposed positions are strafed with great effect, the Foreign Legion personnel sustaining casualties. However, French infantrymen display considerable tenacity in their courageous defence of the city, with about 20 La-9s being downed solely by French small arms fire.

Ground strafing is followed by substantial aerial bombardment by Il-28s. The type was recently acquired by the PLAAF, and is well known for its exemplary precision when it comes to hitting targets from altitude.

These aircraft are fully loaded with 4000kg of ordnance, including Tetrytol. Select Il-28s carry napalm instead of the regular explosive ordnance. These roughly 15 aircraft rendezvous with Chinese and Soviet MiGs over Dongying and proceed to the heavily defended ports of Yantai and Weihai. Equipped with ShVAK cannon, the MiGs mow down any shipping that passes below them in the Bohai Sea as they proceed to their destination, all PRC sailors whether military or civilian having strictly been instructed to remain ashore for the duration of the week.

Upon reaching the port of Yantai, Soviet aircraft break east towards Weihai and engage in their own air strikes. Meanwhile, PLAAF Il-28s continue north towards Yantai, whereupon they overfly the city, already devastated by airstrikes, and reach the port. Prior to reaching the drop zone, they pitch sharply up and climb to 12000ft, safe from any remaining artillery fire. They establish a bombing cycle similar to those seen in the Second World War, wherein the designated “safe zone” has a traffic pattern of about 100 bombers that fly in circular paths, with about 5 breaking downward and dispatching their bomb loads before rejoining the pattern. Chinese MiGs patrol the airspace around the safe zone, wary of any French Air Force resistance that should present itself.

The Il-28s target port infrastructure at first with their conventional ordnance, destroying cranes, derricks, docks, walkways, and other infrastructure necessary for the functioning of the port.

Subsequently, the napalm-bearing Il-28s then break towards the main port area, made out of wood like the majority of such infrastructure in Asia, where steel equipment is yet to find wide use. They firebomb the entire port region, sustaining losses of about 3% from French artillery fire, with about 3 aircraft being downed. However, they manage to hit their targets effectively and the entire port is set ablaze.

Napalm bombing is sustained by the La-9s of the 17th Aviation Division, who also strafe any personnel attempting to put out the fires.

1900: Artillery battery ensues, bombarding both Yantai and Weihaiwei. The Katyushas of the 78th Artillery Division, numbering about 250 in total, engage in sustained rocket bombardment of French positions in both cities, with targets such as machine gun emplacements being targeted specifically. The PLA presses its initial advantage of surprise to attack the majority of French heavy weapons installations, thereby destroying most of their capacity to withstand siege. The Katyushas and BM-31s excel in delivering short, sharp blows of artillery fire, however, the gaps in reloading them are sustained with a continuous bombardment by 122mm guns of the regiment. In addition, French soldiers attempting to break out of the perimeter, as well as those exposed to fire, are targeted by the field artillery of the PLA 26th Corps. Any personnel who leave the defensive perimeter of Tchan Tung would be subjecting themselves to the greatest peril. The sustained artillery bombardment is targeted towards military rather than general purpose/civilian installments, aiming for and destroying port infrastructure, defensive positions, etc.

The rocket artillery and the conventional artillery take turns in bombarding the city, where while the Katyushas are firing, the regular artillerymen descend into the tunnel system to restock the guns, reload, rest and recuperate, and vice versa while they are firing.

1930: Sunset has descended upon the battlefield. The artillery bombardment has left both Yantai and Weihai a shattered scene of destruction. However, now that the defences have been softened, the battle will truly begin. A droning sound can be heard in the distance as a squadron of An-2 transport aircraft escorted by MiGs make their way up to the cities from the south. They come bearing a deadly cargo: over 800 crack troops of the 1st Airborne Brigade. The squadron splits into two wings, each carrying 400 personnel. One turns to a heading of 85 degrees as it begins the flight northeast to Yantai, while the other continues on course to Weihai.

Meanwhile, the 115th and 116th Divisions of armour and mechanized infantry, comprising about 250 tanks and 300 infantry vehicles, begin the journey to the city, bearing on their roofs and holding on to their rails infantry of the PLA, amounting to 40.000 in number in addition to their comrades who are marching with the tanks. They travel north to the city of Muping, roughly equidistant from both French holdings.

1945: Armed with SVT-40 semi-automatic battle rifles, Type 36 submachine guns, and with each of the 8 companies participating receiving 2 SG-43 machine guns, 400 paratroopers jump under cover of darkness over Yantai (east of Chujia), and respectively 400 over Weihai (Chucun), the light of the Chinese moon glinting off their bayonets as the white of their parachutes billows abruptly and they waft down to the ravaged ports of the cities. Landing on the western extremities of the Yantai coast and the eastern of Weihai, they work their way to the centre (Gangwan and Huancui), establishing a salient and defeating any French armed resistance in these areas that survives after the bombing runs, and dig in by establishing defensive positions using their machine guns in the buildings they have cleared out, holding on till they are relieved.

Once a secure beachhead is established, the mechanized component of the CCTF spearheaded by the 115th and 116th roar their engines as they charge up the muddy banks of the many streams in this delta region, whipping up storms of wet and soggy clay as they rush to establish a stable front. Upon reaching the Yangtze estuary, they bifurcate, with 125 tanks, 100 vehicles and about 20,000 men being diverted to Weihai, with the rest proceeding to Yantai. Task Force A is tasked with securing the Yantai front, and Task Force B with Weihai.

Task Force A assaults the eastern perimeter of Yantai (Sunjiatuanzhen), where the 1st Airborne have established positions and are holding off French Legion Étrangere soldiers. The soldiers riding the T34/85 tanks leap off, and the tanks advance into the city under a hail of suppressing fire from their machine guns, picking off French riflemen. They clear a path for the PLA infantry men of 20 Corps who leap off and charge at the French lines, raising a bloodcurdling cry of “For China!”. Infantry vehicles quickly move to secure the flanks of the spearhead, using the softened-up French who are now being subjected to cannon fire from the T34s as a pivot to double envelop the Chinese and French lines, and subject the French rearguard to attack, in addition to the combined arms assault on their vanguard. The combination of machine gun fire from the infantry vehicles, machine gun and cannon fire from the tanks, and rifle battery as well as successive bayonet charges by the infantry make French resistance difficult if not futile. As the assault continues, Chinese aircraft including Il-10s continually engage in dive bombing and strafing attacks on the French, demoralizing and damaging their resistance efforts.

In Weihai (Xianguding-Yangjia), Task Force B encounters lesser resistance, as the majority of the French colonial garrison is in Yantai. They quickly push through the streets, with the tanks relieving the beleaguered paratroopers, and the infantry and IFVs fanning out for street to street fighting. Civilian dignity and honour is respected as the soldiers are instructed to adhere to the 3 Rules and 8 Points with religious attention, or face stringent repercussions. Any resistance is swiftly dispatched under air cover by MiG-15s of both Soviet and Chinese provenance. Il-28 bombing runs continue on both Yantai and Weihai.

2030: Artillery batteries resume, this time concentrated on the southern perimeter of both cities(towards Wendeng) where the bulk of the French forces remain. This time they take the form of a barrage, targeting and destroying French defensive positions on the frontline. Meanwhile, Il-28s engage in bombing sorties targeting bunkers and MG nests, while Il-10s strafe French riflemen and MiGs launch rockets and napalm at French positions. Troops at the coast of both cities begin the push southward, with tanks and IFVs defeating resistance on the streets, and infantrymen combined with personnel of the PeopleÂ’s Armed Police numbering 7000 pigeonholing between houses and defeating any opposition within the buildings. They advance on the French lines from the north, while those selfsame lines are taking bombardment from the south and from the sky. Artillery is used under FFE, where for a period of about 15 minutes its maximum fire rate is sustained, dealing a heavy blow to the French.

2045: Artillery begin to fire smoke shells, as the gentle northward wind blow the smoke toward the French lines, obscuring French visibility but ensuring that the PLA have full sight of the French positions and of the battlefield. Within minutes, French lines are covered in smoke. The PLA uses this confusion of the French to its advantage, with 26 CorpsÂ’ armoured component charging at the French lines at Yantai, a massed line of about 100 tanks supported by artillery fire and air strikes. In the chaos caused by this, the 88th Division (Urban Warfare) slips into the French lines, and uses its training in hand-to-hand combat during the Civil War to spread discord and destruction among the French, in order to dismantle organized resistance, which the tanks and mechanized infantry move in to mop up. Meanwhile, Task Force A assaults the same French lines from the North, trapping the French in a hailstorm of death as they are subjected to assault from all 4 sides and from the air. Artillery bombardment of French positions continues as the Chinese prepare the final charge.

Meanwhile, at Weihai, Task Force B assaults the French positions from the north and west, digging in rather than pushing and repelling French attempts to turn them back. Suffering heavy casualties, they dig in behind the cover provided by the buildings and destroyed cars as the French slowly begin to push back.

Seeing the dire situation, General Chen Yi diverts the 88th, 58th and 79th divisions toward French lines, where they strike from the southeast against the soft French flank, presenting the French with another two-front encirclement. The Foreign Legion personnel are subjected to continued artillery bombardment, and napalm runs from the PLAAFÂ’s MiGs. PeopleÂ’s Armed Police move through the buildings of both towns, quelling unrest and killing any combatants hiding within. Soviet aircraft continue to control the skies over Weihai, and it is expected that their ships at Longkou will assist in the assault. As the smoke of war clears, China has suffered losses: 10000 dead or injured. But the PLA is poised on the precipice of victory

In addition, about 15000 personnel of the 13th Infantry Division have invaded and annexed the largely undefended minor settlement of Guangzhouwan, formerly Vietnamese territory.

Chinese troops march on the colonial office at Yantai, and it remains to see how the French Union will respond.

[list][list]LA GUERRE POUR TCHAN-TUNG

31 December 1953 to 2 January 1952 - French Settlements in Tchan-Tung[/list][/list]

| The unmitigated attack against Tchan-Tung by the People's Republic of China had long been an anxiety among French military commanders in Asia and among the general population living in Tchan-Tung including the large population of fugitive mainlanders whom had fled the civil war for hopes of a better life in Tchan-Tung. The Chinese invasion on New Year's Eve hadn't necessarily come as a surprise, but was still unwelcome and, upon the commencement of an initial bombardment against Tchan-Tung, both Port de Plancy and Tche-Fow were sent into a frenzied panic as civilians abandon all celebrations and rush to government shelters. As the civilians enter underground bomb shelters, the Tchan-Tung Regimental Defense Garrison begin their initial defensive operations. |

| While the fury of the first few hours' assault would certainly put the Tchan-Tung Regimental Defense Garrison to the test, the Chinese had made a key blunder in attacking Tchan-Tung after the signing of armistice in Korea; the newly signed peace agreements would allow the full might of the allied forces in Korea to be directed towards defending Tchan-Tung. Therefor, around 8:10 in the evening, President de Gaulle sends a message to RDG commander Charles Chanson: at the very least, if one of the territory's ports is defended for three days, the war shall be won. |

| General Chanson's numbers and equipment, though limited, are founded upon nearly sixty years of defensive preparation along the edges of the territories. The primary basis of the static defenses consists of the territories' large artillery batteries and anti-air batteries, with each city hosting a variety of 5-inch, 6-inch, 7.6-inch, and 340-mm guns. The PLAAF's fighter-bombers, mostly consisting of World War II Soviet monoplanes, are scrambled en masse to strafe and disable the Regimental Defense Garrison's artillery guns. In Tche-Fow, they find some success, disabling three five inch guns and a 7.6-inch gun, however by the time the PLAAF fighter-bombers reach Port de Plancy, the Regimental Defense Garrison's anti-air batteries are manned and ready to track and destroy squadrons as they enter French airspace. Additionally, the FS Joffre, in harbor at Port de Plancy, is able to mobilize entire squadrons of Me 716 carrier fighters, extremely more maneuverable and better armed than the PLAAF's Il-10s or even their MiG-15 counterparts. In total, the Joffre is able to field all thirty five of its Me 716's in only a single hour, which are dispatched to intercept and destroy any Chinese aircraft attempting to enter French airspace along the aerial perimeter under assault by the PLAAF. The Me 716s are joined by the RDG's native Petain IM fighters, a small force consisting of only 15 of the aircraft. However, when every number counts, even the 15 Petain IMs are put to use denying the PLAAF the ability to sufficiently attack military and logistical targets in Tchan-Tung. |

| As Chinese infantry and armor begin their assault on the city well after dark, the Tchan Tungers begin to utilize spotlights and flares to illuminate the sparsely developed outlying fields and communities directly beyond the twin cities from which the assaults are spearheaded. In order to inflict massive casualties on the P.L.A. before they can begin their assault on Tchan-Tung directly, the Regimental Defense Garrison begins a counter-bombardment on the advancing P.L.A. with the city's huge static artillery positions. Using this counter-bombardment to hold off the initial assault, the garrisons in Tche-Fow and Port de Plancy utilize the delay in the assault to fortify defensive positions primarily through sandbagging streets, deploying barbed wires in key chokepoints, and establishing mortar pits and machine gun nests in vantage points. The damage inflicted on the advancing Chinese by the various artillery guns is extensive, however within a few hours, the Chinese numbers grow enough to advance upon the two cities. |

| Under extensive fire from the air, the Regimental Defense Garrison and the present French Foreign Legion soldiers in Tchan-Tung focus on establishing a defense policy based on the principles of urban warfare. What limited armor is present consists mostly of light tanks such as M8 Greyhounds and M3 Halftracks which are positioned in strategic positions behind corners and in garages. The damage caused to civilian buildings and infrastructure is immense but by utilizing the buildings for cover, most of the infantry are somewhat well protected. However, casualties are inescapable. |

| As the Chinese assault begins in earnest, the French soldiers are given the order to hold the line at all costs. Well armed due to the excess of allied weapons present in Tchan-Tung and Korea due to the Korean War, the Regimental Defense Garrison is still fairly overwhelmed by the Chinese forces, particularly in Tche-Fow. Utilizing unconventional warfare, however, the French forces are able to hold out on every block where possible, and inflict heavy casualties on the advancing Chinese for a minimal return of casualties. In such tight fighting conditions and surrounded on all sides, the Regimental Defense Garrison fight like devils as they had in Korea and performing exceptionally well due to a mix of quality arms and quality training. |

| Overnight, High Commissioner Jean-Christophe Lebas receives permission from General de Gaulle and General Charles Chanson to issue an executive order, 'Tchan-Tung Executive Order #1101'. The order, subtitled 'Order Authorizing Prioritization of the Defense of Tchan-Tung', authorizes the local government with the power to command and control the local economy to prioritize the establishment of a war economy, giving High Commissioner Lebas direct and temporary control over all economic activity in Tchan-Tung as well as authorizing the conscription of an additional 14,000 Tchan-Tungers for immediate service in the Regimental Defense Garrison for the duration of the crisis. Additionally, the order establishes an immediate path to French citizenship for any undocumented or documented refugee, male or female, and their immediate family living within Tchan-Tung, if they join military service under the specially created 'Sino-French Unit'. The diaspora population in Tchan-Tung, over a million Chinese civilians who had fled the mainland during the Civil War, have great reason to fight against the incursion of the P.R.C. into one of the last bastions of democracy in China, and within twelve hours of the signing of the executive order at 11:45P.M., roughly 4,500 of the nearly 1.2 million Chinese refugees sign up to join the Sino-French Unit. General Charles Chanson, the commanding officer of the Regimental Defense Garrison, is appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Tchan-Tung Defense Forces, comprising the Regimental Defense Garrison, the Sino-French Unit, and any other further military units deployed to Tchan-Tung excluding units of the French Foreign Legion. The commander, who had presided over the disastrous defeat of Diem Biem Phu in the Indochina War, has once again found himself in command of a decisive battle determining the fate of France's last remaining colony in East Asia. |

| In Korea, where the armistice had recently freed up over 100,000 Franco-German and French Foreign Legion soldiers for active service, United Nations Commander Charles Noguès is recalled by President De Gaulle from his post as commander of all U.N. Forces in Korea to serve simply as Commander of Franco-German Forces in Korea. Immediately after the confirmation of an attack against Tchan-Tung, President De Gaulle orders the withdrawal of the Franco-German forces from Korea not back to Europe but instead directly to Tchan-Tung to, once again, see active service after only having less than a week of peace. Although demoralized over their lack of a clear victory in Korea, fighting on French soil has hardened the soldiers resolve as they prepare to begin arriving in Tchan-Tung by Sunday morning, three days after the initial invasion. |

| On the seas, the French Far East Asia Fleet in Tchan-Tung are scrambled to begin patrolling the waters between Tchan-Tung and Korea for any P.L.N. vessels scouting the waters, and to also escort the transports bringing the Franco-German soldiers from Korea to Tchan-Tung. |

| By morning on January 2nd, the situation has developed into a deathly stalemate. In the chaos of the previous two day's of fighting, the Regimental Defense Garrison had suffered nearly 2,300 casualties including 1,450 confirmed dead. However, aided by conscription and volunteers seeking French citizenship, the lines had been bolstered with a mix of civilian-soldiers, most with a limited training due to the voluntary two year's training for Tchan-Tung civilians. The Joint Tchan-Tung Defense Forces, now bolstered from 9,000 to roughly 16,000 and growing by a couple hundred every few hours as the invasion lingers, puts up a fierce defense in the face of mounting casualties on both sides, awaiting the arrival of French air and ground forces from Korea and Cochinchina. In the air, the Me 716s had outperformed Soviet MiG-15s but, in small numbers, had suffered 6 planes shot down out of the total of 40. The Petain IMs had outclassed the Soviet monoplanes fielded by the P.L.A.A.F., but had performed poorly against the MiG-15s, losing 8 of 15 and an additional 3 taking damage. |

| As the situation mounts, France also begins to put diplomatic pressure on the People's Republic of China. Seeing the war in Tchan-Tung as an extension of the Korean War, France immediately puts forward a resolution to the United Nation's Security Council, U.N.S.C. Res. 99, asking the United Nations Command to provide material and manpower support to France against the Soviet Union, the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese Communist Party. Additionally, France requests the deployment of American and British personnel to Tchan-Tung to defend against the communist aggression there. Outgoing U.S. President Harry S. Truman, as part of the Truman Doctrine, promises the support of 20,000 American troops in Korea by "the end of January". The first regiments of American infantry and armor will arrive in Tchan-Tung alongside only days after the arrival of the first waves of French and German reinforcements. |

Nonador, Otsla, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Teymour

Miwok- wrote:[list][B]ຄວາມບໍ່ສະບາຍທາງອາກາດ! • AIR INFERIORITY![/list]

[sub]December 1955 | Kingdom of Laos[/sub]

With the direct intervention from the People's Liberation Air Force on behalf of the invading Pathet Lao and Viet Minh, the Royal Lao Air Force ordered a branch-wide grounding of all aircraft and planned aerial sorties as to conserve what aircraft the Air Force does have remaining in it's small, outdated inventory. In comparison to the threat posed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich jets, the aerial firepower needed by the Royal Lao Air Force fell overwhelmingly short, forcing the very humiliating and reluctant grounding. Angered Royal Lao Air officers alongside Major General Phoumi Nosavan whom requested Air Force assets from the US Department of Defense in August 1954 but was denied, demanded to meet with the purveyors of the Programs Evaluation Office, and were granted permission for a meeting with retired Brigadier-General Rothwell H. Brown.

The Programs Evaluation Office, temporarily working from a former tenement building in downtown Vientiane, opened it's gates up for a 4x4 Willy Jeep staffed with disgruntled Royal Lao Air officers, driven personally by Nosavan who dawns a pair of aviator sunglasses below his furrowed brow, a red beret fixtured over his neat trimmed hair. Considered the "Iron Fist" of the Royal Lao Armed Forces, Major General Phoumi Nosavan is a military strongman by all accounts, and a loose cannon when in regard to cooperating with US support channels. Nosavan seethed at the notion of being considered a puppet, or Laos a proxy, of Washington DC, setting him apart from many (though not all) within the Corps of Officers of the Royal Lao Armed Forces whom otherwise welcomed the US training and support.

The officers, with Phoumi Nosavan at lead, entered the building which was now a large makeshift office space for the clandestine US civilian personnel operating in Laos, with men shuttling around classified documents to other offices within the building. The officers were led to the desk of Rothwell H. Brown, Head of the Programs Evaluation Office and Commanding Officer of the 1st Provisional Tank Group in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II.

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Goodmorning, Mr. Nosavan, I was told by my secretary you'd be stopping by, I didn't know you were bringing the whole gang with ya..."

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "These are my Air Force officers, they can do nothing with the inferior aircraft in our arsenal. No more games, Mr. Brown, we need firepower!"

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Your English is pretty good, I'm surprised. So, am I to assume you're going to ask me to get the Department of Defense to approve the request you made for aircraft last year?"

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "That is precisely what you are to assume."

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "I see you're a man of few words, I also see you haven't bothered giving me the respect of removing your sunglasses while you speak to me, but irregardless of your petty behavior, I have come to understand that the Chinese People's Liberation Air Force has officially intervened on behalf of the Pathet Lao invasion. The aircraft you requested in 1954 were not necessary against a guerrilla force with absolutely no aerial support. However, those circumstances seem to have changed now that Mao is sinking his claws into Indochina. Not even we knew China's involvement would sink this far."

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "You will support the request then?"

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "Yes, I will deliver the request with my personal endorsement to the Department of Defense. I cannot say how long this process will take, but I will ensure the Defense Department is made well aware of the situation on the front. That's the best I can do. Is this satisfactory?"

[B]Maj.Gen. Phoumi Nosavan: "This is."

[I]Upon confirmation, Major General Nosavan saluted the retired Brigadier-General and exited the office, his accompanying Air Force officers in tow.

[B]Brig.Gen.(Ret) Rothwell H. Brown: "That's one cocky son of a bitch..."

[spoiler=ON THE FRONTLINES: LAOS AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST COMMUNISM]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Stahlrahm

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

Concorrdia

The Reunified German Reich

Aprosian Empire

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis[/spoiler]

[list][list]FRANCE PROMISES 'FULL SUPPORT' FOR LAOS AGAINST CHINA

19 January 1956 - FAFB de Lagrée, Louangphabang, Kingdom of Laos[/list][/list]

| In a show of military strength in southeast Asia, the French Union has promised its full military support for the Kingdom of Laos as it continues to battle the Pathet Lao and their Communist Chinese allies. The new campaign, spurred on by the reemergence of the Pathet Lao after their initial defeat against the French in 1947, has been intensified by President De Gaulle at the insistence of Noël Beaubois, Presidential Military Analyst in the South East Asia Region, who has called recent Chinese air support for the Pathet Lao 'a direct assault on the free and fair government of the Kingdom of Laos'. Laos, the first French colony to gain its independence in Indochina, had previously been a bastion of stability amid communist insurgencies in Cambodia and Vietnam, but has become a fierce battleground in the ideological conflict between the West and the Communists and the site of a proxy invasion by the People's Republic of China, who France continues to claim as illegitimately claiming control of China. |

| The Pathet Lao's gains in Laos have been accelerated by Chairman Mao's most recent efforts to support their campaign against the Royal Laotian Army in a massive air campaign. In order to effectively counter this air campaign, the French Ministry of Defense has authorized the sale of 250 Hispano-Suiza HS.404 anti-aircraft guns and six Dassault Ouragan fighters to the Royal Laotian Army. Additionally, the French Air Force has been authorized by the French Union's legislature and President de Gaulle to employ force against the Pathet Lao and the People's Liberation Army Air Force in Laos. Four air squadrons of the French Air Force reside in Laos, all four fighter squadrons, comprising a total force of thirty two Dassault Mysteres. While the fighter squadrons in Laos had previously not been authorized to engage hostile targets, the French Air Force has been given full permission to engage and destroy both air and land targets in Laos. |

Otsla, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-

Hello all! Very happy to be here!!!

