Our League of Nations
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Balkan Federal Republics and Latin Union or New Roman Empire
In an attempt to stabilizing the Balkans, the League of Nations supported the Idea of a Balkan Federation, but only if it would not end up becoming a Greater Yugoslavia, dominated by the Serbians, but instead a truly equal South Slav Nationalist State in form of a confederate union that also respected the rights of ethnic minorities as the various ethnic and religious groups of the Balkan would all have a voice inside of it. While their different populations and various local national parties did not make this easy, or perfect, it was a start to deter the Axis Powers ambitions in the area, as well as the Western Allie many hoped. This way many hoped the more aggressive, expansionist powers would no longer use the self-determination of peoples and nations to use local ethnic minorities for territorial gains. Originally the Greeks and Romanians were meant to join in the Balkan Federal Republics (BFR), but both feared outright South Slavic Domination even if everything was run democratic and republican and so they never joined the Balkan Federal Republics or Balkan Federal Union and neither did their territories of populations. With a marriage of the Serbian and Bulgarian Royal houses the union between their two aristocratic lines and monarchies was also finalized, even if the new Balkan Federal Republic became more of a constitutional monarchy.
The recent alienation of France and the British and the Italians of the Western Allies as well with the Balkan Federation had some interesting implications and results as well, especially combined with the efforts to create an anti-Axis and anti-German bullwark in Eruope. Therefore Falangist Spain, Nationalist Gallic France, Fascist Italy, as well as later Romania (against Hungarian and Bulgarian Axis ambitions and Portugal as na observer formed the so called Latin Union, also referred to as the New Roman Empire Alliance of allied Roman/ Latin speaking Nation States. As a agreement inside of it the Protectorate of Morocco became French-Spain shared in a condominium and the Tunesian Protectorate became French-Italian shared in a condominium. In strong opposition to both the British led Western Allies, who were now isolated from most of the continent, as well as also in opposition to the Axis Powers around Germany as well, made up by the so called Romans or Latins, which included the French, once more calling themselves Gauls in opposition to their Germanic Franc heritage as well as the Socii (Social or Allies) allies and protectorates of their to which quickly the Greek in fear of the Balkan Union and Tukey joined, proclaiming the Byzantien Eastern part had always been a major half of the Old Roman Empire and even the Armenians joined in as a further away protectorate, out of fear of any Turkish and Azerbaijani, Pontian Greek or Kurdish ambitions against them, while the Pontus Greeks became allies trough their alliance with the Kingdom of Hellas (Greece).
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I think Japan and/or one of the pro-Western Chinese Warlords would be a good as to give Britain and eventually the US an ally against the Latin Union and Axis.
So should we back and support a alliance between them, or what exactly did you have in mind?
More or less the former and as to make sure militarism doesn't return in Japan.So should we back and support a alliance between them, or what exactly did you have in mind?
I think you mean that Morocco is a Franco-Spanish condominium rather than a personal union there, since the latter implies a shared monarch rather than shared control.
