Many Islands, One Nation: The West Indies Federation

DirtyCommie

DirtyCommie

Nothing much, yet, but the next update will be mostly on the Commonwealth and what they think of all this. Canada'll feature an important role.
 

xerex

ummm question ?

you have the DLP and WIFLP serving in a grand coalition ? is that possible ?

you're also ignoring the racial aspect since you've turned the DLP into the party of Trinidadian Indians (where is Jamaica's Bustamante in all this ?)
 
DirtyCommie

DirtyCommie

1. Yeah, it's possible. It's happened before in Jamaica, and after all, who else are they gonna form a coalition with? The Federal Labor Party was a joke.

2. As in OTL, Bustamante decided not to run for the Council of State, instead leaving it to Donald Sangster and the rest. Also, if you'll notice, there's only one Trinidadian Indian in high government here, and he was pretty influential and powerful in the DLP in OTL anyway. The majority are still Jamaican anyway, as you can see.
 

Wendell

I think that this could be interesting, but I find it interesting that the Turks and Caicos are in while the Bahamas are out, but I suppose if one of the two was to be in the Federation, the Turks and Caicos make more sense.

There could be some interesting butterflies resulting from the survival of the WIF, regardless.
 

Wendell

I suppose that this timeline means that the term "West Indian" like the term "American" could have variable, even contested, contexts.
 

Chris S

DirtyCommie said:
During World War II, the British government had leased the Chaguaramas peninsula to the American government as part of the "Destroyers for Bases" agreement. Since then, a rather extensive American air force base had been built, a base that was regarded as one of the linchpins of American cold war defenses in the Caribbean.(1)

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(1) Indeed, the Chaguaramas base was at one time regarded as the most important U.S. base in the Caribbean, essential for watching Cuba. Nonetheless, the U.S. didn't renew the lease in '63.
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I didn't quite understand this bit. Weren't the bases under the Destroyers for Bases Agreement supposed to be rent-free leases for 99 years starting in 1940? The American lease on the base (unless the US abandons the base) wouldn't be up until 2039 not 1963.
 

The Sandman

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Now how long before the US tries to overthrow the WIndian government because of its socialist tendencies?

Or starts to squeeze it economically in order to keep it a pseudocolony a la the Central American nations?
 

Paul V McNutt

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ITTL there is no invasion of Granada.Reagan doesvnot be distraction to keep Americans minds off Lebanon. He still wins in a landslide a year later
 
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