Grand Indochina, Teymour

New Swaraelia wrote:Hello all! Very happy to be here!!!

Good to see new faces ! Hello mate !

New Swaraelia, Teymour

Grand Indochina wrote:Good to see new faces ! Hello mate !

Hello!! This region seems a bit intimidating haha, but I want to rp at some point. IÂ’ve seen the beginners guide just kind of...uh...being in awe

Grand Indochina, Miwok-, Teymour

New Swaraelia wrote:Hello!! This region seems a bit intimidating haha, but I want to rp at some point. IÂ’ve seen the beginners guide just kind of...uh...being in awe

Hope you will enjoy your stay at our region ! Also, remember to join our Discord, it is like 1000x cooler than what we are currently displaying right now.

New Swaraelia

Grand Indochina wrote:Hope you will enjoy your stay at our region ! Also, remember to join our Discord, it is like 1000x cooler than what we are currently displaying right now.

Ah, well, I donÂ’t have a discord haha, but I hope being an enthusiastic loser with no friends or life more than compensates!

New Swaraelia wrote:Ah, well, I donÂ’t have a discord haha, but I hope being an enthusiastic loser with no friends or life more than compensates!

That's not a problem, did you have any countries you were currently interested in?

I too would like to join the RP for this region but have the lack of a discord. How would I go about joining in?

New Swaraelia

Kraskow wrote:I too would like to join the RP for this region but have the lack of a discord. How would I go about joining in?

Just download discord on the website or app store. As to rp, read here, https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1397404

New Swaraelia, Kraskow

[pre]Year of the Wooden Sheep

1955 | December 3[/pre]

发挥我们的优势!

[sub]Pressing Our Advantages![/sub]

The intervention of the PLAAF on the behalf of the Pathet Lao in the ongoing Laotian Civil War has proven to be a success beyond the most optimistic expectations of the CCP. The unprecedented grounding of the RLA Air Forces have provided the Pathet Lao with a critical and time-sensitive advantage, with the elimination of airstrikes freeing up their offensive capabilities and laying the groundwork for large-scale offensives into territory held by the Kingdom of Laos.

France's intervention is seen as an illegitimate attempt to prop up imperialists for sustained Western exploitation of Asia- despite their having faced the People's Republic of China now three times on the field of battle, they continue to refuse recognition of the PRC as the true China, instead throwing all their weight behind the illegitimate government-in-exile in Bangkok. However, the ragtag force of Mystéres and Ouragans have proven largely ineffective against the far more lethal MiG-17s they primarily face. Possessing the advantage of greater maneuverability, climb rate, and top speed, as well as pilots who are seasoned veterans of both the Korean War and the Battle of Tchan-Tung, the Chinese MiGs negate the armament gap between the two aircraft types by engaging close to the tree line, and employing their superior cannons, a weapon seen as obsolete by the West, to destroy French aircraft that can pull up in time to evade crashing into the trees.

Notorious in the international press has become the PLAAF-orchestrated Death Alley, a narrow air corridor spanning the width of central Laos that is the haunt of the MiGs and the site of innumerable air battles. Chinese tactics of the infamous 'MiG Pair' have gained notoriety for their brutal effectiveness and translation of flight hours into kills. In this operation, Chinese MiG pairs operating in groups of 3 seek out French aircraft and engage in situations when they are numerically superior. Breaking off from their squadrons, MiGs harass individual French jets, with one aircraft looping over and giving chase from behind, causing the Frenchmen to dive for the trees. At that point the other MiG swoops down from altitude, presenting the Mysteres with a situation in which climbing would mean meeting death from the MiG which possesses the energy advantage, turnfighting its way out of the situation would mean being subjected to lethal raking fire from both aircraft as well as Pathet Lao AA installations scattered through the jungle, and diving would mean a grim death by crashing into the Southeast Asian jungle.

This tactic of engagement is employed to great effect in Laos, with the PLAAF sustaining minimal casualties of about 18 MiGs downed, and the French by some estimates anywhere between 25 & more than twice that number. This combined with the vast numerical superiority of the Chinese means that sustained French resistance would provide no benefit to the French Union.

French pilots in their Ouragans are piloting aircraft that cannot compete with the maneuverable J-2s. The Ouragan, possessed of a notorious tendency to break apart in tight turns, is drawn into precisely such scenarios by Chinese pilots, who utilise the manoeuvrability of the J-2 in their superior numbers to engage Ouragans in a turning dogfight, with two J-2s tackling each Ouragan. The J-2's autocannon combined with rockets prove devastating at this short range, inflicting painful losses on the RLAAF while sustaining minimal casualties, with few aircraft being damaged irreparably.

The PLAAF also initiates a large-scale bombing campaign, whose purpose is to destroy the RLAAF as it idles on the ground, as well as to demoralise Lao resistance. Chinese H-5 jet bombers press the recently-acquired advantage of air superiority to target Laotian airfields, bombing the runways as well as destroying aircraft on the ground. Given the poorly-equipped nature of the RLAAF, this is likely to have more emotional than strategic significance, with the pivot in the dynamic of the conflict as a result of PLA air superiority demoralising a Lao force used to easy victories and air superiority against the communists.

Tu-4 and Tu-14 jet bombers move in massive numbers in a strategic bombardment campaign across Laos, flying more than 1000 sorties in a massive effort that targets Laotian infrastructure: roads, factories and ammunition depots are all targeted by these aircraft, which carry loads in excess of 6000kg of explosive and napalm, to seek out RLA installations in the Laotian countryside, a campaign which experiences some success, with the destruction of several rail lines, factories, airstrips and so on. Vientiane airport is also overflown and any French aircraft on the ground are bombarded from the sky.

A few isolated raids on Vientiane itself also occur, but the geographical separation between the capital and the PL lines mean that very little damage is actually dealt.

What amounts to 3 conflagrations in 5 years with the French Union saddens Chairman Mao. Both are mighty nations regaining their footing on the international scale after being ravaged by war, and despite their differences in politics, would have much to gain from setting these differences aside and working for mutual benefit rather than mutual destruction.

THIS IS A PROPAGANDA POST

[spoiler=tags]Miwok-[/spoiler]

Nonador, Otsla, New Swaraelia, Miwok-

Proposed Meeting with the British: January 1956

Chairman Mao Zedong proposes a top-level summit between himself and the Right Honourable Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in order to discuss the ongoing British withdrawal from Malaya as well as potential British trade relations.

Nonador

Nonador, New Swaraelia

Post by People Republie Of Alaska suppressed by Val Verde-.

People Republie Of Alaska

United Socialist States of People republie of alaska my nation was in cold war my military west and east military equipment was in Warsaw pact and though the 1950s to 1991 here is Spetsnaz special forces 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, "Arctic Wolves"

5th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment,

1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment,

1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment,

3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment,

2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment, "Automatic"

70th Brigade Engineer Battalion, "Kodiak"

65th EOD Company

25th Brigade Support Battalion, "Opahey"

Arctic Support Command (Provisional)

539th Composite Trucking Company (subordinate to 17th CSSB at JBER)

574th Composite Supply Company (subordinate to 17th CSSB at JBER)

626th Field Feeding Company (subordinate to 17th CSSB at JBER)

28th MP Detachment (Law Enforcement) (subordinate to 17th CSSB at JBER)

549th MP Detachment (Military Working Dog)

Northern Warfare Training Center

1st Battalion, 52nd Aviation Regiment (GSAB) (subordinate to 16th CAB at JBLM)

1st Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment (ARB) (subordinate to CAB, 25th ID at Wheeler AAF)

D/25th Aviation Regiment (Gray Eagle) (subordinate to CAB, 25th ID at Wheeler AAF)

MEDDAC Alaska

the 673rd Air Base Wing:

HQ, Army Alaska

4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, "Spartans"

1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, "Denali"

1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, "1 Geronimo"

3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, "3 Geronimo"

2nd Battalion, 377th Field Artillery Regiment, "Spartan Steel"

6th Brigade Engineer Battalion, "Oak"

716th EOD Company

725th Brigade Support Battalion, "Centurion"

241st Quartermaster Company (Brigade Aerial Delivery)

17th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion (Subordinate to Arctic Support Command at Fort Wainwright)

4th Quartermaster Company (Theater Aerial Delivery)

109th Transportation Company

205th Modular Ordnance Detachment

98th Support Maintenance Company

486th Movement Control Team

95th Chemical Company

545th MP Detachment (Law Enforcement)

9th Army Band

Army Field Support Battalion Alaska

59th Signal Battalion (part of 516th Signal Brigade)

HHD, 59th Signal Battalion (Network Enterprise Center)

C Company, 307th Expeditionary Signal Battalion

SFC Brevard NCO Academy (ADCON to Arctic Support Command at Fort Wainwright)

Reserve component units located throughout the state include:

Alaska Army National Guard:

Joint Force Headquarters

207th Multi-Function Training Regiment

Recruiting and Retention Battalion

Medical Detachment

38th Troop Command

1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment (GSAB)

1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment

49th Missile Defense Battalion

297th Regional Support Group

297th Military Police Company

208th Construction Management Team

207th Engineer Utility Detachment

134th Public Affairs Detachment

49th Personnel Detachment

Alaskan Army Reserve:

2nd Battalion, 196th Infantry Brigade

Company B, 411th Engineer Battalion Jump to Special military equipment - Contents. 2.1 Pistols. 2.2 Assault rifles. 2.3 Sniper rifles & designated marksman rifles. 2.4 Machine guns. 2.5 Grenade launchers. 2.6 Rocket propelled grenade launchers. 2.7 Anti-tank guided missiles. 2.8 Man-portable air-defense systems.

T-55 & T-54

T-62

T-64

T-72

T-72B2

T-72B3

T-72B3M

T-80

T-80 models

T-80UE

T-80UK

T-80UM

BMD-3 Bakhcha AA

BMD-2

BMD-3

BMD-4

BMP-3

UAZ Jaguar

UAZ-452

UAZ-469

Ural-4320

ZIL-131

BMP 1 BMP -2 BMP - 3 Alaskan bmp 4

BRDM-2

BTR-40

BTR-60

BTR-70

BTR-80

GAZ 46

VPK-7829 Bumerang 2K11 Krug

2K12 Kub

9K31 Strela-1

9K33 Osa

9K35 Strela-10

Pantsir missile system

Polyana-D4

PPRU-1

Ranzhir

ZSU-23-4 Shilka 1PN51

1PN51-2

1PN58

Bashlyk

EMT-7

GP-5 gas mask

MPL-50

PMK gas mask

Podvorotnichok

Ratnik (program) 2K1 Mars

2K6 Luna

9K52 Luna-M

82-BM-37

82-PM-41

AGS-17

AK-47

AK-74

AK-630

AKM

APS underwater rifle

B-11 recoilless rifle

BS-1 Tishina

Dragunov sniper rifle

Drozd

Ghost rockets

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

GP-25

IP-2

Kashtan CIWS

Kiss of death (firearm)

Kolokol-1

LPO-50

Makarov pistol

MON-50

MON-100

MON-200

Novichok agent

PBS-1 silencer

PFM-1

PK machine gun

PSM pistol

RBU-1000

RBU-1200

RBU-6000

RGD-5

RKG-3 anti-tank grenade

Rocket-propelled grenade

RPD machine gun

RPK

RPO-A Shmel

Sarin

Shipunov 2A42

ShKAS machine gun

SKS

Soman

SPP-1 underwater pistol

Stechkin automatic pistol

TKB-506

TKB-517

TM-46 mine

TM-62 series of mines

Tokarev Sportowy .22 Lr

Tsar Bomba

Type 53 torpedo

Type 65 torpedo

UB-32 (rocket pod)

VR (nerve agent)

ZSU-23-4 Shilka RPG-18

RPG-22

RPG-26

RPG-27

RPG-7

SPG-82 Altay-class oiler

Soviet submarine K-222

Khobi-class tanker

Soviet destroyer Krasny Kavkaz

Russian ship Liman

Ondatra-class landing craft

Soviet destroyer Otvazhny (1964)

Uda-class oiler Soviet hospital ship Armenia

Căpitan Romano Mihail-class armored motor launch

NMS Constanța

Eestirand

Soviet battleship Frunze

Soviet gunboat Krasnoye Znamya

SS Lenin

Metel

HMS Royal Sovereign (05)

NMS Sborul

Sibir (1937 icebreaker)

NMS Smeul

NMS Sublocotenent Ghiculescu

SS Tashkent

Soviet patrol boat Tuman

USS West Bridge

Soviet monitor Zhelezniakov Soviet aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov

Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov

Soviet aircraft carrier Kiev

Kiev-class aircraft carrier

Soviet aircraft carrier Minsk

Moskva-class helicopter carrier

Soviet aircraft carrier Novorossiysk

Project 1153 Orel

Project 11780 Soviet battleship Arkhangelsk

Soviet battleship Frunze

Italian battleship Giulio Cesare

K-1000 battleship

Soviet battleship Marat

Soviet battleship Novorossiysk

dshk

airborne forces

AK-47

AK-63

AK-74

AKM

ALFA M44

AMD-65

Cugir machine gun

Dragunov sniper rifle

ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenade

Kbkg wz. 1960

M4 bayonet

M5 bayonet

M14 rifle

M16 rifle

M31 HEAT rifle grenade

M49 submachine gun

M60 machine gun

M73 machine gun

Pistol Mitralieră model 1963/1965

PK machine gun

RK 62

RK 71

RL-83 Blindicide

RPD machine gun

RPK

SG-43 Goryunov

SIG 310

Škorpion

SKS

Type 56 assault rifle

Type 58 assault rifle

Type 67 machine gun

Type 81 assault rifle

vz. 59

Vz. 52 machine gun

Vz. 52 rifle

Vz. 58

Zastava M70

Zastava M72

Zastava M76

Army/Air Force/Space Force – ACU

currently, two patterns are in use – MultiCam, also known as OEFCP, and OCP, a pattern similar to but distinct from Multicam

Marine Corps – MCCUU

(woodland and desert variants)

Navy – NWU

Currently, two patterns are in use: AOR-1, which is primarily tan, and AOR-2 (shown above), which is primarily green.

Air Force – ABU

Coast Guard – ODU

Coast Guard members assigned to deployed or deployable units and those cross-assigned to Navy commands wear the NWU.

PRA Bayonne

PRA Bisbee

PRA Burlington (PF-51)

PRA Evansville (PF-70)

PRA Everett (PF-8)

PRA Foss (DE-59)

PRA Gallup (PF-47)

PRA Glendale (PF-36)

PRA Gloucester (PF-22)

PRA Groton (PF-29)

PRA Hoquiam (PF-5)

PRA Laning (DE-159)

PRA McCoy Reynolds

PRA Newport (PF-27)

PRA Sausalito (PF-4)

PRA Tacoma (PF-3)

Alaskan marines weapons and vehicle RK 62

RK 71

Tikka M55

Tikka M65

Valmet M82

Valmet Sniper M86 KK 62

Lahti-Saloranta M/26

Maxim M/32-33 Sd.Kfz. 250

Sd.Kfz. 251

Sd.Kfz. 252

Sd.Kfz. 253 BMP-1

BMP-2

PT-76

PT-76B

PT-76E T-54/T-55

T-54/T-55 operators and variants

T-54-1

T-54-2

T-54-3

T-54A

T-54AM

T-54B

T-54K1

T-55A

T-55AD Drozd

T-55K1

T-55M

T-55MV Object 279

Object 292

Object 478

Object 483

Object 490A

Object 770

Object 785

OT-55 Praga RN

Praga RND

Praga RV

Praga V3S

Tatra 72

Tatra 81

Tatra 82

Tatra 92

Tatra 111

Tatra 813 air force Bartini A-57

Ilyushin Il-46

Ilyushin Il-54

Myasishchev M-4

Myasishchev M-50

Myasishchev M-60

OKB-1 150

Tupolev Tu-16

Tupolev Tu-22

Tupolev Tu-85

Tupolev Tu-95

Tupolev Tu-98

Yakovlev Yak-26

Yakovlev Yak-25

Yakovlev Yak-28 Ilyushin Il-40

Tupolev Tu-91 Chyeranovskii BICh-26

Lavochkin La-250

Mikoyan-Gurevich 23-01

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-75

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family

Sukhoi P-1

Sukhoi Su-7

Sukhoi Su-9

Sukhoi T-3

Yakovlev Yak-25

Yakovlev Yak-27

Yakovlev Yak-140 Beriev Be-6

Yakovlev Yak-25

Yakovlev Yak-27 Antonov An-8

Antonov An-12

Ilyushin Il-14

Kamov Ka-22

Mil Mi-4

Mil Mi-6

Tupolev Tu-75

Tupolev Tu-107

Yakovlev Yak-24 Antonov An-14 Kamov Ka-20

Kamov Ka-25

Mil Mi-14 Mil Mi-24

Sukhoi Su-7

Sukhoi Su-17 Tupolev Samolyot 135

Tupolev Tu-125

Yakovlev Yak-33 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family

Sukhoi Su-11

Sukhoi Su-15

Sukhoi T-49

Tupolev Tu-28

Yakovlev Yak-33

Yakovlev Yak-36 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25

Tsybin RSR

Tupolev Tu-123 Antonov An-22

Antonov An-24

Antonov An-26

Kamov V-50

Mil Mi-10

Mil Mi-22

Mil V-12

Mil V-16

Yakovlev Yak-60 Kamov Ka-26

Mil Mi-2

Mil Mi-3

Mil Mi-8

Mil Mi-20 Ilyushin Il-38

Tupolev Tu-142 Mikoyan MiG-27 Sukhoi Su-25 Sukhoi S-6

Sukhoi Su-24

Sukhoi T-4

Sukhoi Su-25 frog foot

Tupolev Tu-22M Mikoyan MiG-29

Mikoyan MiG-31

Mikoyan MiG-33 Tupolev Tu-141 A-90 Orlyonok

Antonov An-32

Antonov An-72

Ilyushin Il-76

Mil Mi-17

Mil Mi-26 Beriev A-40 Ilyushin Il-102

Kamov Ka-50

Kamov V-80

Kamov V-100

Mil Mi-28

Mil Mi-42 Myasishchev M-18

Sukhoi T-60S

Tupolev Tu-160 Beriev A-50

Ilyushin Il-80 Sukhoi Su-30

Sukhoi Su-30MKI

Sukhoi Su-30MKK

Sukhoi Su-33

Sukhoi Su-35

Yakovlev Yak-141 Myasishchev M-55 Sukhoi Su-28 Ilyushin Il-78 Sukhoi Su-34 Mikoyan MiG-29K

Sukhoi Su-37

Sukhoi Su-47 Kamov Ka-137 Ilyushin Il-106

Kamov Ka-60 Kazan Ansat Yak-24 Mil Mi-24 / Mi-35 FAB-5000 S-5 rocket

S-8 (rocket)

S-13 rocket

S-24 rocket

S-25 (rocket) 23×115mm

23×152mm

Afanasev A-12.7

Afanasev Makarov AM-23

Berezin B-20

Berezin UB

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

Nudelman N-37

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45

PV-1 machine gun

Rikhter R-23

Savin–Norov machine gun

ShKAS machine gun

Shpitalny Sh-37

ShVAK cannon

SIBEMAS

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23

Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7mm machine gun 23×115mm

23×152mm

Afanasev A-12.7

Afanasev Makarov AM-23

Berezin B-20

Berezin UB

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

Nudelman N-37

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45

PV-1 machine gun

Rikhter R-23

Savin–Norov machine gun

ShKAS machine gun

Shpitalny Sh-37

ShVAK cannon

SIBEMAS

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23

Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7mm machine gun 23×115mm

23×152mm

Afanasev A-12.7

Afanasev Makarov AM-23

Berezin B-20

Berezin UB

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

Nudelman N-37

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45

PV-1 machine gun

Rikhter R-23

Savin–Norov machine gun

ShKAS machine gun

Shpitalny Sh-37

ShVAK cannon

SIBEMAS

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23 23×115mm

23×152mm

Afanasev A-12.7

Afanasev Makarov AM-23

Berezin B-20

Berezin UB

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

Nudelman N-37

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45

PV-1 machine gun

Rikhter R-23

Savin–Norov machine gun

ShKAS machine gun

Shpitalny Sh-37

ShVAK cannon

SIBEMAS

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23

Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7mm machine gun 23×115mm

23×152mm

Afanasev A-12.7

Afanasev Makarov AM-23

Berezin B-20

Berezin UB

Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

Nudelman N-37

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

Nudelman-Suranov NS-37

Nudelman-Suranov NS-45

PV-1 machine gun

Rikhter R-23

Savin–Norov machine gun

ShKAS machine gun

Shpitalny Sh-37

ShVAK cannon

SIBEMAS

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23

Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7mm machine gun M41 Walker-Bulldog The Patton Series of tank M46 though M60 Patton tanks M551 Sheridan.

People Republie Of Alaska

Your post was suppressed since you did not make an app to the moderator team. Use this factbook as a reference, please.

Zanbala Prz wrote:Just download discord on the website or app store. As to rp, read here, https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1397404

New Swaraelia

Nasaira wrote:West Germany

[sub]04JANUARY1956 | FRANKFURT/ WEST Germany[/sub]

The defeat of the Third Reich was still fresh in the minds of many of the population,  looking back on what they considered was the glory days of Germany and of the German people. However the war brought all of the dreams of empire to an end and now Germany was divided and one half was under the occupation of the communist while the other half choked under the pressure from the allied nations that governed them.

 Â

Wilmer Schmid, a fast talking diplomat and former member if the Nazi Party had been making plans to rebuild the might of Germany as it had been. However for this to be accomplished the allies would need to be persuaded.

OFFICIAL DIPLOMATIC MESSAGE FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY From: Wilmer Schmid

To: -French Foreign Affairs Office

To whom it may concern. The West German government would like to extend a welcome to open diplomatic channels in order to discuss the possibility of limiting some of the restrictions placed on our nation at the end of the war. We do understand that the war was a horrible event that should never have happened, however to continue to punish a nation for it'spast is itself barbaric and takes us to the dark ages. Please take our request in consideration. [/box][/align]

TO MR. SCHMID, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

[list]The government of the French Union is appreciative of the interest of the government of the Federal Republic of Germany to discuss the removal of restrictions upon the Federal Republic of Germany regarding wartime activities and subsequent treaties signed between the Allied Powers and, later, the Federal Republic of Germany. However, as per the independence of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Allied Powers maintain the right to remove and emplace restrictions upon the Federal Republic of Germany regarding any issues relating to military affairs and de-nazification. The French Union is aware of your own personal relation to the Nazi Party and we believe your request to be ill-intended.

The French Union maintains a strong zero association policy with former Nazi associates who have been cleared of guilt. Therefore, we will refuse to contact any members of the Federal Republic's government who have former Nazi Party ties.