European Tensions and Crisis
In the Chinese Civil War the Japanese backed Shanghai government of Hania/ Handkokuo, the Han Chinese Nmational State and the Mengkukuo/ Inner Mongolian and Manchurian/ Manchukuo autonomous provinces of theirs battled against the left-wing rebels of the Wuhan government in Wuhan, Hubei, Guangxi and Shanxi, as well as minor rebel cells in the other Hania provinces. Beside these Hankukuo also claimed the territory of the Ma Clique, the Sichuan Clique and the Yunnan Clique, all operating in Central China, as well as the regions of Outer Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang/ Eastern Turkestan as rightful parts of China. At the same time some of their Japanese allies, as well as members of Menkukuo and Manchuria claimed only the national Chinese Han regions for China and viewed the rest, especially own ethnic and religious minority regions, they did not wish to see falling to the Han Chinese, as Japan otherwise feared their Chinese allies might dominate East Asia, which was why they supported local ethnic and religious autonomous minority provinces, if not outright independent local Chinese Nation States instead, like they had planned in Menkukuo and Manchuria. While the Chinese Nationalist controlled the flatland and coastlines of the East, the rivaling left-wing government dominated much of the mountains, hills and river valleys of central and southern China. In Palestine the local Arab revolt is finally quelled and only minor resistance and rebel groups remain in the area after diplomatic negotiations and military defeats. In Oskaa an ammunition depot of the Imperial Japanese explodes and kills 94 people. In Rome Pope Pius XI is succeeded by Cardinal Pacelli, who will become Pope Pius XII. In Southafrica the English and South Africans play the longest game of cricket for 12 days, the Timeless Test, only ending when the English team has to catch their ship back home. In Poland meanwhile, Nazi Germany advises to prevent being partitioned by seeding claimed Austrian lands as the West Galician Protectorate to Austria and Hungary in Southern Poland. East Galicia, or Western Ukrainian SSR is also claimed, but not actively enforced against the Soviet Union, which as a result of the claim sends the Ukrainian People’s Army in the region and begins increasing the local border fortifications. As a more direct answer the Ukrainian SSR meanwhile claimed the Ruthenian region of former Czechoslovakia known as the Carpartho-Ukraine.
In Iran Shah Mohammad Raza Pahlavi marries Princess Fawzia Faud of Egypt, while Austrian and Hungarian forces head out to Ruthenia, directly opposing Red Army ones across the border in territories both nation states claim from one another. In Britain meanwhile, the Prime Minister declares the British will oppose any attempts of any European Power to dominate Europe and with it the World, a strong warning to the Axis, the Latin Union and the Soviet Union alike. Portugal meanwhile joins the Latin Union and draws closer ties to the Spanish Fascists by forming the Iberian Pact in Lisbon to further unite the Iberian Peninsula in preparation of a new major European War. Unlike the Axis meanwhile and more so like the Soviet Union, the Latin Union forms open borders, a custom and trade union, as well as overall equality and cooperation between it’s members. By now all former eastern German and Prussian borders are retaken from Poland-Lithuania including Silesia, Posen, West Prussia and Memel. Meanwhile the Axis pressures Romania with Hungarian and Bulgarian forces to join the Axis Powers and the Anti-Comintern Pact, supposedly to secure Romanian Oil Fields against Soviet Union ambitions and the Red Army, resulting in protests by the Latin Union and the British alike. In London the Ordo Templi Orientis publishes Eight Lecures on Yoga written by Aleister Crowley. The Hungarian-Romanian War over Transylvania begins, while the Spanish Nationalists launch their final offensive in the Spanish Civil War against Catalania and Barcelone, while General Francisco Franco officially assumes power in Madrid. Originally going well for the Republicans, their local provincial autonomy at the later stages of the Spanish Civil War had prevented ethnic minorities to send reinforcements to other Republican areas out of fear for their own territories. With the Chinese focused on one another in their Civil War and the Americans and British unwilling to take a clear side, the reports of American adventurer Richard Halliburton across the Chinese Nation and the Pacific on a Chinese junk increase public interest once more. Meanwhile the British guarantee the borders of Europe and local independent nation states, unless they are changed by a League of nations decision.
A Crisis in Europe
A) The LON need to negotiate with the Latin Alliance to secure European Peace.
B) The LON need to negotiate with the Axis to secure European Peace.
C) The LON needs to negotiate with the Soviet Union and Comintern to secure European Peace.
D) The LON needs to remain neutral in between all of them.
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A) The LON need to negotiate with the Latin Alliance to secure European Peace.
B) The LON need to negotiate with the Axis to secure European Peace.
C) The LON needs to negotiate with the Soviet Union and Comintern to secure European Peace.
D) The LON needs to remain neutral in between all of them.
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D) As long as the war remains contained, and does not spill over into neutral nations. Our interference might end up triggering the very war we seek to prevent.
D) Neutrality is the name of the game. It’s too late to give peace anymore chances. War is coming and there’s nothing we can do to stop it.