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Cevolian - In Unity Security
1920-1933: Sir Eric Drummond (Non-Partisan, UK)
1933-1940: Joseph Avenol (Non-Partisan, France)
1940-1947: Cordell Hull (Non-Partisan, USA)
First Citizens of the United Nations;
1947-1951: Herbert Hoover (Non-Partisan, USA)
1947 def - Unopposed
1951-1959: Dwight Eisenhower (Union, USA)
1951 def - [various "Nationalists"], [various "Non-Partisan"], Scattered Votes for Regional Figures
1955 def - Haille Selassie (Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats, Abyssinia), Oswald Mosley (Independence, UK)
1959-19---: Charles DeGaulle (Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats, France)
1959 def - Robert Schuman (Union, France), Konrad Adenauer (Self-Determination and Independence, Germany), Ayn Rand (Liberty, USA)
I made a map and wrote up some notes for a world like this a while ago - the basic idea is that the League of Nations becomes much stronger after a dramatically much worse WWI, with even the USA joining. Moves towards greater integration begin in the late 1930s after the member states come together to tackle an alternate Great Depression (an effort led primarily by US President Herbert Hoover). This leads the UK, USSR, Japan and the "Third German Empire" (a neo Monarchist/fascist state - think Hungary in the 40s) to exit the League and forge their own path. When, after a dubious election brings Austria into the German Empire, things escalate and the League attacks Germany. This sets off a chain of events leading to an unholy alliance of the non-League powers, who see it as using its strength to try and unite the world under the banner of the League. Western Europe comes to form a "European Common Economic Zone" whilst Eastern Europe join up as the "Intermarum Union" and the nations of the Americas as the "Western Hemisphere Cooperation Area".
The war is gruelling and brutal, with the Soviet Union very nearly breaking the back of the American and French armies until a nuclear bomb is dropped on Moscow in 1945. Britain is the last member to "fall" actually achieving a peace treaty with the League after its colonies have been occupied, under which Britain is not militarily occupied like her allies and is allowed to join as a full member on the condition that she dissolves her Empire. The brutal loss of life seen in the war and the unity needed to prosecute it lead to even closer connections between the League of Nations' member states and it transforms into the "United Nations" (imagine a slightly weaker EU covering the whole globe) with a "First Citizen" elected using an electoral college from each member state and heavily modelled on the American Presidency. The office is initially held by Herbert Hoover, whose economic relief programmes in the 1930s are seen as the precursor of the UN as it is today.
By 1959 the UN's political culture is dominated by the "Union" and "Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats" parties, one standing for tighter integration and the other for greater autonomy and cultural freedom. The smaller "Self-Determination and Independence" party is primarily based in Britain and stands effectively for the return to the far less integrated days of the league and has growing support in Germany. The final party "Liberty" stands for a global common market, currency and a common (monetarist) fiscal policy as well as the rolling back of the stage...
IN UNITY SECURITY
General Secretaries of the League of Nations;
1920-1933: Sir Eric Drummond (Non-Partisan, UK)
1933-1940: Joseph Avenol (Non-Partisan, France)
1940-1947: Cordell Hull (Non-Partisan, USA)
First Citizens of the United Nations;
1947-1951: Herbert Hoover (Non-Partisan, USA)
1947 def - Unopposed
1951-1959: Dwight Eisenhower (Union, USA)
1951 def - [various "Nationalists"], [various "Non-Partisan"], Scattered Votes for Regional Figures
1955 def - Haille Selassie (Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats, Abyssinia), Oswald Mosley (Independence, UK)
1959-19---: Charles DeGaulle (Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats, France)
1959 def - Robert Schuman (Union, France), Konrad Adenauer (Self-Determination and Independence, Germany), Ayn Rand (Liberty, USA)
I made a map and wrote up some notes for a world like this a while ago - the basic idea is that the League of Nations becomes much stronger after a dramatically much worse WWI, with even the USA joining. Moves towards greater integration begin in the late 1930s after the member states come together to tackle an alternate Great Depression (an effort led primarily by US President Herbert Hoover). This leads the UK, USSR, Japan and the "Third German Empire" (a neo Monarchist/fascist state - think Hungary in the 40s) to exit the League and forge their own path. When, after a dubious election brings Austria into the German Empire, things escalate and the League attacks Germany. This sets off a chain of events leading to an unholy alliance of the non-League powers, who see it as using its strength to try and unite the world under the banner of the League. Western Europe comes to form a "European Common Economic Zone" whilst Eastern Europe join up as the "Intermarum Union" and the nations of the Americas as the "Western Hemisphere Cooperation Area".
The war is gruelling and brutal, with the Soviet Union very nearly breaking the back of the American and French armies until a nuclear bomb is dropped on Moscow in 1945. Britain is the last member to "fall" actually achieving a peace treaty with the League after its colonies have been occupied, under which Britain is not militarily occupied like her allies and is allowed to join as a full member on the condition that she dissolves her Empire. The brutal loss of life seen in the war and the unity needed to prosecute it lead to even closer connections between the League of Nations' member states and it transforms into the "United Nations" (imagine a slightly weaker EU covering the whole globe) with a "First Citizen" elected using an electoral college from each member state and heavily modelled on the American Presidency. The office is initially held by Herbert Hoover, whose economic relief programmes in the 1930s are seen as the precursor of the UN as it is today.
By 1959 the UN's political culture is dominated by the "Union" and "Alliance of Nationalists and Democrats" parties, one standing for tighter integration and the other for greater autonomy and cultural freedom. The smaller "Self-Determination and Independence" party is primarily based in Britain and stands effectively for the return to the far less integrated days of the league and has growing support in Germany. The final party "Liberty" stands for a global common market, currency and a common (monetarist) fiscal policy as well as the rolling back of the stage...
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