Any requests for any negotiations regarding the stipulations of the independence of the Federal Republic of Germany should be submitted directly to the Rhineland Mutual Cooperation Zone's Allied High Commissioner to be forwarded to the joint Anglo-French Governing Commission.[/list]

FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE FRENCH UNION

Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Teymour

Happy and sombre Remembrance, Armistice, Veterans Day to all, 102 years since the Armistice of Compiègne ending military action during the First World War, signed at 05:45 by French Marshal Ferdinand Foch and entered into effect at 11:00 Paris time on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 18th year of the 20th century.

With proud Thanksgiving, a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal.

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.

There is music in the midst of desolation,

And a glory that shines upon our eyes.

They went with songs of the battle, they were young,

Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.

They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;

They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall not grow old, as we are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning?

We will remember them.

They mingle not with laughing comrades again;

They sit no more at familiar tables of home;

They have no lot in our labour of the day time,

They sleep beyond EnglandÂ’s foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,

Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,

To the innermost heart of their own land they are known

As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,

Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;

As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness

To the end, to the end, they remain.

Grand Indochina, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Kraskow

I don't know any family members sever in us military in ww1 ww2 any war over years I really don't know.

New Swaraelia

People Republie Of Alaska wrote:I don't know any family members sever in us military in ww1 ww2 any war over years I really don't know.

Who are you I am from old greece

New Swaraelia

Good but I am down it Veterans Day I have nobody in family sever in wars any wars in us history

Gaia Major wrote:Proposed Meeting with the British: January 1956

Chairman Mao Zedong proposes a top-level summit between himself and the Right Honourable Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in order to discuss the ongoing British withdrawal from Malaya as well as potential British trade relations.

Nonador

[list]COMMUNIQUE FROM THE BRITISH FOREIGN MINISTRY[/list]

| [sub]Prime Minister Prescott Rothschild accepts the invitation of Chairman Mao, and proposes the summit be held in the city of Singapore. In the interest of the United Kingdom, and her dependencies, Rothschild expresses his hope for a very productive meeting especially in light of recent events in Southeastern Asia.[/sub] |

New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Teymour, Gaia Major

Could I ask first of all what scenario this is and also what countries are unclaimed considering the map dispatch is a scant 180 days without update?

New Swaraelia wrote:Could I ask first of all what scenario this is and also what countries are unclaimed considering the map dispatch is a scant 180 days without update?

The map is generally up to date on our discord that's why. But the scenario is just Cold War, year 1956. We try as much as possible to remain along realistic lines to offer the most legitimate geopolitical RP environment. However, as of now there are a whole swathe of countries available including Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Thailand, Pakistan, Burma, Mexico, Czechoslovakia,

and Poland are all open

New Swaraelia

Miwok- wrote:The map is generally up to date on our discord that's why. But the scenario is just Cold War, year 1956. We try as much as possible to remain along realistic lines to offer the most legitimate geopolitical RP environment. However, as of now there are a whole swathe of countries available including Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Norway, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Iran, Finland, Hungary, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Japan, Thailand, Pakistan, Burma, Mexico, Czechoslovakia,

and Poland are all open

Thanks! May I be Czechoslovakia, then, or is there an application to fill out?

Also, IÂ’veÂ’nt a discord because IÂ’ve had some subpar experiences on it in the past and previous attempts of suicide have left in cutting social media.

Miwok-, Teymour

New Swaraelia wrote:Thanks! May I be Czechoslovakia, then, or is there an application to fill out?

Also, IÂ’veÂ’nt a discord because IÂ’ve had some subpar experiences on it in the past and previous attempts of suicide have left in cutting social media.

Thats understandable, I'm sorry to hear that and we'll respect your wishes friend. Yes there is an application process, just provide your claim, the nation you wish to use to RP, and a brief summary of Czechoslovakia's history and or political aspirations. Put it into a factbook and Telegram it to me

Czabalkia, Teymour

1955

West Africa Redux and Recut

A Speech Given by Former Minister of the Colonies:Louis Jacquinot

”It is my great honor to welcome a new graduating class of African students. It has always been Frances hope to civilize, modernize and release the African people as productive members of the global community. It was Jules Ferry who claimed our mission was Mission civilisatrice. It makes me proud to look upon you all here today, your bright beaming faces, and to know that someday soon you will lead your nation to greatness. Remember this, to love each other, to take care of each other, and to stick together. There are many insidious forces within and without the will seek to destabilize and terrorism this new state and strangle the road to independence in it's crib. There is no Mandinka, Fulo, or Yorubans. There is only West Africans. The future may not always be easy, and it may not always be bright, but you will have each other and you will have France should you ever need a guiding hand. Thank you, and congratulations to you all.”

Public Reaction

The speech was perceived well by the average African many feeling hope for the future and that the new generations of educated students may lead the nation to greatness. Some, however, especially the Marxists and other radicals saw the message as Neo-colonialist and Imperialist, claiming that this speech was an attempt to enforce the status quo and encourage West African loyalty post-independence. Despite all the arguing and discussion about the speech, it was clear to most, West Africa's future, with a slowly educating populace would be one of brightness, and prosperity.

Teujira, Czabalkia, East Germany Ddr

Sweden - 1955

Newspaper headlines and radio waves around Sweden had announced the decided reorganization of the Swedish arms manufacturer, Bofors. Since the dawn of the Cold War, Sweden had been reconciling it's losses in terms of reputation, attempting to rebuild the relationships it had with the United Kingdom, in particular. Deciding that it was now important to focus on the independence of Sweden morally, socially, and economically, the Swedish government approached Bofors with an offer in an attempt to rebuild the economy in favor of Sweden. Bofors accepted, and reorganized the company entirely, establishing a new CEO, cutting international ownership ties, and receiving millions of Swedish krona in an effort to restart the company. The Swedish government explained this move as one to put Swedish business and products in the fore front of our minds, and to establish a safe and secure economy in these modern times. Although the government received some criticism, the issue was largely put off by the public. In an effort to gain the favor of the Soviet Union in the matter of exports and imports, as well as the favor of Social Democrats in the nation; Foreign Minister Östen Undén reached out to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov of the USSR (Liberalina). Attempting to keep such events out of the public eye until the meeting could be set and established as successful, Foreign Minister Östen Undén also reached out to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs of the United Kingdom (Nonador) publicly for a meeting in London to discuss the matter of affairs between Sweden and the United Kingdom, and ways in order to amend their ties and other such matters. This year, 2 ordered Halland Class Destroyers from 1951 were completed in the Götaverken and Eriksberg Yards in Göteborg. They feature new caliber 50 Bofors guns, 120 mm. Fully automated, they fired at 40 rpm at great angle, equally efficient against planes. The forward turrets were both fitted with three RFL or Rocket (Flare) launchers on either side. Bofors also developed a 57 mm variant of 60 caliber for the destroyer. They two destroyers were named HSwMS Halland and HSwMS Småland, respectively. In other news, the nation mourns the death of Swedish Olympian Paul Isberg, who died this year. He sailed with his crew in the Stockholm 1912 Olympics and earned Sweden a gold medal in the 10 metre class for men's sailing.

Teujira, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Teymour

Hello! Can I take India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? Since the last person role-playing India left. Also will I be able to carry the same technology and reforms he had?

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia

Bharatiya Ganrajya wrote:Hello! Can I take India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? Since the last person role-playing India left. Also will I be able to carry the same technology and reforms he had?

YouÂ’ll need to put in an application to the mod team via a factbook. Also, we kindly ask that you join our discord to allow us to communicate with you directly :)

New Swaraelia, Bharatiya Ganrajya

Czabalkia wrote:YouÂ’ll need to put in an application to the mod team via a factbook. Also, we kindly ask that you join our discord to allow us to communicate with you directly :)

Yep, I've joined the server, and I'll do the Factbook shortly.

Czabalkia, New Swaraelia

[list][list]THE ARAB KINGDOM - THE MIDDLE EAST'S NEWEST STATE

14 April 1956 - Baghdad, Royal Capital Province, Arab Kingdom[/list][/list]

| In the Arab World, political events have been rapidly unfolding across the entire spectrum of nations inhabiting it- in Egypt and Syria, government changes both violent and non-violent have caused the rise of nationalist politicians such as Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein and Syria's Adib Shishakli; in Gaza City, the Egyptian-created Republic of Palestine has been controversially accepted as a member state of the United Nations; and in Iraq and Jordan, the unfortunate death of Iraq's boy-king Faisal II created a power vacuum which has allowed for the establishment of the Middle East's newest state: the Arab Kingdom, or al-Mamlakah al-Arabiyah in Arabic. Led by 21 year old King Hussein bin Talal bin Abdullah bin Hussein of the Hashemite Dynasty, the Arab Kingdom has been established as the powerful dynastic merger of the Hashemite Kingdoms of Iraq and Jordan into a single, united entity under the King of the Arabs, Hussein. |

| The formation of the Arab Kingdom has been a short, complicated, and tumultuous affair that began upon the tragic death of King Faisal II of Iraq in a car accident at age 19 in February 1955. The death of the King, who had no clear heir, resulted in the development of a succession crisis between two camps- that of Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah and Prince Zeid bin Hussein. The succession crisis, consisting of armed conflict within the military and in the general public, was brought to an end by a political and military coup staged by the Neutralist faction on 11 June 1955 in the June Revolution. Lead by Prime Minister Nuri al-Said and supported by the U.S., the U.K., France, and Jordan, large dissatisfied factions within the army and the general public revolted and took control of Baghdad and Ramadi, the capitals of the Loyalist and Zeidist movements respectively, and executed both Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah and Prince Zeid for treason against the Iraqi people. A succession council was set up to find a claimant to the Iraqi throne, and Jordanian King Hussein was selected due primarily to his popularity in Jordan and Iraq, his young age, and his commitment to liberal principles. King Hussein was crowned King of Iraq on 7 July 1955 in a private ceremony in Baghdad, which was followed by the merging of the Crowns of Jordan and Iraq, both Hashemite Kingdoms, into the position of King of the Arabs. |

| Since the unification of the royal dynasties into a single Kingship, King Hussein and the royal governments of Iraq and Jordan have begun the process of political unification between Iraq and Jordan into the unitary Arab Kingdom. Established officially on 19 September 1955, the Arab Kingdom has consisted of three territories: Iraq, home to the national capital of Baghdad; Jordan; and Cisjordan, otherwise known as the West Bank Area, part of Palestine formerly claimed by Jordan and recognized by the United Kingdom as being part of the Kingdom. Due to its importance economically and culturally to the Arab World, Baghdad has been chosen to serve as the capital of the Arab Kingdom with the Jordanian capital of Amman being relegated to serving as a dynastic home for the Hashemite family away from Baghdad. Since the proclamation of the Arab Kingdom on 19 September, the royal government including the ministers, the Supreme Court, and the Ministry of Defense have been moved to Baghdad to occupy the offices formally used by the Iraqi government. King Hussein, from al-Zuhoor Palace, has overseen a smooth establishment of government. |

| In a reaffirmation of King Hussein's commitment to liberal and constitutional monarchy, the Constitution of the Arab Kingdom has laid out the basis for the establishment of a unicameral legislature known as the Royal Parliament. The Royal Parliament shall consist of delegates elected from the governorates of all three royal territories. In Iraq, one delegate will be elected per 50,000 citizens, while in Jordan and West Bank, one delegate will be elected per 10,000 to represent the massive population differences between Iraq and the rest of the Kingdom. In total, the Jordanian governorates will send 73 representatives to Baghdad, the West Bank governorates will send 70, and the Iraqi governorates will send 127. The first parliamentary elections, scheduled to occur in November 1956, will see all seats be up for election. As of now, candidates have joined and formed various candidates with the intention of gaining a majority in the legislature. The parties registered and running in the 1956 elections are as follows: |

[list][*] The National People's Party led by Nuri al-Said

[*] The National Socialist Party led by Suleiman Nabulsi

[*] The Arab Communist Party(Baghdad) led by Husain al-Radi

[*] The Arab Communist Party(Amman) led by Fu'ad Nassar

[*] Hizb ut-Tahrir led by Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani

[*] The Liberal Party led by Tawfeeq Al-Suwaidi and Nayef Hawatmeh

[*] The Harakiyyin or Palestinian Arab Nationalist Movement led by George Habash

[*] The Muslim Brotherhood-backed Muslim Political Action Front led by Abu Qura

[*] The Arab Constitutionalist Party led by Khalid al-Mansur

[*] The National Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by Ahmed Jibril[/list]

| King Hussein has also started the initiative to unify the Royal Iraqi Army with the Arab Legion, the regular army of the Kingdom of Jordan. While the Arab Legion has been financed and equipped by the British Empire, it has also been staffed almost entirely by British officers, including its former commanding officer, Sir John Bagot Glubb(also known as Glubb Pasha within Jordan and the West Bank). Since announcing the merger of the Arab Legion with the Royal Iraqi Army on 6 March, King Hussein ordered the dismissal of all British officers from the Arab Legion by 1 April, a process which has been completed, and the unification of the command structures of the Arab Legion and the Royal Iraqi Army into the Arab Army. The Arab Army, under the command of General Ali Abu Nuwar, has been established consisting of 22,000 Jordanian regulars, 20,000 Iraqi regulars, and an organized militia of 7,000 Palestinian irregulars called the al-Tahrir(Liberation) Brigade. The Chief of Staff of the Arab Army has reportedly been preparing to extend requests for arms purchases to the United Kingdom and the United States, looking to maintain a positive stance with the West in spite of the assertion of Arab military independence. |

| In matters of foreign affairs, King Hussein has asserted the Arab Kingdom as being committed to the freedom and self-determination of the Palestinian people, and has continued to maintain good relationships with the West. King Hussein, looking to formalize inter-Arab relationships with the Arab Kingdom, has requested to meet with King Idris I of Zanbala Prz to discuss bilateral trade, military cooperation, and the Palestine conflict. |

Teujira, Otsla, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Teymour, Kraskow, Bharatiya Ganrajya

They really thought they did sumn cuz....

Teujira, Czabalkia, Not Xav, New Swaraelia, Miwok-, The Reunified German Reich, Bharatiya Ganrajya

[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | January 31[/pre]

世界舞台上的中国

[sub]China on the World Stage.[/sub]

After Chairman Mao's gracious acceptance of Prime Minister Rothschild's proposed summit in Singapore, preparations having been made for this high-level meeting, the official Il-14 presidential transport of the People's Republic of China touches down gracefully at the recently-opened Paya Lebar airport in Singapore.

After disembarking the plane to cheers from the pro-China Chinese majority of Singapore who have assembled to greet the Chairman on his arrival, he and his entourage walk towards Prime Minister Prescott, Mao shaking hands with the Prime Minister and other assembled dignitaries. As they proceed to the Raffles Hotel, where the summit is to be held, Mao engages in preliminary discussions with Rothschild.

Chairman of the People's Republic of China MAO ZEDONG: [pre] I am glad you agreed to hold this summit, Mr Prime Minister. With the recent events in Southeast Asia and the ongoing British decolonisation from the region, it appears we have much to discuss. There is also the matter of recognition of the People's Republic- the United Kingdom continues to recognise the government-in-exile in Thailand as the official representatives of China both domestically and at the UN- this is a position we request you to reverse.

Additionally, we must discuss the Chinese-funded insurgency of the Malayan National Liberation Army currently ravaging Malaya, and what role they would hypothetically play in a post-Britain Malaya.[/pre]

Nonador

Nonador, Teujira, Otsla, Not Xav, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Teymour, Bharatiya Ganrajya

[list]AUGUST 1954

RIYADH, ARABIA — MIDDLE EAST[/list]

[list][list][sub][pre]وطن - عمل - استقلال

The Homeland - Labour - Independence

THE ARAB POLITICAL AWAKENING - A KINGDOM OF SAND[/pre][/sub]

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[list][sub]November 1953 had been a significant month in the development of leadership in the Arab World. In the previous month Rashid Qaddab of Egypt had been assassinated, marking the end of a political establishment which had dominated Egypt since its Republican Revolution. Yet just across the water, another historical death was soon approaching. Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was racked with arthritis alongside cardiovascular complications. The King received news of Qaddab’s death while lying sickly in his bed, as by October, his condition had become serious. Ibn Saud died from a heart attack in the Ta’if palace of his son Prince Faisal and subsequently died. “Verily, my children and possessions are my enemies” the King remarked shortly before that event. To understand the significance of what Ibn Saud was alluding to, one must examine the enormous legacy he inherited and bestowed upon the Arabian peninsula. Ibn Saud, means ‘Son of Saud’, entailing his lineage to that of the bedoiun tribe of Saud from Nejd. Yet he was not the first member of his family to rule over this land. The story of Saudi Arabia begins with Muhammed Ibn Abdul Wahhab, a puritan Sunni-Islamic preacher who’s theocratic rhetoric earned him the ire of many of the small tribal chieftains of Nejd. Abdul Wahhab’s first true political following came from the ruler of the oasis town of Uyayna, Uthman Ibn Mu’ammar. The preacher agreed to pledge himself to Uthman’s territorial ambitions over Nejd in exchange for the ruler’s assistance in spreading his theocratic teachings. It is from Uthman’s agreement that Abdul Wahhab’s ‘three deeds’ are imprinted in Nejdi historiography. First, he successfully led the destruction of the grave of Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab, which was revered by the people of Uyayna due to Zayd’s relation to the second Caliph and his companionship to the Prophet Mohammed. This reverence had been seen by Abdul Wahhab as an example of a forbidden act in Islam: idolatry. The preacher applied the same logic to his second major action, the cutting down of palm groves sacred to the locals. And thirdly, implementing the stoning of women who confessed to committing adultery. Abdul Wahhab’s ‘religious reforms’ were largely alien to the people of Nejd, and even to the Islamic world in general, as they were rooted in a strict literalist Islamic textual interpretation. With the exception of a few, yet influential religious scholars such as Ibn Taymiyyeh (who’s lifetime was separated from Abdul Wahhab’s by several hundred years), literalist Islamic interpreters had been rare. In fact, the Abbasids who had retained the title of Caliphate since 750 CE, instituted the policy of Mehna beginning with Caliph Al-Ma'mun in 827 CE. This was a program of religious persecution in which a rationalist non-literalist Islamic doctrine, known as the Mu’taziliyyeh, was the only accepted Islamic institution in the Caliphate. This religious heritage, which undermined Abdul Wahhab’s efforts could not easily be ignored, and would become the source of a major setback in his efforts. As Suleyman Ibn Muhammed of the Bani Khalid, disturbed by religious developments in Uyayna of which he held influence over, forced the town’s tribal leadership to exile Abdul Wahhab.[/sub]

[sub]Abdul Wahhab was thus reduced from laying the seeds of his religious vision in Uyayna, to a lonely man walking across the parched deserts of Nejd. Yet, in a stroke of luck, he was invited to another small outpost by Muhammed Ibn Saud of Diriyeh in 1744 CE. The tribal chief would say to him, “The oasis is yours, do not fear your enemies. By the name of God, if all Nejd was called to throw you out, we will never agree to your exile”, to which he replied: “You are the city's chief and wise man. I want you to grant me an oath that you will perform jihad against the infidels. In return, you will be imam, commander of the Ummah and I will be leader in religious affairs.” Thus the agreement they produced, known as the Pact of Diriyeh, would form the ideological nucleus of Saudi expansion per a clearly defined religious goal. From it, Abdul Wahhab would run the religious affairs of a future unified Nejd, while Muhammed Ibn Saud would lead its political and military apparatus. Historians dub this as the foundation of the first iteration of modern Saudi Arabia as the Emirate of Diriyeh, which would evolve into the Emirate of Nejd through conquest. Ibn Saud was a talented military commander, subduing the territories adjacent to Diriyeh and elevating the city to the centre of power over much of Eastern Nejd. Although the two men who had originally made the Pact of Diriyeh would eventually die, their successors would further expand the Saudi-Wahhabi domain. The Saud’s accomplished their most brutal action yet in 1801 CE, when they raided southern Iraq, gained possession of the holiest Shia city from the Ottomans, Karbala, and proceeded to kill up to 5,000 civilians and pillage the city's holy shrines. Two years later under Under Saud Ibn Saud, the Saudi’s initiated the conquest of Hejaz, home of Islam’s holiest sites, Mecca and Medina. The holy Al-Baq’i Cemetery was subjected to the same accusations of idolatry that befell Zayd Ibn Al-Khattab grave, and was raised, including the graves of Hassan Ibn Ali and Ja’afar Al-Sadiq. The government of the Turkish Caliphate, which had ruled over Hejaz since 1517 CE, was especially furious over these Saudi actions, due to the challenge it posed to Ottoman religious credibility as the protector of the holy shrines. The Caliph at the time, Mahmud II, turned to the powerful ruler of Egypt, Muhammed Ali Pasha, to destroy the Saudi state. An Egyptian army was thus levied against the Wahhabists, successfully defeating them in 1818 CE. The last ruler of the Emirate of Nejd, Abdullah, was thereby dragged to the Ottoman capital of Kostantiniyyeh in a cage, forced to listen to the lute against his Wahhabist beliefs and then publicly beheaded for his actions. From that point, it would appear that the House of Saud and Wahhabism was bound to disappear into political and historical irrelevance. Yet, it would emerge again in Nejd under a new generation of Saudi leaders. However, this ‘second Saudi state’ would be a mere shadow of its predecessor, unable to expand past Nejd and then succumbing to a long protracted war with the Rashidi tribes to its north, which it would lose in 1891 CE. The Saudi state was therefore forced into another tribal empire.[/sub]

[sub]A 15 year old Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, witnessed the Rashidi conquest of Diriyeh, which by this time had grown into the larger Riyadh. His family was thereby forced into exile, eventually settling in Kuwait for a decade. However, by 1901 the Saudis decided to return to the political scene in Nejd by raiding the tribal allies of the Rashidi state. The raid proved very profitable, and emboldened the actions of the Saudis, who decided during the holy month of Ramadan, to pry Riyadh from enemy hands. Abdulaziz would gain fame during this expedition, as he snuck over Riyadh’s walls alongside 40 men at night, using titled palm trees to do so, and took the defenders by surprise. The governor of Riyadh, Ibn Ajlan, was beheaded. With his severed head being shown as a trophy to the town’s citizens, signalling the end of the battle on January 13th 1902. From that point, Abdulaziz would be the firm ruler of the House of Saud and would embark on further conquest. In the chaos of the interwar period in the Middle East, with the final implosion of the Ottoman Empire and the betrayal of the Arabs by the Sykes-Picot scheme, Abdulaziz would cement his dynasty as the paramount commanders of Arabia. He finally destroyed the Rashidi state, doubling the territory of his kingdom in the process. He further orchestrated the Saudi-reconquest of Hejaz, throwing out the 700 year old Hashemite custodianship of the holy cities and consolidating them into his domain permanently. When Ibn Saud had sought to resolve territorial complications with the Imam’s of Yemen in 1934, the Yemeni King Yahya had famously mocked him by saying: "Who is this bedouin coming to challenge my family's 900 year rule?" Abdulaziz then proceeded to win numerous battles against the Yemenis, gaining dominion over the disputed territories of ‘Asir and Najran, and forcing King Yahya’s recognition of such. With that, the modern borders of what would become Saudi Arabia in 1932, was cemented. With his capital at the centre of the peninsula, controlling Islam’s most significant sites and then the world’s greatest reserves of hydrocarbons as an American company would discover, it would seem that the ‘Napoleon of Arabia’ had nothing to lament. Why then would he curse his children and possessions soon before his death? The truth was that two out of Ibn Saud’s 45 children, Saud Ibn Abdulaziz and Faisal Ibn Abdulaziz, had been infighting for political influence even before their fathers death. The former was awarded as the successor to the Saudi throne, thus, at least from external observation, it would appear that Abdulaziz had left behind a Kingdom that was stable. This was a very powerful illusion, especially when in contrast with the immediate political upheaval upon the assasination of Egypt’s Qaddab. However, the reasons such a contrast existed was largely due to the lack of competing political forces in Saudi Arabia, unlike the large plurality of such in Egypt. That is not to say that political disagreements between the royal family themselves did not exist, such disagreement is the source of distrust between Saud and Faisal. The former was generally content on proceeding on his father’s pious path, adhering to the Wahhabi religious establishment he has inherited and from which he receives much support. The latter wished to pursue a program of modernization and even harbours some sympathies for an Arab political consensus, which was brought to elevated importance following the Republican Party's rise to power. The situation was made more complicated due to disputes over the distribution of oil revenues amongst the family, as well as many citizens in the Kingdom. The isolation of settlements due to local geography also made it more difficult for Riyadh to control the fringes of its Kingdom, which was exacerbated by the continual existence of tribal identities which worked against Saudi nation-building.[/sub]

