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  1. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    TTL it seems there would need to be some form of formal winding up of the League of Nations (for legal reasons at the very least) and the key states could decide on continuing the ILO and other organisations mentioned. And they'd have to decide then what to do, legally about the mandates. If...

  2. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    L One issue will be what will be the legal status of the mandates, if the League of Nations ends without any UN-type legal replacement. (Although the immediate mandate issue in the 1940s will be Palestine, the UN General Assembly revoked South Africa's mandate in Namibia in 1966).

  3. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    The LoN was moribund in 1939, although by then it was just essentially the Entente + China (no Germany, Japan, USSR, Italy, USA). But OTL it handed over some organisations/responsibilities to the UN - e.g. colonial mandates; the International Labour Organisation which would be difficult to...

  4. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Has Otto von Habsburg appeared in this timeline? I believe in OTL he started 1940 living near Brussels and fled from the advancing German army (who had orders to shoot him), ending up in the US.

  5. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    ' "The German Wars" perhaps. France v Germany will be seen as the core struggle of the first half of the 20th century.

  6. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Will be interesting to see what Jean Monnet does. In 1939 he was head of an Anglo-French committee on joint economic planning. Keynes might have a big role as well in creating any new economic institutions. Wishing you all the best in your recovery.

  7. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    The 1944 London Olympics may well happen now. In the football World Cup, they still hadn’t decided between Brazil and Germany for 1942 when the war broke out. I wonder if Brazil will be pushing for it now? In any event a World Cup, almost certainly in Brazil, will happen long before OTL 1950...

  8. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    This will be true. Syria and Lebanon to start with. A French govt flush with victory is not likely to countenance independence. What happens will also depend what happens to the mandates - will the League of Nations continue, be replaced by another organisation that inherits the mandates as...

  9. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    One issue that will affect colonialism is whether the League of Nations continues or is replaced by another international organisation, and what happens then to the LoN mandates? Of immediate concern for the France and the UK will be the Middle East mandates - Syria, Lebanon, Palestine...

  10. A Blunted Sickle - Thread II

    Just finished a mammoth lockdown read-through. Many congratulations, this is extraordinary, detailed, realistic and very believable. The post-war world will be fascinating, especially without any major role for the US and USSR in the design of any new organisations. Security will be a key...
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