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Strictly speaking, we have not heard of airborne forces yet.

The Enugu Coal Company, The Eastern Region, 31 July 1916 [post canon] Captain! What brings you ashore ? The M/s you typed for me is back from the publishers. We shall title it "The Niger and The Narcissus". It sounds bloody racist. Racist, me ? Heart of Darkness, how can you say such a thing...

Subversion -- Enjoy Guy Fawkes Night all.

If Linus Torvalds' parents could be prevented meeting, I should be grateful: for my profession would not have turned into a travesty.

It can't be Emperor Wilhelm kisses Snow White Baltic into Nationhood -- OTL phenomena like the Latvian Rifles' adherence to the Bolshevik cause need integration too.

Suursaari is the Finnish name for Hogland; I believe the island should be Finnish ITTL. Estland and Estonia should be the same. Livonia IOTL is an older term for northern Latvia, at times with or without either Courland or Estonia. Carlton on the other hand needs to maintain his liberty for...

The absence of mine fields and anti-submarine nets around Suursaari Island betrays a level of unvorbereitedness that demands a Parliamentary Inquiry.

Alicia Huberman's efforts at Rio de Janeiro to secure a German monopoly on Brazil's quartz exports would later become notorious.

They sleepwalked into it.

I am often cranky; I apologize. I would like to know what has been going on in Russia over the last three decades: In the original series we had the country girl given access to political education by the PU -- I thought then she might make a good female Stalin.

You fiddle while The Cheops Pyramid Burns. Please get on with it.

I would sleep much sounder at night if I knew that Walvis Bay and the Offshore Islands had been attached to Namibia -- any chance of that ?

.. "Sedan to Leipzig is but a Third to One."

The Heavy Metal Concert Agency, Berlin Dahlem, 30 August 1938 [post canon]

A comparison to OTL's Mephisto case may be of interest.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of a successful architect & real estate developer as mayor of Vienna is for good men to do nothing.

University of Breslau, Department of Physics, Untergrund Annex, 25 Jul 1938 [post canon]

The Catholic Church shall have to deal with the Kingdom of Italy as they have done since 1870. But you are right , haider, we could do with an update on the Papacy: succession, liturgy, doctrine, encyclicals. That would be a challenge.

One of the early divergences in TTL was the British acquisition of the Katanga and the construction of the Cape-Cairo railway. So instead of SWA --semi-precious stone in the German Crown-- Southern Rhodesia might become the Fifth Province of the Union of South Africa. That should strengthen the...

I was preparing for a Diplomacy joke: How about Ruthenia ? Some map suggestions showed her with a coast at Odessa -- or does Russia border Romania at one of the river lines ?