[sub]The mention of Jeddah in NasserÂ’s powerful speech in Gaza, which would be broadcasted across the Middle East, also signalled a change towards the Saudi MonarchyÂ’s relationship to exterior forces. Nasser has been widely seen by the pro-Saud and anti-Faisal political clique as an outspoken threat, inviting fears of pro-Nasser sympathies in the Saudi army and political elite due to his charisma. Faisal on the other hand, privately views the pan-Arab vision as a possible option to unify the multitude of tribal influences in Saudi Arabia, which he sees as a greater potential source of danger than Egypt. This rapidly developing state of affairs however, is simply a heightened stage of longstanding animosity between Cairo and Riyadh. For its part, despite its distrustful relationship with the previous Egyptian Kingdom, the Saudis still would prefer it to the adamant anti-Monarchism that characterizes the current Republican government. The secular Egyptian establishment, especially the army and FATA, are themselves anxious due to covert Saudi support for the Muslim Brotherhood. The mere existence of these two countries in their current state pits them as natural rivals and competitors in the domestic and international fronts of post-colonial developments in the Middle East. This situation, all of it, permits both countries to export internal instability to manipulate the political scene against each other. With the motive, and potentially the means, to topple the opposing regime and assert themselves on top of the Arab World. [/sub][/list]

Teujira, Otsla, Not Xav, Kiger, Zanbala Prz, Miwok-, Bharatiya Ganrajya

[list][list]【𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐢𝐧】 - معمر القذافي - 【𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐬𝐭】

[sub]ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴀ ʙᴇᴅᴏᴜɪɴ ᴡᴀʀʀɪᴏʀ ᴡʜᴏ ʙʀᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɢʟᴏʀʏ ᴛᴏ ʟɪʙʏᴀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴅɪᴇ ᴀ ᴍᴀʀᴛʏʀ[/sub][/list][/list]

[sup]In the market town of Sabha in Fezzan, south-central Libya, a group of students gathers around a single old radio. They listen to the daily broadcast from a Cairo-based station named, Voice of the Arabs. The students loved to listen, as each day they learned more and more about the world around them. In particular; the best part was when this individual by the name of Jamal Abdel Nasser, the so-called 'President of Egypt', gave his speeches. The man commanded charisma like a blade, his words pure fire, and his passion could be practically felt through the radio. The students listened to every last word as Nasser spoke of the Palestinian crisis. The tales of terror perpetrated on the Palestinians by the Zionist devils and Arab unity made their blood boil with a mix of fury and excitement. Yet, they remained still and continued to listen to the radio.[/sup]

[list][spoiler=The Radio Transmition][sup]"When we speak of the tragedy of Palestine, or of the refugees, or of Dier Yassin, or of the rights of the Arabs. We receive blank stares! The Palestinians cry out every day: “Help us, help us! Our homes are destroyed, we have no water to drink, no shoes for our feet, no food for our children, we have nowhere left to go, why aren’t you helping us?!” And yet, the world only offers silence. With ignorance and disrespect, they dare to ask us: what connects Egypt to Palestine? They want us to speak of these lands as foreign to us, but the lands and the Arabs that live on them are part of our family! How can you separate Gaza from Alexandria? Damascus from Khartoum? Jerusalem from Jeddah? Or from Baghdad? Cairo from Tripoli? How can we possibly separate them? Yes, they may be within the borders of different countries, but the unity of the Arabs is so powerful it encompasses them all! The rights of our brothers and sisters in Palestine are non-negotiable and must be fulfilled. We want nothing more than to see them return to their homeland, to their villages, and to their homes. Despite great difficulties, we are happy to see a glimmer of hope radiate from Gaza. The Arab people in Egypt are proud of the Arab people in Palestine, and how they have taken the steps to form a stable government. Our fate rests with the steadfast and resilient citizens of Palestine. It is in the interest of all of us that the Palestinian National Council continues to thrive as a model for all oppressed peoples who are taking back their dignity - agonizing step after agonizing step!"[/sup]

- JAMAL ABDEL NASSER[/spoiler][/list]

[sup]To the disappointment of the students, the transmission ends leaving them waiting in anticipation for the next one to come. One boy gets on top of a desk, he begins imitating Nasser's speech, attempting to capture the magic of it. His fellow students aren't impressed with his acting. They point and laugh; with one boy, in particular, mocking him for being a bedouin. The boy in the heat of the moment lunges at him and a fight ensues. The other students form a circle and chant, 'fight-fight-fight!'. Hearing the commotion, the classroom teacher dashes into the room. He breaks up the fight and begins scolding the boys for their bad behavior. He notices the radio which makes him even angrier.[/sup]

[list]Farhaan al-Sadiq: "That's enough! All of you! What is going on here? You were all supposed to read passages from the Quran. Not smack each other like animals! Qaddafi, Mohammed, explain yourselves!"

Arkaan al-Mohammed "It's not my fault teacher, it was all Qaddafi! He wanted us to listen to the radio and I was trying to stop him! Since you said we aren't allowed to listen to that man named Nasser speak."

Farhaan al-Sadiq: "Qaddafi! Is this true?"

Muammar Gaddafi: "No that's not what happened! What did happen was that ALL of us were listening to Voices of the Arabs. We listened as Nasser spoke on the tragedy taking place in Palestine."

Farhaan al-Sadiq: "I specifically told everyone that none of you are allowed to listen to those broadcasts! That Nasser is a bad influence."

Muammar Gaddafi: "Teacher, how is Nasser a bad influence?

Farhaan al-Sadiq: "Because...Nasser despite all his bravado is nothing but a showmen. You see, if Egypt had not disposed of its Monarch, they'd be doing far better! Remeber children, the King is the very shadow of Allah which is where he derives his authority from. Nasser on the otherhand is a President! What is a President? A President is some cheat in a suit! Thank Allah that we have a King leading this country.

Muammar Gaddafi: [sup]"If the King is so great then why is everyone poor...."[/sup]

Farhaan al-Sadiq: "What did you say Qaddafi!?"

Muammar Gaddafi: "I said, if the King is so great then why is our country the poorest nation in the world!"

Farhaan al-Sadiq: "Why you brat! I'll show you to slander his majesty!"[/list]

[sup]al-Sadiq would walk to his desk and retrieve a walking stick. He used it to whip Qaddafi, leaving several marks on his arms from the lashes. After the beating, Qaddafi was forced to go home and would not be allowed back into the school without a written apology.[/sup]

[spoiler]OC: Yea so this is just an experimental RP for Qaddafi. Its snickers size for now, once I get the hang of character rp they will be longer.[/spoiler]

Teujira, Val Verde-, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Not Xav, New Swaraelia, East Germany Ddr, Miwok-, Teymour, Bharatiya Ganrajya

Gaia Major wrote:[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | January 31[/pre]

世界舞台上的中国

[sub]China on the World Stage.[/sub]

After Chairman Mao's gracious acceptance of Prime Minister Rothschild's proposed summit in Singapore, preparations having been made for this high-level meeting, the official Il-14 presidential transport of the People's Republic of China touches down gracefully at the recently-opened Paya Lebar airport in Singapore.

After disembarking the plane to cheers from the pro-China Chinese majority of Singapore who have assembled to greet the Chairman on his arrival, he and his entourage walk towards Prime Minister Prescott, Mao shaking hands with the Prime Minister and other assembled dignitaries. As they proceed to the Raffles Hotel, where the summit is to be held, Mao engages in preliminary discussions with Rothschild.

Chairman of the People's Republic of China MAO ZEDONG: [pre] I am glad you agreed to hold this summit, Mr Prime Minister. With the recent events in Southeast Asia and the ongoing British decolonisation from the region, it appears we have much to discuss. There is also the matter of recognition of the People's Republic- the United Kingdom continues to recognise the government-in-exile in Thailand as the official representatives of China both domestically and at the UN- this is a position we request you to reverse.

Additionally, we must discuss the Chinese-funded insurgency of the Malayan National Liberation Army currently ravaging Malaya, and what role they would hypothetically play in a post-Britain Malaya.[/pre]

Nonador

[list][pre]CHANGHI AIR BASE, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Some three thousand Singaporeans gathered outside of the tall iron fence which rung around the perimeter of the airfield. Behind them, flags of the United Kingdom could be seen waving from light posts as the crowded streets below were bustling with activity. The arrival of Chairman Mao was one which prompted a mixture of feelings in the city following nearly a decade of intense fighting against Chinese backed insurgents across the straight in Malaya. This occasion was one of necessity and not one of warmth, despite the tropical climate. While the crowd was vibrant and eager to greet Mao, the atmosphere beyond the crowd was cold and eerie, as the hundreds thousands of residents awaited word on the fate of the British presence Southeast Asia. Prime Minister Rothschild, having arrived the day prior aboard the Battleship Vanguard, stood at the end of a long green carpet which stretched from the disembark stairs several yards to where he stood near a waiting motorcade. There was no band to greet him, nor honor guard, simply an army of aides, translators, and a press pool overlooking the greeting. The meeting was to be historic, but the pleasantries afforded to a Head of State was absent as the United Kingdom did not recognize the PeopleÂ’s Republic.[/sub]

[sub]After shaking the ChairmanÂ’s hand, Rothschild grit his teeth as he listened to his counterpart, whose confidence in the PRCÂ’s position was off-putting to say the least. Nevertheless, like a noble gentlemen, the Prime Minister tempered his response.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Yes, we have much to discuss.. but first, a word of greetings on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria the Second, and all of the British realm.”

[list][sub]Extending his hand towards the motorcade, the Prime Minister and Chairman would walk to the waiting motorcade which would take them and their entourage through the city to The Istana, residence of the Governor-General. There, the two men would settle in the Map room filled with books, artifacts from throughout the region and of course - maps. Once settled, Rothschild would begin.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Welcome again Chairman to Singapore.. you mentioned an extensive list upon your arrival, and, as you have requested this meeting, I offer to you the ability to choose our first topic.”

Brickwall, Teujira, Val Verde-, Otsla, Grand Indochina, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, East Germany Ddr, Teymour, Gaia Major

Post self-deleted by Angalian Empire.

Post self-deleted by Angalian Empire.

[list][list][list][B]{ TWO KINGDOMS INBETWEEN THE PITS }[/B]

[sup][pre]A meeting between his majesty Idris I and King Hussein[/pre][/sup][/list][/list][/list]

[sup]8:00 AM, Monday 1956. The Sun was slowly rising over the city of Baghdad, the sight was something to behold, his Majesty Idris had flown into the city and was admiring the view from up above. He had never actually been on plane before, making this his first ever flight. The trip itself wasn't too pleasant as the King felt a little drowsy during the flight. Luckily the time to land had come, the plane slowly descended on the strip, eventually making its stop. The king's entourage would gather his things and his advisors would go over the subject matters for the metting with King Hussein. Once they finished organzing themselves, the shuttle door was opened and King Idris began stepping down the flight of stairs to meet his fellow Monarch.[/sup]

Suuvla

Brickwall, Teujira, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Teymour, The Greek Republic Of Cyprus

Hellenic Business Reporter - June 1956

[sub]Recent Economic Development in the Hellenic Republic of Cyprus[/sub]

Laws and Regulations

[sub]The following laws have been passed in a Parliament Session last week:

Code of Private Maritime Law 1956 - Grants Shipping rights to 18 new Shipping Firms

Economic Cooperation Act of 1956 - provides a framework for cooperation between the government and private companies

Investment Incentive Law 2992/1956 - Measures to support the capital market and the development of competitiveness and other regulations [/I][/sub]

Recent Developments

[sub]Over the past month following developments have occured:[/sub]

Onassis Named Merchant Shipping Minister

[I]Last Sunday the announcement that Shipping Legend Aristotele Onassis has made a deal with the government to join the cabinet as the new Minister of Shipping surprised the Nation. His immeasurable experience in the field and strong ties to global businesses make him the optimal choice. His shipping company will be representative of the Hellenic Shipping industry as a whole. Plans for turning the Hellenic Republic into the most important trading hub in the region are already underway.[/I]

Formation of Artemis Airlines

“We are pleased to announce the foundation of Artemis Airlines, the flagship airline for the Hellenic Republic. A deal with Boeing Airplane Company has been reached for a fleet of 12 brand new planes to be delivered shortly.” - Aristotele Onassis , Chairman of Artemis Airlines in an interview. The Airline attracted investors attention as its rumoured to go public on the stock exchange shortly.

[/I]

Bikas&Tellis outperform Wallstreet

[I]Greek founded and led Hedge fund Olympic Capital was the best performing Hedge fund on Wallstreet this quarter.

With a staggering 325% Profit, greek Managers Ioannis Bikas and Napoleon Tellis broke a record. Their success story is being eagerly watched by financial professionals all over the Hellenic world.[/I]

[sub]Hellenic Business Reporter est. 1926[/sub]

Teujira, Val Verde-, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Teymour

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1418161

Teujira, Val Verde-, Liberalina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

Nonador wrote:[list][pre]CHANGHI AIR BASE, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Some three thousand Singaporeans gathered outside of the tall iron fence which rung around the perimeter of the airfield. Behind them, flags of the United Kingdom could be seen waving from light posts as the crowded streets below were bustling with activity. The arrival of Chairman Mao was one which prompted a mixture of feelings in the city following nearly a decade of intense fighting against Chinese backed insurgents across the straight in Malaya. This occasion was one of necessity and not one of warmth, despite the tropical climate. While the crowd was vibrant and eager to greet Mao, the atmosphere beyond the crowd was cold and eerie, as the hundreds thousands of residents awaited word on the fate of the British presence Southeast Asia. Prime Minister Rothschild, having arrived the day prior aboard the Battleship Vanguard, stood at the end of a long green carpet which stretched from the disembark stairs several yards to where he stood near a waiting motorcade. There was no band to greet him, nor honor guard, simply an army of aides, translators, and a press pool overlooking the greeting. The meeting was to be historic, but the pleasantries afforded to a Head of State was absent as the United Kingdom did not recognize the PeopleÂ’s Republic.[/sub]

[sub]After shaking the ChairmanÂ’s hand, Rothschild grit his teeth as he listened to his counterpart, whose confidence in the PRCÂ’s position was off-putting to say the least. Nevertheless, like a noble gentlemen, the Prime Minister tempered his response.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Yes, we have much to discuss.. but first, a word of greetings on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria the Second, and all of the British realm.”

[list][sub]Extending his hand towards the motorcade, the Prime Minister and Chairman would walk to the waiting motorcade which would take them and their entourage through the city to The Istana, residence of the Governor-General. There, the two men would settle in the Map room filled with books, artifacts from throughout the region and of course - maps. Once settled, Rothschild would begin.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Welcome again Chairman to Singapore.. you mentioned an extensive list upon your arrival, and, as you have requested this meeting, I offer to you the ability to choose our first topic.”

[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | December 31[/pre]

[sub]The Chinese delegation makes its way to the waiting limousines, all the while smiling warmly and waving at the assemblage of Singaporean journalists. Chairman Mao maintains a facade of the utmost courtesy as he responds to the statement of the Right Honourable Prescott Rothschild.[/sub]

Chairman of the PRC, MAO ZEDONG: Thank you, we appreciate your courteous greeting. On behalf of the People's Republic of China and her citizens, I extend to you, to Her Majesty, and to the United Kingdom a hand of fraternity and eternal co-operation. We come bearing for you a gift, directly from the Chinese heartland. The People's Republic of China hopes that it will be appreciated.

[sub] One of Mao's aides steps forward, bearing an exquisite lacquered box of mahogany, done in the finest traditions of Jiangsu Province. In it is a magnificent red silk scarf, emblazoned with the Three Lions of the United Kingdom in finest gold thread. [/sub]

MAO: I trust it it to your liking? We in China are aware of how fond Europeans are of silk goods- I can assure you, there are none as fine as those from China! I must say I am much impressed with the scale of your city- despite the ideological differences that have regrettably alienated our two nations, China has always had an admiration for the British psyche, and your ability to forge metropoles out of humble hamlets as Singapore once used to be. On that note- let us on to business! One can only hope that the relationship between our two nations shall blossom as Singapore has. Very well, I accept your gracious offer to decide the first topic of discussion- may I propose that we discuss the ongoing British decolonisation from Malaya? Given the regrettable nature of ideological conflict that has pitted our nations against each other, we would be amenable to putting an end to our sponsorship on the MNLA- with the caveat, of course, that the Chinese and Malayan representatives play a key role in the state that is forming as Britain is scaling down its influence in the region. Malaya has ample enemies, and China will defend it from such- our location in the region makes us ideal partners- should this condition be fulfilled. We are willing to throw our weight behind politicians such as Tunku Abdul Rahman who are gradually becoming the clear leaders of the Malayan independence movement- while his anti-imperialist policies may make it challenging for British interests to be fully expressed, he may be more eager to work with China, and through our own discussion, Mr Prime Minister, we can create an environment of compromise to ensure that Britain is able to play the role in Malayan independence that it assuredly deserves. Our high-level cooperation with Sokarno of Indonesia can also ensure that we keep these two nations' animosity at bay- that is, act as a mediator between Indonesia and Malaysia in order to preserve British and Malay interests, as well as to maintain a lasting peace in Southeast Asia.

Nonador

Nonador, Teujira, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

[list][list]~ 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 ~

ʟᴏᴄᴀʟ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀꜱ, ᴅʀᴀᴍᴀꜱ, ʟɪᴇꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴍɪꜱᴅᴇᴇᴅꜱ‌[/list][/list]

[sup]

Brickwall wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1418161

No apartheid regime?

New Swaraelia

Gaia Major wrote:[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | December 31[/pre]

[sub]The Chinese delegation makes its way to the waiting limousines, all the while smiling warmly and waving at the assemblage of Singaporean journalists. Chairman Mao maintains a facade of the utmost courtesy as he responds to the statement of the Right Honourable Prescott Rothschild.[/sub]

Chairman of the PRC, MAO ZEDONG: Thank you, we appreciate your courteous greeting. On behalf of the People's Republic of China and her citizens, I extend to you, to Her Majesty, and to the United Kingdom a hand of fraternity and eternal co-operation. We come bearing for you a gift, directly from the Chinese heartland. The People's Republic of China hopes that it will be appreciated.

[sub] One of Mao's aides steps forward, bearing an exquisite lacquered box of mahogany, done in the finest traditions of Jiangsu Province. In it is a magnificent red silk scarf, emblazoned with the Three Lions of the United Kingdom in finest gold thread. [/sub]

MAO: I trust it it to your liking? We in China are aware of how fond Europeans are of silk goods- I can assure you, there are none as fine as those from China! I must say I am much impressed with the scale of your city- despite the ideological differences that have regrettably alienated our two nations, China has always had an admiration for the British psyche, and your ability to forge metropoles out of humble hamlets as Singapore once used to be. On that note- let us on to business! One can only hope that the relationship between our two nations shall blossom as Singapore has. Very well, I accept your gracious offer to decide the first topic of discussion- may I propose that we discuss the ongoing British decolonisation from Malaya? Given the regrettable nature of ideological conflict that has pitted our nations against each other, we would be amenable to putting an end to our sponsorship on the MNLA- with the caveat, of course, that the Chinese and Malayan representatives play a key role in the state that is forming as Britain is scaling down its influence in the region. Malaya has ample enemies, and China will defend it from such- our location in the region makes us ideal partners- should this condition be fulfilled. We are willing to throw our weight behind politicians such as Tunku Abdul Rahman who are gradually becoming the clear leaders of the Malayan independence movement- while his anti-imperialist policies may make it challenging for British interests to be fully expressed, he may be more eager to work with China, and through our own discussion, Mr Prime Minister, we can create an environment of compromise to ensure that Britain is able to play the role in Malayan independence that it assuredly deserves. Our high-level cooperation with Sokarno of Indonesia can also ensure that we keep these two nations' animosity at bay- that is, act as a mediator between Indonesia and Malaysia in order to preserve British and Malay interests, as well as to maintain a lasting peace in Southeast Asia.

Nonador

[list][pre]THE ISTANA, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Accepting the gift with a smile, Rothschild would bow before sitting - placing the gift on the coffee table which rested between the two leaders. Upon taking a seat, Rothschild would cross his legs, unbuttoning his blazer as he listened to Chairman Mao. With a nod, he would begin his response.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Peace in Southeast Asia is of great importance to the British Crown, Mister Chairman, I assure you. However, I must make one thing clear — the United Kingdom, while absent from the Malayan Peninsula, will never be too far away, nor a silent member of this regional community of states. The decolonization of Malaya is not, to be frank, a retreat, but an agreement with the free people’s of this land-.. we will not abandon them to fall beneath the insurgents which your organization has provided extensive support. Instead, we intend fully to eradicate these... rebels... before turning over security to local forces here. And, with that said, I find it hard to believe that you have called me here to suggest the PRC act as a mediator between Malaya and her enemies - in the name of peace - when your organization has sowed the seeds of war throughout this region. If we are to find in each other partners, the PRC must respect the United Kingdom as a permanent part of the Asian community and establish some sort of Detente before any other agreement is made. Lest you back us into a corner, and we prove to you that our resolve is absolute.”

Teujira, Czabalkia, Kiger, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz

Otsla wrote:[list][list]~ 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 ~

ʟᴏᴄᴀʟ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀꜱ, ᴅʀᴀᴍᴀꜱ, ʟɪᴇꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴍɪꜱᴅᴇᴇᴅꜱ‌[/list][/list]

[sup]No apartheid regime?

According to those before me; there was no apartheid. So, yk, IÂ’m dealt the hand IÂ’m dealt

Otsla, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1427854

be proud of me. my dad never was

Val Verde-, Otsla, Liberalina, Czabalkia, Kiger, New Swaraelia, Teymour, Kraskow

Tulmoteous Times in West Africa

[sub]1956 | West Africa[/sub]

As the the time of Independence creeps nearer and nearer various groups began forming up to hopefully steer the future of the state in their favor.

Modibo Keïta the head of the old Keïta dynastic family is the main head and leader of the Greater Malian Federation. He’s been restless in his attempts traveling to villages and cities across the colony giving passionate speeches about the importance of staying together as a nation. A nationalist he has invoked vivid imagery of past greatness of West Africa under the Malian Empire.

