Dollfus Restores the Monarchy

In the Kingdom of Greece the new Monarch called for fair election and the move to a more Democratic Greece. It appeared that at last the Greater Greece Movement was dead and perhaps relations in the region might improve.
 
It appeared that the Post war period was seeing a return to democratic rule. In the Middle East the Question of Palestine was under serious discussion in the British government. An idea was being broached to create a new Kingdom there with a member of the British Nobility as its King. It was hoped that this might unite the Jewish and Arab Christian population as well as prevent violence with the Muslim population..
The French Mandate in Syria was likely to come to an end.
 
Egypt and Syria were under an arms restriction Ban and Iraq was only allowed to purchase certain weapons. Jordan appeared to be getting along with the new Kingdom so it had no restrictions and it purchased arms from Britain and the US which monitored things.
There had been some arguments regarding Turkey but some arm sales were allowed. The Kurds were receiving arms from the US.
 
It appeared that there might be some mediation between the Kingdom of Greece and the Republic of Turkey that might lead to less hostility between the two nation. Meanwhile further to the east the young Shah was attempting to lead his nation into the 20th Century. He was willing to reach an agreement with the Prime Minister but it required the Socialist Prime Minister to also give ground.
 
The Austrian Crown Prince was about to take over the throne as Kaiser Karl had passed away. It appeared that things were improving in the Balkans and Otto was hopeful that war in Europe would not take place. The fact that there had been a massive war in the East against the Soviets was bad enough. Now there were two Russia. One still referred to itself as the USSR and the other was Russia. The free Russia had become a democratic state with an elected Parliament.There were Rumor that the monarchy might come back but no one knew for sure.
 
The Danube Economic Zone was becoming something much more important. It had finally managed to get the various countries to work together to promote economic growth. Romania and Yugoslavia both made it clear that they had no wish to see the DEZ turned into a Political organization. On the other hand the war in the east with the Soviet had seen that it might be a good idea to have some kind of a military Alliance. To that end the Central Europe Alliance had been created. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and Germany joined it.
 
The Governments of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and italy were all into talks to expand the DEZ into a much larger economic entity. The Baltic States had also considered seeking admission.
The Russian Federal Republic had been improving its economy since the end of the war.
Currently its military forces faced the Soviet forces along a massive border.
 
The DEZ had expanded allowing the entry of the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Denmark and France into the group. The Russian Federal Republic had signed several trade agreements with the Ukraine, Georgia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and the DEZ.
There were some border incidents between the Russian Federal Republic and the USSR. The Communist state had recovered from the war and it was supplying insurgent movements in the Caucasus Region to install pro-Soviet governments.
 
Change was in the air. Germany's Kaiser was trying to prepare his children for the day to come when he would no longer be alive and it would be up to them to attempt to help run the ship of state. Kaiser Otto Hapsburg was now attempting to influence the Austrian Governments that were coming to power. With time passing it woulf be harder to convince them of the potential dangers in the east.
 
The United States, France, Austria, Germany and Israel were all concern with the growing instability in the Middle East. In Syria the democratic Government had been overthrown by a military coup and a dictatorship had been established. Jordan expressed concern to the US and Britain about a plot to overthrow the Monarchy in Iraq which was related to the Jordanian Royal Family. The Iraqi military was suspected of being undependable. There were also elements within the countries of Syria and Iraq that wanted the lands controlled by the Kurds returned to their control despite the fact that the majority of the population in the regions were Kurdish.
The Turkish military had staged two coups against the government to retain the secular government that the founder of the Turkish Republic had mandated.
 
Kaiser Otto Penned an article printed in several newspapers warning the Western European leaders that should they fail to maintain a vigilance with regard to the Communist state they could find problems that would require the use of armed force. While the Russian Federated Republic was doing well it was finding that it was now having to face an insurgency in several of the Caucasus Region. The insurgents were armed with Soviet made weapons both those used in the last war and ones that appeared to be newer assault rifles.
 
In Syria the Military overthrew the government and established a military dictatorship. The Generals began to organize a political party of their own to ensure that they remained in power. In Iraq elite Jordanian Paratroopers helped to prevent a military coup and a massacre of the Royal family. British and American Intelligence believed that the coup had been prevented for now but believed that it was just a matter of time before another attempt was made.
In Persia the Shah and the Prime Minister reached a compromise which prevented a coup from taking place. The CIA believed that unless something was done another war would break out. The Syrians, Iraqis and the Turks were all unhappy with the Kurdish state. but the Kurdish state was the most stable and pro-Western.
 
The Turkish Military government attempted to straighten the country. It moved to crush any attempt to re-establish a religious state as the founder of the state wanted one in which the government was secular. The Turkish Military also attempted to secure good relations with Germany, Britain, France and the United States as it was the only way that they could secure the possibility of regaining at least some of the lost lands.
Israel and Jordan were co-operating to prevent the Syrians from making a move against Lebanon and supporting a coup in Iraq.
 

Grimbald

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Very enjoyable.

Is Archduke Karl and Archduke/King/Kaiser Otto the same person? Somewhere along the way I got confused.
 
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