In main opposition are the various independence leagues in the local administrative regions. The Ivory Coast has been the most hostile to any proposed federation, local independence activist Félix Houphouët-Boigny fiercely resisted any speeches by Keïta or his followers. In Guinea, Ahmed Sékou Touré used local officials to suppress or keep out federationist propaganda.

Battle ground states like Upper Volta, and Dahomey remained divided likely to slip in either direction.

Liberalina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Miwok-, Teymour

[list][list]Peruvian Public Radio

July 15, 1956, 17:00[/list][/list]

[list]"Hello, fellow people of Peru! It is 17:00, and time to start your evening radio news. First up, a competition for the design of Peru's first skyscraper has been opened up to any architect or first in Peru and in any foreign country. The planned skyscraper has few requirements, being that it must reach exactly 1821 feet tall from ground level and must represent a new Peru. The government has indicated that it desires to transform the Lima skyline into a skyline of high-rises and skyscrapers and is willing to allow both foreign and domestic companies to build them with no limits. Some expect this decision may cause the poor to be pushed further from the city center, as Peru seeks to reinvent itself into a capitalist haven for companies and for the rich. In other news, economic growth has increased, as companies were given free reign to extract resources. Some have criticized the laissez-faire policies as allowing exploitation of the poor. This criticism has not been alleviated by the practice of government investing in construction projects, only to sell off the completed project to private companies. In other news, the government has arrested another five socialists today. In other news, the Peruvian Art Exposition will be held in one month to show off the art of Peru. In other news, the government has officially signed a law that will transition the site of the government to the in-development areas on the Island of San Lorenzo. This move was determined because of the congestion on the roads in Lima making it difficult to travel to government buildings, especially the legislative building. Architects are being sought both domestically and abroad in order to find the best architect for the planned project. In other news, English and Dutch have been designated as recognized languages in Peru in order to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with various nations which speak those languages. Peruvian Spanish shall remain the only Official language. This move is expected to make it easier for foreign businesses to do business in Peru. For the last news story of the day, the Peruvian government has officially asked to purchase US military equipment to help modernize its defensive forces. This move comes as the Peruvian government recognized the need of modern equipment to sustain an adequate defense against potential invasions and piracy.....That is all for today's news. Tune back in tomorrow for more Peruvian news broadcast."[/list]

Otsla, New Swaraelia

Nonador wrote:[list][pre]THE ISTANA, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Accepting the gift with a smile, Rothschild would bow before sitting - placing the gift on the coffee table which rested between the two leaders. Upon taking a seat, Rothschild would cross his legs, unbuttoning his blazer as he listened to Chairman Mao. With a nod, he would begin his response.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Peace in Southeast Asia is of great importance to the British Crown, Mister Chairman, I assure you. However, I must make one thing clear — the United Kingdom, while absent from the Malayan Peninsula, will never be too far away, nor a silent member of this regional community of states. The decolonization of Malaya is not, to be frank, a retreat, but an agreement with the free people’s of this land-.. we will not abandon them to fall beneath the insurgents which your organization has provided extensive support. Instead, we intend fully to eradicate these... rebels... before turning over security to local forces here. And, with that said, I find it hard to believe that you have called me here to suggest the PRC act as a mediator between Malaya and her enemies - in the name of peace - when your organization has sowed the seeds of war throughout this region. If we are to find in each other partners, the PRC must respect the United Kingdom as a permanent part of the Asian community and establish some sort of Detente before any other agreement is made. Lest you back us into a corner, and we prove to you that our resolve is absolute.”

[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | December 31[/pre]

[sub]Chairman Mao is taken aback by the Prime Minister's wording. He rises, mutters something to his secretary in Mandarin, and has him take notes hurriedly. Returning to his armchair with utter composure, he smiles slightly at the Prime Minister. He has always admired frankness, and he finds himself taking a liking to this new British Prime Minister, in spite of their stark differences.[/sub]

MAO: Please, call me Mao- I find that formality in such settings precludes any real achievement of diplomacy. Well, I must declare that I admire your conviction, Prescott- may I call you Prescott? But to call the independence fighters who would see a liberated Malaya- free from Western influence- insurgents: this is a bold claim to be sure. Not least because the independence movement in Malaya is not restricted to the Communists: Malaya yearns to be free, Mr Prime Minister- would you deny them this right? At any rate, we would be open to considering detente; China is certainly not opposed to reason. However, given the environment of the times, we would urge you to consider that such a detente would require efforts on your part, as well as ours. Compromise, after all, is two-sided. As such, the People's Republic of China is keen to hear what the United Kingdom has to suggest; it would be, I think, in our mutual interest to arrive at a satisfactory solution at this summit, in order that we may avoid confrontation as has regrettably gripped the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States. As prominent members of our respective alliances, I sincerely hope that any solution we arrive at today will pave the way for a greater level of trust between the two hostile camps of the world than exists today. Not least, naturally, regarding the fate of Southeast Asia. Let it be known, categorically, that China is willing- indeed, eager- to co-operate- but not against the backdrop of imperialism. It is my honest belief that the visit by your predecessor, Mr Attlee, to China, signals that such cooperation is not only possible, but also fruitful.

Nonador

Nonador, Otsla, Kiger, New Swaraelia, Teymour

[pre]Year of the Wooden Horse

1956 | November[/pre]

第一届亚洲工人国际协会!

[sub]First Asian Workers' Internationale![/sub]

The recents events of the Korean War and the Battle of Tchan-Tung have sparked instability in Asia. Just as the rest of the world has been torn asunder into red and blue, capitalist and communist, and East and West, Asia has determinedly announced to the bated breath of the world that it, too, is decidedly a battleground of the new "Cold War". Communism and her adherent philosophies have taken strong root in the region, with China under Chairman Mao- the traditional behemoth of East Asia- and India under Prime Minster Nehru, newly on her feet after independence from the British Crown, proving to be the largest states that are aligned with Socialist or left-leaning principles in Asia. The historic agreement between the two powers in October of this year has led to perceptions of "fraternity" between the two powers, historically mighty nations struggling to convey the influence they merit after being plundered by colonialism. PM Nehru's communist sympathies appear to be driving the two nations into each others' arms, and with the recent liberal reform in the USSR beginning to alienate their Chinese allies, it could be that Sino-Indian leftism will dictate the future of a new, self-respecting Asia.

In light of the agreement on the Five Principles as well as the general perception of fraternity between Asian socialists, Chairman Mao as the preeminent of this species has chosen to orchestrate the First Asian Workers' Internationale, solidifying China's ties with friendly Chinese-aligned nations in Asia, as well as laying the groundwork for far greater multilateral cooperation between the emerging socialist bloc of the Far East.

With many of the nations being invited having been victims of Western colonialism, the first summit will focus on efforts that can be made by these nations to restructure and reconstruct after their wealth was appropriated by the West, with China spearheading development through its Five-Year-Plan and fostering development among these, her allies in Asia.

The nations invited to attend are as follows: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of Burma, the Republic of Indonesia, the Mongolian People's Republic and the Republic of India. This is further augmented by non-state communists campaigning for the revolution in their homelands. The list of dignitaries formally invited to this conference, to be held in Peking on the 5th of February 1957, is:

Sokarno (Indonesia)

Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam)

Prince Souphanouvong (Laos)

Kim Il-Sung (North Korea)

Yumjagin Tsedenbal (Mongolia)

Jawaharlal Nehru (India)

Aung San (Burma)

Manmohan Adhikari (Nepal)

It is hoped that this promising meeting will lay a strong base for cooperation between the socialist and left-leaning powers of Asia for centuries to come.

Otsla, New Swaraelia, Teymour

Gaia Major wrote:[pre]Year of the Fire Monkey

1956 | December 31[/pre]

[sub]Chairman Mao is taken aback by the Prime Minister's wording. He rises, mutters something to his secretary in Mandarin, and has him take notes hurriedly. Returning to his armchair with utter composure, he smiles slightly at the Prime Minister. He has always admired frankness, and he finds himself taking a liking to this new British Prime Minister, in spite of their stark differences.[/sub]

MAO: Please, call me Mao- I find that formality in such settings precludes any real achievement of diplomacy. Well, I must declare that I admire your conviction, Prescott- may I call you Prescott? But to call the independence fighters who would see a liberated Malaya- free from Western influence- insurgents: this is a bold claim to be sure. Not least because the independence movement in Malaya is not restricted to the Communists: Malaya yearns to be free, Mr Prime Minister- would you deny them this right? At any rate, we would be open to considering detente; China is certainly not opposed to reason. However, given the environment of the times, we would urge you to consider that such a detente would require efforts on your part, as well as ours. Compromise, after all, is two-sided. As such, the People's Republic of China is keen to hear what the United Kingdom has to suggest; it would be, I think, in our mutual interest to arrive at a satisfactory solution at this summit, in order that we may avoid confrontation as has regrettably gripped the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States. As prominent members of our respective alliances, I sincerely hope that any solution we arrive at today will pave the way for a greater level of trust between the two hostile camps of the world than exists today. Not least, naturally, regarding the fate of Southeast Asia. Let it be known, categorically, that China is willing- indeed, eager- to co-operate- but not against the backdrop of imperialism. It is my honest belief that the visit by your predecessor, Mr Attlee, to China, signals that such cooperation is not only possible, but also fruitful.

Nonador

[list][pre] THE ISTANA, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Rothschild would adjust himself in his chair with a smirk and nod as he listened to the Chairman.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”I appreciate your candor as well Mao.. and yes, Prescott is just fine-.. I believe it possible for our two nations to find common ground in the idea that the people of Southeast Asia deserve the right of self-determination, and not to become the pawns of powers such as ourselves. They deserve the right to choose their ideology freely, and this is our greatest concern with the formerly British territories. If the PRC will agree to preserve the right of self determination — irregardless of our ideological and philosophical differences — we will recognize your government as the successor to the Chinese Republic. China will not support rebels, not make attempts to cut off trade between the west and the nations who align with us, and the United Kingdom will do the same for those of China’s sphere... Mutual respect between is what we desire, and for as long as the PRC honors that respect, we will honor the PRC as an equal among nations... what say you?”

New Swaraelia, Gaia Major

Nonador wrote:[list][pre] THE ISTANA, SINGAPORE, UNITED KINGDOM;[/pre]

[sub]Rothschild would adjust himself in his chair with a smirk and nod as he listened to the Chairman.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”I appreciate your candor as well Mao.. and yes, Prescott is just fine-.. I believe it possible for our two nations to find common ground in the idea that the people of Southeast Asia deserve the right of self-determination, and not to become the pawns of powers such as ourselves. They deserve the right to choose their ideology freely, and this is our greatest concern with the formerly British territories. If the PRC will agree to preserve the right of self determination — irregardless of our ideological and philosophical differences — we will recognize your government as the successor to the Chinese Republic. China will not support rebels, not make attempts to cut off trade between the west and the nations who align with us, and the United Kingdom will do the same for those of China’s sphere... Mutual respect between is what we desire, and for as long as the PRC honors that respect, we will honor the PRC as an equal among nations... what say you?”

[sub]Chairman Mao sits up in his chair as he listens to the Prime Minister's closing remarks. What he appears to be offering coincides closely with what China sought from this summit.[/sub]

MAO: You drive a hard bargain, Prescott. I will give you that!

[sub] He chuckles, sipping on his sencha tea. [/sub]

Well, I would certainly concur with you on the principle of self-determination: after all, it is one of the guiding precepts of socialism. We can appreciate your desire to ensure democratic procedures in certain nations within Southeast Asia, and predicated upon what you appear to be offering- unless, of course, I am mistaken in this- we are amenable to your terms, albeit slightly amended.

First: The United Kingdom will cease all support for the KMT and the government-in-exile in Thailand, and recognise the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole "Chinese" state, and a successor of the Republic of China and the Qing Empire. This will extend internationally, granting the PRC the self-same seat on the United Nations Security Council occupied by representatives of the Republic of China.

Secondly: A zone of non-intervention between China and the United Kingdom, along with our respective allies, will be delineated consisting of Thailand, Malaya, and Indonesia. Both nations will not act to influence politics in the region, diplomatically or militarily, except to act in support of an incumbent regime which has come to power independent of either of our actions, and in order to perpetuate such a regime.

Thirdly: Once the People's Republic is admitted to the United Nations, we and our Indonesian ally will ratify maritime law, and provide for mutual freedom of navigation through the Java Sea, in return for the same privileges through the Straits of Malacca.

Finally: The United Kingdom will halt all international support and agreements with the alleged "Republic of China", an illegitimate state, and no longer conduct business or diplomatic dealings with this state except through the conduit of the PRC.

Now- are we in agreement, Prescott?

Nonador

Nonador, Otsla, New Swaraelia

Gaia Major wrote:[sub]Chairman Mao sits up in his chair as he listens to the Prime Minister's closing remarks. What he appears to be offering coincides closely with what China sought from this summit.[/sub]

MAO: You drive a hard bargain, Prescott. I will give you that!

[sub] He chuckles, sipping on his sencha tea. [/sub]

Well, I would certainly concur with you on the principle of self-determination: after all, it is one of the guiding precepts of socialism. We can appreciate your desire to ensure democratic procedures in certain nations within Southeast Asia, and predicated upon what you appear to be offering- unless, of course, I am mistaken in this- we are amenable to your terms, albeit slightly amended.

First: The United Kingdom will cease all support for the KMT and the government-in-exile in Thailand, and recognise the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole "Chinese" state, and a successor of the Republic of China and the Qing Empire. This will extend internationally, granting the PRC the self-same seat on the United Nations Security Council occupied by representatives of the Republic of China.

Secondly: A zone of non-intervention between China and the United Kingdom, along with our respective allies, will be delineated consisting of Thailand, Malaya, and Indonesia. Both nations will not act to influence politics in the region, diplomatically or militarily, except to act in support of an incumbent regime which has come to power independent of either of our actions, and in order to perpetuate such a regime.

Thirdly: Once the People's Republic is admitted to the United Nations, we and our Indonesian ally will ratify maritime law, and provide for mutual freedom of navigation through the Java Sea, in return for the same privileges through the Straits of Malacca.

Finally: The United Kingdom will halt all international support and agreements with the alleged "Republic of China", an illegitimate state, and no longer conduct business or diplomatic dealings with this state except through the conduit of the PRC.

Now- are we in agreement, Prescott?

Nonador

[list][sub]With a nod, Prescott would stand to his feet - straightening his blazer. Both leaders had satisfied their mutual desires for peace built upon respect and cooperation.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Agreed.. I am pleased that we have found mutual understanding today, in a manner for all the world to replicate. Today, history is made, as we bridge the gap between ideology in the interest of nations and the people of the world. These terms are most agreeable Mao, and I suspect our aides will have a fair time codifying these terms in a final document for us to both sign before we depart for our Capitals. A reception will be held tonight in honor of our agreement tonight in the Ball Room... quarters have been prepared for your and your entourage to rest until then.”

[list][sub]With that, Rothschild would extend his hand towards the Chairman.[/sub][/list]

Otsla, New Swaraelia

Nonador wrote:[list][sub]With a nod, Prescott would stand to his feet - straightening his blazer. Both leaders had satisfied their mutual desires for peace built upon respect and cooperation.[/sub][/list]

PRESCOTT ROTHSCHILD, PRIME MINISTER; ”Agreed.. I am pleased that we have found mutual understanding today, in a manner for all the world to replicate. Today, history is made, as we bridge the gap between ideology in the interest of nations and the people of the world. These terms are most agreeable Mao, and I suspect our aides will have a fair time codifying these terms in a final document for us to both sign before we depart for our Capitals. A reception will be held tonight in honor of our agreement tonight in the Ball Room... quarters have been prepared for your and your entourage to rest until then.”

[list][sub]With that, Rothschild would extend his hand towards the Chairman.[/sub][/list]

[sub]Mao grasps the Prime Minister's hand firmly, and shakes it with a smile.[/sub]

MAO: Your generosity is much appreciated. The ability of the United Kingdom and China to transcend ideology and come to a mutually satisfactory agreement is a credit to the human spirit; despite the huge differences that exist between us, it is gratifying to see that we can yet find common ground...I look forward to the ceremony, and I thank you for what has been a most productive meeting.

Nonador, New Swaraelia

Gaia Major wrote:[sub]Mao grasps the Prime Minister's hand firmly, and shakes it with a smile.[/sub]

MAO: Your generosity is much appreciated. The ability of the United Kingdom and China to transcend ideology and come to a mutually satisfactory agreement is a credit to the human spirit; despite the huge differences that exist between us, it is gratifying to see that we can yet find common ground...I look forward to the ceremony, and I thank you for what has been a most productive meeting.

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New Swaraelia

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I would like to enter this summit!

New Swaraelia

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[list]THE EMPIRE TIMES[pre]

Month Edition — August 1956[/pre][/list]

[list][list][pre]Forward with the Empire![/pre][sub][pre]Bringing you news from the Empire on which the sun never sets.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]CHINESE DETENTE IN FULL EFFECT[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| SINGAPORE — The year 1956 was to be one of great consequence: the thawing of tension between the United Kingdom and the eastern world. Since 1946, at the conclusion of the Second World War, Britain found itself receiving again a liberated Empire far different from the one which was stolen from the Crown by Japan almost a decade before. Resistance to Japanese occupation ripped open old wounds and sowed the seeds of division between those who could not stomach living under another foreign power, and those who supported a systematic and peaceful transition towards Independence. What resulted was the successful effort of advocates for Independence who found a friend in Clement Attlee’s Labor Government. Yet, that consensus on peaceful transition to peace was met with the sound of explosions and gunfire as Communist insurgents brought forth a reign of terror in Malaya and other British territories in Asia.[/sub]

[sub]With the rise of Prescott Rothschild to the premiership in 1950, the “Irresponsible Decolonization” was swiftly replaced, by the Conservative majorities’ plan for the independence of those territories who have expressed such a desire. However, displaying the rod, Parliament authorized a use of force to quell Communist uprisings in Singapore which saw the use of “harsh, inhumane measures” as described by the Opposition and the PRC who would begin to provide material support to the insurgent MNRA. Local forces, under order of SIR , Governor-General of Malaya and Singapore, began a campaign of arrests for ethnic Chinese Malays who were suspected of supporting the MNRA, while deploying members of the Royal Army to root out and restrain rebels hiding in the countryside. Reports filled British airways of the Air Force’s indiscriminate use of Agent POG, a tactical defoliant, to remove all cover for the MNRA who began to sustain major loses. The campaign was effective, but not without major costs to both British and Malayan life. As the death toll rose, and strict policing measures were enforced in the cities, supporters for a peaceful transition became less patient. By 1954, the MNRA’s numbers were greatly reduced by local politicians issued a petition for the United Kingdom to expedite its process of withdrawal from Malaya. Prime Minister Rothschild accepted.[/sub]

[sub]And so, by the Spring of 1955, Parliament transferred Home Rule to the National Assembly of Malaya who subsequently voted in favor of Independence of the nation, effective the following month. However, through negotiation, the campaign against the MNRA continued until the communist insurgency was extinguished. By December of 1955, the MNRA was routed and facing imminent defeat, propped up solely by support from the PRC. This was the context around which Prime Minister Rothschild accepted the invitation of Chairman Mao Zedong for a summit held in Singapore. There, both leaders found common goals for the region and codified an agreement known as the Singapore Accords, through which both the United Kingdom and PRC made concessions which would secure British interests in the region and the elevation of the PRC to the recognition of one of the worldÂ’s foremost powers. That agreement outlined the formation of a Detente between the PRC and the United Kingdom which would no doubt serve as the foundation for the thawing of tensions between the East and West in a region gripped by proxy wars and strife. The terms of that agreement was as follows:[/sub]

[list][pre]1 — The United Kingdom will cease all material, diplomatic, and political support for the KMT and the government-in-exile in Thailand, and recognise the government of the People's Republic of China as the sole "Chinese" state, and a successor of the Republic of China and the Qing Empire.

2 — The United Kingdom will support a resolution in the United Nations recognizing the People’s Republic as the sole Chinese state, with the rights there to as a member of the UN Security Council.

3 — Both nations will maintain a zone of non-intervention between China and the United Kingdom, along with our respective allies, which will be delineated consisting of Thailand, Malaya, and Indonesia. Both nations will not act to influence politics in the region, diplomatically or militarily, except to act in support of an incumbent regime which has come to power independent of either of our actions, and in order to perpetuate such a regime.

4 — Upon their admittance to the United Nations, the People’s Republic of China and Indonesia will adopt the Convention on the Freedom of the Seas, and other components of Maritime Law, to provide for the mutual freedom of navigation through the Java Sea, Straits of Malacca, and Indian Ocean.

5 — The United Kingdom will cease recognition of the “Republic of China”, and end support for international agreements with, and diplomatic, economic support for the same: past, present, and future — except through the PRC.[/pre][/list]

[sub]With the approval of Parliament in February, the Ministry of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs began the process of terminating standing agreements between the UK and Republic of China, and issue a formal recognition of the PRC - accepting a diplomatic mission into the former Embassy of the Republic, and sending one of our own to Peking. While a reaction from the United States and the other western powers has been measured at most, Prime Minister Rothschild has this to say. — ”The Interest of Britain supersede those of others, and in the interest of peace, we must be pragmatic in our dealings with the East. Those who deny this reality doom us all to nuclear annihilation.”[/sub]

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Gaia Major

Otsla, Liberalina, New Swaraelia, Teymour, Gaia Major

August 1956

The Great Summit of Timbuktu

Modibo Keïta and his followers held a massive summit in Timbuktu inviting many prominent West African intellectuals, politicians and local officials. Timbuktu had declined greatly since the days of the Malian Empire local mismanagement and colonial focus on the coast saw the slow decline of the city into almost total obscurity. Keïta declared near the steps of the University of Sankore his intentions to restore the city to greatness, and have it be the capitol of a grand new Malian state post independence. He, and the various representatives of local administrations sat down and signed a document known as the Timbuktu Treaty of 1956.

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Treaty of Timbuktu

Signed: August 17th 1956

•All representatives here are members of their local Democratically elected congress

• Upon the independence of West Africa from the French Empire all signatories of this treaty will agree to the formation of a new Malian Federation.

•Local elections will be held immediately after including many topics such as the status of monarchism in the Malian Federation.

•Any who do not sign will be subject to the immediate ejection from the Malian Federation and lose the protection benefits.

SIGNATORIES:

•Modibo Keïta representing Mali Proper

• Moktar Ould Daddah representing the region of Mauritania

• Maurice Yaméogo representing the region of Upper Volta

• Hamani Diori representing the region of Niger

• Léopold Sédar Senghor representing the region of Senegal.

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Noticeably absent signatories, or members who refused to sign included Dahomey, Benin, Ivory Coast, and Guinea, all of whom have formed a counter league against any further attempts of reconciliation by the so-called Malian Federation. Many of the regions are majority Christian and do not wish to trade one imperialist for another.

Liberalina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Teymour

Nonador wrote:

[list][list]FRANCE SLAMS BRITISH BETRAYAL OF WESTERN VALUES

4 August 1956 - Cologne, Rhineland Mutual Cooperation Zone, Federal Republic of Germany[/list][/list]

| The aftermath of Prime Minister Prescott Rothschild's Sino-British summit with feared despot of China, Chairman Mao Zedong, has seen the French government and people disgusted by Rothschild's willingness to cooperate with the murderous Chinese who, just three years before, had slaughtered thousands of French, British, and Commonwealth soldiers in Korea and have been one of the primary enemies of Western Democracy's interests abroad. President Charles De Gaulle has expressed "extreme disappointment" in the United Kingdom's recognition of the People's Republic of China as the legitimate government of China, and has reinforced France's "strong and eternal commitment to the Republic of China". As a sign of protest to the United Kingdom's collaboration with the People's Republic of China, the French government has also reduced the staff of the French embassy in the United Kingdom by half and has recalled most diplomats to British consulates in the Rhineland. |

| Paris, Calais, and Tchan-Tung were sites of anti-British protests among other cities throughout France and the French Empire where the British collaboration with China has been met by feelings of mistrust and betrayal. Since the end of the Second World War, the British and French Empires' former distrust and competition fully gave way into the Entente Cordiale, however sentiments among many Parisians and Tchan-Tungers show a return to the distrustful attitudes of Pre-Republican France towards 'Perfidious Albion'. With the British Empire's signing of the Singapore Accords recognizing the People's Republic of China and promising to support the P.R.C. for very little in return, the 'stab in the back' has ignited anti-British sentiments in France again. Most of the vitriol has shown itself in Tchan-Tung, one of the last bastions of freedom in mainland China, where 400,000 French and French Chinese gathered in the streets to protest the People's Republic of China, the Communist Chinese Party, and the United Kingdom. The demonstrations, mostly peaceful, were largely supported by local officials including multiple of Tchan-Tung's representatives in the National Assembly. |

| As a direct response to the United Kingdom's willingness to cooperate with the enemy and not only negotiate with, but bow to the communist menace, French Union President Charles de Gaulle has addressed the nation and the French Union as a whole, stating that France will 'continue to maintain a commitment to the free men and women of the world'. |

[list]'The French Union recognizes and will never forget the struggles of the Chinese people to resist the rising tide of communist tyranny in their nation, starting in 1927 and continuing to this very day. Britain's most recent diplomatic, political, and military overtures to the illegitimate People's Republic of China represents the ultimate betrayal not only to the millions of Chinese people who fought against and suffer under the Chinese Communist System, but the ultimate betrayal to the hundreds of thousands of South Koreans, Frenchmen, Anglos, Commonwealth soldiers, and Americans who fought against the Communist Chinese aggression in the Korean Peninsula and Tchan-Tung just three years ago. While their bodies lay in makeshift graves far from home, the British Government has found it appropriate to bow to their killers and accept their demands.

The French Union will not bow to its enemies. The United Kingdom may continue its historic policy of appeasing dictators, but France will not. We will continue to support the Republic of China politically, militarily, economically, and diplomatically when and where possible and offer aid, refuge, and asylum to all Chinese people fleeing the political and economic persecution innate in the communist structure. We will continue to prevent the spread of China's dangerous ideology and its power externally and offer support to South Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and all other neighboring nations affected by Chairman Mao's dangerous rhetoric and malicious aggression. The French Union will honor the historic commitments of our beautiful multinational alliance against the forces of tyranny and despotism and will never forget the thousands killed at the hands of the Chinese Red Armies in the name of freedom, liberty, and justice.'[/list]

| Quietly, but certainly in response to the Singapore Accords, France has made smaller moves to limit British influence in Europe and Africa. In Europe directly, the French Union has recognized various German armed groups associated with the United Kingdom as illegal organizations and has issued warnings for both French and German citizens in the Rhineland and Germany proper to beware of British-armed nationalist organizations active in Germany. The Deutsche Jagdgesellschaften(German Hunting Society) and the Rheinschützen- und Jägerliga(Rhine Shooters and Hunters League), the two largest armed organizations associated with the Rothschild doctrine, have been designated as illegal organizations by France, with Allied High Commissioner Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi stating to the media he will "employ the full might of the law against illegal criminal organizations". The French Legislature has also quietly passed the German Military Aid Act, which has increased the budget for the German Territorial Forces and will increase the size of the organization drastically. The German Military Aid Act will permit the G.T.F. to operate a total force of 175,000 infantry, 21,000 airmen, and 30,000 sailors and has authorized the French Ministry of Defense to arm the G.T.F. with a sizable inventory of AMX-13s, Messerschmitt Me 716s, and has approved the transfer of the soon-to-be decommissioned F.S. Brest, an aircraft carrier, from the French Navy to the G.T.F. |

| The French Union has also reached out to its former Indochinese colonies, directly under the assault of Communist China, offering increased support in the fight against Chinese-backed rebel groups. In Miwok- and Grand Indochina, France has begun to deploy increased amounts of special forces operatives to aid in the training of ground infantry to combat insurgency. Around 150 special forces operatives have been deployed to the Empire of Vietnam, with 400 being sent to Laos, where the Pathet Lao invasion has continued to wear the country down. |

Nonador, Val Verde-, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Liberalina, Kiger, New Swaraelia, Teymour

[list][list]~ 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥: 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 ~

ʟᴏᴄᴀʟ ᴀꜰꜰᴀɪʀꜱ, ᴅʀᴀᴍᴀꜱ, ʟɪᴇꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴍɪꜱᴅᴇᴇᴅꜱ‌[/list][/list]

[sup]The City of Homs‎, Syria, January 1955. On a dark lonely road, a single car drives down the road towards the University of Homs. The car makes it stop and its passengers step out of the car. It's non-other than Antoun Saadeh, party leader of the SSNP and Minister of the Interior. He is guided inside the university by his fellow SSNP party members, towards a conference room where he is to give a speech in honor of the parties founding, which dates back to the 16th of November 1932. Such celebration would typically be hosted in the Party Headquarters in Damascus, but the ever-growing distrust between Saadeh and President Shishakli had grown tremendously, to such a point that Saadeh now used the city of Homs as a defacto HQ for arty affairs. Another factor was the fact that the local garrison commander was an SSNP loyalist, thus no fear of the garrison spying on him. Once Saadeh stepped into the room, it came alive as SSNP members clapped and cheered for their party leader. Saadeh simply smiled and waved back to them as he made his way to the podium. The massive room was decorated with SSNP flags, posters, and colors. One could say it mirrored one of Hitler's mass rallies, which the SSNP would fully denounce no doubt. Saadeh would take the podium, the claps and cheers only made louder, he would raise his hand to calm them. The room goes silent and anticipation fills the air, Saadeh still smiling, begins his speech. His words command charisma and respect as he speaks on several topics concerning the rise of Nasser and Pan-Arabist sentiment.[/sup]

[list][pre]"Fellow members of the party! I welcome you all here today in honor of our movements' 23rd anniversary! It was 23 years ago that this movement was founded and in those 23 years, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party has advanced to unimaginable heights! If only the naysayers, defeatists, and cowards could see how far we've come since then. Our many enemies made a great many attempts to destroy our movement, but these cowards failed each & every time they challenged us! Where are the French? Where are the Communists? Where are the Kataeb? Yes indeed, rejoice comrades, rejoice for the victory is ours! However, let us not forget that a great labour still remains ahead of us comrades. The Zionist plot still looms over Palestine like a dark cloud over the land. Iraq and Jordan have fallen into the hands of the treacherous Heshimites who still whore the lands to the westerners! We must defeat these enemies and liberate the rest of Syria, my comrades! And last, but not least, the rise of Nasser in Egypt is of great concern! This...showman has recently been on the rise with his silver tongue, spreading ideas of Arab 'unity' and other such wash. We must remain vigilant for Nasser knows not of what he speaks of. Greater Syria represents the national ideal encompassing the historical people of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, bound together by a clearly defined geography and a common historical, social, and cultural development path away from all sectarianism. This idea of Pan-Arabism is nothing but a gimmick, a child's fantasy if you will! The Syrian people are a "mixture of races generated by migrations and intermarriages", its social life and cohesion having been shaped and determined by the Levantine environment and geography in which it developed. Thus the SSNP rejects the notion of a single Arabs people or Arab nation! We must resist all forms of sectarianism within the Syria nation, be it religious, racial, or political must be destroyed! We are not Arabs, Muslims, Christians, we are Syrians![/pre][/list]

[list][list]- Antoun Saadeh

أنطون سعادة[/list][/list]

[I][sup]With those words, the audience went wild. The whole room ignited with claps, cheers, and whistles. Saadeh would step down from the podium and join his fellow SSNP members to a dining room for a meal. He was seated at the VIP table, served makdus a signature Syrian dish. The dish consisted of oil-cured eggplants. The dish is traditionally prepared with small-sized baby eggplants that are shortly boiled and stuffed with a flavorful mixture of roasted red peppers, walnuts, garlic, and salt. While he ate with his inner circle a waiter entered the room. The said waiter glared around the room for a bit until he fixed his eyes on Saadeh, he doesn't make eye contact but merely glances to see his position and who he's with. He walks slowly towards the table while attempting to act normal, he does so by serving other guests their drinks. He eventually makes his way to the main table with Saadeh and offers him a drink. His choices are water or Qamar al-din, Saadeh chooses Qamar. The waiter pours the juice into his glass, filling it to the brim. As he retracts his vase, Saadeh gives his thanks to the waiter, the waiter simply smiles back. But the waiter does not leave, Saadeh asks him if he needed something, but the waiter remains there standing in awkward silence. Saadeh simply concluded that the man was simply nervous and tried to break the silence by telling a small joke. The waiter drops his vase, spilling the Qamar all over the floor, he rushes to clean it. However, as he kneels to the ground he suddenly pulls out a revolver from a strap on his ankle and aims the gun at Saadeh. He shouts the word 'justice' as he fires at Saadeh. The room suddenly enters into panic as two bullets are fired at the party leader. The first one misses but the second one strikes Saadeh on the shoulder. Saadeh collapses onto the floor, but the gunmen is quick to try and finish him off but Saadeh's guard leaps into action, knocking him to the ground and restraining him. An ambulance is called and Saadeh transported to the city hospital where he is put into intensive care.[/sup]

[spoiler=✯ 𝐑𝐏𝐂 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃, 𝐄𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐄 𝐍𝐒! ✯]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

The Reunified German Reich

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis

Lux Lumen[/spoiler]

Val Verde-, Grand Indochina, Liberalina, Czabalkia, Kiger, New Swaraelia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

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My apologies for my inactivity, IÂ’ll get an application around at some point. Life is hard :(

Brickwall, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour

[list]DECEMBER 1954

RIYADH, ARABIA — MIDDLE EAST[/list]

[list][list][sub][pre]وطن - عمل - استقلال

The Homeland - Labour - Independence

THE ARAB POLITICAL AWAKENING - THE PRINCES, THE DYNASTY & THE PRESIDENT[/pre][/sub]

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[list][sub]Ibn Saud, a Nejdi warlord turned protector of the Two Holy Mosques, had acted as an enforcer of authority during his long reign as King of Saudi Arabia. However, his sudden death had set the stage for his sonÂ’s, Prince Saud and Prince Faisal to embolden their rivalry. The open disdain both brothers felt towards each other was no secret in the powerful circles of ArabiaÂ’s political elite. Their exchange of insults had warranted the intervention of their father in the past. However, SaudÂ’s designation as Crown Prince serves as a clear indication of who was the favourite son, leaving a bitter and envious taste in FaisalÂ’s mouth. Regardless, King Saud was keen to move on to the business of governance, visiting the sacred city of Mecca in the early weeks of his rule. This fulfilled numerous goals beyond paying religious homage to IslamÂ’s holiest city. Firstly it served the purpose of cultivating a public image of piety around King Saud, which was critical to ensuring overall acceptance of his authority. Secondly it would serve as an affirmation of the close relationship between the Islamic Clergy and Saudi Family per the Pact of Diriyeh. Thirdly, a clear message was sent to King SaudÂ’s political rivals both inside and outside the Kingdom, of his status as the representative of the Islamic Ummah and the vanguard of IslamÂ’s holiest locations. The King was not the only one making such political maneuvers. His rival Prince Faisal had quickly interenched himself in the process of probing for sympathizers in Riyadh while Saud was in Mecca. [/sub]

[sub]For Prince Faisal the need to garner support from family members that could throw their weight behind a possible claim to the throne was proving critical. He would be privately approached by Talal Ibn Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the 25th son of Ibn Saud and since 1952, the 1st Minister of Communications. A position which made him part of a class of very wealthy youthful princes. Prior to his rise to power, Prince Talal was born to an Armenian mother, Munaiyir Al-Saud, a refugee from the Metz Yeghern perpetrated against the Armenians, who fled to Saudi domains in Nejd. Since coming of age in Arabia, the Prince had shown signs of sympathy towards liberal political reforms, a position which had gained him the mistrust of the incumbent King and his religious supporters, who had accused Talal of being a Marxist ‘red prince’. Talal’s brothers however, Prince Fawwaz, Prince Majid, Prince Nawwaf and Prince Badr had responded to these accusations with the tacit approval of Talal’s liberal posturing. Prince Nawwaf was especially important in ensuring Talal remained unharmed by Saud, as he had been the trusted commander of the Royal Guard since being appointed in 1952. However, for Faisal, coming to an agreement with Talal and by extension his sympathetic brothers was not simple nor without difficulty. For one he was weary of Talal’s more radical political ideals relating to the establishment of a civil constitution and representative legislature, which the idealistic prince would insist on heavily in his talks with Faisal. It would take a catalyst for the two to come into a full understanding regarding their roles in directing the Kingdom’s future. And that catalyst would come from Egypt. [/sub]

[sub]“In our age, the Arab people are recognizing the need to defend their national cause. No power on Earth can undo this realization from among the masses: in Egypt, in Palestine, in Syria, in the Arabian Peninsula and elsewhere. For us in Egypt, we have raised our voices to their limits when it comes to what befell the resilient Palestinian nation. However the Palestinian people are still waiting for a response to their suffering from Baghdad or Riyadh or from Tripoli, but they have yet to receive a single word or a single grain of wheat. Where are these leaders who like to boast of their bravery and selflessness? They are cowards! They are cowards because they remain silent and we are brave because we have spoken up! And you will see how they have no backbone, as they will all line up like sheep to say a few meaningless whimpers, once their servants tell them of what I said. If you had shed a single tear for this tragedy you would not need me to remind you of your duties to your family in Palestine. Speak up! We have been waiting for you to speak up, yet you ignore us! We have not heard anything from Syria either. There are hundreds of thousands of suffering Palestinian refugees in Syria, why has nothing been said? Syrian martyrs died to defend Palestine in the catastrophe of 1948, why has nothing been said? Syria stood with us against injustice, why has nothing been said? All these leaders see the defence of the Arabs as a burden, but we see it as a great and noble undertaking! For us, there must be an Arab consensus on Palestine, not silence!”

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[list][list]- PRESIDENT JAMAL ABDEL NASSER[/list]

[sub]It what would be largely considered a continuation of his rhetoric beginning in Gaza, President Nasser of Egypt critiqued the lack of vocal responses to the Palestinian Crisis by regional Arab regimes in a speech to the National Assembly on December 14th. For Saudi Arabia and other Arab Monarchies, NasserÂ’s sharp words increased pressure to adopt an Arab consensus. The KingdomÂ’s security services were also acutely aware of the emergent sway NasserÂ’s public image held over government ranks and how it emboldened underground nationalist sentiments within Arabia. Prince Talal, Faisal and the other more liberally-minded members of the dynasty looked upon the speech in more favourable terms, seeing it as somewhat of a calling to act. For Prince Faisal, he feared that NasserÂ’s harsh tone was signalling that there already was an underground movement in the country, something the Prince did not want to be absent from. Pro-Nasser sentiment would thereby act as the pragmatic vehicle for the modernization programs Faisal wished to see implemented. Most importantly, it was feared that developments from Egypt would further invigorate King Saud to consolidate power and close the window for any future supplanting of his rule. Hence, the dissenting princes would be inclined to set aside their differences and act quickly to prevent SaudÂ’s full consolidation, which likely would spell death for their own aspirations. [/sub]

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Otsla, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, New Swaraelia, Suuvla

[list][list]PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS

12 November 1956 - Baghdad, Royal Capital Province, Arab Kingdom[/list][/list]

| After four days of voting in every region of the Kingdom from Sulaymaniyah to al-Quds, the votes have been counted and the official results for the Arab Kingdom's Royal Parliament have been announced by the National Electoral Committee. After a tense and multipolar race, a coalition of the National People's Party, the National Socialist Party, and the Arab Constitutionalist Party secured a majority of the legislature's 270 seats, with the other parties finishing distantly behind. As a result of his party seizing the largest share of Parliament held by one party, 121 representatives, King Hussein has selected the National People's Party President Nuri al-Said to serve as Prime Minister of the Arab Kingdom, with the National Socialist Party's leader Suleiman Nabulsi serving as Vice Prime Minister due to his party's capture of 98 seats. |

| The election cycle over the summer and through most of the autumn season had been a bitter, although mostly peaceful, affair. Candidates bitterly ran strong campaigns in the Cisjordanian West Bank region, where national parties such as the NSP, the NPP, and the liberal party had to contend with local movements; the Palestinian Arab Nationalist Movement and the National Front for the Liberation of Palestine, although being fringe East of the Jordan, polled well in Cisjordan prior to the election. However, upon election day, only a slim majority of Cisjordan's representatives were elected from either of these parties: the PANM secured 18 seats, and the National Front for the Liberation of Palestine secured 20. 12 seats went to National Socialist Party, 11 to the National People's Party, 4 to the Muslim Political Action Front, 2 to Hizb ut-Tahrir, 2 to the Arab Communist Party of Amman, and one to the Baghdadi Arab Communist Party. |

| The first session of the royal parliament will be held on 16 January 1957. In total, the Royal Parliament will look as such: |

RULING COALITION:

Size: 240

[list][*] National People's Party: 121 Representatives

[*] National Socialist Party: 98 Representatives

[*] Arab Constitutionalist Party: 21 Representatives[/list]

OPPOSSITION:

Size: 30

[list][*] Liberal Party: 14 Representatives

Muslim Political Action Front: 6 Representatives

Hizb ut-Tahrir: 5 Representatives

Arab Communist Party(Baghdad): 3 Representatives

Arab Communist Party(Amman): 2 Representatives[/list]

| Incoming Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, the former Iraqi Prime Minister who was responsible for ending the Succession Crisis and creating the Arab Kingdom, has stated that his administration will focus on continuing to oversee internal stability and political cohesion. The Prime Minister and Vice Prime Minister have held two separate meetings in Baghdad since election night, one with each other and one, a tripartite meeting with King Hussein I to discuss the government going forward. |

Otsla, Teymour

[list][list]13 September 1954 - Plains of Abraham, Québec City, Capitale-Nationale Quebec, United Kingdom

THE QUIET REVOLUTION: PT. II

'𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦, 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘯!'[/list][/list]

| A crowd of roughly 3,000 Quebecois stand gathered in the cold fall evening, lamps and spotlights illuminating the area as the last, dying lights of the sun set over the city's skyline to the west. The throng of activists, waving banners and flags, had been stirred to attend this summit due to the deep nationalist appeals of and growing hype behind the key speaker - Marcel Chaput, the founder of the Rally of the Quebecois People(RPQ). The RPQ had, since its founding in December 1952, grown to a registered nation-wide membership of about 12,000 of Quebec's roughly 4,950,000 people. Due mostly to Prime Minister Rothschild's Anglicization of the United Kingdom's vast empire, many Quebecois had become somewhat radicalized and pushed away from the United Kingdom, forming a sense of Quebecois nationalism that had not truly existed since the 1837-38 Patriots' War. |

| With the coming of the 195th anniversary of the French defeat at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, the Rally of the Quebecois People had sought to hold a massive rally on the Plains where the battle for Quebec had first been lost. Against all odds, considering the long-running tensions between the RPQ and the government of Quebec and the United Kingdom as a whole, the local government of Quebec City had given the RPQ permission to use the field to hold their rally after state processions and ceremonies had concluded. Confined to the late, brisk hours of the night when most had returned home for the evening, the fact that even 3,000 had come to participate was a victory in the eyes of the RPQ's leadership, especially to Marcel Chaput. |

| The night's commemoration ceremony consists of various demonstrations, a march around various plaques and monuments, and a speech regarding the battle and its effects by RPQ President Jacques Bellemare. However, the main event, a speech by Party Premier Chaput, is what is anticipated by most of the Patriotes in attendance. Known for his fiery oratories, Marcel had generated enough word of mouth through his boisterous and controversial speeches that when the RPQ came in town to deliver a speech, practically all of that city's vocal sovereigntists came out to see it. After the various ceremonies and Bellemare's mostly uneventful speech, the entire crowd gathers around a large wooden stage whereupon Premier Chaput stands behind a podium adorned with microphones. Lines of Royal Constabulary officers stand around the podium and dispersed throughout and beyond the crowd, should anything escalate. |

[list]MARCEL CHAPUT, Founder of the Rally of the Quebecois People: "In the history of the world, the central conflict has always been that of the oppressed versus his oppressor. From Biblical and pre-historic times, the Jews sought freedom from their oppressors; the early Christians were fed to the lions by the Romans; the Irish and Scotts fought off many wars to resist English occupation; slaves have risen up in revolt; and today, the silenced nationalities of the world rise up in armed and unarmed struggle against the states which oppress and rule over them. The inherent right to self-determination and national independence as put forward by the United Nations and the major powers of the Great World Wars is founded in the inherent and individual rights of man to be free and forge his own destiny as he pleases. The nation, as a collective of people bound to the same rights, is owed its autonomy.

The United Kingdom, since the conquest of our homeland, Laurentie, on this very field 195 years ago, has been engaged in a brutal and vicious campaign to colonize our lands and suppress and replace our people. We know this, because we experience it's effects every day, and because we see it being used as the core colonial policy of the United Kingdom across the globe. The suppression of a land's native people and the exploitation of both the land and the nation by the United Kingdom has been the crux of the English Imperial scheme since the Irish and the Scotts were forced into servitude by the medieval monarchs of London, who tore those asking for independence limb from limb and dispersed their remains across the island. We have seen that the oppressor, who claims to invade and pacify nations to save them from 'barbarism', themselves falls on the side of barbarism once they have conquered, and refuse to let go of the spoils.

There has been a change in the policy of Her Majesty's government as of late where, in places such as Africa and Asia, the newer colonies have been granted the right to self rule. Prime Minister Rothschild has recognized these colonies as being nations and deserving the full right to independence that nations are guaranteed as a natural right. Over time, they say, these nations which are not English, do not speak English, and do not follow English customs will be granted gradual independence until one day the United Kingdom holds no influence on them, their economies, their policy, their lives. Decolonization is a core tenant of Prime Minister Rothschild's government, ostensibly to respect the rights of self-determination. However, we know that this is not the case, and the true reason is that Prime Minister Rothschild may focus more effort on subjugating the nations of the United Kingdom which are colonies in practice, but not recognized as such by the United Nations. It is the desire of Prime Minister Rothschild, as we all see it, to redirect the resources of colonial exploitation against the minority groups of the greater United Kingdom and establish it as an Anglo-Celtic ethnostate, in which the minority nationalities are subjugated into oblivion.

This policy is a direct threat to Quebec. Quebec does not speak English, we are not descended from Englishmen, we do not share a faith with the English, our customs and history are wildly different. We eat Pâté chinois, they eat corn beef and cabbage. We recognize the sovereignty of the Catholic Church, they recognize the sovereignty of Henry VIII. We say, bonjour, they say 'hello'. There are fundamental differences between the Quebecois or the French Canadian and the Englishman or the English Canadian. Our homeland, much like the African or Asian colonies, was conquered by military force and has been subject to colonial exploitation, but unlike Africa or Asia, we have been subjected and exploited for one hundred and ninety five years. Do we, as a non-English nationality in our own homeland, not also deserve the independence and autonomy that Prime Minister Rothschild has guaranteed to colonies with similar qualifications?

Instead of independence, we Quebecois, increasingly, find ourselves subjected to further laws, further discrimination, further profiling, further targeting, and further pain at the hands of the government of the United Kingdom. They subject us because they see us as lesser than them, and believe our nation and our homeland to rightfully be a part of theirs.

This is Laurentie, not Albion! We have our own customs, our own language, our own beliefs, our own traditions, our own heritage, our own culture, our own cuisine, our own nationality and our own land. The United Kingdom, since that fateful day on this very field 195 years ago, has tried their best to suppress our nationality and all that we stand for. However, they have failed. Instead it has, over time, strengthened our resolve to take the wheel and begin charting our own course, putting our fate in our own hands and being given the natural and God-given right to self determination all nations possess.

If we, as the people and defenders of this land that we love, make our voices heard, that we do not desire to be a part of the United Kingdom, and apply the whole of our efforts towards pursuing independence, it is only a matter of time until we shall be granted this wish. We must forgo armed struggle and instead focus on putting increased political pressure on our local leaders and the leaders of Her Majesty's government to give us the independence which we deserve. We must approach the United Nations and the French Union to garner international support for the plight of our nationality, and we must continue to organize as a communal nation against our oppressor. We will, eventually, leave Babylon, and our native land will be restored to full and total independence, as we have so desired for so long.

The Rally of the Quebecois People will continue to gather patriotic and likeminded brothers and sisters and dedicate ourselves towards the freedom of Quebec. Day by day, the British continue to further crack down on our organizations and organizations like us who advocate for independence- this shows us, and shows everyone, that they are afraid their barbarous colonial games will no longer be tolerated by the men and women of Quebec. In the papers, on the radio, we will continue to make our calls for Quebec's autonomy loud and clear until Prime Minister Rothschild has no option but to give us independence!

We do this because this is Laurentie, not Albion!"[/list]

| Chaput's speech generates an immediate cry of hoorahs from the crowd, who throw their arms and hats into the air. Chaput disembarks from the platform, being personally applauded by his close confidants and members of the crowd close enough to get in range to speak to him for even a moment. Chaput, Jacques Bellemare, and the rest of the party's leadership then begin the last march towards the Citadelle of Quebec. After marching through the fields and arriving at the front gate of the Citadelle, the throng of people stand in silence as the British royal guards look on, some in open disgust. After nearly three minutes of silent standing, the crowd chants the Quebecois national motto, 'je me souviens', three times. After chanting, the crowd breaks apart, and silence overtakes the night. |

Nonador, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Teymour

1956

Construction of the Railway Resumes

As part of the road map for independence the West African government allocated funding to the expansion of the existing railways of the colony including resumption of the Dakar-Port Sudan Railway. In another example of the clear divide within the colony, debates raged over the exact route of the railway. In Dakar colonial officials attempted to calm tensions between different groups, as tensions continued to escalate into screaming matches, as the minority Christians felt excluded and pushed down by the Muslim majority. After much internal debate, shouting matches, and even a brief fist fight a plan was laid out.

Pan-African Railway Route

Phase One:

Dakar-St Louis

Dakar-Kayes

Phase Two:

Kayes-Timbuktu

Timbuktu-Gao

Abidjan-Bobo Dioulasso

Phase Three:

Bobo Dioulasso-Fada NÂ’gourma

Gao-Niamey

Fada NÂ’gourma-Niamey

Niamey-Zinder

(This concludes the West Africa portion of building)

New Airports Planned for the Interior

For many the placement of new roads, and railways, and schools were not enough for the burgeoning region of West Africa. Times continue to progress, and the importance of the airplane continues to become more evident and the government after much lobbying and less than legal acts by members of the Keïtist faction began funding airports in major cities in the interior most notably the Mansa Musa Airport in Gao, and the Sankore Airport in Timbuktu.

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour

[list][list]FRANCE RECOGNIZES THE REPUBLIC OF PALESTINE, SIGNS AGREEMENTS WITH ARAB STATES

26 August 1956 - Gaza City, Gaza District, Republic of Palestine[/list][/list]

| As tensions in Europe and abroad continue to warm, the French Union has begun making geopolitical plays within the Middle East to bolster its support for Arab states including its close ally, the Republic of Egypt, and other allies including the Arab Kingdom, the Kingdom of Tunisia, and the Kingdom of Morocco. The biggest - and most public - policy has been to officially recognize the Republic of Palestine(Gaza Republic) as a sovereign state starting on August 26th, and has sent a diplomatic team there to establish an embassy with which to represent French interests in and around the Gaza Strip Area. |

| The recognition of the Republic of Palestine has caused a conflict of interest for France's official policies which, to this point, has been to recognize the State of Israel while continuing to support a two state solution, without recognizing the Republic of Palestine. However, mostly as an effort to increase support for France among the various Arab States, the French Republic has now officially recognized the Republic of Palestine as a legitimate state representing the Palestinian nation, while stating that France will 'continue to work towards a comprehensive and cohesive solution regarding the conflict between Palestine and Israel'. Gilbert Lemaître, a French diplomat of half French and Arab descent, has been chosen to serve the inaugural term as French Ambassador to Palestine. |

| France has also reached out and made secret agreements with the governments of two key Arab states, the Republic of Egypt and the Arab Kingdom, involving military self-sufficiency among the Arab nations. Both the Republic of Egypt and the Arab Kingdom, in terms of military preparedness, have historically been reliant of British training and equipment to fight wars and defend their interests and, with the British signing of the Singapore Accords jeopardizing Britain's commitment to fighting international communism, the French Union has moved in to secure strategic partnerships with the Arab States to fill that role. In order to help Egypt and the Arab Kingdom decrease military dependence on the United Kingdom, and allow France to better work with its regional partners, the French Union has asked that both nations begin to phase out British equipment quietly over an eight-year period, and be replaced with either French or American equipment. In return, the French Union will sell equipment at an extremely discounted price in bulk, and will provide technical support, equipment maintenance, and intensive training indefinitely for the Arab armies. Along with Teymour and Suuvla, the French government has also sent similar offers to Otsla and Zanbala Prz in order to ensure stronger partnerships with other Middle Eastern states. |

Nonador, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Zanbala Prz, Teymour, 2Nd New England Commonwealth

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1427854

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Nonador, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Liberalina, Czabalkia, Teymour

Brickwall wrote:https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1427854

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Liberalina

[list]THE EMPIRE TIMES[pre]

Month Edition — October 1956[/pre][/list]

[list][list][pre]Forward with the Empire![/pre][sub][pre]Bringing you news from the Empire on which the sun never sets.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]MAKING OF A GLOBAL UNION: BRITAIN, THE COMMONWEALTH, AND THE FREE WORLD[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| LONDON — The promise of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s declaration on the floor of Parliament fell upon deaf ears following the 1946 general election which saw the Conservative party thrust into the Minority: ”Tough Choices had to be made to ensure the survival of Britain and all free people’s of this world”. For many, the Colonies came to mind as the movement for independence reached the point of no return in India, who would gain their freedom a little over a year later - or even the subsequent Independence of British colonies in Africa, but instead, the choice became clear in the wake of the Korean War with the signing of the Singapore Accords. Britain would, as Churchill did, cry loud into the void admonishing the world’s power’s to protect the peace whilst warmongers and military industrialists marched the world to the brink again. Chaos grips Asia, as warlords struggle for power, competing for the scraps of once vast Empires - trans-national insurgents topple already weakened governments, and millions of innocents fall victim to the game of politics played by would-be the dominatrixes from Paris or Moscow, with Washington on an apparent steady return into isolationism. The cry, now, is clear more than ever: The United Kingdom must stand alone as the true defender of western principles..[/sub]

[sub]When Royal Assent was granted shortly after passage in 1894, the Unionization Act represented one of the most important Acts of Parliament since the Acts of Union in 1707 and the signing of the Magna Carta some 490 years prior. In it, the Dominions of Canada, Australasia, and New Zealand were elevated to equal status with the home countries of Great Britain and Ireland. Together, all of the Home Countries found fair representation in Parliament, as members of a greater Union under the English monarchy. Indeed, the term “Briton” referred not just to the inhabitants of the home isles, but to Canadians, Australians, and Zelanders whose regional identity became infused with a greater one.The Anglo states, united by a common history, culture, and allegiance to the crown further integrated their legal customs, economies, and politics until the point where separation could only be determined by the pronunciation of common terms within the “King’s English”. It was the common refrain, that a man from Bristol, could wake up in Halifax, Nova Scotia or Perth, Australasia and never notice the difference. This cohesion was achieved not through forced assimilation, but through equitable investment from London into the various industries of each outlying country, providing opportunities for the creation of a strong middle class in every part of the United Kingdom, with good paying jobs, healthcare benefits, high standard of living and a common defense. By the year 1950, a man would rise to the Premiership whose birth occurred not in the hospitals of Britain, but in a labor room deep within the land down under - Prescott Rothschild. This reality provided the frame for what the Prime Minister declared in Parliament yesterday, in his calls for strengthening the Commonwealth Economic Treaty Organization: a unification of Britain, the Commonwealth and the Free World. British policy, he declared, would centralize the uplift of every citizen of the Commonwealth realms by empowering people where they are, and defeating humanity’s true enemies: Poverty & Disease, while bridging the ideological divide, where possible, between East and West.[/sub]

[list][pre]”Our fight is not against Communism, but against the fear of the other. What we all share, irregardless of ideology, is a common goal for human well being and the preservation of God’s creation here on earth. Where there exists common ground, we must share it in the same way we did in the war against Fascism, now, as we confront the evils of the modern world. Coexistence must be our goal, not the eradication of each other.. To oppose this, is to stand in opposition of human progress.. And in opposition of this Kingdom.[/pre][/list]

[sub]To jeers from the party loyal, and murmurs of confusion from the opposition - Rothschild announced several immediate actions to be taken by the British Government:[/sub]

[list][pre]1. The immediate investment of £1.1 Billion Pound Sterling (£23.3 Billion or $30 Billion USD in 2020) into the Commonwealth Regional Development Fund, to be disbursed among the Commonwealth Trade Organization’s member states by the Trade Authority. These funds are to be prioritized for infrastructure projects within member states.

2. The immediate investment of £300 Million Pounds into the Qattara Depression Project in Egypt (Al Urdon), which will provide the country with a sustainable source of electricity into the foreseeable future upon completion. This investment will be followed by additional disbursements of 300 Million per annum until the project’s completion, with an estimated total cost being £1.4 Billion. With the assistance of some 1,500 Royal Engineers, this project will provide hundreds of high wage jobs for the Egyptian people, while elevating the quality of life in-country substantially outside of the urban centers around the Nile river.

3. A reduction of British soldiers deployed to Germany from the current force of 52,000 men alongside 1,000+ tanks of various types, to ZERO by the end of spring 1957. These troops, deployed following skirmishes with the Soviet Union in 1948, will be redeployed to the Meditteranean Theater at British bases in Gibraltar, Malta, and Cyprus to increase Britain's troops presence in the region. As the troops withdraw, occupation of their bases are to be turned over to German authorities upon the removal of British equipment - a process which may last until the end of summer 1957.

4. An immediate inventory of retired and captured equipment from Nazi Germany, Facist Italy, and the United Kingdom for immediate transfer to members of Commonwealth Realms, with first-rate weaponry available for purchase by members of the Commonwealth Economic Treaty Organization at discounted prices. Those armaments include, but are not limited to, the Hawker Hunter fighters, the Comet tank, and various Infantry-grade small arms to include, Battle Rifles, LMGs, and Sniper Rifles.

5. Commission a study of the greatest health and economic threats to each of the Commonwealth Realms, to identify areas for support and investments. [OOC: If you are a member of the CETO, DM me on Discord with any major projects your nation needs assistance in].

6. Direct the Ministry of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, in coordination with the National Health Service to prepare reports on the top 5 major diseases facing each member of the CETO, sharing Britain's knowledge on each illness, and coordinatimg the means by which to share any vaccinations, or medical treatments which can control the spread of, or combat them. To likewise commission a Council of Medical Experts to begin research on the diseases to which the CETO member states (including the UK) are least knowledgeable in to combine resources for research.[/pre][/list]

[sub]In addition to these steps, the Prime Minister has signaled to all member states that the United Kingdom stands at the ready to defend, support, and invest into their future. His philosophy ”An attack upon one of us, is an attack upon us all. In the same fashion, when the ‘least’ among us succeeds, we all succeed the more. Britain stands ready to help.”[/sub]

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[/align][/background-block][/td][td][center][font=futura]LINCONIA[/font][/center][/td][td][center][font=futura]Linconias[/font][/center][/td][/tr][/spoiler]

Brickwall, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Liberalina, Kiger, Zanbala Prz, Teymour, Kraskow

[list]THE EMPIRE TIMES[pre]

Month Edition — October 1956[/pre][/list]

[list][list][pre]Forward with the Empire![/pre][sub][pre]Bringing you news from the Empire on which the sun never sets.[/pre][/sub][/list][/list]

[list][list][pre]ANGLO-FRENCH SPLIT IMMANENT? REOPENING OF OLD WOUNDS[/pre][/list][/list]

[list][sub]| OTTAWA — It was as if an A-Bomb went off in White Hall, as word poured in from across the globe of French protest at the signing of the Singapore Accord translating into direct action against the United Kingdom. Not since the last shots were fired against Napoleon, had France presented Britain with such aggression as now. British-affiliated hunting clubs in Germany designated as terrorist organizations, pursued by the Allied Commander in Germany, Mister Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, on false charges acting on behalf of Paris; the French Embassy nearly vacated by their core of Diplomats; and President de Gualle - once a resident of London, publicly denouncing Prime Minister Rothschild whose signing of the Singapore Accords he called - ’Appeasement of Dictators’. Outrage on the streets of London, Ottawa, and many cities throughout the United Kingdom where citizens decry the French President as an “ungrateful coward”, who fears peace as the end of his storied career as a military “hero”. When asked for a response to the President’s remarks, Prime Minister Rothschild stated;[/sub]

[list][pre]”For hundreds of years, the United Kingdom has taken up the mantle of leadership in the west when French fearmongering marched Europe to war not once, but twice. We followed each time, but shall not any further. France, a noble country, has lost its way beneath the throne of a despotic petty King, whose obsession with self and glory would mean the end of human civilization. De Gualle, a great warrior in his day, has no place in the modern order… the French people would be wise to look to more progressive leaders.”[/pre][/list]

[sub]While London and Paris stood at odds, across the Atlantic, the chants of Quebecois nationalists could be heard for blocks during a rally in Montreal. There, for the last few years a movement of separatists have made headway in their calls for the independence of the province from the United Kingdom and reunification with France. Fears from the First MinisterÂ’s office in Ottawa could be heard over phone lines at Number 10, where the Cabinet had been meeting for several weeks as they weighed the best way to respond to the French affront. The Singapore Accords, was a commitment between London and Peking, one which did not threaten the security of France, yet, their response against British assets in Germany, and support for the separatists in Quebec, posed a far greater threat to the security of Britain and the west at-large. With the announcement of British troop withdrawal from Germany by the end of summer next year, the First Minister of Canada took to the press with an announcement: The Rally of the Quebec People (RQP) would be designated as a seperatist organization, and its members charged with inciting Sedition and Treason against the British Crown.[/sub]

[sub]With this announcement, members of the Royal Canadian Army would begin to mobilize for deployment to Quebec, where RQP facilities would be seized and members arrested to await trial in Ottawa. The RQPÂ’s printed outlet, the LaurentieÂ’s publication licences would be revoked making the production and distribution of the paper illegal anywhere in the United Kingdom. Likewise, the First Minister announced that the RQPÂ’s youth wing, the Jeunesse, had been ordered to disband, and that members were to be brought in for questioning under parental supervision. Pending the the results of each interrogation, the First Minister announced that the Canadian Parliament would soon vote on a resolution ordering the relocation of RQP members out of the country and to Autralasia upon approval of their Parliament with certification from London - however such a measure was viewed as a premature escalation to be used at a later date should the need arise.[/sub]

[sub]Such strong messaging from London and Ottawa produced mixed feelings within the British public who, on the one hand, supported peace in Asia and a measured response to France - but questioned the end-result of this sharp decline in Anglo-French relations. In either case, Rothschild has reportedly sent a communique to the French President noting that support for Quebecois independence would not be tolerated, nor continued action against British security assets across the globe.[/sub]

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Czabalkia

Brickwall, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Liberalina, Zanbala Prz

[list][list]12 FEBRUARY 1956 - AL-QUDS, CISJORDANIAN WEST BANK, ARAB KINGDOM

ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT, 1956[/list][/list]

| At the insistence of recently enthroned King Hussein I of the Arab Kingdom, the Arab League had agreed to hold the annual Summit of the Arab League at al-Quds, claimed by both Israel and Palestine as the capital of their nations and effectively governed as the administrative capital of the Cisjordanian-West Bank province of the Arab Kingdom. However, the League's willingness to meet within al-Quds would not only showed the League's commitment to the Arab Palestinian cause, but also help legitimize the Arab Kingdom's occupation of the West Bank region, only recognized by Pakistan and the United Kingdom. Additionally, the League meeting in Jerusalem would allow the Arab Kingdom to show off recently acquired American military hardware, including light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, paraded around as part of the League's military security. |

| The leaders of North Yemen, the United Arab Republic, the Arab Kingdom, Tunisia, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, Libya arrive in al-Quds prior to the meeting. Representing the nations are King Ahmad bin Yahya, President Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, King Hussein I, Prime Minister Habib Bourguiba, King Mohammed V, President Adib Shishakli, President Camille Chamoun, and King Idris I. Over a span of about an hour, the national leaders are brought from their various hotels via armed Royal Arab Army armored convoys to the meeting building, a large hotel named Shuruq, or Sunrise. The building is bustling with soldiers of the Tahrir Brigade, the primarily Palestinian wing of the Royal Arab Army, equipped with SMLEs and Lewis Guns, who defend every nook and cranny of the building and scan the rooftops with their machine guns. Four M24 Chaffees of the 1st Armored Division and eight M8 Greyhounds stand stationed on the cordoned off roads leading towards Shuruq, located in the bustling heart of the Moroccan Quarter of the City. |

| As the Arab leaders settle into their seats, al-Quds's mayor, Salah ad-Din al-Shujae, welcomes the guests as the opening speaker. Hand-picked by King Hussein I, al-Shujae had been responsible for overseeing the continued expulsion of the city's remaining Jewish population, and the legacy of the Jewish settlement during the Mandatory period. As a native of the city and heavily invested in its development under the Arab Kingdom, he had become extremely popular among the city's residents. In his short speech, he welcomes the delegates of the various states in attendance, gives credit to King Hussein I for supporting the Palestinian cause, reminds the Arab leaders of their dedications to the Palestinians in light of the failure of 1948, and gives them his personal well wishes. After that, the floor is opened up to discussion. |

[spoiler=✯ 𝐑𝐏𝐂 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐄𝐃, 𝐄𝐋 𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐄 𝐍𝐒! ✯]Teymour

Otsla

Val Verde-

New Raines

Zanbala Prz

Czabalkia

Stahlrahm

Not Xav

Antillian

Entralia

Grand Indochina

Teujira

Concorrdia

The Reunified German Reich

Aprosian Empire

Tadros

Kartnan

Pacifica Occidentalis

Lux Lumen

Nonador[/spoiler]

Otsla, Grand Indochina, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

Sweden - 1956

The Swedish government has decided to vamp up the arms industry, subsidizing Bofors Arms in order to buy out various other shipbuilding and arms companies. The Swedish government issued a statement to Bofors that majority production would go directly to the Royal Swedish Army, the Royal Swedish Navy, and the Royal Swedish Air Force from 1956 to 1960. The Conservative party has also made a defiant stand against the Social Democrats, demanding an election for Prime Minister in order to oust the current PM who seeks closer Soviet relations. Although the Conservatives seek out a British friendship, it is unlikely that the Conservative party will overrule the Social Democrats

Following the tightening events in Europe, Sweden has moved troops to her borders and put the navy on immediate standby. If God knows what hits the fan, Sweden should be ready to aptly defend itself, her interests, and convoys to warring nations. The government has issued a statement that they will be pushing to raise the budget in major cities to create public transport and more social services, which was met with very positive public opinion. The Social Democrats conceded to The Conservatives and have agreed to a PM election. The Social Democrats are certain they will win, but the Conservatives are hopeful. In all honesty, both sides were sweaty, because this would determine which side of the world the Swedes would take trade and relations with, the East or the West, Soviets or British? It would be decided soon in the election.

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour

1956

Togo? Tonga? Who Knows!

Togoland has been passed around many times in the past century, from ingenious kingdom, to Germany, to the LoN, and then finally to France. Many had denied it's significance with even many French leaders at various points calling it, land used to protect the railway in Dahomey. This apathy towards Togoland began to stir native resentment in the latter half of the 50Â’s with the assassination of the local Prime Minister of Togo, Nicolas Grunitzky, by members of the Togoland People's Front. The TPF alleged that Grunitzky was firstly a French-African puppet, and secondly a capitalist dog. Sylvanus Olyimpio a renowned Togolese nationalist leader is suspected to now be in league with the communists as he is the only other man in the Togoland with the power and wealth to assassinate the Local Prime Minister.

French West African Response:

Debates raged throughout the halls of the local parliament about what to do regarding the unrest in Togo. Many debated: What even was a Togo? IsnÂ’t that a British island kingdom in the pacific? These debates continued to bog down parliament as several times maps were produced to show everyone indeed this small usually irrelevant strip of land existed. After drawing up the necessary plans it was decided, a detachment of 5,000 soldiers led by Sekou Traore would depart for Togoland to crush the communist rebels and capture the renegade Olympio. Only time will tell if this will succeed.

Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Teymour, Kraskow

[sub]| JULY 9 | 1956 AD | IT CAME FROM THE WOODWORK, PART 1 | WOODARD ESTATE | NEAR SOLTON |[/sub]

[list][list]| Levi Woodard, stands outside of his house on his several dozen acres of land in the golden fields of the northern states, wearing a white button up and tan pants with same-colored suspenders. Wielding an axe, he works the wooden logs he chopped earlier today, splitting them. As he works and chops, he thinks about his occupation. As Deputy Prime Minister, he has been under a lot of pressure from party officials. Though the position of Prime MinisterÂ’s Deputy is not his only job, he also serves as the Minister of Tribal Relations, a highly respected but rarely sought-after position in the country. As Minister of Tribal Relations, your duty is to frequently discuss on-goings of the Zulu peoples, other ethnic tribes, and Boers in order to maintain the civility between the tribes, clans, internal kingdoms and the national government. As he thinks he swings his axe down and splits another log, when he looks back up he notices a black car driving down his dirt road, a large collection of dust sprouting from the back of the car. He watches the car then shakes his head and splits another log. As the car pulls up, two men walk out. An African man in a grey suit leaves the car with a cheetah print crown on. And a white man exits the same car with a black suit and hat on. The two men approach the Minister and begin speak to him. |[/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Ah, let me see if I remember… Johann Harker?”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Johann tips his hat. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “And… Chief Ukefe.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “In the flesh!”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Ukefe says with a contagious smile. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Gentlemen, what brings you to my land?”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Levi wipes his brow. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “We have some important news for you, Levi.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Yes?”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Levi splits another log. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “President Gumede is likely to resign within the next month or so.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Good. Little do nothing.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “Ja, we thought you’d like that. So, here’s what we need from you.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “Since Prime Minister Mamfsi is like to outright reject the Presidential inauguration, and instead go for a uh… interim executive position, there will be a special election called.”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Levi swings his axe down while talking. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “You need me to scout out potential candidates. I understand, I’ll get right on it.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “No, no, no.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “You misunderstand us.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “Levi… we want you to run for the office.”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Levi looks at them, shock in his eyes. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “See? We are scouting you out!”[/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “...No. I don’t believe I’d be the best choice.”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Johann and Ukefe rush to reassure him. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “On the contrary.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “You’d be perfect.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “We need someone who will finalize the State Borders and mend the issues that Gumede caused.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Wait, wait, why is Gumede even resigning?”[/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “Some sort of sickness. He is forgetting things more frequently. Dementia or something of the sort.”[/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Hmm..”[/list]

[list]| [sub]UKEFE OLUNJARI:[/sub] | “We need you, Levi. We know you have the will of Mbaku and the mind of Plaatje.”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Levi thinks to himself for a moment, placing the axe down. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]LEVI WOODARD:[/sub] | “Right. Okay. I’ll do it. Though, you may regret what I do.”[/list]

[list][list][list][ Ukefe and Johann laugh. ][/list][/list][/list]

[list]| [sub]JOHANN HARKER:[/sub] | “We shall see, no? Ha!”[/list]

Nonador, Otsla, Grand Indochina, Czabalkia, Zanbala Prz, Teymour

Hello everyone

Shamalistan, Czabalkia

[list][list]1952 THROUGH 1956 - NORTH AFRICA

FRENCH NORTH AFRICA: GEOPOLITICAL MANEUVERING, DECISIVE ACTION, AND CALCULATED POLICY[/list][/list]

| Since taking office in 1952, President Charles de Gaulle has been faced with the growing challenge of facing the post-War decolonial trend. Both France and the U.K., their resources for colonial exploitation dried up fighting Nazi aggression, have been forced to begin the process of dismantling the larger portions of their overseas Empires as the world enters a new era of democracy, liberalism, and national self-determination. Both the United Kingdom and France, seeking to avoid brutal decolonial wars such as those in Malaya or Indochina, have pursued a policy of mutually amicable and beneficial decolonization in Africa, where the colonizers have begun putting resources into the colonies to ensure that Africa remains stable upon the exit of the colonial powers. To this extent, the French-created International Economic Community and the British Commonwealth Trade Authority have worked to establish positive socioeconomic trade relations on both sides of the Mediterranean, particularly in deep Sub-Saharan Africa. For France, however, the colonies in and north of the Sahara have been subject to a different policy- full integration into France. |

| The three French North African colonies - Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia - had all developed extremely separately from one another. Algeria had been organically conquered over the decades by the various Kings and Emperors of the 19th Century colonized directly by millions of Frenchmen seeking a new frontier on the 'Other Half' of France's Mediterranean Coast. Since 1830, France has dedicated vast amounts of manpower, material resources, and economic power towards the conversion of the northern Algerian coast from an Ottoman tributary state to a fully-fledged mirror image of the continent to its north. In large part, these efforts have succeeded, with the main three departments of Algeria being overwhelmingly developed and wealthy, with heavily service-dominated markets and a population nearly equally split between the native Algerian Arabo-Berbers and French 'Pied Noir' or 'Black Footed' settlers. During the Second World War, Algiers had become the war-time capital of the Provisional French Government, and was the home of Marshal General Extraordinaire Petain's National Revolution, which helped rejuvenate the war-wearied French people into fighting shape to help take down the Nazi occupation of the Continent. Since the end of the War, Algeria has risen to become one of the shining beacons of Metropolitan France, hosting the headquarters for the International Economic Community and being one of the wealthiest regions in France per capita. |

| Tunisia, to the east of Algeria, was also part of the Ottoman Empire, remaining so for well into the later half of the 19th Century. The Beylik of Tunisia continued to pay tribute to the Sultans of Turkey until 1881 when French forces, pursuing Arab tribesmen raiding French commerce in Algeria, entered and occupied Tunisia. The ensuing Treaty of Bardo and Conventions of La Marsa in 1881 and 1883, respectively, paved the way for and ultimately established a French protectorate over the Beylik with France overtaking almost all administrative roles, restructuring the Tunisian government, and gaining access to the strategic ports of Bizerte and Tunis. Tunisia, although keeping nominal autonomy, was essentially brought into the French colonial sphere and, like Algeria, became subject to large amounts of European ethnic colonization; consisting mostly of Italians and Frenchmen, roughly 9.5% of Tunisia's 3.5 million large population had some European descent in them, practicing a wide variety of religions and speaking both European and local North African languages. However, despite the large population of European descendants and Gallicized natives in Tunisia, the successive French governments after 1883 were never fully able to bring Tunisia into the fold of the French Empire as they had Algeria, with the Second Empire, the wartime Provisional Government, the Fourth Republic, and the Fifth Republic all maintaining the Protectorate over Tunisia. |

| However, administrative and cultural control of Tunisia had begun to run deep since the 1890s. With their hands so deep within the structural operations of the country, French colonial authorities had also worked to establish a similar, if less outstanding, connection between France and Tunisia as they had in northern Algeria. By 1952, with independence movements beginning to grow louder and more popular across Africa, the French Union's security and intelligence agencies had already managed to network their way into the growing Tunisian independence movements, gathering details and information on key anti-French leaders, and beginning to take names of pro-French supporters and neutral independence activists. |

| The French Protectorate of Morocco, for its part, had become one of France's last colonized states, falling under French dominion only during a complex period between 1907 and 1912. The division of the Alouite Kingdom of Morocco between Spain and France was the source of extreme international conflict and, arguably, helped to deteriorate Franco-German relations during the 1911 Agadir Crisis. Nonetheless, when all was said and done, the lion's share of the Moroccan Empire had fallen under the sway of Paris, with the mostly desert Saharan regions and the northern, mountainous Rif area falling under Spanish influence. Subject to less settler colonialism than Algeria or Tunisia, the French Protectorate in Morocco was instead based upon a deep collaboration between France and the traditional cultural and political hierarchies in Moroccan society. Between 1912 and 1952, especially in the Interwar Period, the French government pursued a policy of close cooperation with the Moroccan nobility, providing the Moroccan Kings lavishness and grandeur as well as political favors in return for cooperation. The French authorities also established a policy of 'colonial education' aimed at the lower classes of Moroccan society. Through this colonial education, Moroccan peasants were provided with trade skills and instilled with a loyalty towards France upon which the peasants would impress upon the rest of Moroccan society. Marshal Lyautey, the first Governor of French Morocco, helped to create this tenuous, but powerful, bond between France, the Moroccan nobility, and the Moroccan peasantry. |

| The Second World War and Marshal Petain's flight from France to French North Africa completely changed the dynamic between the European French heartland and the North African colonies. During the War, Petain's centralized provisional government approached North Africa not as a rugged colonial frontier, but instead as a core part of France herself, and imparted resources and capital throughout as such. Even in the face of Axis naval and aerial bombardment of Algiers, Tunis, Tangier, and Marrakesh, the major cities of French North Africa became part of a centralized, well-oiled French machine consisting of a quickly developing military-political-social complex. Forced to live, bunk, train, and fight alongside colonial troops, the French Provisional Forces developed a sense of unity between Frenchmen, Berbers, and Arabs. Additionally, the mass influx of refugees from the mainland of France served to reinforce positive relations between local Arabo-Berbers and France, with the common struggle of resisting Nazi occupation of North Africa serving as a unifying force between the different people groups. |

| At the war's end, with the government moving back from Algiers to Paris and many European refugees returning to Europe, the political, social, and cultural face of French North Africa had been changed completely. On the ground among the average denizens of the areas, the already mostly positive image of the French government had been improved due to receiving largely equal status within the French system, especially following the establishment of the Overseas Departments system in 1947. Further placations for independence were satisfied upon the ratification of the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic in 1952 and, due to its ratification, the creation of the French Union. The French Union system, still in effect today, established a tier system for nations and states within the French system, recognizing certain, more autonomous nations and states as deserving independence and autonomy within the French system. Upon the ratification of the French Union system, Algeria was recognized as being a part of the French Republic itself, with the full rights and responsibilities of a part of mainland France, whilst Morocco and Tunisia were both recognized as 'Associate States', states with internal and external sovereignty whose economic and foreign affairs are managed by the French Union, and whose internal policy is guided by the rules and regulations of the French Union. |

| The creation of the idea of the 'French System', and its implication via the French Union, allowed France to continue to maintain administrative and economic control over Morocco and Tunisia, while also allowing local leaders to exercise their own authority and maintain international prestige and limited diplomatic freedom. Additionally, the creation of the French Union Congress gave Moroccans and Tunisians an unprecedented ability to influence the policies of not only their own nations, but the French Union as a whole, through the election of Congressional delegates to pass Union-wide policies and regulations. However, even with President De Gaulle's overtures towards the North African people, and his attempts to include them fully and equally within the French System, there has still been complications, resulting in the necessity for decisive actions and calculated policy in all three of the North African regions. |

[list][list][list][list][list]ALGERIA

[sub]A War; The Division Between Brothers[/sub][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

| Though the inclusion of Algeria into the French Republic itself was popularly met by Pied Noirs and many native Algerians, who had essentially become cultural brothers since 1830, a large portion of Algerians still desired independence over inclusion in the French Republic. To the Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action and, later, the National Liberation Front, the establishment of an independent, socialist, pan-Arabist Algerian state was an absolute necessity, to the point of eventually deciding to take up armed struggle against French authorities in search of independence. The first, limited incidents of disruption to French authority in Algeria began as early as 1951, intensifying in 1952, but beginning in earnest on 1 November 1954. During the 'Red All-Saint's Day' attack in Algiers, the F.L.N. established itself as an armed alternative to the French Republic, attacking French armories and Pied Noir businesses with firearms and explosives. The Toussaint Rouge, as it has come to be called in France, marked the true beginning of the current phase of the Algerian War. |

| The Algerian War, also known as the Brothers' War in parts of Northern Algeria, has seen an escalation from a low-grade insurgency into a genuine civil conflict between France and the Pied Noirs, pro-French Algerians, and anti-French Algerian militants, armed and supported by the Soviet Union. On the battlefield, the F.L.N. has been active primarily in the southern, Saharan regions of French Algeria, alongside small cells in majority Arab communities in the north. In total, the F.L.N.'s projected strength is nearly 175,000 fighters of some capacity, with an untold number of supporters among the civilian population, especially the poorer Arabo-Berber communities. Since 1952, increasing by some few thousand every year, the French Army and the French Union's Armed Forces has deployed a total of nearly 300,000 soldiers, including French Foreign Legionaries, as well as some 27,000 pro-French Harki volunteers. The French Army and the F.L.N. has, as of August 1956, squared off in direct and indirect combat in numerous battles, starting with the Red All-Saint's Day on November 1st 1954 and continuing on with Phillippeville and the 1955 Battle of Saïda. |

| By and large, French military efforts in Algeria have been mostly successful. However, the violent reactions against pro-independence activists by Pied Noirs and radical pro-French natives has caused a serious split between the Algerian population. Algiers, formerly a peaceful and developed city, has become torn apart by civil unrest throughout 1956 due to the militant activism of the Front Algérie Française, an Algerian pro-French organization founded by Colonel Said Boualam. The F.A.F., vehemently pro-French and against any idea of Algerian independence, has organized street patrols wherein Algerian Muslims suspected of supporting the F.L.N., the Algerian National Movement, or the Algerian Communist Party are intimidated, harassed, and often beat. The F.A.F.'s violence against anyone suspected of supporting independence has even escalated, in some reported cases, to lynching of F.L.N. supporters in Constantine by pro-French Muslims: Seven Algerian Muslims, with ties to the F.L.N., had been found hanged in a park overnight in Constantine on 16 August 1956, with F.A.F. signs found nearby. While Constantine Police had failed to solidify the connection, the tension in Constantine following the lynching has served as a representation, in microcosm, of the division between the F.A.F. and likeminding pro-French Algerians and the pro-independence advocates in Algeria. |

| President de Gaulle, dedicated to preserving the stability and integrity of Algeria, authorized the deployment of the French Gendarmerie in Algeria beginning in October of 1956 to 'preserve civil peace' in Algiers, Constantine, Oran, and other large coastal cities. In total, some 14,000 Gendarmerie will be deployed from Europe to northern Algeria, with strict orders to disperse all protests and demonstrations with 'potential to escalate into violence or unrest'. The Gendarmerie, whilst in Algeria, will mostly be deployed into urban areas at risk of experiencing factional civil unrest and violence, and will target and crack down on both the F.A.F. and F.L.N. supporters. Importantly, however, the Gendarmerie will serve as mediators between local civilian populations and the French military presence in Algeria, working to establish informant networks and build communal ties between moderate Algerian Muslims and the French military. |

| de Gaulle's administration certainly has no plans on conceding to the F.L.N.'s militant demands for independence, as stated by Frédéric Héroux, the governor of Oran Department. According to most French military and political leaders in Algeria, the F.L.N. is only supported by a 'minority of natives', and the French Republic will continue to 'support the unity between Natives and the French Republic' to cut off the F.L.N.'s base. The successes on the field, they say, will only be truly won when they are reaffirmed by a victory in the battle for hearts and minds. de Gaulle's administration has continued to step up efforts against intergroup violence in Algeria as part of this effort, continuing on the multiethnic unity established during Petain's National Revolution. |

| On 12 October 1956, the French Foreign Legion intercepted a DC-3 inbound to Cairo from Morocco carrying the exiled F.L.N. leaders Ahmed Ben Bella, Mohammed Boudiaf, Mohamed Khider and Hocine Aït Ahmed. After forcing the DC-3 to land in Algiers Air Base, the four leaders and the other F.L.N. militants on the plane were captured, detained, and arrested. The capture of these four influential political leaders has dealt a massive blow to the F.L.N. and their supporters, with the prisoners being taken to Fort du Portalet in the Pyrenees. Although too soon to fully see the impact of the arrests on the F.L.N., already surrenders of F.L.N. militants to the French Army has increased by a few hundred in just a week and a half, signaling a potential lack of faith in the ability of the F.L.N. to win the war. Though President de Gaulle has shied away from prosecuting the four men for treason, he has stated that they will face trial for other various crimes in a French Union court. |

| Militarily, the French Army and French Foreign Legion has continued to escalate its presence, particularly in Southern Algeria and the Sahara. The massive open deserts and oases of the French Sahara has presented ample space for the F.L.N. and other pro-independence militants to flee should the civil conflict in northern Algeria begin to end, and with an already large presence of French military and nuclear testing sites in the Sahara, the French government desires to ensure that the F.L.N. finds itself pinned in the densely populated north and center of the nation. F.L.N. attempts to wage a guerrilla campaign against French civil assets, although tactically successful, has given France international and internal leverage to portray the F.L.N. as bandits and barbarians bent on destroying the Algerian economy and nation. However, the political fight against the F.L.N. and the defense against their guerrilla attacks presses on. |

[list][list][list][list][list]TUNISIA

[sub]Quiet Conflict; Plots, Assassinations, Schemes[/sub][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

| In Tunisia, where French influence is less overtly visible, the battle between nationalist independence activists and pro-French citizens has mostly been a battle of words rather than a battle of guns and bombs. The Beylik had become rocked during the late 1940s by calls from independence from Destourists - Constitutionalists - who were divided between the moderate and radical camps. The moderate camp, led by the neutralist-inclined Habib Bourguiba, called for the Protectorate to be ended, but not necessarily for the complete removal of French influence in Tunisia, while the radicals, led by Salah ben Youssef, have called for the complete removal of all French influence in Tunisia. Naturally, the French governments of both Edouard Daladier and Charles de Gaulle have been involved in open discussions with Bourguiba and his supporters, while actively cracking down on Salah ben Youssef and his crew. The split in the Destourists between the Bourguibists and the Youssefites has led to a serious division in public and private discourse in the Beylik, which the French government has capitalized on. |

| After the creation of the French Union in 1952, Tunisia was handed a large deal of internal autonomy from France to its own autonomous government which had existed, largely as a rump government, during the entirety of the Protectorate period. While the Protectorate still existed via the Treaty of Bardo, the recognition of Tunisia as a semi-independent Associate State of the French Union had allowed the Beylik and Prime Minister Slaheddine Baccouche, a staunch pro-French politician, to manage the internal affairs of the country freely while obeying the same restrictions on foreign and economic policy that had existed during the Protectorate. Despite the control over foreign affairs, even as an Associate State, the French Union's provisions allow the Tunisian Kingdom(as with Morocco) to represent itself in foreign affairs, such as being a de facto member of the Arab League. |

| The 'concessions' made by de Gaulle's government and the French Union to Tunisia in regards to internal affairs and foreign policy has helped to placate the independence conflict, with Bourguiba and his group of Destourists instead focusing on internal reforms within Tunisia to make it a freer, more democratic society. However, despite the popular support for Tunisia's continued partaking in the French System model, independence agitators still exists. Salah ben Youssef, in exile in Cairo since 1954, has continued to advocate for independence from abroad, stating that 'the immediate withdrawal of all French military personnel and equipment is a mandated pre-requisite for the full independence of the Tunisian people'. These calls, supported by the Youssefites, have been almost completely ignored by French authorities who have in fact expanded the French military presence in Tunisia since the founding of the French Union, as well as creating a standing Tunisian Royal Armed Forces as part of the French Union's multi-national army policy. |

| However, despite not verbally addressing the demands of Youssef, the French government has made plans to address the independence advocate. With the increased autonomy of Tunisia, the French internal security bureau has predicted Youssef will return to Tunisia within a few years to agitate for Tunisian independence directly. Should he return, an operation dubbed 'Operation Hawkeye' has been drafted to oversee the execution of Salah ben Youssef in a targeted strike by French Special Forces. |

| While France and pro-French Tunisians continue to fight the Quiet Conflict, the Bourguibists have also been working towards their own goals- the establishment of a Tunisian Republic. The aforementioned placation of the Bourguibists with the nominal independence of Tunisia has allowed the moderates to begin to look towards internal reforms and chief among those is the democratization of Tunisia. Secretly, President de Gaulle has shown approval of the establishment of a Tunisian Republic as, in his eyes, the republicanization of the entire French Union will allow for better integration of the Associate States into the French System. Short of directly overthrowing the monarchy, de Gaulle has offered private support for Bourguiba as a candidate for appointment as Prime Minister of Tunisia which, should he be appointed due to popular demand, would allow him to overhaul Tunisian society and government into a republican system. |

[list][list][list][list][list]MOROCCO

[sub]Promises Made; A Pledge To The King[/sub][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

| Morocco, a despotic monarchy, is solely reliant on the relationship and popularity of the King with the people. Sultan Mohammed V, who had become well known for his active support of independence movements, had become a serious threat to the continued relation between France and Morocco. President de Gaulle, at one point in 1953, had considered removing the Sultan and replacing him with his first cousin, Mohammed Ben Aarafa, as Mohammed VI, but had refrained from doing so as to avoid international disagreements with Spain and further irritating independence activists. Instead, in a private summit in Agadir in early 1954, President de Gaulle met with Sultan Mohammed V to discuss internal and foreign policy for Morocco as part of the French Union. The Agadir Summit was extremely secretive and, ostensibly, was to discuss 'common economic policy between Morocco and the French Republic'. However, in reality, the President and the King instead agreed upon a secretive set of agreements regarding Morocco's borders and the internal power of the King. |

| The Agadir Summit laid out the following: The French Republic would agree to formally end the Protectorate of Morocco, in exchange for Morocco agreeing to remain an Associate State of the French Union; the French Union would guarantee the sanctity of the full territorial extent of the Sultanate of Morocco, including the Rif, Cape Juby, the Western Sahara, Ceuta, Melilla, and Perejil Island; the French Union will support Moroccan attempts to secure, through any necessary means, the full administration of the territory recognized as Moroccan; the Moroccan government will censure 'subversive' elements of Moroccan society. A tense agreement between King Mohammed V, as a staunch Moroccan nationalist, and President de Gaulle was signed upon, and on 14 April 1954, France and Morocco unanimously reneged on the 1912 Treaty of Fes, ending the protectorate after forty two years. |

| As an Associate State of the French Union, Morocco has maintained its independence and has limited control over foreign affairs, being a member of the Arab League. As with the other French Union territories, the Moroccan Kingdom is represented in the United Nations by the French Union as a whole, thus making Morocco, by proxy, a United Nations Security Council member. |

| However, despite all the pleasantries, the Agadir Summit has tied France's hands to a scenario which it may wish to avoid- a potential war with Spain in defense of Mohammed V's claims to a whole, independent Morocco. While the colonial education policies and the National Revolution had cemented France's positive image in the Moroccan peasantry, the maintenance of France's continued hold over Morocco tenuously relies upon supporting Mohammed V, and future Sultans, and their potential desire to make war with Spain to see the liberation of Moroccan territory. For now, the French Union has continued to build the Royal Moroccan Army as a National Army of the French Union, and invest heavily in the industrial and infrastructural development of Morocco to International Economic Community standards. However, the looming possibility of a war with Spain over Moroccan territory is and will continue to remain a loaded gun at the head of the French Union. |

[list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list]THE FUTURE

[sub]What Lies Ahead[/sub][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list][/list]

| France's myriad approaches to handling the unfolding situations in North Africa represents a tenuous grasp on power reliant on mass popularity of France's overseas policy, the good relations of local leaders with national French authorities, and the continued support of 'good faith' policies within French North Africa. The French Republic, in order to gain support with North African Arabs, has gone on record to apologize for the anti-Arab policies of Napoleon IV including forced migration and slave-like working conditions, and has arrested and suppressed Pied Noirs and pro-French Arabo-Berbers who have been responsible for lynchings of independence advocates. The deployment of the French Gendarmerie to Algeria to quell racial and political unrest there will, hopefully, allow de Gaulle to continue to pursue the National Revolution's multiethnic nationalism and to dedicate the entire military presence in Algeria to smashing the last real bastions of F.L.N. military might in Algeria. France has learned from the Indochina War, which has shown that the enemy must not only be defeated on the battlefield, but in their own camps away from the field, and in their own homes if need be. Until the F.L.N. surrenders or agrees to a peace agreement, the French military will begin to actively hunt down and destroy F.L.N. camps and supporters throughout the country. |

| In Tunisia and Morocco, as the Protectorates are ended and Associate States created, France will continue to work with neutral and Pro-French politicians to accomplish goals of mutual benefit to both the French Union and the Associate States. The preservation of Tunisia and Morocco's strategically and economically important ports is of paramount importance to the French Union, while also seeking to respect the desires of Tunisians and Moroccans for independence, or at least autonomy - the failing of the inchoate alliances with Bourguiba and Mohammed V could result in a complete collapse of France's ability to maintain political control over the two states. |

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Written by Refuge Isle.